Sunday, September 30, 2012

Winner!! Weekly review

Hey guys! I am excited to say that Rachel M won the giveaway of the Fox and Kit packet. I hope that everyone is enjoying these. I know that my students love them and love the familiarity of the packets. 


I wanted to put together a 100 follower giveaway. I am very close. If you would be interested in giving away a packet, please contact me at kimberlycollatos@comcast.net.

Okay...so I am getting caught up so the blog will be getting the long needed attention!!


I'm going to add a few pictures to show a few things that we have been working on. 


1. We are working on building our stamina with Read to Self. 


2. We are working on shaving cream spelling. I went over this again and again with my students about the correct way to use it. STILL...I had a student come up to me with an icky face because he thought it was whipped cream lol...NOOOO :)






3.  We have been working on sentence order. Students were responsible for taking a sentence and writing it correctly before cutting it and putting it in a bag. They had to use correct capitalization and punctuation. Then, they traded with the other teams to see which team would correctly put together sentences in the correct order. They had a BLAST!




4. We had a bunny come visit to discuss fiction and non-fiction passages. THEY LOVED THIS!!!










Wednesday, September 26, 2012

First Grade Common Core

Hey guys! I wanted to share with you a resource that I have found that I am really excited to share. I saw the Kindergarten version bouncing around and I couldn't wait until there was a first grade version...well I found it! I am really impressed to be able to find many great ideas right here in one book. Please go to the website to check it out! It even has a free download so that you can see what all is inside. For the best First Grade Common Core ideas please click the link to check out this workbook.

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

I'm baaacckk :) GIVEAWAY

Hey all! Well...I am still alive lol. I am sorry that I have not been blogging too much lately. It is just very hard to find time right now. I am totally enjoying this year with my kiddos.


I have FINALLY finished my packet that goes well with Reading Street Story "A fox and kit". I hope that you enjoy this as much as I do :) I am going to be giving away a packet to one lucky winner. I hope that you will please let me know what you think.




a Rafflecopter giveaway

As of next week, I will be starting to update my blog more. I am just trying to make it through my observation. I'm being observed when I will be teaching doubles. Does anyone have any great resources or lessons for this?







Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Sick already?

Sorry that I haven't posted recently! This year is very chaotic.

On top of that...I'm sick. I'm pretty sure that I have strep. Yuck! I hope to get to the dr tomorrow. However, we have open house tomorrow night until 7. I am just not feeling good at all.

I am working on the next two units for the Reading Street story. Does anyone have any requests for the units?

I am happy that we are starting to build some routines. :) So not much posted tonight. However, I will definitely post some pics by this weekend and hopefully finish one of the packets this weekend. I am hopeful anyways!