I spruced it up by adding the monster theme, I LOVE these monsters so much!
Aren't they adorable?
Get your own copy of my
Thursday, October 23, 2014
B.I.NGO!
I love the fact that my kiddo's are excited about learning! For the last two weeks, we have been learning consonant blends and digraphs of all sorts! To gain a little more excitement and recap our learning, I have created a BINGO game! We played this morning to work out all of the kinks and the kids absolutely loved it! What better way to reinforce a skill than through a fun game!!!!
I spruced it up by adding the monster theme, I LOVE these monsters so much!
Aren't they adorable?
Get your own copy of my
I spruced it up by adding the monster theme, I LOVE these monsters so much!
Aren't they adorable?
Get your own copy of my
Sunday, October 19, 2014
This past Friday, our kiddo's visited a local farm for pumpkin patch fun! It was a perfect day, perfect weather, perfect opportunity for the students to view first hand....Plants!
For the next two weeks we will discuss Plants in science. We will talk about life cycles, needs, uses, scientists who study plants, planting seeds, and even trophism! What?!?!?!?! I have never taught Trophism to first graders but I'm going to give it a go....thanks Next Generation Science Standards!!!
Actually Trophism is really cool to learn about and I do believe that the kids will have fun learning something new, and no...I don't actually expect them to know the word trophism. We are just introducing it.
For our Seed to Plant Adventure, I have created a 2 week unit of study to use. I will use a lot of youtube videos (especially with trophism), google images(roots busting through concrete...cool!), fiction, and non-fiction books to round out this study.
For the next two weeks we will discuss Plants in science. We will talk about life cycles, needs, uses, scientists who study plants, planting seeds, and even trophism! What?!?!?!?! I have never taught Trophism to first graders but I'm going to give it a go....thanks Next Generation Science Standards!!!
Actually Trophism is really cool to learn about and I do believe that the kids will have fun learning something new, and no...I don't actually expect them to know the word trophism. We are just introducing it.
For our Seed to Plant Adventure, I have created a 2 week unit of study to use. I will use a lot of youtube videos (especially with trophism), google images(roots busting through concrete...cool!), fiction, and non-fiction books to round out this study.
Visit my TPT store and see what you think of my new unit!
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Mystery Math
So today my students practiced "find the missing addend" using the math strategy to subtract. We are taking time to learn various math practices and strategies as we work on basic operations. My students are needing a little extra practice in finding the missing addend. Today, we began calling it the "MYSTERY ADDEND"! My students have been LOVING the science unit that I created for them, they are so excited over the cute little pictures (thanks www.mycutegraphics.com). They have asked me if I could make them something cute to practice "Mystery Addends". So....this is what I have came up with. Hope they enjoy it, this will be part of their morning work tomorrow morning! :)
Monday, October 13, 2014
Spaced Out!!!! Next Generation Science Standards and First Grade!
Check out my Sun, Moon, and Stars Unit HERE
This unit includes:
*Personal Schema Chart
*I Wonder template
*Space Data Log - cute journal to document learning
*Official Astronaut Certificate-YES!!
*2 Sun information and activity pages
*3 Moon information and activity pages
*2 Stars information and activity pages
-including a cool constellation project
where the students build 3D models
of their own constellation creation!
*My New Learning page
*Assessment
*Informational Writing Template
*Illustration Template
And instead of putting name for writing their name.....wait for it.....it has
"scientist" as the place for them to write their name....How CUTE is that???
Your students should feel like successful scientist!
When I began my unit today, I started off with this cute, cute, cute YOUTUBE
video....check it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-kzdR93bqw, the
kids LOVED it!!! Informational rap tune! Yes!!
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Pumpkins, Spiders, and Bats...it's that time of year again!
Who is ready for Halloween? Candy, candy, candy...what's not to love right? Teachers, you will appreciate that Halloween is actually on a FRIDAY this year! That means, no candy hangover meltdowns the next day in your classroom! In the meantime, your kiddo's will love practicing their addition and subtraction with these Halloween math printables. You also receive a reusable 10 frame and each sheet has CUTE cut-out manipulatives to help with counting.
Halloween is a perfect time to study BATS!!!! Spooky right? Stellaluna is my favorite "bat" book!
My students have always loved listening to the story and completing the activities. Below are some activities that I have made to go along with Stellaluna. I love using this story in combination with an informational text to make text-to-text connections, use story maps, and even do some informational writing! You would be surprised at how much your students already know about bats when you use the schema chart! Remember to refer back to your schema chart after your unit is complete to correct any misconceptions!!!!
Friday, October 10, 2014
Clipart and Graphics and Backgrounds...Oh My!!!!
Well it is officially the LAST DAY of my Fall break! :( Not cool! I have spent the better part of yesterday and today teaching myself a few things. #1 How to blog!??!?!?!? #2 How to create items for my TPT store. #3 How to use clipart and graphics and such! I am a little addicted, I have a bamillion ideas floating around in my brain that I want to create! Other times in my days I have been playing baby dolls and chase with my very awesome 6 year old! She test drives all of my products too! I am sharing the fruits of my labor from today. I found all of my cute graphics, oddly enough at www.mycutegraphics.com and my awesome spooky font at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Jackie-Golden Check them out!
My sweet little emergent reading passage and activity sheet "Apple Pie"! Who doesn't love apple pie?
My sweet little emergent reading passage and activity sheet "Apple Pie"! Who doesn't love apple pie?
Check out these "NOT SO SPOOKY" Halloween math printables!
Starting up my TPT store!!!
So as I am creating documents that are helpful to me in the classroom, I am uploading them into TPT to see what happens. Check out the things that I have created today. If you are looking for a few extra activity sheets to use in guided reading for short vowels, I have what you need! Visit my TPT store!!! http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Heather-Baird
Here is a little preview of what I have been working on....
Fun, Halloween, Emerging Readers:
SCOTT FORESMAN: READING STREET SERIES FIRST GRADE RESOURCES!!!!!
Visit my TPT store for spelling activities for Unit 1 Reading Street 1st Grade!! You get 5 fun, independent activities specific to the weekly spelling words! You can use these activity sheets for DAILY FIVE, HOMEWORK PRACTICE, MORNING WORK, I'M DONE, NOW WHAT? WORK, EXTRA REINFORCEMENT, ETC... You also get a cutesy Pretest template and a customized Spelling Test Template for each week! Check them out, all of my Reading Street activities are on sale right now!!!!!
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