Our First Week in First Grade

We had a great first week!! We learned a lot of rules and procedures in our classroom so that it can run smoothly for the rest of the year.  Since we were having such a fantastic week, I decided to introduce center learning.  There were 5 centers spread around the room that the students rotated to and completed various activities.  The centers included a capital and lowercase letter matching game, putting three letters in ABC order, finding letters in a letter collage, and identifying the letter after the one shown on the card.  For our first time doing centers, we did wonderfully!  Here are some pictures of what we did: 

First, we read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom to review our letters and letter sounds.

Fishy Bubbles Game: match the lowercase fish cards to the uppercase bubbles in the aquarium

Here we put the letters in the coconuts in ABC order.

Here we had to find the letter in the collage and circle the color of the letter on the worksheet.  This helped us review our color words too!

For this center, we had to identify the letter that came next and record it on our worksheet.

Sometimes we finished early and got to make words with magnetic letters.

We also did some other activities that are displayed in the hallway.  We read NO David! and then made our own David book but switched it around so that David was following our classroom rules, hence, Yes, David!  In addition, we made a Who Am I book to learn more about each other.  On the front side of the page are clues about a classmate, and on the back is the name and picture of that classmate.  We read through the book together to try and guess who was who before we put it in the hall.  

Yes David! book page

Who Am I? book page

We have been working with alphabet mystery codes all week, so we decided to make mystery codes with our names.  I was impressed with their creativity on these!  They had to draw pictures that started with the same letters in their names.

Can you figure out whose name is hiding under the blue paper?  

Did you guess right??!!

Here are their Alphabet Project letters.  I'm loving these!  They really did a great job on them.

Here are some up close.

Okay, so, hopefully you made it to the end of this very long post!  Enjoy the extra day off and I will see you next week when we will start getting into our first grade curriculum.

~Miss Kearns :)