Kindergarten Nursery Rhymes

While collaborating with my Kindergarten teachers, they mentioned that they have a hard time finding time to teach Nursery Rhymes.  As a former kindergarten teacher... I heard bells ringing and the HALLELUJAH chorus!!!  I would loooooove to teach Nursery Rhymes!  So began my Kindergarten Nursery Rhyme unit.

I started with Humpty Dumpty which I figured was familiar to most kiddos.  After reading and chanting the rhyme several times, the kids colored little foldable Humpty Dumpty books so they could take the rhyme home with them.  I downloaded a whole set of foldable nursery rhyme booklets from Teachers Pay Teachers- super cute!  I read the book Humpty Dumpty Climbs Again (which, of course, was hilarious because it said the word "UNDERWEAR" several times).

I had some left over egg crafts from a previous Easter Literacy Night, so they made their own Humpties.  Such personality on these little eggs!

And last but not least, we built walls with blocks and tried to balance our Styrofoam Humpties on our walls (beginning STEM activity??!!).  I wanted to use plastic Easter Eggs for this but they are hard to find in September...I'll have to remember that next April!

Next, we will be "Hey, Diddle, Diddling".

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First Grade Research is EPIC!

Have you used EPIC!?  I'm a big big EPIC! fan.  It's a free website/app that has a TON of ebooks. It has a lot of non-fiction, graphic novels and popular titles (my kids love Scaredy Squirrel).  It has an AR reading level and some of the books have a "Read-to-me" option.  Did I mention it was free- whaaaaaaaaaatttt??!!!

Which brings me to our first research project for my first graders.  As the season changed, they were studying fall.  I didn't have a lot of non-fiction books about fall that were on a first grade reading level.  Good ole' EPIC! had 7 titles for my kids- all in their reading level range!  In my library, I have 8 computers and 8 iPads.  The kids on the computer worked alone (because they needed headphones) and the rest worked with a partner on the iPads.  Each person got a leaf and they had to write down one fact that they learned about fall.  After sharing, they glued it on the bare tree that I had prepared and the end result was a Fall Research Tree.  Easy, effective and a great use of resources!

During the lesson, we were also able to talk about what research is, why we research and even fiction/non-fiction (there was another book called Humpty Dumpty's Great Fall that came up when they searched "Fall" -would that work for our research?  would this be good information for our research?)

And yes...all the 1st grade teachers in my building are this cute!  Love these girls!

   

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