Tens and Ones FUN in Grade 1! :)

Tens and Ones FUN in Grade 1! J

I love watching my students play games and LEARNING at the same time! J Over the last few weeks, we’ve been learning to count numbers using tens and ones.

My wonderful little firsties are catching on pretty quickly, but I wanted to give them even more practice & enrichment so... J

I grabbed my manipulatives and set to work! 

I instructed the students to grab a few tens (no more than 9!) and a few ones (again, no more than 9!) and find the number they pulled! Here are a few pictures!

They had fun playing that one so I thought to myself, "Self, you've got to give them more!" Out of that idea was born:

Click on the picture to be taken to my store to check it out!

I FINALLY got my rear in gear and printed, cut, laminated, and prepped these fun games! My sweethearts played a few games from the pack today and will play a few more on Friday! They really seemed to be engaged in what they were doing! I was pretty proud of myself! :) Check out the adorable pics! Sorry if they aren't great...my photography skills are sometimes hit and miss!

She is playing "Sweet Tens and Ones". She is finding out what number is represented by the chocolate bar tens and chocolate kiss ones!

This group is counting groups of ten to 120 in a game called "Warming Up with Groups of Ten"

I'm excited for them to try the other games from the pack on Friday!

In Other News... :)

During Science lessons this week, we have been learning about Polar animals: specifically polar bears and penguins.

I read Powerful Polar Bears  and Cool Penguins with the students. They really enjoyed reading those books! To check their learning, we started filling out a "can have are" chart (a.k.a. A Tree Chart) today. 

I made it using Ashley Hughes' polar bear clipart, which can be found here. 

Click on the picture to download on Google Docs! Keep in mind that I'm a NOVICE blogger and my Google Docs don't always connect properly! If you try to download the file and cannot, leave a comment on this blog post with your email and I will send it to you! :)

Hope everyone had a GREAT Wednesday! Two more days until my long weekend starts! Woo hoo!

Mary

Bat and Owl Fun!

Bat and Owl FUN!

We had a three day week with the kids this week. I did a quick focus on 2 nocturnal animals: owls and bats.  My students really liked the activities!

I used DeAnna Jump's Owl Glyph to teach collecting and displaying data. They really enjoyed making their owls and comparing the data results! :) 

I also used A Cupcake for the Teacher's Going Batty Craftivity to review diagrams and non fiction text features. Once I get them up on the wall, I'll get pictures up! I didn't use the craftivity exactly the way it was intended but they really turned out great!

Thanks to both teachers for the wonderful freebies! My students LOVED creating them! 

Finally, I made a few "Can-Have-Are" graphic organizers to use to encourage my students to write! We read books about bats and owls and filled out the "can-have-are" charts afterwards. The next day, I modeled how to use the charts to write sentences/mini reports about bats & owls! My kids really loved doing this! Here are a few pictures of the students using their charts to write sentences! 

So proud of my kids!!

Her desk may be cluttered, but she is busy at work! :)

He is matching his printing to the font on the chart...he's just great! :)

This little sweetie is hard at work writing sentences using her "Can Have Are" chart! :)



This was a surprisingly easy & fun activity for my kids. I emphasized that this is the kind of things that older boys and girls do so they were pretty pumped to complete this activity! I am thinking I will do this again...how great is this for teaching note taking and "report" writing?!

You can download the charts free from my TpT Store. Click here be taken to my store to download the charts! Enjoy them! If you like them, please consider rating them!!!