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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Minute to Win It and Show What You Know Throw!

       

Minute to Win It!
I saw a similar idea on Pinterest but it only contained 4 lines and the sheet needed to be laminated or put in page protectors, and dry erase markers and erasers were needed.
LOVED the idea!!
I wanted a simpler version, so I created this to share! Now all I need is copies! Practice any skill, whole class (in groups of 4)  using the Minute to Win It recording sheet!
All you need is the reproducible, a timer and a writing utensil for each student.
This game has become a favorite, along with my newest product, Show What You Know Throw!
Click the picture to get the freebie!

 Here we played using our word wall words of the week.

The students had one minute to each write the given

word wall word in their numbered box.  We played 5 times

using our 5 new words.  A point was given to the team that

finished first. The team with the most points, won.

The next day we used the back and played a math 

version. Students searched the room for something

shorter than/longer than an item I showed.

They had 1 minute to complete each 4 square box as

a group. They had to each find something different and

write it in their numbered square before the minute

was up to earn a point for their team.

I created this next product to add some

FUN to common core review. 

There are ELA and Math sheets.

Students fill in one box and crumple the paper. 

 On my signal, they throw it into the air,

pick up another and fill in the next box.

Again on my signal, they throw and get

another paper.  This has been a huge hit!

They ask to play it every day!

I think besides getting to crumple and 

throw paper, (you should have seen their 

faces the first time I told them to 

crumple up their paper...PRICELESS!), 

their favorite part is looking to see

whose paper they got! 

Of course, there are rules to follow.

No throwing at students, no working

ahead, etc. Students who do not follow

the rules, have to sit down and fill out

the sheet on their own.

*ALSO, have the students gently

crumple (I demonstrated this). The first

time we played they really smooshed the

paper and it became hard to write on it

and the papers tore!

Students had to write a different word 

wall word in each square. No repeats!

Click the picture to check it out!

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