Announcing...The King and Queen of Quiet!

  

I am always looking for new 

behavior management ideas.

I read about this somewhere,

so I made crowns for the students!

Have a supply ready on card stock.

Award to a student who is working

quietly or has a clean desk.

That student will get to color and

cut it out while the other students

are having a mini lesson on class

rules, cleaning their desks or working 

on an assignment that would be okay 

for the king or queen to miss.

Be sure to ham it up with a trumpet 

sound and a British accent

as you introduce them!

Introducing...

The King and Queen of Quiet!

Click the picture to get it free!

Here are a couple more freebies from

the past for St. Patrick's Day tomorrow. 

Click the pictures!

I failed to take pictures of our

St. Patrick's Day activities last week.

We are out this week on spring break.

Here are a few I did manage to snap,

after the fact.

I found these sour rainbow sticks

to add to our Leprechaun floats.

I used lime sherbert and Sierra Mist.

They were a hit!

My daughter's leprechaun trap!

End of the Rainbow Motel

AND....

failed Leprechaun hats...

The kiddos were so disappointed

their hats were gone.

I told them the Leprechaun must

have loved them and needed some

new hats! It worked...I think...

I have no idea why this happened?!

They melted the INSTANT I put them in the oven!!

Just in case you are looking for some 

new math games or practice!

Click the pictures to check them out!

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1st Grade Dog with a Blog, Jokes and Siblings

I saw this idea on Pinterest.

It is actually a linky??..I think.

However, I wasn't interested in

that right now.  I just thought it

would be neat to have Stan from

Dog with a Blog set up a blog for

us...okay, I did it...and we could

adopt a dog that would blog to us

and go home with students at night.

We shall see....we shall see....

I really just needed one more thing to do!

The blog I saw didn't have Stan 

setting up the whole thing. I just

wanted to because it made sense

for the blog to be started by him

and turned over to our adopted dog!

1st Grade Dog with a Blog


Of course, our dog will tell a joke,
hopefully always a dog joke, at the 
end of each post.

My kiddos LOVE jokes!
They can't wait until after their
Read to Self rotation to tell me
the funniest joke they read.

Which leads me to a freebie.


   


I made the half page version for
each student to keep in their book
boxes.  I made extras to put in our
Read to Someone container.

Click here to get it free!

Did you know there was a 

Sibling Day?!

Me either!

It's April 10th. If you are looking

for a break from the regular routine,

you could check this packet out and

celebrate this special day!

Click here!

This is a great book to read with

this packet, but not necessary!

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Fish Estimation & Dr. You Know Who

       

Do you have an estimation station?

I recently started mine with this activity.

It is free in the preview file here.

I forgot to take a picture of our estimating

and the math activity we do after.

It is by Jen Ross from Teacher by the Beach.

I was unable to find the product on TpT to link to it.

Most kids guessed 100 or 120 fish in our

Estimation Station.

One child guessed 300 so he won the prize

for being the closest.

A package of Swedish Fish!

Afterwards, I wondered why I didn't buy a 

small carton of Goldfish crackers to give

as the prize?!

There were actually 500 fish in it, give or take.

Obviously we need some work at estimating!

I counted how many went in the scoop

and then just multiplied by number of scoops.

A few pics from our week.

I forgot to take pictures most days.

A visit from the Cat in the Hat!

Oobleck

Who Hair

Treats!

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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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