New Book Find

 I wanted to share a book that I just received from Amazon. I love books that not only have great information but also color photographs. I love being able to actually "see" ideas.

Celebrate!

It's always good to celebrate "great days" with those cute kids! It is really helpful for those that are needing to work especially hard to learn rules and procedures. . .they need the reinforcement even more

Click here to download reward tickets

Happiness is . . .

As children born in the 1960's, my brother and I grew up witha series of Peanuts books that included, "Happiness Is a Warm Puppy". That phrase still comes to to my mind as an adult when something just "catches my heart". Two of mine:

Happiness is . . . when my son comes home from college for the weekend.
Happiness is . . . walking into my house and experiencing that "ahhh, I love my home" feeling.

I thought it would be fun to find out what makes our students happy as individuals. Do we know? I don't but  I should.  Also, WhAt makes YoU happy? Let us know!

Click here to download "Happiness Is. . ."

Nouns and Verbs

HaPpY ThUrSdAy!!

As Becca mentioned in an earlier post, we use the book, Month by Month Trait Based Writing Instruction by Walther and Phillips.  It has a lot of great ideas and recommended read alouds. One activity is about Nouns and Verbs and helps the kids to learn the difference between a noun and a verb and involves matching the noun and verb that makes sense. I wanted it to be fun and inviting and something that the kids could match up on the floor or in a pocket chart.

Click here to download Nouns and Verbs Match Up

Parent Fun!

What is something that parents love about my classroom blog? What is something that ALL parents love? Seeing photos of their children at school! We had a field trip today and this afternoon I put something together. . .  I used the My Memories Suite Digital Software and it was so quick and easy to work with! GREAT news, in about a week we will be having a GIVEAWAY on this blog, of the same software, which is a $40.00 VaLuE!
CLICK HERE for a PeEk!

First Grade banner!!

So I was blog hopping a couple of weeks ago and found myself looking at one of my favorite blog The First Grade Parade. She had a link to Schoolgirl Style which had these adorable banners. So I decided to make one for my classroom. I used Photoshop to make my banner and it only took me about thirty minutes. I decided to make a really simple one. Here is a picture of the banner hanging in my classroom.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD BANNER

Monday?

Wow! I can't believe it is Monday tomorrow-AlReaDy! The weekend sure went by fast. (Hmmm, that always seems to happen) Hope yours was great! Just for fun, here is a practice page for writing numbers from 1 to 50. Oh, and if you've enjoyed any of the stuff I've put on Teachers Notebook, please consider leaving a rating. Thanks a bunch! (sorry that black line is showing in the picture, it won't be on the download)

Click here to download Writing to 50. 

Grandma and Grandpa went Trick or Treating too!

Isn't it funny how children think grown ups were never children themselves? They find it hard to believe and yet love to hear about what parents, teachers or grandparents did when they were young. Here is a little activity that the kids can do with either or both grandparents!

Click here to download from Teachers Notebook!

Digital Fun

 I have been trying out the My Memories Suite Scrapbooking Software. I'm having lots of fun trying out  a variety of things. I have a blog called Focus Forward where I post layouts and quick pages that I have done. I have made a few since yesterday with My Memories. I am posting a little note that I made for my first graders and put on my classroom blog, Funtastic in First . . .

Pumpkin Seeds!

Click here for printable.

373 of them to be exact! Today we counted our pumpkin seeds from the pumpkin we cleaned out yesterday. We made a poster out of orange bulletin board paper and grouped the seeds by 10's and 1's. We put the seeds into tiny baggies. This is what it looks like: ( I am also including the link to the printable for the title and numbers.)