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!

A FACEBOOK Page

So I have finally made a Facebook page (yeah me!) check it out here:

Fantastic First Grade

It is definitely not where everyone else's page is but I am excited to finally put myself out there see where this new journey will take me.  Please check it out and start following me.

A quote I found from Ron Clark Academy

Have a great weekend and those of you snowed in like I am stay safe!

Amy

Superexcited to try my hand at finally blogging on this little, abandoned blog!! Haha! Anyways I have been attempting to create a new blog for my fellow teachers to share what we do in our K-2 building.  Man oh man is it going slow! The new blog is www.teachershavinablast.blogspot.com.  Come visit us!  It is definitely in the very early stages but I am confident it will get better.  I have also been working hard on my pinterest board, come check it out https://www.pinterest.com/fantastic1grade/ .  I have found a ton of resources and am ecstatic to see that others have been pinning my finds!!!  I can't wait to share with you all tomorrow what I've been doing in my classroom.  Until then people that live in Ohio like me, stay warm!!

First post in a looonnnggg while!!!

Ok so I am going to once AGAIN attempt to become part of the Blogger world.  I am so jealous of how gorgeous the blogs look and want to try and learn how to become a better blogger.  So here goes nothing!!Haha!!
I want to first start with a new app that I found on Mrs. Samuelson's Swamp Frogs. Plickers is an amazing free app that will be a great way to quickly assess my first graders.  Please visit her site because I was blown away.
By the way now that I am going to attempt to blog more, I want to get some class pictures up.  I've been working really hard on finally getting my classroom setup exactly how I want it!