tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182547456274325472024-03-13T06:54:23.504-04:00First Grade BestFirst Grade Besthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792910337735359021noreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118254745627432547.post-39550410212613898522017-08-22T18:20:00.000-04:002017-08-22T18:36:35.882-04:00Pack a Picnic Basket<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's Picnic Time!</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Time to celebrate the end of summer and Back-To-School with a family picnic. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <b><a href="https://www.mothergoosetime.com/" target="_blank">Mother Goose Time Preschool Curriculum</a></b> (MGT) celebration kit made this special day simple, easy, and fun!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> This month's Family Picnic celebration kit included invitation postcards, Pack a Picnic Basket song and game pieces, Apple Sandwich Snack directions, Marching Ants game, What is Missing? game, and two picnic-themed exploration stations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This family picnic celebration kit is included in the <b><a href="https://www.mothergoosetime.com/themes/" target="_blank">August "Superheroes" themed Mother Goose Time</a></b> curriculum box. (Mother Goose Time includes a different themed celebration pack within each month's curriculum box.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's a look at a few of the pages from the Family Picnic celebration guide.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Picnic Theme Books</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We're Going On a Picnic! by Pat Hutchins</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mouse's First Summer by Lauren Thompson</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A Picnic by Rozanne Lanczak Williams</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We sang the song "Ants at the Picnic" using the lyrics provided in our Mother Goose Family Picnic guide. This song was fun to sing! The circle time CD is included in the Mother Goose Time Welcome Kit. I received this <b><a href="https://www.mothergoosetime.com/included-materials/" target="_blank">circle time CD when I placed my first monthly curriculum order</a></b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We sponge painted red squares onto the white paper to make a picnic blanket.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the paint dried, we used the round, black stickers to make ant bodies. I helped my 2 year old decorate his ants. (MGT supplied the paper, sponge, and black stickers. All I had to do was supply the paint.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Apple Sandwich </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The celebration guide even included a simple apple sandwich snack idea. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To make this snack, spread peanut butter (or your choice of spread) on one of the apple slices, count out 1-10 raisins and add them to the slice. Cover with another apple slice and enjoy! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Marching Ants game allowed us to work on basic number concepts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(I simply love, love, love the fact that Mother Goose Time Supplies all of these materials in my monthly curriculum box.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My little guy loved the Marching Ants spinner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He made sure the spinner landed on exactly the number he needed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's so much fun to count ants! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(The pictured ant manipulatives are from a different math activity set.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> After conversation and free play, I placed three food cards on the table. We named each item. I asked my little guy to close his eyes and I removed one card. My little guy had to guess which food card was missing. We played this game several times!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The picnic collage station was a quiet activity to compliment our indoor, rainy day picnic. My little guy looked at food pictures in recycled magazines. He pointed to and named the foods he wanted to eat. I cut out the photos of the foods he chose. He glued the photos to the paper plate to make a collage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My little guy could be heard saying, "Mmm, I love cherries.", "Delicious!", and "Yummy in my tummy!". He was so excited to share his picnic plate!</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Legend of Jelly Bean and the Unbreakable Egg: </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I received this book from a friend and teaching colleague and I knew right away that it would be the perfect seasonal book for young children.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Here's a Peek Into the Story: </b><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">Five fluffy chicks peck, poke, and whack a friend who is not ready to hatch! Much to their dismay, the unbreakable egg is collected by the farmer. The chicks follow the farmer to rescue Chick Six, but not before falling into the Easter egg dye. Finally, these colorful chicks receive a colorful surprise when the sixth chick Jelly Bean makes an appearance. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Prior to the start of the lesson, I hid many plastic eggs. The children found the eggs and opened each egg to reveal a small shape cut-out. The children were asked to identify and sort these shapes and to place the egg in the colored buckets.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><b>Jelly Bean Sorting With Our Very Own Jelly Bean Chicks</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ask K-2 students to write about their own unbreakable egg, complete a written retelling of the story, identify and explain their favorite part of the book, and make connections to self, text, or the real world.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> These books were perfect for exploring and learning about the color green and shamrocks galore!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> We turned the shamrocks over and used a die to practice our counting skills too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/p-3994-march-poppin-patterns-seasonal-calendar-days.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>March- Poppin'Patterns Seasonal Calendar Days</b></span></a> were the perfect accents for these seasonal bingo cards. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We continued our work with colors and patterns and made our own Shamrock Necklaces for a little St. Patrick's Day parade! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We used the cute <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/p-4337-shamrocks-stickers.aspx" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Shamrocks Stickers</span></b></a> from <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">Creative Teaching Press</span></b></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Before sharing this activity with my students, I cut the stickers apart and attached paper clips to the individual shamrocks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also taped leprechauns to each magnetic wand and cut the pipe cleaners into small pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The pipe cleaner pieces were attracted to the magnetic wand and provided for a little magnetic discovery and discussion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I challenged the children to put all of the "rainbow" colored pipe cleaner pieces in the bottle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A simple and fun fine motor and hand-eye coordination activity!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We called the bowls the "pot of gold"! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Measure each student's head with a shamrock boarder strip and cut the strip to size. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Attach the <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/p-4486-shamrocks-6-designer-cut-outs.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Shamrock 6" Designer Cut-Outs</b></span></a> to pieces of pipe cleaners and tape the pipe cleaners to the inside of the headband. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you don't have these fantastic Creative Teaching products at a store near you, grab some sentence strips and green construction paper. Trace and cut out shamrocks and assemble the headbands in the same fashion! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">During your morning meeting time, turn on the St. Patrick's Day music and dance your own version of The Shamrock Shake!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In February, I received an email from Creative Teaching Press inviting readers to share their Valentine's Day craft activities. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don't know about you, but I am usually full of ideas, but short on time! Since that thought is usually the norm, I simply glance at those emails and think "Oh, that would be really great." "I wish I had the time to send a few photos." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, since I absolutely <span style="color: red;"><b>LOVE</b></span> the products from<span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/" target="_blank"><u><b><span style="color: blue;">Creative Teaching Press</span></b></u></a>,</span> I found five minutes and replied with <a href="http://www.firstgradebest.blogspot.com/2013/02/v-is-for-vase-and-valentines-day.html" target="_blank"><i><u>two photos</u></i></a>. A few days later I received an email that my entry had been chosen as a winner!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Look at the fun products I received from the great people at </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was "Christmas Day" (only in March) when the Creative Teaching Box arrived at my front door!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am excited to share the fun my pre-k students are having this week using these products.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Turn the <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/p-4503-shamrocks-10-jumbo-designer-cut-outs.aspx" target="_blank">Jumbo Shamrock</a> upside down to make the body, add a semi-circle for the face, trace and cut out the hat, and glue the pieces together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the final touches, use a black marker to draw the face and add some "lucky" <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/p-1814-shamrock-two-color-calendar-cut-outs.aspx" target="_blank"><b>shamrock two-color calendar cut-outs</b></a> to the Leprechaun's hat and hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While the coffee filters dry, assemble the vase<span style="font-size: small;">. We used a cut-out </span>letter v f<span style="font-size: small;">or the vase</span>, added the green flower stem<span style="font-size: small;">s and</span> leaves, and the <span style="font-size: small;">(</span>blended coffee f<span style="font-size: small;">ilter<span style="font-size: small;">)</span> flowers.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was quick and easy <span style="font-size: small;">t</span>o<span style="font-size: small;"> make these <span style="font-size: small;">cute nap<span style="font-size: small;">kin covered books<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Find the penguin on each double page spread!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>This special pie should be place on the table and opened on Valentine's Day. Inside this pastry is a unique mixture of goo<span style="font-size: large;">d thoughts and <span style="font-size: large;">kind words. The Sweetie Pie should be served with lo<span style="font-size: large;">ts of love and an extra helping of kindness this Valentin<span style="font-size: large;">e's Day!</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Cut a circle from brown construction paper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This b<span style="font-size: large;">r<span style="font-size: large;">own circle w<span style="font-size: large;">ill be the top of the Sweetie Pie. </span></span></span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Use a black marker to draw a crisscross pattern<span style="font-size: large;"> on the <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">top</span> of the pie</span></span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Place <span style="font-size: large;">a paper plate under the <span style="font-size: large;">pie.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Leave an opening<span style="font-size: large;"> to <span style="font-size: large;">insert the love notes</span></span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">the Sweetie Pie Poem and Love Notes<span style="font-size: large;">. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Glue the poem <span style="font-size: large;">to the top of the <span style="font-size: large;">Sweetie Pie</span></span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Write love notes to family members<span style="font-size: large;"> and insert the love notes into the Swee<span style="font-size: large;">tie Pie</span></span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Serve this pastry on Valentine's Day<span style="font-size: large;">!</span> </span></span></div>
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First Grade Besthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792910337735359021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118254745627432547.post-6703879447030670302013-01-25T15:54:00.002-05:002013-01-25T15:54:24.978-05:00Snowman Fun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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First Grade Besthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792910337735359021noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118254745627432547.post-23746312508697189432013-01-23T17:03:00.000-05:002013-01-23T17:06:02.198-05:00Wow! A Carson Dellosa Surprise!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In December, I took a few minutes to complete a survey regarding their great products. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>s a "thank you" for participating in the survey, I was one of five rec<span style="font-size: large;">i</span>p<span style="font-size: large;">ien</span>ts <span style="font-size: large;">to receive </span>a $25.00 <span style="font-size: large;">gift card</span> from Carson De<span style="font-size: large;">llosa</span>! I just <span style="font-size: large;">l</span>ove the <span style="font-size: large;">o</span>wl <span style="font-size: large;">s</span>haped <span style="font-size: large;">note </span>and the star stickers on the envelope! A <span style="font-size: large;">fun</span> surprise on a <span style="color: blue;"><b>below</b><span style="color: black;">,</span><b> </b></span>freezing, January day!</span></span></div>
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