Writing Activity Using Superlatives

   I follow a lot of the writing activities using the five different writing traits. One of the activities I do with my class is a writing activity based on the story - Things That Are the Most by Judi Barrett.

After laughing and discussing the words and images, we come up with our own silly sentences. Here is a sampling of some of their sentences.

The silliest thing in the world is a pie dancing in a cup.

The silliest thing in the world is a school flying.

The funniest thing in the world is a dragon dancing in school.

The silliest thing in the world is a pencil reading a book.

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Graphing

  I love graphing activities. Graphing is fun for children as it provides hands-on fun and great for inferencing and analyzing. I found this rainbow graphing activity on pinterest - it comes from Lisa over at Live, Laugh and Love to Learn Blog - get it here.

We have also been doing snowmen glyphs. I picked this activity up from I Heart Kindergarten blog.

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I also do a weekly graphing activity in my classroom. It is part of my Smartboard Daily Activities that you can buy at my TPT store: Get this graphing template free for your smartboard here.

This was a roll and graph activity using shapes. I merely taped a shape to each side of the die and the children recorded their roll on their graph. I picked this graph up from Ms. Meacham's Classroom Snapshots -  Get it here

The last graphing activity I found was another shape graph, however this time I used pattern block shapes. The children worked with a partner and "grabbed" a shape and recorded it on their graph. Then the sheet included many questions for interpreting the graph. A bit of a challenge for some, but a fun activity. Pick this graphing activity up at Peterson's Pad - First Grade Fun here:

                                                           

As you can see lots of great graphing ideas that are fun and provide good informal assessment.

    

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Snow Globe Writing

We spend alot of time writing in our classroom and always encouraging the children to write when they can. If I can find a great writing prompt to help them along, they are even more encouraged to do the writing.

I found this great writing activity about what it would like to live in a snowglobe. Instead of Santa, we pretended we were snowmen or snow women. Check out the cute writings here.

Click on the link here to get this fabulous activity from Amber Polk's Sunny Days in Second Grade!!

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