It’s been a little while since I shared some day to day activities happening in our classroom. Although I don’t have them all tied perfectly together in a tidy little theme, this is the real deal of what we are learning! It’s a bit all over the place at times, but it’s standards based baby!
Let’s start with math shall we? Our math journals are “hoppin” and we are keeping our spiraled concepts fresh during this independent time. We are working out of my April Math Journal Pack
Here we are taking on the more difficult concept of counting by tens starting on a different number! This can be a hard concept at first— 4, 14, 24, 34, 44, 54… I give them a hundred chart, but soon they are good to go without one!
At small group this week we are working out of my Spring Printable Math Skills Packet. It’s been a great way to see how my students build, organize, and think mathematically!
Our spelling rule this week is IE and IGH -{long I} We are working out of my Phonics interactive printables. Each week I stock our 5 drawers with 5 purposeful activities and my students get after it!
In science we are studying animal groups so I brought our plastic friends out and hid them under “rocks”. The kids made inferences about what could be under the “rocks” snakes had the most guesses, but frogs and gorillas were thrown around a little too.
One brave soul was chosen to pull off a rock. Just look at the reaction…
Once the snakes were revealed, we carefully lifted each snake to reveal a vocabulary word.
We discussed what the vocabulary word was and how it related to reptiles or other animal groups.
I had 14 snakes so this took some time but we also clapped the syllables and discussed synonyms for the words when possible. {Covering my standards in every way possible}
Since the snake introduction, I have been pulling out literacy activities to work on with my reading groups as well as math centers to put out during math stations. These all come from my Snake Safari Unit which truly does not need to correlate to a science study on snakes. The activities are fun no matter what and follow common core standards.
The game below is a sight word game you play against friends.
We discussed fact and opinions and I put this activity in the writing center during guided reading!
Pretty much anything that requires you to prolong the ssssssssss sound makes for fun during a snake safari, so we also clapped ssssssyllables.
So what did I do with the plastic snakes? They became writing and work buddies. So if I saw that my kids were being calm and working hard I would say they could have a snake buddy. I explained that snakes will spook and bite if they talked or were up and out of their seat… They worked so hard to have a snake buddy!!!!
The great part is that they named them whatever vocabulary word was on their bellies. So they would say, Shhhh slither is sleeping. SO precious!
This was seriously happening over at table 3. I grabbed my camera as fast as possible to get it. Then we giggled. 🙂
So I haven’t gone into writer’s workshop much this year on the blog. We have been plugging along all year in our workshop and I am pleased with the progress we are making, but I almost forgot all about
Editing Eddie and his Conventions Convention!
Finally we ended our day with writer’s workshop and author’s chair. My new favorite discovery is to take popular songs from the radio that my students LOVE and download the Karaoke versions. Then I create a playlist and play it during writer’s workshop. My students LOVE it but they can’t sing along and they just get big smiles while they write. It makes for such a happy atmosphere during writer’s workshop! Here’s a screen shot of what we had playing today. There’s no words so you don’t have to worry about language! My class has yet to sing one word. They just say OH I LOVE THIS SONG and then they hum a little and pretty soon they are writing up a storm.
Whew! I didn’t realize how much I had to share in this post!
But just one more little happy spot this week!
All About Reader’s Workshop!
Writing Mini-Lessons for the Year
Making Sight Words STICK!
Let’s Celebrate Reading!
Jessica Fredrickson says
April 2, 2014 at 1:09 amYou are amazing Reagan! I am always so impressed by how much you fit into your day and how much fun your kiddos have. 🙂
~Jessica
Fun in PreK-1 & Kinder
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Katie- Following My Heart to First Grade says
April 2, 2014 at 1:13 amReagan,
I just love your classroom and wish I could spend a day in there! You are awesome! You have really made me love math this year with all of your great resources! I cannot wait to teach math to two groups next year!
Katie
Amanda says
April 2, 2014 at 1:28 amI absolutely love your blog! I always get such great ideas and inspiration from you! I implemented Math Rotations a few weeks ago (better late than never!) and one of them is Math Journals and my kids are LOVING the April ones by you! Thanks for sharing your creativity!!
Nicole Shelton says
April 2, 2014 at 1:35 amI love your blog, it has been so helpful to me as a first year teacher. You have given me such great ideas and your products have been so helpful!
Maureen says
April 2, 2014 at 3:40 amthis post just made me smile! Thank you so much for inspiring and sharing 🙂
Carrie Jones says
April 2, 2014 at 7:14 amHi Reagan, I agree with all of the above comments! I really appreciate you sharing your ideas and for taking the time and energy to post the How To's and the What For's of the things you do in your classroom. Also, I love the karaoke idea! BTW, the snake on the girl's head is a complete crack up!!
Carrie
i Heart Second
The Think Aloud Cloud
cori in wa says
April 2, 2014 at 11:34 amYou are an amazing inspiration and role model. You continually share and celebrate ways that learning in first grade can be fun! Thank you 🙂
Cori in WA (who is really in Texas)
Jennifer White says
April 2, 2014 at 4:10 pmSO much fun, Reagan!
Jennifer
First Grade Blue Skies
KaSandra says
April 3, 2014 at 2:39 amI adore the snakes under rocks vocabulary idea! Such a great one. I'm gonna steal it for sure 🙂
KaSandra
MemoriesMadeinFirst
Jeanne says
April 3, 2014 at 2:39 pmYou always are inspiring me with your fun activities! I would enjoy a tour too that your blogger friends had. Btw, do you miss your tables or do you prefer desks?
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