Hello everyone!
This week has been one great whirlwind of TPT project-y goodness! 🙂 I tried to take as many pictures as I could…but…it was just CRAAAAZY! :/
I am going to share with you some original ideas I did with my firsties, and then some ideas that I got from TPT. Just a really great week so far! 😉 To kick off our week, we worked on some placemats for the Holiday program on Friday. We created these wintery scenes for our placemats. I had them measure the tree to four inches, the snowman family to 5 inches, 3 inches and then the last one was 2 inches. The sun had to measure at 1 inch. They did a really great job! 😉 I was so super proud! 🙂 Most of the students in my class could already measure, so, we went with this enrichment style project. You could use unifix cubes to measure though, if you were differentiating your instruction. Really for the measurement standard, you could get away with just using a non-standard method of measurement. I graded them with a rubric. I will try to post that here for you as a freebie. 🙂 I left the file at school, so…I’ll have to come back and add that for ya! 🙂 Do you like my little tootsie’s at the bottom of the photo! I just noticed that! *blush* Oh well…we press on! 😉
Next up, we worked on this cute little strand of Christmas lights that my co-teacher found on Pinterest! So…to whomever came up with this idea…we had a total blast! 🙂 It was a glitter-palooza!
Next up, another idea from Pinterest…we gave each student nine strips of green paper. They sorted them shortest to longest and glued them down. I introduced symmetry to them by teaching them how to fold the paper in half to cut a star shape. They came out pretty good, I think. 🙂 Aren’t my boys so sweet looking? Don’t know what’s going on with my middle one…looks like he’s doing a Wilson from Home Improvement impression there…he has such a great smile…I’ll have to get him to show it next time! 🙂
We did a cute Christmas Contractions Craftivity from *Teaching with a Twist*. The kids did a great job! 🙂 It was a wonderful review. So…thanks, Linsay for the cute crafty review!
Your partner in education,
Tamara
