"Owl" About Me! Glyph/Writing Craftivity

 

This past week has been a real HOOT!! {Hoot Owls that is!} The kiddos loved making these fun owl glyphs & then writing sentences about themselves. These make a super-cute fall display also!

My firsties LOVED listening to the story "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell. If you are looking for a great story for making text-to-self connections, this it the one! Baby Owlet Bill is a real hoot! The kids LoVeD him!

 

 

If you would like a copy of this sentence writing reproducible that goes along with the owl glyph, just click on the pic below, then click on "download preview".

FREEBIE! Click here, then on "download preview"

 

The Owl Family Glyph that goes along with this & much more is included in my Owls & Woodland Animals unit.

Click the pic to check it out!

 

 

Spectacular Spider Fun! {& some FREEBIES!}

Spiders, spiders everywhere! Wow! do these firsties love spiders! We've had lots of learning fun in the classroom this week with these lil 8-legged critters. Check out this fun Spider Glyph we made...

I wasn't too sure that we were going to get them made....Have you ever had one of those days weeks where you think that you are prepared??? Let me emphasize the word "THINK". As Danielle {my 1st grade teachin' bud} & I so carefully planned & prepared for our week, we did not realize that we would run into the dreaded "copy machine issues"..... Ya, you know exactly what I'm talkin' about, don't ya?....you put your paper in, hit the start button & that big ole machine makes a big clunkin' noise and then all the buzzers start to BEEEEEEP & lights start FLASHING at you!!! Aughhhhhh! Well, to make a long story short, we tried copying our glyph patterns on 4 different copy machines! YES I said 4-with NO luck! Can you believe that?!? I think that those big fancy copy machines should be equipped to shoot out chocolate & caffine when all those darn lights & buzzzing beepers start sounding! Great idea-don't ya think?!? :)  {BTW we did finally get things copied the next day...whew!} At the beginning of the week we started out with a Spider Schema chart. It is so stinkin funny to hear some of the things that kiddos come up with!

Here's one of our spider centers..."Spider I Spy." I made these fun little spider magnifying glasses for the kiddos to read the tiny little sight words on the cards. They just LOVE this center!

We have also started working on related facts & fact families so I made a "Spider Fact Families" math center. The kiddos work with a partner to build the related math facts. These fun centers, the Spider glyph, data collection activities & much more is included in my new "Spectacular Spider Fun" unit.

Just click on the pics to check out more of these super-fun spider activities!

And, of course, I have a couple spider FREEBIES to share with ya! The first one is a simple little dice game that reinforces "doubles addition" skills. Just click the pic to grab it!

The second FREEBIE is a short e word sort. Hope your kiddos love it!

Now this is something to HOOT about!

Hey! Just finished up my Owls & Woodland Animals Unit! I will be giving away a copy to 3 of you AmAzInG followers tomorrow! If you haven't entered my giveaway yet, HURRY-just a few short hours left. Also EVERYTHING at my Teachers Pay Teachers & Teachers Notebooks shops is on SaLe through Monday! You have to check out these AdOrAbLe owl glyphs that my firsties finished up yesterday...

They turned out sooo stinkin' cute!!! As a matter of fact, I thought they did such a great job that I spent about 3 hours last night trying to figure out how to use them to illustrate my "Guess Who?" owl facts book". (Good thing the Mr. fell asleep early on the couch-gave me the chance to spend some quality time with my computer! lol) Check out how cute they look on this book!!!

I can't wait to see my kiddos faces when I reread this book to them, but this time it will have pictures of their owls in it! Gosh I just LOVE it when my firsties get so excited about learning!! Here's a pic of the chart that we filled out after reading several non-fiction books about owls. I also made a student-version of this-just click on the picture below for a FREEBIE!

Just click on this pic to download your FREEBIE!

Here's a little preview of my new unit-just click on pic if you want to see more!