Teddy Bear Day!

Friday was Teddy Bear Day in our classroom!  Each student brought in their favorite teddy bear from home.  Some brought in different stuffed animals if they didn't have teddy bears.....we had unicorns, aliens, dogs, and lots of bears.

 

 We read several stories about bears....some real and some make believe. After reading our stories, we compared real bears to our teddy bears using a Venn Diagram

 

 We thought of describing words about our bears.  I briefly told them that these were called adjectives, but we didn't go into that too much.  We will be learning about adjectives later in the year.  Then we used these adjectives to write sentences about our bears.

We also completed lots of math activities with our teddy bear theme.  The students had to make predictions for how many gummy bears were in the jar.  After we counted them together, the students found the difference between their predictions and the real answer.

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We  used  gummy bears to complete some ten frames since we just started working on finding compliments of ten in math, and we used Honey and Chocolate Teddy Grahams to complete addition and subtraction problems

 

Then each child got a bag with 12 gummy bears. They sorted by color, made a bar graph, and then answered questions like which color did you have the least of?

 

We ended our bear day by laying on the floor and reading stories to our bears.

 

 

Here is some pictures of the fun things we did with our bears......

Patterns

 

 
Graphing
 

 

 

Making sums of 10
 

 

 
 
Adding numbers with teddy grahams

 

 

 

 

Introducing our bears to our friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Taking a Brain Break....dancing to
I Am A Gummy Bear

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading to our bears during

Read To Self

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had a BEARY good day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy October!!!

     It's officially my favorite month!  I love October...the weather, pumpkins, the changing leaves, Halloween decorations, and the fact that my first graders always seem to get into the groove of things by October.  I always tell myself that they will be first graders in October.  Until then, they are still Kindergarteners. 

This week we have been working hard on partner reading and reading to self.....2 components of the Daily 5.  The Daily 5 is the management system I use during guided reading.  There are 5 parts to the Daily 5....read to self, partner reading, word work, listening, and writing.  Students rotate through these 5 "stations" while I meet with each reading group.  

Here we are practicing sitting "EEKK" (elbow to elbow, knee to knee) during partner reading and increasing our reading stamina at read to self. 
 

 

Please remember that tomorrow is an Early Dismissal day for students.