All Things Fall!!

I think that I should be whipped for waiting this long to post.  Blogging was taking up LOTS of my time last year and I promised myself to slack off a little and well..... I did a pretty good job.  The purpose of my blog is not have teachers purchase products from our TPT page.  It's just to provide teachers with ideas in which students can grow as learners, thinkers, readers, and writers, as well as being fun for teachers.  So with all of that said... Here are a few ideas for fall.  You will notice that we are beginning to allow the children to write some initial sounds in words.  The letters you see are the letters/sounds that we have covered thus far in the school year :) If you would like a copy of the graphic organizers used, just email me and I will be HAPPY to email it to you!
cmcbride@brewtoncityschools.org

Jan Brett Author Study..

This was SO much fun for the kids and for me!  By the time we read the third book, the children were able to tell me who the author was and a few characteristics of her books.  We read several but the ones I am posting are Hedgie's Surprise, The Three Snow Bears, The Mitten and The Hat.

All Things Winter

We've had a TERRIBLE ice storm and have missed the past two days are we are missing tomorrow as well.  It looks like snow, but it's NOT!!  I slipped on the ice and fell right on my shoulder and knee and laughed at first until I realized I was really hurt!!  Bruises, sharp pain, etc.  We are not used to this kind of weather in the Florida Panhandle for sure!!

 

I am posting LOTS of pictures.  All have to do with winter/snowmen,100th day, bears/Polar Bears and penguins

Dr. King Drawing Project

 .  If the picture is not turned the right way, I apologize ahead of time.  I have not figured out the art of making pictures turn the right way..

Polar Animals/Bears

 

 

Winter Stuff

 

 

Thanksgiving, Farm, and More

Well, I am WAAAYYY behind with my posts.  I will learn that I need to take pictures of things one year prior to each holiday or weekly theme so that I can post them on time the following year.  My husband took a trip to Kansas for 2 weeks and I have been SWAMPED at BES with a book study, unpacking ELA standards, unpacking math CC standards, and shoooooo...... I NEED A VACATION!!  The following pictures are a hodge podge of Thanksgiving, farm, and a few Scott Foresman story charts.  I have had a few people to email me from my last post asking for copies of things or the name of stories that I use.  I will be happy to email you anything that you see that the students have completed. I am not trying to sell anything, just sharing a few ideas.  cmcbride@brewtoncityschools.org  Happy Thanksgivng to everyone!! You will notice on a few student writings that the blank are colored.  This makes it very easy to complete a whole class interactive writing.  It is an easy way to use colors as your writing guide.

                                                          Farm Fun

 We use Scott Foresman as our skeletal reading series.  This writing activity was an extension of a story called "We are So Proud".  A GREAT book with purposeful vocabulary!!

  Loopy Turkeys.... you cut strips of construction paper and the children glue the two ends together which makes a loop.  Our math topic was greater than, less than, so I allowed each student to select a number between 3-10 .  Then they placed that amount of loops on their turkey.  Then we decided if the loops equaled more than 5 or less than 5. 

 We took the last 6 stories from our reading series and sorted them according to reality or fantasy and told why each story would be placed in that category.  Then we had the children illustrate in their reading station something that was real and something was make-believe.  I LOVED this!! and so did the kids.