Superstar Homophones

This week we worked on homophones. Here’s a quick activity we completed on yesterday. I created this at 12:45 in the am early Friday morning. Couldn’t sleep so figured might as well do some work .

 

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Ben Franklin and His Kite

Okay wonderful blogging friends… as promised…here’s the final Lit Pack for Reading Street. Click on the picture to download.

This summer I’m planning to complete Lit Packs for units 1-2.

 

Here is the link to the work work for this Lit Pack.

 

BTW: My car is fixed, my ADHD student had a wonderful day and I was able to reset my Windows 7 password.

Still no luck on DIBELS though

This And That

 

Making Words and Word Work:

I made this Work on Words Activity for this week in small groups. The students roll an onset and chunk dice and have to decide if it’s a real word or nonsense word.

I purchased my set from Really Good Stuff…Love that company, and I especially love the EZ-Pay system they offer teachers.

   

Here is the recording sheet I gave them.  My teacher trainer in Reading Recovery always said be careful with the “it” chunk and the “uck” chunk when doing the Make and Break part of the lesson..so I caution you. Just saying.

Real Vs Alien Words -

 

Last week our phonics skill was long a: ai, ay. This week we are reviewing long a: ai and ai. Here is a Work on Words activity I created. Our story was not about the farm…thought it was cute clip art and went with it.

Long a-ai-ay sort -

 

This week our phonics skill is long e: ea. Here is the Work on Words review activity they will complete next week.

 

Long e- ea-ee sort -

 

Weekly Story

Last week our Reading Street story was Mama’s Birthday Present. I created this activity pack to go with the story. We did some whole group  and the rest small group.

 

     

   

   

    

  

 

 

Money

We are continuing our money unit in math. I gave each of the students a sheet of coins and a piggybank. They pulled a card and had to make that amount of money two different ways.

 

Yay for Hump Day!

Ms. A

Valentine Math and Word Work Game Kit

 

I have just uploaded my Valentine Math and Word work Game Kit to Teachers Pay Teachers. This kit comes with four math and four word work stations. That’s enough to take you through the entire month of February. Click on the link to check it out. I’ve also uploaded a preview. Remember to leave feedback.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fry Phrases

As I blog, our state is right in the middle of a Winter Weather Advisory (Snow and Ice). We will have a snow day on tomorrow. Yes! So thought I’d share a few things.  

I read Ladybug Teacher Files blog about embedding a document right into your blog…so here it goes. I hope it works. I use Fry Phrases all the time. Each of my students get a set of the first four sets of phrases. They can read them during free time, or quiz each other. They can also time each other to see how many phrases they can read in a minute, we also use them during whole group games like Around the World. Hope this works and thanks for the tutorial!

 

 

Short and Long A Review

I just uploaded this short and long a review to Teachers Pay Teachers. I’ve also uploaded two Valentine’s activities. One is for word work and the other is for math. Click on the picture to check them out.

 

 

 

 

The Fifth Day After Christmas

               Snowy Day Bingo1

 

On Fridays I usually let my students complete a Work on Words Activity with a partner or small group. This game would be perfect for that.

I hope you have found something useful during these past five days after Christmas. It’s crazy how much contentment I get from creating and sharing ideas.

I hope all of my followers will continue to be my faithful friends, and if you haven’t considered following me, I hope you’ll think about it.

To all my fellow teachers, Happy New Year! I wish you all a wonderful second half of the school year. I’ll be back after Winter Break to post pictures of our activities for our Arctic Animal Unit…unless I have a great idea to share before then.

Happy New Year

Ms. A

The Second Day After Christmas

Here is an activity in a sack. I’m using this game as a review for my first graders. All you’ll need is a gift bag of your choice. Enjoy!

       
Aye Aye Sort

Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!

           

          

Where Did Rudolph Go?

Here is a class book we created. I read the story Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to my students. Then we brainstormed all the places Rudolph could go in Santa’s sleigh the day after Christmas. The students came up with some pretty good places, including New York, Tokyo and Detroit. The skyline of New York is priceless.

Christmas Tree Fact Families

The students pulled an index card with numbers for a fact family. They placed the numbers on the stars and wrote the addition and subtraction problems on the ornaments. The First Grade Parade had this as a math station. After we completed the station in small groups we completed the trees whole group.

                           

                

Click here to download Christmas Tree Fact Families

Christmas Candy Facts

          

Mrs. Carroll from The First Grade Parade posted an idea for this cute math activity. Instead of doubles the students chose a number and wrote two addition and one subtraction sentence, or two subtraction and one addition sentence for their chosen number. I think they turned out great! Thanks Mrs. Carroll!

Candy Cane Grab

The First Grade Parade is one of my favorite first grade blogs. If you haven’t checked it out, you should hurry. She posted a candy grab idea for Halloween. I bought a bunch of mini candy canes from The Dollar Tree and decided to create this Christmas Candy Cane Grab. The kids enjoyed it.
    

                         
                                                         Christmas Candy Cane Grab

Candy Cane Patterns

The students choose a pattern of their candy. This was the biggest hit of math stations. There were a few of my students who wanted to do this each day during stations.

                                                                   

Here is the download to go with the Candy Cane pattern activity.                                  

                        
I made a big candy cane pattern

The Gingerbread Man

We also completed a pie graph form Mrs. Jump's Gingerbread Man Unit. I gave each of the students a gingerbread cookie and we graphed which part of the cookie they bit first.

The Gingerbread Man Song

I made this book to go along with The Gingerbread Man Phonemic Awareness song found in Kim Jordano’s Winter Phonemic Awareness Songs. The student’s used mini Elkonin boxes to write the name of the animal The Gingerbread Man ran away from.

                           
The gingerbread man ran through the town book

Christmas Packages

I love, love, love Kim Jordano’s books. I used the poem “Holiday Packages” to create this kit. It’s filled with ideas  you can use with the poem. We didn’t get a chance to use it this year, but maybe you can save it for your files.

                        
                                                        Holiday Packages Poem Activity Kit

                             

Word Work

Here are two of the Word Work choices the students had this week during Daily Five. In Santa Sentence the students toss a counter onto the game board. They have to write a silly sentence using one of the long e words.
                        
Santa Word Toss

                        
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I hope everyone can find something to use from this post, and I hope you have just as much fun using them with your students as I did with mine. I also had so much fun making them. Don’t forget I love, love, love comments. So why not leave a few. To all my fellow teachers I hope you all have the Merriest of Christmases and a blessed and happy New Year. Besides enjoying spending time with my fantastic family, I’ll be planning games and activities for Winter.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Yolanda

Winter Already

I am now officially a seller on Teachers Pay Teachers. I have uploaded a few ideas for penguins and winter. There is a sample free download.  I will be working on more during the break (yes, I have no life). Hope you find something you like.
Here is the link to my store. I hope you take a look around.

Ms. Arnold's Store