Tooth Truth

Truth: Students LOVE studying teeth, LOVE losing teeth, LOVE wiggling their  teeth, LOVE wiggling their friends teeth,  LOVE talking about their teeth, LOVE talking  about their friends teeth...
Truth: I do not love teeth, do not love when they lose their teeth, do not love when they wiggle their teeth, do not love when they wiggle their friends teeth, do not love talking about their teeth and especially do not love talking about their friends teeth.
However, as the adult in the situation, and as a teacher of 1st graders (who are  continually losing those things),  I do love to see their excitement.  So...I stifle my impulse to run screaming...and pull out the teeth... lessons, crafts and activities that is... no teeth pulling here for me!
Q: What did the judge say to the dentist? A: Do you swear to pull the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth?
We are finishing up our dental health unit this week.  This should have been completed the 2nd week of February. However...having been hit by the coldest winter EVER, we are really behind! Late starts, early outs, cancelled school... Don't get me wrong! I was very excited each and every time I got the text... I'm like a kid that way... but it has put us way behind!
We will be playing this game and reading the poem tomorrow to end our unit of study!
If you'd like to check it out, click here.

       

The Tooth Fairy will also visit

and leave a little note and gift

for each student.

Click here to get the 

freebie Tooth Fairy note.

I always leave a toothbrush

with this note. Sometimes

I leave small tubes of toothpaste

and dental floss as well.

Fiction and nonfiction book

with yucky teeth souvenir.

Tooth Fairy and writing from  First Grade Fever by Christie. We also do several activities from Sarah Cooley's packet including the egg/tooth decay experiment. The students are amazed at what  happens during this experiment! I forgot a picture, but believe me, it is cool and nasty all rolled into one!
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Penguins & Blizzard Day

Well...this post is a little late in coming but maybe you can find something you like to add to your penguin lessons for next year! We have had soooo many days off, early outs and late starts due to weather that we are waaaay behind in everything! I am also having a super hard time trying to decide what to cut from our activities!

Story Souvenir

Fiction and nonfiction book with 

penguin eraser for each student

Penguin craftivity with writing

The penguin is from my penguin craft pack.

Penguin Math

I gave students a large sheet of copy paper

and had them draw a large iceberg and two

small icebergs below it.

Whole

Part  Part

We named it Nice Icy Land!

(Tacky the Penguin books)

I gave each student a small cup of penguin

cheese crackers (Wal-Mart).

We solved many different story problems 

using our penguins and Nice Icy Land!

You can have the students record the

problems you solve inside the large iceberg.

Blubber experiment

Roll a penguin

 Fun freebie from Cherry Carl!

Melt an ice cube

This is from my Blizzard Day pack.

Students are dressed wacky for

Wacky Tacky Day from my

Tacky the Penguin packet.

I wear a Hawaiian shirt and black glasses

(3D glasses from a movie theater with the

lenses popped out) with tape around the nose piece.

Wish I would have had someone take a picture 

of me! Hopefully next year!

     

Snacks for Blizzard Day

Click here and download the freebie cards 

from the preview!

Snow drifts- strawberry flavored white cotton candy

Snowballs- white popcorn

Melted snowmen- Oreos dipped in white almond bark

with M&M eyes and a candy corn nose

Sticks in snow- pretzel sticks in white almond bark 

Our class friend that goes home with each student

Journal freebie here!

Ice Hotel nonfiction reading practice

Snowball fight using our sight words

Write the words on plain white copy paper

and scrunch up.  Students throw them but

must open them and read before throwing again!

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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!

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