Faithfully in First - a first grade blog: October 2020

Columbus & Fall Party Craft!

On Monday, I taught the kiddos about Christopher Columbus. On Tuesday, I had a Columbus craft and writing lesson in their center rotations.

We also continued to work on sequencing and prepositions with this Rosie's Walk center. (below)

What a sweet smile, Zaylie! Good job, sorting those prepositions!

These 4 kiddos above are working on Columbus.

These 3 above are also working on Columbus.

All of the above pictures are what our classroom looked like before lunch! Whew! I lost track of time and we didn't have time to clean up before lunch! You can tell we were very busy!

Below, the kids are working on the adorable spider web craft at our fall party.

After we made the spider webs, we lined up and went outside to have our party foods! I forgot to take my phone out to get pictures! Ugh! It would have been difficult to take pictures because it was SO windy and I was holding a trash bag for the kids! After we had all the salty and sweet snacks, I let the kids play on the playground with the other first grade class. They loved having that extra play time! Thanks so much to everyone who helped supply party goodies! I hung up all the spider webs from the ceiling in the classroom. They look adorable. I'll try to remember to take pictures of them for my next post!

Below is pictures of how our Columbus display looked when completed! Adorable!

I hope everyone enjoyed Fall Break as much as I did! I'm also looking forward to the new things we will be learning this next week! BATS!!!!

Rosie & Reading

I like to have the kids partner read from time to time after we read together. It also gives me a chance to call back kids one at a time to work on reading. Anderson and Grace are partner reading from the phonics readers.

Lucy is working on spelling her CVC words at this center.

Below, these 3 boys are enjoying some i-Pad time.

Above, Bowen and Simon are making and writing "silly sentences".

Sierra and Brooks are partner reading.

These little cutie-pie girls are enjoying their time on the i-pads.

Lina, Madison, and James are making silly sentences.

Below, you will see a craft we were working on to help learn prepositions! I read the book and we looked for the prepositions on every page.

Below, you can see a bunch of kiddos doing center work!

Above, I have a table full of kids working on decorating their "Rosie" the hen!

Madi and Bowen are enjoying a fast-finisher.

This group is very intently glued to the ipads.

Lucy and Cooper are putting together CVC word. pumpkins then recording them on the recording sheet.

You're almost finished, Cooper!

Here's another little group decorating their hens.

I wish we had the space to display all of the work they did on these. They turned out adorable! I'm hoping they will remember prepositions after doing this!

Doubles! Doubles! I can add Doubles!

We've been working on our Doubles FACTs for WEEKS! I found this adorable doubles craft and we worked together on making it one afternoon during our math time. It's a "double's monster" and all the parts have something to do with a doubles fact! There were lots of different colors for the kids to choose from.

Here's the Doubles Rap that we practice in class:

It's the Doubles Rap baby!

Let's go! Let's go!

It's the Doubles Rap baby!

And it starts with 0!

0 + 0 = 0 Ohhhhh!

1 + 1 = 2 Ooooooooo!

2 + 2 = 4 More!

3 + 3 = 6 Mix!

4 + 4 = 8 That's great!

5 + 5 = 10 Again!

6 + 6 = 12 That's swell!