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Double Double Toil and Trouble

March 17, 2016

I finally found time to make these little cuties with my firsties.  We have been working so hard on learning our doubles facts that I wanted them to have a little extra fun by making this mathtivity.  Plus it provided another avenue to get those facts memorized.  I enjoyed listening to the ‘double conversations’ my kids were having as they worked on their doubles monster.  I must say they also make a darling display on our math bulletin board.  I found this activity {here}.

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dr. seuss, oobleck, read across america, science

Oobleck!

March 4, 2016

We had a blast making oobleck during our celebration for Dr. Seuss’ birthday.  I usually make oobleck with my second graders during our solids, liquids and gasses unit.  But… sometimes you have to mix it up and this was the perfect group of firsties to make oobleck with. They LOVED it!  Love may not be a strong enough word.  They thought I was a magician when I demonstrated the oobleck.  When I told them they would be making it– well… lets just say, the crowd went WILD!!  I then got out our “Super Awesome Science Goggles” and it was ON!  What a super fun day.

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leprechauns, st. patrick's, verbs, writing

Leprechaun Verb Review

March 4, 2016

I just love how this little leprechaun verb review turned out.  I am all about St. Patrick’s day and was a wee bit anxious to do a leprechaun activity.  Ha!  So I kicked off our morning with a fun leprechaun story.  I followed the story by having a student come up to the front of the room.  I happened to have 1 boy wearing green so I chose him and introduced him as Leprechaun Larry.  I pretended that something wasn’t quite right with Leprechaun Larry.  I moved him this way and that.  I finally made a grand Aha gesture and decided Leprechaun Larry was too tall and told him to get on his knees.  The kids roared at this.  Now, if I had my wits about me, I would have had a leprechaun hat to put on him as well.   At this point we generated a list of verbs that Leprechaun Larry could do.  They were all over this and came up with excellent verbs.  I wrote them all down on our anchor chart.  When we had a good list I sent the kids back to their seats armed with 5 flag post its.  They chose 5 verbs from…

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decodables, mama's birthday present, reading street

More Reading Street Decodable Readers

February 29, 2016

Thank you so much for all the positive comments.  I love hearing how you are using these in your classrooms.  I am currently working on Unit 4 and 5.  I will post them at my TpT shop as I finish them.  Please follow my TpT store so you are notified when I post the new decodables. My kiddos are loving these and I can’t believe how good they are getting at doing them independently.  I do still do decodable ‘a’ whole group, decodable ‘b’ with partners and decodable ‘c’ independently and I can use to asses.  You can grab this set for “Mama’s Birthday Present” {here}.

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dice, math

Big Dice!!

February 28, 2016

Is there anything better than huge dice?!  I have been on a dice quest lately.  Please tell me I’m not the only whack a doodle that obsesses over the perfect manipulative?  I recently added the smallest dice in the world to my math game rotation.  The kids went crazy!!  So, I decided the only thing better than the tiniest dice in the world would be the biggest dice in the world and voila a new quest was born.  It took me awhile and then I found them at Hobby Lobby of all places.  Yay!!  The kids had a blast.

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common core, leprechaun, narrative, opinion, rainbows, research, st patricks day, writing

March Writing

February 28, 2016

I just finished giving my March Writing Unit a facelift!!  I can’t wait to get started on these activities next week.  Can you believe we are already planning St. Patrick’s Day fun?  You find this packet {here}.  I will post some pictures of my kiddos in action once we get started. If you’re feeling lucky you can enter to win one of these units below!   You can get multiple entries by liking me on FB and following my TpT store.  Good Luck!! a Rafflecopter giveaway

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mice, reading street, writing

EEEEKKK Mice!

February 18, 2016

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I REALLY dislike mice.  I mean REALLY REALLY hate them.  I’m the jump on the counter and wait for hours for someone to rescue me person (Yep! That’s happened!) I have no shame in my game.  Mice scare the bejeezus out of me.  You can imagine my horror as I prepared for our story this week and had to read all about mice.  Mice as a class pet no less.  That’s what I need, 6 year olds thinking we need a mouse.  Uh! No!  I really needed to turn this around.  So I decided we would focus on mice facts and I would throw in a dash of my opinion.  The kids loved it.  I’m a little worried that they took so much joy in finding out how I reacted to the sight of mice.  I may regret that come April Fool’s.  I started this research project by having the students look through our story and find 3 interesting facts about mice.   They each recorded their facts on the graphic organizer.  We worked together to generate topic sentences.  Day 2 the students used their graphic organizer to write their ‘Facts About…

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