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O”FISH”ally in School….and a little bit of life…

To celebrate being official first graders, we did an art project combined with writing! 

We began with a directed draw of a fish.  It’s always amazing to see how each one comes out so differently. 

 Next I put one color of paint at each table.  The students were allowed to paint each section a color.  Even though I have 14 rambunctious boys and 8 sassy girls, they were just fantastic about keeping the paint where it goes and following the rules!  I have learned that this class loves to be “trusted” with big kid tasks!! {wink wink}

 After the painting the fish dried over night.

 I took a black Mr. Sketch and used the thick side to outline their previous sharpie lines.  Then they glued them to black construction paper for a bigger pop!  They added a big googly eye.

 We wrote sentences to tell about our fish.  This class rocked my socks off with their beginning first grade writing! 

 Since it is hard to read, here’s a close up…I also have a template without sentence starters which may have been a better fit for this group!!!

 I usually make this a bulletin board with both the writing and fish and it’s a bright fun display, but since I have a wall of windows this year, I decided to string them up!  It just makes me so happy!

 If you want to grab this art and writing idea, you can find it here in a set of 4 projects.  If you want more bulletin board ideas, I did a post that showcases some of my favorite art and writing here!

 It’s so nice to ease into school with two 4 days weeks in a row!  I took some time yesterday and went up to my classroom to prepare for week 2.  I put our new math tubs together. I am using all 5 math activities from my new FUNdamentals and Friendships unit and I began to pull a couple more from my Back to School 10 Math Centers Activities. 

 We are in a math adoption year in my district so our current adoption is out of date, and no longer aligns to the new standards.  Because of this, I created A Teacher’s Math Resource to help guide my instruction to meet all standards in a sequential way.  Last week we began with a couple number sense lessons which you can check out here.  This week, we will continue with number sense.  A big inspiration for me with figuring out ways to make it fun and engaging for the kids are these posts by Cara which you can check out here and here.  She’s always thinking of ways to make math come to life!

If you notice in this picture below, I have a math wall where I show the essential questions and big ideas that we are working on as well as math words.  I also made student friendly concept posters to help your students relate to the big ideas.  You can get the first math unit of study for free here.  If you like it I have the entire first semester finished and for sale here. 

The amazing Gladys at Teaching in High Heels has a cute set of math posters called Marvelous Mathematicians. 

Her posters focus on the thinking process for solving math problems.  Check them out here!

On a more personal note we have made some home improvements!  After living in our home for 7 years, we finally added a fence!!!  You may know that we have two crazy dogs.  One large and overly hairy golden mix and one pretentious toy poodle. 

So here’s the house with the fence!!! So exciting!   Can you see it?  Well in person it is very visible.  This picture isn’t working out the way I hoped.

 left hand side close up

 Right hand side close up

But before you get too impressed…I came home on the first day of school to find a flooded kitchen.  So we had no water in our kitchen the first week and these fans blowing all night and all morning.

Here my kids are eating their breakfast in a mess of fans and torn up baseboards.  Now normally no one comes over unless my kitchen is clean and now I am showing it to you in it’s worst condition.  When life happens, you just get real.  This is what I have going on right now.  The fans are so loud that I can’t hear the keys clicking as I type. 

Well I am off to dinner with my family…One good thing about a messed up kitchen with no water?!?!  Mama can’t cook very much!!!!
Take Care Bloggy Friends and enjoy your Labor Day! 

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    Comments

    1. Miss Nelson says

      September 1, 2013 at 10:57 pm

      Love the new fence. Did you ever sell your house ??? I can't remember but I thought you were trying to sell. Your house is beautiful.

      Reply
      • ReaganTunstall says

        September 1, 2013 at 10:59 pm

        That's so cool that you remember that! We ended up taking it off the market! It was amazing. I wrote a post about that here! http://tunstalltimes.blogspot.com/2012/11/lets-get-real-personal-post.html

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    2. Lisa Bee says

      September 1, 2013 at 11:20 pm

      Your fish turned out great!
      -Lisa
      Grade 4 Buzz

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    3. Ms Apple Blossoms says

      September 1, 2013 at 11:39 pm

      Love those fish! Those are adorable!

      Sorry about the water accident…that is no fun. And agreed, your house is beautiful. I also just read your post about taking it off the market. Such a beautiful post. I'm so glad you were able to come through that time and I think posting it really helps us remember just how human we are and how real life is.

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    4. Tania says

      September 2, 2013 at 12:00 am

      Water accidents… no fun. I hope you are enjoying dinner out!
      LOVE your property.
      Tania
      My Second Sense

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    5. Mrs Cupcake says

      September 2, 2013 at 12:13 am

      Water problems are no fun!! We had mystery water in our storage room and after two "flooding" events we realized it was because our gutters were too full of leaves! Ha! Anywho, those fish are adorable!!!
      ❤Teri
      A Cupcake for the Teacher

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    6. Traci - Dragonflies in First says

      September 2, 2013 at 12:16 am

      Yuck to house floods! Those fans work great but they are SO loud.
      Love your fence! I've been here 23 years now… SO need a new fence and gate!
      I LOVE your fish. They are so bright and colorful.

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    7. Mrs. Santana says

      September 2, 2013 at 12:16 am

      Girl- Those fish are precious! 🙂

      ♥ Kimberly
      The Learning Tree

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    8. Kelly says

      September 2, 2013 at 1:03 am

      The fence is beautiful, so is the house! I love the fish, I may take the plunge and try a paint project, I like the way you only had one color on each table. Did they clean their brushes or did the brushes travel to the next table?
      Kelly
      I'm Not Your Grandpa, I'm Your Teacher

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      • ReaganTunstall says

        September 2, 2013 at 12:50 pm

        the paint and brushes stay at the tables and the kids travel with their fish.

        Reply
    9. Teaching in the Tongass says

      September 2, 2013 at 1:30 am

      The fish are adorable! I love how they are bright and the googley eyes really add to them 🙂

      Teaching in the Tongass

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    10. Jayne Gammons says

      September 2, 2013 at 1:47 am

      Great idea to outline the fish. Jayne
      Smart Kids

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    11. Gladys says

      September 2, 2013 at 2:44 am

      Love, love, love those adorable fish!! Oh and thank you so much for the sweet shout out! xoxoxo 🙂

      Reply
    12. Lisa says

      September 2, 2013 at 5:33 am

      It's great that your kids get more responsible with "big kids tasks" 😉 The fish look really great.
      When you wrote about your math standards I realized something I never thought about since a started reading blogs by teachers from the US. Nobody seems to be using textbooks or other prewritten resources in elementary schools. I only read about things the teachers made themselves. Here in Germany there are some teachers who teach completely without prewritten materials, but they are rare. There is a really big market of schoolbooks and exercise books for very different teaching styles and methods and I only heard about teachers who didn't like the material their school already bought, who don't use any.
      Do you or anybody else know why you don't seem to work that way? Is it a money issue or are the things available not good? I thought about it, because here they have to adapt the material whenever they change the standards…

      Reply
      • ReaganTunstall says

        September 2, 2013 at 12:49 pm

        We have an adopted curriculum here. Our math standards changed through the state. Because of this the current text book no longer aligns to the new standards. This year we will be choosing a new adoption that will align. Most teachers use both textbook and teacher created materials where I work. Great question!

        Reply
    13. Swersty says

      September 2, 2013 at 10:01 am

      Adorable fish! I bet your new school loves having you there, but I sure miss working with you! This must have been the summer for fences, because we got one, too!
      Swersty’s Swap Shop

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      • ReaganTunstall says

        September 2, 2013 at 12:50 pm

        you did? I would love to see it! How was your first week at your new school??!

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      September 2, 2013 at 1:23 pm

      Love the fish banner!
      Jennifer
      First Grade Blue SKies

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      September 2, 2013 at 6:05 pm

      LOVE your fish….and sorry about the water.
      No fun.
      Cindy

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        • FUNdamentals and Friendships
        • Class Pet Writing Journal
        • Organization and Reteach!
        • Guided Reading-Transitional Readers Cheat Sheet!
        • How to Implement the Rise and Shine Binder {and a freebie}
        • Rise and Shine Binder
        • School Beginnings Update
        • Oh Good Graph!
      • ►June
        • A Teacher's Math Resource Units 1-6 Complete!
        • Meet Ups & Updates
        • A Teacher's Math Resource!
        • Big News!
        • Road Trippin' Without Falling Down
        • Chalky Classroom Garden Decor
        • A New Adventure in Professional Development!
        • Adding Tape Math
        • The Last Day...
      • ►May
        • Mark and Sally Learn To Tally!
        • The Last Week Of School Survival
        • Sliding Out of Town and Into a New Decade
        • Win a CUTE T-Shirt!!!
        • Five for Friday!
        • Classroom Details! {the nitty gritty}
        • Mother's Day
        • Math Center Ideas and a Sale
        • I Have News!
        • Five for Friday! Holla!!!
      • ►April
        • It's Official. I am a hoarder. Oh, and a Farm Freebie.
        • Book Reviews and SSSSSScenters
        • Fighting Bone Cancer
        • Hap Palmer CD Winner!
        • Math and Technology
        • Snake Safari!
        • Blog Stalker Bffs and Fraction Freebies
        • Catching up. A Freebie. Some Video.
        • Fly on the Wall Linky
        • Symmetrical Salad, 2-D Desserts, and My Fight with Siri
        • Math is a Picnic...in the Classroom!
        • Feelings and Rocks
        • Literacy Picnic In the Classroom!
      • ►March
        • Spring Daily Math and Language
        • Five For Friday
        • How Do You Spell......?????
        • Crunchin' Numbers! {Freebie}
        • My Year In Bulletin Boards! {Teacher Eye Candy}
        • St. Patrick's Day Sale!
        • My Spring Fling with Captain Obvious!
        • Riveting Reading Instruction
        • Five for Friday
        • Psst! Hey You!! Want a Freebie?
        • Unicorns...What Else?
        • Testing My Limits and Linky Visual Plans
      • ►February
        • Full Speed Ahead!
        • Looking Back and Heading Forward
        • Hall Pass Linky!
        • President's Day Visual Plans, Freebies, & Finds!
        • Sunday Funday!
        • Five For Friday!
        • All You Need Is LOVE!!!
        • Valentine's Day Week!
        • *Not Teaching Related! Boo-RAH!!!
        • February Math Centers!
        • Techy Teacher Tuesday! Free App and Literacy Activity!
        • Prepping Penguins!
        • Visual Plans and I Dyed My Hair!
      • ►January
        • Swimming With Sharks...and a little Claustrophobia!
        • Visual Plans and 100th Day Freebie
        • Sight Words and Thinking Maps!
        • Balance-Updates-and Lesson Plans
        • Dr. MLK Jr. Day!
        • Puppy Love Literacy!
        • Pinterest killed my Mojo
        • Visual Plans and Highlights
        • Home Office Makeover Reveal
        • Mega-Mode in January!
        • Visual Plans And New Year's Freebie
        • Classroom Pictures-Ready for January!
        • Mailbox Station
    • ►2012
      • ►December
        • Look Away- I'm Hideous!
        • Jam Packed January and an Office Make-Over!
        • Texas Blogger Meet Up!
        • Sound Science
        • Parent Gift Factory...
        • Visual Plans For a Busy Week
        • Silence for Sandy Hook
        • Just 24 Hours Ago...
        • Making Reindeer Food Meet the Standards!
        • I met Kim Adsit!!!
        • Plans, Crafts, Parent Gifts, and Let's Meet!
        • Tech the Halls!
        • Monday Made It Freebies!
        • Visual Lesson Plans For Gingerbread Week
        • It's Gingerbread Week!
      • ►November
        • Techy Santa!
        • Visual Plans and Estimate to Win Today!
        • Run Turkey Run!
        • Attack Attack! Calling for Reinforcements!
        • Let's Get Real Personal Post.
        • Products and My Daily Schedule
        • Visual Plans...and life!
        • Veterans Day Unit UPDATE!
        • We've all Gone MAD!
      • ►October
        • Spooky Fact Families Freebie
        • Pumpkins and Common Core... What More?
        • Pumpkin Week & Visual Plans
        • Wrapping Up the Week
        • Our Bat Book Study
        • Top Ten Blogging Side Effects...
        • Bats, Stellaluna, and Visual Plans!
        • Spider Art and Writing
        • Don't Call the Exterminator!
        • Keeping Writer's Workshop Alive!
        • Spider Week and Visual Plans
        • Freebies and Pumpkin Estimation Winner
      • ►September
        • Week 6 Plans and Writing Lesson
        • What's Working?
        • How I Run my Math Block
        • October Math Centers
        • Teaching Writing Ideas and Plans
        • Fall Sale and a Funny!
        • Word Work, Apples, and Caterpillars...
        • Visual Lesson Plans with Links!
        • Skip Counting Freebie and My Week in Pictures
        • Whatever Gets You Out of Bed in the Morning...
        • Pests or Pals?
        • Top Ten, Freebies, and Plans
      • ►August
        • First Week's Fun
        • Surviving the First Day!
        • Reading Lesson Anchor Charts
        • Where I Teach Wednesday
        • Are You Ready to Expo?
        • My Visual Lesson Plans!!
        • Mouse Pad Makeover
        • Sneak a Peek at My Purchases
        • Odds and Ends
        • Anchor Charts For You
        • On Your Mark,Get Set,GO!
        • Special Delivery!
        • New Awards For Students
        • Classroom Tour 2012-2013
        • Titles, Questions, and Tutorials
        • Classroom Progress 2012
      • ►July
        • Heading in to School Today!
        • Feelin' Texan
        • Fall Art and Writing Projects
        • Tell Me More!
        • Pixy Stick Birthday Makeover
        • 10 Lessons for Teaching Reading
        • Pinterest Inspired Crafts
        • Back To School Prep!
        • Teach Like A Theme Park?
        • Surprise Vacation!
        • Old School New School
        • Back To School 10 Math Centers {&Freebie}
        • Nerd Alert!
        • Currently Burn Ban!
        • Motivating Students with Props from the Dollar Store!
      • ►June
        • WHAT DID SHE SAY?!
        • Check Check...Is This Thing On?
        • Dancing and Math
        • I Messed Up!
        • Summer Laziness????
        • A Year Of Daily Math!
        • Best Summer Ever!
        • Flipping Out for Freebies!
        • Daily Math Requests
        • Texas Sized FUN at the blog meet!
        • Currently Redecorating!
      • ►May
        • Our Last Day in Pictures
        • End of Year Freebies
        • Surviving One More Week-IDEAS!
        • Crafts, Chefs, and Spaghetti!
        • Oh Momma--It's Coming!
        • Read to Puppy!
        • Currently Moooo-ing!
        • Don't Judge and Freebie!
      • ►April
        • Academic Awards for Elementary Students
        • Farm Fun and Freebie
        • Candy Awards
        • Oh Momma!
        • Are My Kids Still Chasing Me?
        • Bulletin Boards & BFFs
        • Dear Teacher Diary...
        • Four Friday Freebies!
        • Skyping Good Time!
        • We Ate a Frog Today!
        • Snack Sized Learning and a Letter Writing Freebie!
        • Today Rocked!!!
        • Spring Daily Language Review and A Couple Pictures
        • The Bunny
        • Math Math Math!
        • Shhhh Don't Tell My Diet.
        • Spring Daily Math
      • ►March
        • This Week's Pictures
        • Lunch Linky and The Daily Five Update
        • Science Freebies
        • Dumpsville- Population Zero!
        • Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
        • First Grade Fashions and Academics Too!
        • The Real Rocks of Limestone County
        • Gone Buggy Unit for Free
        • Planning With Ryan
        • Bloggers GONE WILD--Spring Break Meet Up!
        • Morning Work Freebie and a Linky Party!
        • Elmer and A Sale!
        • Teaching Writing and Life Lessons
        • I Think I Can! I Think I Can!
        • Reference Wall Freebies
        • No More Word Verification!
        • Lenny the Leprechaun
        • We Looked for A Leprechaun!
      • ►February
        • Write on the Money?
        • Feels Like a Monday!---and a freebie!
        • Giant TPT LINKY PARTY!
        • Looking For A Leprechaun
        • Today I Celebrate Being in Remission!!!
        • Feeling Super Presidential!
        • I think I am global.
        • Do You Feel Lucky?
        • Rowing my Boat. Keeping Afloat.
        • Happy Valentine's Day! Freebie
        • March Math Centers!
        • Shock and Awe
        • Penguins and Polka Dots
        • Giraffes in Antarctica!
        • Currently Contemplating...
        • My February Lesson Plans and Winners!
        • I hope this is Freeze Tag.
        • Build A Graph Freebie and Celebrating The Non-Fiction Superbowl!
      • ►January
        • Grab a snack it's a long post!
        • Daily Language Work
        • Goats, Trolls, and a FREEBIE!
        • Do You Speak Blog?
        • Mid-Week Pick Me Up
        • Dream Squashing In Full Effect!
        • This Little Piggy
        • San Antonio Texas Blogger Meet Up!
        • Daily Warm Ups for Math and Language!
        • Math Centers!
        • I'm Baaaaack...{from the salon}
        • Catching Up!
        • Currently, MLK, and Other Assorted Topics (HAIR)
        • Writing and Centers
        • My Friday Fix!!
        • What to Do with Ten Extra Minutes...and more
        • Geometric Quilting Update
        • Highlights of the Last 2 Days!
        • 2012 Morning Work Freebie and Another Top Ten!
    • ►2011
      • ►December
        • New Year's Sale!
        • Build a Pizza Math Center!
        • Monster Game Freebies!
        • Coziness, Confessions, and Lesson Plans!
        • 11 in 11 Linky FUN
        • I promise I know how to count...really...Free Reading Logs Updated
        • Bulletin Boards for Winter!
        • Merry Christmas!
        • Holiday Identity Crisis.
        • How Do Penguins Drink Their Soda?
        • The Emperor's Egg
        • My Pastor Ate Baby Jesus
        • Currently... Laughing
        • Top Ten Reasons I know Christmas is Near...
        • Sock Snowman Gift and Merry Christmas Splat the Cat!
        • All Aboard The Polar Express
        • Arrrrg!
        • Freebie, Giveaway, and a Recipe!
        • Cookies and Pepcid for Dinner
        • No More Reindeer Games!
      • ►November
        • Dream Squasher
        • In Charge of Chocolate and Cuteness
        • Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale!
        • Rudolph the Chip-Nosed Reindeer & a Freebie
        • Christmas Art Projects!
        • Thankfully Giving!
        • Writer's Workshop Pet Edition
        • Not a DULL moment!
        • Daily Calendar Freebie and a mess of other ideas
        • Veteran's Day is Next Week!
      • ►October
        • November Unit Update!
        • 7 Things you'll wish you could forget
        • Bats, Phonics, and My Friday Fix!
        • Pumpkin Glyph Bulletin Board Freebie
        • Math Quilts
        • Halloween Dress Up Linky!!
        • Harry the Dirty Dog
        • Stellaluna Book Study!
        • Jack O Faces FREEBIE
        • Framed!!
        • Read on Little Dudes....Read on...
      • ►September
        • Oh Good Graph!
        • I Have Officially Spread Myself Too Thin
        • Fun with Fiction
        • Indoor Recess? Problem SOLVED!!
        • Totally Bugged.
        • You are the Wind Beneath My Wings...
        • Math Tubs
        • Writer's Workshop
      • ►August
        • Number Bracelets!
        • Breakfast in my Classroom {horrors}
        • Meet The Teacher Night
        • Things I have been working on...
        • Gone Buggy!
        • Top Ten Reasons You Know it is BACK TO SCHOOL time!
        • Classroom Pictures Part 2. D-O-N-E!!!
        • Classroom Tour 2011-2012 Part One
      • ►July
        • Book Barn!
        • Shape Up!
        • Teacher Feature
        • Writer's Workshop
        • Classroom Labels
        • I am a R-O-B-O-T
        • Vowels Visual
        • Monster Math Tubs
        • Can O' Worms
        • Earbud Storage
        • Discovery Bottles
        • WORD DOCTOR
      • ►June
        • Teacher Tipster...My NEW BFF!
        • Back to School....and writing...
        • Lovely Labels!
        • Classroom Organization
        • Minute to Win It
        • Teacher Song!
        • June Joy!
    • ►2010
      • ►August
        • Classroom Details
        • Back To School 2010-2011
        • Classroom 2010- 2011
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