This is the start of the Nouns. We learned about all kinds of nouns, and here are some things we have done in the past couple months! Here is another example of a way that we used a flip book. I forgot to take a picture of the kiddos work but here is my example that I showed them.Then we did a chart in nouns. My firsties love post it notes. We used this not cute, but easy post it note chart on the whiteboard. Next we learned about singular and plural nouns. The kids cut out examples in a magazine of singular and plural nouns. ... read more
Addition Fun
I am trying to catch up on my posts, so here are some activities we made a couple of months ago.. (Where has the time gone?!?!?)Here are some of our adding three numbers flip books. The kids loved this and I LOVE flip books. They are easy to make and the kids use them for everything in my classroom.How cute are the lipsticks??? I told the kids to choose three numbers and add them together. Look at this example! This student picked three random numbers so he could draw as many stars as he wanted, and came up with 22. Let me also say, we ... read more
The low down on my ABC chart
A couple summers ago, we started a curriculum mapping team that learned about curriculum mapping and made our maps for the county. I volunteered, and actually enjoyed it! I got some great new ideas from fellow teachers AND our new friend Sue Ellen. She was spearheading the "conference" and she had some amazing ideas that she shared with us. One of the ideas was an ABC chart. The idea was to close out your lesson by giving each student a post-it note or piece of paper with a letter on it, and they had to think of a word that related to the ... read more
Rainbow Nouns
Just a quick post! One of my teachers I work with found this idea on line. You break the students into groups and give each one a piece of construction paper. Each group brainstorms nouns of that color. My sweet darlings did a great job! They came up with some creative things :) I traced over their writing with a sharpie.grass, crayon, shirt, paper, box, balloonapple, flag, wagon, marker, shoes, bucket grapes, candy, plum, purple folder, mat, flowers, card an orange, sucker, paper, seat, cord, tape, skate, shoescar, toy, ... read more
Fact Families
Teaching fact families has been better than ever this year! Normally I teach addition for a couple weeks, then subtraction for a couple weeks, but not this year. I decided that this year I needed to try something different. I taught addition for a week and subtraction for a week, then I taught fact families to merge the two together. Although the first day of fact families was rough, the kids actually understood the concept better than any other year I've taught. I was so excited and proud of my kiddos! One of the days, I had the ... read more
Benjamin Franklin
Just like our Thomas Jefferson unit, I was looking for new and different ways to teach our history lessons. Our new teacher, Ashley, made this person once before when she taught younger grades. My students made their Ben Franklin and wrote one sentence about him.It says, he invented a lightening rod.Cute Ben Franklins Also that week we used this paper from Cara's blog. You can find it here. She did an inventor's unit and i printed off the invention paper! It was great for the kids and they used higher level thinking skills, which is a ... read more
