Thinking about Pumpkins . . .Book, Glyph Freebie

Hey everyone! Happy Tuesday. Are you going to watch "The Voice" tonight? I am waiting for it to come on.

Guess What? I have been thinking about Pumpkins! I mentioned earlier that I love all things FALL. :)
I made a very simple pumpkin glyph that I am sharing tonight.  .  .pictures and download links for patterns etc. below . . .Do you have a favorite book about pumpkins? Let me know if you do! I really like this one . . .

Click here to download and print glyph instructions
Click here to download and print patterns

Have a great day tomorrow!

What Do I Do When I Finish a Piece of Writing . . .

Hi everyone. I hope you had a good Monday. We were supposed to have rain here today and so far it hasn't happened. I think the unstable weather is contributing to my SiNuS hEaDaChE!

We are on our 17th day of school today and are getting our routines down. We are also building our stamina in Read to Self and Work on Writing. I made this poster today to assist in our writing routines and thought I would make it in a few extra colors and share. . .

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Have a restful evening!

Share a Recipe Linky Party!

Hey everyone! I have a recipe I want to share with you. It is from "The Pioneer Woman", and it is yummy!   We have made it a couple of times. It is called Italian Meatball Soup . . .Here is a picture  . . .

Here is a link to the recipe on "The Pioneer Woman's" blog

So . . .I thought it would be lots of fun to have a Recipe Linky Party!

 Here's what to do . . .

1. Decide on a favorite recipe. You can either share the recipe or a link to the recipe if it is available online.
2. Link up below.
3. Spread the word.
4. One lucky participant will win a $10 Amazon gift card at the end of the party, to be chosen by Random Number Generator.

Have fun and let's gather a lot of recipes!

Farm Community Characteristics Study

Farm Communities . . .

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Progressive Wall . . .City Art Project

Hi everyone! We have had so much fun this week learning about different types of communities and neighborhoods. As I posted last week, we made a cute neighborhood out of paper sacks. Well, yesterday we made a city by making skyscrapers out of construction paper. This is working nicely for our display and our discussion of "city" and "suburb". Here is a picture of our progressive wall . . .

Suburb Characteristics Study

Suburbs . . .

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City Characteristics Study

Here is another book in this series we have been reading . . .

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I forgot to mention that these books have great photos and are great for introducing non-fiction text features.
This is to go with it . . .

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Walking Field Trip-Neighborhoods

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a great Tuesday. We had a fun day today. All of the first graders went on a walking field trip around our school neighborhood. Camille took photos with her iPhone ahead of time, and then we made a scavenger hunt with photos of establishments in the area. Here are a few fun pics I took on our way . . and a copy of our scavenger hunt paper because I don't think I explained it very well.

Small Town Characteristics Study

Happy Labor Day! Hope you have had a great day. Who starts school tomorrow? We started on August 16th, but I think there are still some places where school starts after Labor Day . . .I mentioned last week that we have been learning about different types of communities and neighborhoods. We will be reading this book this week . . .

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 I made this to go with it, and will be sharing more this week to go with other books in this series . . .

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Fall Craft Ideas

Something about September rolling around makes me start anticipating the crisp, cool  feeling of Fall. It also makes me start thinking about pumpkins, apples and such. I just love it! I found a couple of fun craft ideas on  All Kids Network. I think they would be fun to do in class. Here are some pictures and links to instructions. . .

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Happy Labor Day Weekend!