WARNING!
This post is long and
chock full of FUN!
1. Farms
When the students arrived at school,
this is what greeted them.
I heard one little one say something
along the lines of Mrs. Short has gone
cuckoo...she has Halloween decorations up!
I insisted that I didn't do it!
We began our study of farms with
the movie Charlotte's Web.
(Ah....now the spider web and word Read makes sense!)
We used Babbling Abby's
It All Started with a Pig,
(Charlotte's Web)
Fiction and Nonfiction Pair
with farm animal story souvenirs.
Students partnered up to
research a farm animal.
Each group had a different animal.
We researched pigs, horses,
cows, sheep and goats.
They filled out a can, have, are
sheet that they made on a blank
paper. They read the nonfiction book
together and found at least one item
for each. We also put in 1 fun fact.
Students then wrote 4 sentences
about their farm animal and made
the farm animal craft. They were very
easy, cute (and FREE!) and
came from Reagan.
The pig is a bobble head!
Chickens
These fiction books, Interrupting Chicken and the
Big Chicken series, are some of my favorites!
Interrupting Chicken is perfect to read because
it is a little chicken and she interrupts her dad as
he tries to read fairy tales...connections across the subjects!
LOVE when that works out!
This product goes with the Big Chickens book!
I love it! It has a graphing activity, a writing
activity and craft! I think I own every one of
Christie's craftivities!
It is by Christie at First Grade Fever.
Click the picture to see it at TpT.
This chicken cracked me up so I had
to take a picture. When the girl finished it,
she sat it in the chair.
Pigs
Nonfiction and Fiction Pair
with a pig eraser story souvenir
I didn't take pictures of our Chester the Worldly Pigs!
We made giant construction paper pigs and used cutouts
of each continent and glued them onto our pigs.
Cows
Forgot pics!
Horses, Sheep & Ducks
Forgot pics here too!
Petting Zoo
Our high school ag class
put together a petting zoo for the
students. Worked perfectly with
our farm theme!
2. Toy Show
We are studying -oi and -oy this week.
To end the week we had a Toy Show.
This gave the students the opportunity
to show and tell, which they do not get
to do unless they are the Star of the Week
or purchase a show and tell ticket.
All week we used the fun activities
from this packet by Leslie Ann.
Click the picture to check it out!
They took the following note home with
the 1st sheet to fill out and return. They
completed the other sheet at school and
used these during their speeches to keep
them on track.
Click here to get the freebie!
3. Cinco de Mayo
We looked at examples of Mexican products.
We listened to some festive music.
We read stories....
yes fiction and nonfiction!
We ate!
Chips and salsa and cookies from Mexico.
4. Mother's Day Tea
Performing our poems and songs!
Giving our mothers our gifts!
We presented our moms with a DVD of
our 3 movies we made and a handmade card.
Here's the insert I made for the DVD cases.
5. Fairy Tales
We began our unit last week with the
Fairy Tale Inference Investigation.
This week we used my Common Core
Activities that go along with the
fractured fairy tales shown on the cover.
The kiddos went nuts this morning over the giant
cookies and the fact our beanstalk was gone!
We wrote informative, opinion
and narrative stories.
We used our investigative
skills to determine setting,
characters and important details
using this product. It models
a newspaper!
Click any of the pictures to check
them out in my TpT store!
Random Pictures
The old lady who had so many
children she didn't know what to do
lives in our state!
We went to a track meet for my middle
daughter and my youngest fell in love with
this playhouse that was on their playground!
To be honest....I did too!
I want it for our school!
Thanks for stopping by!
