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Subitizing Sampler
Hello Everyone!!Subitizing has become a big component of our math curriculum over the last few years. Subitizing is "instantly seeing how many." This coming week, we will work hard on seeing groups...
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Understanding Community Through Rosie's Walk and Me on the Map
Hello Everyone!Just a quick post tonight. This is one pooped teacher! These looooong short weeks are pretty crazy! But I did want to share just a couple of things we worked on this week! We are...
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Punctuation.?!
Hello Everyone!This week we will be working on "Good Readers Notice Punctuation Marks." In first grade we work on fluency through understanding punctuation marks. What happens to your voice when...
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Johnny Appleseed = Good Citizenship
Hello Everyone!Just a quick share tonight. As I've mentioned before, we have integrated our reading and social studies. So far things are going great. We chose Johnny Appleseed to read about over the...
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Constitution Day
Hello Everyone!Constitution Day is coming up next week (Sept 17). We are required to teach our kiddos about the important concepts on which our country was found. We plan on using David Catrow's book...
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Skip, Skip, Skip
Hello Everyone!We are working hard this week on skip counting. I decided I needed to put together some math tub activities for next week. We need the practice!! So this is what I came up with. Five...
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"We Wanna Be Like Johnny!"
Hello Everyone!!I think just about every first grade class in the land celebrates Johnny Appleseed. We take the folktale as a lesson in good citizenship. I shared my little mini unit earlier, but I...
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It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No! It's Air!
Hello Everyone!!This coming week we will learn a little more about the weather around us, specifically air and wind. We will learn what makes wind. How can we tell it's windy when we can't see the...
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Back up and Reread!
Hello Everyone!!We'll be working on "Backing Up and Rereading" this week!! If it doesn't make sense, read it again!! Comprehension matters to good readers! :)Here's your freebie!! BACK UP AND CLICK!!...
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number patterns
Hello Everyone!This week in math we are working on number patterns, more specifically, skip counting beginning at a given number and reciting numbers forward and backward from any given number. If...
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Falling For Math
Hello Everyone!Just stopping by to share a quick little math tub unit for our little learners. It contains 4 different number sense math activities including some skip counting, strategizing,...
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A Great Day For UP!!
Hello Everyone!!YAY!!! We had an awesome day today! It was all about clouds!! A great day for UP!! To start with, our Think Outside the Box Thursday shape looked very similar to a cloud...but it wasn't...
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Place Value Pizzazz!
Hello Everyone!We will begin a math unit this coming week on place value. Our school district offered a good professional development course this summer using the First Steps in Mathematics as a...
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A Chair For My Mother
Hello Everyone!Just a quick post tonight! The Texas Rangers are playing one last game to secure a wildcard spot for our division! We are huge Ranger fans and would so love to see them win tonight!!...
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Cinderella
Hello Everyone!We are having a great week! I actually got in some guided reading groups today!! Yippee!! I love it when all the training and expectations for incorporating D5 actually settles in and...
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"Moon Over My Firsties"
Hello Everyone!We are finishing up our science unit about observing objects in the sky. Kids are busy documenting the moon's phases, and reading a lot of moon facts on Pebblego and BrainPop. We, of...
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Author's Purpose
Hello Everyone!Ultra quick share today! This week we'll be working hard on Author's Purpose. I wrote a quick little chant to help kids remember to be aware of the reason the author wrote the piece...
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Candy Corn Connection
Hello Everyone!!My little mathematicians are really growing their brains! We are working hard on place value, standard notation and expanded notation. This week, it's all about the candy corn!! Gotta...
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Candy Corn Connection Part 2
Hello Everyone!I just wanted to share a few pics from our math lesson today. We have been working hard on place value, standard notation and expanded notation. I wanted to see if the kids were really...
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Falling For Force and Motion
Hello Everyone!Next week we will begin a science unit on force and motion. We will investigate how things move and what changes can occur. I put together a quick little unit to help support the things...
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