Sunday, November 24, 2013

I have a problem...


Do you have the same problem in your classroom?
What is your solution?



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Saturday, November 23, 2013

New Freebie! Christmas centres 1

I'm trying to find/create some good centres for my kiddies for the month of December. I like these sentence formation activities where students are given a cut up sentence and must put in correct order before recording and leaving the centre.



So I tried my hand at my own. Tell me what you think, please.

Desiree


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Sunday, November 17, 2013

New Forever Freebie: Family Tree People Templates.

Hey everyone!

I'm trying to get back into posting regularly, and as a thank you for your patience and continuing to  follow me, I'm offering you this forever freebie. I hand drew these face templates for a social studies art activity in my classroom. We were learning about family relationships first term so making a family tree made perfect sense!

Here's the link:

 People Templates Forever Free


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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Some centre activities

I'm trying  to expand our centres more and have been trying a lot of different things. Those that are a success will repeat, and those that are failures will not make a return appearance.


My kids match these letter magnets to the same letter on this large card.

I found this collection of sight word pages in our staff room bookshelf and incorporated them into a centre.

Flash Word cards. Look at the picture to read the word to your partner.

This letter trace activity is because so many of my kids make letters and numbers backwards, and/or forget to make letters as tall as they should be.

Blocks will always be a favourite activity during our centres. You are always guaranteed one "fun" centre.

I inherited these laminated sheets from the previous first grade teacher in my room. My kids love any read the room activity because they get to move around.



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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Halloween activities.

I know it's late, but I'd like to share some of the activities we did in our classroom the week of Halloween..

At our art centre one day we made witched hats out of paper water cups

With our reading buddies we made these pumpkins. So cute!

Another art centre activity, we made these ghost puppets, which some of my students decided should be masks instead, lol.

Our number ten monsters from math.

A writing activity inspired by _?_ Most of my students said I would be a rabbit.

Their reason? Because on crazy hat day I wore rabbit ears.

My contribution to our Halloween treats.

If  these are your products, please let me know, and I'll properly credit you, none of the four below are my own.

I loved this writing activity. Some of my students who are usually afraid to write more than three words, actually used more than one of the story starters to write their sentences. YAY!

Cute letter spin game.

I love doing read the room. This count the room. Awesome!

At our letter centre we matched these letters with their beginning sound. 

Happy Belated Halloween!



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Monday, November 11, 2013

Remembrance Day in my class 2013

 Every year across Canada, the school day before Remembrance day (some places may have school on the actual day in Ontario I think), students participate in an act of remembrance. At my new school, this is a whole school K-12 assembly in the high school gym. Each class presents a wreath, cross or other item to put on the cenotaph. My class created these super cute coffee filter poppies (inspired by pinterest).

To make I water down some red paint and each student painted two filters. We allowed to dry over night (twice after school I loosed from the paper to ensure they wouldn't tear in the morning).


Once dry each student was handed two random folded filters to cut the corners off to give the illusion of petals.

 These were them glued together and a black poppy centre with their name in the middle was applied to the top. These were allowed to dry overnight again to be put on the wreath in the morning.

Friday morning before our assembly with the help of a few students, we glued, crunched, and stapled for extra strength the poppies to the cardboard oval I'd prepared. We added a few leaves to bare spots to fill it out nicely. What do you think?

While we were assembling the wreath, my students coloured and read their ten little poppies Emergent readers. For some of my class it was too easy, but it was an excellent review for those who are still struggling with the lower numbers.

After the assembly we continued our math review with this double sided number match page from my Remembrance day activity sheet pack. My kids did really well counting. They used a variety of strategies to make sure they didn't miscount the poppies. This girl checked them off, another crossed them out, and several circled them. Such great thinking!

 EDIT- This resources mentioned in this post have since been MERGED into this LARGE bundle.

Remembrance Day Activities Decor and Crafts BUNDLEThis Remembrance Day Bundle is designed to be used as part of your November activities in Canada and the UK for Remembrance Day.

Includes a 3D wreath! (Also useful for Anzac Day, Veterans Day and Memorial Day.)

 This contains all the activities of the original, but all have been updated and now include additional activities to differentiate our classrooms according to our individual needs.

The original download was 25 pages, this is now 135 pages and growing!





KWL (colour & B&W)
Reading choices (colour & B&W)
2 Emergent Readers
Writing Pages (colour & B&W)
Colouring Pages
Math Numbers to 20
Crafts
Brag Tags (colour & B&W)
Classroom and Bulletin Board decor
Scrambled Sentences Product
Missing Numbers +/- Product.

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Remembrance Day Series LINKS
 FULL PRODUCT
Craftivitity ONLY
Lest We Forget Banner
Emergent Reader
Colouring FREEBIE
Scrambled Sentences
Number Sense Missing Numbers





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