tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23247149941285103502024-03-18T03:16:02.508-05:00For the Love of First GradeMrs. Griffithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030426959861850246noreply@blogger.comBlogger404125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2324714994128510350.post-88607835800815521412017-11-30T16:00:00.000-06:002017-11-30T16:00:04.233-06:00The M O S T Fun Way to Introduce Your Class ELF!<div style="text-align: center;">
As I'm sitting on the couch watching Christmas movies on the Hallmark channel, I'm thinking about Christmas in the classroom and how much fun we had discovering our elf this year!</div>
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Let me just tell you all about it...</div>
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We had been practicing our inferencing skills the past week and the bright idea came to me, what would be better than introducing our class elf than through a mystery box inferencing lesson of course!?</div>
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First thing I did was find my mystery box and put our elf inside with his letter from the North Pole.</div>
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Then I created 4 clues to describe our elf to use for the mystery box activity.</div>
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<i>I was explaining the activity and looking at the clues (with this puzzled look on my face) and revealed to them that these were NOT the clues I had made for this activity! Someone must have came in and wrote new clues over the weekend...they flipped! </i></div>
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So on we went.....each student got a recording sheet and 1 clue. They recorded their clue and then walked around to find and record the 3 remaining clues their peers had.</div>
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Once they collected and recorded all 4 clues, they traveled back to their desk to put together the clues and visit their schema. They recorded their inference at the bottom of their paper.</div>
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Let me just tell you how excited they were once they read all their clues and "thought" it was an elf!!!!</div>
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We shared our inferences with each other and the time had come for me to reveal the mystery!</div>
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We rationalized through why they thought it was an elf and why it couldn't be other things they may have thought.</div>
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And there he sits, inside our mystery box. </div>
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I can not imagine introducing our class elf any other way than this in the future.</div>
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In fact, I was so excited I made it into a download just for you!</div>
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So there's been quite a few days that have passed since my last post.</div>
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This year has been unusually different than the past 6 that I've been in the classroom.</div>
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Like I S T I L L don't seem to have it altogether AND it's DECEMBER!</div>
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But anyways, since it's the Christmas season, I wanted to share with you a fun activity we did during the last week before Christmas break last year...because we all know it's survival of the fittest!</div>
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My kids L O V E activities that show off their creativity and imagination! </div>
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I found a few ideas and came up with a few more that involve STEM activities that are Christmas (or holiday) centered. . </div>
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The product includes directions for 4 STEM activities and the items you will need to put together the activities. </div>
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Challenge #1 and 2:</div>
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Solo Cup Christmas Tree</div>
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Going into the new school year I always set one goal for myself. </div>
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Last year, my goal was to thoughtfully plan out, record and track my guided reading lessons.</div>
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The month when summer is over.</div>
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The month when littles come to us and we have NO idea what they know.</div>
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We need to know how to meet each and every one of them on their level and get at it quick!</div>
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Mrs. Griffithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030426959861850246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2324714994128510350.post-6614919505697028342017-08-08T10:23:00.001-05:002017-08-08T10:23:46.242-05:00Flexible Seating Storage<div style="text-align: center;">
This year I'm being brave and giving up some control and choice to my kids.</div>
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Insert flexible seating into classroom.</div>
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One dilemma I was faced with was storage for my students. </div>
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We'd be going from desks to tables, couches, lap desks, etc. with no "place" for their supplies. </div>
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There were drawers I had purchased for guided math last year and I knew they'd be perfect.</div>
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Although they can't be removed, students will go to their numbered drawer, pull out their supplies and return them at the end of the day. </div>
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Are you loving the tribe themes going on currently?</div>
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Our school is embracing the theme and our team wanted to incorporate it into our Meet the Teacher.</div>
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We want them to BE BOLD, BE BRAVE and BE BRIGHT tribe members! </div>
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Glow sticks (found on Amazon)</div>
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Have you ever found yourself in the dollar spot at Target spending an outrageous amount of money...becuase we all know who quick dollar items add up...to put in your treasure chest?</div>
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Are you afraid to give up some of your tasks you do in the classroom?</div>
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What if I told you it would turn your students into leaders?</div>
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What if I told you it would build responsibility in your students?</div>
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I've had jobs in my classroom since I started teaching. That haven't always been as great at they are now though! I started with just a door holder and line leader. 2 jobs that changed daily.</div>
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Fast forward to now, and each student has a job. The past few years they have held the same job for a week at a time. But this year, I will explicitly teach and model the jobs and let them apply, yes apply, for the job of their choice. </div>
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I have recently updated all 3 of my job packs to include 38 jobs to fit your classroom needs!</div>
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You can find each of these in my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Lindsay-Griffith/Search:jobs">TpT store</a> or by clicking on the image above. </div>
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Give your students a sense of pride and leadership this year with classroom jobs!</div>
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Need any easy management tool for when you use "turn and talk" in your classroom?</div>
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PB&J partners are a great way for your students to know exactly who to talk to during a discussion.</div>
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Now that I'm officially over the mid point of summer, I've started thinking about the new school year.</div>
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On my mind lately has been how to update my behavior system in my classroom.</div>
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So let's talk behavior management.</div>
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I started with the clip chart. Hated how the same kids always moved their clip...never making a difference. Visual smisual. Didn't work. Same kids always visited the treasure chest blah blah.</div>
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So I came up with a ticket and folder system. Students earned different value tickets for daily behavior. They saved the tickets and cashed them in on Friday's. Much better than a clip chart and treasure chest but still hasn't been doing it for me. The "put your folder on my desk so I can sign it" was doing nothing.</div>
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I decided to try something completely new this year. Class Dojo. I've had a few coworkers try it and LOVE it. They praise how involved the parents are in communication to their child's daily behavior. So this year we are giving it a try. </div>
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I decided I wanted kids and parents talking about their behavior daily, whether it be good or bad. Here is the freebie that came out of my vision.</div>
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Students will also have the ability to reach a long term goal of obtaining 100 points! On Friday, we will spend 5 minutes of our time coloring in our weekly points on this tracking chart. </div>
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Don't forget to grab the freebie which includes all the examples from this post by clicking -----> <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Tracking-Class-Dojo-Behavior-3264641">HERE</a></div>
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Mrs. Griffithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030426959861850246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2324714994128510350.post-63776578164302960072017-06-01T09:13:00.001-05:002017-06-01T09:13:46.005-05:00End of Year Beach Party and Awards<br />
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Well, we finished up a week ago. Another close to another year.</div>
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We had a great end of year celebration and kick off to summer.</div>
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Completing 1st grade is a HUGE accomplishment for a 7 year old.</div>
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They don't realize it, but there is SO much we throw at them in this year of their education.</div>
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Celebrating their hard work is always an emotional roller coaster, for this teacher, and their parents.</div>
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So to "lighten" the mood, this year we decided to turn our buckets into an all out beach party!</div>
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Everyone had a part in decorating for our awards ceremony and celebration.</div>
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During writing, the kids wrote about what they saw themselves doing this summer.</div>
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They illustrated their writing within the glasses and drew their faces.</div>
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They were our "summer eyes". I used this to cover our whiteboard. </div>
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I also buy buckets from the dollar store every year. Inside, each student gets the following:</div>
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<b>Ready Made for 2nd Grade pack (find it <a href="http://www.ayearofmanyfirsts.com/2013/05/ready-made-for-second-grade_5/">HERE</a>)</b></div>
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<b>Pillowcase keepsake (read more <a href="https://fortheloveoffirst.blogspot.com/2016/05/end-of-year-keepsake.html">HERE</a>)</b></div>
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My room moms were a great help in getting things together!</div>
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We had plenty of food for our beach party.</div>
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We had these precious cupcakes (Pinterest inspired) and put our drinks in an inner tube.</div>
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I purchased and had several blow up items donated including 2 blow up palm trees, dolphin and a parrot. The kids LOVED these!</div>
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For our awards, I made a boardwalk for them to walk down to receive their awards and bucket, similar to a 'red carpet'. It was simple to make out of colored butcher paper. </div>
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We had a great time celebrating all of their hard work! </div>
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Time to enjoy summer!</div>
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Included in this freebie are gift tags for parent volunteers, classroom helpers, substitute teachers, staff or team members. Please click on the picture <b>below </b>to be taken to my TpT store to download.</div>
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But don't leave yet, here are ways I have used the sayings included on the tags in gifts I have given out in the past. </div>
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This is my go to last week gift for my team just to help get us through to the end!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR THYME AND HELP, IT MINT SO MUCH!</span></div>
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I went to Walmart and found pots, packages of Thyme and a package of mints. I glued ribbon around the pot and stuck everything inside. I used this as a gift for my parent volunteers and room moms.</div>
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It's nearly the end of the year and we've learned all our sight words.</div>
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We played a game I named "Head Hunters" to review our sight words.</div>
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It's super easy to make and did I mention it's <i>loads</i> of fun too!</div>
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Type up sight words onto labels (I used Avery 5160 template in Word).</div>
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Now that you have your supplies, stick one label to each students head.</div>
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Pass out recording sheet. Students will walk around and read the sight words on each classmates' head. They will read the word to person and then record it on their paper.</div>
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Mrs. Griffithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030426959861850246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2324714994128510350.post-59979210140575829842017-04-19T15:00:00.000-05:002017-04-19T15:00:01.478-05:00Grab the Egg FREEBIE<div style="text-align: center;">
If your kids are still talking about hunting eggs then I've got another freebie for you!</div>
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I mean, who gets tired of egg hunts anyways!?</div>
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So if you still have a bucket of eggs laying around, grab them and fill them!</div>
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First find this FREE activity in my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Grab-the-Egg-Addition-and-Subtraction-Freebie-3115228">TpT store</a>!</div>
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In case you missed my last post, it had A N O T H E R free egg hunt activity.</div>
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Find it <a href="https://fortheloveoffirst.blogspot.com/2017/04/got-eggs-turn-them-into-game-with-this.html">HERE</a>!</div>
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Do you have a few extra eggs floating around your room now that Easter is over?</div>
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Great! That's all you need to throw together this quick and easy grammar review game.</div>
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We are hopping into a lot of fun learning next week!</div>
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The cute story, <i>Bunny Trouble</i>, lends itself greatly to the discussion of plot, specifically problem and solution. </div>
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We got a little creative with our response to reading, because who doesn't love to decorate eggs!?</div>
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Especially when it was such an important part to the story.</div>
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With paper still folded, cut on traced line, making 4 eggs.</div>
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Fold the white paper like a book.</div>
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Write <i>problem </i>and <i>solution</i> on 2 manila eggs and glue inside the white paper.</div>
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Students will summarize the problem and solution from the story under the correct egg heading.</div>
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Just like the bunnies decorated eggs in the book, students will get to decorate the 2 remaining eggs and glue them to the cover.</div>
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I love when learning lends itself to cute little memory tricks like this one we learned last week.</div>
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In phonics, we learned about the sound 'OU' and called them our "<i>ouch words</i>".</div>
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I was astonished at all the words they came up with....on their own...on day 1!</div>
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I found a cute poem in Shel Silverstein's book of poems called <i>Band-Aids</i>.</div>
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The following day, I had them choose 4 things from their paper that made them say ouch, and we turned them into an 'OUCH' poem...the the shape of a band-aid of course!</div>
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<br />To top of our week of OU words, students will go on a word search with the books in their book box and find as many words as they can that follow the phonics pattern. </div>
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Students who find words such as "should, could, would, trouble" obviously need a re-teach.<br />I'm hoping all the connections made to the real world really anchored their learning!</div>
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Today we returned from spring break...even though it was still winter....talk about confusing!</div>
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You know as every student walks in they can't wait to tell you about that one great moment that happened over the break. They ALL have those moments! That's why I created this freebie for you!</div>
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They pick their most favorite thing they did all week, write about it, and illustrate.</div>
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Our poem of the week is one of our favorites and I find them reciting it subconsciously throughout the week. Catchiness as its best!</div>
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We kicked off the week learning about all the symbols of our great state.</div>
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Some we already knew and some we didn't.</div>
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<i>L is for Lone Star</i> is a fabulous book that taught even this devoted Texan things I didn't know!</div>
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After recording our schema and new learning, we made a flip-book with 3 of our favorite symbols.</div>
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{You can find <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Yeehaw-A-Texas-Rodeo-Unit-580261" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">this</a> in my TpT store}<br /><br />On the day we learned about Bluebonnets, I taught my firsties how to make their own!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<br />You can too:<br /><i>Fold a white sheet of computer paper in half.</i><br /><i>Color the top half blue, bottom half green on BOTH sides.</i><br /><i>Cut the blue into small strips.</i><br /><i>Roll at a diagonal and tape.</i><br /><i>Done!</i><br /><br />Themed books about our state are always fun to read. </div>
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<i>There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly--There Once Was a Cowpoke Who Swallowed an Ant</i>h</div>
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It answers the questions "who, what, when, where, why"?</div>
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We wrote a class poem about an armadillo together and they got to be the illustrators. </div>
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Then we brainstormed ideas/animals/people that represented Texas. </div>
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During our grammar time this week we reviewed adjectives. It just seems that these little words won't stick in my firsties brains! A sign to the teacher...I need to use it more ; )</div>
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We colorfully decorated these big ol' boots.</div>
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<i>"bold" "vibrant" "pretty"</i></div>
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To incorporate writing, we made the chili together and then wrote a recipe for them to take home!</div>
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{Click on the picture for a FREEBIE}<br /><br />I hope you found some Texas sized ideas to add to your Texas sized vault!<br />#texasteachersdoitbigger</div>
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This week we spend a day in the arctic.</div>
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We've been studying habitats, animal characteristics and even started our own research projects.</div>
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But we took a day off to explore artic-ish things!</div>
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So grab your cold weather gear and get ready to explore.</div>
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To transform the room, I used lots of paper, snowflakes and a little sparkle.</div>
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I covered my door in paper and made a sign.</div>
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I also covered the word wall and window with sheets of "ice" and "icicles". </div>
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I hung sparkle snowflakes from the ceiling, snowflake banner on our SmartBoard and snowflake cut outs on the window and word wall "ice" coverings.</div>
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The tables were also covered with white paper and some iridescent Easter grass for "ice". </div>
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We worked with the lights off and arctic wind sounds some of the time. </div>
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Who goes to the arctic and doesn't have a snowball fight? Not us of course. I wrote words on squares of paper. I turned on music and let them throw the "snowballs" across the room. When the music stopped, they had to find a snowball, open it and find the other student with their match to make a compound word.<br />
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Since the arctic is so incredibly cold, most people don't just venture there. We imagined if we did, how on Earth would we survive. So they wrote a procedural text on how exactly they would survive if the were in the arctic.<br />
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Our favotire part of all were our STEM stations!<br />
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I split the class up into 4 groups each to work for 12-15 minutes at each station.<br />
At station 1 they build igloos out of marshmallows and toothpicks. At station 2 they made snowflake designs out of q-tips. At station 3 they used geoboards and rubber bands to make snowflakes. And at station 4 we made snow!<br />
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These days are so much fun, and not to mention engaging beyond measure.<br />
If you would like to check out my last room transformation click <a href="https://fortheloveoffirst.blogspot.com/2016/10/engaging-and-integrating-bats.html">HERE</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">I tend to forget how BUSY the month of February can get!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">It's jam packked...but then again what month doesn't feel that way by the time it is over? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> I put together a little packet to go along with our week long President's celebration.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> If you were able to check out my </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/A-Day-With-MLK-Social-Studies-Mini-Unit-482560" style="color: #444444; text-decoration: none;">MLK unit</a><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> and enjoyed it, then this will be right up your alley as it is fairly similar.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">This mini-unit is the perfect way to teach all about Washington, Lincoln, and President's Day in just a few days! All you need is a non-fiction book to accompany the pages in this unit and you are set!</span></div>
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*The President's: Fact or Not so Much {cut and paste fact activity}<br />
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Mrs. Griffithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030426959861850246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2324714994128510350.post-32214132110757045802017-02-01T17:17:00.001-06:002017-02-01T17:17:44.678-06:00This Book is Important<div style="text-align: center;">
Teaching main idea to first graders is hard.</div>
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Here's a book I stumbled upon that made the concept so much easier for my kids to understand.</div>
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The Important Book takes one "thing" and tells what makes it important. It also lists details to describe it too. It then tells again why it is important...much like main idea!</div>
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To start off, my students and I completed 2 pages out of the book together, discussing what was the most important part (the main idea) and how we knew that (the details).</div>
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I made color copies of the pages in the book, because who has 5 copies of their teaching books!?</div>
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I put my kids in small groups and gave them each a page to read. They had to figure out the main idea of their page and what details they learned about it.</div>
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We shared our findings and they totally got it!</div>
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If you don't have this book, add it to your collection asap!</div>
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Happy reading : )</div>
Mrs. Griffithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030426959861850246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2324714994128510350.post-20415189301254639112017-01-23T11:30:00.000-06:002017-01-23T11:30:00.200-06:00Writing with Play-dough <div style="text-align: center;">
Need to get your kids excited about practicing writing sentences?</div>
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Well then bring out the Play-Dough!</div>
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We have been learning about using question words and question marks.</div>
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I had modeled writing questions for several days and now it was time for my firsties to practice.</div>
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In my mind I thought, ugh how boring is this going to be and knew I had to make it engaging.</div>
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Enter Play-Dough.</div>
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They had to write 3 questions and once they did, they could create their question marks out of Play-Dough!</div>
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I was shocked how hard they worked!</div>
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We may just pull out the Play-Dough more often.</div>
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I'm sure they would'nt mind, especially when they get to play with it after their hard work!</div>
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#letthembelittle</div>
Mrs. Griffithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030426959861850246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2324714994128510350.post-6500795525378334782017-01-19T11:15:00.000-06:002017-01-19T11:15:02.794-06:00Toss it Up: A Versatile Game for all Subjects<div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;">
Who's kids love to get up and moving?</div>
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I know mine do and boy do they need it. We require them to sit, listen, be quiet, whisper.</div>
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Lord knows sometimes it's okay to make a little noise when learning!</div>
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We have been tuned into contractions the past few weeks. </div>
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Here is a fun way to review or even assess your students.</div>
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Prep is easy: paper, marker and something to throw (we used a bean bag).</div>
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Each student had the chance to toss the bean bag onto the paper. </div>
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They were to read their contraction and tell us the two words that made it.</div>
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They then chose a friend.</div>
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From this activity, I could pretty much tell who my strugglers were.</div>
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My other firsties listened intently and helped their friends when needed. </div>
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This game is SUPER versatile and could be used across any content area:</div>
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<i>compound words</i></div>
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<i>categorizing nouns/verbs/adjectives</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.2px;">This may just become a staple game in our classroom!</span></div>
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