Five for Friday! It's been a busy week!

Well, the weekend is almost here and I'm linking up with DoodleBugs and 

her Five for Friday Linky Party. Here's a peek into our week.

We got busy with turkeys this week! We have been working on addition strategies in math and this week we have been concentrating on adding doubles and adding doubles plus 1. They loved this turkey game. They played in partners and each one had a different colored crayon. First player would roll a die and whatever it landed on they would double it. If it landed on 3 then they had to find the sum of 3+3. Then they colored a 6 on their turkey. If there were no more 6's then they lost their turn. Then the second player would roll the die, double the number and find the sum. Then they colored the answer with the crayon color that they chose.

We used large foam dice too. It really helped cut the noise down and they loved using them!

We have been learning about animals for several weeks and to wrap up our unit we are doing a research project. My kiddos picked an animal and then had to find some nonfiction books so they could gather information about their animal. The had to find 4 facts about their animal. To help us accomplish this we asked the fourth graders for some help. The two classes worked really well together. It was great to see the fourth graders take the lead by encouraging and supporting the first graders. Once they had their facts they had to make a popplet. Below is one of our popplets:

My kiddos love to sing and we seem to have a song for everything we do! lol I thought it would be fun to share one of our favorite Thanksgiving songs. This is one I have been using for years and I found a video of it on youtube. 

                                    

Do you order books from Scholastic? I do and I just love it when our order comes in. I'm not sure who gets more excited! I always buy way too many books for the classroom but I absolutely cannot resist. Anyway.....my book order arrived yesterday and I opened the box and started sorting the orders. Then I found it...

One of the funniest books I have ever read! 

I laughed so hard. You have to get yourself a copy of this book!

The /aw/ sound. We have been working on the /aw/ sound all week long and I think we've got it! I hid /aw/ words all around the first floor of our school. My kiddos get excited when they start seeing words around the school. They know there is a word hunt just around the corner.

They find words and bring them back to the classroom to read and then we put them on the easel.

We also read our fluency phrases.

If you would like to purchase my /aw/ sound unit you can by clicking here.