Spring Fun with There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick

I was super excited about sharing this activity with everyone.  Unfortunately I may be a little late this year, but you can always file it away for next year.  We just got the activity completed in class today.  Sad to report that my grandpa is in the hospital and not doing great so I have spent a lot of time there lately...which doesn't leave much time for all this fun stuff.  Below you can find the piece sizes and outlines for the project.  I also have pictures of the final product.  The kids had a BLAST with this activity.  It helps that they love these books!  Each season they can't wait for me to read them.  It was also great practice with sequencing the book.  Hope you enjoy the activity and let me know if you have any questions!  :)

Click the pictures below to save a copy for your files!  Then click HERE for the pieces to copy on construction paper.  Here head is a little cut off in the picture, only because I used construction paper to draw it to make it bigger.  It gives you an idea of how to draw her head on the construction paper so you can copy it for your kiddos!

Happy Easter and hope you enjoy your time off!

Finally...back on the blog!

Sorry, we have been slacking in the post department.  We have been busy preparing for our school's trivia night.  You would never guess how time consuming that can be!  Well worth it though...we helped the school raise money and had a blast at the trivia/silent auction.  Now that it is over, we can relax.  LOL!

We want to send a shout out to The Kindergarten Chick for giving us our 1st award!!!  We are so excited!

After much training and building my confidence, I accomplished my first, true, guided reading group.  The kids loved it, I loved it, and will continue with it.  Too bad we only have about 33 days of school left, but who is counting!

We have been talking about main ideas and details in 1st grade so I wanted to share the anchor chart we made.  We read a big book about the life cycle of a butterfly and created this main idea/detail anchor chart.  The kids even helped me design it!  You can find the main idea in the body of the butterfly and the details in the wings.

I'm sure most of you are coming off a Spring Break...lucky!  We are just counting down the days till our Easter Break.  Happy Monday and may this week fly by with tons of fun and learning!

Silly St. Patrick's Day!

Happy blogging everyone!  Hope you have had a wonderful weekend and are getting geared up for some St. Patty's Day fun.  I have been busy, along with Katie, working on the Silly St. Patrick's Day Packet that we just put up on TPT!  Click HERE to head over to TPT to check it out!  We have also been very busy preparing for our school trivia night.  Who knew that it took so much hard work behind the scenes to have a successful event. We having been making bid sheets, organizing baskets, and getting all the paperwork done, of course with all cute fonts thanks to Kevin and Amanda!  If you have not been by their site yet, please check it out by clicking HERE!  You will be in font heaven!  We have everyone at our school addicted now.  Below you will find a small preview of what you can find in the Silly St. Patrick's Day Packet.  We hope you enjoy and please leave us some feedback and let us know what you think about it!

Compound Words

One more quick post before I hit the sack because I have to get up at 4:45 to meet my bestie at the gym.  We have been learning about compound words the last couple weeks.  I have done this activity the last couple of years to help them understand how compound words are made.  Below are pics of the project that we did, very simple.  I just cut a regular size piece of construction in 1/2, so it made 2 long skinny strips.  I taught the kids how to fold it, surprisingly they did very well with the folding aspect this year.  Some years I fold the papers for the kids before we start the project.  We brainstormed a list of compound words, I only used the compound words that I thought would be easy for the kids to draw pictures to.  On the left flap, students write the first word that makes up the compound word and draws a picture to match.  On the right flap, students write the second word in the compound word and then draw a picture to match.  When you open the flaps up, the inside of the book, the students write the compound word and draw a picture to match the new word.  The students had a blast with it.  They were so excited to find out they could make more than one booklet.  Goodnight everyone!

                                                                foot                        ball      

football

                                                             basket                           ball

basketball

                                                               rain                     bow

rainbow

Getting geared up for Dr. Seuss's birthday!

The kids are excited about Dr. Seuss's birthday as if it were their own birthday.  They have really enjoyed reading and listening to so many of his books.  To kick off the week, 1st grade made these adorable Thing 1 and Thing 2 prints.  Yes...the idea was from Pinterest yet again.  Click HERE for the Pinterest link, it came from Clutter Free Classrooms, another great blog to look at!

Now I am just trying to geared up for the mess we are going to make tomorrow with our Oobleck.  Yikes!

President's Day!

I know I am a little late, but...my kiddos had a blast learning about what the President does and discussing what would make a good President.  The kids got to make this cute President's Day hat, pictured below.  I took their pics and the students had to write about why someone should pick them to be the President.  I was completely amazed at the sweet things they came up with.  Our music teacher thought the kids were so cute in their hats that she recorded the class singing the Pledge of Allegiance to play for the school during our Friday Morning Meetings.  :)

Click HERE for the paper template.

March Fun

 Are you getting excited about all the fun March has to bring?  We are busy preparing for Dr. Seuss's birthday bash and for some crazy leprechauns to come crashing our classrooms!  1st grade did a really cute St. Patrick's Day project with their 4th grade buddies.  Of course, the idea came from Pinterest.  Click HERE to see the idea on Pinterest.  The 1st graders wrote on the shamrocks about why they were lucky to have their buddy and the 4th graders wrote on the gold coins about why they treasure their buddy.

EVEN more exciting...we now have our Fun in March packet out on Teachers Pay Teachers.   Click HERE to get it!  Below is a preview of what you will find.  Please let us know what you think of our Fun in March packet!