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Wow!! The Journeys Interactive Notebook for first grade has been unbelievably popular!!! Not only on my TpT store but also in my classroom! We have been working hard on creating our notebooks. The students are doing wonderful. I wanted to share a bit how I do them in the classroom. I mostly use the activities as an exit ticket after teaching the mini lesson, before the students move into Daily 5. I've also added an extra center to the Daily 5 as the Interactive Notebook Center. This is used as an early finisher activity - for when they finish their work. We are currently finishing up Lesson 10 in Unit 2 and planning on doing a review week next week along with From Seed to Pumpkin! I've been super busy at school so I've not been able to work as much on the INBs for Unit 3 as I would have liked but they are on their way! So that being said, here is Lesson 11 for Unit 3!! So many fun activities to work on!  Lesson 11 focuses on:  High frequency words (8 this unit) Digraph th a...

Geometry is fun!!! We've go so many good activities that go along with learning about shapes! Normally we wait until the spring to teach about geometry, but our new math series has it as Chapter 5. No worries! We just go with the flow - next yeaar we are designing our own Math curriculum, so stay tuned!!! I found this {{totes adorbs activity}} from Around the Kampfire and totally immediately purchased it from TpT. It was amazingly easy to teach and the kids loved it. Here are our finished projects: Just in time for our Magnet Open House tours. How do you feel about Geometry? Anything special you teach? Thanks!

I am so excited to share this one with you!!! My kiddos love when I pull out the 120 board because they know that we are about to get up and moving and having fun, all while learning!! Recently, I found some adorable fall leaves and miniature fall squash at the Dollar Tree. I immediately started thinking about what we could do with these things. I already created and posted my Spin and Subtract game  that you can grab for FREE for a limited time and the kids loved it!!  Now, I've come up with some different activities to do wiht my giant 120 board.  I bought a Dollar Tree white shower curtain and cut it in half and divided it up into 12 rows of ten. I wrote the numbers 1-120 in black sharpie marker. I first used it last year during Easter time with some wind up chicks  and we did Greater Than and Less Than.   SEE: But now that it's Fall and I found all that cute stuff at Dollar Tree, I've created a new packet:  With lots of ready made ideas for you to ...

How's y'alls Fall coming around?? Ours is quite slow if I do say so myself. High temperatures are still keeping in check but the pumpkin flavored everything is everywhere!! I just wanted to share with you a quick little math game we played this week - Fall themed of course!! Spin and Subtract!! The kids loved it!! We used our giant tens frame board (made from a Dollar Tree shower curtain and some duct tape) and some large construction paper leaves to make some subtraction problems.  First, we spin a spinner two times to get two numbers.  Then we model the greatest number on the board We subtract the smaller number and write a number sentence. Take away the eaves and we have our answer!! Everyone kept track of their number sentences on our white boards.  I also found some fake leaves at the Dollar Tree and placed them in a center with a spinner and a smaller tens frame board. Made a little recording page as well for accountability. I love seeing the kiddos up and moving an...

I just love freebies!!!!!!!! And spelling practice!! I love coming up with new ways to practice working with our building words.  And here's my newest freebie:  I have drawers for all my Building Words supplies. I print out these posters and laminate them. Then I print out the recording pages I use and make class copies. I put the pages along with the original in a large brown envelope with the Center Poster. Students can then take the envelope and supplies with them to an appropriate work space.  The posters are as follows:  Magnetic Letters - 2 recording pages Computer Wikki Stix White Board -  Playdough - 4 recording pages, also included is editable PowerPoint file to create workmats Rainbow Write - 4 recording pages Word Wall - 1 recording page ABC Order - 2 recording pages Markerpalooza - 2 recording pages Parents - this is a great way to reinforce what we are doing in school, at home!  I hope you can use and enjoy this little freebie for a limited tim...

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Hello all!! I know it has been an unbelievable amount of time since my last post and I have an excellent excuse: I hurt my neck. :( I don't know how or when but about two weeks ago it just started hurting like crazy. I've been to the doctor twice and I am now on a strict regimen of doing nothing - I'm not supposed to walk or drive or go to work but I'm supposed to rest, to medicate, and to not be on the computer (oops) or text, email, browse, play games on the phone (yeah, oops for that too!) either. And I've done really well the past two weeks!!! But I'm going a little crazy with cabin fever. Anyway, my newest round of medicine and home therapy should have me all healthy and healed by Monday, fingers crossed! I wanted to share a simple activity that we did last year to finish off our Me on the Map unit!! We are currently planning it right now. It's our Map Walk Treasure Hunt! At the end of the unit, we get together with the mus...