Spring Time Literacy Freebie and A Chance to help Jonah

Over at My Heart Belongs in First Grade Tamera is having a fundraising sell to help a darling little boy named Jonah. Jonah has EB. EB causes the skin to blister or shear off at the slightest touch. For $10.00 you can get $85.00 worth of products from some amazing bloggers. I donated my Barnyard Buddies Common Core Math Centers to the fundraiser. Please visit the fundraiser and see all the great products you can get for $10.00. Click Here!



Hear from Jonah's Mom and watch a video here.

I can't believe it is spring and let me tell you why. Today it snowed and sleeted in Greensboro, NC. Now mind you we are on spring break! We just don't have snow and sleet this late. Well for part of the day I sat on my couch and drank ice tea, read a book and wrapped up in a blanket. I can't fuss too much because it gave me time to create this fun literacy center for my classroom and yours. Some of my honeys are still having difficulty with that tricky Magic E. This center has differentiation with added blends on some word pairs. You get sixteen matching pairs and a recording sheet. The recording sheet has space to record twelve matches. Check out the center below.


You can get it at Teachers Pay Teachers or on Google Drive.
I'm confident that Mother Nature is not going to trick us again. After all I'm posting this spring printable just for her.

Source: craftionary.net via Kiley on Pinterest

You can print your own copy at Craftionary by Hani!
Happy Spring!

Play Dough Tens and Ones and Self Made Word Sorts

Teaching tens and ones to first graders is always a bit tricky! You will think they have it! Then you ask them to apply it in a different way and oh my...it's time to reteach. This year I have been trying to get in a lot of variations for all kinds of learners. I love play dough and the kids love play dough so away we go with play dough for tens and ones. I simply had the children to roll ten tiny balls of play dough and then mash the ten tiny balls together to make one. They did this in math centers. The children enjoyed the activity and it gave them a concrete representation of the singles transitioning into one. The next time we do this I am going to have them decompose it after they put roll it into one. They will be happy to see play dough in the math centers. Who knew learning could be this fun?

We love using word sorts in our class. This week I had the honeys fold their own papers for the word sort. They wrote the words on the paper themselves and then cut it apart. We were learning about -ed and -ing endings. They had a word bank to choose from for the words. After they cut their words apart they found a partner and played a memory game matching the -ed to the -ing endings of the same word. They switched partners a couple of times and they loved it. I was really proud of how well they worked together. We are going to do another self made sort this week with contractions.

The Mitten Math and Literacy Freebie

Hi everyone I hope you have had a great week. I had the wonderful good fortune to be a featured writer at The Curriculum Corner Jill and Cathy have some wonderful ideas so please check them out! I shared a sampler unit for The Mitten. There are two math centers and two literacy centers. You can find them here This is what the freebie looks like. You are getting a ten page file!

You can also get the unit from Google Drive Here.

We are expecting wintry weather here in North Carolina again. The second Friday in a row. The neat thing is may have more thunder snow. It was really weird last week hearing the thunder and seeing the lightening everything was so bright! Enjoy your weekend! Sarah