Common Core Widget!

Just watched the video that shows how to add the Common Core Widget to my blog. Super Easy! During student teaching I had to write out all my lessons and align them to Common Core and cite the standards my lessons met. This would have been helpful as a quick reference.

How To Add The Widget


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Link to the Common Core web page

Money Book Bags

There are 19 Money book bags- I only used 10 of them as part of my lesson however the extras were available to students during math stations or for fast finishers.

We completed a Math Expressions unit a few days early so we took some time to do a mini social studies unit on Money. Math Expressions uses coins A LOT in first grade. The book bags were a way to continue to explore money from a social studies point of view. We all began with a venn diagram comparing pennies, nickels and dimes. We looked at color, value, president, the year the coin was minted, shape and size. Students then worked in pairs to complete the book bags. After reading we regrouped and brain stormed a list of money vocabulary - value, cost, mint, coin, dollar, penny, nickel, dime, quarter, spend, save, buy, cash, bill, sell, bank and price.

Students also had the opportunity to create their own coins or dollars. Originally this was only for specific books but I ended up having all students do this during a Math Station. We talked about what we see on coins and dollars- a year, a president, a building or other symbol.

Book Bags TpT

Book List 
A Dollar for Penny - Julie Glass
A Dollar = $1.00 - Carey Molter
A Penny= 1¢ -  Carey Molter
A Nickel = 5¢ -  Carey Molter
A Dime = 10¢ -  Carey Molter
A Quarter = 25¢ -  Carey Molter
The Penny Pot - Stuart Murphy
Benny's Pennies - Pat Brisson
All About Coins-Pennies
All About Coins- Nickels
All About Coins- Dimes
All About Coins -Quarters
Ice Cream Money-Sharon L. Young
The Class Store- Sharon L. Young
Twenty-Five Cents- Sharon L. Young
The Shopping Trip-Sharon L. Young
Dollars- Mary Hill
Quarter- Mary Hill
Making Money- Sharon Holm

Fantastic Scholastic!!

My students receive Scholastic News but even if your school doesn't get a subscription for each student you can still read them online or by projecting them on the smartboard. There are even ways to interact with the online version and the site will also read the text aloud.

Here is the link to the first grade magazine but there are magazines for grades Pre K to 6th as well as subject specific magazines for middle schoolers.
Scholastic News Online 
All the issues back to Sept 2010 are archived. If you are looking for a group read for a themed unit this is a great place to check out!
Archived Issues

Free book downloads from Scholastic and the Institute of Medicine. Victors Garden focuses on healthy eating. 

Victors Garden

Animal in Winter- Book Bags

 I used these book bags this fall with my first graders to accompany my "Animals getting Ready for Winter" unit. 11 books and one weekly reader. Students partner read, tally "no excuse words" or site words, and created a picture of an animal from their book and classify it as a hibernator, migrator, sleeper, or active.

Book Bags TpT


Books 

Migration (non-fiction) Robin Nelson

           

Squirrels (non-fiction) Melvin and Gilda Berger

            

Bears (non-fiction) 

Melvin and Gilda Berger

Robins (non-fiction)

Melvin and Gilda Berger

Whose Forest Is It? (non-fiction) Rozanne William

           

When Winter Comes  (non-fiction) Pearl Neuman

            

Under the Snow (non-fiction) Melissa Stewart---------------- Beautiful pictures would work well for a read aloud.

           

Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit (fiction)  

Melvin and Gilda Berger 

--------------- Beautiful pictures would work well for a read aloud.

            

Busy Animals (non- fiction) Lisa Bullard

            

Animals in Winter (non-fiction)  Henrietta Bancroft

Animals in the Woods  (non-fiction, weekly reader)

The Migration (non-fiction) Sandra Iverson

Dr. Seuss Bulletin Board

Upper Left- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish - Fishing For Compliments. Students earned fish for random acts of kindness. Students also had the opportunity to estimate how many fish they though were in the fish bowl.

Upper Right- Dr. Seuss ABC- Hip Hip Hooray For Hamilton Seuss Day! all "H's" in red for Hamilton.

Lower Left- The Lorax- Truffula Tree with magnetic letters to make CVC words

Lower Right- The Cat in the Hat- Different color hats to work on color word identification.

Maps & Globes

Here are the book bags for my Maps & Globes unit. There are 8 book bags each containing a list of guided reading questions (pre reading, during reading, and post reading) and a culminating activity. The books range in level from about a level D to a level M . I use these book bags as partner work but you could use them in small groups, or pick one to use for a whole group lesson.

Titles and Authors (levels if found on scholastic leveler)

Reading Maps by David Rhys

A Birds Eye View by Marcia Freeman

Find Your Way (author unknown)

Looking at Maps and Globes by Carmen Bredeson (K)

Types of Maps by Mary Wade (I)

Map Keys by Rebecca Aberg (I)

Maps by Joellyn Cicciarelli

Mapping Pennies World by Loreen Leedy (M)

Map Book Bags

There is also a formal lesson plan included that is aligned to the Common Core Standards for 1st Grade. I taught this as a two day project. Day one was read and pull out key terms and answer basic understanding questions. Day two was re read, map project, and present new information to classmates.

Germs Germs Germs

With each unit I teach I have created a group of 2-10 book bags to help guide students through the text and learn more about the social studies or science theme. The guide asks students to look at the the pictures, find vocabulary and answer some comprehension questions. These 3 book bags are on germs.

*Goal for the next month is to get all my books bags on TpT and posted here.

Germs Germs Germs students could choral read. Germs Make Me Sick is a harder text (2.8) and will be used as a read aloud in my room. The Germ Busters is also a harder text and will be used a a read aloud in my room.


Germs Book Bags (TpT)