Mother's Day Books

 

My coworker makes these cute books every year after reading The Important Book. We used the sentence starter: The important thing about my mom is that... The last sentence was: But the most important thing about my mom is that... and they repeat the first sentence they wrote like in the book. We used six pages in all with the last page being about the author. This is the first year we've made them and I just loved them, they turned out so cute and their writing was amazing. The students only got one copy and had to try their best the first time. They all did such a great great job sounding out words and using their best handwriting.

I taped the magnets I made from their art to the inside cover.

 

 

Mother's Day Magnets

 I took a picture of the flower art the student's painted with their traced hand. I made the picture wallet size and then printed it on photo paper. I put the picture on a magnetic sheet and cut it out.

The magnetic sheets were $2 at Walmart and made 8 magnets.

 

These are the printed pictures before I cut them out.

 

I had some leftover magnetic sheets so I also made magnets with the self portraits they drew for our end of the year program.

Here is the photo paper I used.

Here are the magnetic sheets I used.

Sailing into Second Grade

 

 

 Go to Deep Space Sparkle for directions on how to make this great end of the year art project.

Antonym Means Opposite

To kick off this lesson we played a game with antynom cards. I handed out word cards to the students, when I said go they had to find their opposite. We read them together and then played a few more times. I put them on the board and the students got to choose five they wanted to illustrate in their Antonym Means Opposite book.

Click HERE for the cards I used.

 

 

 

 

Listening and Dice Math Stations

I just went to a workshop by Kim Sutton and LOVED all of it but what I am most thrilled about is the random number Cd's and a few new and exciting math stations at listening center.

All of her books and activities are fun and great independent practice for math stations as well as whole group.

 The students listened to the random number CD 0-9 at listening center, they had to double the number and then add one.

 

At this math station the students were listening to the random number Cd 0-100 and had to find those numbers on the a hundred chart.

Here...the students had to write the number in the even circle or the odd circle.

 

Anyway... the possibilities are endless.

Here are my favorite Kim Sutton books.

Click below to go to Kim Sutton's Website:

Creative Mathematics

 

 

 

These are also great dice books for math stations. The activities go from easy to hard and I have used it throughout the year.  It says k-3 but with the common core math it's just right for first graders.

A MUST have!

Click HERE to purchase.

 

Missing Addend Kaboom

 

This is fun idea from Teacher Tipster...I used it for missing addends in math. There is a self check component on back as well. It was easy to make and the kiddos loved playing!

Geometry Games

Polygon Sort

3D Shape Match

Symmetry Sort

Math Play Games

Jeopardy 2D Shapes

Shape Construction

Harold and the Purple Crayon Writing

After reading Harold and the Purple Crayon, the students wrote about going for a walk and the adventures they had with their crayon.