Shape Monsters

We have been learning about shapes the first 5 days in school. These are firsties so I tried to keep as age friendly as possible. They love learning about shapes. Especially since we can do fun things to learn about them. We started the unit on shapes with a Chart that was students/ class made of shapes we knew some things about. I wish I would have taken a picture of it, but I didn't :(. We then talked about the different shapes. They also had had explore time during center with the shape manipulatives.

 

I have a daily math power point I do in which videos are embedded into. I can't upload the power point due to clip art terms of use, but I will but the links for all the you tube videos we used to help in our discussions and learning about shapes.

 

 

Square:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOr2eRBluUs&index=2&list=PLPphPHIzdSQMzUesl8-n9tjvIoGkghlGQ

 

Circle:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc7gPfysIU8&list=PLPphPHIzdSQMzUesl8-n9tjvIoGkghlGQ

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Q_a7zAtY0

 

 

Triangle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA2ney3n0wY&index=3&list=PLPphPHIzdSQMzUesl8-n9tjvIoGkghlGQ

 

 

Rectangle:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WHJio4TRNY&index=4&list=PLPphPHIzdSQMzUesl8-n9tjvIoGkghlGQ

 

 

Rhombus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5B_ScUs1oo&index=5&list=PLPphPHIzdSQMzUesl8-n9tjvIoGkghlGQ

 

Trapezoid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZG68tUOG28

 

Pentagon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M44hNrLgT3I

 

Other basic shape videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v38vp3IwLho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NcXVAviq-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyGAyTc4DPI

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiMwcxaFsIY

 

 

 We just focused on these 7 shapes for now. We then made a chart together as a class. The students wrote the numbers in for the sides and corners.

 

 

Mac The Cat- Story Structure

Last week we had the story "Mac The Cat". We did a lot with story structure. We focused on the setting, characters, and plot. We made a class poster to represent all of these things from the story. The students also individually got to record in their reading journals about story structure.

 

The -at Family in Mrs. Barnes' First Grade Class

 

We have been learning all about the at family as a class lately. I always make a power point each day that has embedded videos that help emphasize the phonics subjects we are covering. Although I can't load the PowerPoint onto this blog I can post the links on YouTube where I found many of the videos, that you can use them with your kiddos if you want to review what we went over. Also ask them to  "SPLAT" the -at clap for at words. They should know what to do.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W0xeWNNZE8

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm0QHt9VrBU

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhAryniNMeQ&list=UUngLKHdv-yJnSy-hxqUUZKA

 

 

 

 

We then made a "at" family poster as a class. They then got to make their own in their journals for reading.

 

 

 

 

We also made a class sentence using the at words we learned, and our "words to know" of the week. Also this was illustrated by one of our amazing students!!!! 

 

 Finally,  I gave each group a bag of words that had "at words" and the "Words to Know" and they each got to make a sentence as a group! Check out their great sentences and artist skills!!! WOW!

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Perimeter and Area

 Lately we have been learning about perimeter and area. We dug a little deeper today, and did a flip book to help us understand. It was a huge help! I really got to see where everyone was getting stuck, and who REALLY had it. We started off watching a perimeter and area song/ video. If you want to check it out or watch it again with them here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk-PyhjFWw4

 

We had  a discussion with an anchor chart, and did one flip book together. Then they went back to their seats, and made their own. They got to make their own shapes to find the perimeter and the area out of graph paper. The only stipulations were 1) 2 of them had to be squares and rectangles and 2) They all had to be "whole" squares inside the shapes.

Kevin Henkes ~ Chrysanthemum

 

I just love the author Kevin Henkes. Over the next few weeks we will be reviewing some important reading strategies while studying his books. Today we started off with his much beloved book "Chrysanthemum". We talked all about Chrysanthemum and what she is like. They then did a Venn Diagram and compared her to themselves (text to self).  I don't know if you can make out what they wrote around her, but some them really are a hoot such as "She needed tougher skin".  

 

 

Weaving Details and Conclusions

About a week ago we read the story "The Goat in The Rug" it is a Native American Tale. In the story we learned about the process that goat fur goes through to become a rug. We were also learning about details and conclusions. So we weaved our own rugs of details and conclusions.
Check it out Below!: