The Three Million Strong TPT Sale!!

3 Million----WOW!! Teachers Pay Teachers has made my instruction so much more exciting! Thank you to all the ladies and gentlemen for creating and designing hands on materials!! In honor of this great achievement, Teachers Pay Teachers is having a sale----can I get a WOOT WOOT!! Please check out my store and all the TPT sellers' stores by clicking on the link below:)

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data notebooks

I am soooooo glad I finally decided to do data notebooks! They have made life very easy when it comes to keeping track of my firsties progress....or in a few cases....no progress. In those few cases (3 to be exact) I can then create a small reading group for those children and voilà...problem solved. I created my own data notebooks to use for my students and my team of teachers. You can find these at my teacher pay teachers store by clicking the tpt button :) Here's a few pics.

first we read a story. It might be from our reading series and/or a story of the week.

This week we used Go To Sleep Groundhog! I chose a response sheet that targeted the skills we are learning. These response sheets are super duper because they each (over 70) have the Common Core stander at the bottom for you to seeand record into their data notebooks. Plus it shows parents what their child is learning....love it!

Next...if they have mastered the skill I record it in their data notebook....or just highlight the standard...easy peasy!

for each standard they master, my students earn a colorful card on a ring. This way my students and their parents see the progress they are making. Yay!

please see my earlier post from June on how I put my notebooks together. It is aaesome fun to do! I love Michael's craft store so I went crazy putting mine together.

Thanks for visiting!

Groundhogs and puppies

Happy Groundhogs Day! My firsties are having a great time learning all about groundhogs and wood chucks. First we started our unit off with the cute book...Go To Sleep Groundhog! By Judy Cox. Since the Groundhog already came out of his burrow, we predicted if this groundhog would see his shadow or not. I read the story up to the point where he finally came out. They loved it!

Then we went to our workstations

For the rest of the week we will read other groundhog stories....

Here's some pics from my Puppy Time Pals Common CoreLiteracy Stations.

We read the story Fancy Nancy Puppy Party. It is amazing how engaged they were over these puppy dogs. We did puppy compounds and y sounds like e. Fun~fun~fun! Thanks for stopping by!

100th day and other winter activities

We are off to another busy week here in first grade.we are past 100 days and on our way to 2nd grade! I am so proud of all my firsties! They work so hard everyday! Our Fancy Nancy story this week is Fancy Nancy Puppy Party. So....I created a puppy packet to go along with our skills we are working on this week...long and short vowel sounds, compound words, and paw print read the room sight words. Check out some of the pics...

I will have this available on Teachers Pay Teachers in the next day or two. Here's some pics of my son's 100th day activity...they are having a fashion show of 100 things glued to a shirt or hat. We chose 100 googly eyes...25 of each size.

we had a lot of fun! have a great evening everyone!

100th Day Celebration!

Hey everyone! What a great week celebrating the 100th day! First we read Fancy Nancy the 100th Day of School. we learned 8 new vocab words from our story and used them all week. My students love this. They played thier vocab game at the workstation and wrote poems at our writing workstation. I like to use the term workstation instead of centers because it let's us know we are working and not playing...even though we are having so much fun :) I have made many Fancy Nancy packets, we do one each week. I have five stations for the week. Fancy Nancy, Writing, Word Work, Listening, and Read to Self from tne Daily Five. Oops....I got way off topic....100th day....After reading and discussing other books about the 100th day, we work on our 100th Day Booklet I created and my other pages....take a look-see:

Fancy Nancy

 Hey everyone! Well it was an exhausting week, but aproductive one. We had a fab time learning our robust vocabulary from our fav story character.... Fancy Nancy! I read the story Fancy Nancy There's No Day Like a Snow Day on Monday. We learned 7 new vocab words from the story and completed workstations I created throughout the week. Here are some pics...

I went to the DollarStore....like every week....lol. I thought these baskets would go good with my winter wonderland theme. I organize my workstations in each....

this is Fancy Nancy workstation. I put the vocab cards in a smaller basket and the definitions in another.

Viola...

and here are the writing and word work stations. These r all on my tpt site along with some freebies just for you! How do you organize your stations? And do you use Fancy Nancy books in your classroom? Thanks for stopping by! Have a great night!