Sketchy Family Doodles with FREEBIE Kitty

I've been trying a new style of drawing and just finished my newest set:  Sketchy Family Doodles.  This clip art set includes these black and white, full-color, and LINE ART images:  34 images included in this set.  Line art images may be altered to add your own colors, etc.  Credit must be given to me as the artist:  Clip Art by Carrie.  Terms of Used included in the zip file and also found at the bottom of my blog:  www.ccteachfirst.blogspot.com

kitty (orange, gray, BW, line art)
puppy (brown/black, white/brown, BW, line art)
baby crying (pink, blue, BW, line art)
old man (gray bald, BW, line art)
man with hair (blond, BW, line art)
lady (gray, red, BW, line art)
girl with curly hair (blond, brown, BW, line art)
girl with long hair (brown, blond, BW, line art)
boy (blond, brown, BW, line art)

Where you can find this set:
My TPT store HERE
My TN store HERE

Here's a FREEBIE of Sketchy Kitty:

Trip to the Zoo Interactive Writing Powerpoint

One of the activities that we do as a class after going to the zoo is a class interactive writing.  Using the pictures that we take at the zoo, we make a class book about our trip.  We put together a powerpoint slide show that has clip art images of the animals we see at the zoo, a page border, and a text box.  We then add pictures that we took at the zoo before we actually do the interactive writing with the class.

This year we finally got Optima projectors installed in our classrooms and connected to our computers, so it has been a fun thing to use for interactive writing projects during our writing time.  Using the wireless mouse and keyboard we can easily type in the text that children come up with as we look at the pictures we have inserted prior to the activity.  We only print and bind one copy of the class book to keep in our classroom libraries.  In the past we have had to take the class to the computer lab and use the equipment there.

Zoo animals included in the powerpoint:  lion, zebra, giraffe, elephant, ostrich, alligator, gorilla, monkey, oranutan, tiger, boa constrictor, rhino, camel, shark, sting ray, polar bear, penguin, bison, flamingo, macaw, toucan, cheetah, leopard.

We created two versions of this book:  a Black/White and a Full Color, just because some school years our district lets us print in full-color and other years with budget cuts, they would prefer it to be black and white. 

You can purchase the full-color version HERE at our TPT store.
And the black and white version HERE at our TPT store.

Clip Art images used to make this power point are from Clip Art by Carrie. And the border is from Graphics From the Pond. You can click on her link on the button on the right hand side of our blog page.

Zoo Observations Book FREEBIE!

We had our annual trip to the zoo on Thursday, May 10th.  We had a beautiful day, there was just the right amount of people at the zoo that we didn't feel like we were losing our groups of 8 in the crowd, and the kids had a BLAST!  It's a great culmination to our Animals and Habitats unit and Animal Report Presentations we did last week...and its a very long but fun day! 

My Zoo Book:
The next school day after going to the zoo we did a cute "My Zoo Book" where the kids had to draw a picture of each animal and label it, mark off what they saw in the "habitat" at the zoo and write what they saw the animal doing. Christine found this at www.buzzingwithmsb.blogspot.com.  We loved this idea because it kept the kids engaged and thinking about the field trip we went on the day before.  Kind of their own little memory book of their zoo trip with their own illustrations!

Our Version--My Zoo Observations:
We decided to revamp it a little bit because it was a little small for our first graders with fine motor issues.   We put a picture box at the top where they are to draw the animal as they saw it at the zoo and label what they saw in the zoo "habitat".  There is a place for them to write about what they saw the animal doing.  And then a place for them to circle items that they saw in the zoo habitat such as water, food, shelter, plants, and toys.  Here is the book that we put together for next year using clip art from Clip Art by Carrie and the border from Graphics From the Pond:

You can find this FREEBIE at our TPT store HERE.

Habitat Riddles

We are right in the middle of our Animals and Habitats unit and the kids are having so much fun.  I have been working on putting together a set of Habitat Riddles cards to use as a review at the end of the unit.  I just got them done today after school.  This group has really been in to riddles, which is GREAT because they have to be a good listener in order to know when it is their turn to come up and show and read their card.  You can find them at our TPT store HERE.

Cards are included for:
cactus, chameleon, camel, desert mountain, tumbleweed, sand dune, ocean, seaweed, sea shell,, walrus, deer, raccoon, mushroom, oak tree, mountain goat, mountain, vulture, grassland, lion, bison, rain forest, bananas, arctic, antarctic, wetlands, flamingo

Clip art in this riddles cards set by:

Clip Art by Carrie

KPM Doodles

Big Dot Border from Graphics From the Pond

Public Domain Sources--clker.com, wpclipart.com, openclipart.org

Zoo Animals Book

During our upcoming Animals & Habitats unit we discuss many of the animals we will be seeing on our zoo field trip in May.  We created this cute Zoo Animals book to have the kids guess which animals they might see at the zoo.  They love coloring the pictures so its great to keep around in their cubbies for a freetime coloring book when you are done with it. Get your copy of this book for FREE from Google Docs HERE.

Clip are is by DJ Inkers:  www.djinkers.com