On Valentine's day, we had Valentine's day themed math and literacy centers before the "party".
For math the centers were "Be Mine Boxes"- from the Inspired Apple. They each had to count the pink, red, and purple beads in each box and record the number in the heart that matched the number on the box. Then students had to show that number in four different ways (tallies, cents, adding, subtracting, place value, etc.)
The next center was Sweet Tart Graphing. Each child had a baggie of about 12 sweet tarts that they had to graph. They got to keep their bag to eat for the party. I loved the questions they had to answer. I think it came from teacher heart.
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The next center was candy heart probability from The First Grade Parade. They had to grab conversation candy from a bag without looking and tally the results/answer questions.
The last center was Sweet Number Stories by the Inspired Apple. Students used heart manipulatives to answer the question cards and they had to write their number sentences on a cute recorder sheet.
Literacy centers included the spelling center- Long U Sort: oo, ew, ue (Click
here to check it out!) which went with our spelling words, word work center- a Valentines Day ABC order sheet, listening center-
Big Shark's Valentine Surprise, and the comprehension center-
If You Give a Cat a Cupcake cause and effect cupcake center.
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On Friday we did President's Day centers using What the Teacher Wants- President's Day and U.S. Symbols Unit !!!!!!! Pictures to come.... I was ready to leave knowing that this week is winter break! I had winter fever! Especially with all our "recess days" last week getting rained out!
When I return to school next week, we will be starting to learn about Thomas Jefferson which works out perfectly since we have done so much with other presidents this month and we have been learning money the whole month of Feb! We will focus on -ar words- Already have the Inspired Apple's Aaargh! Packet to accompany what is in our Story Town Books!
Here was my doorway for December/January/beginning of Feb....I need a new idea for March/April!
Any suggestions?!
Target Finds- I had already wiped the library of Dr. Seuss books for next week, but saw these books for 2 for $10 bucks at Target...(I didn't have these books!) I also got Horton Hears a Who for $8 so we can watch it that afternoon while we have our Cat in the Hat Parfias! I found a few spring/Easter finds in the dollar section too.
The Parfaits for our afternoon snack!!!
Trying to figure out what else to do for Seuss day....trying to see if I win any giveaways...Probably will be making hard core plans Thursday.
