Tick, Tock… Time Has Been Flying BY!

     We have been so busy in the first grade. My first graders have been learning all sorts of new things. Where to start? Hmm… last week we worked on plants and graphing. My students had a blast with graphing. They did all the activities out of my Graphs Galore packet. Students absolutely loved the I Spy, Graphing Activities. I gave students all sorts of sorting mats. They used counters to help them keep track of how many of each picture they see on their mat. Next, they filled in their tally charts and answered the questions about the given survey. Finally, they used their information to color in and graph their data. The different graphs included: favorite snack, favorite pet, favorite fruit, favorite sea creature, and favorite insect. Students loved having to find their data on the sorting mat and it made learning hands-on and interactive for them! Here is one of the six I Spy activities.

 

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     We then moved on to learning about time. The standard for first grade is to read and tell time to the nearest half hour using both analog and digital clocks. I created several visual, hands-on, interactive, and engaging activities for teaching my students about time. We started off by singing a song to teach students about the long minute hand and the short hour hand. We then got out their student clocks and my big teacher clock, and practiced whole rotations about the clock (telling time to the hour), then half rotations (telling time to the half hour)… they loved having their own clocks to manipulate. Then played Clock Concentration, Read the Room, and I Have, Who Has card game.



      Then my students did my favorite activity about learning time called “What’s the Time?” Students walk around the room and ask each other “What’s the time?”  They are instructed not to answer each other but show each other their watch. They write down each other’s name and time displayed on their watch on their recording sheet. It was adorable to see students acting like young adults with their watches! :)



     Another adorable activity was assembling their Flower Clock craftivity for a visual manipulative for analog clocks and their Digital Flipbook for digital clocks. The Flower clock was used as a visual reminder of how the analog clock works. The longer leaf represented the longer minute hand. While the short leaf represented the short hour hand. Each petal represented the minutes around the clock. Students loved this, they love thinking about time in this way!

     The Digital Flipbook is one of my favorite creations thus far. Students make their very own digital clock to manipulate. I have students display a time I give them vocally or show them on analog clock, just by flipping through their book to the correct numbers. Students loved having this interactive way of showing their responses in time. I’m in love with this!
 

     All of this and more in my tpt product called Tick Tock, Let’s Read the Clock. It’s a 60 page packet full of anything and everything you could possibly think of for teaching about time in grades K-3. I have CC standards stated with each activity.
 

    
     All in all, we have been busy learning as much as we can before the year is up. Speaking about time… “Where has the school year gone?” I feel like I was just preparing my classroom a few weeks ago. Anyway, next week is Easter in the First Grade. I have sooooo many plans for my kiddos. All found in my tpt Easter product called Easter Chicks. I have these adorable bunnies for my students to make after answering questions on their glyph.
 

    We are also going to do this super cool science experiment with Peeps. Then fill in our daily observations in our Disappearing Peeps Science Journals. Find everything you might possibly think of to make next week EGG-citing for your students.
 

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Enjoy and Happy Teaching!