Motivational Monday Vol. 9

This week our first graders are heading to the zoo for a field trip. We have created a zoo book for our students to write in before the zoo and after. Click HERE to get your copy. The first two pages can be copied back to back and pages 3 and 4 can also be copied back to back. After you have made your copies, simply place one page on top of the other, fold, and you’ve got a book ready to be stapled or you can just leave it folded. We haven’t been able to copy ours yet, but we will tomorrow. If we find glitches, we will be sure to let you know and make changes to the book if needed :) Are you planning a zoo trip too? Our, It's a Zoo Day! (math and literacy games) would be perfect to have your kids play. They can be found in our TpT store.

Summer break is just around the corner for us and we are going to spend most of the summer enjoying our time with our kids and family, but we will be sure to share our units and activities that are currently in the works! Stay tuned throughout the summer for lots of ideas, units, and lessons that we will be creating for the upcoming school year!

Motivational Monday Vol. 8

Happy Monday! Sorry it's so late tonight, but I had to watch Dancing With the Stars! I'm still trying to figure out how to become a star, just so I can go on that show! Who do you think is going to win? I'm up in the air still...

So, we've just finished another game unit for our TPT store. We don't know about ya'll but we are loving games lately to really keep the kiddos reviewing what we've learned this year. And who can't get enough ways to practice addition and subtraction? This Summer Fun Activity Pack includes 4 game boards that you can use interchangeably with any of our activity cards. Cards focus on addition, subtraction, first and second grade sight word, and include phrase cards as well. We use these both for fluency practice, and for sentence builders. And as usual, we've included activity card masters for you to create your own. This is a great activity pack for centers, or to send home for summer practice. Here's a preview of what you'll get:

So head on over to our teachers pay teachers store and check it out!

To begin my summer vacation I'm taking my own babies to spend three weeks at my parents house. If you are the first person to guess which state they live in, you'll get your own free copy of our Summer Fun Activity Pack. Good luck!

First Grade Awards/Certificates

In few weeks we will be giving our first graders certificates congratulating them on all of their hard work in first grade. We have made several award templates and want to share them with you all! One template is simple without decorations and could be printed on decorative stationary. Click HERE to get your copies. If there are any second grade teachers who would like these click HERE and kindergarten teachers can go HERE.

Have a great weekend!

Motivational Monday Vol. 8

Well we have 3 more Mondays left with our kiddos and we have so much to do! Along with all of our end of the year classroom and school wide activities, we are beginning our reading assessments this week. Math and writing are soon to follow. We are so proud of our first graders and all that they have accomplished this year! To celebrate our first graders accomplishments we will be passing out awards and goodies near the last day of school. Above are treat/goodie toppers we plan on using. We thought you might enjoy these too and we wanted to share them with you! These could be attached to erasers, pencils, fruit snacks, pretzel bags, etc...

Click HERE and get your toppers!

Enjoy & Happy Monday!

It's a Zoo Day!

Anyone going to the zoo anytime soon? We are going in the next few weeks, and let me tell ya, the kiddos are EXCITED! We don't have too much time left to do an entire zoo unit, so instead we came up with some fun zoo-themed math and literacy games. "It's a Zoo Day!" has great activities to reinforce addition and subtraction, fractions, place value, and even first grade sight words. These are great to use by themselves, or to compliment any zoo or animal unit. Please head on over to our Teachers Pay Teachers store and check it out! Here's a sneak peak...




Here's a freebie to go along with these games, or to use on your own! Click on the picture for your own copy.


The first one to comment with the correct date of our zoo field trip gets a free copy! Hope you all had a great weekend! Click on the picture below to see our Zoo Day packet!



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Shapes, Shapes, & More Shapes

Hi all! We are sharing the love some more with another freebie. Last week and this week we have been reviewing shapes and their characteristics. We began the week by reviewing our shape characteristic charts and doing a lot of shape review activities. We ended the week with looking at figures made out of several shapes. See below for an example. We used large die cut shapes and created figures which were projected from our document cameras for our students to view. Our students then told us what shapes were used in our designs. Here is an example of some of the figures we made:

Here is a worksheet to go along with the activity mentioned above. Click HERE and copy the two pages back to back:

And now for another freebie :) After introducing 3D shapes this week and comparing them with other 3D and 2D shapes, we are going to have have our first graders play a shape match game. This game could be played several ways:

1. Match same 2D to 2D shape

(students need to say the shape name in order to keep the cards)

2. Match two shapes with similar characteristics. For example if a student flips over a square and a rectangle they might say, "They both have 4 sides." or "They both have four corners." If the student's characteristics are correct, they have a match and can keep the cards.

3. Match a 2D shape to a similar 3D shape and explain why they are similar. For example, a student might flip over a sphere and a circle and they could state, "These two shapes are round."

*The student with the most cards at the end of the game

(or when there aren't any more matches left) is the winner.

Click HERE for a copy of the game cards!

And the winner is...

Thanks for entering our Memory Book give away! We've had a few people ask for the memory book for different grades, so we decided to make a kindergarten and 2nd grade version. Make sure to visit our Teachers Pay Teachers store to check them out!

Back to our give away......
Congratulations Jenn! Send us an email at firstgradefanatics@gmail.com and we'll send you your memory book! Thanks for visiting our blog!

And don't forget, all of our Memory Books are on sale 20% off through tomorrow!

PS: The winning comment was from the 2nd post about the give away (which we did due to Blogger being down) but comments from both posts were entered. We wanted to make sure you all knew everyone who commented had a chance to win! :)