Classroom Recap (Freebie)

So, I haven’t blogged in a few weeks because I really didn’t have anything to blog about… I have a serious case of writer’s blogger’s block. Does anyone else ever feel that way? I haven’t felt inspired to create any new products or to write a post that other people will read. I’ve just been truckin along in my room, staying busy with my class. (Have I mentioned how much I love my class this year? Because I do.)

Basically this post is a photo dump of some things we’ve been learning about the past 2 weeks. Enjoy!

We’ve been working on the ‘Counting On’ strategy in math. As a fun review, I gave my kids this corn sheet and a number cube and a dot cube. They had to roll the 2 cubes, count on to find the total, and then color according to a key I posted on the document camera. They really loved it and I think it helped to solidify this strategy for some of my sweet firsties!

Here are some of my precious girls sharing their thankful plates. I found this idea on Sarah Cooley’s blog, First Grader…. At Last! and I just HAD to incorporate it into our discussion about being thankful! :) They loved doing it.

First I had them do the project at home so they could talk with their parents about specific things they have to be thankful for.

Then, we read a few different books about being thankful.

After a little more discussion about all the things we have to be thankful for, I modeled writing what I was thankful for and then the kids got started on their writing. I really modeled and talked about how it shouldn’t just be a list of things, that they should tell why they are thankful for certain things. I think they did a great job and I was pleased with most of their writing!

I read a couple of super cute books about turkeys trying to hide from farmers.

In Turkey Trouble, the turkey disguises himself as a bunch of different farm animals, and in Run Turkey Run, the turkey hides in different places on the farm.

After reading, I gave the kids a turkey printout and they had to ‘disguise’ their turkey. I was super impressed by all of the creative ways they chose to hide their turkeys.

See if you can guess what they are! :)

Hubby guessed them all correctly, I was so proud!

They are: a ballerina, a baseball player (do you see the crowd behind him?), a cheetah, a tiger, and (my favorite!) a bee. How’d you do?

We also had a butterfly, a ninja, a bush, a book, a lion, an astronaut, and a princess. I’d say they liked it! :)

We also completed a fun turkey glyph. This was the first glyph we’ve done this year and they thought it was so cool! I actually had them complete a survey first so that they couldn’t change their answers when I was handing out the different parts of the turkey.