Plant Freebies, Cinquain Poetry, & Dirty Word Work

As promised, here are a few plant themed literacy & math activities for you!  Sorry I didn’t post them last night…I fell asleep…fully clothed!!!!…at 8:30 and didn’t get out of bed to change into my jammies until sometime around 2 a.m.!  All those late, sleepless nights caught up to me!!! Click on the pics for the downloads :)

Graphics courtesy of Scrappin Doodles

I don’t have too many station activities because I’ve been using everything from Kelly & Diane’s Plenty of Plants Unit!  I was in a pinch on Sunday night…I spent the whole weekend celebrating my just turned 3-year-old and didn’t devote much time to planning! Yikes!  I quickly clicked “buy” and can I just tell y’all…saved.my.LIFE!!!!!   Ohmiword…a definite MUST.HAVE if you’re studying plants!  Love it all!!!  My kids are loving it all, too!

 

Since we’re studying plants AND the oi/oy spelling pattern, I decided it would be fun to do some dirty word work this week, too!  I stole took some soil from Mr. Spouse and filled up a few different baking sheets with it and had the kids practice writing their “oi” words in SOIL :)  They loved getting dirty!!!

We’re also using our fake COINS to practice writing “oi” words, too!

We’re still LOVING poetry and this week I decided to introduce cinquain poems. {Speaking of which…how do y’all say that?!  sin-KWAYNE or sin-CANE???}  Anywho…we read several kid created cinquains and then learned all about how they’re created.  The same day I introduced the soil for word work, we made a cinquain about soil, too.  We brainstormed adjectives, action {‘ing’} words, and how it made us feel.  It was great for practice!  They really loved brainstorming together, so I thought it would be fun for them to make one of their own.  Cinquains are pretty tricky for first graders, so I knew they needed a planning sheet where they could write out their thoughts and create a rough draft BEFORE giving me a final product. This really made them think about the differences between adjectives and verbs and helped them organize their thinking.  After I helped them proofread and edit, we created these little cuties…

 

 

Our topic was “plants”.  I let them choose the type of plant they wanted to describe & write about.  Our little version of a first grade cinquain!  They did pretty darn good, too!  Click the pic to download the planning sheets & cinquain template.

Some fonts by http://misstiina.com

Clipart courtesy of Scrappin’ Doodles

I’m sure there’s something I’m forgetting, but I can hear my boys wrestling in bed right now, so I’m gonna head out and make sure they don’t break anything…or each other!  HA!!!!