A Silhouette Christmas!

I have seen many teachers online blogging about a Silhouette CAMEO, and I can't help but envy them! I would love to have one for my classroom. I have been viewing the products on their website, and I came across a Silhouette giveaway! Three lucky winners will receive a dream Silhouette package. Oh, how I would love for Santa to bring one of these and place it under my tree for Christmas. This would be a perfect Christmas and birthday present (my birthday is on Christmas Eve)! So Santa, here is my letter! Bring me a Silhouette CAMEO!

Turkey FREEBIE!

Tomorrow is our last day before Thanksgiving break and I found this book in my Listening Station books before leaving school today.

I had forgotten to read this book to my students earlier. So we will read it tomorrow and continue our focus on beginning, middle, and end. Here is a free worksheet if you would like to use it in your classroom. It is also posted on my TpT site.

Letter Writing

This past week the students and I worked on letter writing. Students wrote a letter to our Veterans and thanked them for the service and dedication to our country. Students also made soldiers out of construction paper. We have also been reading Thanksgiving books, so students wrote a letter to Farmer Brown and tried to persuade him from eating them (they are turkeys). The students also wanted to create turkeys for our hallway!

Things in the Sky

I finally got around to taking pictures of student work from our unit Our World. We spent three weeks talking about the sun and the moon.

Students created a sun mobile. They included three facts about the sun. One fact on each star.

When we were finishing up the sun, students completed a quiz where they wrote three sentences with facts about the sun.

When we were finishing up the moon, students completed a quiz where they wrote three sentences with facts about the moon.

Election Time!

The Presidential Election is almost upon us. My students and I will be reading election books this week and creating a mock election in the classroom. Students will be creating a campaign poster for their candidate. Since first graders don't really know much about the candiates running, I have decided that our candidates in the classroom election will be characters from Framer Brown's farm (books by Doreen Cronin). Students love drawing and writitng about their favorite animal - especially the ones from Farmer Brown's farm. I have created a campaign poster and voting ballot and posted on the TpT site if you would like to use for your classroom.

Fluency Practice

I was researching online and found myself looking at a great blog site www.fun-in-first.blogspot.com. At this site, a very talented teacher named Jodi decided to create a morning work packet and she added fluency on the back for her students. She has created a packet for teachers with morning work and fluency practice on the website Teachers Pay Teachers. I already have morning work prepared for my students, but I loved her idea on fluency. I took her idea and created something that I could use in my classroom. I have uploaded what I am doing next week so that you can get an idea. We have a specfic word list of high frequency words that we use at our school. This fluency packet is differentiated for students and this would be great for my students that finish their morning work early.