Hippo Craft and Praise Chapel

 I try to have crafty or other fun activities prepared for Fridays that we can do altogether.  It always goes along with something we have been learning about during the week.  This past week, our shared reading book was about a hippo.  The book labeled the hippo, so I thought it would be fun to do a hippo craft and label it!  Here are from pictures from that!

I'll add pictures from how cute they turned out later!  They look adorable hanging in the hall!

Each Wednesday morning, we all go to the auditorium for Praise Chapel.   Mr. Risely comes and leads us in some fun songs.  I love to hear the kids sing!  I thought I'd share a little snippet of two of the songs!

Learning Centers!

I love to teach in small-group settings!  Here you see my leveled reading group reading their story in a whisper phone.  In the background, there are kids at various learning centers.

Below, you see a little group working on spelling words.

The group below is at the technology center practicing reading skills.

This group below is working on sight words by finding them in a picture and coloring them a certain color. 

Beckett is finishing up something here privately.

Below, Scout is reading books using the EPIC reading app. 

This is my second rotation of readers.  We are working on phonemic awareness.  I call out a word with the sound we are working on for the week.  Then I direct them to either erase a first letter or last letter and write a different letter to make a new word.  Then they will read using the whisper phones and we will read aloud and discuss together.  

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This was my sweet dog Gracie this morning!  She gets sad when I'm getting ready for school.  

This is a "Fun Friday" center rotation.  We are working on giraffe facts and a giraffe craft together in our small groups. 

Below, this Fun Friday activity is building our short vowel words for the week using snap cubes.  

This sweet group below is writing their short "a" words on Pete the Cat with a crayon and then painting over the top of it.  

Below, are rare photos of cleaned tables!  I needed to take pictures to display on the Promethean board of the center stations that the kids would go to, so I had to get this done early before the kids arrived!  

Below, is a picture of our morning tubs.  If students are completely finished with all their center activities from the previous day, they get to choose a morning tub to play with while I am working on lunch and attendance in the mornings.  

I hope you enjoyed visiting our little first grade room!  It's constantly a flurry of activities each day.  Just in case you were wondering, I do keep the classroom relatively quiet during centers.  Some students just enjoy wearing the noise blocking headphones to help focus on the task.  
 

First Day Activities

 Show-And-Tell on Thursday

Hallie

Lincoln

 

 Abigail

Austen

Emma

Darci

Jaxson

Oakleigh

Della

Kate

Jett

Lincoln with his "David" craft:

A sweet group working on their "David" craft:

More kiddos working on their "David" craft:

Another group working on their craft:

And last but not least.......

I read the story, David Goes to School, to the kids and then they helped sort out good choices and bad choices on the white board.  Then we learned our classroom rules and made a craft of David!  Below are how their crafts turned out!  It's always fun to hang these in the hallway downstairs for everyone to see!