1st Grade is Always Busy!!!!

Well conferences ended tonight....thank goodnes b/c that makes for very long days!!!!  Lots of great stuff going on in 1st grade!!!!  We are studying Me on the Map this month.  We have learned about maps, map keys, landforms, directions, Our Town, Our State, Our Continent & next week we will be learning about the Earth, Moon, Stars & Sun.....to match up to the Common Core. 

Here is a picture of some maps we made with map keys.  Then you can here to get your FREE copy of the map key to make your own with your class.

We had our end of 1st Quarter Homework Club Celebration......much fun......PIRATE / TREASURE HUNT!!!!  Each child gets a homework club card to keep for each quarter & it gets punched if they did their homework all quarter, we were easy for the 1st quarter but will get harder as the year goes on.

Prizes they got after the treasure hunt!!!

Card that gets punched every quarter

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Friday we got to talk to one of our students on Skype who is in California having surgery.  This was a great experience for my students, they all loved it.  I tried to take a picture to show it on our big screen.  Great how he got to talk to each student as he saw them on the video.  It has also been cool to see the pictures of the different places he has visited with his parents while in CA, Pacific Ocean, Redwood Forest, Golden Gate Bridge, old trolly car.

Some random pictures of the classroom.....

We have been talking about beginning, middle & endings of stories.  We read some good picture books with b, m, e & then wrote about the b, m, & e.  This is the paper we used each day.  This week we are writing our own stories with beginning, middle & ending.

Getting ready to add the Common Core next year with the 8 Math Practices all activities should try to have.

CAFE Board...each week we add at least 1 new strategy.

Daily 5 Anchor Charts, since we have now introduced all 5 parts of Daily 5.

 

And now finally I have posted a Thanksgiving Unit on TpT.  You may click here to go directly to it & check out  some of the activities in it.  It is 56 pages of Thanksgiving Fun!!!!!

Sequencing Numbers 1-30

Poem to read each day during your unit & to work on fluency.

Gameboard- use Dolch words, numbers, number words, etc.

Great for a center or Math Tub & comes with a paper to fill out!!!

 

 

 

Head on over to TpT & check it out, your youngsters will gobble up the great activities!!!!  Check back this weekend for a really exciting day of learning about Veteran's Day on Thursday(NO SCHOOL FRIDAY!!!!) with pictures.  Well today is my Thursday b/c Thursday is my Friday ( TGI almost Firday)!!!!!