The Bat Cave
Oh My Word! My kiddos absolutely LOVED our Bat Research Week. I knew they would love learning about bats, but I still wanted to take the opportunity to set the stage to engage these little learners and boy did…
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Making Matter Pop!
The kids had a blast making Matter Pop today. I was impressed with how much knowledge they brought to the table. My little scientists made me proud. I started by putting the sodas, pop rocks and balloons on the table….
Solids, Liquids and Gas!
It’s finally here! It’s finally here. We started our unit on Matter. I LOVE this unit. I mean I seriously LOVE this unit. We use Foss science kits in our district, but I supplement the kit with Hope King’s Matter unit and…
Desert Research Writing
Last week our story was the riveting selection, “A Walk in the Desert.” It is not the most exciting thing to read, but the desert is a topic of interest to seven year olds and I wanted to capitalize on…
Henry and Mudge Camp In
We just finished reading, “Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night.” Who doesn’t love Henry and Mudge? The kids were really into it so my teaching partner and I decided to have a “camp in” complete with s’mores!!! I know,…
Reading Street Decodables for First Grade Unit 1
I happened! It finally happened. I have finished unit 1 Reading Street decodables and activities. I even bundled them so you don’t have to find each decodable for the unit in my TpT shop. They are now in one easy…
Angry Verbs!
I’m finally finding some time to pull my school photos off my phone!! Eeekkk! I realize this post is late, very late… let’s think of it as “early”-early for next year. The timing of this activity actually fell 2…
Yoda Directed Draw Instructions
Boy oh Boy! I have gotten a ton of questions about our Yoda Directed Draw. I took some photos so you could see the steps I went through with the kiddos. I hope this helps! Thanks for all the amazing…
Star Wars Legos
At my current rate of blogging I may have all my Star Wars posts up before next Star Wars Day- MAYBE! I won’t make any promises. But… these ideas could be used at any time of the year not just…
Oh so much fun with ‘oo’
Last week our story was, “Dot and Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery” and our phonics skill was ‘oo’ as in spoon. I saw a cute spoon anchor chart on Pinterest. The teacher had written all the words on spoons….
