I survived! I made it through our first week back! I really have a GREAT class this year! We have a lot of work to do, but they are just super sweet. VERY HIGH ENERGY, but super sweet! This week in math we focused on numbers 16-20. Our curriculum breaks down numeracy and focuses on […]
Math has always been difficult for me. I was throughout high school and continued through my college days! Oh, how I hated going to math classes in college! Because of all of this, though, it really makes me strive to be a BETTER math teacher. I really want my kids to have a strong understanding […]
With a new school year come many new goals. One of my goals is to implement math workshop. I really do enjoy teaching with the workshop model and I have tried it in the past with math. While I enjoyed it, it just was difficult for me to remain consistent. I would try a different […]
Happy 4th of July!!! What a privilege it is to live in America and be free!!! To be honest, I struggle at times with why the Lord picked me to be born and raised here. Not all are. It’s easy to be a Christian in America; that’s not the case in other places. I am […]
So I just found this blog post that I started, but never finished. I decided tonight was a good night to do so! It’s not like I have end of year things to do or anything….right?!?! 😉 A couple weeks ago we were working on measuring and comparing how much items hold–CAPACITY! The kiddos really […]
The last few weeks we have been measuring in math! We have measured and compared length, area, and weight. Here is a peek at how we have done some things. Week 1 we compared length. You can read more about this {HERE}. Week 2 we compared area of 2D objects. I cut out house shapes […]
This week we are diving into problem solving…again! Boy, oh boy!! We already covered problem solving this year, (read more about that HERE), but it’s not easier the second time around. We are back on the crazy problem solving merry-go-round….at least that’s what it feels like! SERIOUSLY!! The questions that CSCOPE gives as examples are […]
Figure or shape? For so long we have called them 3D shapes. My principal met with us last week after hearing a lady from TEA share this story: I observed a teacher teach a great interactive lesson about 3D shapes. It was very hands-on, the students were very engaged, and they had a solid understanding. […]
I think they call it “problem solving” within the math realm for a reason! Ya’ll, this is TOUGH for my kids! Maybe it’s the just the way the problems are worded and how they have to secretly solve for “x”….(HELLO ALGEBRA IN FIRST GRADE!!!), but it is just plain hard. After teaching it for 3 […]
Can you believe that January is over already? Time has flown by! Only 11 months left for 2013!! We have been working on telling time to the hour and half hour this week. We made these clocks using paper plates, sentence strips, brads, and markers. We watched several YouTube Videos. Here is my favorite! We […]
I hope you all have been enjoying this BEAUTIFUL Sunday!! At least here in Texas it’s gorgeous outside! I have been working on this for the last 3 hours so I am completely ready to just keep it short and close my computer for the day and go enjoy the weather!! Here is a peak […]
Last week we finished our little unit on money. We used this unit as we learned about money and their equivalent values. I can honestly say that 90% of my friends did WONDERFUL with equivalent values of money!! I was thrilled! Here is the money unit we used. I also have decided to add some […]
Okay, so I feel like I am breaking a law of some sort by blogging twice in one day. I never have time for this kind of craziness! 🙂 BUT, I have two big things to celebrate! 1. I hit 200 followers on this little ‘ole blog of mine!!!2. I hit a personal goal on […]
We finally had our Holiday program this week and my wishful thinking was not good enough. My kids are out of control, people! Sweet, sweet, hearts, but talkers, talkers, talkers! I knew it was time to bring out Eddie the Elf. I have done a classroom Elf since my first year of teaching. Some years […]
Happy Monday!! I don’t know about you, but it feels like my little first grade friends are ready for a break. We have our Holiday Performance tomorrow and a part of me hopes that after that is over, the kids may go back to normal. We were just extra crazy today! On to better things! […]
I’m late on posting this…I know! This week we continued patterning, but with numbers. We identified patterns in numbers-even and odd numbers and counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. Here are some snap shots of our anchor charts we made. Nothing too fancy. It was a race against the clock last week! YEESH! We also discussed […]
This week was a short week for us. We had parent conferences on Monday morning and then staff development in the afternoon. (I was honored to present on guided reading and I. LOVED. IT. I loved helping teachers. We had SUCH great conversation and many wonderful questions were asked.) It was 7 kinds of crazy! […]
It was a super busy weekend, but I finally finished up my Comparing Numbers to 30 unit. I used several pieces of this to introduce 10 frames and teach place value and number comparisons a couple of weeks ago. I also added math station games that I hope to introduce soon and use for […]
