Today In First Grade
I love the seasons and weather. It is by far one of my favorite science units. Now... that being said, can I just say it is hard to talk about the seasons where I teach. I mean really... it pretty much looks the same here year around. Sure we have a few leaves change, but nothing like the pictures and books describe, so the seasons are actually difficult for my kids to really grasp. But we push on anyway with pictures and descriptions of the way places look in the various seasons. So...to…
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These Aren't For Decoration
Man are these days flying by or what? As you know creating visual communication charts are one of my favorite things to create for my Firsti...
Wacky Weather Fun
The kids learned all about weather a few weeks ago so I wanted to show you all of the fun activities we did! To start, we brainstormed all the different kinds of weather we knew of after watching a weather video and reading a weather book. We read many different weather books including Weather and Seasons, Four Seasons for Little People and The Wind Blew. For the whole week, we tracked the weather in our science journals by writing the date and drawing a picture of the weather outside. The…
An Anchor, a Tip... Five for Friday!
A Cupcake for the Teacher: Meteorologist Anchor Chart
What's the Weather?
Last week we learned all about the weather. Unfortunately because of spring break, we had to cram a lot into our week. Next year I plan on ...
Redirecting
We started our unit on weather today. We began by discussing some words that come to our minds when we think about weather. I created a list on chart paper. Next, I had each student choose a word to write and illustrate on a raindrop for our Weather Words bulletin board in our classroom. Next, we thought of some things that we already know about weather and listed them on the sun. After discussing some things we already know about weather, students wrote on their own page what they already…
"My favorite season" writing with construction paper curtains on window.
We started our weather unit! - The Lesson Plan Diva
We have started our weather unit and it is going really well! I wanted to share 2 of the activities with you. We started out with seasons and did several of those activities including the weather window! The kids loved this activity. I assigned them each a season and they had to draw and write
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