Unit 2 Reading Street Concept Question Board

I decided to change up the question board this unit. I liked the way the first board looked, but I felt like it was more for decoration and I want it to be more of an interactive board that the kids help make. So, I came up with this:

I've made a chart that has the unit question in the middle and all the weekly questions surrounding it, but forgot to take a pic of it. On this board, the weekly question is in green and the kids have answered it in their journals and I displayed their work. They really liked this and I felt like they noticed and "understood" the board so much better this way. Here's a close up of some of their answers.

This is my kind of family! :)

We just finished up with A Big Fish for Max for all you 1st grade reading street teachers, so I'll post some of the charts we made and my new vocabulary center that has worked out *fabulously* tomorrow :)

Hope everyone's had a great week and I hope everyone has a really great, long weekend! Roll Tide!!!

Pattern for Frank...Free on TPT!!

I've just uploaded the pattern for the inferring with frank craft onto my teachers pay teachers store. It's free though! Click the pic to get it... I'd love to hear from you if you download it! :)

*** I didn't realize that I had already deleted the file for the writing part, so I wasn't able to include it. Sorry!

Inferring with Frank!

We haven't yet gotten into that hard skill of drawing conclusions and making inferences. I don't know about y'all, but that's always a tough one in my classroom. Sooo I made a little introduction activity that we did last week to kinda preview this skill. We created a Frankenstein and made inferences about what some of his favorite things were. The main thing I wanted to get across to my kids was that you used clues that you were given (like the fact that Frank was a Halloween symbol) to decide the answer. I didn't go too far with this skill, but I welcomed the chance to have the time to do a mini introduce lesson for it. Hopefully when this skill comes around in a few weeks, my darlings will have an easier time with it. 

***I left the pattern for Frank at school, so I can't upload it now, but if you want it let me know and I'll upload tomorrow!

*** 10/6/12: This freebie can be found in my TpT store by clicking here! :)

Soccer Ball Word Sort...TPT!

Click the pic to get a new word sort. This one deals with the vowel sound -all as in ball, small, talk, etc.  

A few classroom happenings

After having review week last week and having only a two day week this week due to Fall Break, we are going on two weeks of no reading story. Y'all have no idea how ready I'm (and my kids!) are ready to get back to a story. We need structure in first grade! These two days have given us the opportunity to get in some Halloween activities though and  I'll share those tomorrow! Here are a few things that we've been doing.

We created a character spotlight on the witch from Room on the Broom. Then at the reading center, the kids had to fill out the same graphic organizer on another book. We are loving Room on the Broom. To see the literary companion for this book, you can click here

We made a bubble map of the penny. This was inspired (aka totally copied) by the always fabulous Cara

This was a bubble map that we created during the last story of our reading series, Animal Park. I forgot to take a pic of it to share with all your Reading Street teachers out there so it's a little late!

This is a new center that I'm using. I found a pic on Pinterest of something similar and didn't pin it (hate when that happens!) Jennifer at First Grade Blue Skies blogged about something similar and it may have even been her pic that I saw. You can buy these, but I just made my own using clip art. You just cut out the middle, laminate, and you're good to go! I was a little hesitate to just put these out with several word lists and not have the kids write anything, but they did great! Didn't have anybody playing with them. They used them correctly and they were a hit! 

Be sure and check back tomorrow for some really cute Frankensteins!! :) :)

Scott Foresman Reading Street Unit 2 Questions of the Day

I've uploaded Unit 2 questions of the day from Reading Street (1st grade) to my TPT Store. They're free, but I had upload problems with Scribd, so I had to upload them to TPT. Click here to get them :)

Room on the Broom and Cat in the Hat Fry Phrases... TPT

Just uploaded 2 new packets to my Teachers Pay Teachers store. Click the pics below to check them out!