Fun Friday: Word Of The Day Activities

This is  one of my kiddos writing her April story using words from our Word of  the Day calendar.  We have a word of the day that we write in our Calendar notebooks everyday.  The students write the word and how many syllables the word has.  They use these words to help them in writing, so these words have helped my kiddos with vocabulary development as well as writing. 

Here is another example .

I had to show ya'll how this little guy used "traditions" in his story.  The cool part of that is the word was from our December Word of the Day Calendar.  It just thrills me to see how our kiddos are remembering the words and using them in their writing! :)

This is our May Calendar that is available now with words about Cinco de Mayo, Plants, Mother's Day and Memorial Day.  We have also included a pattern that the kiddos love to figure out.  There is a black and white student copy of the calendar and a list of definitions of the words.  Check it out and see how your students' vocabulary increases and how their writing improves.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Word-of-the-Day-May-Calendar-1217714

These kiddos are studying their April Calendar Words before we play our Brain Bounce Game.

I decided to tape the April Calendar Words all around the classroom and let the kiddos write their answers on the answer sheet.  We also have divided the class into two teams and let them take turns to read and answer the questions on the cards and get points for their teams.  They love to play Brain Bounce!  You could have your students do this one day and check the papers together and play Brain Bounce another day if you wanted.

I loved how some of my kiddos used their calendar notebooks to help them!

These kiddos used their copies of the April calendars to help them.

This is my awesome ELL teacher who was helping one of our ELL students with the words.  The great part of this is when she told me how well he was getting the answers to the questions.  She told me these Word of the Day Products that we use really help ELL students with vocabulary in a fun non-threatening way.  I was very happy to hear that!:)

Here is the May Brain Bounce.  We hope ya'll will check it out.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Word-of-the-Day-May-Brain-Bounce-Game-1218110

We also have this  fun game where your kiddos find word chunks in the Words of the Day.   We just thought "Crumbs" sounded better:) My students love to find their own words or crumbs in the words. 

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Vocabulary-Quality-Quest-Game-May-Word-Crumbs-1220195

These are print and go sheets for your kiddos to practice the Words of the Day by cutting out the words and gluing them in the correct sentence order, writing the sentence, illustrating it and  completing a bonus question.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/May-Word-Activities-1224396

Well we hope that you had fun watching our kiddos do their Word of the Day Activities!

Next week we will be involved in a fun Give Away for Teacher Appreciation! Stay tuned for that!

Monday Mood Lifter #14

Welcome to another Monday teachers!

Help your kids succeed today :)

Fun Friday Activity: Benjamin Franklin

How cool is this!  A few of my kiddos made Benjamin Franklin with pattern blocks.  Do ya'll see the key?  They even included the lightning:)

These are a few of the books we used .  Then my students took their own notes. 

They copied their notes onto kite shape lined paper.

Then they glued it to the back of a kite shaped tagboard.  

The kiddos divided the front of their kites into 4 parts and drew a picture of Ben Franklin's accomplishments in each part.  They added a real key to the string of the kite.

Here are a few samples of our finished kites.

 Lots of good writing!

 I also love their pictures!


We hope you enjoyed our Fun Friday project!

We will be involved in a Blog Hop for Teacher Appreciation on May 5.  Hope you will check that out!

Monday Mood Lifter #13

Happy Monday Teachers!

Thought this would be a fun one for you.  How do y'all deal with tough parents?

BIRTHDAY BUNDLES:  I am celebrating my birthday by putting all our bundles on sale for 50% off just today.  That is including our brand new Plant Bundle with our rocking plant song and coloring book.   Ya'll can check out all of our bundles under "Bundles" under custom categories at our store.   Have a Great Monday!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Sol-Train-Learning

Fun Friday: Great Egg Drop Experiment for Your Kiddos

Happy Fun Friday Teachers!

There's a great science experiment that we would like to share with you.  We tried it with ages 4-7 and they all did a great job!  The objective is to build a container that protects an egg when dropped from a high place.  We discussed how the container has to be hard, but the surrounding material has to be soft.  We talked about how objects in motion stay in motion and the egg would then crash into the container and break.

The kids broke into groups and came up with team names.  One of the teams even added a parachute to theirs!

Here are their finished products.  2 out of 3 kiddos kept their eggs from cracking!  Team Eggies, Eggers, and...Charles :)

Feel free to share your egg drop stories with us.  Our kids really enjoyed it.

GREAT GIVE AWAY!!

We are so excited to be involved in this Great Give Away!  We are giving our 100 page Plant Bundle with our fun Plant song and coloring book away.  Just check the picture with yellow Grade 1.  Then you can enter all the other GIVE AWAYS.  Good Luck

Here is the link.    https://www.facebook.com/firstgradefuntimes1/app_228910107186452

You can get the rest of the Give Away Links Here :  Just look in the comments:


https://www.facebook.com/soltrainlearning





Here is a sample of what you will win with our bundle:)

Here is one of the sheets in our bundle.  You can grab this one for free with 3 others on our Face Book when you enter.  It is under Face Book Fan Freebie.  Enjoy!

https://www.facebook.com/soltrainlearning?ref=hl

Here is another sheet in the bundle.  There is one for all 5 vowels.

Here is a fun color code.  We also have a butterfly one.

This is a page from the Plant Song Book.  I cut it up to make a Big Book since my kiddos love Big Books!   There is also a coloring book like this for your kiddos to color and follow along.  Then we have a sequencing sheet on plants and a fill in the blank sheet where they can use their books to answer.  There is 2 scoot games on missing addends,read around the room cards, word sorts and more:)

Here is where you can see more in the bundle:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Plants-A-Science-Bundle-of-MathELA-and-Music-Activities-1198670

Monday Mood Lifter #12

Good morning teacher friends,

Hope this makes you smile:

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence." -- Helen Keller

How do you maintain hope and confidence when you're having a tough day in the classroom?

FUN FRIDAY Activity- Sunflower/Writing and FREEBIE

We wanted to share a few sheets from our Plant Bundle.  We hope ya'll will leave us some nice comments if ya'll like the sheets.  Remember to check out the full bundle if you want a fun recorded Plant Song and coloring book along with lots of fun things to do, including scoot games and task cards.



http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Plant-Sampler-FREEBIE-1205675

This was the final thing we added to our sunflower.  We added a 3-D butterfly or bee.  You just have your kiddos tape a pipe cleaner on the back of the butterfly or bee and poke it through the paper and tape it on the back.  My students thought this was awesome!:)

Now it was time to write about what we learned.

 We are done! Yay!

 This is a great Big Book on plants.

 These are a couple of more books we read.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Plant-Bundle-1198670

We are celebrating Spring Break so we are offering this 100 page bundle with a recorded song and song book that the kiddos can color and follow along with you for 50% off April 11th and 12th.  This has 2 scoot games, word sorts and read around the room cards with Quentin and fun ELA/Math Print and Go sheets that are great for morning work.

We hope you enjoyed FUN FRIDAY with the finishing touches of our sunflower activity and you will check out our new Plant Bundle of fun activities:)

We will be on Spring Break next week so we will see ya'll for FUN FRIDAY in two weeks.  Happy Easter!