Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts

Friday, March 30, 2012

Yummy Plant Parts, Egg-cellent word work and Texas Symbols

Well spring is finally in the air, and we started our unit on plants! We’ve learned all about the different parts of the plant this week, and then we discussed what parts of a plant you could eat. I don’t think my kids realized how many different plant parts could actually be eaten! They were loving it!

We made this little anchor chart as we brainstormed the different parts that would be yummy in our tummies.

plant parts chart 

After we thought of as many as we could, we made some plants to put in our “class garden.” I saw this idea on pinterest and just knew that we had to do it! It turned out so adorable!

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Here are some close ups of the vegetables and fruits.

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strawberry turnip potato

You can download the labels in the picture below!

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Next week, we’re working on the –ump and –unk chunk. Since Easter is just around the corner, I decided to make some word work eggs that I had pinned way back when! Here’s how they turned out. I added some tape around them to make the letters more secure. The labels kept wanting to peel off.

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I also made a symbol chart and data sheet to go with them. I left the chunk section blank on one copy so that you can use them with different words. If you’d like to download, just click on the pictures below! Hope you enjoy!

Freebie with the –unk and –ump chunk.

Eggcellent Words -unk, -ump

This freebie has a blank space for the chunk so that you can choose your own!

Eggcellent Words blank Eggcellent Words symbol chart

We’re starting to wrap up our Texas symbol unit. We made a few more Texas crafts. We made these cute pecan trees that I saw on my sweet sister-in-law Jaymee’s blog, Adventures in First Grade. We also made the Alamo. They turned out so cute, and the kiddos always love to paint!

Pecan trees and alamo texas symbols board

That about wraps up this week! So glad that it’s FRIDAY!!! Hope ya’ll have a wonderful weekend!


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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Don’t Mess with Texas and the –uck Chunk

We’re still continuing with our Texas unit. We’ve been trying to create all of our state symbols. I made a little power point to introduce the unit. You can click on the first slide below to download the power point!

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After we went over the symbols, we started our Texas book, and my kiddos had fun making a few Texas-style crafts!

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symbols

We have a lot more symbols that I’ll post for you soon!

This week, we’ve been working on the –unk chunk, so we made these little ducks to practice our words!

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Click on picture below for the –uck sheet.

uck words 

Good luck to all of the Texas teachers who are giving the STAAR test this week! Counting down till Friday!!


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Friday, February 24, 2012

For my fellow Texans

We are beginning our Texas unit next week.. yee haw! :) To start off the unit, I’m introducing this poem to my class to put into their poetry journals.

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Here is the poem for your class if you’d like a copy! If anyone has any fun Texas activities, let me know please!!


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