All about penguin lesson plan ideas for kindergarten and first grade. Reading, math, crafts, and anchor charts to help teach your students about penguins! Free file included too! All About Penguins! We love to learn about penguins each winter. It provides a great opportunity to teach your young learners using both fiction and nonfiction! All About Penguins: Charts Here are a few of the ways we organize our thinking! Penguin Chit Chats Chit Chats are a daily routine that we use to review ... continue reading...
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Turkey Trouble Freebie!
Turkey disguise glyph craft math and writing activity with a free file for your kindergarten and first grade classrooms. So perfect for Thanksgiving. We read the story, Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano and made Wanted signs for our turkeys. The students decided on a disguise and drew their turkey. Then, they had to decide what they would give as a reward. The students had to choose a reward that they could actually give. For example, 2,000 legos. OOPS! ... continue reading...
America Part One: Statue of Liberty
We did a directed drawing of The Statue of Liberty. The kids did an AMAZING job! We wanted to find out the answer to the following question. It is really hard to explain to kids just how HUGE the Statue of Liberty really is! So, we measured out bulletin board paper for her foot (even the length of her toes is correct) to get an idea of how huge she is! All About The Statue of Liberty writing Our bald eagles... they turned out so ... continue reading...
RAWR! Dinosaur Dig Day! Dinosaur Unit
My Dinosaur unit has been posted to TPT... Click on the T-Rex picture above to view my dino unit on Teachers pay teachers. We made Paleontologists using our pictures. The book inside tells about what we did during our Dinosaur Dig Day. Sorry... It's hard to see how adorable these are since I had to blur out the faces. Our shirts that we made for our Dinosaur Dig Day. On our Dinosaur Dig day the kids got to see ... continue reading...
Aliens Love Underpants!
We love the book, Aliens Love Underpants! We made aliens and wrote about what we would do if an alien came to visit. The kids had some cute answers. This is a song I wrote. We put it together in the pocket chart and at literacy centers they put the poem in order and drew an illustration to go with it. This is one of our math journal prompts. Alien Bubble Map A mixed up sentence using some of the words from ... continue reading...
Pirate Fun! Ahoy Mateys!
Oh, my word y'all we get out of school in two weeks and the kids are CRAZY ready! I am trying my best to keep them engaged in learning and not pull my hair out. :) We started our pirate unit last week and I was amazed at the change in behavior. They LOVED this unit and their behavior was AWESOME! This has by far been my favorite unit! The kids have been so excited about reading and writing stories about Pirate adventures. There are so many great children's books to read with this ... continue reading...
Walruses, Literacy Centers and Guided Reading, oh, my!
We made these adorable walruses from my Arctic Animals unit today. I love how they all turned out so unique. Our penguins are still fishing on our bulletin board so the herd of walruses won't be hung up until next week when we use them to decorate our polar bears and walruses venn diagram. I will post a pic next week when they are all hanging. So, I've had some questions about how I do Literacy Centers.This is a picture of my Literacy Center board. The pirates on ... continue reading...
Wild Thing You Make My Heart Sing!
I love the book, Where the Wild Things Are and we had a lot of fun with this book last week. You can view my unit on TPT by clicking HERE We made our very own Max and wrote about what we do when we feel wild. I love how they all turned out so differently! This is the writing chart we did before we made our Max's. This chart makes a great shared reading piece for the rest of the week. Students love going back to it time and time again. We have a class full of ... continue reading...
Back to School Ideas: Sentence Building | Literacy Center for K-1
Check out these engaging back to school ideas to teach your students about sentences and their parts. This color-coded resource is perfect for K-1 literacy centers. Sentence Building Activity Writing a complete sentence can be a tricky task in kindergarten and first grade! This build a sentence activity is a great resource to add to your literacy centers. It provides students with support in developing complete sentences, making this activity one of my essential back to school ... continue reading...
Stellaluna Read-Aloud
Listening to a read-aloud is often the most exciting part of the day for students. They love sitting together and listening to their teacher read a fantastic book. Honestly, this is one of the calmest parts of the day. However, it can also be one of the most educational! With the Read Aloud Lesson Plans, students can enjoy amazing stories while working on engaging activities. For instance, they can enjoy the Stellaluna read-aloud and dive into their standards. Students will love the story and ... continue reading...
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