Christmas CrAzInEsS!

Above are a few pics from our FUN and FESTIVE winter party! I feel so lucky to have such creative parents helping in my room! It was a real winter wonderland with hot cocoa, cookies and crafts! 


Yesterday an elf brought us special SNOW DOUGH!! The recipe can be found online and I whipped up this tag with poem I created using free TPT clip art and font.

It was ugly sweater day at school yesterday. I added on to my lovely hot glued Christmas tree from last year and added battery powered lights (This is probably a fire hazard! Ha!) My kiddos decided that when Miss Stucky's lights were on she was happy and when the lights went off they should get quiet quickly! It made for a very interesting classroom management strategy! ;).

LOVE this parent gift idea I found online! It is personal, but quick and easy!

Our suitcases have been sent home!! This is another awesome unit from Stephanie Stewart! I love the writing prompts!

We are so Thankful!

Thanksgiving was so busy I forgot to post! Here are a few projects and events:

Bugles were the perfect "Turkey Toes" snack the day before break! (I downloaded this tag free online, but can't remember where!)

This idea is from Stephanie Stewart. My kiddos love it! A turkey writes us a letter begging us not to eat him for Thanksgiving dinner...So of course we jump in and save the day with an awesome persuasive writing activity. (I had everything from chicken instead to ice-cream  This year was a first to have a student write to eat lettuce instead of turkey...I loved the adjectives. Cold, crisp, crunchy! Ha!)

We did a little food science! We learned how to write procedures and a hypothesis! This is a freebie I downloaded from TPT!!!

We had been reading about the Pilgrim's voyage and mentioned chamber pots...One of my AMAZING paras brought her great grandmother's to show us! This kids were grossed out, but intrigued and engaged! :)

Finally, we wanted to say thank you for all the places, things and most importantly people in our lives! <3

Fall Party!!

A HUGE thank you to our room parents! They came in and did the cutest craft with our kiddos! (pictures below) Thank you to ALL the parents that helped provide yummy snacks, drinks and plates! We appreciate all you do to make these moments so special for our kids! 

We are math NERDS!!

We had so much fun doing this math estimation exploration freebie from Amy Lemons! We shook our Nerd boxes and made our best guesses using our number sense and what we know about the world around us. Then it was time to count! Once students had the actual number they practiced second grade mental strategies to add and subtract 1, 10, and 100. 

We LOVE Spookley!

Our books to finish out this crazy spooky week! :)

We read Spookley and talked about the moral of a story. We learned that "We can't judge a book or a pumpkin by its cover." Then we wrote about why we are each unique! :)

A little comparing and contrasting to finish out the day!

Even Monsters Need Haircuts!

After reading the story Even Monsters Need Haircuts by, Matthew McElligott, we made our own monsters! Students wrote stories about their own character's haircut adventure!

Frankenpudding!!!

Today we made Frankenpudding! We used temporal words to record the steps as we worked and then used our senses to continue working on adjectives and description words! So much fun! :)

Resources and ideas from http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com!  (This pack is an AWESOME freebie!)