100 Days of School

We celebrated the 100th day of school today!  Check out our portraits  - my new favorite activity!  We made a picture of what we might look like when we are 100 years old!

A big thank you to Deb from Oh My Little Classity Class for the nomination! I appreciate the vote of confidence and will recognize other new bloggers. Thank you again!

This award is for new bloggers, and its goal is to spotlight up-and-coming blogs with less than 200 followers. If awarded, you must:

♥ Copy and paste the award on your blog

♥ Thank the giver and link back to them

♥ Reveal YOUR top five picks and leave a comment letting them know


Here are my picks :

Dragonflies in First

Wild About First Grade

Mrs. T's First Grade Class

Frogtastic First Graders

How About Them Apples?

Check out these fun blogs and become a follower!   I know how much they'll appreciate it.  :)

Ipod photos

We had great fun practicing double facts with our ipods!

Doubles Ipod

Our Doubles Ipod

I'm loving Heidi Samuelson's idea @ Swamp Frog First Graders of a doubles ipod.  I've uploaded a template for one that I printed on #10 business envelopes.  The students will store their doubles flashcards in the bottom part of the envelope ipod.  Searching for a catchy doubles song I found "Addition Rock" by Alabama Axeman on YouTube.  We'll try it out tomorrow and upload a few decorated ipods.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!!

Wow!  I've got my very own coconut tree!  Kristen at First Grade Teaching posted great directions for this.  I plan to use it in our Word Center for the first part of the year.  Believe it or not - the trunk is magnetic!  A big "Thank You" to my dad (who applied 3 coats of magnetic primer and a top coat of brown and made the base) and my husband (who stripped the umbrella and helped with the leaves). Can't wait to see the kids under the coconut tree!