Mini Flashlights

For Christmas, my nephew got these mini flashlights. They have have elastic bands that hold them on your fingers.  My mother in law found them at Dollar General.

When I get my hands on them, I can give you more info about getting them. All I know is that there were 3 in a package for $1.

I plan on getting a class set and using them to shine on word wall words.

New Year's excitement

The new year will be bringing many changes.  I will be taking over a First Grade class.  Expect a ton of photos and new materials.

As part of my new years resolutions, I plan to write a comment on each and every page that I download information from, it is my way of thanking them for sharing their talents with student's around the globe.

I would hope that my followers would do the same.  I plan to map out our comments when we get to the story in our reading series, Me on the Map, so I hope you all will help out. :)

Our story for the week is "Did You See Chip?"

Our word families will be: ip/op/ar.  Check out this fabulous site for an awesome printable.

Our word wall words will be house, did, are, get, had.

We will continue our science unit on solids and liquids.

In math we are starting number scrolls.

In the after school program we are talking about penguins.

Makeover

Well here is makeover number two lol

I like the kids, not the brown! ICK I'd be happy with almost any other color but brown lol.

I still have to figure out how to fix my title though. :( There were words on top of the little girls. whoops

Ugggggggggg!!!!!!!!

 I so dislike when I find good ideas and forget where they came from.  grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!

It all started when I couldn't download a gingerbread unit because the documents wouldn't download- do you think that I could ever find that blog again? Nope!  Guess the world was telling me I have enough GB materials. (which certainly be the case!!!  lol)

I was also looking for a photo and idea for power pellets (skittles)  I found that idea and saved the photo!

Now I saw this fabulous idea about a craft/tools container as a gift from a teacher to her child's teacher. It held office supplies- with the most adorable blue supplies!  I even made a comment.  I was going back to see if there was a reply.

Anyone out there recall the cute idea?  Pretty please leave me a comment!

Thank you for thinking!

ETA: found it @ Growing Kinders. I found it right before my smart followers posted it!  Thank so much!!!!!

Classbooks

I love to make classbooks with my students. I try to make one a week. I offer my students that option during the week.

What does Rudolf Do after Christmas?

Where Does Santa Go After Christmas?


Please leave me a comment if you grabbed a copy of either of the books.  Thanks!

Up up and Away we go

Space! Several teachers from our school were lucky enough to go to Space Camp in Alabama this past summer. We are going to take what they learned and put it into action!

Here is the actual space suit that Mrs R wore when she went to space camp this summer.

 Here is a song we hope to sing daily!

To Infinity and Beyond part three

A song that we sang:

 Neptune facts:

 Awesome planets!

 All of the children did this to conclude our space unit.  I lightly wrote it for the K-1's so they could trace it.  The others had to write it themselves. I had them put stars around Earth.

 Uranus facts:

 We graphed which planet we wanted to visit.