Tomorrow is Friday…which is one day closer to the weekend….which is EVEN closer to that special day of endless amounts of FOOD and family time!! I LOVE Thanksgiving time! Tuesday evening, we had our small group {our Bible study group} Thanksgiving dinner and oh.my.larry friends….seriously why is food so dern good?!? A.D.D totally set in after I ate my way through tons of carbs and butter. 🙂 ok..’nuff about food before I find myself sneaking into the kitchen for cookies and milk! Today, to kick into that Thankful spirit we made these little Thankful Turkey Hats. I used my turkey template from my Writing Through the Year unit, added a paper plate and we’ve got a super duper easy hat! 
To make the hat, just cut a slit in the back straight up to where the inner circle of the plate starts, cut along the inner circle, and leave a few inches of the circle uncut. This will be the part that flips up {the part with the turkey face}. 
When the hat is worn, the turkey will stand up like so… 
Easy peasy! We also threw in some synonym fun earlier this week. Thank you Cara Carroll! 
If you read my previous post, you have seen that we have been working super hard with fact families and antonyms. Tomorrow, my little loves will complete these pages for a little independent assessment. Quick and simple. {Click on the pics to download} 
Borders by Fancy Dog Studio (Etsy) I am hoping to get these done tomorrow. You can find the templates and writing prompts {here}. 
Ok, so….. I have a lil’ addiction right now….POLKA DOTS! Yep, I am currently a sucker for anything covered in dots!! 
Happy Thursday sweet friends!!
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While I’m sitting at OT for little P, I thought I’d share a fine motor activity with y’all! 😬 I’ll be doing preschool with him at home next year (his daycare got torn up by a storm🌪) and fine motor + alphabet are two things we’ll be hitting all year. So, I wanted to incorporate as much of both into one activity as I could. 💪 These lacing cards are going to work his little fingers all while learning the alphabet and letter sounds. 🍎 These (+ several other fine motor mats) are available in my store! // Link below 💜💜 www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Activities-Lacing-Letter-Mats-Fine-Motor-Lacing-Card...
A few years ago I used this Friend-Diagram activity with my students to teach compare and contrast! I always love how they turn out! It’s FREE on the blog and I re-shared it in my Weekly Recap (several weeks ago) on the blog, too! Hope you can use it! Link here 👉 // smittenwithfirstblog.com/weekly-recap-3/
Sticky Tables was a class favorite years ago! It gets kiddos up and moving!! 🤩 It works with multiple subject areas/standards and can also be used for informal assessments! 👍 My last post showed how to use it with skip counting and here I show it used with subitizing/number sense, ABC order, and handwriting practice. See previous post for directions on how to play 💜💜
Re-sharing this skip counting number lines activity from years ago! 👉 Skip counting from any given number is such an important skill for our little ones - not just reciting 2,4,6,8,etc! Here's how we did it! Put sticky notes on the table, each student chooses one sticky note to start off with and then they just fill in the boxes using an expo marker on their desk! You could even use washi tape to create the number lines!