Writing with Picture Clues - Texas

We started learning about the great state of Texas this week.  We are focusing on learning the state symbols this week and next week we will be adding cowboys to the mixture.  Yee Haw!

We did some writing today and mentally put on our "Author's Purpose" hat and tried to persuade our readers to visit the great state of Texas.  I made a writing plan sheet to go with this.  Today our topic was:

"Texas is a nice state to visit."  

Here are what a few of my sweeties wrote:

Their plan sheet looked like this:

(BTW:  Some of my sweeties are forgetting to write their topic sentence so I added a little box for them to check off after they write the topic sentence.) 

Next week, we will be using this plan sheet to write about our state symbols:

If you would like a copy of these plan sheets, you can grab yourself a copy HERE.

If you are using my plan sheets, I would love to hear how they are working out in your classroom!

Adding 10 and 1; Subtracting 10 and 1

Do your kiddos need extra help

adding ten and adding one? 

subtracting ten and subtracting one?

To help my firsties visualize this concept, I made the following worksheets to help:

You can grab yourself a copy HERE.

 

Aaargh!

Awhile back, we learned the sound of /ar/ and I failed to post some pictures of my cuties (with their faces erased, of course.)    I purchased the pirate hats (6 in a package)  and the blow up parrot at The Dollar Tree.  The eye patch is black construction paper and yarn.  My firsties loved this.

I also made myself and my coworkers shirts:

 

This is Abby Mullin's idea and you can go to her website and get the shirt graphic and instructions on how make yourself this same get up.  It was easy peasy.  You can hop on over to her blog and get the directions to make the shirt HERE and while you're there check out all her stuff that goes with her Pirate Mark unit listed below (that I purchased, of course):

You can purchase yourself a copy HERE

President Day

Here are a few things I made for my class to work on next week.

                    Part, Part Whole and Fact Family Practice:
                                                (BTW:  that is supposed to be Abe Lincoln's hat)
     (I also made a blank copy of this sheet so you could fill in your own numbers for additional practice.)

A few little science activities using pennies:

 

A Sentence Scramble or Unscramble (whatever you want to call it):

A little ABC order:

(I laminated the cards and then ran off the recording sheet for the students to write their answers on)

And a little Place Value Practice with tens and ones:

You can check out these activities HERE.