Silence for Sandy Hook

Prayers and thoughts with the love ones. 

No Words

I am truly sadden by this horrific act. My heart and prayers are with the families of all the victims, and survivors as well as the community.

What we been up to!!

This week was a short week with Veteran's Day on Monday. We also had Junior Achievement Day, and Pepsi co came out to teach about recycling. My students loved learning new things, but boy were we busy. We also were busy learning about sneaky e, and my little darlings created sneaky e posters on Friday, which were ruin shortly after, when our CEILING!!!!! came crumbling down just before dismissal. We had a water leak.... no one was hurt, but our super cute sneaky e posters :(. Imagine the chaos in a class of 27 six year olds........Oh yeah, it was everything you could imagine and then some. Here are a few pics of our activities minus our sneaky e posters.  Also here is a pic of my little guy going to his choir performance, let me tell you this boy loves to sing, he was so proud :)

                                                   Jaleel showing off his choir vest!

                                                    Even Steven and Odd Todd visited our class
                                                    My students really get odd and even now!, I hope :)
                                                    We did tons of activities :) forgot to take pics

                                                    Silent E, I got this from  Cara over at
                                                    http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/
                                                    such a fun activity.

                                                   We also did sight word color coding on
                                                   our friend Tom Turkey!!! gobble I just
                                                   wrote our weekly sight words on a turkey
                                                   coloring sheet, and created a color key.
                                                   Check out the pic above, I didn't tell this student
                                                   to color the words, talking about higher order thinking!!!!!!!!!yay

         

                                                   Sight word abc order!!!

Thankful!!!!!

I want to take time out to say that I am soooooo thankful for all the great blogs that help me become better, all my followers. I think were just a special group of teachers. We take extra time out of our day to share and stalk each others blogs for inspiration. It all makes us better, and us getting better directly impact the future. So hats off to all of you..... special shout out to Jennifer from first grade blue skies, Leslie Ann from life in first grade, Mrs. Carrol from First Grade Parade, and Ms. Arnold from Oceans of first grade fun your blogs truly have changed the way I teach, and how I think about what I am teaching. My class is cuter than ever, and my activities are engaging and fun, thanks to all the fab blogs out there.
xoxox
Kim

November Currently

Hi All, Happy Saturday!!!!! I just linked up with Farley Oh, Boy 4th Grade for the November Currently

Fall Break!!!!

I have been on fall break all week, and it was just what I needed. Yep you may think I rested, but nope not me I made flash cards, planned my unit for the next six weeks and I even went to work. I know I should have rested and relaxed, but I have way tooooooo much to do!!!!! Many people don't realize how much work has to be done in the field of education, and in fact don't understand that the primary grades are the foundation for students future success (no pressure), but my class is low this year and I am determine to catch them up! Well I do plan to rest. I am going to send my lesson plans in tomorrow, cut, paste, ect up until about 7:00 a.m. I am then going to take my teachers stuff pack it up and don't touch any of it all weekend (it will be hard, but I promise I won't). here are a few pics from my class, we studied apples, I got the apple idea from Mrs. Carrol at First Grade Paradehttp://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/, luv her ideas. Next week we start are election and bats unit, I'll share those pic's as well.
Have a great weekend!!!!!!

                                     My first Glyph (cheesy), but the students loved it!
                                      I'll keep working on it!

                        My aeiou wanted poster!!!!! those tricky little bandits. My students love finding these bandits when they read.... They won't let them get away with tricking them.

Autumn Leaves

Last week my firsties were very busy learning about Autumn, and leaves. I just love teaching by themes...I must say I have grown from my first yr and first last yr to now. I just love all the great ideas I get from following so many fab teachers. I am so thankful...Although my firsties were CRA-CRAZY today, it seemed like another class. We had a presentation about good touches and bad touches, and it just through our day totally off. Praying for a better day tomorrow! Here are a few pics from last week.
We made fall trees, and wrote our spelling words on the falling leaves. We also wrote facts about leaves. (I forgot to take pics of the anchor chart and writing). I read Leaf Man, and students created their very own. They also completed the prompt "My Leaf Man Flew pass....the places they came up with were cute, Chuckie Cheese was a very common place.