Winter Fry Phrases

Click here to get my Winter Fry Phrases, which include different fry phrases from my other packs. Want to win a copy? Head over to Life in First Grade's Facebook page to find out how! 

Winter Centers in Action

Click here to get my Winter Fun! math and literacy packet. Below is a preview of what all is included. 

Y as a Vowel word sort

 Odd and Even Sort using number words

 What's the missing number center activity

 Number order activity (can be used greatest to least or least to greatest)

 Which Number is Greater? Can also be used for Which Number is Less?

 Number/ Number Word Match Activity **An oldie but a goodie! I love this activity. My kids ALWAYS need help with recognizing number words

 Long/Short Vowel Sort

 Beginning Blends Activity

 Syllable Sort

 Synonym Match Up Activity

 Antonym Match Up Activity

 Sentence or Question Sort

Want to win a copy? Head over to Life in First Grade's facebook page to enter! I'm announcing the winner later tonight! :) 

Winter Unit Flash Sale!

I've just uploaded my 86 page Winter themed literacy and math centers. Click the pic to get them! 

***Want to get them on SALE??? I have included them in my "I'm Back!" Sale, but hurry because that ends at Midnight tonight! 

If you want to enter to win them, head over to my Facebook page to see how!

The "I'm Back!" Sale!

I never thought I'd be on someone's blog roll and see "last updated: one month ago". I have missed blogging and sharing with y'all, but December has pretty much been a blur. I've been working on starting a beauty/fashion blog, which can be found here (but let me warn you, it's in the EARLY stages!) and that's taken up a lot of my time, not to mention that Christmas time in 1st grade is beyond CRAZY!  I'm in Nashville right now with my cousin as she performs at a cheer competition, so when I get back home, I'm planning on catching y'all up on everything that's been going on in my teaching world. As an apology for neglecting my poor little blog, I'm throwing a 20% off sale in my TpT store starting tomorrow (Friday) and ending Monday. You can find my store here. Hope y'all have had a wonderful holiday! :) :)

Cyber Monday and Tuesday...Are you Ready??

It's no secret that I LOVE to shop, so of course I am very excited for TpT's Cyber Monday and Tuesday Event. I'm already adding things to my cart and wish list so that I will be ready to purchase Monday! 

Graphic provided by the fabulous Ashley Hughes...check out her blog if you haven't already. It's amazing!!

In addition to the 10% from TpT (use the code cmt12) , my store will be 20% off. That's a total of 28% off! You can view my entire store here or look at some of my featured products below. 

I've just uploaded my newest center packet. Check it out below:

Long o Center Activities

My best sellers will also be on sale:

The Bandit Y (Y as /e/ and /i/)

Fun Spelling Strategies 

Comprehension Posters

Nonliving and Living Science Lesson

And it's now a great time to get Christmas Activities! Check out my Christmas Units below:

Christmas Math and Literacy Centers

Christmas Nonsense Words

Be sure link up with us at Blog Hoppin' and check out everyone's sales!

Humpty Dumpty Sequence

Our comprehension skill this week is sequence. I decided to use a familar text to teach this and Humpty Dumpty fit perfectly! We read the poem on the smart board and identified the sequence. Then we made our own Humpty Dumptys (Dumpties?) The kids LOVED this activity and by the end, everyone could correctly identify the sequence! :)

I just love this one! The little girl who made him wears glasses so she wanted her Humpty Dumpty to wear some too! :)

Election and Veteran's Day

Okay, let me start off by saying I have been the worst blogger here lately. Life is crazy busy. I recently upgraded from a MacBook Air laptop to a MacBook Pro so all my files are scattered between two computers, hence the lack of blogging. Sidenote: if you are thinking about purchasing a computer this Christmas and are looking at a Mac or PC, definitely go with a Mac. I made the switch from a PC last spring and I LOVE my Mac. There's so much you can do on it. 

How much do y'all love teaching about the election?? I hate that it only happens once every four years. I was doing my student teaching during the 2008 election so this was the first election where I had my own classroom. We talked about the two candidates and learned about each one through a powerpoint I had created. Then we voted in our voting booth:

Then we did a portrait of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama and wrote why we wanted them to win.

In case you were wondering, President Obama won our class election 9 to 8. :)

We also did a couple of activities for Veteran's Day. We made patriotic kids and wrote a little poem to go with them. It's actually just a lyric from the song "You're a Grand Old Flag".  I plan to put these patterns in my Presidents Day Unit so look for that soon!

We also made soldiers, which the boys loved!

 I've also created two new units for Long a and Long i. Click the pictures below to get them!