Pumpkin Investigation

Hey there Pumpkin! :)

Hope your day was as fun and filled with learning as mine was! (This week my pumpkin learning was a lot less stinky)

Today we had a great time learning about pumpkins and doing our Pumpkin Investigation! I actually got this idea from a great mentor teacher in college. Tammi was one of those teachers who changed your life! She taught me so much in such a short amount of time... so this post is dedicated to Tammi!

Well, you can't have a Pumpkin Investigation without a

fabulous pumpkin outfit! :) I found this baby at goodwill

and HAD to have it! Bringing back the vest! lol

The investigation started with 2 pumpkins!

our pumpkin & the pumpkin

Looking at these pumpkins and pulling from our schema,

we filled out the Old Information & Questions sections

in our schema folders. I completed a class folder while the students 

filled out their individual schema folder. (The free file is on my TPT)

Here is the inside of the student schema folder

Here are some student samples

We read this great book called how many seeds in a pumpkin?

It is an AMAZING book that gives some great information about how

to count the seeds, and how you can guess which pumpkin will have more seeds!

Next, it was time to get busy! We got to put our hands into the pumpkin

and pull out the seeds and pulp! What a mess... but lots of fun!

Once the seeds were all rinsed off we counted our seeds by 2's, 5's, and 10's

Then, I wanted to talk with the students about being a Scientist!

We read this book and went through the I am a Scientist song and

powerpoint from Dr. Jean. We discussed making a hypothesis.

We came up with a hypothesis based around the idea that our pumpkin

would have more seeds because it was bigger.

Then, we came up with another hypothesis that the pumpkin would

have more seeds because it is darker orange and has more lines. 

Then, we read Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden.

If you have not read this book to your students it is a MUST! The

vocabulary is AMAZING! We were able to do a word hunt for adjectives!

To end the day the students got to read and color their own 

Pumpkin life cycle books. I made these quick for my class this weekend.

The file is also free on my TPT! 

Thank you for stoping by! Happy pumpkin fun to you!

More Chevron PLEASE!

Okay so you know I love my Chevron!

Well every good sale needs a good freebie. So today you will get the Flashy Chevron Circles for FREE!

Click on the images below to take you over to TPT to make it yours... but HURRY because it is only free for today until 10 pm EST!

My Very First Monday Made It!!

Hey friends!

I am so excited to have finally made something on a Monday and have had the time to blog about it!! Thank you to Tara at 4th Grade Frolics!!

Made it #1

My Birthday Chart is up!!! I am so happy I spent the time to redo this from last year! 

NEW

OLD

If you like my NEW birthday chart and have to have it click 

on the picture below to take you to my TPT store! 

Made it #2

This is my Freebie - It is a computer password & sub phone number key ring!

I am always forgetting passwords or losing sticky notes that great subs have given me. 

This is just a fun item I created for myself and you if you would like to have it!

Click the picture below to get it for FREE!

Made it #3

So I really wanted everything to be cohesive in my room this year. I also wanted it to be easy to go 

back and change if need be. This is a product of my meticulousness! ;)

(It matches the items/clipart in my Back 2 School Survival Kit)

Made it #4

I am loving things I am seeing on Instagram & Pinterest but it is hard to keep track of it all!

I always screen shot it to hope that I remember it... but let's face it, it just gets lost in all my photos!

So..... I created a TO DO picture album! Now I just drop the photos in the album and delete them as I complete them! My life just got a little easier! 

Monday Made it - Mission Complete!

One Tiny Turtle

Hey there!

Happy Thursday! I was really excited about ordering the One Tiny Turtle book by Nicola Davies from the scholastic book order. I was racking my brain trying to figure out how I wanted to use this book... then with just 9 days left to go I thought to myself, "STOP over-thinking this just let them ENJOY it!" So here is the craft and writing page :) It is FREE on my TPT - get it by clicking on the image below!

Enjoy!

You life the turtle to find out that she is laying eggs!

 The students LOVED making these and using their shape patterns from math :)

Top 10 Favorite Books!

Miss Proctor's First Grade Class LOVES Books!

I wanted the students to vote and decide which books were their absolute favorite books from this school year. They were allowed to nominate any book that we read in class. Then we had a vote!  Here are our top 10!

My ALL TIME favorite! Pete & Pickles - a great story about friendship!

For the Love of Autumn - Who does not love Patricia?? They also loved Junkyard Wonders!!!!

They all clapped after we read this story!

No, David! We love David Shannon! He makes us giggle!

Thump, Quack, Moo!

We did a fun visualizing activity with this book! 

This was a great book to use during our Earth Day (2 week long celebration)

I was so SURPRISED this was a favorite. It is the most basic story about spring, but we went outside and laid in the grass as I read to them. They loved visualizing and getting into the "spring feeling."

This is one of my other ABSOLUTE favorites! We read this around Halloween when we did our unit on Spiders. It is a creepy and very cool look at how spiders trick their prey. We also make our own stories and use black paper and white crayons to do similar illustrations. 

We all know I love the Interrupting Chicken! You can get our activity for this book FREE on my TPT

Way Side School! 

I remember reading these when I was a kid. We loved them, could not get enough! 

My class begs me to read them everyday. 

Next year I am going to try to do more with characters in this story. 

Here is our Book Rating Sheet we are going to be using next week as we re-read our top 10 favorite books of first grade!!

The students fill in the stars based on their opinion,

 Then they will write about why they did or did not like the story! 

I hope your last few weeks are filled with fun & lots of great books!