Ten Black Dots Book Extension

Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews is another favorite for kindergartners and first graders. Who doesn't love playing with black Avery dots??? (purchased from Amazon to save the hassle of searching). The possibilities are endless. This book extension has many fun math activities including ways to make 10, using a ten frame, and counting to improve number sense. We also included two booklets to make and some sequencing as well. Give your kids ten black dots and see what they can create, write what it is secretly in pencil at the bottom or on the back, cover and let others guess what they made with their 10 black dots. You will see who your really creative kids are right away. My personal favorite was the fidget spinner.  We hope you enjoy it! 

                                                                     

There is so much more in the packet!! Your kids will have a blast working with numbers to 10! Check out the preview to see what all you'll be doing with this awesome book              by Donald Crews!

You can get the extension here!

Animals - A Science Unit

This science unit will cover all the standards you are required to teach your first graders about animals. It is packed full- 151 pages full- of information and activities to get your students engaged and motivated to learn more about ANIMALS IN THE WILD. We included vocabulary activities, fact gathering activities, opportunities to write and research, and we added some just for fun stuff too. 

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FREEBIE - POCKET DAY!

IT'S A 42-PAGE FREEBIE YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS! Kids LOVE their pockets and putting things in them, so this activity, that is so old we can't remember where it came from is still a huge hit with our first graders. On every 10th day of school we have Pocket Day. We use counting cubes and put one in each pocket. Then as a group we count our cubes to see how many pockets are in the group, then add to make a class total. We keep track of our last total and see if we can beat it each time. We use the counting time to incorporate a bunch of counting and addition activities. We break them into groups of 10, count the leftovers, and figure out how many more it needs to get to 10. It is also a great way to introduce place value. Your kiddos will LOVE it too! They always look forward to POCKET DAY!!!

You can get this FREEBIE here!!

Here are a few pages that you'll get, but there is so much more!

Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark

Can  your kids relate to being afraid of coming to school after summer break? Of course they can!  Do you totally get into ocean animals as part of your science study of animals? Well, The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark book extension activities for K-2 is a pack you could use at the beginning of the year to address fears, like going back to school, or used anytime during the year. It could also make a great addition to any unit of study on ocean animals. Your kids will be making those Text To Self and Text to World connections as they read about Pout-Pout and his fears. Use this fictional book to teach fictional characters, word order, word work with rhyming words and vocabulary, as well as some plain old fun stuff. This packet is filled with fun activities that will keep your children engaged and thinking in a fun way as you use these activities to help get the conversation going about our fears and how this is NORMAL for us all.

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Crazy About Ladybugs

If you walk in my room this year, you will be immersed in BLACK AND RED and lots of adorable LADYBUGS.   I've had the theme going on for several years, but not to this extent!  I want to share a few pictures.  I hope you like it!

 Calendar Area:  calendar, counters, math vocabulary. 

LOVE the way these chair pockets turned out.  I wish I would have taken a larger picture of the whole class!  They are so cute!!

 This is my small group table!!!  I could sit here all day!  

I LOVE how it turned out!

Days of the week!

             

 "HOW WE GET HOME" clip chart.

Pocket chart for Spelling Words. (They will be added next week!)

We have labels in our pack that are editable!  You can label any and everything in your room!

 Numbers 0-10 with ladybugs on a ten frame!!!

 Our school uses the clip chart for behavior management. 

I just had to have LADYBUGS!  I love how this turned out!

 I will add HFW to the word wall as they are introduced.  

It looks a little plain right now.

Science Lab tubs for our Science rotations.

 A few organization items.

 My welcome letter for Meet Your Teacher and a spot 

to hang our monthly lunch menu.

Sorry, but this is SOOOOOOO true!

We have all of these available on TPT.  A lot of it is editable, so that you can make your own labels and name tags.  If you have a certain color scheme or theme that you would like to see, please leave us a comment.  We don't have everything on TPT, so we may have it or be able to make it!!  

If you are CRAZY ABOUT LADYBUGS, click here.