Some of what we've been doing...

I made these snowmen with numbers and Santas with tally marks. They have to match the tally marks to the correct number. They are getting so much better!

This is the key for our elf glyphs. The inspiration came from First Grade a la Carte.

Here are a few of the glyphs. The pattern came from Life in First Grade. I love it! The kids had a great time making their elves and then they answered questions using the key and looking at all of the glyphs.

We used blank charts to build numbers different ways. Some of the kids caught on really quickly. Others used beads and put one in each square until the graph was full. Then they colored the squares to match the beads they had used. They wrote the number sentence for each color combination.

Even and Odd printable

Click here to print the Even and Odd Christmas tree.

Back at it

What a week! I didn't want to start the Christmas stuff until November was officially over :) This week we've been working on "My" books- my house, my city, my state, my country, my continent. The kids loved it! Every day they were asking, "Is it time to work on my book yet?" until they finally completed them yesterday.

We talked about different land and water forms using books and making models out of play dough. Another big hit! I wonder if my elementary teachers had used play dough to explain land and water forms... maybe I wouldn't have hated social studies so much!

The first graders also worked on making fractions and comparing fractions. So far they have noticed that 1/2 and 2/4 look the same and 1/4 and 2/8 look the same.

We're working on learning about contractions. I think it's going to take a LOT more work before we get through this!

We wrote about our favorite events from Thanksgiving break for writing workshop. This was the kindergarten kids' first time through the editing process and I think it went pretty well.