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Counting 10's with Crabs!
We have stared our sea creature unit in math. We are counting crab legs by 10's and next week it will be starfish by 5's!
I Survived Halloween! Did you?
Halloween week is over! The bats, spider webs, ghosts and pumpkins are all put in a bin for next year. I am officially exhausted and I am now reflecting on what went well and what I will do differently next year. I put a lot of emphasis on incorportating more "brain breaks" to support classroom management! I felt that his went well and made the day fun for all! This year, I had tremendous amount of parent support (which is a beautiful thing!) I couldn't believe all the things we accomplished in this hectic and jammed packed week of events! Some of the skills that I managed to squeeze in on Halloween were: graphing, tally marking, fact fluency, story problems, patterning, sorting, vocabulary work, and we even illustrated a self-portrait of ourselves in our costumes and wrote a descriptive writing piece about our costumes. I believe in the power of thematic teaching and by connecting math, reading and writing to Halloween made it not only fun but it was rel...
Pumpkin TIcket Picks!
Happy Trails Teacher Friends, It is a rainy Saturday here and the tinkling of the raindrops on the roof is making me want to curl up with a warm blanket and drink a hot cup of coffee! As we enter the official week of Halloween, I have been planting the seed of how to keep my kids motivated and engaged while also maintaining routines and structure for learning! As we all know, this week can make the kiddos bonkers (and teachers too). So here is a tip that I have been doing every year in October to help keep my kiddos on-task, listening and following to optimize learning! Classroom Management Tip: Pumpkin Ticket Pick! Pumpkin Ticket Picks is an October only theme that I use every year to reinforce the behaviors that I want to see in my classroom. At this time of the year in first grade, we are working on raising our hands and not blurting, self control, whole body listening and eyes on the speaker. I must say it has always worked for me t...