Jelly Beans & Bread

Jelly Beans & Bread - interesting title, right? Well this week we are studying the vowel digraph /ea/.
It's been awhile since my class has played a game of "I Have, Who Has?" and they've been asking for it!

I know they are going to get a kick out of it especially since my last name - deal - is one of the words. Don't your students always giggle when there is a student's name (or mom's name or dog's name) in a word problem?  They just have to tell you, don't they?

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Of course, I want to leave everyone with a special goodie.  Here's a printable that goes along with the vowel digraph /ea/.  Just click the picture to download it from GoogleDocs.

Evelyn from Mrs. Evelyn Stevenson's First Grade Class contacted me about a Christian School Teacher's Blog Train.  She's linked up all the Christian educators that she know about here. If you want to be added to the list make sure to visit her blog!

How did you handle the time change?? I am SUPER tired, but I tried really hard not to sleep in.  Luckily tomorrow is a teacher workday so the students have an extra day to get adjusted. I think the VP knows how tired we'll be because she's planning on serving us Moe's for lunch.

I want to get a jump start on my teacher's workday and finish the report card comments, grading, and conference reports that are all due this week. So you know I actually have time to clean up classroom or something.  

Enjoy your Sunday!  Maybe take an extra nap (or two)!

Survived Week One!

Whew!  The first week of school flew by and it's time for week two.  I enjoyed getting to know my sweet class this past week and I can already tell it's going to be an AMAZING year!  Especially when I looked up one day and one of my students was doing the "sprinkler" dance after finishing the assignment.  Does it really get any better than that?

I always forget how little the firsties are at the beginning of the year!  They don't have many independent skills.  I love it when I tell them they can open their own snack with their scissors - it's seriously la lightbulb moment.  Ha!  During math this week, I had drawn a number line on a shower curtain and was having the students hop across to practice counting forwards and backwards.  I made them take off their shoes, which of course, they couldn't believe I let them do that.  And then 3 of them couldn't put their shoes back on. Ha! As we say in the South, bless their hearts!

Over the summer I had made a phonics review game.  I had planned to do it on Thursday, but I worried the students wouldn't understand how to play.  But I was worried for nothing!  They understood how to play and enjoyed getting out of their seats.

The game is called Beginning Sounds SCOOT.  SCOOT is a game you can play with any skill you'd like.  Each student has a card and a recording sheet.  They write down the answer on the recording sheet and then "scoot" to the next seat.  I'm trying to upload to TPT as a freebie, but it's not working.  Hopefully it'll be up soon!

Edited: I finally got the game upload.  You can pick it up here.