Turkey Skip Counting...

Here is a really cute skip counting page for first grade.

This is higher level thinking, because the kids have to skip count backwards.

Guess what... they can do it!!

Grab a copy at our Teacher Pay Teacher store.

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turkey letter find...

Kindergarten is so fun!  

It makes it all worth while when they discover that 

letters make sounds and these sounds put together... make words!!  

We have the best conversations with our kiddos!

One of Mrs. Smith's cuties proclaimed, 

"Hey!!!  I just noticed something!

All you have to do is say all those sounds 

the letters make and you can read!

WOW!!"

Here is one of the new letter find activities for Kindergarten we came up with.

click here for Turkey Letter find

small group math...

We have had many ask us how to download this document. 
After trying forever to upload a pdf... apparently you can't on blogger, this is the next best thing.  Hope this organizer helps you with your guided math.  

We have also found it a great way to document RTI!! 

small group math planner
Click on above link to download this document.
You can download it free from our Teacher pay Teachers store.
click here to download free from TpT

story character day...

Instead of a Halloween costume day, 

we did a school wide "good" character from a book day!

It was so much fun.  Teachers and teams definitely got involved! 

Check us out!!

Mrs. Vaughn's 1st grade mob!

Mrs. Smith's kinder creatures!

Ms. Benesch's 1st grade gang!!

We had LOTS of fun storybook characters.

The Lonely Scarecrow

a peacock

Jack and the Beanstalk

Fancy Nancy

Peter Pan

Toy Story

a pirate

The Grouchy Ladybug

a cat

Goldilicious

The staff really gets into this as well!!

First grade team, Eric Carle characters

Pirate from the Specials Team of Music, Art and PE!

Where the Wild Things Are is definitely our office and administration staff

3rd grade team

and the winners...

2nd grade as The Hunger Games!!

Let's just say, we do love our school!!

JAV ROCKS!!

daily 5...

We do daily 5 as a way to organize our language arts/ reading block.  

We have these kiddos in kindergarten, so by the time we get to first grade when we loop with them, it is a breeze.  

We can actually begin our daily 5 routine just about as school begins.  

It is unbelievable how well they do with the structure of the daily 5 layout.  

One of the components of daily 5 is working on words.  We have adapted that to fit our needs and it is very beneficial to really learning what words are!!

our funky pumpkins...

We love fall!  

We love fall weather.

We love fall books!

We love fall crafts!!

Check out our pumpkins!

We read some great books about pumpkins...

a book about a lonely scarecrow...

books about "some lady" who swallowed some leave and a bat...

imagine that!!

We also read about The Leaf man.

We each made our own leaf man.

We wrote some great stories about where our leaf man would go if he could tell us about it.

Well, a leaf man's got to go where the wind blows.

fair day...

It was the Texas State Fair week and we decided to celebrate state fairs in first grade.  We gave tickets all week for good behavior, special work and being a good citizen at JAV!  They were the best behaved kiddos EVER!!!  
We read some great books about state fairs and one was written about the Texas State Fair!!

We really liked The Cotton Candy Catastrophe!

We did Word Work with the vocabulary.  We wrote about everything you could think about that had to do with the fair!!  We made cotton candy art projects...

and wrote about those too!!  On Friday we had our own fair with booths that the students could use their tickets for to play games, get popcorn and a drink and get their face painted! We had a blast!!

Big Tex is (was) a major landmark at the State Fair of Texas!  We had so much fun learning about all the fact about Big Tex.  We researched about him on the internet with our 5th grade tech buddie.  This year was Big Tex's 60th birthday.

On October 19th, Big Tex had an electrical fire and was completely destroyed.  Our kiddos were devestated!

Someone did do a before and after tribute to Big Tex on our hall...

They are going to rebuild Big Tex in time for next year's state fair.  I bet our kiddos will never forget the day Big Tex burned.  One of our Kindergarten cuties asked why he didn't "stop, drop and roll?"

Good Question!

(we now know they were listening during fire safety week!!)