First Grade Gallery- Lessons for Little Learners

The children enjoyed our math activities using Halloween candy wrappers. Students worked together to decide on ways to sort and group candy.

The children use candy corn to measure the length of the line segments on this cute scarecrow worksheet. Thanks to the families who donated candy for our math activities this month!

Little Dixie cups are perfect for dividing up candy and other manipulatives for centers. I purchased a Sterilite container with a snap tight lid to store the filled cups until we use them!

We made this sparkly project as a follow-up activity for our poem- Do Spiders Stick to Their Own Webs? Miss Mary (my mom) drew patterns on black construction paper with a white colored pencil. The students traced the lines with glue and then with the help of parent volunteers, sprinkled glitter on the glue. We used clear glitter but silver looks really nice too! I purchased spider rings (cut the ring off) and parents hot glued the spider onto the web.

Students created graphs of Dem Bones candy! We will graph more fun and colorful bone candies(generously donated by one of our parents) on Halloween!

Mr. Rose, our principal, taught students about tools, estimation and the history of pumpkin carving as he carved this awesome pumpkin for the first grade students! Thanks Mr. Rose for making this Halloween one to remember!

Students used pumpkin seeds as manipulatives to learn a variety of math skills including even/odd numbers, subtraction, addition, skip counting, introduction to multiplication with adding sets and word problems.

The students enjoyed our monster theme this week. Our Poem of the week is titled "Monster Spray". The student watched the movie Monsters Inc. Afterward, as a follow up activity, we completed a story elements worksheet to name the characters, setting, problem and solution. For our Fun Friday project we made monster puppets! Sorry, could not rotate this one!

First grade students have started a unit on subtraction. The children enjoyed these Smart Notebook activities to practice the concepts of addition and subtraction with zero, subtracting to compare and answer the question, how many more? We used Halloween themed backgrounds, clip art and word problems to make learning fun! The children love learning in this interactive way!

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