My New Love & A Noun Freebie

I apologize for not blogging for so long!  I am finally feeling back into the swing of things at school and feel a sense of “normalcy” returning. 🙂  Procedures and routines are falling into place and small groups are up and running.  First grade for Room 108 is officially underway!  

It’s important to me that my kiddos write every day in my classroom.  Sometimes this varies from writing in our journal, our writer’s workshop notebook, or completing a writing project.  Either way, the important thing is that my students are learning how to express their thoughts, ideas, and opinions on paper.  

This year, I’ve done away with the traditional “grammar book” for my students.  I want to make sure my grammar is part of my whole writing experience and integrate it in that way.  Since we are first graders and still learning how to write a full sentence, my students will be studying nouns this week within our writing block.  They will then use that knowledge of nouns to practice writing complete sentences by the end of the week.

I’m in the middle of working on a mini-unit on nouns and want to share a freebie with you from the pack.  I will be using this as part of my introduction to nouns this week with my firsties.  I hope you can use and enjoy. 🙂 I hope to have the entire mini-pack available for you by the end of the week!  I first want to make sure this mini-unit is “kid-tested” for you. 🙂  

Just click the picture to download the freebie from Google Docs.