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Skip Counting Freebie and My Week in Pictures

This was a real week in first grade.  You know what I mean?  Everything isn’t so new anymore.  I am not calling Johnny, Ronny or Jenny, Penny.  I have it.  No matter how many ways they change their hair and clothes…I got this.  I know them.  They know me.  It’s ON!

We’ve had some fun while learning this week.  One of the things we did was solve ladybug picture problems. Then we made our own ladybug picture problems for our friends to solve.

 Love this TALL grass! 

 I typed as they told me their ladybug story.  Then I printed and they put the story problems right on their pictures.  Some had subtraction stories and some had addition stories.  The great thing is that when we solved each others stories they knew that if some flew away or were eaten by birds then the number was going to be less! 

We finally got our self portraits done too.  It was the perfect way to wrap up our week!

First we drew ourselves with pencil.  I modeled by drawing myself first and did A LOT of self- talk.  I also experimented with different shapes for my facial features so the students would see a variety of ideas. Then I put a mirror at each table!  They LOVED that!

 
After their self portraits were approved by me, (with a hearty thumbs up) they were allowed to sharpie their pencil lines. 

 Once the sharpie was done, it was on to coloring. 

 On a different day, we did the writing activity.  My class was best suited for the fill in the blank version of this activity.  Really it was pretty open ended on three of the blanks so they were stretched to write out of their comfort zone.    The writing template is in my Fall Art and Writing Pack.

 Then I allowed them to mount and glue all the pieces together to create one magnificent display!

 We didn’t quite fit all on one board…don’t ya hate that!!  Plus I had 2 absent…sigh…

Finally, I have an apple skip counting freebie to share.  Just click the picture to download all 4.

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    7. Thea says

      Reagan,

      What an inspiration! Your explanation of this activity was well written and well "illustrated." Thank you for sharing such a great idea.

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    12. Storie says

      Your self portraits turned out great. I grabbed a copy of the freebie. Thank you for sharing this!! I noticed that every page's directions says count by 2 even though some count by 1s, 5s, and 10s. Just thought you might want to know 🙂
      Storie
      Stories by Storie

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    17. Jan says

      Thanks for the great freebie- I look forward to using it. Right now we're working on counting to 120 and place value- because that's what some… well somebody at the district level thought it would be the appropriate place for it in the pacing guide…sigh…

      I have the Fall pack and love it! We made the self-portrait pictures for our hall bulletin boards. I wish I could have used your templates, but again, the DO wants to see original writing… But they can't stop me from using the template as a guide:-)

      Thanks again for sharing more wonderful ideas!

      Reply

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