All Bundled Up!

I have had many requests to bundle my FIRST GRADE math journals & my writing journals!

I FINALLY got it all done & ready to go! 

These are my monthly writing journals...

There are 20 fun & motivating writing prompts to get kids excited about writing!

I don't know about you, but I take every opportunity I can to get my students pumped up to write!! 

These little journals are just the trick!! :)

Click the picture to check them out...

Next up are my BEST SELLING math journals!
I originally made these for my kindergarteners & they were such a big hit that I made them this year to use with my FIRSTIES! 

You can find the Kindergarten bundle here...

 Anyway, I received such positive feedback from the K set that I decided to also make a FIRST GRADE set & they are just as popular!!

I thank all of you for that! 

I use these daily as a quick little warm up before my math lesson & it gets my kiddos all ready to go for math! They LOVE them!! 

Click the picture to check them out...

I am putting ALL of my BUNDLES on sale just for you until Monday! Go over & take advantage of the savings!! :)

I hope that everyone had a great school year!

 I am down to 4 MORE DAYS!!

Yippie!!

Poetry Anyone?

So, yeah...it's been a while since I have been here and I am so sorry to leave you high & dry!

Testing at my school has been CUH-RAY-ZEEEEEE!!

  I am finally starting to see the light at the end of the testing tunnel....

But, I'm here now & today I'm talking poetry!! 

Yay!

I was convinced that I would HATE teaching the poetry unit to my firsties, but I was pleasantly surprised. 

I taught them shape poems, 5 senses poems, poems where all the lines begin the say way, etc...

By the end of the unit I decided to surprise my cuties with their VERY.OWN.POETRY.BOOKS!!

I thought some of them would pass out from the excitement!

I promise, ya'll, it was seriously not that fancy...

Here is a little snippet of how they looked...sorry I didn't snap more pics!

 Here is the girl version...they are only half sheet of paper sized so I can get more bang for my paper usage!

 Here is the boy version.

 Some of my pages had a picture to inspire the poem...this one was popular with all of the students! 

"Ahhhh

The Green Eye!

Attack!

My baby!

Ahhhhh"

I love this one! :)

 Some of the pages had titles for inspiration & they had to add the illustration.

"Delilah

kind friend

sweet person

hard worker"

This one was cute...

"Bat woman

can fly

part bat

cool character

so cool and a super hero"

So, there is a little poetry fun from my cute little firsties! Like I said, everything was made on 1/2 sheets of paper so that I could save on my paper & copies. Also, I think that there was plenty of room for their poems so it worked out great & I couldn't be happier with how they turned out! :)

They're Done...Finally!

 

I heard you & I have them ready!

Yay!

If you want to win them, check out my Facebook page!

Good Luck!!

I have only 27 more days...come on summer!!

 

Freebie!

Hi Friends!!

I just posted a little freebie in my TpT store!!

Go there & grab it!

While your there, please leave me a little feedback & make sure that you are following my store! :)

 

Happy Saturday! :)

Firstie Friends Product Swap! :)

Hello Friends!!

Guess what??
It's a product swap & I swapped with the most awesome blogger friend a girl could have! :)

She makes the most awesome stuff, and I have used almost everything this girl makes!

Here name is Amanda Richardson and she blogs here

 

and this is the product that I wanted to swap her for...

 

This product was just what my class needed!

I introduced compounds by doing the Compound Connie chant.

What's that, you say?

Compound Connie is the character that this packet is based on & Mrs. Richardson wrote a catchy little chant to go along with it...super cute!! 

 Then, it was up to them...I gave each student 1/2 of  the compound word puzzle that is included in this packet. They had to find their match & then we went around & each partner had to tell the word that was made by putting their pieces together.

 

Here is the puzzle & recording sheets that they worked on during centers....

 

Here is another great activity that is included in this packet...

 

There is also a cute little compound word flip book in the packet and some making compound words sheets.

I'm telling you...it is PERFECTTTT for teaching compound words!

I hope that you will check out Mrs. Richardson's blog & TpT Store! I promise that you will be so happy that you did!! :)

Now hop over there & see which of my products she reviewed!

 

 Here are the bloggers participating in the swap...please stop by & tell them I sent ya!! :)

 

***I want to thank Cassie from

 

for setting up this fun swap! :)

Research Fun!

Hi friends!

This week has been all about RESEARCH!

We have been learning about habitats in science, informational writing in writers workshop, & in reading workshop we have been practicing "reading to learn" instead of "learning to read". So, it just made sense to tie this all in together & celebrate the ends of all these units with a group research presentation project.

I have 5 groups in my classroom & I assigned each group a different habitat.

The instructions to them was that they had to work as a team to figure out what each person would be responsible for. Each poster had to be illustrated to include animals, plants, weather, & setting that were true to their habitat. Each poster also had to have facts that included all of those things as well.

Here's how the week looked...

Day 1~ They had to assign roles & responsibilities to each member. Then, they had to decide what would be important to include about the habitat. For example, I told them not to give penguin facts on the tundra team because I wanted to learn about the tundra...not necessarily about the penguins.

 On Day 2 they were illustrating. They were told that they had to be sure to be true to the habitat. So- no purple monkeys, no cactus in the tundra, etc...

 On Day 3 the teams had to add facts to their posters. Like I said before, the facts were to be specific to teach about the habitat.

The arrows are pointing to the fact cards that they attached to the posters.

 Day 4~ We are putting the finishing touches on the posters & rehearsing for the presentations. They had to assign who would talk & when. EVERYONE had to have a talking time!

 Day 5~ PRESENTATION DAY! They were very excited & nervous, but ALL did a Fabulous job!!

All in all, I was super impressed with the teamwork that went on the entire week. I stepped out of the picture & acted only as a facilitator. When they came to me with problems, I told them that they would have to work it out with their team. They were frustrated by this response at first, but they quickly figured out that I would not referee for them & they worked everything out.

How are things going in your classroom this week??



Winners & a Freebie...What?!?!

Happy Sunday, friends!!

I have one more week, 5 days, 45-ish working hours until I am on SPRING BREEEEAAAAKKKK!!!

Woo-hoo...2 weeks of NO SCHOOL for this girl!

Can you tell that I am a wee bit ready for it?! Ha!

Anyway...the winner of the kindergarten April math journals is

 Jolene White!

The winner of the 1st grade April math journals is

Erin Vaughn!

Congrats to both of you!!

Check your emails!

 

 

There is a FREEBIE today on my Facebook page.

Be sure to click over there & snatch it up!! :)