WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL AND A FREEBIE

I just completed my first week of school!  Whew!  It was a "frog"tastic week of fun, but exhausting too.  Here are a few things we did this week:

We made AB pattern name tags to use during the first few weeks of school.  This was also a quick assessment of who can make an AB pattern and who can count to 10.

Our story of the week was The Little School Bus by Carol Roth.

We did a lot of activities around this book.

The students painted a bus using step by step directions.

We made ourselves on the bus.

 Here's the close-up of the kiddos!  They did a great job!

We did a lot of shared reading this week.  We buttered the "popcorn" words that kept popping up!

The students made a traffic light.  We discussed the positional words - top, middle, bottom.

The students practiced writing letters with the game - SPIN A LETTER

 Look at my kiddos working hard!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday was our 5th day of school.  The students discovered that 

5 pennies = a nickel.  The money is weighted!  I ordered the money from Learning Resources.

We ended the week cooking a tasty traffic light.  Yummy!!!

Now if you read to the end of this post - here's your freebie.  It's a school bus mini-unit.  Some items are used with the story, The Little School Bus by Carol Roth but most of the items can be used independent of the story.  Enjoy!

School Bus Mini-Unit

FROGGY FRIENDS BACK TO SCHOOL!

So this was our first week back and it was pretty busy, but I have a "frog"tastic class!  Our first day of school is always a half day ending with an Ice Cream Frozen Yogurt Social.  Yummy!  Some activities the students participated in were making a name tag and a place mat for lunch time (we eat in our classroom).  Since we are the Froggy Friends Class the students color a frog book page for our first class book, Froggy Friends.

 We also started on our August Monthly quilt by making a circle frog.

Here are a few pockets we read together for shared reading. 

We started buttering "popcorn" words, too!

We are remembering our jobs in the morning.  Here's the job chart!

 

 

We are learning about our daily responsibilities in the classroom.  We discussed what it means to be responsible and how to be a FABULOUS FROG.  Here's our Fabulous Frog sign and our 

DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES.

 

 

Here is the pocket chart that holds the individual student's responsibility cards.  If a student is having difficulties being responsible after I have reminded him, then the student will have to give me the appropriate responsibility card and accept the consequences of his actions.  The next day, first thing in the morning, the student and I will discuss what the problem was the previous day and how the student can solve the problem.  After our discussion, the student may return his/her card to the pocket chart for the new day.