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.

Last Week Before Thanksgiving

What a fun week! Our walls were covered in turkeys and Pilgrims. I'm so sad to see the bare walls since I took everything down and sent it home with them today. Here is some of what we did:

Feather Fractions: We traced the kids' feet and cut them out. Then they picked feathers to glue on. They wrote the fractions of colors.

We read Turk and Runt by Lisa Wheeler and then discussed good places for a turkey to hide where people would not think to look for them. Their pictures were so cute :)

Pilgrims writing

I am doing all things Thanksgiving this week. I made  Turkey tally matching cards for my kindergarten and first graders. We are also using them to sort by even and odd. Today we read The Story of the Pilgrims. The students wrote at least one way they were like the Pilgrims or one way they were different. For more advanced students, they made Venn Diagrams to compare and contrast themselves with the Pilgrims.