Community helpers project 1st grade

October is one of my favorite months for fun holiday projects!! Not going to lie, that is mostly because I love Halloween crafts and learnin...

So, probably my last community project for a while. After this cute Building a Community foldable & packet, it'll be time to move on and wo...

I hope everyone has gotten back into the routine of school. My kiddos are working hard each day to remember our expectations and daily routines, as well as learning lots of new skills. We started our phonics skills progression two weeks ago. We focused on short a the first week and then short a word families the next week. Each new vowel I am making an anchor poster to display in the room. The kiddos came up with all of the words and then I added the pictures. Anchor charts are such a great…

Learning about community helpers is fun! Engage kids with these 15 awesome community helpers books. The are perfect read alouds for school or home!

Doctor anchor chart-community helper

As a final project to wrap up our community helpers unit I decided to allow the students to pick which community helper they would like to be and why. I told them that their work would go on our bu…

Every time we have an engineering project my students are so engaged! During our community unit we studied our neighborhood then created models of our own houses. What a great way to make a community helper unit come to life! This project was perfect for Kindergarten and could be great in Grade 1!

We finally finished our Community Helper graph! I have a super cute activity that I was going to do last week, then today, with our nursery rhyme but I forgot my candle, so we will do it tomorrow! :) Our Bible activity is in pieces, so hopefully it will be assembled tomorrow so I can get that picture up. I thought today I would put the rest of last weeks activities up and then start our pumpkins tomorrow. I think today was the first normal day that we've had in October! The whoosh season is…