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I feel special, now I have to try and make my posts a little more often to keep it up! :) Just what I needed today!

Skip Counting!!!

In math this past week we were going learning and practicing how to skip count using patterns. I had each student bring in a pair of fun socks. My teammate and I worked together and created a "clothes line" on the bulletin boards across the hall from our classrooms. (Having great teammates is SUCH a blessing!) With clothespins we hung the socks up one at a time and counted them. I wrote the odd numbers in BLUE and the even numbers in RED. Stopping with each sock helped the kiddos see that when there was one sock left by itself it was ODD.






After skip counting by 2's we moved onto 5's and 10's using our little feet cutouts! It was really awesome to see the kids realize that 5's were odds, and the 10's were evens. Counting the toes really helped them see there was 1 left out when the numbers ended in a 5. They really enjoyed these lessons! :)

Busy Busy 1st Graders

The year has started and it is already going fast! Our camping theme classroom has been full of learning and having fun!








This is one of the bulletin boards outside my room. "There's s'more learning going on in Ms. Pollard's class!"




"Whooo is in Ms. Pollard's Class?!?"

We are having a WONDERFUL start to the year in our class. So excited to post more exciting things we are going to do!

Happy Summer

Hello all!!!

I have been having a wonderful summer catching up with friends and hanging out with family. I've been taking trips, and resting up for this coming school year. The school supplies are already back on the shelves, and I am excited to meet the new group of youngsters I will have for the next 9 months...give or take a few days.

I've already been shopping, planning, and looking for new ideas to better my classroom, teaching, and students' learning!

So EXCITED!!!

It has been quite a while!

I am so sorry it has been so long since I have added anything to my blog. I am new at this, and I get very wrapped up in school work. I sometimes forget about the fun updates I could be putting on this. The end of the year is very fast approaching, but we have been keeping very busy learning lots of fun things. We just wrapped up out garden and life cycle unit. We learned all about earthworms and their habitat and created our own bulletin board. We also learned about life cycles of living things. We focused on insects and frogs. We again created our own pond with LOTS of green friends. I have some pictures that will be on their way soon to share the kid's wonderful hard work!

It has been such a fun time!

We are now finishing up our "INVENTORS" unit. We have been studying and focusing on two very important inventors to several generations all over the world, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Alva Edison. We learned all kinds of facts about their inventions and lives. This week WE got to become inventors! The kids got to create and build their very own robot. Then they wrote about what their special robot was able to do. All the robots were very creative and interesting. I have so much fun reading their writing.

Keep on checking in. There will be much more to come!

Thanks for visiting!