Monday, September 23, 2013

First Grade Rocks!
I am finally posting! Between computers not working and my little boy at home stealing my attention at night I have neglected our blog! I apologize! Here's what we have been up to these past few weeks!

We jumped right into learning in first grade!

One of our first activities was to find friends who started with a certain letter of the alphabet, and write their names on our list. Not sure what they thought was more fun, the game or using the clipboards:)
We had to be patient so our friends could write our whole name.

We talked about "Good Fit" books and what it meant if a book was a good fit.  We compared this to shoes. They decided I was best off in my flip flop and not Mr. Glick or Gage's shoes.
We are doing our best to remember that our books should fit us the same way!

Working on a sight word reader.

We made "About Me" posters to hang in the hallway.

One of our math standards that we are working on in September is tallies.
This was a fun tally game on the smart board.

We then had to ask our friends if they were scared of spiders.....

.....and tally our results.

We had snowballs in September! Each snowball had a math fact on it. 
We got to throw a snowball once we got the answer on our paper!




M. brought a robin's nest to share with us!

We played a game called "Scoot!" We had to walk around to different cards when Mrs. Glick said "scoot" and write down our answers. 

We had to figure out what number was missing on the number line.

Math Centers!

Dice Drawing! We had to roll the dice, add them together and see what we needed to draw on our picture!

Using our 0-120 chart we had to figure out what numbers were missing!

We listened to our random number cd and write down the numbers that we heard.

We also had to choose a card and write what numbers came next!

In "Count it Up" we had to work with a partner to count the objects in our bags into groups of ten!

The straws were kind of tricky to count.

During language we played a sight word game using dice.

FUN FRIDAY!
Has your kiddo been talking your ear off about FUN FRIDAY?!?
We don't earn those Brain Bucks all week for nothing!
Here's a few of the things they can "spend" their money on....

$18 will buy you time at the Art table!

$22 will get you time at the smart board.

$22 will get you time on the laptops!

You can spend $10 on board games.

Or $12 on the white board.
Be your B.E.S.T! :)

Daily 5
We've been practicing all the "pieces" for weeks. Now we put it all together and we ROCKED it!

One of our word work choices is stamping sight words.

Sorting digraphs.

At "Read to Someone" we get to read to people in our group.

Listen to reading is another Daily 5 station.

We use magnets to spell our sight words.

And we even get to write them on a magna-doodle.

We love to dance and sing!

Check back soon to see what else we're doing in first grade!

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Hello Kindergarten--Almost First Grade Families!
I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer!! I just wanted to share an app with you that I recently found! It is an app for your phone or ipad that levels books!

The app is called "Level It Books" it costs $2.99 and so far has been worth the money!

This is what it looks like in the app store.

There is a page that gives book suggestions by grade level.

Here is an example of how it works. You simply click the 'scan' button on the bottom right and hold it over the barcode on the back of the book.
The page above will come up once it scans. Our school district goes by the Guided Reading Level (gr-- third to the right under the yellow checkout box).
For example: "Goodnight Moon" is level H.

Here is another example of a level B book.

This is an awesome tool that I will definitely be using in the classroom next year, but it would also be great to use at home! Not ALL books come up with a level, but of the stack that I tried the majority did!

Enjoy and Happy Reading!!

Here's a pic of my cutie! He's growing SO fast!!

Monday, May 13, 2013

Gage Goes to Kindergarten......
Gage and I came to visit my kindergartners today!
They had lots of fun looking at him and asking questions about him.
I can't believe how much they have changed in only two weeks since I've been gone!
I am loving my time at home with Gage, but it was good to see my kiddos!

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Welcome Baby Glick!

Hello kindergartners! Were you a little surprised when you got to school on Monday and I wasn't there? I was busy taking care of this little person!
Meet Gage Garrett Glick!
He was born on Saturday and weighed 7 lbs. and was 20 inches long!
He's a peanut!
We think he's pretty cute, what do you think?

Gage's favorite things to do are eat, sleep, and hang out with his mommy and daddy. 
Do you like to do any of those things?

Mr. Glick and I are so happy that Gage is finally here!

I am excited to bring him to meet you all sometime soon, but we're going to let him grow a little bit before I bring him to school. Do you think he's ready for kindergarten? :)

I miss you all so much! I hope that you are showing Mrs. Meyer what AWESOME listeners you are! She let's me know all the great things that you are doing!

See you sometime soon!
Love, Mrs. Glick

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

This week we learned about weather! 
One of our centers had star words written on clouds that we had to copy.

We played Memory at another center. It's hard to remember where those matches are!

Our tornados had numbers on them, we had to write what numbers came next.

Someone lost their first tooth this week!

We made "I Can" rainbows! First we had to pick which "I Can" sentences fit for us..... None of us could choose "I can drive" yet!

Didn't they turn out cute?!

On Friday we worked on a Rainbow Rhyme, and made a color block rainbow.

Lots of sticky fingers during this project!

We had our Spring Sing on Friday night!

We got all "spiffed" up!

We looked so cute!






The gang before it was our turn to sing!

Mr. Ableman even came and listened to us!