Halloween freebies and lots of other updates!

I'm a little sad that Halloween is already over, but that's ok because Thanksgiving is right around the corner! I finally finished my huge Thanksgiving Literacy Pack that I have been working on for awhile.  My students always seem more engaged when my literacy centers and writing activities go with the theme of the month.  I'll be posting it later this week, once I get some classroom pics of it!

But before we get in to that..

Look at all of my new books!

Three boxes full!!  MY first grade teacher recently gave me all of her resource books and tons of awesome read aloud books!  How cool is it that I am reading the same books to my class that I was reading when I was in first grade.  Life is one big circle! :) 

We have been tracking our math assessment averages on the classroom wall.  You can already see what units will need more work (addition and subtraction strategies... those missing addends are so abstract for my little firsties).  But I am excited to see some growth over the next few units.

How do you track data in your classroom? I would love to hear about some other ways it can be done! 

Ok enough about the data... time to get to the fun stuff! Halloween is my favorite holiday and I am so sad the week is already over.

In math we measured ourselves in non-standard pumpkin units.  It's a freebie!!

Happy November!

November already?!  I never thought I would make it this far.. October was a CRAZY month!  I went to 6 trainings and had my first "official" teacher observation (eek).  After tons of fun Halloween activities with the kiddies all month long, my immune system decided to quit on me.  Sad to say, but I had to leave the kids on Halloween.. turns out I have strep throat.  I felt so bad leaving them, but there's no way I would have made it through the day.. Anyways, being sick in bed all day gives me plenty of time for a new blog post ;) 

I finally finished the bottom of my word wall. Yay for word families!

 

Next, we got right in to the Halloween stuff!  This cute little monster activity was so much fun and meets our first grade common core standards of sorting words! I wrote the words on each student's worksheet to make sure they were getting words on their level. ;) 

   

You can get this GREAT monster sorting activity here!

On to some candy corn place value!  I simply found a simple candy corn template online, cut them out, and had the kids show me three ways to write a number.  Boy, was place value fun with first graders......... after long, long days of practice, they were finally able to give me these! Phew! 

 

My next post will have everything from our nocturnal unit! The kids LOVED it!  But for now, it's time to finish watching the CMAs and off to bed! 

Thanks for reading! :)

Welcome to First Grade!

Welcome to Miss Edwards' First Grade Classroom! 

Here are a few pics that I took today! 

Finally finished the word wall! The flower at the bottom is a "word family" flower. -at is written on the center and each leaf has an -at word: cat, hat, bat.  Can't wait for the kiddies to do these so we can post more flowers!

My desk! :)

(the cleanest it will ever be)

Birthday pencils to give to students on their birthday with a note from the teacher. 

Class book boxes made out of cereal boxes.  Students will decorate these in class!  Can't wait to see how they turn out!