New Year's Resolutions and Froot Loops

This week at school we turned over our "goo" card in Language Arts.  The "goo" card has all the different spellings of the sound "oo".  So, this week we focused specifically on the double o spelling of "oo".  I found a cute way to practice oo words over at the "First Grade Wow" blog.  She created a printable where kids use Froot Loops to make oo words.  My kids thought it was so fun and then, of course, they enjoyed having a small Froot Loop snack after we finished our work.  To get her free printable you can click here!

One of my kiddos doing their work

Also, since this was our first week back since the new year, we talked about New Year's Resolutions. I ordered the book, "Squirrel's New Year's Resolution" from Barnes & Noble, but there must have been a high demand because it didn't show up in time.  I improvised and found this reading of the book on YouTube: Lisa reading Squirrel's New Year's Resolution.  After we talked about resolutions, I had the first graders set a goal for 2013.  Most of them chose to be nicer to others.  Two of them actually chose exercise! I had them record their resolutions on the recording sheet below.  I also printed out the numbers 2013 in big font.  I let them use markers, colored pencils, crayons, and JEWELS to decorate the numbers.  They cut out the 2013 and glued it to a large piece of construction paper with their resolutions.  I didn't get to take a picture, but it would look something like this from the Fun-In-First blog in 2012.  The resolutions paper I used is found here!