Sprout House and Bean Observation Journal

On Earth Day, we had a "Planting Day and Jack and the Beanstalk Day". It was a blast! Each kid brought in a plant and on this day we were gardeners and made our very own garden!

The kids had SO much fun with this that we continued to do our planting over the next couple of weeks. We made grassheads (which were SO fun!). 

We also planted a bean (just like Jack did!) in our very own "sprout houses".

It was so fun watching the beans transform! The kids used an observation journal to record the changes that they observed. 

You can grab this freebie in my TpT store if you would like to try it out for yourself! I can guarantee that your kids will have a blast! Click on the picture :)

                         

SPRING is in the air...and so is another giveaway!

So, I FINALLY finished my Spring Literacy Activities, Writing, and NO PREP pack! That's right! It's 115 pages of fun literacy, writing, and no prep activities! Click on the picture to check it out! 

You'll get awesome literacy station activities such as:

Rhyming

(two different versions)

Ai/Ay Word Sort and Sentence Writing

Contractions

Compound Words

(two different versions)

Here's a summary of the other fun literacy activities in this pack

You think that's alot? There's also MANY writing and no prep printables as well! Check them out in this preview:

The best part about this pack is that I'm doing a giveaway! One lucky winner will get this 115 page pack for FREE! Winner will be announced on Sunday!

All you have to do is enter below:

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 Thanks for stopping by and checking out my product!

       

A big THANKS and giveaway winner!

Thank you for those of you who participated in our iTeachFirst giveaway! It was a huge success and we have reached so many people. Be sure to continue to look out for more giveaways and other awesome opportunities!

I wanted to announce our Rafflecopter giveaway. Congratulations to Heather on winning my Spring Writing and No Prep pack!! I hope you enjoy it! For those of you who entered and didn't win, you can check it out below!

Spring Writing and NO PREP Literacy Activities

I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their Wednesday! :)

An exciting announcement AND a giveaway!!

Hi, Friends!

I have a very exciting announcement to make! 

I have decided to team up with some of my very best first grade buddies to write for a collaborative blog! 

That means ONE blog with TONS of great ideas from several super awesome First Grade teachers!

One thing I L-O-V-E about this blog, is you will know exactly what to expect each day of the week.  For every day, there is a blogging theme.  Check them out! 

I'm SO excited to get started on this new adventure, and am thrilled to invite you along for the ride.  Let's celebrate with a little giveaway!  

You can win my newly made Spring Writing and NO PREP Literacy Activities Pack!

 This is a super fun springtime pack with writing prompts, graphic organizers, writing activities and many easy literacy NO PREP printables to reinforce skills! Check it out! 

All you have to do to enter is follow us over at iTeachFirst then follow the instructions in the Rafflecopter below!

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Can't wait to get started sharing some great First Grade ideas with you!

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Spring MEGA pack!

We have been having so much fun learning about spring and having spring related literacy stations. I decided to make a MEGA pack with literacy station activities!

Included in this fun pack is:

Sentence Writing: pull a spring picture card and write a sentence on the record sheet above! 

Spring parts of speech: Pull a card and sort under "noun", "verb", or "adjective" headings and then record next to the correct number on the record sheet! 

Spring Acrostic (above) and How many words can you make with the word "Springtime" (below)

Spring ABC order with picture cards!

Sight Word Board Game: Help the bunny get to the basket. Sight word cards included! 

CVC and other words rhyming eggs! 

Spring antonyms and synonym matching cards. 

Also included:

- six writing prompts

- scrambeled eggs: crack open an egg and make a word with the letters (record sheet)

- compound word match

- syllable cards

- match the word to the picture card

- Rain Rain Go Away (ai/ay word sort) with record sheet

Grab a copy for yourself! 

EGGcellent Math! Egg math activities!

So, our spring break starts tomorrow and unfortunately Easter falls during our break! So I made these awesome egg math activities to do when we get back. It will just make Easter that much more exciting!! There are over 8 fun math related activities in this pack! They are GREAT for math stations or tubs! :)

Spring Is Here!! (and almost SPRING BREAK)

I can't believe we have one more day until spring break! I started some fun spring stations this week that I wanted to share with ya'll!!

We did spring sentence writing at our writing station

The students pull a card and match the card to the picture on the record sheet and write a sentence. They love when I put these at the writing station! This pack even includes a story paper for the kiddos to pull a card and write a story about their card! 

Click on the picture or click here to grab a copy!