We read the story "A Day at School" this past week. Each student got a chance to be an illustrator, and we recreated the pictures of the story in partners. It was so much fun, and they now know this story inside and out!
Friday, September 26, 2014
A Smiley Sum of Seven
In our classroom we have been talking all about addition. Especially using number pairs. We focused on number pairs that make 7 the other day! We created some Smiley Sums of Seven to help us remember. We also learned a saying to help remember what a sum is (look at the picture below). We also watched this video to help us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_wvvEvkw4
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Plot with Fly Guy
Over the weekend I picked up the most recent Fly Guy book at a book fair in another elementary school. I have an obsession with books by Tedd Arnold. He is one of my favorites, and one of the class favorites too! We read it together then they each got to draw out the plot in pictures. Didn't they turn out great!?!
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:
Circle:
Triangle:
Rectangle:
Rhombus:
Trapezoid:
Pentagon:
Other basic shape videos:
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.
Friday, September 19, 2014
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.
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!
Monday, May 12, 2014
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