100th day of school

100th day of school! We asked each student to create something that had 100 items on it. This student created a shirt with 100 jewels on it. Other examples were hats with 100 eyes on them, necklaces with 100 pieces of cereal or pasta on them, shirts with 100 stars on them.

 Throughout the day we did various activities for 100 seconds, for example jumping jacks, hops on 1 foot, sit in silence, flap their wings...

We also made a 100th snack mix. Each student brought in 100 pieces of a certain snack (gold fish, Cheerios, marshmallows, skittles...) and we mixed them all up.

We discussed what kind of food could we eat 100 of. Some said cereal, fish sticks, meatballs...

 

Also today our puzzle we have been putting together since the first day of school was completed!

Letter V

For the letter V I printed out vegetable clip art for the students to color, cut, and paste onto their letter V.

Rereading

One lesson I did before independent reading was what to do after the students read their books. I found this on Pinterest. It's an anchor chart showing different techniques of rereading. You can sing it, act like a teacher, guess what's next, or make character voices. My kids love playing what's next when they reread.

Fancy words

Throughout the year we collect "Fancy Words" from the stories we read in class. We consider fancy words to be big words that we hardly use in daily conversation. We try to use them everyday in a sentence to keep them in our minds. I put a picture of the cover of the book we got the word from to help them remember the word. 

Presidents' Day

For Presidents' Day I gave the students a paper to finish the sentence, "if I were president of the United States, I would..." After they finished the sentence, they drew a picture to go along with. 

Here Re some examples of their answers. 

We also did this craft where they connected 3 stars (red, white, and blue) and glued on top the silloette of Lincoln and Washington. 

Addition

A way to help my students learn addition I have them use 2 colors to distinguish parts of the addition sentence. For their homework I underlined and filled in one part with green and underlined the blank part purple. The students knew to make the number given of green dots and then make how ever more needed purple dots to fill in the missing part. Having the 2 colors helped them to see the two parts needed to get the final answer. 

Word wall stars

As a way to keep track of our word wall words, I've written them onto stars nd taped them to Popsicle sticks. I use them as flash cards during circle time to review. I also use them when we read out of big books. When we come to the word of the week we're working on, I have a student point to the word with the matching star. I also use these when playing musical sight words.