Hello Friends,
Today I'm going to share some of the activities we'll be completing this month!
Showing posts with label Superhero Unit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Superhero Unit. Show all posts
Superheroes!
Monday, 9 May 2016
Hello Everyone,
Today, in Second Grade we learned all about superheroes!
We read about them, we wrote about them, we even dressed up as them!
Bears Love to Read AND can be Superheroes too!
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Hey Cyber Friends,
Just wanted to write up a quick post about our "I Love to Read Week." We are having such a great time! As promised, I found a way to incorporate the bear theme (for I Love to Read Week) with my superhero theme! Of course, (this is "the as promised part") I have a freebie for you.
It's really just a template, but still worth the visit!
Before I share all about Mr. and Mrs. Tough Stuff (that's the name the kiddies insisted upon) I would like to share a great activity that our school's Reading Week committee prepared. It was such a wonderful experience for the kiddies, everyone should try it! Shout out to Ms. Kelly (I know she'll read this) and the committee for this wonderful idea.
Today, we had a read aloud. Every teacher in the school chose a story book to read (bear themed of course) and displayed it outside their classroom. I'm a little ashamed of my sign. It was a last minute creation and lacks my usual twinkle and shine! I may have forgotten to make a sign!
As our school is separated in a really great way, (firsties and second graders on one floor, grade 3 and 4 on another and 5 and 6 on the top floor), we were able to have the kiddies choose which reading they wanted to attend. It was just darling to watch the kiddies contemplate and finally decided which story to listen to. They took it very seriously! It was also really nice to have firsties and second graders together, as well as students from several classes mixed shoulder to shoulder in one room.
What a fun 30 minutes it was!
Now, here's the freebie! As it is "I Love to Read Week" and the theme is bears, I decided, along with my s.t. Amanda to incorporate it into our superhero unit. The kiddies made bears who put on reading glasses. The reading glasses gave the bears superpowers. The kiddies wrote all about the powers the bears received... Things like invisibility, flying, super speed, intelligence... One little cutie wrote about a bear who made everyone in sight fall in love with her, when she put the glasses on. Too precious!
Here are some examples...
If you'd like a FREE template for the bear, you can grab yourself a copy right over HERE!
Grab yourself some stationary right over HERE!
Enjoy!
Until next time...
Ms. Nicole xo
Superhero Writer's Workshop Freebie!
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Hello again,
Have I mentioned how much I love the second grade. Why? You ask. Well, because we get to do things like dress up as 100 year olds in the middle of February or wear superhero capes to work! I've also had occasions where it was perfectly okay, in fact it was required, to wear pj's to school!
Again, I love teaching the second grade and I love, love, love our superhero unit! The kiddies have been working on using quotation marks in their writing.
Check out my superhero freebies post for a great freebie activity on that!
They wrote some exciting stories (with quotation marks, yippee!) this week and I would like to share the stationary and templates with you!
I printed 3 different superhero body templates on card stock (several copies of each) and let them choose the one they wanted to trace on construction paper. I also gave them a cape template to trace.
You can grab yourself a copy of these freebie templates along with the freebie stationary
using the links below!
Stop by again soon!
Until next time...
Ms. Nicole xo
Another Superhero Freebie!
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Hello to my all my faithful followers and new friends (Yay, for linky parties!),
I am so happy to share this freebie with you. As many of you may already know, I like to use word walls to encourage my students to be independent writers. I have a permanent word wall filled with sight words and power words (Love my magnetic chalk board and magnetic words. So much fun!) as well as a theme word wall (which I change every time we begin a new unit).
I also like to use word folders, as I find it to be a great way to organize words. The students also enjoy bringing the folder to their desk.
When I created my Superhero Word Wall, I completely forgot to make my word folders! Turns out the kiddies did not forget and reminded me today that we were missing Superhero Word Folders!
Here they are...
You can grab yourself a FREE copy right HERE!
Enjoy and have a Happy Friday tomorrow!
Until next time...
Ms. Nicole xo
Superhero Word Wall and Linky Party!
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Good Evening All,
Feeling real great right now!
Good day at work, good workout at the gym, and great walk with a great friend!
Now time for some blogging!
As you already know, I'm all about our new Superhero Unit. The kiddies are really getting into it and I have a word wall to share with you.
It's a freebie with 32 words. You can print it on white card stock and laminate for durability.
I also like to glue it to colored card stock to give it that extra something. Makes it POP!
You can grab yourself a free copy of the word wall right over HERE!
While I have your attention, let me tell you about this great little k-2 linky party that will help you find some new blogs! Don't forget to follow over here and any of the blogs you find via this linky party!
Stop on over to...
Show Jeannie some love and join the party!
Simply visit her blog: Kindergarten Lifestyle
I'd love some love too!!!!
Click follow for more freebies and great ideas!
Will be sharing all about my resource/one-on-one basket soon. Great ideas for remedial work!
Until next time...
Ms. Nicole xo
Let's Sing it like We're Superheroes!
Monday, 12 March 2012
So first day back after Spring Break and I got myself one compliment and one insult!!!
One of the firsties from the classroom next door came over to me after recess and said, "Nice jacket Ms. Nicole." I'm wearing my new Spring leather and couldn't be happier about it! So, I answer the little firstie, "Thanks, you like it?" To which she then replies, "Yes, I didn't like your other one though."
I nearly fell over laughing! This was just too cute!
I really love working with kids. They really do say the "darndest" things sometimes!
I also love the fact that we can sing songs and act silly!
I spent some time looking for Superhero songs for my new unit, as I like to incorporate singing and dancing in language arts. Come on, surely I'm not the only one!
I was really only able to find one that was suitable.
Please leave me a comment, if you can tell me where I can find some more, as we really do like to sing during our morning routine!
So I found a great song by Richard Graham and also found a website that plays a video of the song. You can show it to your kiddies on the SmartBoard and it will also give you the opportunity
to learn the tune to for the song!
Find the video right HERE!
I decided to make a Superhero themed song sheet for the kiddies to place in their folder. Here it is...
You can grab yourself a copy right over HERE!
If you do know where I can find more songs like this one for my unit, please leave me a comment! I would greatly appreciate it! Of course, you can also comment if you don't have any song info!
Looking forward to reaching 100 followers... Will plan something special to celebrate it!
Until next time...
Ms. Nicole xo
Superhero Freebies!
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Alright, so here I am the last day of Spring Break having had no rest, no time for blogging, and a big great knee injury! Yippee for me!
Turns out, I have runners knee. So now, I can't run until it gets better and need to have physiotherapy to strengthen my knee. Did I mention I LOVE to run! Did I also mention I may have eaten some cheese cake (twice) because I was sad about the whole "NO running business!"
Please tell me its okay, as I may have felt quite more that a "little" guilty after stopping the gym for 2 weeks and eating sugar!!!
Ok! OK! Enough complaining from me, let's get down to business! I have a new unit beginning tomorrow: SUPERHEROES!!!!
I am so excited about this unit and so is my student teacher Ms. Amanda. We have been hard at work all week coming up with great ideas for this new theme.
I have noticed that my kiddies writing has improved a great deal and love how imaginative and original their stories are. Many have been ATTEMPTING to use dialogue in their writing and are having a little trouble! I have decided its time to focus on grammar in their writing and thought we'd begin with some review work and then slowly introduce quotation marks.
How might we go about this, you ask? Well its simple! A SmartBoard story, of course! As you know, I love to create my own storybooks, via the SmartBoard, and love how interactive it is for the kiddies. I also get to decide the length of my story AND what vocabulary or lessons we will work on.
This is my latest creation...
The story stars Super Boy and Bubble Gum Girl. They both love to talk A LOT, and so there are many quotation marks in the story! I also used some new vocabulary words to enhance their language when reading and writing.
Here is a sample page...
Read the story to the students (modeling great fluency and intonation, etc... etc...) Then reread the story with the kiddies and have them come up and circle the quotation marks and dialogue pieces.
And here is where you can grab yourself a copy of this story for FREEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Wait! Wait! There's more! As a follow up activity to the reading, we have created a shared reading story. After reading, you can give out the Shared Reading version of the story.
This is a print copy of the SmartBoard story. Reread the pages with your students and then have them highlight the quotation marks and dialogue (something they will love!). Finally, they must read the story on their own (or with a buddy) and illustrate it. This will take several lessons. Thus, you may review the pages that you have read and choose 1 or 2 more to complete, for each lesson. This is a great way to improve fluency (as they reread a familiar story several times) as well as boost up the confidence of some of your more reluctant readers.
Lastly, you can have your kiddies think of their own superhero stories and practice using dialogue. Here is a great little comic strip you can use to motivate them to write!
Grab a FREE copy of the Shared Reading Activity HERE!
And... A FREE copy of the comic strip template HERE!
If you are interested in using more superhero themed lessons or grammar units in your classroom, you may also check out my Teacher Store.
As you know, I will be blogging a lot about Superheroes and Grammar in the next coming weeks! I may slip in some other little ideas too, of course! Please don't be shy to stop by anytime and drop me a comment! I'm also excited about the approach of having 100 followers! I may have to do something special when that happens!!!
Until next time..
Ms. Nicole xo
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