We’re really cooking! Frontload Friday!

Today I introduced a few of our centers for next week!  I’m so excited for some of our food themed centers.  First we practiced building compound words with pancakes. This activity can be found in my Pancake Fun pack.  (Note to self: I should have left these pancakes as a square or used them on the floor.  They keep rolling in the pocket chart. ) But the students still enjoyed building the compound words!

 

 

Next, we also learned about the –ie, -igh sound with my phonics activity Just Right Pie.

 

FYI - I do know there are two pies but I had trouble coming up with -ie words.  So I went ahead and put it in twice.  This usually helps me see if they are reading the words. :)

Today in math we did an activity from my Fun with Food Math Pack.  For this activity the students choose a food item and have to draw the coins they would need to buy that food item.  They LOVED this activity.  It was fun to see them generate different ways to make the same amount. 

 

 

The day was cut sure due to a tornado watch and we released an hour early.  I was pretty excited to be able to come home early on a FRIDAY!  Hope you ALL have a GREAT weekend!

Lost! Sequencing, Multiple Meanings, -ook Words

The week we have been reading: Lost!  by David M. McPhail.   This story is about a bear that is lost in a big city!  Here is a look at what we have been doing:

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We wrote fantasy bear stories using the word wall!

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Sorry for this bad picture.  But you get the idea!

We have used words with Multiple Meanings in sentences. 

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We have put our story words in ABC Order!  This ABC order sheet is saved on my computer at school!  I'll upload it in the morning!  We also practiced these words on EDUplace.com using the eWord Game!

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We have been sequencing stories using this graphic organizer. 
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We also learned the /oo/ sound like in hook!

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In math we have been learning about Money!  We counted how much money we had and used Abby's Be Mine Boxes to practice Numbers!  Thanks Abby!

New TPT Units - Leap Year, Shopping Fun, and -ie, -igh

Happy Leap Year!  Literacy and Math Fun!

This Mini Unit includes two Literacy Activities for Realism and Fantasy and two math skip counting activities.  Use the Realism and Fantasy pages with two Froggy Stories: Froggy Bakes a Cake and Froggy Eats Out both by Jonathan London.

Just Right Pie – ie, igh Word Work

This Phonics Pack was designed to practice the long I sounds: ie (pie) and igh (right). It includes 12 color cards, 2 phonics headers, and a recording sheet.

Shopping Fun – Math Fun

This Math Pack includes four hands-on math centers. These math centers practice money, time to the hour and half-hour, counting by 1, 5, and 10, and sharing equally.

1. Shopping Fun – The students will identify how many of each coin would be needed to buy the food. It includes two pages of food choices and a recording sheet.
2. Clock Time Order – The students will sequence time to the hour and half-hour cards. Then they will draw hands on a clock to match.
3. Missing Money – The students will practice counting by 1s, 5s, and 10s using money.
4 .Strawberry Sharing Story Problems – The students will share strawberries with two or three people. This includes black and white or color strawberry counters.

ValenTIME and a Hook on a Brook

This week was a week of LOVE!!  Everything we did had a Valentine theme!!  I wish I would have taken more pictures of everything but here are some pictures of our math centers:

   

Sweet Time Sorting – Concept of Time

The students read each heart card and decided: 
Will it take 2 seconds? 2 minutes? or 2 hours?

 

Read the Hall Time – Time to the Half-hour

The students looked at the analog clocks and wrote the digital time on their paper.

  

Love of a LifeTIME- Time to the Half-hour

The students drew hands on the clock to match the digital time on each heart.

 

Memory Match Time – Time to the Half-Hour

The students maked the digital and analog clocks.

 

Measuring Candy Hearts – Nonstandard Unit

The students estimated and measured each line with large and small candy hearts.

You can find all of the Time to the Half-hour Centers in my ValenTIME Unit of TPTHERE!

You can find the Concept of Time activity FREE on TPT HERE!

On Fridays I introduce next week’s Phonics Skill to get a little head start on ALL of the teaching that happens on Mondays.  Here is a look at our Word Work Center:

 

Hookin the Brook -- /oo/ Word Work

The students will sort each fish and decide if it has the /oo/ sound like in hook and if it doesn't have the /oo/ sound they will put it back in the water.

We learned that sometimes the oo says /oo/ like in Hook in the Brook.  We talked about how it almost sounds like someone hits you in the belly. 

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