Worksheet-Free Wednesday

Worksheet-Free Wednesday was another hit! We love this day!

 

Our Worksheet-Free Wednesday Schedule

Chit-Chat (blends) on Smart Board

Daily Fix-it on butcher paper/smart board

Read Aloud: Roses are Pink Your Feet Really Stink

Act out vocabulary from story

Make -ay words on Smart Board

Have an -ay word spelling test on butcher paper

Guided Reading and Literacy Station block (always hands-on)

Science Experiment

Number Bonds on Smart Board

 

 

Daily Fix-it is a unit I sell in TPT. I simply pull it up on the Smart Board or make copies. On Wednesdays I put in on the smart board and let them fix it on butcher paper. You can find that unit here.

 Next we chit-chat about blends. We went over the "th" blend today and came up with lots of words. I love the Chit Chat units in Deanna Jumps store!

 We made -ay words!

 We also took a very informal-just-for-fun -ay words spelling test on butcher paper.

 Finally the science experiment! Everyone loves this!

What you will need:

Candy hearts

1tbs Baking Soda

1/4 C. Vinegar

1 C. Water

jars/cups

 

Simply have the students add their water/baking soda mixture. Then have them add the hearts to see what happens. Then have them slowly add the vinegar. Ta-da! dancing hearts. The baking soda/vinegar causes carbonation, which causes little bubbles to wrap around the candies to make them bounce around. Be careful! This gets messy! I used our butcher paper from this morning as tablecloths.

 

Lastly we did our math lesson as a group on the Smart Board! We are working on number bonds.

 

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Worksheet-Free Wednesday + Amerikid Idol

As in my previous post, the past few weeks we have been doing Worksheet-Free Wednesdays! I got the idea from Elizabeth Hall in Kickin' it in Kindergarten. We love Worksheet-free Wednesday. Now don't let the title fool you, we aren't just having a free day and not learning... We are still learning just like we would any other day! We just aren't using a pencil! We are engaging in all hands-on activities. It's so much fun! Here's a few pics of some of the activities we did today!

This week we are reading Hooway for Wodney Wat! Such a cute story! The kids took turns putting the details in the story in order.. This is great for comprehension! 

The kiddos also used their own Wodney Wat retelling cards to put the story in order independently... I didn't count this as a worksheet!

We are currently working on a_e words with that lazy e! I rolled out butcher paper and we practiced spelling words and putting some of these a_e words in sentences. 

 

We also did our Daily Fix-it on the Smart Board.

For Math, they got with their math partners and worked together to practice Area. They did this as a pair. 

 

And then the grand finale of the day.. Amerikid Idol. The First Grade Parade mentioned in a post that she has done this before. I'm not even sure how she did but I liked the idea. I gave it my own spin and went all out with golden tickets, contestant bibs, and judges. We had three judges; myself, our librarian, and the secretary of the school. I sat in the middle so I guess you can call me JLo! ;) The kids partnered up this morning and chose what sight words they wanted to sing... Then this afternoon I called them up and they performed for us. They were all rock stars so everyone got a golden ticket to Hollywood a.k.a. an ice cream on Friday. It was so much fun! We will for sure be doing it again!

 Judges table

 

 

We're going to Hollywood!!!!

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Daily Fix-it

Hey y'all! One of my favorite things in my TPT shop is my Daily Fix-it series that can be found in my Reading Street units. I thought about it and was like "Hey! Why not make this a unit in itself so everyone can use it!" Basically what the Daily Fix-it is, is daily practice in grammar. Looking for errors in simple sentences and fixing them. These errors include capitalization and ending punctuation. It really gives little learners practice in reading fluency with simple sentences, looking for errors, and practicing their writing skills. It also helps with comprehending the simple sentences by having to illustrate what the sentence says. I use this in my room every day. Sometimes I print off copies and put it in my kiddos clipboards and we work them together on the Smart Board. Other times, I just put it on the Smart Board and pick a few kids a day to fix, write, and draw the sentence. I also use it as morning work and center activities. I really love it!

You can find this in my TPT store for only $3.00... Over 30 pages!!!

 

As you can see we are in shorts, this picture is from September!!!

Another September pic... I actually am really enjoying seeing this old pictures because I can see how much better their handwriting has gotten.. Aww... tear

I let them write on butcher paper for their Daily Fix-it for (as of recent) Worksheet-Free Wednesday!

 

 

6 more weeks of Winter?!?!

I was a little bummed out that Phil had to give us the news of 6 more weeks of winter. I'm just ready for spring y'all! We celebrated anyway and enjoyed our Groundhog Day festivities. We watched the GMA video of Phil seeing his shadow, we read our weekly reader, we did crafts, and we ate a fun Groundhog Day snack...It was a pretty fun day!

We started the day of making these cute little groundhog hats. My crew always has so much fun making hats!

 

We also made little Groundhog shadows. All you do is get black construction paper, tape the silhouette of a groundhog to it, and use snow paint to paint around the edge of the silhouette. (snow paint: 1:1 Elmer's glue and shaving cream)

 

 

We ended the day with this super cute and easy groundhog snack. All you need is chocolate pudding cups, crumbled Oreos, and a Teddy Graham on top!

 

 

I also ended the day reading this cute book, Substitute Groundhog

 

Peek-at-my-Week

I'm really excite to share my Peek-at-my-Week... This is my first time to put my lesson plans on the computer.. So it may not be the best quality, but you'll get the idea! I listed all of the resources I use too. I tried to add the hyper link to the images below.. If not then Please visit the TPT stores of Deanna Jump, Deedee Wills, and Tara West.. Oh yeah! and me! :) On worksheet-free Wednesday I am using all hands-on activities, no worksheets! we do things like writing sentences/words on butcher paper, shaving cream, using white boards, and lots of center activities. 

 

 

 

February Lately...

It's February! I love February!! I love Valentines day, and the fact that it's a short month, which means Spring is around the corner!!!! Here is my February Lately....

 

 

Listening: Currently catching up on the latest episode of Fixer-Upper.. I love this show. Their style is my style and I can't get enough of it. I'm always doing DIY projects around my house.. Currently my husband and I are house hunting, so this show has really been inspiring me to look at each house with an open mind. We are first time home-buyers so this is really exciting for us!

 

Loving: If you check out my past couple of post you will see that I have been raving about Deanna Jump's new Guiding Readers Units. It's exactly what I've been craving for my Shared Reading time... Check it out!!

 

Thinking: I'm ready for some time to really focus on my TPT products. I have some ideas up my sleeve and I'm ready to put it to work!

 

 

Wanting: I am wanting to get my hair done sometime soon. I've been trying to grow it out and also have been doing the ombre thing lately! Need to freshen it up!

Needing: to get my nails done.. My new years resolution was to start getting my nails done regularly and to quit biting them! So far so good! I've been doing the shellac so it's about time to get them redone!

Pageant title: Miss Over-the-Top... I might be obsessed with my job and I feel like I've gone all out. I'm already planning ideas for Kindergarten graduation... Need to slow down!!!!

Happy February! 

 

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