RECESS Time!

I am so excited!! I have another new product posted in my store! Click on any of the pictures and it will take you to my store! Please check it out!

Happy Day Everyone!

Amy Jordan

#NoWorksheetWednesday "The FINALE"

I am saddened that March is almost ending and we will no longer be linking up for this wonderful concept.  But that's ok because I have continued to use less and less worksheets in my classroom.  This has been an enormously busy week for me.  I'm glad you came to tag along and see what we've been up to in my classroom.  First, we are finishing up our nonstandard measurement unit.  The students had some fun using rulers and measured items in our classroom.

 The students worked on reading our nonfiction story together.  They are doing a super job recognizing the differences between fiction and nonfiction.

 We finally finished "Mr. Popper's Penguins" (Seriously, I thought we were never going to finish) and have begun reading "Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle", I love how she is very silly and adores the students in her neighborhood.  The students worked on visualizing while I read and they drew a picture of what they thought the upside down house looked like.

 We are working on o-e in phonics this week so during work work, the kids used stamps and play-doh to make words.

 Last, the students looked at their accelerated reader chart.  They needed to write down how many more quizzes they thought they could take before Easter.  As you can see, we have lots of bananas hanging out on the 10 and 20 books vine.  This idea came from First Grade Critter Cafe, this lady is fabulous and I am happy to know she lives in Ohio also!  We have tons of great teachers in our state.

 This is our adorable music program titled "Barnyard Moosical".  Those adorable chicks are my first graders.  They were amazing.  We had a lot of first graders with speaking parts and they had to memorize a lot of tough songs.  Best program yet!  We are very fortunate to be able to go to the high school and perform on a stage. By the way that adorable wallet you saw at the top is where the students store their "money" that they earn for different rewards.  Almost all these chicks earned $1 to put in their wallet.  That is their first $1 that they have earned and they were glowing when they received it.

 This is the fabulous Mrs. Box, my favorite music teacher.  She is one amazing music teacher!

 Happy Days Everyone!
Amy Jordan

This one's for the BIRDS!

Well I've created my 2nd product! Yeah me! G-O Go Amy Go!(That's the cheerleader in me!)  I am exited that I have created this product because it reminds me of all those gorgeous birds that have been flying around in my woods!  There's one particular bird that I've been trying to get a close-up picture of, but he never comes close enough.  One day I will be successful in taking your picture Mr. Pileated Woodpecker!

I swear you can see him!  This was taken during one of those numerous snow days!  This winter was harsh!

Click on the picture and find this little gem in my brand new TPT store!

Happy Sunday!

Amy Jordan

TeachersPayTeachers 1st Free Product

I have finally taken the plunge and created a unique product for TPT.  I hope everyone will download and be able to use it.  This product is a smaller sample of a VirtualTour pack I am working on.  You will use a QR scanner and scan the QR code which will take you to The Columbus Zoo (My personal favorite zoo, this isn't just because I live in Ohio! hehe).  Click on the picture and it will take you to my product! :)

By the way, it's a great day to be a BUCKEYE!  NCAA Wrestling Champs (First One Ever) and now hoping that our basketball team can pull out another win! #MarchMadness

Hoping everyone is enjoying their weekend!

Amy Jordan

FantasticFirstGrade

It's SPRING! No Worksheet Wednesday #3

Happy Spring everyone!  It was a rainy day but I will take that over the snow.  Here is a look at what we accomplished for the #NoWorksheetWednesday #3!

We are working on nonstandard measurement and used cubes to measure some of our classmates!

WE love using the Phonics Dance! It has really helped us with those tricky hunks and chunks!

We are reading tons of Pat Hutchins stories for an author study and incorporated The Wind Blew with our science lesson on motion.  The students had to design a sailboat showing how it can move.

Short and Sweet!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Amy Jordan

Success!! No Worksheet Wednesday #2

I was so pleased with my class today. They did an awesome job on No Worksheet Wednesday!  I am once again linking up with Primary Chalkboard!  My students mentioned to me last week that we have barely used our math journals, so I got busy and found some ideas to implement.  They loved it! This little lesson really had them thinking!  Needless to say, I will continue to do more of this.

We used a FIP activity called Inside/Outside to review subtraction.  I even threw in some 2 digit subtraction.

Here is just one of the stations the students were working on during Daily 3. This little girl knows her place value!

 If you have never used the Epic app, get it now!  It's a free app with tons of nonfiction!  There are a ton of varying levels and a lot of the books are on Accelerated Reader! (The students just go crazy when they know they can take a quiz using Epic)

We had some time at the end of the day, so the students used IXL.  We reflected at the end of the day and there favorite part by far was getting to use their spelling words to create a picture! Sadly, I forgot to take a picture of it.

Click the link above to see what others are doing for No Worksheet Wednesday!

Hope you are having a great week!

Amy Jordan

No Worksheet Wednesday

No Worksheet Wednesday #1

I am superexcited to be linking up with the famous teachers from The Primary Chalkboard. This idea came from a book study called, Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites.  I finally received my book in the mail and have begun to read it.  It is an easy read and has many relatable ideas.  I try not to use a lot of worksheets and Daily 5 has helped me use less paper! Very thankful to have Daily 5 and CAFE in my classroom.

Here are some of the things that we did today!

During Word Work, students read these words and decided whether they were real or nonsense.

Working on Read to Someone.

Word Work 

Listen to Reading (Love Raz-Kids!)

Come join http://primarychalkboard.blogspot.com and have fun seeing what other teachers did for their No Homework Wednedays!