Ms. Lee - Learn Thru Play

Are your students extra chatty and full of energy this week? This almost no prep scavenger hunt saved me today! To make it even less work, I went over the problems as a class and had the kids hide them. All their hands shot up when I asked them to help me hide the cards and it was actually a task I didn't want to do. Win win! 🤣 In the end, they practiced so many math facts without even knowing.

What activities are you doing this week? Please share any tips to help you get through this week!

Pokemon Party!

Do you have Pokemon fans in your class? I have a pretty big group this year so when it was time to vote for a party, the final decision was... Pokemon Party!

It was such a fun day and the best part was it was really easy for me to plan! Kids were allowed to bring one stuffy and up to 5 books from home. All I had to do ahead of time was to make copies of the Pokemon themed packet and look for appropriate videos to show. I also borrowed Pokemon cards from another teacher so that was the best part today! A handful of my students already knew how to play Pokemon cards and they were my experts. Some kids weren't really into Pokemon so they had other choices while doing similar activities. Most kids seemed to enjoy it and I'll definitely do it again!

What's your favorite party to hold in your class?

Pumpkin patch! 🎃

Balancing Equation Spiders! 🕷️

Halloween is getting so close I can just smell it! My first graders desperately needed something hands-on and fun this week, so what's better than a math craftivity that reviews math concepts AND decorates the classroom? They did such an amazing job on these balancing equation spider and I was soooo impressed by some of these math facts, I actually had to check answers with my calculator! 🤯

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Happy Filipino American History Month! 🇵🇭

We made these jeepneys last year for AAPI to learn about all Asian cultures, but this year I plan to make these with my new 1st graders in October for Filipino American History Month!

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Our first month has been a whirlwind. There has been so much improvement already. Now that we have our routines down and expectations drilled in our heads, I feel like I'm finally teaching without repeating reminders all day long. But what happened today? 😅 Is it Friday yet?

How's your week going?

When do teacher moms ever get a break? When I clock out of my teaching job, I still have so many mom duties.

What I didn't include were before school duties - waking my child up, making breakfast, packing lunch/snack, driving to school... and more after school duties - extracurricular activities, grocery shopping, typing emails, lesson planning, etc... if you're a tired teacher mom, I'm right there with you! Hugs! ❤️

(Special thanks to my 6-year-old for taking this video for me 🥰)

First graders can be very affectionate sometimes 🥰 but it may not always be welcomed, so that means it was time for a personal space lesson! To begin, we read the book Personal Space Invader 📚 and we talked about different ways to show our friends that we love them. To wrap up the lesson, we chose 1-2 ways to write and draw about, and turned it into a class book to keep in our classroom library. Hopefully this will help remind them throughout the year! How do you teach about personal space?

Anyone else playing catch up at lunch? 🙋🏻‍♀️

Reminder: It'll get better!! ❤️

We received a package today so I had H lie down on the packaging paper for me to draw his outline. He really enjoyed adding details to it and was focused for more than 30 minutes! I call this a win! 😃