Me & My World and Veteran's Day

Today starts my 3 day weekend!!!!!  Can I say ExCiTeD!!!!!  This post is what we did for Veteran's Day & our 1 week theme of Me & My World.


Our last week we have focused on our World.  We started with the town we live in, then the state we live in, the country we live in, the continent we live on & finally the planet we live on.  We started out small and then looked at the bigger picture.  We read books & then made a bubble map to go along with our specific community, state, country, continent, planet.  The following books were great to read & very simple.  We finished up today with reading Me on the Map & doing a flipbook.

We started out small...like what town they live in.  We read the book & then made a bubble map about the things/places in our town.

Then we got a little bigger & read about our country the next day & made a bubble map about our country.

Each day we looked at the bigger part.  We read about North America & made our bubble map.  These books had great facts & info. to include on our bubble map.

Finally we got to our planet, Earth.  We read the book & completed our last bubble map.  This book will lead us into our week study on Earth, Moon, Sun & Stars.  We will also track the moon phases since that will be part of the common Core for 1st grade next year.

Then today we read this book.  It talks about how each person has a special place on the map.

Then we set off to make our Me on the Map Flipbook.  Taking what we had learned all week & applying it to this flipbook.

Here are some completed books.  There are pictures for the words written.  For their community, they drew their house.  Last year I had them write their address with their house but that was a crazy disaster!!!! ha

Then after all that & NO assistant (I'm sure some do not have an assistant but I do not know what I would do without mine, she is great & helps soooooo much!!!!!) today we tackled Veteran's Day.  This was an activity thrown together in 1 day!!!


We started out by watching a Veteran's Day movie on Discovery Streaming.  Then we read the following book.....

Then we filled out this bubble map.  We came up with words to describe soldiers.


After the book we made these way cute Army men & women.  I got the idea from Deanna Jump's blog but came up with the dimensions myself.  At first he was huge then we scaled him down by half!!! Ha  Here are some pictures of us working on them.

Everyone is working very hard.  I love these cutting, following direction activities.  My kids are quiet & they pay such good attention b/c they do not want to mess up.

Lastly today we learned the One More Addition Strategy yesterday, so today we played a game to go along with it.  Thought I'd share that also!!!

Roll a Die-  Student use a 10 sided dice & roll each time.  They place the number on the line & are always adding a 1 to the number rolled.  They then write the answer next to the problem.  This week started our learning our addition strategies.  Next week we will learn two more & doubles.  Each day we do a strategy page & the next day we play a game.  First graders at our school really seem to like it!!!

So I hope have has a great Friday tomorrow!!!!  For those who have to work, try some of my great Veteran's Day activities.  Hope the weekend is good for you...mine will be busy with Hickory Junior Woman's Club Gala...set up Saturday & Vegas night Sat night & then totally excited about a girl's day to the Southern Christmas Show.  That's right I think I'm ready to start decorating!!!!  We will see......