(Backup) Beginning of school finds

Hello all! It is almost the beginning of school here in Delaware! 

What I wanted to do was share some things I found to use in my room for curriculum, morning meeting and throughout the year! All items I picture are linked so you can go check them out for yourself!

First, I always give my students a special sticker for the first day of school!! I fell in love with these bright colored stickers and then of course these pencils were just screaming take me to school!! The pencils say look who’s spotted in first grade!

Aren’t they just the cutest?!

Morning meeting?! Some do and some don’t do it! We donit every morning and I am always looking for something fun to do for the activity!! Well, I found this cute activity for getting to know each other! The kids pull a leaf out of the box and answer the question! I loved it and can’t wait to use it!!!

When I teach rules, I focus on being a peace maker not a peace breaker so I found these awesome stickers and necklaces for my kids to wear and bring home!!! I love this unit and will blog more about it when we do it!  

So for my curriculum! I am always looking for some fun additions to add to what I am teaching throughout the year! I mean don’t we all do that?! So I found some great items to add to math, science, reading and writing! 

In science, we will be learning about the moon and the sun. We will be focusing on day and night. I found this awesome day and night sort!  I love how it also has an area for things that happen during both day and night!!

In math, we teach such a variety in first grade! Addition, subtraction, money, measuring, place value, time and so much more! I loved these stickers that are based on the skills we teach! Each child will get a folder with all the skills and strategies they will be learning this year!

Aren’t they bright and colorful!! These are going to be such an awesome learning tool!! I am going to blog more about these after they are made!

One area that my firsties, always groan about at first is writing!! I found these cute and fun would you rather writing prompts to use with them! They are dry erase but I am going to display them once a week for my kids to journal about them. These will be great when we begin our opinion writing  unit!!

The last tool I found that I love are these reading highlighting bars  These are perfect for them to keep their place!

 So these are just a few of my finds for the beginning of my year and to add to my curriculum!! I will definitely be blogging more about these when we actually use them in the classroom! 

Will be logging soon about other finds andneevealing my Classroom!! Until then have an awesome day!!!

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would you rather writing prompts to use with them! They are dry erase but I am going to display them once a week for my kids to journal about them. These will be great when we begin our opinion writing  unit!!

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Dalmatians and Year Of The Dog

Thursday was such a busy day at school! It was the 101st day of school and it was Chinese New Year! I know Friday was technically Chinese New Year but we were out of school for a professional development day so we learned about it on Thursday!

So Thursday was Dalmatians and Year of the Dog! Of course y kiddos thought that was awesome because they were dogs on the day we learned about Year of the Dog!! Lol!!!

First the Dalmatians! For the 101st day of school (first grade doesn101 since they do 100 in kindergarten) we dressed like Dalmatians, did activities with the number 101 and got a sweet snack to bring home! 

Then we focused on Chinese New Year! We transformed the room for Chinese New Year! 

We started by reading an awesome book about a little girl who who went to her grandmothers house to celebrate Chinese New Year because her grandmother could not come to her this year. She met the animals of the Chinese zodiac along the way and they went with her! The book is called Ruby’s Chinese New Year.

I bought mine at barnes and noble but it is also available on Amazon. Click here for amazon link! 

I read this before we began my smart board about Chinese New Year. I told them to remember what happened and to make a connection with the information they will soon be learning!

They were so excited! 

As we learned about a tradition, we stopped and went back to our seats to make it! First we learned about paper lanterns! Thanks to oriental Trading  I got foam lanterns for them to decorate! We learned about the lanterns and then went to our seats and created them to bring home! 

After the lanterns we then went back and learned about the red envelopes and the coins! Of course, we had to make these also!!! Thanks to Oriental trading, we made really cool ones!

If you noticed the items on their tables! They all got a Chinese New Year, placemat ( which they search for traditional Chinese New Year items) a coloring book and a pencil! I got all of these from Oriental Trading!

 

Of course , we had to get chocolate coins for good luck!

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A Charlie Brown Valentine

Love is in the air! Love is in my classroom! February is such a short month but it is such an important month!

My firsties love to learn and they love to get to experience new things! For Valentine’s Day I transformed our room into a Charlie Brown valentine!

At this age they love to make crowns to wear and make their valentine day boxes! I love the Charlie Brown collection from oriental Trading! 

What I loved about the crowns were they had adhesive on them so my kiddos could do them on their own! No staple needed! Win win situation today!!!!!!!

Here they are all completed! They are soooo cute!!!

Don’t you love the valentine card boxes!!!!!!!! These are so amazing and it makes it so easy for them to pass out the Valentine’s and bring them home!!

They made Charlie Brown character lollipops!! 

The lollipops were the heart lollipops from oriental Trading! The Charlie Brown lollipop pieces were also from there! 

They went Gaga over the valentine treat bucket! This was at each seat and it was their materials for the day! They then took them home!

 In their buckets were Charlie Brown pencils, erasers and crayons!!! They loved these!!!!

Of course, I had to make a photo booth! Snoopy table cloth hanging on the wall with a snoopy be mine sign and snoopy cut outs hung around! There was also a giant snoopy stand up!

So this is how my Classroom looked for Valentine’s Day! 

I love how oriental Trading has all that I need!

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