Vowels and Consonants

I purchased on TPT  a vowel recognition game called Frog Hop Vowel Recognition by K. Kindergarten. I bought this product because I thought it was a great idea to revise recognition of vowels, as well as consonants.

This game has 40 CVC cards to help the students to recognize vowels.  Whilst my son and I were playing the game, I asked him to read aloud the word, and tell me the vowel and the consonants shown on each card. When the game was finished I asked him to rhyme the words and then write it on his notebook. He also wrote the consonants and vowels written on each group. This game is really nice to practice recognition of vowels and consonants, and you can also practice rhyming, spelling and writing like my son did. I highly recommend you to purchase this material.

I also designed a vowels and consonants poster to put on our language arts center. This poster is available for FREE on TPT. To download your free copy please click on the following link: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Vowels-and-Consonants-Poster

I would also like to remind you about our giveaway, which is ending on Friday at midnight. We are giving away 6 wonderful products from my TPT store, Fern Smith's Classrrom Idea and Oceans of First Grade Fun. To enter the competition and a  have a chance to win follow the link below please.   a Rafflecopter giveaway

Thanks and good luck!!!!

Fabiana 

Ribbit Ribbit

Today was a beautiful and warm day in Chicago. My son and I went for a bike ride at the end of the day, and the weather was just perfect. The smell of the flowers were even more endearing. I love spring!!!!

Today we continued working on our frog math, literacy and science unit. My son worked doing: word search, compound words, antonym, synonym, telling the time, riddle, fact and opinion, and writing. As I posted yesterday, I purchased on TPT a package called Frog unit - Math, Literacy and Science by Primary Divas. This package is wonderful, it explores very well the context of the lesson, which are frogs, as well as involving other subjects to help the child develop their understanding of the subject matter.

In addition, my son wrote a few frog facts that he learned about frogs, and he also created a frog craft. He hung the frog on our wall to be able to read about them every day.

Moreover, its time for our 3rd giveaway of the month. This week two of the greatest teachers and bloggers around are supporting our blog: Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas and Oceans of 1st Grade Fun. I am very excited for this giveaway because they are amazing and have been quite generous with their offer :)). It has also been a pleasure and honor to work with them, thanks girls :)))!!!

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Thanks for reading our blog, and good luck :))!!!

Fabiana

Grammar Assessment

I designed a grammar assessment to evaluate my son's knowledge of differentiate between proper and common noun, adjective and noun, as well as his understanding of using the nouns in the plural form.

This assessment is composed of six exercises:
-The first exercise the child has to give examples of proper and common noun for: people, place, thing and animal.
-The second exercise is a set of questions and the child has to circle the proper noun.
-The third exercise is a set of questions where the student has to circle the noun and underline the adjective.
-The fourth exercise is a list of words where the learner has to write the plural form of the given nouns.
-The fifth exercise is a multiple choice drill to choose between common and proper noun.
-The sixth exercise the child has to draw a picture of his family and then write a description about them.

These exercises are aligned with the Illinois Common Core Standard.

This material is available on TPT. To purchase your copy just click on the following link please:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Grammar-Assessment-proper-and-common-noun-adjectives-and-plural-nouns





I would love to receive a rating or opinion about this material.

Thanks:)
 Fabiana

The pics below are sample of the material.

Possessive Noun

Today was a very productive day. We went to the library to borrow a few books, which is always fun. We also worked really hard on dictation.

Furthermore, I taught possessive noun to my son. I downloaded a pack from TPT, which was brilliant, it had a game that my son really enjoyed. He begged me to play the game twice :)). This pack is free and worth downloading, I highly recommend -
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Possessive-Nouns-pack

In addition to the possessive nouns, I also taught plural nouns. I downloaded posters on TPT, which I found very useful and easy for my son to understand.
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Plural-Nouns-s-or-es-poster

 

To practice plural nouns, my son wrote on his notebook the singular and plural form of a few words I dictated.

Hope you have a great day tomorrow. Thanks :))).

Fabiana

Syllables

Today we worked with syllable sorting. I downloaded two cute and very useful sets on TPT:

Spring Clap the Syllables - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spring-Clap-the-Syllables


A Splash Syllable Sort - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/A-Splashing-Syllable-Sort


In these two sets there are plenty of words to practice syllable sorting, as well as a sheet to record the words and formulate sentences from the words read.

Great activity to do in small groups or literacy center. Thanks :).

Fabiana

Adjectives

Today we worked with adjectives, we read Hairy, Scary, Ordinary - What is an Adjective? by Brian P. Cleary, and Many Luscious Lollipops - A Book About Adjectives by Ruth Heller. These two books are wonderful resources to introduce adjectives to your child, I highly recommend.

This is our third week working with adjectives, I have taught my son to describe people and animals, and today I wanted to teach him to describe things. As my son loves chocolate cake, I thought asking him to  help me baking the cake would be a brilliant idea to teach him mathematics (focusing on measurement), as well as identify adjectives that would describe things, which in this case is the cake.

The recipe for the chocolate cake is very simple and easy to make, which is related below.

Ingredientes:
2 cups of all purpose flour;
2 cups of sugar;
1 cup of milk;
7 tablespoons of coca powder (we used dark cocoa powder);
1 tablespoon of baking powder;
6 eggs.

Preparation:

1: Pre heat the oven to 350˚ F. Beat the egg whites until it is thick, then mix it with the egg yolks, and stir.

2: Add the sugar and stir.

3: Add the flower and stir.

4: Add the milk and stir.

5: Add the chocolate powder and stir.

6: Add the baking powder and stir.

7: Grease a baking tray and put it in the oven to cook for approximately 40 minutes or until it is cooked.

As you wait for the cake to bake, make the chocolate sauce to put on top of the cake. Use 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder, 1 tablespoon of butter and half a cup of milk. Cook it until it begins to boil then place it onto the cake.

Whilst we were savouring the cake, I asked my son to relate to me the adjectives that would describe the cake. He said: delicious, soft, good, brown, tasty and beautiful. He surely enjoyed the chocolate cake :)))).

The next step of our adjective lesson was to make a craft chocolate cake to display the adjectives that he had above mentioned.

Materials: small box of cereal, constructions paper, scissors and glue.

1st step: Open the cereal box and cut the edges, then cut the sides going on an inclined direction, making a basket shape.

2nd step: Cut the construction shape to create a cloud shape. Then glue it onto the cut cereal box. Afterwards make a small strawberry and glue it onto the construction paper.

3rd step: As I wanted to display the craft cake and its adjectives, I also asked my son to make small versions of the main cake. However, He did not glue the strawberry on the small craft cakes, instead he wrote the adjectives he had described earlier.

The image below is how our display looked. I stuck the artwork on the window that's why it has the building and the trees background :))).

Another exercise that my son did was to write a few sentences that I was dictating.  He needed to point out the adjectives and circle it. I also asked him to tell me the meaning of an adjective, as well as telling me the punctuation to be used and the reason for using it.

It was a very productive day today. Hope you enjoy my post. Inform me please if you have any question, suggestion or comment. Thanks :)))!!!!

Fabiana

Adjectives

Today I would like to recommend the Macmillan Dictionary for Children. This is a great dictionary designed to nudge children up the language ladder by including parts of speech, inflected forms, and pronunciation and also adding more advanced dictionary features, such as syllabification, cross-references, and idioms.

This dictionary is very easy to use, clear to understand the description, and the pictures are very colourful. It's a brilliant dictionary for children of all ages, well structured and engaging.

                                

We were doing an activity about adjectives, and my son needed to find an adjective to describe a puppy for each letter of the alphabet. We used the dictionary to search for the adjectives. My son had a lot of fun searching the words and was very interested to learn about what the pictures were showing. It was a great educational activity!!!!

Hope you find this dictionary as useful as we found. Have a great evening!!!! Thanks!!!!

Fabiana

Adjectives

Hello :))), hope you had a great day!!!
Today it was our first day of 1st grade,  my son and I were ecstatic. We had a conversation yesterday about the objectives and responsibilities of being a 1st grader. I also explained briefly to him the subjects we are going to study and his daily schedule. He was very pleased to know that he stepped up another level in his life, and he is looking forward to reaching the goals we set for the following year. When we began our day today he was fairly excited and eager to learn, ecstatic had ebb however not lost :)).

Undaunted, Tuesday was to be great as we were going to cover grammar and writing subject. In the month of September I will focus on teaching adjectives and punctuation and capitalisation. I decided to spend a month on this subject because I want him to fully comprehend the meanings and be able to use it in real life situation, as well as being able to explain.

In our adjective lesson, I quizzed him on the reasons why he thinks I love him. We have a game we play at home where we ask each other the reason's why we love one another. I used this approach to teach him to understand the qualities he was describing to me are called adjectives, which we use to describe a person, object or animal.

Then I asked him to make a sketch on the paper, write the words and then colour. When finished with colouring he wrote the adjectives that he described to me on the paper. I loved this activity so much as it helps my son to know himself better and build confidence. He also loved the artwork and could not wait to show his dad :)). The idea of this brilliant activity came from Life in First Grade - http://lifeinfirstgrade1.blogspot.com/search/label/adjectives

The image below is his final artwork.

To introduce a few adjectives I also designed the following poster.

Hope this post inspires you for your next adjective lesson. Please inform me if you have any question, suggestion or comment. Thanks :))).

Fabiana