Snowman Fun

I decided to update my Snowman Fun packet.  I went back and added many new activities to it. 
I look back on some of the stuff I did when I first started blogging and selling items on TpT and realize what a rookie I was.  So now that I am a little more experienced, I hope to update a few of my older units.  I started with this snowman pack.

If you have already purchased it, don't worry.  You can go back and download it again to get all the new stuff.

In this packet you will find all of these activities:

Literacy Activities:

Synonym Match Up Center Activity

Contraction Match Up Center Activity

ABC order Center Activity

Snowman Glyph

Snowman venn Diagram

Independent Contraction Activity

Long o (spelled ow) Activities:

1.  Read words with ow

2.  (2)  Roll and Graph ow words

3.  Building & Writing ow words

4.  OW word sort

Math Activities:

Use snowman Counters to make parts of 7, 8, 9 and 10

Find the missing subtrahend when subtracting from 7, 8, 9 and 10

Spin a Snowman Hat Center (Graph, tally, add)

Even and Odd Snowmen Center

Missing part of 10/Fact Family Center

Science Activities:

Ice Melting Investigation

Freezing Ice Investigation

 

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Happy New Year!

 

 

I'm ♥ing it!

Here are a few things I am loving this week.

I found some " Part Part Whole" worksheets on Mrs. T's First Grade Class blog.  She has some good math ideas and her blog is really worth checking out! 

We have been learning part, part, whole for several weeks.  I really like the format of these worksheets.  In the examples below, you can see that the one of my students does the thinking in her head, while the second one wrote the addition/subtraction sentence and the third child wrrote the addition/subtraction sentence AND drew circles to act out the problem. 

You can get the worksheets at Mrs. T's blog mentioned above.

Here is an activity where students found parts of 9 using beads.

Students put 9 beads on a pipe cleaner and separated the beads into parts of 9.

And because this little snowman art project turned out so cute, I had to share.  I did not come up with this idea. I got it from

 Mrs. T's First Grade Class.

 

Snowman Packet and Fine Motor Skill Phonics Activity

I can't believe it is already time to start switching my brain from thinking "vacation" to thinking "school".  I have been staying up late and sleeping in.  Now, I'll have to adjust back to going to bed early an getting up early. *sigh* 

I finally completed my snowman packet :

I have a freebie from this packet mentioned further down in this post and you can check the whole packet out in my TpT store by clicking on the link below:

Snowman Hodgepodge of Math/Science/Literacy Activities

I have been trying to come up with some activities for a few of my students who need more fine motor practice.  I have been researching this topic a little since I seem to be having more and more kiddos who do not have age appropriate fine motor development.   One theory suggests that babies are not getting enough "tummy time" due to the fear of SIDS.  Whatever the reason, it is something I need to address in my classroom.

Since I will be doing my snowman unit when we go back on Monday, I decided to focus this little activity with digraph ow (long o sound). 

Students will use tweezers to pick up foam pieces with blends on them and place them on the magnet beside digraph ow.  They will then blend and read the word and then record it on their recording sheet.

If you want to make something similiar to this, then you will need these items:

permanent marker, wide popsicle sticks, magnetic tape strips, and foam sheets

     

FYI: all these items can be purchased at Wal-Mart (the foam sheets are sold at the Dollar Tree also)

You can grab a copy of the recording sheet HERE

If you do use this idea and blog about it, I ask that you link back to this website.

Happy Teaching!

Snowman Venn Diagram Freebie

Here is another Venn Diagram Freebie!  This time students will sort the snowmen that have hats, scarves, or hats and scarves. 

You can get a copy below.

Snowman Venn Diagram

I just posted my new sorting by attributes unit, 

"Snowman Thinking Activities",  in my TPT store.

You can get it for $2.00. Just click on the title of the unit above and it will take you there.