Showing posts with label character. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Second Week Stuff

Color mixing with fingerpaint after reading "Mouse Paint"

I found these cute mice with puddles and such on a website  a long time ago. I can't remember the website but I don't think it is around anymore. 


Tracing with pattern block templates.

Play Doh numbers


We read many Clifford books and talked about the color red, things that are red, etc. I also threw in some word work with Popcorn Words a and I 

Matching days of the week with events from "Cookie's Week".



Simple color/shape dice game/graph.

Name mix/fix


My kids are loving this!! We've read a couple of the "bucket" books and brainstormed tons of dipper and filler behaviors.

Working with numbers and 1 to 1 correspondence.


counting out beads for numerals


Making simple shapes and letters and numbers with pretzel sticks.

We came up with lots of good bucket fillers !


I'm doing this big book for shared reading tomorrow. I call this "rip and read". I wrap the book  in paper then rip of bits at a time to revel the cover. After each rip the kids give input as to what they think the book is about, etc. They always say Mr. Grump is grumpy because of the cat and really the cat isn't even in the story...just on the front cover. I like Mr. Grump because the text is really repetitive and the kids are constantly pulling it out of the big book center.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Week 1

I have been neglectful of this blog! Week 1 and the weeks leading up to school is just so overwhelming! 
This is a chalk drawing from Ben Glenn. He was our Opening Meeting motivational speaker. He was wonderful! He talked about the challenges of being Learning Disabled and having ADHD. Here is his website: Ben Glenn

Simple pattern block shape gluing.

Square Bear


After reading "A Color Of His Own" and talking about differences and tolerance we colored our own chameleon.


After reading "Mouse Count" I had my strugglers practice putting the numbered mice in jars 0-10. I think I got these mice cards from makinglearningfun.com


Simple shape file folder game.


This year we are doing "How Full is Your Bucket". Our guidance counselor is leading us through it ....school wide. So our first intro lesson was determining 'good' versus 'bad' character traits.

Simple graph activity for the first day.