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… 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…. 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… 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… 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… 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… Read More
