100th Day

What a relief to be over the 100th day!

It was super fun- but I went home and PASSED OUT!!! It exhausted me like crazy. I wanted to share with you some of the really cute things that we did as a class.

 In this picture, we made these really cute 100 count hats. We put a sentence strip around their head and then we used 10 pieces of construction paper. We then did 10 different designs on the hat itself. 

 Here are the things that we put on the ten strips:

10 animal stickers

10 math facts

10 sight words

10 thumb prints

10 books we read

10 hearts of love

10 things we learned this year

10 I'm a star sticker

10 of their first name

10 of any of their own design

We then created a 100 snack bag. It was really fun and good. We had a ton of food (and leftovers) that we ate some the following week. We made a little bag and then we watched a hundred day video while eating our yummy snack.

Here is what was in our snack bags:

-raisins

-marshmallows

-chocolate chunks

white cheddar popcorn

-cheerios

-fruit loops

-m&m's

-Teddy Grahams

-Vanilla Wafers

-Pretzels

Of course....there was ten of each snack in each grab bag.

Things I forgot to photograph that we did as well:

We made a big banner that had 100 compliments,

100 math facts,

and 100 words that we know.

By the end of it...

We were like this. We were exhausted and we all relaxed. 

I hope your 100th day goes super smooth and you enjoy it. Leave some comments on what you did during your 100th day of school.

Dr. Seuss Week

It's almost Dr. Seuss Day!

I am super excited, especially being in primary. I am able to have so much fun with my little babies. Each day next week, we will be participating in some events daily. One of the events that I created today and I wanted to share IMMEDIATELY was this adorable goal setting balloon. As you know, Oh, the places you'll go! is about going off to great places even if you are scared. I created a balloon file that you can use to set goals with your kids. 

One of my besties colored her balloon, and already set her goals!

I love how they came out and you can get them for yourself on Teachers Pay Teachers. The first person to respond to this, will get this document for free!!!!

Click the link Dr. Seuss- Oh, the places you'll go! to purchase this fun document! 

xoxo

Blends

 Holy kleenex- It's been two months! I'm sorry everyone...but I have a really good reason!! Since writing here on November 9th... I have found out that I am going to be a mommy! I can't believe it either. I started to blog about my journey on Sparkle the Moon. If you want to go through this adventure with me then head over there! Now that Trimester 1 is OVER- I can get back to creating all my things and blogging {back on schedule}woot woot!

I am going to start off with my blends book! I am very excited for it. This was my first blending book so here ya go...

In every PDF file there is a little book. Two books per page.

Little book with two books per page

I love the little books. Here is a clip of what one of the pages looks like.

Along with a little book there a few pages to make it that much better. One of the things is this fill in the blank booklet. There is also a poem that goes with it, a template for interactive notebooks, identifying words that have the blend and building the words. 

Here is a direct link to the blends made so far..

DR Blends

BR, FR, DR Blends

BR Blends

FR Blends

L -Controlled Blends

CL Controlled Blends

BL Controlled Blends

Enjoy and leave any comments below!!

Voting and Veteran's Day

Hello everyone!

Today, I want to tell you what's been going on in room 3-109! Last week, our school was closed because of voting. Our state voted for Governor on November 4th. We did some awesome things to teach about voting. I created a "USA" Corner of the room. 

Look how cute it is! The little box on the left, is actually the "voting" box. Our kids did some really cute voting things. 

First, we read the books Duck For President and Grace for President.

After we read it, we discussed the difference between the two. We made the kids really think about who they would want to be their president. We of course told them they cannot discuss politics in school. We then taught the kids Amendments. That had to be my FAVORITE part! Our amendments were as followed.

Amendment 1- You must wear red shirts Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays.

Amendment 2- Students will get 65 minutes of recess daily.

Amendment 3- Everyone must eat 5 broccoli, 3 celery, and 1 carrot every meal. 

Amendment 4- Everyone must wear earrings.

Amendment 5- All students must read 2 books a night.

Of course, none of these were actually taken into REAL action but it was really fun to do. 

Our voting ballots looked like 

If you want a copy of this, then leave a comment and I will absolutely send it your way! :)

Not only did we vote, but we also went to the polls in our school and they gave us a ton of stickers that we were able to give to the kids!

One last thing before we go. I want to show you the anchor chart that we are using this week for Veteran's Day. I am very proud of it.

This week we will be reading The Wall and we have some books that kids will be reading as well. I am very happy to be teaching them the value of voting and our Soldiers.

Have a wonderful week!

Rainbow Math

Happy Saturday everyone!

Over the last few days, I have been thrown many different things with our math curriculum. On of the things that came to our attention was that we MUST have all of the kids fluent with their addition from 1 to 10. They need to know it inside, outside, left side, right side, and upside down. Rainbow Math was born! I created this to help first grade teachers come up with better ways to enforce math addition skills. I'm sure I will create a subtraction version as well but for now this is it!

Rainbow Math-Addition is to help students achieve addition fluency by using a color system to track data. Students will be excited to learn their facts as they progress through the colors of the rainbow.

I created a folder (sorry about the glare)- and I labeled it Rainbow Math and their letter. That way we always keep track of who has what folder. I did give each kid the same blue folder, it keeps it easier for me when I say get the rainbow math folder out,  I can immediately tell just by the color of the folder.

Inside the folder is a plastic sleeve and in the plastic sleeve is 20 math sentences. At the top it says "Red Math Facts" so when you are testing the kids, you know exactly what color they are working on. 

In the Rainbow Math file, you will also get a file with all the math facts on it. They are double pages and you can do this in multiple ways...

1. Cut them and put them in a baggie and use these as flashcards

2. Cut them and punch a hole in them and then put on a binder ring and remove color after each level passed.

3. Cut them and punch a hole in them and keep adding colors to the ring to make many fact sentences.

After each student passes the fluency, they will be able to get a certificate (found in the download). There is also a cheat sheet for you. You can enter the kids name into your master checklist and check them off so you know who passes what color. That is great to use at conferences especially when you need to pinpoint the exact fact that they struggle with.

Rainbow Math  can be bought right on the link! I can't wait to hear all of your thoughts about rainbow math!