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Hello Everyone! I hope your week is going well! My last post suggested that it had been a few years since we've gotten to enjoy St. Patrick's Day at school. Well, that changed this week!  Finally we got to enjoy some shamrock, leprechaun, and rainbow fun...and believe me, there was a ton of learning going on!! Take a look! Morning Work---ABC Order Math Notebook- All in Green! :) Our Number Operator Page looks awesome in green! Graphing in Math! Lucky!! Math Tub...More Graphing! What is all this green for? Practicing Fractions!! 1/4! 4/4 = one whole! Leprechaun puppet play reading! Practicing ai words on a r ai nbow! Finding gold! And creating something out of the wrapper! Rainbow Shape and Color poem "Living under a rainbow" writing We had fun learning through all the colors!!  Thanks for letting us share! If you would like to try some these, maybe next year... CLICK HERE!!! Next week we will try to introduce kids to prepositions. This is a tricky concept for our youn...

Hello Everyone!! Well, this spring break has been awesome!   The weather has been rainy and cloudy the whole week.  Yay for all the lakes around us.  They are finally filling up after a looooong drought! I got a lot done on the homefront!! Some closets cleaned out, carpets and wood floors redone, made some fresh new wreaths for my front doors, and took a quick trip to visit my baby. I also had time to combine and add to an animal unit.  Kids love animals.  They love learning about the different characteristics and fun facts.  Three of my favorite books to use to integrate science, ELA, and even math are "What If You Had Animal Teeth?," "What If You Had Animal Hair?," and "What if You Had Animal feet?" all by Sandra Markle. The animal feet book is fairly new, and so I had to add to my old unit. The new unit contains cross curricular activities to go along with all three books.   Here are a couple of pictures of what what is included.  The unit is n...

Hello Everyone! Happy Spring Break to those of you on break!  Today, it was a rainy, rainy day here.  Great day for cleaning out closets!! And blogging!! Sorry it's been a while! We were so busy getting ready for Open House last week, I was exhausted every night when I got home. And then...we got hit with snow!! It was so beautiful and so fun, and tah dah!!...Snow day on Open House day! We will have to reschedule...so sad. We were so ready to show off!! I finally decided to share some of what the kids had done. (If you are one of my parents and still want to be surprised when we do have open house, don't look at this next section.) Our first graders focused on hats as the backdrop for showing off our learning!   Hats that historic figures wore, hats that cowboys wear, party hats, newspaper hats, favorite hats.  We had so much fun learning through George Washington and his tricorn hat. We also had fun learning through Abraham Lincoln and his famous stovepipe hat! Then...