For the Home

I have been meaning to share this with you even though it is not school related.  I made these a few weeks ago and they are now hanging in my eatting area.  I love how they came out.  Then on Black Friday, I bought an ottaman and I needed a cute tray on it.  I couldn't find one that I really loved so, I bought a wooden tray and painted it to match these cute letters!  I don't have a picture of this, but I LOVE them and I am soooo happy with how it turned out.  I also found this fabric and made pillows for the couch that are also green.  I am so happy that my place is finally starting to come together. 

Bad Blogger

I am such a bad blogger lately.  I am hoping that after the holiday season, I will get a chance to share all the pictures from Thanksgiving and on.  I have not forgotten about you at all.  Please forgive me!

This Week

This week was super short so we just talked about what we were thankful for.

Then we made turkeys with our hands and on the fingers we wrote the things we were most thankful for.

Then I got a package of some new toys that I ordered.  We got to play with those this week too.  I love them and so do the kiddos.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I have been a bad blogger lately, but I have some fun pictures to share with you.  We did a Turkey Trot this week.  The kids raised money to help the school.

Students had signs around the track that cheered them on.  I was dressed up like a turkey.  The kids absolutely loved it.

This was a writing prompt we did last week.

And then the craft we made to go with it!  I will post this week in the next post.

This Week in Pictures

Ok so this is not all this week, but I have been bad about keeping up with my posts this week.



We held a shoe drive that we collected in my classroom so I turned it into a math activity.    I dumped all of the shoes into the middle of the room and my younger kids had to match the shoes and then count them. My older kids practiced counting by twos.  The shoes were donated to be recycle into athletic play surfaces. 

This is an anchor chart I started with my kiddos.

These are pieces of Smath.  We used them to find  and create equations.

This was our writing project this week.  We used our senses to describe a turkey.

Today I left work and this is what greeted me in the parking lot.

In a Giving Mood

I am in a giving mood on this November 1st evening. I have been creating things to use this month and thought I would share some of them for FREE!

Thanksgiving Writing Paper

Describe a Turkey

Compare and Contrast Thanksgiving

This is my favorite one of this post.  I have a book about the first Thanksgiving, so I thought we could identify the similarities and differences about how the first Thanksgiving was and how it is now.

Please let me know what you think and invite your blogger friends to use these as well.  Happy November!

Sight Word Flashcard Freebie

I made these with the intention of using them for centers and/or rainbow words.  While I still intend to use them that way, I thought it was time for a freebie.  Please enjoy them and share how you used them.  Included are the first 100 Fry's sight words.

Halloween Math

We practiced our basic math facts this week with this cute subtraction worksheet from You Might Be a First Grader.  The link for the worksheet can be found here.

Bat Writing

Last week we worked on bats.  Here are some of the pictures of our writing activity.

Students were given numbered envolopes and asked to use what they know to make the words into a sentence.  We talked about how we knew that a sentence started with a capital letter and ended with a punctuation mark.  They used that knowledge to find the first and last word of the sentence.  Then thay used the words that were left and put them in the correct order.

Once they figured out what the sentence was supposed to be, they glued it down.

Then they wrote the sentence on the line.

To finish our bat writing activity, we made bats.

Our finished product!

Missing Letter Pack

This pack has five missing letter worksheets with different themes.  Some are uppercase and some are lowercase letters.  Once all the letters are introduced, I like to use this to see if students can fill in the missing letters.

Thanksgiving ABC Order

I made this ABC order activity I am going to do with the kids next month.  Check it out and let me know what you think.  I want to make some more for other themes.  Any ideas?  My kids love activities that involve cutting and gluing, and they need the fine motor practice, so when I can, I have them cut, color, or glue!!

Fact Families

This week we made this cute project that helped us understand fact families.

We started by cutting out the pieces and then glued the facts in the correct place.  This is how it turned out.

Then I got to thinking that I can use this with word families and other numbers.  So I made this.  This allows me to change the subject and I can customize it to my students' needs.

Project Updates

As promised, here are pictures of our ghost writing that we finished up this week.

I also wanted to show you some of the things I have been doing with the handwriting notebook that I made.  This is the result after the student worked with me.  I used a highlighter to help the student trace and fit the words in the proper spacing.  When I made the shapes, the student understood the spacing.

A little more practice with this student.  We circled our favorites.

In the next few weeks, I will be making monsters with the kids.  I found this idea on Pinterest and it was super easy to do.  The best part...

It can be used as a bookmark too!  How cute!?

Next week, we are talking about bats.  This is the project we are going to make when we are done with our writing activity.  It will hang with our ghosts in time for conferences!