November is one of the fastest months of the school year for us, but it's still jam packed with meaningful learning and tons of fun! We work through our Interactive Story of the First Thanksgiving little by little all month long. We love using the Fact Finder Posters as a whole group activity. We read for meaning and highlight key information that we then use to guide our writing. Finally, we create a little craft to culminate each Thanksgiving lesson and add to our books. Our math ... VIEW POST
Thanksgiving in the Classroom
Week of Thanks & Giving Day 3 & 4
We're extending Day 3 of our Week of Thanks and Giving... And here's Day 4! Enter the Rafflecopter below. We're picking 2 winners to be announced tomorrow! a Rafflecopter giveaway Good luck! ... VIEW POST
Week of Thanks and Giving
Thankful doesn't begin to describe this journey we've been fluttering along with all of you for the past 3 years. To give thanks to you for fluttering along with us, we're kicking off a week of Thanks and Giving exclusively for our Fluttering Through First Grade fans...7 days ahead stuffed with goodies just for you! Be sure to check here or our Facebook Page each day for our daily deal or steal! If you're not already following our TpT Store, you might want to do that too...just saying. ... VIEW POST
My Interactive Story of the First Thanksgiving
We realize Halloween is tomorrow, but we're pretty sure all teachers everywhere would agree that we are done with October now...And November is just around the corner. We're always trying to work a week ahead, so we don't Fall behind, so here's what we're prepping now... Reading and Writing about the first Thanksgiving during the month of November is one of our favorite times of year. Here are a few titles we use to guide our learning all month long. We love getting our students involved in ... VIEW POST
Hello NOvember!
We're pretty certain that if you make it to the 5th of a month, there's very little chance of it going away. So, here we are, huh? NOvember... Though we continue to find a few straggling spider rings and one slobbery pair of vampire teeth lying around the classroom this week, October is no more. So... Here's how our short month looks. All of these items can be found in our TpT Shop and will keep us busy until the turkey is cooked. Our class adores playing sight word games. Unfortunately, ... VIEW POST
Phew! We were not trampled!!…Now a Sale!
We've never actually been Black Friday shopping. Well, the trampling kind at least. Thank Goodness! Did you go Black Friday shopping? Get anything fabulous? Have you ever been trampled? OH! We hope not!! Whether it be our fear of being trampled or our sheer desire to remain in our pajamas as much as possible this Thanksgiving weekend, we will not be heading out to any stores near us any time soon this fine holiday weekend. But, we will be shopping with TpT in our cleanest coziest pair of ... VIEW POST
