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I am a first grade teacher who has rediscovered a love for firsties this year. I have taught pre-k, kindergarten, first grade and even second over the past 16 years. I have been married for 17 years to my wonderful husband and have been blessed with 2 very active boys.

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Twas the Week Before Thanksgiving...

Twas the Week Before Thanksgiving...



 Where did this month go?  It amazes and even scares me a little to see the time flying by so fast!
Here are a few activities my kiddos worked on this week in reading, language arts and math.

 
The Corn Stalk game from my Cornucopia of Learning pack.


Serving Up Some Reading Phrases to practice fluency with out high frequency words

 
Partner Reading with our poetry notebooks with poems from Fun in First


Short vowel practice with Gobble, Gobble by Vickie Plant 

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We read Turkey Trouble and then wrote letters to the farmer to try and convince him to have something other than turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.  They were so cute:)


We practice addition strategies with counting cubes, counting on, doubles and doubles plus/minus one.  The doubles plus/minus one is such a hard concept for these firsties.  Our math curriculum moves so fast and a new strategy should have been introduced each day.  I had to slow it down a bit!



We did manage to get in one Turkey Project.  Turkey Tom came from Pinterest with a recipe for left over turkey casserole and the rice was in the bag!  A coworker found it and I am unable to find the link.  If you know who the idea belongs to, PLEASE let me know!

I am linking up with Teaching Maddeness for


I am so THANKFUL to be off this coming week!

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Mrs. Wathen
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Intervention Groups

Intervention Groups


Intervention groups started last Monday with first grade.  The kids love switching classes for 30 minutes.  My little bunch of firsties are adorable.  I am working with the decoding group with CVC words.  We are using  Short Vowel Fun by Made in First Grade as well as lots of short vowel games by Doodlebugs Teaching along with our decodable readers. 

Today I ran across a post on Tales from Outside the Classroom.  Tessa shared an activity she used call Teaching Tiles Early Learning Reading Readiness Center by from Educational Insights.

 
The best news is that she is giving one away over on her blog!  Fingers crossed I win!  HA:) It is great for one on one with RTI, intervention groups, reading groups and as independent practice during centers. 
 
Another great giveaway I am sure you already know about is Make No Bones About It with Kelley at Teacher Idea Factory.  Halloween and fall units by super bloggers are up for grabs.  I already purchased Kelley's Good Morning Work for Reading and Language Arts-October.  The kids love it and I love the review it gives them. 
 
Lots of great resources out there.   I am just weeding through them to see what my little intervention group needs!  Have a great weekend:)
 
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