Seasons

BRRR!  It's cold here in my little Texas town.  18 to be exact.    We had to call parents Thursday because we let out early due to the weather and no school on Friday.  I am starting to get a little stir crazy staying inside. 

This past week, we worked on the story "Seasons." 
Brainpop Jr. has a video for each season, so we watched the "Spring" video and then filled in the spring section of our anchor chart that is shown below.   The students then wrote a 5 sentences about spring.  (My bad- I didn't get a picture of the writing.)

If your school doesn't have a subscription to brainpop jr., I highly recommend it!  It has more than science on the website.  Well worth the money!

 

We then continued with each season - watching the video, filling in the anchor chart and writing about the season.

On Friday, we were going to write our cinquain poems about one of the seasons, but will have to put it off until Monday since we didn't have school.  Here is the link to last years poems if you want to check them out.

Cinquain Poems

 

Hope everyone is staying warm!!!!

TpT Cyber Monday {and Tuesday} Sale!

I just finished putting together a center pack with a gingerbread theme that will get me through 2 weeks of centers. 

Teachers Pay Teacher's is having their Cyber Monday and Tuesday Sale!  The Sweet Gingerbread pack above will be on sale through Tuesday.  Get up to 28% off by using the code:CYBER

 

Happy Shopping!

 

 

 

 

Take Me Back Tuesday

Since I haven't had many "blogworthy" moments lately, I decided to link up with Hope King at Second Grade Shenanigans and let's face it y'all, I am EXHAUSTED!!  This girl is seriously ready for Thanksgiving break.  It can't get here fast enough!!!!

 

***This post was originally posted on Monday November 7, 2011***

 

 

NATIVE AMERICAN HOMES

 

 

Are you familiar with these books?

I love to use some of these drawing lessons with

themes we are studying. 

I used the "Draw Write Now Book 3" to incorporate lessons

 on Native American Homes.

 

We have been learning about the different types of homes that Native Americans lived in, focusing on those that lived in North America.  (Most of my first graders thought Native Americans only lived in tepees because that is what they are familiar with.)

We learned that Plains Indians lived in tepees.

 Indians of the Northwest Coast lived in plank houses.

 Indians of the Southwest lived in adobe houses.

 

Woodland Indians lived in longhouses.

By the way, there is a great video on United Streaming that actually takes you on a tour inside a longhouse.

And Indians of the Southeast lived in wigwams.

(And even though this picture was saved on my computer in the upright position, every time I uploaded it to my blog, it turned it sideways.  Sorry - don't know what I'm doing wrong.  The others worked just fine. GRRRRR)

 

 

Candy Corn Missing Part/Fact Families and No Halloween Homework

The activity below is similar to the spider math activity that we did last week.  This time we are using candy corn as our manipulatives to figure out the missing part.  YUMMY!  After students figure out the missing part, they will write the fact families that go with their model.  Click on the picture below if you would like a copy!  (Cute candy corn clip art is from My Cute Graphics)

If you aren't sending homework on Trick or Treat night, then you might want to grab my "No Halloween Homework" poem.  Click on the picture to grab a copy.

 

Hope everyone survives Halloween week!  I'm already exhausted and its only Monday!