Mission Space Giveaway Winners and Fabulous Projects!!!

Congratulations to Angie and Diedre on being winners of my first giveaway! Please look at your e-mails for a link to download your unit! Hope your kiddos enjoy it! 

I started decorating my classroom hallway to get ready for space... This is the wall opposite of my classroom so the angle from where I took the picture is awkward but I think you get the picture.. Ha! I told one of the the girls on my team (who really are my BFF's!! I LOVE them!!!) that it would be neat if we each made planets to place outside our hallways (we have an interior hallway-- not all classrooms have this) and have our little 1st grade astronauts orbit the hallway-- that it would look really cool. I painted the moon but there is still wall space next to my door.... hmmmm..... ;-)

Today was also an exciting day for my students. We have been working on a non-fiction share research project based on endangered animals. They looked so adorable walking into the classrooms with their projects. 

I posted about it a few weeks ago but I was still in the process of adding files and am still adding files as I find more things to add as I study and learn with my class. 

As soon as I finish up my files I will post it up on TPT but I will leave you with a FREEBIE "Choose Your Endangered Animal" form I used with my class. Click on the cover page of my new upcoming unit to grab that. In the meantime, take a look at their sweet faces with their projects! They are the BEST!!!

Have a great night! 

Panda Obsessed!!!

You know, I really should be going to bed but once I have a project in mind I MUST complete it but sleep is beginning to lure me to my bed. Plus, I have 1st graders to teach and enrich tomorrow. So, really quickly my class and I are obsessed with the Panda Cam from the San Diego Zoo!! Click on the panda picture to take you there. He is so FREAKING cute and so entertaining. I am telling Brian, my DH, I want to adopt one. I'm Asian .. he might give in (LOL!!!... NOT!!!). So, what prompted this obsession.. well, in our estudies weekly topic (how many of you use estudies weekly... Do you like it? This is our first year with it and just wanted your feedback.) we had learned about changes in the community and there was a lesson about extinct or endangered animals and badda bing, bada boom-- sparks flew and there was a huge interest.... hence my latest project I am working on... Here's a sneak peak... 

I am almost done and need to add the thinking maps and some writing papers and I will be done by tomorrow.... maybe... We are in our early stages of working on this project and it meets the CCSS (1.W.6, 1.W.7).

Also, if you hadn't had a chance to enter the giveaway from The Applicious Teacher, please do so as there are lots of goodies up for grabs! Just click on her name to take you there!

Have a great night and happy early TGIF!!!