A Little Late....A Little Early....Remind101

I will start with my "a little late"!
Since school has already started  for most, you can file it away for next year if you are interested!
It's a freebie!
     We have used the purple take home folders for years at our school. Most call them MOOSE books, but
I, of course, call them SAFARI books!
Click the picture to get an editable version.

Now for my "a little early"!
Okay...this may be a lot early...

This is a story I wrote, packed

with 18 common core activities to go with it.

No pictures are included in my story.

Students become the illustrators

and then you bind it and have a class

book for them to reread!

I hope you check it out!

Click here or the picture above!

Here is a peek at what is inside!

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Here's a question for you...

HOW do you all manage NOT

to laugh...when one of your little

angels passes gas so LOUD and the

ENTIRE class bursts out laughing?!?!

It took everything I had folks...

everything I had...

I may or may not have let out 

a little snicker or two...

not because passing gas is funny 

of course...those kiddos laughs are

contagious!

Remind101

This site is awesome! Parents can sign

up, only takes a minute, and you can send

a mass text to remind families about things

such as sack lunch, field trip, school pictures, 

unplanned early outs, etc. It is private, no 

phone numbers are shared, and they can't

respond back. You will need to get the free

app if you want to send messages by cell 

phone, otherwise it can be done from the

computer on your Remind101 homepage!

Here is a little peek at our week!

We have been building stamina for

Daily 5, working on routines and rules

and getting out early due to the heat...

EVERY SINGLE DAY!

Makes it hard to establish routines!

Mentos and diet Coke experiment

Roll and cover for subitizing

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Welcome to our 

1st Grade Safari!

Homework/Note Return

Mailboxes

Store/Word Work Storage

Behavior Clip Chart

Author Study Read Alouds

Opening/Meeting Area

 

Meeting Area

I would LOVE a cute rug, but we have
pea gravel on our playground, so it would
get destroyed! The students get FILTHY!

Games

Math Manipulatives & 

Math Centers

Read to Self/Someone Areas

Listening Center

Word Wall

Math Baskets for Centers

Library

Loft for Read to Self

Book Boxes for Good Fit Books

In The Loft

My Desk

Guided Reading Table

Student Lockers

Miscellaneous Storage Containers

Math Manipulatives

Student Supplies

Enjoying our Jitter Juice!

Practicing our alphabet with chalk!

I ended up with 27 students.

This is my largest class ever in 13 

years of teaching! We sure have

a tight fit in my classroom!

I haven't been snapping pictures

of all of our activities either.

There just doesn't seem to be time!

I am pretty disappointed by this fact.

I started my blog in October last year

so I didn't get to blog about all of my

back to school activities.

Maybe next year!

This is a quick list of our 1st week.

We are working on routines, procedures

and attention-getters.

Whole Brain all the way!

Monday- First Grade Jitters & Jitter Juice

The Kissing Hand & handprint sugar cookies

with a red frosting heart in the center.

I put frosting on the fingertips of the cookies

for the girls for nailpolish.

Tuesday- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Chase

& CCBB treats ) Alphabits & Cocoa Puffs

mixed like Rice Krispie treats...

I did have one left so I got a picture.

Wednesday- Will I Have a Friend?

Sugar cookies & orange juice (from the story)

Thursday- The Crayon Box that Talked

Scribblers popsicles

Friday- My Teacher Sleeps in School

Cakes decorated like the cake in the book

       

Now, if you are like me, I am

always curious about other 

1st grade lesson plans.

Click here to get my

editable version on TPT for free!

It shows up wonky on the preview,

but when I downloaded it for a test,

it was fine.

FREEBIE PLAYING CARDS!

If you have a casino in your area,

they may donate their decks of 

used playing cards to you!

They can only use them so many

times so they are in great shape 

and they have a ton.

Just take out the face cards

and you have easy and FREE

math centers for games.

No more copying, laminating

and cutting out number cards!

There are so many games to play!

Addition War, 10's Memory Match,

Tens Go Fish, to name a few!

Thanks for stopping by!

Math Daily 5 & 2 "Chicken" Games

Click the picture for two freebie game ideas!

I love the Daily 5! I have been using it for several years. I have been searching for a way to simplify math centers and was so excited to see The 2 Sisters are  developing the Math Daily 5!
I have adjusted it to fit my time frame.
We will have our whole class lesson and  then have paper practice together.
The students will then go to two centers on Monday and Wednesday and two on  Tuesday and Thursday. Every other Friday will be store and the opposite Fridays will be whole class games.
Two groups will go to the first 2 centers and two groups will go to the second 2 centers.
It is actually the Daily 4 as I combined two.
Me (small group) and Math with Someone Math Games and Math Tools

I have also started making a chart of the games, tools and Math with  Someone activities they will be doing.

Several of these activities are from

my TpT store (free and for sale)

and several are from other TpT stores 

(free and for sale).

Thanks for stopping by!

Fast Finisher Files

Here is something new I am trying

this year. I had several "fast finishers"

last year and I scrambled to find things,

besides read a book, for them to do.

I created this chart with cards.

I will display 2 or so choices a day that 

the students can pick from if they finish

an assignment early.  

I also made a guided reading chart 

(trying for the first time 

this year too) and two hand signal signs.

It is for sale in my TPT store.

Click the picture if you'd like to 

check it out!

Also available in chevron!

Click the picture if you'd like

to check this one out!

I created two fast finisher tub

cards in the above products.

Fast Finisher Tub #1 (zebra basket), will

contain these fast finisher folders.

This product contains 30 labels

to glue to clasp envelopes.

I laminated the envelopes, 

(open of course), cut a slit in the

opening, added Velcro dots to keep

them closed and have begun adding

different activities.

Click the picture for

the Freebie!

    

Some of the activities I have

put in so far are cards from

a Highlights Buzz Blast game

(which is too loud for my classroom,

but the cards are perfect for the folders)

 sets of number sense dominoes

( a freebie by Mr. Elementary Math)

alphabet flash cards for the students to put

in abc order (a freebie from Jolanthe Erb)

My Top Ten Lists

I have these neat task cards on my wishlist! 

They are from More Than Math by Moe.

These cards are for the beginning of 1st

and she is making more for the rest of the year!

I will put these in Fast Finisher folders as well.

They will either keep the recording sheet in their 

math folders for writing down the answers or

I will include dry erase markers so they can

just write the answers on the cards.

I put in 4 Buzz Blast cards in folders 1-5.

I put in 1 set of dominoes in each folder 6-10.

I put a set of the alphabet flashcards in 

each folder 11-15.

I put my Top Ten lists in folders 16 and 17,

five lists in each.

Fast finisher tub #2 will contain several

activities. One will be this product I created.

The 64 color coded math activity cards included 

are all 1st grade common core aligned!

There are also color coded dividers, labels

for your index holders/recipe boxes and

a "cookbook" to record their names when

they complete the activities.

Throw in a 2 minute sand timer

 and chef hat for extra fun!

It is for sale in my TPT store.

Click the picture if you are interested!

Thanks for stopping by!