Blog Giveaway

Boy is life taking me away from blogging.  Not sure if it’s working at a NEW school or the fact that it’s a year round school but I haven’t blogged in FOREVER!!  I’ve been using a lot of ideas that I blogged about last year.   BUT today I’m jumping back into the blog world to tell you about a GIVEAWAY you will want to be a part of . . . sooo many great teachers are a part of this giveaway. 

 

I’m so glad to be able to be a part of this giveaway.  I'll be giving away ONE FREE item of the winner’s choice from my Teachers Pay Teachers store.  You can check out my products here:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Stephanie-Kinley-First-Grade/Order:Best-Sellers/Page:4

Head over to: http://mackeysclassroom.blogspot.com  join in on the giveaway!  And be sure to see which bloggers have ALREADY JOINED IN ON THE FUN!!  J

Here are the details:

Phase 1 - Link Up! (Our Sweet Success)

If you would like to join this giveaway by offering one of your products, then join us in the biggest linky party EVER!!! The deadline to enter will be Saturday, March 2. We have several of your FAVORITES that will be joining us!!

Click here to link up! {Our Sweet Success}

Phase 2 - Enter to WIN! (Mackey's Classroom)

Starting on Friday, March 1...I will begin the raffle for the winner! ONE lucky winner will win:

ALL of the products offered by the most amazing teacher/bloggers on TPT. 

 

October Fun!! And a Freebie.

Here is a look at what we have been up to:

For the last few weeks we have been talking all about characters.  This seems like the perfect time of year to talk about character's feelings with all of the SCARY fall books!!

Here is a look a some of the books we read:

We learned about the "h brothers" ch, th, sh, and wh.
We practice building words with digraphs. 

 

 

 

You can find this activity in my CC Fall Literacy Pack!

We also practiced building digraph words with these fall cookies. 

I put one word in each bag and then numbered the bag.

I also made a list of all the words.

 

This activity can be purchaed here!!

We also practiced searching for words on our Word Wall. This page can be found in my School Themed Word Wall Pack.   

 

The students wrote about their favorite part of fall. 

Click here for a freebie!!

 

Finding Common Core Objectives, Writing, and Apples

I’ve been working hard this year to match all of my favorite activities to the Common Core standards. I’ve come to love this iphone APP!! 

 

Some nights when I can’t sleep It’s perfect to look up a the standards.  I often take a screen shot of the page and then I can refer back to it later when planning.

 

  

I could go on. . . but I'm sure you get the idea!!

During the 1^st quarter I noticed this common core standard:

 

(On a side note I realized that language is actually part of writing.  Writing is the CONTENT part and Language is the grammar, punctuation part!!  I might be the last one in the country to understand this but just in case I'm not,  I thought I would share that!! ;) 

 

Okay so back to this objective:  Notice the first circle L 1.4 that's the standard number and the second yellow circle is the actual objective that I'm talking about. 

I realized this fit in PERFECT with the animal cards from FARM unit!!

We used the animal cards and described each animal two ways!! My students loved it. However some of them didn't master the skill that first/ only time. So I created this Writing Language these who cards to practice that skill:

 

These are the who cards from the Build a Sentence activity below!!  So you can use the same cards for TWO objectives!

At the beginning of the year my students really struggled with writing several sentences on a topic.  This activities helped my students learn to use more detail in their writing.

 

 AND using COMPLETE SENTENCES!! The loved those mini sentences.  I see a cat.  Or I like the black cat. 

To help my students turn those sentences in to: The black cat was on the porch.  We have been using this activity:

I call it Build a Sentence, the students choose a who card, a position card, and a where card.  Then they put them together to build a sentence!! They LOVE the silly sentences of course, but it really helped them add detail to their writing.  Here are a few samples:

 

 

This is activity is featured in my farm unit and in this mini camp writing pack!

 

I used with Cara Carroll's camping unit!

 

This week we will be working on writing while learning about apples.  I plan to use several of the sheets in this mini writing language pack!! ;) 

 

Here is a look at what we have done with apples so far:

 

This morning we practiced reading this poem:

 

During Work on Writing the students used their NEATEST handwriting to write the poem!! They loved that!! And it helps all students feel successful!

 

 

This afternoon during our "normal" writing lesson we came up with words that describe apples:

 

Then the students sorted the words on to this tree map.

 

 

I had to share these Apple Buddies we made on Friday!! I'm still trying  to do a "little" front load Friday!  I got the pattern from Abby HERE but we I decided to do a little creative writing with it instead!!

 

 

How do you practice writing in your classroom?  Was I the first to understand the language/ writing common core objectives?

 

FALL LITERACY PACK WINNER:

 

Congratulations!!  I'll send it out soon!!

Common Core Fall Math Fun

This pack is designed to teach 1^st Grade Common Core Math standards.  I have created each activity using fall/ Halloween clipart to make them fun for your students. 
 

1. MD 4 - Halloween Graphing – Students will organize and interpret data.  Includes: 3 Object Pages and a Recording page

1. NBT. 1 – What Comes Next?  - Students will practice counting on from any number. Includes: 12 cards and a recording sheet

 

1. NBT. 2 – Place Value Match – Students will practice matching tens and ones to the correct number.   Includes: a matching game and recording sheet

 

1. NBT. 1 – Number Before and After – Students will practice counting by identifying the number before and after each number.  Includes: 16 cards and recording sheet

If you are interested you can check it out HERE!!