A Froggy Winner and Blog Awards

The winner of my Feeling Froggy unit is Maria!

I have recently been given a couple

of awards I would like to acknowledge. 

First, I would like to thank Sheree Peterson from Peterson's Pad for nominating me for this award:

And I would like to than Stacy from Mrs. Johnson's First Grade for nominating me for the Top 10 award:

I am now passing these awards on to some blogs that

I follow that I are worth checking out. 

1)  Hayley at Bishop's Blackboard

2) Jen at Jen's OT for Kids

3) Donna at Math Coach's Corner

4) Melanie at Frog Spot  I *LOVE* her graphics and borders.  She is very generous with freebies!

5) Jill at Mrs. T's First Grade Class

6) Traci at Dragonflies in First

7) Chrissy at First Grade Found Me

8)  Mrs. Berg at First Grade School Box

9) Deb at Oh My Little Classity Class

10) Eve at Science Notebooking

Let's Go to the Moon!

This week we read the story "Let's Go to the Moon!" which is in our Tx Journeys reading series.  At the end of this week, I had the students list one way the Moon and the Earth were the same and one way they were different.   I gave very little guidance for this, in fact, we didn't discuss it at all, I just handed them the paper, read the questions and they got busy writing.  I figured we have done a bazillion Venn diagrams and comparisons already this year and I wanted to see what THEY knew.  I was pleased with the results.

And yes, I know there is a mistake on the worksheet.   I have fixed it and you can get a mistake free version HERE.

(in this next example, he is referring to what we learned in our story - the astronauts drove a Lunar Rover on the Moon)

(I know I get carried away with samples, but I just LOVE when they start writing like this!)

I purchased these two units from Abby Mullins at her TpT store and we had some serious fun this week learning about astronauts and the moon. 

One of the activities from her unit that we did was to taste astronaut ice cream, then we tried a little regular vanilla ice cream for a comparison.  We made this class graph:

Then there was a recording sheet for the students to fill out and do some analysis.  I  recommend these two units (especially if you are using the Journeys reading series).

You can grab a copy of her units here:

Over the Moon unit

Amazing Astronaut Activities

Liebster Blog Award

I was so suprised when I logged onto my blog this morning and found that I had been nominated for the Liebster Blog award by Johanna Tackitt over at Fanatically First Grade .  What a sweet little suprise to make my day!  Thank you so much Johanna!

The goal of this award is to spotlight up-and-coming blogs with less than 200 followers. 

(That is definately me!)
Kind of awesome!
The rules are:

{1} Copy and paste the award on your blog.

{2} Thank the giver and link back to them.

3} Reveal your top 5 picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.

I would like to share 5 up-and-coming blogs that I follow who have under 200 followers.

Jaymee at Adventures of First Grade  has some cute Christmas Subtraction stories posted on her blog.

Jens OT for Kids  is a blog that has occupational therapy ideas to promote fine motor development in children.  I have used a couple of her ideas that are working for one of my students.

Jill at Mrs. T's First Grade Class has an addition combination activity that I like.

First Grade and Fancy Free  is a blog written by 3 teachers.  I really like the "bathroom pass" idea written by Kasey.  It can be found in the September Blog Archive list.

Little Miss Hypothesis is a kindergarten science blog and since I ♥ all things science,
this is must!

I hope you find some inspiration at one of these blogs.  Happy Blogging!