Fraction Freebie

We just ended our math unit on fractions and found an activity that's all over Pinterest, Pizza Fractions! Our kiddos had a blast creating their pizzas.  Our kids colored their paper plates brown (crust), added some red (sauce) and some orange and yellow (cheese).  Next they decided if they wanted their pizzas divided into halves or fourths.  Then they chose their toppings.  We had a chart posted (see pic below) of the toppings they could choose from.  We also had scrap paper available for the students to cut out their toppings from.  

Here are a few!

After they created their pizzas, they wrote about their Pizza Fractions and glued their papers on the back of their black construction paper.

If their pizza was divided into fourths, they used the paper that had four fraction/topping lines.  If it was divided into halves, they used the paper that had two fraction/topping lines.

If you'd like a copy of the paper our first graders wrote on, just click the picture below! 

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Rainbow Fun

We've just ended our weather unit and thought we'd share our rainbow activity we did!

We began by reading a few books about rainbows.  

Here's a cute Sid the Science Kid Rainbow Song that helps kids remember the colors of the rainbow and gives a brief explanation on how rainbows are formed.

After reading about rainbows, we had our first graders complete a shared writing with us.  

Next we really wanted our kiddos to understand the sequence of how rainbows are formed.  We divided our kids into groups of three and gave them sentence strips with the words first, next, and finally written on them.  We also gave each group a card with a picture of rain, the sun, and a rainbow.  Each child in the group chose a picture card.  Next, the groups put their words in order and each took a turn telling a part of the sequence.  We had the kids switch picture cards and say the sequence two more times so they each got a turn with all three picture cards.  If you'd like a copy of the sequencing cards just click below!

Rainbow Sequence Cards

 Here's a cute rainbow art project our kids completed after learning about rainbows.  We gave them pre-cut tissue paper squares.  Since our rainbow had six sections we encouraged them to make a tiny row of blue and then a tiny row of indigo in the fifth section (see in the picture on the top right below).  

Just click below if you'd like a copy of the rainbow we used.  We enlarged it to fit a 9x12.

Rainbow Art

We also thought we'd share a fun cloud lesson we recently found!  If you are learning about clouds in your classroom, have a SMART Board, and are familiar with the SMART Exchange website, below is a fun interactive cloud lesson focusing on the three main types of clouds.  Our kids just LOVED the lesson!

SMART Board Cloud lesson from SAMRT Exchange

Wishing you all a FABULOUS rest of the week!

Earth Day Unit Update

We just wanted to let you all know that we've updated our Earth Day Unit!  If you've already purchased this unit, please re-download so you can get our pack with all our new updates!  We've updated the fonts and clipart, and changed the format to many if the activities.  

Here's a peek at some of the changes:

If you'd like to take a peek at our Earth Day Unit, you can check it out {HERE}

We'll be back tomorrow with some rainbow freebies!  

Catchin' up with some freebies!

So who's ready for Spring Break?  We definitely are, and it's starting to finally feel a little like Spring around here!  We're looking forward to some much needed family time.
We've been busy in our neck of the woods and we thought we'd share a few freebies that you might be able to still use, or tuck away for next year.

Even though you're all probably all done with your 100th day celebrations, we thought we'd give you a little freebie that you can tuck away for next year.  Here's a mini 100th day pack:

Our kiddos had so much ful making the poster that's in this pack.  We enlarged it to 8 1/2 x 14 (legal). Here's a picture of an (almost) completed poster:

Download our 100th Day Mini Unit {HERE} in our TpT store!

We just finished our graphing unit in math and created a few extras to go with it.
If you'd like some extra picture and bar graph practice worksheets, you can download them {HERE}

Here's a few Easter themed addition worksheets that you might be able to use next week.

We created the Easter Egg double digit worksheet because we just can't find many worksheets that help  our first graders add double digit numbers without regrouping.  

With the Easter Egg Fact Family worksheet just have your kiddos roll two dice, add the numbers together, and then finish the fact family using the two addends and sum.  We used Dice in Dice, which our kiddos just love!  Here's a little close up of the Easter Egg Fact Family worksheet:

Both worksheets can be downloaded {HERE}

Have a wonderful week!  

Plenty of president fun!

Well, after last week, we're definitely looking forward to this week!  Two sick teachers + sick husbands + sick kiddos doesn't equal fun!  With both households on the mend, we're back and ready to blog!

American presidents has been a main focus in our classrooms this month.  We began this month by introducing George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  We read several books about both presidents, incorporated activities from our FREE President's Day Mini Unit, and each of our first graders made their own George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  

You can read more about this art project {HERE}

This week and next we'll focus on Presidents' Day and other important presidents.  Presidents' Day and Celebrating Presidents' Day (see below) are two WONDERFUL books that introduce the holiday and introduce other important presidents as well.

Our kiddos will also put together our Pocket Guide to Presidents which can also be found in our President's Day Mini Unit .  We like to print this with two pages per sheet, which actually prints four booklet pages on one sheet.  It makes it more "pocket sized" plus we save a little paper too!  

Need help printing more than one page per sheet? If you're using a Mac, just go to layout and select two pages per sheet.

We also love to take our first graders on a little tour of the White House by visiting the White House website and taking an interactive tour! 

The White House Interactive Tour

Finally, one of our favorite ways to end this unit is to have our first graders complete a "When I Become President" writing activity.  This can also be found in our FREE President's Day Mini Unit.  We just love their cute little drawings of themselves as a president!

We'd love to hear how you celebrate Presidents' Day in your classrooms!

Have a fantastic week!

Snowmen and a *FREE* President's Day Mini-Unit!

Happy Monday! Or in our case, we survived our Monday! Man, it was a rough one! Here's to hoping that the week gets a little less chaotic...

The last few weeks we've tried to fit in any snowman activities possible. Our schedules are so tight this year, that we really feel like we don't have time for anything other than what we are being required to do, but we do the best we can. We tried to incorporate some activities from our Snowman Fun unit from our store.  It's a great little unit based on our some our favorite snowman stories. Even when you don't have a lot of time, the activities are easy to do after just reading the book. If you haven't checked it out, you should pop on by and take a look. 

Several weeks ago we had our school's winter carnival, so we had to create our cute little snowman wall for some fun winter decor. These snowmen were sooo easy and the kids just loved them!  We used a little glitter on the hats to brighten them up, and they were just to die for! If you'd like the patterns, click {here}.

We try to get in a least one little craftivity each month, so for January we made these adorable little snow globes. Didn't they turn our cute?

Click {here} for the pattern for the snow globe.

We wrapped up our activities with one of our favorite activities from our unit that goes along with Sneezy the Snowman. After reading the story, and completing a writing activity, we did our ice cream tasting.

 

We started by tasting all four kinds of ice cream. If you plan on doing this activity, you need just 1 carton of each type of ice cream. We actually each buy two different kinds, and share. So we actually only use about half a carton for each class. We just give each child a spoonful, and it works out great!

After the taste test we created our large class graph on the smart board.

  After the class graph, each child made their own graph, and then completed the rest of the graph activities. If you'd like more info about this activity, check out the Snowman Fun unit.

President's Day is coming up, so make sure you check our our *FREE* President's Day Mini-Unit! You can find it at our TpT store.

Hope you stop by again really soon! We have a really fun Rainbow Birthday party to share with you, and some fun space activities. Happy Monday!

Super Bowl Weekend Sale! (and a printable Super Bowl Game)

Make sure to stop by our Teachers Pay Teachers Store and pick up some great treats! Everything is on sale all weekend for 20% off. On Sunday there is an additional 10% off using the promo code: Super.

Here's a fun little game to keep you busy during the super bowl!
Click on the picture to get your copy.

 

Need some fun things for the rest of the winter or spring? Make sure to check out these fun units!

 Planets, Stars and Space... Oh My!

 Valentine Sweethearts

 St Patrick's Pack o' Fun

Earth Day Mini Unit

 First Grade Sub Kit

 First Grade Memory Book

First Grade Common Core Math Assessment

Need some fun things for the rest of the winter or spring? Make sure to check out these fun units! Happy Shopping!