Pride and Primary: holidays

Happy Saturday to all! January has been the fastest month by far! I dont know where all my time went but I am looking forward to the next few weeks. We are having a ball in first grade! Lots of fun stuff and learning going on.

I wanted to share with you a Valentine's activity pack that I use in my classroom. I've created some ELA and math games that will liven up any classroom while reinforcing key skills.

Compound Hearts game

Matching Math Hearts game - helping with the skill of double digit to single digit addition

Word Sort Sounds of –ed

Valentine Rhyming Words game

Valentine Fill in the Blank

Valentine Word Search

Valentine Mystery Picture for 120 chart

Whole group math game idea - now this one is so much fun!! First you have to pull out your trusty old 120 board for the whole group.

Lay it out. Next print out, cut apart, and fold up the problem cards:

I went to the Teacher Best Friend Store (aka Dollar Tree) and grabbed some adorable plastic heart containers.

I stuffed them in the boxes and we played. Children took turns choosing a box and solving the problem. They covered the number on the 120 board with a red lace heart doily, also from the DT!

Voila! We had a heart when we finished! They went back to their desks to complete the mystery picture for extra reinforcement. So much fun! I placed the large activity in a center so they could play by themselves.

To round out the pack, I included some Game Title Cover for Centers

I print out the covers, cut out, and glue onto brown clasp envelopes. Run through the laminator and then you can store the pieces to the games inside. They hold up quite awhile.

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Happy Teaching!

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we read books and did a great activity to reinforce the amazing contributions this man has given to the world.

We started by reading this book.

It's such a great book to introduce MLK to the kiddos because it's simple language, colorful pictures, and kids can relate to the story.

Then we talked about our differences as a class. The kids looked at each other and told one or two things that they liked about their classmate and how the differences made them a great person.

They held out their arms and talked about different colors and how that made everyone special and unique!!

Then we did an activity from First Grade Wow! Great stuff over there!!

I brought in a lot of different apples and talked about how they were different on the outside. Then I cut the apples in half so we could see the insides - there were all the same!