Directed Drawings and 120th Day of School

It's been awhile since I have blogged...

a long while actually.

Here are a few things we've been

up to in 1st grade!

120th Day activities

Directed Drawings

We are no longer allowed to run

construction paper through our

copy machine and it takes forever

for students to cut out pieces for crafts

 using templates.  I admit, I was upset for 

months about the no construction paper thing.

UNTIL.....I found a new (and I 

think better) way for students to have

an art activity with their writing project.

Directed drawings!

I LOVE how they turn out!

I think they are way better than 

a construction paper craft!

Aren't they adorable?!

If you'd like to try it in your classroom,

search Pinterest or you can check out 

my art Pinterest board HERE!

Here is our Leprechaun Soup.

As in.....I forgot to make something

to celebrate St. Patrick's Day,

and ran to the store that morning

to purchase a few things for our treat.

Our story souvenir with fiction

and nonfiction stories.

Traps made at home and

brought in to catch the

Leprechaun!

The door that appears in

our room every year.  Each 

day the leprechaun puts out

something new... a door mat,

watering can, his hat, etc.

Decorating hats for the

Leprechaun to shrink.

If you try this (which I

highly recommend!) practice

with an extra cup to see what

temperature works for you.

Or this could happen....

I learned the hard way last year.

I had 26 disappointed students.

The leprechaun was here but got away!

Thanks for stopping by!

120th Day of School and R-Controlled Vowels Freebie

   

We began studying R-controlled vowels.

I wanted recording sheets so I created

these. I hope you can use them too!

Click here!

Now on to a new day I added!

The 120th Day!

Since we now learn our numbers to 120

 in first grade, I decided we need to

acknowledge this with a few fun activities.

If you would like to check it out, it is 

available in my TpT store.

There are over 20 activities and I 

keep adding more!

Click here!

Our counting by 10's inchworm

I LOVE how our writing pages turned out!

Fishing! So creative!

This little guy made a subtraction sentence!

My favorite of all!

A dancing person!

AWESOME!

We did Show Me the Money in groups

of four students.  They took turns grabbing

a coin and counting them until they reached

120 as a group.  They had to count it again

to make sure they had the right amount and

then count how many coins it took to get there.

They knew it would take 120 pennies to get to

120 but it is good counting practice anyway!

The above pictures were our 120 Second Surveys!

Great fun!

120 Floor Puzzle Race!

Counting by 10's to 120 Inchworms!

Only 60 days left!

But who's counting?! HA!

Thanks for stopping by!