Peek at My Week {September 29-October 2} with an Awesome FREEBIE!!

Hi y'all! Yep I have been working late this Sunday! I hope your weekend has been fabulous!

I'm linking up again with Mrs. Wills Kindergarten for Peek at My Week!

This week won't be quite as jam-packed as last week (apple week!) but we will have some fun new stuff to get started! 

Here are the plans: 

We are starting Wet and Wild this week! This is our unit on oceans, water habitats, ecosystems, food chains, and all that fun stuff. The kiddos get to do an at home project and build their very own ecosystem to present at school!

We will also be continuing our Traditional literature unit focusing on Rapunzel this week. So I made a little QR code task card center to help with our Story Structure reading skill. 

The pink cards are for story elements such as setting, characters, beginning, middle, end, problem, and solution.  

The yellow cards are specific comprehension questions based on the story. 

Each set has a simple recording page to go with it. The kids will scan the card, read the question, and answer it on the recording page. 

Also in B&W **INK SAVER**

(sorry for the poor quality photo - I swear one day I will have a nice camera!!)

I am offering this for FREE on my blog this week only! I will upload it to TpT next week so grab yours NOW! <------click here!!!

Well that's it! This week should be pretty normal and easy peasy lemon squeezy. I'll be prepping for parent/teacher conferences next week. Have a good one!!

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Peek at My Week {September 29-October 2} with an Awesome FREEBIE!!

Hi y'all! Yep I have been working late this Sunday! I hope your weekend has been fabulous!

I'm linking up again with Mrs. Wills Kindergarten for Peek at My Week!

This week won't be quite as jam-packed as last week (apple week!) but we will have some fun new stuff to get started! 

Here are the plans: 

We are starting Wet and Wild this week! This is our unit on oceans, water habitats, ecosystems, food chains, and all that fun stuff. The kiddos get to do an at home project and build their very own ecosystem to present at school!

We will also be continuing our Traditional literature unit focusing on Rapunzel this week. So I made a little QR code task card center to help with our Story Structure reading skill. 

The pink cards are for story elements such as setting, characters, beginning, middle, end, problem, and solution.  

The yellow cards are specific comprehension questions based on the story. 

Each set has a simple recording page to go with it. The kids will scan the card, read the question, and answer it on the recording page. 

Also in B&W **INK SAVER**

(sorry for the poor quality photo - I swear one day I will have a nice camera!!)

I am offering this for FREE on my blog this week only! I will upload it to TpT next week so grab yours NOW! <------click here!!!

Well that's it! This week should be pretty normal and easy peasy lemon squeezy. I'll be prepping for parent/teacher conferences next week. Have a good one!!

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Apple Adjectives!

Hi friends! Just a quick jot tonight to tell you about a FABULOUS activity we did today! Apple Adjectives!

This activity was inspired by Cara over at The First Grade Parade. She is fantastic and I aspire to be her one day!

This week is all about apples! And since we have been reviewing adjectives, what better way to include apples than to describe them?

Everybody brought an apple and we spent some time brainstorming adjectives that would describe apples. We observed them, felt them, and even ate them. Then everyone wrote some adjectives on a Post It and we stuck it on our Large Apple.

Who one of my firsties asked if we could call him Drew. Drew the Apple. 

Because I drew him. 

These kids, man. Geniuses!!

Then returning to our seats we wrote about our own apple and then drew an apple to match the one we brought.

GRAB A COPY {HERE}

(also in this freebie are some labels you can use to label a large apple chart)

Everyone did so wonderful!! 

After that we did an Adjective Scoot from this little bundle from Sparkling in Second Grade. 

Anytime we can get up and move around the classroom is a plus!!!!

I'm loving my firsties this year! They are doing so well with all of their work and keeping me entertained. Drew the Apple. A classic. 

Have a great week!

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Apple Adjectives!

Hi friends! Just a quick jot tonight to tell you about a FABULOUS activity we did today! Apple Adjectives!

This activity was inspired by Cara over at The First Grade Parade. She is fantastic and I aspire to be her one day!

This week is all about apples! And since we have been reviewing adjectives, what better way to include apples than to describe them?

Everybody brought an apple and we spent some time brainstorming adjectives that would describe apples. We observed them, felt them, and even ate them. Then everyone wrote some adjectives on a Post It and we stuck it on our Large Apple.

Who one of my firsties asked if we could call him Drew. Drew the Apple. 

Because I drew him. 

These kids, man. Geniuses!!

Then returning to our seats we wrote about our own apple and then drew an apple to match the one we brought.

GRAB A COPY {HERE}

(also in this freebie are some labels you can use to label a large apple chart)

Everyone did so wonderful!! 

After that we did an Adjective Scoot from this little bundle from Sparkling in Second Grade. 

Anytime we can get up and move around the classroom is a plus!!!!

I'm loving my firsties this year! They are doing so well with all of their work and keeping me entertained. Drew the Apple. A classic. 

Have a great week!

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Peek at my Week: {September 21-25, 2015}

Happy Sunday! I hope everyone has had a restful weekend! Mine went by super quick and I was super busy and yet I still have a pile of laundry! Some things are never ending.

I'm linking up again with Mrs. Wills Kindergarten for Peek at my Week!

But first, a quick review of this past week:  

I went to the Louisiana Reading Association 2015 Conference and had a blast! I learned so much and got to hear some great presenters. 

FIRST I got to meet Eric Litwin, author of the first four Pete the Cat books! 

He was amazing! I also purchased his new books: The Nut Family. 

There is a dance contest for the best Polka Dot Dance and Mr. Eric will come to your school if you win and let me tell you it would be totally WORTH IT!

Check out the contest {{HERE}}.

I also got to meet Mr. Greg from the Kindergarten Smorgasboard. His presentation was amazing!! And his classroom totally makes me want to get rid of desks forever. 

And finally I got to hear Mrs. Donalyn Miller, author of the Book Whisperer, talk about getting your students to read. She was so inspiring. And funny!

I also presented on Creating your Own Interactive Notebooks.

I'm really getting into presenting. I plan on doing it a lot more in the future!!

Alrighty! On to the sneak peek!

Here are my plans for the week:

It's apple week! We are starting our Johnny, Apples, and Pie, Oh My! Unit and we've got lots to do!

Our supplemental activities this week include making a Life Cycle Mobile and writing about the life cycle of an apple.

I've created a few simple printables to help support our study on apples.

Grab yourself this FREEBIE!!!!

We will be finishing up our writing on Scientists as well as reading all sorts of FABULOUS books about apples!

 

It's our review week, so we will be reviewing nouns, verbs, and adjectives in grammar and we will be using some activities from some AWESOME TpT Teacher Authors! 

Fall Math and Literacy No Prep Packet from the Moffatt Girls

August/September Fast Finisher from The Imagination Nook

First Grade Grammar Scoot Bundle from Sparkling in Second

Well that's a quick summary of my week! I'll make sure to snap some pics from our fun activities with the apples! I hope everyone has a great week!

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