Lightning Does Strike Twice!

Hello Everyone!
I'm going to start of today with a little picture.

This is one of the chimneys on my house!  Last week we got struck by lightning in the middle of the night!! It totally fried most of our electronics, pool equipment, garage door opener, one of the air conditioners, and probably more, let alone it scared the jeepers out of us!!!  We are still discovering things that don't work.  But!!!   No fire! The house is still standing! Praise the Lord, we are all safe.  It could have been pretty bad.  You had better believe we are counting our blessings!!! The crazy thing is, this will be the third time we will be replacing a chimney due to weather!  WOW!!! Lightning does strike twice!!!

Needless to say, it has taken some patience as we get everything up and running again.  I have the hardest working "do it yourselfer" type hubby!!  He has been at it for days!!! First up, was the all important computer network.  Took some doin, but he did it!!!  Thanking God for my sweetie!!!

All this got me to thinking about some of my school units. I decided that I needed to "strike again" with my beginning of the year unit on "Me and My School." It included some downloads using "David Goes to School."  That is still one of my favs to start the year. I also love "Chrysanthemum" and "Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon." So... I went ahead and cleaned up and combined the three books into one unit.

Here are some pics.

The unit is about 55 pages long with poems, chants, reader's response, hands on visual, posters, bubblemaps, and puzzles. These ideas were successful the first couple times around, so, let's strike again!!

You can get your download if you STRIKE HERE!!! :) 

OOPS! Gotta go! The air conditioner guy is here!  YAY!!

It's all good!! 

Thanks for stopping by!! Don't forget to leave a comment and let me know if you can use this unit, or if you need anything else.  Up next? Sight Words, I Can's, and a few more things!!

Joyfully!

Nancy

"We Wanna Be Like Johnny!"

Hello Everyone!!
I think just about every first grade class in the land celebrates Johnny Appleseed. We take the folktale as a lesson in good citizenship.  I shared my little mini unit earlier, but I wanted to share with you how the kids responded to the core value of the legend.  After reading several books about Johnny, and learning a little song, we brainstormed and created a little chart exploring our thoughts on how Johnny Appleseed demonstrated good citizenship.

We decided we wanted to be like Johnny!  The kids created a speech bubble with a "good citizen quality" they wanted to show in their lives.  Then, of course, I had them don a pot and apple and share their ideas!  Here are a few pics I managed to snag!!

 Love the little drawing of the thumb as a promise to do this! :)

  I love their ideas!!

Thanks for taking a quick peek into our wonderful world!  Stay tuned for more amazing kid stuff!!

Joyfully!

Nancy

Johnny Appleseed = Good Citizenship

Hello Everyone!
Just a quick share tonight. As I've mentioned before, we have integrated our reading and social studies. So far things are going great. We chose Johnny Appleseed to read about over the next few days, weeks.  He was a character who showed tremendous citizenship. You probably have a ton of apple related activities so this is a teeny tiny share. This ultra mini pack includes ways to incorporate that concept of Johnny Appleseed's citizenship into reading. Here's a peek.

I've also included a quick activity to practice noticing punctuation marks by using some sentences about Johnny Appleseed.  Hope you can use it!!
If you are interested in this freebie, click here!! :)
Okee Dokee...Got to run!! Lots to get ready for tomorrow.

Talk to you all soon!!
Joyfully!
Nancy