Pancakes Anyone? And One More 2D Shape Activity!

Take a break from the routine and have a PANCAKE DAY!
Never fear! The activities are common core!

It is for sale in my TpT store!

Check the entire packet out here!

My freebie this week is the Pancake Love

poem included in the packet.

It is in the download, so click the poem to get it!

I will be doing these activities after my

fairy tale unit because one of the stories,

Mr. Wolf's Pancakes involves

fairy tale characters!

I can't wait!

The kiddos just eat these kinds of activities up!

Pun intended! 

I love my newest 2D shape product and the 

kiddos love "think outside the box" activities!

I can't wait to do this with them tomorrow!

I will post pictures!

It is for sale in my TpT store too.

If you are interested, click here!

Check out our day! 

This is a neat linky by Fun in First!

Click here to see my post!

Random Photo

This student showed off her Tae Kwan Do 

moves for us one morning, complete with outfit!

The little guy with the paper wrote a ten

on it and held it up to her after she was finished!

Too precious!

Funny From A Honey

Today two boys were arguing back

and forth. "You yelled at me" "No I didn't"

"Yes, you did, you yelled at me" "No I didn't"

So I said, "Hey, do you want me to yell?"

One of the little guys stops...looks at me

strange....and says...

"What is metayell?"

I could not stop laughing!

By the way, I don't yell....

occasionally raise my voice but

never yell!

Another kiddo said, no, 

he didn't want me to yell!

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Freebie Friday and The Fries Prize!

A great big THANK YOU to Fern

at Teaching Blog Addict!

She featured my Eating 3D Shapes 

activity this week! 

I was super excited to see that email!

I hope many of you found the activity

fun and useful!

Scroll down to Frogs for the freebie!

1. The Fries Prize

My new favorite from 

Teacher Tipster!

The kiddos are

lovin' it!

Teacher Tipster used a Kleenex

to hide the prize, but I thought, 

I must have fries to hide the prize!

Hint: If you do this, don't cut the 

box off of the paper fries so it will fit

in the fries box! I also laminated the fries.

I found it on google images.

Hide a small prize inside.

Award it to a student following

a specific direction.

I have hid a Fruit by the Foot

and a star shaped post it note pad

in it so far!

We are having a hard time 

keeping our hands and eyes on me

the WHOLE time.

Whole Brain:

"Classity Class"

"Yessity Yes"

"Hands & eyes!"

(This is where they clasp their hands

and focus their eyes on you...

immediately!)

They do, this very well...

however, keeping their eyes on me

 is a struggle right now!

So...

The fries prize for hands & eyes!

I'm lovin' it!

Thanks Teacher Tipster!

2. Frogs

Fiction and nonfiction pair plus a song

Story souvenir: frog

Click here for the freebie craftivity!

More of my favorite fiction & nonfiction pairs!

3. Geometry 

2D & 3D Shapes

(Shape monster book from ??)

(easy)

(challenge)

This next idea came from Tamra & Sarah

at First Grade Buddies!

GeoAnimals!

Click here to go to their site!

Click here for a freebie note home!

GeoPenguin

GeoBug

GeoBird

GeoAngryBird

GeoButterfly

GeoWitchBird

GeoCaterpillar

in his house

This next idea is from Reagan at

 

Symmetry Salad!

Thanks for sharing the idea Reagan!

Reagan used stickers but mine didn't arrive in time

so I had the kiddos use foam shapes!

Go here to see more ideas from last week!

Click here to check out 

my newest 2D shape product!

4. Snakes

Our theme for the week in whole class

reading is animals. I had these big

snakes from a mom who sent them as

a story souvenir.  I used small ones for

our pet theme and the story 

The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash.

I pulled thesssse out for a day of ssssnake learning

ssssssince it fit with our theme thisssss week!

The kiddossss went all kindssss of nutsssss!!

We also watched a short video on sssssnakes that

I ordered from our Area Education Agency.

5. Peter Rabbit Operetta

We are working hard on memorizing our lines!

We will film at the beginning of next week

and perform it live for parents on Friday!

We still need to make our set too!

Yikes...time's getting away!

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Butterflies, Peanut Butter and Shapes..OH MY...ARRRG and Pirates too, Mateys!

Click here to get my 3D shapes activity!

Read on to see pictures of it in action!

  .

1. Butterflies

Inflatable life cycle

Look how much they have grown already!

Arrival size

Fiction and nonfiction pair with 

a butterfly story souvenir

and a real painted lady life cycle

for display

Procedural writing & craft:

Life cycle of a butterfly

Edible butterfly life cycle!

Mini marshmallow-egg

1/2 gummy worm-caterpillar

Tootsie Roll-chrysalis

2 candy fruit slices & 1/2 gummy worm- butterfly

Students put the items into the

correct order. After I checked them,

they got to eat the life cycle!

Delicious!!!

2. Peanut Butter

Our fiction and nonfiction pair

 Peanut butter playdough!

Yummy and FUN!

Recipe for whole class:

2 cups peanut butter

2 cups corn syrup

3 cups powdered sugar

3 cups powdered milk

 This made enough for 22 students

with some left over for me to eat!

I gave them a chunk a little bigger 

than a golf ball.

 Word work today!

Of course, they got to eat it after!

Procedural writing:

Whole class

Sorry about my chart...

I just don't spend time making them cute!

I want to...I really do...but I forget...

AND my chart markers are OLD!

Excuses..excuses..excuses..I know!

Procedural writing:

Individual assignment

Dancing to Peanut Butter by Dr. Jean

Students following a partner's

directions on how to make a 

peanut butter and jelly sandwich

This student followed the 

directions from his partner

word for word! It didn't say

spread it around, so he didn't!

It didn't say put the other slice

of bread on top, so he didn't!

3. Geometry- Shapes

I gave students a bag of 3D shapes 

and told them to sort them.

2 groups sorted by shapes,

1 group sorted by color,

and one group sorted by 

shapes that roll/don't roll & 

shapes that stack/don't stack.

Sorted, graphed and recorded 

results using 3D edible shapes!

Check out my newest

2D shape product here!

4. R-controlled vowel -ar

and Pirates

Nonfiction and Fiction Pair

&

Gold Coin Story Souvenir

Pirate Pam and her parrot Polly

came to visit! They read the fiction

and nonfiction pirate books and passed

out the gold coin story souvenir.

This activity is from Babbling Abby's packet.

Scroll down for the link.

I had the kiddos trace the words

in glue and used multi-colored 

glitter to fancy them up.

I wanted to use gold but 

my gold was at home!

Caution: Students MUST lightly trace

their words or this will happen!

Here is the packet from Babbling Abby!

Click here to go to TpT!

Click here for this great freebie 

from Rainy Day Learning!

It has poems, songs,

graphic organizers, math sheets

& more!

We found hidden -ar words all

week around the room and added

them to our giant treasure map...

which I forgot to take a picture of...

It led us to this pirate treasure chest

with candy bars and Starburst candy!

5. Indoor Recess with

Adventure To Fitness

(Rainy day fun)

Click here to check out this 

amazing FREE site!

If you haven't heard of it,

you must check it out!

You won't be sorry!

The kids LOVE it and stay 

involved the WHOLE time!

Sign up, go to the teacher tab

and go to episode library.

There are 23 different episodes 

to choose from! 

LOVE!!!!

Funny From a Honey

One of my students who

really struggles, looked up

from the paper he was working

on and said...

"Am I molting? 

Stuff just fell on my paper!"

He REMEMBERED a 

vocabulary word from

OCTOBER!!!

I was so proud of him...

and it cracked me up because

he was so serious! 

The very next day we talked

about caterpillars molting 

and I called on him to answer!

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