A Great "Word Study" Site!!

Click on the link below for  a GREAT site to explore words with your students. It makes a great tool for whole group Word Study lessons on your smart board or independent research work on the computer. My "Firsties" love to practice their weekly words this way and after we have completed our lesson, we can print out the Fridge and paste the words in our Word Study Journals. AWESOME!!!

ABCya! ABC & 123 Magnets Fridge Magnets

Writing WOW

I just love reading my students writing!!! I seem to learn so much from them this way...like, who they really like to play with, what they like to read and how they really feel about their classroom! Check this writing out! I was blown away with the details in the illustration!! Amazing:)

Great Finds....

Just like lots of people these days, I am HOOKED on Pinterest!!! What a great way to find things....with the help of your friends!!!
Here are some of the new math ideas that I have started my school year off with!! So far, they are a HUGE hit!!!

from a great webiste....www.oceansoffirstgradefun.blogspot.com. 

This is a great place value game from ....http://whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com/.  The "Firsties" love it!!!

And to go along with Everyday Math, I found this smart board "Rolling for 50" game from....http://tekyteach.blogspot.com.  They also have the Dice, Roll and Tally Game, Penny Nickel Exchange and Bunny Hop!!!  I let the students choose Smart Board Games as one of their Math Game Rotation choices.  It makes learning so much fun!!!!

What Level Are You On???

I found a GREAT Guided Reading idea from whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com through Pinterest, that I am excited to share with you!!!  I will be keeping up with my reading groups this way this year!  So simple, yet so helpful!!!!

Guided Reading Groups

"Saddle Up" For The New School YEAR!!!

Western is our theme this year!  After a long week of inservice meetings, data meetings, faculty meetings, "Meet the Teacher" night and working in my classroom, I think I'm getting close to ready to invite my new "Firsties" into my classroom....on MONDAY....YIKES!!!!!!  This is a picture of my bulletin board, welcoming my new students into 1st Grade!!!  It should be a GREAT year!!!

Rounding Up My First Grade COWPOKES!!!
Welcome to 1st Grade!!!

Getting in the "Firstie's" Mode!!!

August...already???? Whew...the summer FLEW by!!!  Now it's time to get into the mode of school!! Ready or not, I will meet my new "Firsties" very soon!!

Over the summer, I worked on some Weekly Word Study games that I use every year for centers, practice and homework.  I just gave them a little "face-lift" this summer!!  I am attaching one that I will probably use the first week of school to review their Kinder words.  Feel free to add whatever words you choose to use for your students.  The game directions are on the top of the templates. I'm not sure where this game concept generated from, but whoever came up with it is my hero!!  I've made many changes to the game rules over the years to fit the needs of my own students...feel free to do the same:)

"Gotcha" Word Study Game Template

Just a little Pinterest...ing:)

I found a "Pinterest...ing" idea from www.firstgradealacarte.blogspot.com I normally do a child/puppet template the first day of school along with a school bus glyph, but this particular glyph will go along with the child/puppet template better!  I can't wait to use it with my "Firsties" and explore all the ways that we can use our child puppet throughout the year.  At the end of the year, we do another child/puppet and compare and contrast the differences that we've made while in 1st grade! The kiddo's LOVE it! It's a great keepsake for mom's and dad's also:)

The Glyph Key

The Child/Puppet Template

Thanks Kathy!!! I love it;)