Ship Shape Elementary: October

Showing posts with label October. Show all posts
Showing posts with label October. Show all posts

Hello Fall Centers!

05 October 2015
You probably noticed that things are a bit of a mess around here!  The blog is under construction for the next little while as it is receiving a bit of a facelift, but hopefully it won't take too long.  

I wanted to share a few screenshots from a recent project that has my students and I all excited!  I wanted to create some engaging and productive centers that are simple and easy to prepare.  With a baby on the way and a plethora of changes on my horizon, simplicity is what I am aiming for in each little realm of my life!

Here are a few pages from my Hello, Fall Centers packet.  All of the activities are Common Core aligned and come with simple instructions and suggestions.  If you are interested in this packet it will be on sale throughout the rest of the week!












Click here to purchase!

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October Recap

29 November 2014
Hey, it’s me! I need to ask for your forgiveness for my absence of late!  We all know that life has a way of getting extremely busy at times.  My attention has been needed in other realms of my life (you know, like the laundry room), but I am happy to be back to share some of what we’ve been up to in first grade!

I like to keep this blog as a sort of virtual scrapbook of my teaching adventures and so I hope you don’t mind if I play catch-up for a bit.

In this post I will highlight some things we did in October and in the next I will highlight November.


We practiced skip counting with this pumpkin page from my Pumpkin Time packet.


We got out the glitter and made some spider webs.


We learned about spiders and put a cute little spider fact on our webs before hanging them in the hall to share what we had learned.


We had a pumpkin taste test party in which my kids sampled pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin seeds, and pure pumpkin (this kiddo licked his spoon clean!).


We collected some data to see which pumpkin foods was the favorite!


Wouldn't you know it?  Pumpkin seeds were the favorite! 


The week of Halloween week was also our Red Ribbon Week.  The entire school let go of red balloons with a drug-free pledge attached to each.


Halloween was a high-energy all-day party!  My kids were so darling and we had such a great day.  We even got some learning done.  In the afternoon my room moms threw a great party for my kiddos and we enjoyed these darling monster donuts at the end!

Thanks for letting me catch up!  Stay tuned for November! :)



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Giant Pumpkins and ANOTHER Giveaway!

09 October 2013




Today was such a happy day for my kids!  The parents of one of my students emailed and asked if they could come show my first graders the giant pumpkins they had grown!  Um, yes!  





We waited with GREAT anticipation...







While we waited we did some impromptu literacy activities.  We read these adorable books, here and here.
















We brainstormed a list of things that might be necessary or useful when growing a giant pumpkin.  Our ideas ranged from healthy soil and sunshine to fish guts, classical music, and electric blankets!  I had the kids write down and share what they would do if they had the chance to grow a giant pumpkin and then we made some quick tissue paper "giant" pumpkins. Special thanks to my sweet husband James for making me a quick pumpkin outline for this activity!















My student's sweet parents were running a little late (they had just come from a weighing contest!), but they were so good to let my kids get up close and personal to these orange beauties and to ask as many questions as they wanted!










These pumpkins were INCREDIBLE!  I thought my kids would die, they loved it so much!  Later on they were allowed to climb up on the trailer and touch the pumpkins, give them hugs, and we took some hilarious class pictures with these giants! Thank goodness for spur-of-the-moment schema-building!  They loved this so much, as evidenced by their subsequent journal entries for the day.















This was the perfect random educational blessing in my day today! I've already mentioned that I am trying my hand at thematic teaching and I'm working on planning a pumpkin week for my sweet kids so this was the perfect launch!





I can hardly wait for more pumpkin fun!





By the way, if you are looking for some great pumpkin activities check out my October Packet!  It has loads of pumpkin-themed literacy and math pages.  It will be on sale for another day or two!  Click below or right here!










What are your favorite pumpkin activities?  Leave a comment with your email address! And don't forget to follow my blog! I will randomly choose 2 comments and email you my October Packet for FREE!









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Giant Pumpkins and ANOTHER Giveaway!


Today was such a happy day for my kids!  The parents of one of my students emailed and asked if they could come show my first graders the giant pumpkins they had grown!  Um, yes!  

We waited with GREAT anticipation...

While we waited we did some impromptu literacy activities.  We read these adorable books, here and here.




We brainstormed a list of things that might be necessary or useful when growing a giant pumpkin.  Our ideas ranged from healthy soil and sunshine to fish guts, classical music, and electric blankets!  I had the kids write down and share what they would do if they had the chance to grow a giant pumpkin and then we made some quick tissue paper "giant" pumpkins. Special thanks to my sweet husband James for making me a quick pumpkin outline for this activity!



My student's sweet parents were running a little late (they had just come from a weighing contest!), but they were so good to let my kids get up close and personal to these orange beauties and to ask as many questions as they wanted!


These pumpkins were INCREDIBLE!  I thought my kids would die, they loved it so much!  Later on they were allowed to climb up on the trailer and touch the pumpkins, give them hugs, and we took some hilarious class pictures with these giants! Thank goodness for spur-of-the-moment schema-building!  They loved this so much, as evidenced by their subsequent journal entries for the day.



This was the perfect random educational blessing in my day today! I've already mentioned that I am trying my hand at thematic teaching and I'm working on planning a pumpkin week for my sweet kids so this was the perfect launch!

I can hardly wait for more pumpkin fun!

By the way, if you are looking for some great pumpkin activities check out my October Packet!  It has loads of pumpkin-themed literacy and math pages.  It will be on sale for another day or two!  Click below or right here!


What are your favorite pumpkin activities?  Leave a comment with your email address! And don't forget to follow my blog! I will randomly choose 2 comments and email you my October Packet for FREE!



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