Spring Break - TPT Sale and some Freebies

I’m so excited for SPRING BREAK!!  We have one week left! To celebrate our four day week everything in my TPT store will be 20% off all day tomorrow!!

Happy Shopping!!

Clipart from Scrappin Doodles

Next week we will be putting these cards in ABC Order:

I'll also be using these cards in our Vocabulary Center.  Where the students will be looking up some of these words: carrot, chocolate, basket, tulip, egg or flowers in the dictionary!  My students are so excited about using the dictionary!!  I created this sheet for that center.

Our Phonics Skill of the week is Sounds for Y!!  I found the idea for creating this poster from Jodi from Fun in First!!  My students are already on the lookout!! 


We will also be learning about Synonyms!!  I got all my ideas from Cara from The First Grade Parade!!  I even made this poster to go along  with the activity!!

Hippity, Hoppity Spring ABC Order

Hippity, Hoppity Spring
ABC ORDER is HERE!!

 Check it out HERE!

I'll give away ONE to the first person to comment!!  :)

Science Contributions- Inflectional Endings, Homophones - GIVEAWAY!

Do you love science? Do your students love to learn new things? My students do!! They have been loving all of the nonfiction texts we have been using units lately!! I'm also trying to prepare for Common Core and next year.  We will have to do a FULL six weeks on American Contributors. I thought we would start by learning about some famous inventors. 

I also created science themed centers to go along with this theme. Skills taught include: Science Vocabulary, Aviation Words, Inflectional Endings, Homophones, and MORE!

Here is a PEEK:

I checked out lots of Biographies about Inventors:

We started the week off learning about Benjamin Franklin!! My students LOVED it!! They recorded some facts in a Science Contributors Notebook!

Here is a picture of my anchor chart!  I forgot to take a picture of the student's notebooks! Sorry!

The students practiced some Science Vocabulary Words.

In Word Work or Phonics students practiced Inflectional Endings.  The students learned the double rule and that sometimes you have to drop an e BEFORE you add -ed or -ing. 


The students became word inventors by heating some potions and building a new word!!  They LOVED this activity!   

 

We also practiced matching homophones!

In this unit I also included a vocabulary activity where the students used aviation words to create an Airplane Adventure book.

Here is part of my sample:

 

The students practiced word wall words to write about what they would like to INVENT! 

If you are interested you can purchase this unit HERE!

I will giveaway THREE copies of this unit to the first THREE people to comment.  Be sure to leave your email so I can send you a copy!!

Ouch!! Teaching the /ou/ Sound - Mouse Visit! HA!

This week we have been learning the /ou/ sound like in OUCH!!  What a CrAzY week so far and today is only Tuesday – I can’t believe it.  I decided to go ahead and branch away from HM this week!!  Our comprehension skill is Main Idea and Detail and you can only teach that with butterflies so many times.  – Plus I think the butterfly story will be perfect for sounds for Y!!  Anyway we are learning about people that help us with the /ou/ sound: Health Care Professionals: 

We've learned about Doctor’s Tools and pharmacists so far – We will learn about doctors, nurses, and x-rays later in the week.  I created this TPT Unit to use this week.  In the unit there are LOTS of recording sheets but we have a copy limit at my school so I often have the students write on newsprint paper to save copies where I can.  Here is a look at what we are learning. 

ABC Order

Vocabulary Words – Use in a Sentence

Syllable Split – Spelling by Syllables

/ou/ and /ow/ Sound

Comprehension: Main Idea:

Pharamists

Doctor’s Tools

 The WILDEST thing happened this morning.  A mouse ran right across the room -- One of my student’s SCREAMED, “A RAT!!!”  I ran right out of the room!! After I got the nerve to go back in I opened the back door and I’m hoping that he decided to “head for the light”.  So today when we wrote in our journals of course we had to write about our “visitor”.  I wish I would have taken some pictures they were SO FUNNY!!!!  And one student pointed out it was perfect for the /ou/ week!! J  At least they are learning!! HA!  If you are interested in checking out this TPT pack click HERE!