Fun in First Grade!

Wow, well if I have any blogging friends left... Sorry- I have been so busy with graduate classes, report cards and the regular day to day activities!
We have been having LOTS of fun the last few weeks... and now its time for a little break.  Tomorrow we have our FIRST work day all school year.  I am super excited to create some stuff for my kiddos.

Something I started working on this weekend was making some ultra CUTE mod-podge clip boards.  My kids love my walk the room activity, so I figured I would spice it up with the adorable clipboards.

Speaking of Walk the Room... here are just a FEW of my templates!

Walk the Room
November Walk the Room
December WTR
Jan WTR
Feb WTR
March WTR

I have a bunch more templates for Walk the Room... however Im posting them on my TPT site.

Pop!

Kids love games... especially when they get to play a game at school.  A friend and I play this game in our first grade classroom ALL the time.  The game I am talking about is POP!  Ok so you all know those popcorn buckets in the $ section at Target (my favorite store!).... I use these for my players to keep track of their cards.

Attached are the POP rules, and POP playing cards. The first set is lower and uppercase alphabet letters.  I am currently working on our high frequency words to play POP with.  I'll post them when their done. :)

Enjoy... I know your kiddos will love it!  Put it at a station, play it in small groups, or even play it to review spelling words.  

Pop Directions

Pop Rules

ABC Pop Cards

Here is the second form- again lowercase and uppercase cards... these are football.
Football Whistle Cards!
Football ABC CARDS!
Football Rules!

Here is the last one for today...  This is baseball themed.  Instead of ABC, these have simple words.
Homerun Rules!
Homerun Cards!

Sorry pics still wont load... :(

If you would like the doc on word feel free to email me... I know how it goes and your might want to tweak things!  Id love to do that for ya.  :)

Debbie Diller Plug...

Ok so as I started this year, I had NO idea what I was getting myself into as far as stations go.  I had previously had no experience with literacy or math stations.  Something that REALLY helped me as I started to embark on the stations and small group adventure were these two extremely helpful books.
I am a huge fan of Debbie Diller.  Her literacy stations, small groups and spaces and places books saved my life!
If you don't have a copy, you for sure need it... your life will be changed!

 

Debbie Diller, is coming out with a new Math stations book in February!!!!  I am so excited for this book- I know that it is going to be an awesome addition to my collection! :)

Literacy Stations planner

This is a literacy stations planner I use.  I like it a lot because it helps me keep track of exactly what is in each stations bucket.  Also, its helps me have a purpose for every stations activity!

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Hope you enjoy these documents.  If you have any questions feel free to comment or email me! :)

Happy Wednesday!
P.S.  Yesterday's documents didn't post correctly so here they are again!

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P.P.S.S.:  Im having difficulties! :( if you have any experience in uploading google docs with pictures help me out!