FUN Back to School Week lesson! Kid-Friendly way to welcome the students back! - Monday Getting to Know You Activities -Tuesday SEL Lesson -Wednesday Popular Back to School Book Companion - How Full is your Bucket by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer -Thursday Virtual Field Trip -Friday Goal Setting for the New School Year Activity Are you looking for some super simple, easy no prep Back to School activities for your little learners? Speech Therapy Book Companions are GREAT for teletherapy and distance learning! These quick prep MEGA BUNDLES are great for young learners, presented with research based practices that are broken down for you. These Evidenced based practices and strategies are great for Back To School and activities for reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, phonics, synonyms, rhyme, and more! Additional Mega-Bundles: January Mega-Bundle - 10 Book Companions + 1 Virtual Field Trip February Mega-Bundle (Valentine's Day + Black History Month) 13 Book Companions Women's History Month Mega-Bundle All-Year Speech Literacy Mega-Bundle
Froggy Mail is in full working order this week. We are a k-8 school and during testing our little first graders run a school wide post office. It
This is the fourth part of the Seasons Resources. LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ESL-1744981 It is also available here: https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/seasons-unit-for-elementary-esl?variant=37168505684132 Start with the trees flashcards. Place each Season Flashcard on the board and have the students name them. Then, have the students sort the trees into each season. Have them notice how they change with each season. Teacher: What season is this ? Students: It’s Winter! Teacher: look at the tree. What happened with the leaves? Students: There are no leaves! And again the worksheet to sort the trees. Cut the trees from the worksheet and make a small craft. I cut the toilet paper tubes into smaller rolls. Then, cut two slits on each one and place the tree. Ask questions: Teacher: What season is this ? Students: It's Winter. Teacher: Dos the tree have leaves ? Students: No, it doesn't. Introduce the Nature vocabulary using the flashcards. Then, have the students sort them into each Season. Teacher: What is this ? Students: It’s a polar bear. Teacher: What season do you see a polar bear ? Students: In the Winter! And another worksheet to sort the nature vocabulary. Roll ,read and write (Spelling game). I saw this game on the mailbox.com. I gave it a twist. Distribute a die and the templates to each group. Hand in the nature cards template and the die template. Explain that each number represented on the die stands for the number of letters in a word. In each group, the students take turns to roll the die and choose a card from the template that has the corresponding number of letters that is on the die rolled. The student has to make a check mark on that word. The student reads the card to the group and they have to write the word under the corresponding column. Each word can be written only once. Watch the videos on how to play. This is an old game that I used to play 20 years ago. Yes, a very old game!! The aim is to review prepositions. I prepared a set of instructions for each team and some cutouts. Make 2 groups. When you say, "Go!" the students must read the slips of paper and get the necessary cutouts to complete the task. The first group who puts the proper number of things in the correct location wins. Here are the four trees that the four groups should end up with. I made a blank template for you to write the instructions or even better, the students can write the instructions for themselves or for another group to accomplish. The cutouts can be used to sort them into Seasons using the McDonalds french fres container. And there is still one last part for the Seasons Unit: Seasons and Verbs. Follow me! Please leave your comments.
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To become problem solvers and not just answer-getters, our young mathematicians need to SLOW DOWN and consider “the whole picture” and the underlying structure. Let’s inspire REASONING instead of RUSHING! With: ENGAGING Numberless story problems RELEVANT Student created word problems
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3 FREE samples from my Alphabet Practice Cut and Paste. On each page, your students will: • Trace the uppercase and lowercase letters. • Use the alphabet in a word. • Color the letter. • Cut & paste pictures with the beginning sound. These worksheets are really fun and simple to do with cute clip arts! ***************************************************************************** If you liked this freebie, check out the full pack: Alphabet Practice Cut and Paste ***************************************************************************** If you have any questions, please email me at: [email protected] Thank you and enjoy, Hannah Hill 2017
If you are looking for a simple, yet educational science project, this is it! This activity will encourage your students to observe, compare, evaluate, predict, and reflect as well as strengthen fine motor development. The reflections sheet may be used for students to write their own sentences, or for dictation. When used with the Reflection sheet, this experiment aligns with the Common Core Standard ELA W.K.8 ***Note: You will need the following items: funnel, sponge, dropper, measuring spoon, small scooper (like for coffee), and an empty syringe or similar tool. If you do not have a syringe, simply conduct the experiment without it. Included in this packet: -- Prediction Sheet --- Evaluation Sheet --- Reflection Sheet Enjoy!!! Heather J 2013 Tags: Water Activities / Science / Experiment / Common Core / Critical Thinking Skills / Predicting / Evaluating / Reflecting / Kindergarten / Preschool / Observation / Water This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Link to the Calendar resource for Elementary English Language Learner: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Calendar-resources-for-Elementary-English-Learners-1722495 Same resource on another store: https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/calendar-resources-for-elementary-english-learners?variant=14422675718193 Watch the video: Collect all kinds of calendar even if they are old to help out during the lesson. Use a real calendar to show the day and months of the year. The calendar helps understand numbers up to 31. Have the students identify the days of the week in the calendar and how many days in each month . Introduce the days of the week using the cards. Hand in the cards in random order to seven students that will come to the front. They have to arrange themselves in order. Ask questions. Teacher: What day is it ? Student: It’s Monday! Teacher: Tuesday, come to the front. Show your card. Teacher: Ursula,What is your favorite day of the week ? Ursula: It’s Wednesday. (the students with the card shows it to the class). I made cards to help ordering the days of the week. There are also abbreviation cards. The students order the days of the week and match the correct abbreviation. Introduce the Months of the Year using the cards. You can also use them for the Birthday unit. Game: Go to Month. Stick the cards on the wall in a random order. Bring a group of students to the middle of the room. Teacher: January! The students go to the January card and touch it and says the word. Continue with all the other months of the year, or days of the week. Here the abbreviations cards for the months. I resarched and there are two ways to abbreviate June and July. I placed both just in case. use the cards to order the months and match the abbreviations. Continue with the ordinals numbers. There are the numbers and the word cards. Students should learn the ordinal numbers for telling dates. Explain that the ordinal numbers are used to express order. Use the cards to play a game connecting the ordinal number and the written form . Question and answer cards. Prepare the question cards in one colored paper and the answer cards which are the days and months in other colored paper. Activity 1-You can place the question cards in a bag or facedown in a pile on your desk. Draw a question card and read it to the class. Have the children answer orally or write the answer on their notebooks. Activity 2- Divide the class into groups . Tell the class that you are thinking of a word , day or month. Star giving some clues. Teacher: the first letter is J and the last letter is Y. The students look through the cards and guess the word. The first team to say : JULY, is the winner of a point. Continue with more words. Also use the ordinal numbers cards to order the days and the month such as, 1st day of school is Monday, the first month is January. Explain how to write the date by writing the number of the month (8), followed by a slash and the number of the day 8/25. Write the date on the board every class. I made days of the week crowns for Preschool students, but I guess they might work well for older students. You can use them to help them line up in order as a warm up game. If you just want the crowns, get them here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Days-of-The-Week-Crowns-1722398 Pocket charts: I find them useful to review the calendar the whole school year. I included cute months of the year cards. Have the students create a calendar for the year. There is a blank clandar template where the students will color and paste their month and write the numbersfor each day as in the year you are doing it. Follow me at my Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/ESLPreschoolTeachers
This is an informative (expository), narrative and opinion writing packet for the entire year with over 100 pages that can also be used digitally with Google Classroom. Students will learn how to be good writers and learn how to write in various ways. Informative writing topics include: Holidays Four Seasons Five Senses Spiders Bats Presidents Plants Butterflies Careers The sun Narrative topics: carving a pumpkin washing hands getting dressed Thanksgiving wrapping a gift building a snowman making a sandwich a winter day leprechaun St. Patrick's Day butterflies seeds washing a dog putting toys away completing a activity Valentine's Day and more Opinion writing topics include: Favorite Foods Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas Valentine's Day St. Patrick's Day Sea Animals Favorite Activities Sports Summer Click now to follow and get freebies.
Easy prep activities for English, Literacy and Mathematics with a 'Going to the Beach' theme. Just Print-Cut-Laminate and enjoy the fun activities with your little ones.
Struggling writers and students learning to write complete sentences will benefit from this resource. This helps students learn how to write on a topic. Topics: Animals Feelings and Emotions Careers This has over 60 different k-2 writing activities that include opinion writing and expository writing. These are writing printables that teach opinion, and (expository) writing. 60 different activities which include opinion writing Great for a writing center These writing worksheets about community helpers include webs to give students ideas and are perfect for beginning writers. They help students to form beginning sentences with words that they know and can recognize. The pictures for the writing prompts are very motivating to color. Check out the preview to see the exact worksheets and writing prompts. There are easy opinion writing activities about animals for struggling 1-3 grade writers and kindergarten writers. Activities that teach ending punctuation Feedback is so very appreciated. One word would is perfect as I know teacher time is limited. If you want any changes, I will make them quickly.
These 8 lesson plans present fun learning activities to cover healthy eating, exercise, kindness, exercise, medicine safety, and injury prevention. The lesson plans are all inclusive, cross-walked to national education standards in health, physical education, math, science, social studies and English Language arts. The lesson plans include class discussion questions and writing prompts as well as activity sheets and step by step procedures Health Content/Topic Areas: Nutrition, Mental and Emotional Health, Physical Activity, Alcohol and Other Drugs, Personal and Consumer Health, Oral Health, Injury Prevention and Safety, and Community and Environmental Health. School to Home Connection cards are included to inform parents of the different learning and tracking activities.
The Healthy KidZ Club program is an entire health curriculum for grades 2 and 3 in one package. Each of the 9 units focuses on a different health content area - all based on the national health education standards. These nine Healthy Kidz Club units are filled with activities that are aligned to health and academic education standards. Topics covered include: nutrition; physical activity, injury prevention, environmental health, family life, alcohol and other drugs, mental and emotional health, personal health and dental health. To purchase the lesson plans associated with the Healthy Kidz Club, click here. Total 91 pages. Answer keys are included.
These sentences about baking a cake have errors. Kids rewrite the sentences using correct capitalization and punctuation on this second grade writing worksheet.
This post is going to seem a little choppy and all over the place, because that's pretty much how my time at school has been lately! The past two weeks I have only been at work on Monday and Tuesday of each week because of my little health scare. So, I'm going to show you the little that I got accomplished with my kiddos in the time that I did have with them! Last week we were comparing fiction/nonfiction stories using Frog and Toad Are Friends and nonfiction stories about frogs. My kids absolutely LOVED Frog and Toad! We made these cute little frogs and toads from Mrs. H that you can find {HERE}. The plan was to do some other fun and cute activities, but that just didn't happen! Sometimes, you just have to let things go :) Moving on to this week... We have been working on Plot Structure (Beginning, Middle, and End) while reading books by Kevin Henkes. I found this cute Wemberly craft {HERE} and I paired it with an activity from The Teacher Wife's Reading Comprehension Unit. This activity was actually completed with the sub there, so it's always interesting to see how things get put together :) I went up to the school one afternoon to get cleaned up and organized for my next few days off so I decided to go ahead and hang these up! We have been using our ELA spirals ALOT lately. After reading, "Julius, Baby of the World" we made this cute little BME booklet from the Teacher Wife, glued that into our spiral, and illustrated underneath! After Reading Lily's Big Day (which can be viewed online HERE), I gave each student 3 notecards. We glued those into our ELA spiral and wrote the BME of the story. Super simple and easy! In Science, my kids were learning about dental health/hygiene. So, my teaching partner had them make these little cuties that you can find {HERE} in English or Spanish! And, coming this weekend... I am *so* close to being finished with this unit, and I really LOVE it this far! I want to add a few more activities and then I'll be posting it to TpT! Hopefully I'll be back at work on Monday, refreshed and renewed to have some really great ideas!
This 25-page bundle of the beginning of the year kindergarten activities is so helpful to start off the year. Book activities go along with the following kindergarten favorites: The Kissing Hand The King Of Kindergarten Miss Bindergarten gets ready for Kindergarten There are accompanying craftivites with the books as well as skill-based worksheets like name writing and number recognition. Check out the video review for every activity.
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FREE March Writing Prompts include: * 1 Writing prompt with Coloring a picture and Draw a picture. * 1 Opinion writing. Check out the full packet ****************************************************************** March Writing and Picture Prompts ****************************************************************** If you have any questions please email me at [email protected] Thank's for stopping by and enjoy. Winnie Kids 2017
Looking for a book list for making inferences and predictions? Here you go! Be sure to check out all the book lists I have for teaching comprehension. *This post contains affiliate links. Making inferences and predictions are highly related comprehension strategies. In fact, most books for teaching comprehension lump them together. For the younger ... Read More about Book List for Making Inferences and Predictions
BIKES bingo is a fun way for students in grades 2-4 to learn the basics of bicycle safety! Students match words from the Word Bank to pictures on the bingo board to reinforce basic bike safety rules and practices such as signs, equipment, clothing, crosswalks, etc. Check out the Bicycle Safety Bund...
Looking for some great apps for literacy centers? In this post, I’ll share 10 apps that I love!
I LOVE to teach comprehension skills by modeling what good readers do inside their brains as they process information before, during, and after reading. WATCH MY LIVE VIDEO AND LEARN HOW I MODEL COMPREHENSION SKILLS THROUGH SPECIFIC TEACHING STRATEGIES THAT HELP STUDENTS LEARN HOW TO GROW INTO CRITICAL THINKERS. 8 Steps in Teaching Comprehension with
Back to School Write the Room: This activity is a fantastic vocabulary resource for K-2 learners! Students look at colored picture word card. They read the word, match it to the outlined picture on the response sheet and write the word. Print and laminate for long lasting durability. Cards can be placed in a container for individualized instruction, placed around the room or put them in your literacy center! What's Included? 24 colored picture word cards: apple, backpack, books, bus, calculator, clipboard, crayons, desk, eraser, folder, globe, glue, glue stick, marker, notebooks, paper, pen, pencil, pencil sharpener, ruler, school, scissors, tape, and teacher! 8 differentiated response sheets Peek at the preview and take a closer look!
Plants You will find lots of Science, Math, AND Literacy activities in this Plants Unit, all differentiated and aligned to suit both Kindergarten and 1st Grade Common Core Learning Standards. Materials included are: -Day-to-Day outline of the 2 week science unit -Lots of photos and "How-to's" -Text lists -Plants Observation Book -Living vs. Non-Living whole group sort -Individual Living/Non-Living printable sort -Whole Group Plants Life Cycle Sequencing activities -Individual Life Cycle sequencing materials -Plant Diagrams -Individual Plant Diagram cut & paste activity -Plant Parts Unscramble & Match whole group activity -Plant Parts Vocabulary Cards -Trace, Read & Match Plants Vocabulary -Plants graphic organizers for writing (3 different kinds) -All About Plants Book Cover, Table of Contents, Writing Pages, Diagram -Seed Poetry -Reading Responses to The Tiny Seed and My Garden Plants Life Cycle Flip Book Can also be purchased separately here Additional ELA and Math Center Activities also included: -Plants Reading Comprehension activities (2): Parts of a Plant and What Plants Need -Sunflower Build-a-Word -Plants Facts Sentence Scramble -Sorting Real and Nonsense Words with Veggie Friends -Plants L-Blends Matching activity -Flower Power: Addition Facts Game -Snip & Solve Word Problems for Addition and Subtraction -Planting Place Value Puzzles ALMOST ALL MATERIALS INCLUDE DIFFERENTIATED VERSIONS. Please download the 4 page preview file above to see all of the materials that are included in this unit. Thanks so much! ***************************************************************** You may also be interested in: CHICKEN Life Cycle Flip Book*NEW* Earth Day {Mosaic Craftivity and Mini Unit} Spring ELA & Math Centers for Kindergarten Reading Comprehension for emergent readers *****************************************************************
This digital deck of task cards will provide learners with the opportunity to distinguish which CH sound is being used in a word: the traditional sound or that of /k/. This practice benefits accuracy and decoding in reading as students try different sounds for consonant combinations. You'll be able to assign this deck to students, allow for multiple students to play, and then receive instant feedback through the automated scoring as hosted on BOOM Learning. The game features keep your students engaged and learning. There's no printing, photocopying, cutting, pasting, laminating, or scoring! It's all ready to go for you. Boom Cards live in the cloud. They can't be printed. They play on most modern browsers, Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. You open a Boom Learning account to play them (to protect the children). Create Fast Play pins to assign your Boom Cards to students. Boom Learning also has premium accounts. Premium accounts offer advanced assignment tools, individual and whole class performance tracking, and more. If you are a new Boom Learning customer, when you redeem your Boom Cards purchase you get 90-day free trial of a premium account. When your trial ends, you can renew or move to a free account. You may upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time. Free accounts use purchased Boom Cards with Fast Play pins. If you'd like notifications regarding sales, product launches, or general store news, please click the "follow me" button on any page within my store. I appreciate your ratings and feedback.
This CVC worksheets resource is a perfect way for your students to master phoneme segmentation and cvc blending sounds to form words. This Kindergarten Literacy packet consists of activities that are differentiated and can be used with all levels of students. Perfect for Kindergarten, First grade,...
Fun Vegetable Reading Passages perfect for Grades K-3! I created these reading passages to provide students with a fun and silly way to learn about vegetables. Each vegetable has a character that teaches the students about the vegetable facts. Every Passage Includes: 2-3 pages of reading content vocabulary page 4 comprehension questions 1 fun cooking recipe per vegetable to try at home (or school if you're feeling adventurous!) Vegetables Include: Tomato Carrot Broccoli Bell Peppers Eggplant Corn Spinach Potato These are great reading passages to send home for homework or for when you're class is learning about vegetables!
This product includes 52 comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts as well as 8 extension activities for studying the biography Rock by Rock: The Fantastical Garden of Nek Chand written by Jennifer Bradbury and illustrated by Sam Boughton. This book is beautifully illustrated and does an excellent job of introducing readers to an inspirational artist. Students of all ages will enjoy reading and discussing this biography. A 2022-2023 Texas Bluebonnet Book Nominee Themes: resourcefulness; hope; resiliency; art; sculpture; community This book is an especially useful vehicle for addressing a wide range of TEKS and Common Core standards and the questions provided allow differentiation and adaptation of how the book is used to address these standards in discussion, presentation, and composition. This resource is great for classroom discussion, literature circles, book clubs, task cards, book challenges, reflection journals, and/or student writing prompts. - This product is compatible with Google Slides™ and can be shared with your students. The resource can also be added to Google Classroom™. Further information is included in the product. The questions are in order according to the order of appearance in the book. An answer key is provided for text-based questions. The questions in this resource are purposefully designed for discussion and reflection. The questions prompt students to think critically about the book, share observations, express their understanding, and make connections and applications while exploring literary elements. Extension Activities included: K-W-L Chart - share prior knowledge, wonderings, & information learned about Nek Chand Timeline - illustrate important events from Nek Chand's life Illustration - draw Nek Chand's fantastical garden Nek Chand Foundation - learn more about Nek Chand's life & work Sculpture Creation - see how Nek Chand's sculptures were created Mosaic Creation - design your own mosaic pattern Acrostic - create a poem to describe Ned Chand Poster - promote recycling This resource is appropriate for use by: Students Classroom teachers Reading teachers and reading specialists Language therapists Librarians Parents Tutors Counselors Individuals who work with students to encourage a love for reading! Be sure to download Great Ideas for using SK Designs Novel Study Question Cards in the Classroom – a collection of 20 great ideas to use with our novel studies. It is available free of charge from our store and is specially prepared to use with SK Design’s novel studies! Find it here: Great Ideas for Using SK Designs Novel Study Question Cards in the Classroom SK Designs has a full line of book resources for favorite student reads. Check out our store at the link below for the complete listing of titles. Thank you for downloading this product and leaving your feedback! Be inspired! SK Designs __________________________________________________________________ If you are interested in more of SK Design's products, freebies, and updates, please feel free to follow us by clicking here and then clicking the green star next to our logo on our store page! Be sure to leave comments and ratings on the products you purchase to earn valuable TpT rewards! __________________________________________________________________
WOW! To say I am a bad blogger would be quite the understatement. I have been TERRIBLE. And yes, I'm going to use the same ol' excuse I always do... I've been SO busy. You all understand. Between teaching, my husbands coaching schedule and a toddler, my poor blog has been put on the back burner. I really love blogging and reading other teaching blogs. I especially like *scrapbooking* the activities I do in my room. I will continue to blog, hopefully more frequently. So, over the past few weeks we have learned and done a LOT!!! Sadly, I haven't snapped pictures of everything, but here are a few recaps. Recap 1: Verbs A verb is a word, is an action word...If you can do it, then do it, you know it is a verb! Such a catchy song. I introduced verbs using BrainPop Jr. with a little bit of Annie and Moby. Who doesn't love them?!? Then with my students giving me verbs, I made this anchor chart. After singing, dancing and recording verbs for several days my students recorded and illustrated their own verbs. We started with simple I am... statements. *exercising* just adorable!!! Recap #2 Heart Maps (An idea from a dear friend of mine) After talking about nouns (before verbs) we talked about people, places and things we love. Together during writers workshop we created 3 heart maps. Things we love. People we love. Places we love. After making 3 class heart maps it was time for my kiddos to make their own. I wanted them to choose their favorite people, places and things and record them on their own heart maps. They keep them in their writers toolkits along with their journals, blends chart and spell checks with common sight words on them. I always tell my students to write from the heart because they tend to write more creative stories if it is about something they have experienced. Recap #3 Adjectives After verbs and nouns came adjectives. I introduced adjectives using this anchor chart. Using these clue words really seemed to my kiddos when thinking about describing words. Throughout the week were also happened to be learning about bats. Since our theme was bats, I decided to have my kiddos describe bats using one word. An adjective. We also completed a can.have.are chart to review nouns, verbs and adjectives while sticking with the bat theme. Then we made our little cuties using the template from Cara Carroll over at The First Grade Parade. Recap #4 Punctuation anchor charts. Recap #5 Seasons Introduced seasons using this anchor charts as well as a few seasonal books. Then we made these fun little craftivities. They traced their hand up to their elbow on brown paper. Then depending on what season they chose they used either fall or spring leaves, snow, or apples. (Sadly I didn't get pictures of the other 2 seasons) Recap #6 Pumpkins Pumpkin madness started October 1st! I absolutely love fall!! Everything about it. Our first field trip of the year was this past week... the pumpkin patch. Leading up to our trip we were knee deep in pumpkins. This little craftivity was inspired by Cara Carroll over at The First Grade Parade. We read the story The Fantastic Pumpkin and then retold the story using this little graphic organizer. Throughout the week we also learned the life cycle of a pumpkin so that we could be pumpkin experts when we got to the pumpkin patch. We wrote and illustrated each stage of the life cycle on this fun little graphic organizer. (It came from a teammate of mine... not sure where she found it.) Then we painted paper plates to look like pumpkins and attached the life cycle pictures in order on the vine (yarn). They loved it! Recap #7 Fact Families We started off the unit with addition and subtraction and part, part whole. We used paper plates with the food separates, dice, counters and dominoes all week making addition and subtraction problems with corresponding number sentences. After learning addition and subtraction, then I introduced fact families. We got the dominoes out again started making fact families. We got our 2 numbers from the domino, added them up to get our whole and then created our fact families. My trick for teaching fact families is the story of the "family". Daddy, Mommy and baby. And no one can live in the house that is not part of the family. To go along with our October activities we made these Frankenstein fact families. (I found this Frankenstein recording sheet on Pinterest... For the life of me I can't find the original site. I did NOT create this. I can not take credit for it. If I come across it...I will post it) Recap #8 Skip Counting All of this that I caught on camera is the anchor charts... minus 5. :( Recap #9 Parts of a Plant We just touched on this very briefly. We will hit this topic again in the spring time. We simply talked about each of the parts of a plant and what job they did to help the plant survive. They drew, labeled and described each part. Recap #10 Spiders Our theme last week was SPIDERS!!! Boy do first graders love spiders!! We started with a KWL chart with what they know and want to know. Some of mine already knew spiders were arachnids?!? Awww man! I love it when they find that out. Spoiler! We read, recorded and journaled about spiders all week. Then at the end of the week we record our 4 favorite spider fun facts and created our spiders. WHEW!!! That was a lot! I am going to *try* and blog more often so that I don't have to just do classroom recaps! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Another Ten Pinky Linky with Ashley from Just Reed. This week's theme is Writing. Now let's get right to it. I just love this linky party!!! I just love this. I think it provides a great visual for the little guys, using terminology that (most of them) understand. Source: What the Teacher Wants Acrostic poems are so much fun and when I saw this version, I knew I had to pin it so I could remember to do it one day. Source: That Artist Woman I love creative writing and I think these story sticks are such a great idea for students to randomly pick out the character, setting, problem, and one random thing that must be included in the story. I love reading what they come up with. Source: Sarcasm 101 I am definitely going to put this in a sub-tub and have it in my sub plans to have the sub do this if the kids didn't know I was going to be out. I think it would also be a great idea to carry around with you if you are a sub. Source: Teaching in Alabama Tpt Store Such a neat idea to provide a real life visual for the little guys. By using toys that they're familiar with and connecting them to the various steps in the writing process, such as Mr. Potato Head for adding detail. Source: Andrea Knight's Tpt Store A fun way to keep the kids writing throughout the summer. Source: Brassy Apple I have loved this writing center since the first time I saw it. As some of you may have seen I really like the portable center idea by using the tri-fold boards. Source: A Cupcake for the Teacher I've seen seasonal words before for writing like in the form of a word wall or folder, but I really like this idea. Bookmark size (roughly) cards, laminated, and on a ring. Portable, easy to store, and flip through. Source: Fantastic First Grade Froggies These "What Can I Write About" posters are so bright and include pictures, especially appropriate for the little guys. Source: Teaching with Love and Laughter I never thought of this idea until I saw this post, what a fantastic idea. I know I get tired of writing the same thing over and over and over again on student's papers. Source: I Love My Classroom If you're not already following me on Pinterest check out my boards, I have over 2,000 pins & some great ideas!!! I can't wait to see what writing ideas you've found.
