One Award, Two Awards, Red Award, Blue Award...and a FREEBIE!!

Ahhhhh.....are you just resting and relaxing knowing that you have another week of Dr. Seuss activities and lessons behind you????  So fun, but sooooo exhausting:)  I LOVE Dr. Seuss week, really I do, but it takes A LOT out of a 1st Grade Teacher!!!!! Just saying'!!!  Here are some inspirations from the week....

Dr. Seuss visited us at Breakfast!!!

And Thing 1 & Thing 2!! 

My Firsties made their own Things!!! Here are Things 1 through 19!!!

again....

and a closer look:)

Now onto more BLOGGY things:) 1st GRADE ROCKS was nominated again, which I am THRILLED about, for the LIEBSTER BLOG AWARD

 by Ashley & Erica at Fit For First Grade!!!

Go check them out because they have the cutest little blog and great ideas!!

Since this is my 4th time to be nominated for this award, I am going to follow the instructions for the Liebster Blog Award with a little creativity;) 

The award is for blogs with fewer than 200 followers and I am delighted to pass it on to you:)  So in the effort of being creative, if you are reading this post, consider yourself LIEBSTERED!!!!

Now....for another WONDERFUL award that 1st GRADE ROCKS was nominated for by two EXCELLENT blogs. 

The One Lovely Blog Award:)

Thank you to Traci at Dragonflies In First & Julie at Lighting A Fire In Third Grade for this great award!!! I am proud to share it with 15 FABULOUS blogs:)

If you get a chance, go check out these blogs....you will NOT be disappointed!  They are AWESOME!

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The Rules:

1. Link back to the blogger who gave it to you.....CHECK!!!!

2. Pass the award onto 15 other lovely bloggers.....No Problem!  CHECK!!!!

3. Follow the person who sent it to you.....ALREADY DO:) CHECK!!!! 

Here goes:)

 

http://obsessivelyteaching.blogspot.com/

WHEW!!!!! What a POST!!! Sorry for it's length....but here is a **FREEBIE** for sticking around:)

I took a store bought memory game and changed it into a Long Vowel/Silent "e" Word Study Center Activity!!! Click on the link to download your copy!!! Don't forget to leave me a comment if you can!!! They make my day <3 :) Enjoy your Sunday Bloggy Neighbors:)

Long Vowel/Silent "E" Word Study Center Activity

Come see me at Our Life's Blessings:)

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My 1st GRADE ROCKS Facebook Page!!

Wahoo!!!!....40 "1st Grade Rocks" Followers... and Counting:) **FREEBIE**

Yay!!! A shout out goes to Krista @ The Second Grade Superkids for being my "40 and Fabulous" Follower:!!!) Go check out her truly ADORABLE Blog!!! I can't wait to see who my "50 and Fantastic" Follower will be...and then, on and on, and on.....ahhhhh....can you tell that I'm excited???  Here's a **FREEBIE** to celebrate!!!!

Winter Weather Words Bank

Winter Weather Words Task Card

Winter Weather Words Product Sheet

Okay....back to blogging;)  We got to celebrate our journal writing by decorating our "Top Secret Personal BEESWAX" Journals today with more stickers.  The kids love these celebration days and it helps keep them motivated to continue with their wonderful writing!!!  Here is some pics of what a couple of them look like....so PROUD of my "Firsties" writing!!! They are getting there!

Also today, we got to watch the webcast in which Tim Tebow helped Pizza Hut and the Book It Program to motivate children to read:) He read Green Eggs And Ham by Dr. Seuss...so good and the "Firsties" LOVED it!!!

Here is the link.... if you want to try it out:)

All in all, it was a pretty good day!!! Got some things done....even though it was an Early Release Day!  I'm still trying to get over my cold...so I was thankful for half-a-day....even though I'll be making up some PD later on this Spring:(  Oh well, feeling a little better tonight after I made my yummy vegetable soup!!! I'll be posting the recipe on My "OLB" Blog soon...., so check it out when you can:)

Hope that everyone had a Wonderful Wednesday!!!!

A Little "Award" Tagging and Valentine's Day Surviving....

Honored, Excited, Elated, Ecstatic, Happy....you get the idea:)  Considering I've been slowly getting more followers to my humble little 1st grade blog....1st GRADE ROCKS, I can honestly say that the words listed above truly described my emotions when I received my 1st "Liebster Blog Award" from Jen at  Hooked on Teaching a couple of months ago!!!  Needless to say, yesterday, when I received the "Liebster Blog Award" again from 

Amy @

  The Crazy Adventures of a University Grad

 and Trish @ 

First Grade Frosting,

 I was Exuberant!!!!! 

Here is my AWESOME Award!!! X's 3!!!!!:)

I am posting the rules for the "Liebster Blog Award" and I hope that the blogs that I will be nominating will feel the same Excitement about being awarded as I did!!!

The "Liebster Blog Award" is for bloggers with fewer than 200 followers. 

Here's the award rules:

Thank the award presenter and post a link back to their blog.....CHECK!

Put the award on your blog.....CHECK!

Pick 5 blogs with less than 200 followers, let them know about the award, and encourage them to pass the award on!....CHECK!

Now....onto my 5 Blog pics:)

Jessica @ Glitzy In First Grade

Today In First Grade

The Bubblegum Tree

Littlest Scholars

Michele @ New Adventures in First Grade

These are AWESOME blogs that you really need to go and check out!!!!

Now, onto a little VALENTINE DAY pics:)  Even though I pretty much have NO voice due to a NASTY cold that had me out last Friday....(and I'm STILL sick with:( )....we had a pretty great day!!! 

PS....I started my day at 5 AM baking these beauties.....

We used them to decorate our very own Valentine Cupcakes during a math activity :) I have to say that my handy, dandy, cute as a bug in a rug cupcake carrier which my Honey "Valentine" bought me last year was a BIG  HUGE hit!!!

Here are a few ways that we celebrated....

We did the Morning Calendar using the smart board and thinking of ways that we could make our Growing Number Day of 110!!!! Here's a pic of their thinking....

Here are a couple of pics of our Interactive Writing Lesson summarizing the book The Day It Rained Hearts.

This is a pic from a Word Study Literacy Station activity that I posted last week!!! Reading the Room with Valentine glasses! They LOVE this for some reason...??? "Firsties":) 

Here are some pics of our cupcake decorating....

I hope that your Valentine's Day was VICTORIOUS....just think, we don't have to worry about it again for another 364 more days:)  I {Puffy HEART} this fact!!!

"A Day In The Life of a FIRSTIE Teacher"....

I decided to join Miss Klohn's Linky Party!!! It looks like GREAT fun!  

Here is how it works...
1. Right click and save the button above to put in your post. I
suggest also making the picture a link when you add it so others can
easily find the linky party. (I wish I knew how to write the HTML code
to make it a button)
2. Tell us about a typical day in your classroom. You can share as
little or as much as you would like.
3. Come back to my blog and link up.
4. Visit the other links to see what a day is like in their class!


A Day In My 1st Grade Shoes.....goes a little like this.....
4:30....alarm went off...hit snooze approximately 2 times, which gave me 18 GLORIOUS minutes longer of my long, holiday weekend:)  YES....I know that's early, but only 30 minutes early for me! I had all intentions of going early to school this morning to rearrange:)  <I do that QUITE often!!!> 
4:48ish....I made coffee, turned on FOX News Channel, let the dog out, let the dog back in, checked the weather, blog, Facebook and Pinterest.....
5:10....enjoyed some COFFEE....about 3 times:)
5:30......started working on my freshly washed, curly hair with my best buddy.....BabyblissPro!!!
5:50....put biscuits and bacon on for the fam:)  (Did I mention that my parents had spent the night with us....well, breakfast is not an option, it's mandatory!!!:) smiles:)
6:00...finished getting ready for school.....made lunches for my girls.....picked my Autistic daughter's clothes out....woke the girls up....woke my husband up....more coffee, and SHHHHHH.....I secretly watched half of the RHBH:)  
6:25.....FAMILY was up and in full force getting ready for our day!
7:20....kissed family "bye"  off to my Firsties......
7:45.....welcomed the Firsties into the classroom with a warm smile and soft voice....
8:00....served "Breakfast In the Classroom", checked folders, checked homework, took breakfast count, collected Field Trip T-shirt money...bathroom break
8:20...enjoyed a BKFLix book online with the smart board....
8:30...Calendar Wall.....GROWING NUMBER....DAY 90!!!! 10 days till the 100th day of school!  The Firsties are excited!!!!
8:45....Guided Reading Groups/Literacy Centers....managed 3 great groups and introduced 3 new centers:)
10:00....Junie B. Jones read aloud.....(SO EXCITED....going to see the musical in two weeks.....above mentioned Field Trip)
10:20.....WORD STUDY....introduced new WWWords and Spelling Chunks to Firsties with list and clapping, tapping, etc. Then we brainstormed spelling chunks -ock and -uck with magnets.
10:30.....Writer's Workshop.....LOVE it:)
Lunch at 11:15......worked during that break.....getting folders ready, etc.
11:45....Firsties came back from lunch and we practiced our words.......
12:30....another BKFlix book....they LOVE!!!
12:45....RECESS!!!!!! Yippee:)
1:15....skip counting....smart board style!
1:30.....Conference Period for me/Music for the Firsties
2:15....Math, Math and more Math....today we worked on before and after numbers!  Still amazed that this can present a problem at times!
3:00....smartboard math games....pack up and dismissal:)
WHEW......T.I.R.E.D., but ready to do it again tomorrow:)


What is a day in your classroom like?  Link up to share a "Day In Your Shoes"!!!