Five For Friday- Winter Fun

It's finally time for Five for Friday! 

I'm excited to link up again with Doodle Bugs Teaching. 

Check out the link up here: doodlebugsteaching

I gotta start by saying how grateful I am for the awesome teaching community that I have the privilege of being apart of.  Almost all of the activities/projects I've been working on lately were free downloads offered by teachers on TPT. I'm so thankful for all the generous educators who care about making learning meaningful for all students and are happy to share their ideas and products. It's inspiring me to create some more freebies! :)
So here's what has inspired me lately:

It's been all about the Snow people

We have been having too much fun (not like that's possible in K/1) with our snowmen activities.

I wanted to highlight this writing excerpt because I am SO PROUD of the progress this student has made! He was not writing at the beginning of the year and he just knocked this WHOLE paragraph out ON HIS OWN! 

YEP that's right independent writing right here! I am one Proud Teacher!! :)

Okay so I know they aren't all finished (some of my kindergarteners are still working on writing), but I wanted to give you an idea of how cute they look all up on the board together. 
This activity is a little writing/craftivity freebie I picked up on TPT created by Camping Teacher  Grab yours for free HERE

Snowmen Glyphs and Crafts

 

The snowman glyph was an awesome activity that helped my students practice collecting data and graph it. They really enjoyed this one.

Download your copy Here

This little project was a fun winter activity that turned out to be a fun bulletin board display. This freebie was an awesome find. A big thank you to Funky Fresh Firsties If you want to try it with your kiddos, grab your copy Here

Arctic Animals and Winter Writing We've been studying arctic animals and have used several different writing activities to reinforce what we've learned.

Labeling and Sorting Facts About Arctic Animals 

Arctic Animal Freebie

Polar Bears Close Reading This was such a helpful mini lesson focusing on identifying the main idea and finding supporting evidence in the text.  My first graders were really engaged and were excited when they successfully identified the main idea and were able to remember the supporting facts. *This was definitely a highlight during the week.

And we got a little carried away with measurement

This week I introduced measurement during math and we started with the basics- non-standard measurement using unifix cubes and rulers.

And I decided to join in on the fun, so I had the students measure me! :)

They got a kick out of that!

This was a pretty fantastic mini unit!  I'd highly recommend it for young learners.

And lastly, I recently made a new discovery. I happen to stumble across this website while perusing my Facebook feed and I think the idea is totally ingenious!
Ladies and Gentlemen- I'd like to introduce/share with you the coolest idea= Budsies.
I so want to buy one for all of my students but considering they are $70 bucks a pop, I think I'm gonna need to come up with a new plan. But seriously, isn't this the coolest thing?

Budsies And that's all for now folks.
Have a Happy Weekend!