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

David Goes To School

Howdy!
Welcome to another fun peek into the wonder-filled world of First Grade!  Today we began our mini unit on "Me and My School."  It is important that kids realize that there are leadership positions in all aspects of our day.  They also need to understand that we can learn from those leaders. For us to be our best we have to learn what choices are best for us. Using "David Goes to School" as a character analysis text is a great way to bring respect and responsibility into a conversation about choices and leadership.  I recently shared my unit about "Me and my School" but I wanted to share a few of the David craft and writing connections the kids did today.  After reading the story we analyzed little David's antics. We charted his "do's" and "do nots" and then the kids created their own David.I love how each one turned out differently and that the kids wrote the what was important to them. 

 To see my initial post about the unit click here.

 

For the free 18 page "Me and My School" unit click here

The unit contains ideas for this book, anchor charts and a simple pattern. 

The kids did most of the work themselves on this little cutie! David is a great motivator!! :)

 

Hope you enjoyed this very quick peek!  Stop by again soon!  Now, off to get ready for tomorrow!!

Joyfully!

Nancy