dental health

Here is a peek at what I have planned for next week. I'm ready to start my dental health unit on Monday. I'll be using Pinkalicious and her brother Peter to help the kids learn all about their teeth. You can find patterns to make Pinkalicious and Peter and my whole dental health unit on TpT.

This is the sweetest book.

 We are going to write letters to the tooth fairy just like Pinkalicious.

groundhogs and a little science

What did y'all do tonight? I watched the game while working on a new unit (should be up this week). Here's a little look at some of the things we did last week.

We made groundhog predictions and graphed if the groundhog will see his shadow. This adorable graph was inspired from a similar one Mrs. Lee posted about last year.  

Once we found out that the groundhog did see his shadow we made this craftivity. We discussed the clothing you wear in the Spring versus the Winter and what it looks like outside. They did great with their illustrations. Then we made this little groundhog. You can grab the recording sheet here.

Now for some science activities . . .

We read the book "If you could go to Antarctica" and made a class bubble map. Then they made their own bubble map in their science journals.

We also labeled penguins and glued the recording sheet into our science journal.

labeling the penguin can be found in my penguin unit on TpT.

penguins, Tacky, and a groundhog day freebie

I love the month of February! There are so many fun things to teach. Plus, it's my birthday month! We took a break from all our non-fiction learning to have some fun with Tacky. After we read Tacky the Penguin we described the character Tacky.

Then they got to make their own bubble map. This activity can be found in my TPT store here. 

We charted the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Then they retold the story on their own. This is also found here.

Here is one of our chit-chat messages. Thanks Deanna Jump for sharing this wonderful idea.

They got to do this part with me. Later we used the bubble map to help us write sentences about penguins.

Find all the above activities here

For math we drew, painted, and measured penguins. This idea came from Kinder by Kim. Love her ideas.

We just loved this activity from Deanna Jump's penguin unit! They practiced sharing the fish and told me if they could share the number of fish equally.

We made this guy last year. If you downloaded the writing paper I just updated it. So you can download a cuter copy below.

February behavior calendar

Hard to believe tomorrow is February. Here is my February behavior calendar. Hope you can use it. Next months will be up much sooner.

Click to download

penguins!!

This weekend has been such a good one for our family. My 3 month old niece has been in the hospital since she was 2 weeks old waiting for a new heart. Yesterday morning my sister got the news that a heart was available! Dahlia is out of surgery and her new little heart is beating strong.
I finished my wintery fun unit with my class and I am now ready to start teaching penguins. I have all my morning stations ready to go (this is different from my literacy and math stations). Here is a look at what we will be doing. My first and second grade friends from our after school program helped me out.

All of the activities below can be found in my slip and slide penguin unit on TPT.

ABC order

uppercase and lowercase letter matching

funny fiction writing prompts

(this is going to be in my writing station)

real and make-believe sorting

(recording sheet not seen)

matching the correct punctuation to the sentence

This could be used as a station activity or taught in a whole group. We are going to do it as a whole group.

a little rhyming with the -ig word family

Here is a little write the room freebie for you!

Click below to download

Dr. King

We learned so much about Martin Luther King last week. We watched a movie on BrainPoP about Martin Luther King. You can watch it here. My kids have been singing this song over and over and over again. They love it! Sung to the tune of he's got the whole world in his hands.

We charted all our new learning from the books we read and the movie we watched in the circle map. We also made TLC art. They turned out looking so good.

idea from the first grade parade

We did this writing activity last year. I had them write/illustrate about dreams in their heart to make the world a better place. I love this one. It says, "No drunk drivers."

click to download or here

 

The snowy day

During reader's workshop we used the book The Snowy Day to respond to literature. Here are some of the activities we did. We made text-to-self connections. They drew Peter in the snow and then they drew themselves in the snow. They loved this activity. You can find this in my Wintery Fun Unit on TPT.

The next day we made a story map. As I mapped out the story on our large story map, they got their clip boards and made their own story map along with me.

The story map is in my wintery fun unit.

Another day we sequenced Peter's snowy day and used the story map to retell the story. We first did it together so I could model what I expected them to do. Then, they got to make their own story map.

The title was downloaded from Kinder Gals.

We are about to start my penguin unit. I love reading Tacky the Penguin with my kids. Here is a Tacky tree map for you. Click to download.

Penguin unit preview