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The Frog Prince was the perfect

fairy tale for February because we are

doing AMSTI Animals 2 x 2- so we

have tadpoles that we are observing

and writing about!

April Childers (homeroom mother and art teacher)

taught us how to make a painted collage like Eric

Carle does for his books. She did a Santa with us

for Christmas (you can see them on my class web

site) So we took what she taught us and made

a Frog Prince.

Our school is doing a lot with number bonds.

The students were given a number bond and

had to create it using pink and red hearts.

This one is 7 can be 5 and 2.

We did this with our Christmas chains too!!

It is a great concrete visual!

At the end of the hearts they

wrote the number bond and

a number sentence.

I saw this on a data question on

someone's blog! My class LOVED doing this.

The students are anxiously awaiting the tadpoles

 turning into frogs so they can kiss them!!

Oriental trading has the cutest frog

Valentine "stuff"

I am a calander collector!! They make the best

pictures for comprehension!! I got this cool frog calendar on sale :)

I put up the headings first to activate prior knowledge and generate lots and lots of questions!

Then I read one of the pages to them and have a mini comprehension lesson... they have to tell me which heading to put it under! They love this.. they start predicting what the other paragraphs  will say based on the headings!

After all of the information is posted, I have a

comprehension station!! I can have them answer questions

or get responses. The headings will lead them back to the information!!

There is a Dr. Seuss Calendar at Staples!!

We made these stuffed black bears

and attached black bear facts!

They turned out beary cute!

Goldilocks and the Three Bears!!!

I am doing a Fairy Tale -Folk Tale theme this year.

It has been great because we are teaching the 7 Habits and this is so easy to do through the characters! This is a glyph we did. The boys made Baby Bear and the girls made Goldi!

This pattern is coming soon to Glyph Girls!

                                        We are focusing on Win-Win this month... but Goldilocks was not thinking Win-Win... so we had to change her thinking :) She wrote Baby Bear letters saying she was sorry and what she will do next time!!

                       For fluency practice we learned the Baby Bear Rap by Dr. Jean. They are soooo
                 cute rapping this. I didn't let them hear her version until we read and reread it! They
                  thought they did it better than her! I also used Goldilocks and the Three Bears from the
                    I'll Read to You, You'll Read to Me book. The boys read Baby Bear's part and the
                    girls read Goldi's part. It was a lot of fun. To throw some nonficion into the mix, I
                    typed up some facts fromoGail Gibbon's book Grizzly Bears!

This has been a fun way to gather morning data!!

 Nobody went for the Cheerios!! They said that had to be Papa Bear's bowl!

 We have been comparing and contrasting different versions of Goldilocks!! There are soooo many I am afraid I won't get them all in before it is time to move on!! In stations I have them compare and contrast just the covers!!! They are getting really good and finding differnces and finding how they are the same!!

 Breakfast with our bears!! They had a blast wearing their jammies to shool and bringing their bears!
On the menu... porridge of course... bear biscuits (you can get markers in the cake decorating section to make the face).. black berries, blue berries, and honey. They felt like I should have included some fish (gold fish)... next year I will have to remember that.

                                                                 Reading to her bear!!
                                        I love getting ideas from other teachers!! If you have some
                                  ideas I can add to Goldilocks and the Three Bears, I'd love to hear
                                                                        them!!!!!!!!!
                                    

                100th day of school crowns (Thanks Carrie Warden for the idea) fit great
                  with our theme. They did these at home. They had to glue 100 objects onto a crown
                 (Thanks Burger King in Priceville, Alabama for the crowns)! Some of the students
                  painted their crowns first!

http://teacherweb.com/AL/PricevilleElementary/Wynn/apt1.aspx

That is my class website if you are interested!!

The Very Beginning

Ta-daaaaaa!! We finally did it! This is our very first blog entry. We are so excited to enter blogland. There are some splendiferous teachers out there (that's a Fancy Nancy word for wonderful)! We can all sharpen the saw when we share our ideas and creativity. Plus, it's just plain nice to know we're not alone on this journey. Hope we can bring something to the table that will make your day just a little easier and FUN! Kids learn so much more when they are in love with school. Don't you think?!?

It was 1st grade's turn to do the BIG bulletin board in our school's front lobby. Thank goodness for the Love Bugs! They filled that space right up. On Valentine's Day we'll take them down and turn them into a scrapbook. The firsties will glue all their special valentines inside to keep foreveeeerrrrr! We once had a grandmother come in and share her valentines that she had saved from when she was a child. The children were enthralled with them. Click on any of the photos to purchase the patterns for our Love Bug Glyph on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Looking forward to getting to know you all as we share and trade our best teacher secrets in the future!
Angela is working away on some fabulous glyphs for Read Across America Week! Stay tuned!!