100 Days of Learning... Laughing... and loving!!

One year instead of doing individual 100th day projects... we did group projects at school.

We would NOT want 100 boo-boos... but it sure was fun putting all those band-aids on!!! All kids LOVE band-aids!!

What girl wouldn't want 100 flowers!!!!

It was a lot of fun!! We've also done...

We would not want 100 Chicken pox!!

We would want 100 kisses!!!

Think SNOW!!

Think Snow!!

Jazz up those winter days by reading

Snowmen at Night

and then have students create their very

own snowman!!!

The questions on the glyph are a little different.

We did this one year when we had white Christmas. Students brought in photos of their snowmen they made over the holidays to add to the display!!

They were snow-much fun!!!!

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year!!!

My friend Jennifer Blocker teaches 3rd grade at Union Hill School...

Her 3rd graders did a fabulous job with

their New Year's Project and

setting goals for

a new year!!

They are super cute and fun!!!!

Thanks for sharing your photos Jenn!!!

Penguin Love and FREEBIE

Penguins, penguins everywhere!! I absolutely love these darling little creatures, don't you? I know my first graders do, too. There is so much to learn about them and it's so easy to incorporate all subject areas. Wow at the resources available out there!

I started with an anchor chart called "What Do You Think?"  The kids responded to 3 questions by writing a simple YES or NO: Can penguins fly? Do penguins have feathers? and Do penguins live at the North Pole?
We had a great discussion about how we already had some schema for penguins in our brains but that schema might change as we learned and studied more about them. (Note: Nearly all of the students said the penguins lived at the North Pole!)

Next, I introduced students to the wonderful author, Helen Lester, who wrote the Tacky series. We are going to read lots of fictional books about penguins as well as non-fiction so we can contrast the difference between the two types of books. I found an awesome link of someone reading the first Tacky book online that is perfect for showing on the Smartboard if you have one.






Then of course we created our Glyph Girls' Penguin Glyphs to hurry and get something up on that post holiday empty bulletin board out in the hall. I love these little critters because with the little red hearts on them I can leave them up until after Valentine's Day if I want to! 

Click here to go to our Teachers Pay Teachers store and purchase the Little Penguin Glyph with Writing Options!

Here's a short and sweet freebie for you that I made for my Word Work Station. It's an ABC order worksheet with a Penguin Theme.
Click on the pic to download.
 

We also learned this super fun Jack Hartman penguin song that was perfect for some indoor recess activity. It looks a little cheesy, but I kid tested it and it was a BIG hit! More to come!

 

Pilgrims

      Fun way to display Pilgrims...on the Mayflower!
We charted some ways the Pilgrims used their 7
Habits!!

 

Sparkle!!!!

Stock up on your "Twinkle Flakes" now to add
sparkle to your winter glyphs. It will be sold out by October if you don't!! I stocked up last week... Hobby Lobby has it out.  It makes everything look just a little bit cuter!!

Kings and Queens of the castles

We made a Meet the Royal Family

class book. The students wrote what

they would do if they were the king or queen

of the castle.

I take all their pictures and put them in a

poster frame to make a class composite!

I saw this idea on pinterest and gave

it a try.

We used the sparkle water color. It doesn't

show in the pictures, but it looks cute!!