Daily Five Bookmarks in Spanish

In an earlier post, I mentioned using bookmarks for the daily five.  I finally figured out how to upload the file for them, so here it is!

Daily Five Bookmarks in Spanish

I'm Alive & Daily Five

Whew... I survived the first week back!!  It was a whirlwind of a week that seemed to take an eternity... if that makes any sense?!

Tomorrow, I plan on starting to introduce the daily five to my kids.  I am going to do things somewhat differently this year, which I will get into more later.  For now, I am taking it one day at a time.  Tomorrow, I will be teach the I-PICK lesson where the kids learn how to pick "good fit books".  Since the acronym is in English, it doesn't work in my classroom.  Here is my version of the acronym in Spanish.

Yo Escojo un libro

P- Propósito (porque lo quiero leer)
I- Interes (Me interesa el libro?)
E- Entender (Entiendo lo que estoy leyendo?)
S-Saber (Se la mayoría de las palabras

To teach the lesson, you use shoes to show the students how to pick a book.  Each shoe has a purpose, and the same shoe that fits you might not fit your friend.  We all have different interests, different levels, and different purposes for reading so we need to pick the book that is right for us.  (not necessarily the same one that our friend has!)  This is why I went with the acronym of "PIES"-- it relates to the lesson on choosing a book.

I'm looking forward to teaching this lesson tomorrow & hope that you find this acronym helpful!

1-2-3 Line

Well, I have been MIA for the last week as I have been crazily trying to get my classroom ready for the first day of school.  Whew!!

As the first day of school is approaching, I am thinking about procedures that I want to teach my kiddos.  One that I do is the 1-2-3 line system.  After all the kids are lined up, we do the following:

1-- Hold up a number one and put it over our mouths saying shhhh to remind us to be quiet in the hall.

2-  Hold up a number two and put the fingers on our eyes to remind us to face the front.

3- Hold up both hands with a number three and then put them at our sides to remind us that our hands go at our sides.

I have found that many of the line-up songs are in English and are difficult to translate, so I use this method.  Do you have a line-up song in Spanish that you use?

First Day Activity

I love the scavenger hunt/ bingo idea that many teachers use on the first day of school.  Students walk around and get signatures of friends in different boxes (ex:  find a friend with 2 brothers).  I had thought about doing this with my students, but many of my first grade babies would not be able to read all of the boxes on their own.  I envisioned chaos in my mind, and decided to revise the activity for my class.

What I am going to do instead is to have each box be a letter of the alphabet.  Students will have to walk around getting signatures of friends whose names start with that letter.  They must get a row vertically or a row horizontally to win the game.  If you are a visual person like me, here is a sample of how it will look!

Loteria de nombres

Here's to getting the kids up & moving the first day of school!

First Grade Glyph

I have been looking at lots of amazing first grade blogs all over the internet, and I recently came across this idea on one of the blogs.

First Grader Glyph

It ties in really well with our social studies curriculum, and so I decided I wanted to use it with my students the first week of school.  Which means, of course, that it had to be translated to Spanish.  Here is a link to the translated activity if you are interested.  Again, I am using my home computer and did not add accents/ question marks at the beginning of the sentences.  I plan on doing that when I am able to use my school computer.  But anyway, I hope you find this useful!

Estoy en primer grado

You can't catch me... I'm the gingerbread man!!!

I am starting to think about the first week with the kiddos back, and want to do some new and fun activities with them.  I know many people do a Gingerbread Man Hunt, so I decided to try it out this year.  It is a good way to do a tour of the school and is a great vocabulary reinforcer for dual language kids.  I know there are many samples out there in English, but I couldn't find ANYTHING in Spanish.  So here is one that I made for you to use and modify.  My only disclaimer is that there aren't accents, because my computer at home is a Mac and it is hard to add accents in.

Gingerbread Man Hunt in Spanish

I'm thinking of having a (store bought) gingerbread man cookie for each kid to eat when we get back to the classroom.  I'm also thinking of having them draw and write about their experience chasing down the gingerbread man using a gingerbread man template with lines.  So... happy hunting!!

Daily Five Bookmarks in Spanish

I started doing the Daily Five (Los Cinco Diario) in my classroom last year.  I like the concept, but I decided to modify for my first graders this year to help them to be more on task and focused.  I saw this idea on pinterest for Daily Five Bookmarks:

Bookmarks in English (Where I got the idea!)

So I decided to use the same concept, but only add three options per bookmark.  I am going to do a 10-15 minute rotation per day, and have the students complete each activity on the bookmark in order.  This will hopefully help them to not continue to do the same activity over and over and will help them to be more productive during the Daily Five time.  If you are interested in getting a copy of the bookmarks in Spanish, email me at linsayhumphrey@yahoo.com and I will be happy to send them!  Google Docs is not letting me upload the file because it is too big =(.   Anyway, I'm looking forward to trying this out this coming year with my chickadees!!

"I'm finished, now what Sra. Humphrey?"

I hear this comment from students MANY times throughout the day.  I've tried making posters with ideas of activities that they can do when they are finished, but the students still have trouble choosing an activity and doing it without interrupting the students who are still working.  So my solution was to have an interactive spot in the room where they can look at choices, and then take a card for the one they want to do.

I used ribbon, clothespins, and laminated choice cards.  I plan on adding new choices throughout the year that relate to the topics we are studying.  I'm looking forward to trying this out when school starts back!!

Cute Crate Seats

Well... for those of you who know me, you know that I am NOT crafty.  But I saw this really cute idea on pinterest and decided to try it out for my classroom:

Where I got the idea

So in case you are interested in making milk crate seating for kiddos, here is the run down.  To make 5 seats, you will need milk crates (I got mine at Big Lots for $3.30), plywood, 1 yard of fabric, 1 yard of batting, a staple gun, and scissors.

You also need a way of cutting the plywood.  I bought mine at Home Depot, and they cut it some for me but my husband finished off the cutting with his dad's table saw.  Just measure the top of the milk crate to get the exact measurements of the plywood.

From there, cut the batting the exact size of the plywood, and the material a little bit bigger.  Lay the batting on top of the plywood, and then lay the material on top of the batting.  Turn it over and staple the material to the plywood with a staple gun... and VOILA!!!

Here is the finished product:

I am so excited about my crafty creation!!

Whole Brain Teaching Rules in Spanish

I have recently discovered wholebrainteaching.com (thanks to a teacher friend) and absolutely love it.  The only thing is that everything is in English, so I decided to translate the 5 basic classroom rules into Spanish and add some clip art.  I hope that you find this helpful in your own classroom!

Whole Brain Teaching Rules in Spanish