Fraction Frenzy:

Hiya folks! I finally MADE time to share a little of what we have been up to these last few weeks. T-Ball and Softball is in full swing at Casa de Hubble and needless to say I can’t seem to find any extra time to do anything else…. except to PINTEREST (verb?)! HA! It’s easy with an APP in tow!

My Firsties have been workin’ hard on Fractions this week so here are a couple of things we have been workin’ on.

CHECK IT OUT: 

Fractions Thinking Maps Style-

Fractions in Spanish:

Small Group Activities:

Paper Folds turned into FRACTIONS. Our kiddos LOVE to work on the IPad and ITouch. I found some really great Fraction Apps! I love how they dig workin’ on my white board making their own fractions! It makes me all gitty on the inside! AAAHHHHH!

Fractions with a Chocolate Chip Cookie:

This darlin’ "Fraction Craftivity" isn’t my own creation. I totally borrowed it from Ms. Leslie Ann over at the caaautest little blog “Life in First Grade”! I did however created my FIRST PDF file to share with this activity. My Firsties also shared a REAL chocolate chip cookie with their friends based off their “Fraction Craftivity”…. they thought it was the coolest thing ever! PLEASE feel free to download my FIRST ever item to share! Yay! ME!

LET ME KNOW IF IT ISN'T WORKIN' PLEEEAAASSSEEE!

FREE Download HERE!

WOWZERS!!

What a Nice Surprise! “TOP 10 AWARD”

Sorry folks, I’ve been MIA! We’ve had lots going on at school…as I’m sure we all do! All I want to do lately when I get home is SLEEP! Thank goodness it’s almost Spring Break…I plan to catch up on my domestic duties!

On to BIGGER & BETTER things…THANK YOU to Krista over at The Second Grade Superkids! Krista just recently awarded me with the TOP 10 AWARD I am over the moon EXCITED!!!

I LOVE the world of BLOGGING!!!

Here is MY TOP 10….Please Check them out!

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         Reagan at Tunstall’s Teaching Tidbits

 Candis at I Teach Dual Language 

 Susana V. at Fun-Key Spanish For First Grade 

 Lidia at Kinder Latino 

 Marsha at A Differentiated Kindergarten  

 Sheri at 1st Grade Rocks 

 Erika at The Honey Bunch 

 Jen at The Teacher's Cauldron 

 Deanne at First Grade and Fabulous 

 Nicole at Teaching With Style 

You are sure to find many FABULOUS ideas at any one of these blogs! They are ROCKIN' teachers! 

I would like to share with y'all the "Permission to Pin" from my blog. Pinterest has changed my life in many ways! Beg, Borrow, or Steal you have my permission to PIN AWAY! Sharing is CARING (I agree Krista)! We all have busy lives...work smarter not harder!
 

Playin’ With A New Frame APP:

A new APP led me to this late night post! HA! I really should be sleeping seeing how I have to work in the mornin’…. but nooooo I can’t seem to put my laptop down so here goes my post:

This & a little of that: 

My friend Reagan over at Tunstall’s Teaching Tidbits has an AWESOME activity for graphing SO I snagged it! You can get your copy here!

Bilingual partners' worked together in their math groups to gather their data and make their graphs… it was fun!

Each group had one of the 4 questions in the activity provided and was responsible for collecting the data needed for their graphs.

My homeroom worked on contractions. I used Cara’s caaauuteee Unit “Crazy For Contractions”... you can find this cute "Contraction Crocodile" activity here!

Miss. Schaefer teaching her first lesson on the Water Cycle…she did an AMAZING job… she’s a natural!

 She had students come up to the anchor chart and 

identify each part of the water cycle.

Her ROCKIN’ anchor chart was the brainspiration over at “The First Grade Parade”… that Cara is super creative! I am jealous of her mad artist skills! I have none! HA!

They made a super duper cute Water Cycle Bracelet…PINTEREST inspired!

Bilingual pairs’ filled in a premade Flow Map of the Water Cycle.

 Valentine's Day Goodies!

We totally got “CHOCOLATE WASTED” to say the least!

My Firsties LOVED the Chocolate Fountain…we also had White Chocolate!

I LOOOOVEEE me some chocolate!

A couple of party day pictures to share!

I had to share our Kinder Dual Valentine’s Day writing!

Super CAAUUTE!

My Firsties had fun with Cara's "Love, Splat Mini Unit {Math & Literacy Activities}”…you must add this unit to your lesson plans…GOOD stuff! 

  

Here’s a little of what we did:

SO SUPER EXCITED.......

Liebster Award:

 Thanks to Laura over at Peace, Love, and First Grade, Krista at The Second Grade Superkids, Trish at First Grade Frosting, and Sheri over at 1st Grade Rocks for passing along the Liebster Award to me! THANK YOU so much ladies! This award is for bloggers with fewer than 200 followers and has the following rules:

•  Thank the award presenter and post a link back to their blog.

•  Put the award on your blog.

•  Pick 5 blogs with less than 200 followers, let them know about the award, and encourage them to pass it on.

Here's the blogs I'm passing it along to:

Lidia over at Kinder Latino 

Senora Allen over at Dual Kinder Teacher  

Candis over at I Teach Dual Language 

Amanda over at Frolicking Through First 

Kayla over at Primary Junction

Check these BLOGs OUT....LOVE them!!!

RoCkIn’ Math...Dual Style!

MAC Center: Working on their “Math Chat PowerPoint” it goes over all the skills we are working on and learning for this 9 weeks. They LOVE to write on their desk with dry erase markers… SO hey what ever motivates them WORKS for me!

Math Games and Skills Centers:

We are working on Place Value this week so that would be an activity I would place in the “Skills Center”.

Math Games Center: Activities and games that focus just on 

Math FACTS! 

My Firsties LOVE to make Number Bonds and Fact Families on their desk with EXPOS! They are GOOD at it!

 Math Games Center:

Miss. Schaefer workin' on her "Skip Counting By 5's" project with bilingual pairs.

Final Product! 

Our bilingual pairs are workin' hard in Spanish...check out their "Word Problems".... using Number Bonds!

Bilingual Pairs worked together to create a Word Problem using number bonds.

Groundhog Day

Well folks it looks like 6 more weeks of winter like weather coming our way....Even in TEXAS!

We started out our Groundhog Day unit with some good ole’ graphing.

I borrowed this adorable picture graph from the Overall Success a really cute blog with lots of great ideas!

Our Groundhog Predictions:

We shared our predictions with the whole school...it was really cool because we had different grade levels calling us and asking if Phil saw his shadow or not! My Firsties loved sharing with everyone that we will indeed have six more weeks of Winter!

How CAAAuuute are these! I found this adorable writing craftivity over at Miss Kindergarten's blog…love her stuff! You can get your copy of her template here. My homeroom class wrote facts about groundhogs for their writing craftivity. We read many books about Groundhog Day....so check it out!