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

Pattern Block Graphics

Last night while watching TV, I started playing around in Microsoft Picture It and decided to create my own Pattern Block graphics.  The free ones you find on the web are not to scale...so that was my goal.  To make these images in scale with each other so they actually fit together like PB are supposed to.  I love using Pattern Blocks in my classroom.  There are endless possibilities.  I took it a step further and put some of the PB images together to create some graphics to help teach fractions.  Here is the Pattern Block Graphics set:

The font used on the PB fractions images is from www.kevinandamanda.com.

If you'd like to purchase this graphics set, you can find it:
Clip Art by Carrie at Teachers Notebook
C&C Teach First TPT store

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Rain Forest Doodles Clip Art and FREEBIE

We are well into our study of the Animal Habitats and I just finished my Rainforest Doodles clip art set.

Images included:   gorilla, orangutan, monkey, macaw, toucan, tree frog, frog, boa snake, 3 different flowering plants, 3 different tall rainforest trees (one with coconuts and two with different leaves and vines), rainforest man, rainforest woman, leopard, banana bunch, bat, butterfly, branch with vine, rainforest leaves, waterfall.

If you are interested in purchasing this digital clip art set, you can find it for sale:
Clip Art by Carrie at Teachers Notebook
C&C Teach First TPT store

And as promised, here is a FREEBIE of the butterfly:

Please see terms of use at bottom of our blog page for using my images.  Thanks for stopping into our blog to check it out!

Weather Word Wall Vocabulary Cards

We put together some basic word wall cards of the weather words that we use when teaching about weather.  Students love grabbing these word wall cards from the pocket chart during writing time.  I think I had posted previously about our Weather Words pocket chart.  Those word wall cards were in D'Nealian font...next year we are probably going away from this and wanted to have a set of cards that wouldn't confuse firsties with the tails and loops.  You can find them at out TPT store HERE. 

Christine is working on some Weather and Storm Facts Posters...be sure to stop back soon and check those out!

Base 10 Block Graphics FREEBIE

Grab your free Base 10 Block graphics of CUBE, LONG, and FLAT at our TPT store HERE.  Files are in PNG format with a transparent background so they work great for layering in projects you want to create for math.  You can also find this freebie clip art set HERE at my Teacher's Notebook clip art gallery:  Clip Art by Carrie.

Counting Money Poster FREEBIES

I don't know if its just me or every other first grade teacher out there, but counting coins has to be the most difficult thing to teach a first grader.  When we count coins, I always make the student "show their work" by showing the "skip counting" underneath each coin as they count it (what they say in their head when they count).  That's the only way I have been taught how I can make sense of what the students are doing inside their heads. 

I made these posters today to post on my math wall to help students remember that you count pennies by ONES, nickels by FIVES, dimes by TENS, and quarters by TWENTY-FIVES.  We will see if it helps!  Its yours FREE at our TPT store HERE.

Here is another FREEBIE to go with it!  Our Money Posters HERE.

Farm Word Wall Vocabulary Cards

Our farm theme is called, "Farming:  How Food Gets From the Farm to Your Plate", and focuses on not just the animals that a farmer raises, but what the farmer does on the farm and how the food he/she grows gets from the farm to your dinner plate.  I revamped our card set and used my Farm Doodles clip art, along with some of KPM Doodles farm clip art and changed the font to a basic font.  Our other farm word cards are in D'Nealian font and I don't want to confuse our firsties next fall when we do the farm unit.  (I am seeing a lot of revamping in our future, since a lot of what we made was created witht he DN font.)

The words we have in our theme word wall pocket chart include the animals, plants, machines, and the basic products that come from the things that farmers "grow":

farmer, farm wife, tractor, combine, grain wagon, hay wagon, hay, corn stalk, corn field, soy bean, bean field, corn field, garden, cow, pig, horse, sheep, goat, chicken, rooster, hen, nest, chick, calf, ducking, turkey, cooked turkey, milking, riding, barn, hay, pitchfork, pail, harvest, pumpkin, apple, orchard, potato, carrot, corn, cat, dog, grain elevator, wheat, bread, eggs, bacon, ham, steak, hamburger, milk, cheese, yogrut, chicken leg

You can purchase these Farm Vocabulary Cards at our TPT store HERE.

Clip art in this vocabulary card set from:

Clip Art by Carrie: www.ccteachfirst.blogspot.com

KPM Doodles: www.kpmdoodles.blogspot.com

Graphics From the Pond:  www.frompond.blogspot.com

Open Clip Art (public domain):  www.openclipart.org

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