Monday, May 20, 2013
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Popsicle Pizzazz!
Hello Everyone!
Wow! What a week! I am so sorry I haven't posted in a while. We had a huge musical production on Thursday evening which included a cast of our 100+ first graders. Each one had either a dancing or speaking part along with singing 5 songs. It was spectacular! The support we had while working on this memorable event was amazing, and having an audience of over 400 guests (standing room only) was thrilling!! I will post some pics soon!!
Right now I would love to share a fun, cool crosscurricular unit that can take you right into summer. It's all based on popsicles. Here are a few pics from the 60 page free unit!
I am so looking forward to the next 3 weeks with my little sweeties. They have learned so much and have had a little fun along the way!! Stay tuned for more updates!! Thanks for stopping by our little window on wonder!!
Joyfully!
Nancy
Wow! What a week! I am so sorry I haven't posted in a while. We had a huge musical production on Thursday evening which included a cast of our 100+ first graders. Each one had either a dancing or speaking part along with singing 5 songs. It was spectacular! The support we had while working on this memorable event was amazing, and having an audience of over 400 guests (standing room only) was thrilling!! I will post some pics soon!!
Right now I would love to share a fun, cool crosscurricular unit that can take you right into summer. It's all based on popsicles. Here are a few pics from the 60 page free unit!
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| Table of Contents |
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| Craft Connection |
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| Five, Six Pick Up Sticks! |
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| Strategy Game |
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| Play a game called Popsicle Scramble! |
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| 4 poems with readers response opportunities |
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| A set of 23 thinking challenge cards with a popsicle stick theme to get your free 62 page downloadable printable of this cool unit, click HERE |
I am so looking forward to the next 3 weeks with my little sweeties. They have learned so much and have had a little fun along the way!! Stay tuned for more updates!! Thanks for stopping by our little window on wonder!!
Joyfully!
Nancy
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Special Delivery!
Hello Everyone!
Remember back when we celebrated the amazing book "What If You Had Animal Teeth?" While doing that unit, I happened upon the author, Sandra Markle's blog. She was having a give away of an autographed copy of her book. Guess what?!! We got it! We are absolutely in love with her book and have done some activities to go with it. You can read about that.......HERE!!!!
Sandra is an amazing author who writes nonfiction books for kids. They are engaging and have a purpose of teaching. She has been all over the world studying animals, science, and the beauty the world has to offer.She has some great books in the works. I can't wait!! Please check out her books and her blog.Click here for her blog!
Thank you, Sandra Markle!! We love you! We love your books!!
Have an amazing Mother's Day to all the moms out there!! I plan on celebrating my mom and enjoying my kids!!!
Thanks for stopping by for a peek!
Joyfully!
Nancy
Remember back when we celebrated the amazing book "What If You Had Animal Teeth?" While doing that unit, I happened upon the author, Sandra Markle's blog. She was having a give away of an autographed copy of her book. Guess what?!! We got it! We are absolutely in love with her book and have done some activities to go with it. You can read about that.......HERE!!!!
Sandra is an amazing author who writes nonfiction books for kids. They are engaging and have a purpose of teaching. She has been all over the world studying animals, science, and the beauty the world has to offer.She has some great books in the works. I can't wait!! Please check out her books and her blog.Click here for her blog!
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| special delivery! |
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| A Sweet Letter, her book, and some book marks! |
Have an amazing Mother's Day to all the moms out there!! I plan on celebrating my mom and enjoying my kids!!!
Thanks for stopping by for a peek!
Joyfully!
Nancy
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Telling Time and Counting Coins Units
Hello Everyone!
I have had many e-mails asking if I have a telling time or a money unit available. Well, as a matter of fact, I just reworked these two for use in the next couple of weeks. Here's a sneak peek into what is included in both units.
I have had many e-mails asking if I have a telling time or a money unit available. Well, as a matter of fact, I just reworked these two for use in the next couple of weeks. Here's a sneak peek into what is included in both units.
Here's a peek into the money unit
Hope someone can use even a bit of these! Enjoy! And have a great night!!
Joyfully!
Nancy
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Inchworm Measurement
Hello Everyone!
We are deep into our measurement unit. One activity we did this week was make our own worms and use them to measure. After reading "Inch and a Half," and "Inch By Inch" we just had to!! I gave the kids a little pattern and they picked out the scrapbook paper they wanted to use to create their little worm. Their next job was to pick out some things they wanted to measure in the room. We, of course, had already talked about appropriate things to measure with something as big as our worms. They had to estimate before actually measuring. I asked them to notice if their estimates were getting closer and closer as they went along. And....NO GAPS or OVERLAPS! :)
We then, of course, had to measure with sour and gummy worms. Don't worry, Mom and Dad, they didn't get to eat the one they measured with!! :) Some kids decided to create their own learning recording sheet.
I added the worm pattern and recording sheet to my measurement unit.
You can get it here! Inch on over and click!!
Hope you're having a great weekend!! They always go by way too fast!!
Thanks for stopping by for a peek!
Joyfully!
Nancy
We are deep into our measurement unit. One activity we did this week was make our own worms and use them to measure. After reading "Inch and a Half," and "Inch By Inch" we just had to!! I gave the kids a little pattern and they picked out the scrapbook paper they wanted to use to create their little worm. Their next job was to pick out some things they wanted to measure in the room. We, of course, had already talked about appropriate things to measure with something as big as our worms. They had to estimate before actually measuring. I asked them to notice if their estimates were getting closer and closer as they went along. And....NO GAPS or OVERLAPS! :)
We then, of course, had to measure with sour and gummy worms. Don't worry, Mom and Dad, they didn't get to eat the one they measured with!! :) Some kids decided to create their own learning recording sheet.
You can get it here! Inch on over and click!!
Hope you're having a great weekend!! They always go by way too fast!!
Thanks for stopping by for a peek!
Joyfully!
Nancy
Friday, May 3, 2013
There's something in the water!
Hello Everyone!
I am so sorry I haven't been on lately. Crazy, busy week!
Among a gazillion other things, we continued with our study of natural resources, this week focusing on water. We wrote some great little poems, created a collage similar to our tree from last week, and made rain! Here are a few pics! I'll let them tell the story of a few things from our week! :)
Here's the "Making Rain" activity. Click here to download.
Directions and student recording sheet included
Other Natural resource activities can be foundHERE!!
Well, I'm sorry this is so short, but I am fading fast! Next week? some plant activities, finishing measurement, media learning, air experiments, and tons of reading and writing!!
WooHoo!!
As always, thanks for stopping by!
Have a great weekend!
Joyfully!
Nancy
I am so sorry I haven't been on lately. Crazy, busy week!
Among a gazillion other things, we continued with our study of natural resources, this week focusing on water. We wrote some great little poems, created a collage similar to our tree from last week, and made rain! Here are a few pics! I'll let them tell the story of a few things from our week! :)
Brainstorming "________water" anchor chart
Love the Water Drop concrete poems!
Making a raindrop collage from magazine scraps was sooooo fun! We'll put it up next to our tree from last week!
Making rain is as simple and cheap as filling a can with ice, water, and blue foodcoloring, and watching the outside of the can for about a half an hour. Water forms on the outside of the can and drips down. Blue food coloring is added to the water on the inside to show that it is not that water that is leaking.
Here's the "Making Rain" activity. Click here to download.
Directions and student recording sheet included
Other Natural resource activities can be foundHERE!!
Well, I'm sorry this is so short, but I am fading fast! Next week? some plant activities, finishing measurement, media learning, air experiments, and tons of reading and writing!!
WooHoo!!
As always, thanks for stopping by!
Have a great weekend!
Joyfully!
Nancy
Saturday, April 27, 2013
"tree" mendous week!
Hello Everyone!
We had a "tree"mendous week learning, observing, investigating, celebrating everything tree! After reading a ton of literature, both fiction and nonfiction, about trees, we put our new learning to work. We combined our author study, poetry, and social studies unit on natural resources and created some great little poems about trees. Shel Silverstein has some great poems, "Treehouse," and "Man Eating Plant" and of course his beloved book "The Giving Tree" that we used as inspiration. We brainstormed all the things we get from trees, and created a free verse poem. We published them on a tree made from a crumpled brown lunch sack, and a tree crown made from green const. paper.
We also enjoyed working together with the sweet class next door to create a giant tree made out of magazines that would have probably ended up in the landfill. We rescued them and cut out all the green and brown that we could find. All the kids working together to create this collage was an added beneficial lesson!!
On Friday we celebrated trees by going outside, finding a great tree and taking a rubbing of it's bark. We discussed that a tree is a plant and the trunk is like the stem. The bark is the tree's protection as well as home to many animals. We should never peel the bark off a tree.
We had a "tree"mendous week learning, observing, investigating, celebrating everything tree! After reading a ton of literature, both fiction and nonfiction, about trees, we put our new learning to work. We combined our author study, poetry, and social studies unit on natural resources and created some great little poems about trees. Shel Silverstein has some great poems, "Treehouse," and "Man Eating Plant" and of course his beloved book "The Giving Tree" that we used as inspiration. We brainstormed all the things we get from trees, and created a free verse poem. We published them on a tree made from a crumpled brown lunch sack, and a tree crown made from green const. paper.
Two of my little cuties won trees in a drawing our environmental committee held on arbor day!!
What a "TREE"mendous week!! Hope you had one as well!!
Thanks for stopping by to take a little peek through our little window on wonder!!
Till next time!
Joyfully!
Nancy
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