What We've Been Up To...

We made goals for the New Year. 
Some of us want to play video games ALL DAY, and some of us want to try to read 2 hrs every day.

Oh, boy.  :D

We've incorporated math games into our daily mathematics lessons. 
The games are fun ways for the class to practice and tone their math facts, greater/less than, tallies, graphing, and more along with working cooperatively with partners and in small groups.  During this time I am also able to meet with small groups to reteach skills and practice with students who need more assistance.  We rotate new games all the time, and most days students get to choose what they want to play.  In the pictures above, the class is busy playing various "Dice Games."  Each "Dice Game" requires the student or partnership to practice a different skill.  

 These SUPER dice games are from Jennifer at First Grade Blue Skies.

My firsties just LOVE these games!

 

We learned about Martin Luther King, Jr. and how he helped to get equal rights for all people, no matter what they looked like.  We watched Dr. King's "I have a dream..." speech, and the class was stunned by how many people were there to hear the speech.  We wrote our own dreams about bad things that happen we wished would stop.

"I Have A Dream..." craftivity from Just Wild About Teaching

 

 

How-to-Draw MLK from Mrs. Miner's Monkey Business

SimplyKinder Year End Giveaway

 

Today is the last day to enter this amazing giveaway!

My First Linky Party

SimplyKinder Year End Giveaway

"Penguins" Read It, Write It, Glue It, Draw It

New Product!

"Penguins" Read It, Write It, Glue It, Draw It

A fun, independent literacy center designed for K or 1st Grade.  Students read each sentence, write the sentence, cut out the words of the sentence and glue them in the correct order, then illustrate the sentence to show their comprehension.

This set is perfect for your animal studies during Winter!  Eight pages of interesting penguin facts!

 Click on any of the pictures to grab your set today!

And don't forget my "Spider" and "Bones" sets, too!

   

Halloween @ School...We're all Culver's employees (back story...we had a PTA volunteer night at Culver's in the beginning of October to raise money for the school. It was a HUGE success and a lot of fun, thus the costumes).

Spider Comprehensive Projects

I am so proud of how much the kids learned about spiders during "Spider Week."  We finished our investigation of spiders with a comprehensive activity that incorporated multiple aspects of our newly learned knowledge.  First, we made a spider craft with our 6th grade buddies which we later labeled the parts of.  The firsties can now properly identify the abdomen, cephalothorax, legs, eyes, spinnerettes, and fangs on a spider.  We made a colorful web for our spider using an AB coloring pattern.  Finally we wrote numerous facts we learned and opinions we have about spiders. 

We have gotten many comments about our awesome projects from others in the school.  One other teacher even came in our room one day during a lesson to tell us all what a super job we did and how proud she was of us.  She said she was really impressed by all of the facts that everyone had written.  The kids were beaming.  :D