A Guest Post by friend, mentor and first grade teacher, Amber Rausch of First Grade Diva Creations!
My name is Amber Rausch from First Grade Diva Creations. Thank you to That Fun Reading Teacher for allowing me to guest post here on her blog! I have had so much fun participating in Swap Meet!
I had the great pleasure of swapping resources with Sandra Farrell from Sandra’s Savvy Teaching Tips!
WHERE I LIVE FLIP FLAP BOOK
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WHAT ELSE I LOVE
Writing is hard work for the primary student. (Can I have an “Amen!” from my fellow primary teachers?) I go crazy for cute ways to display my firsties’ hard work. Check out the picture to see how cute the writing display is in this resource. (Shouldn’t they hold the whole world in their sweet little hands?) Having children participate in shared research is important! This is a great way to meet the shared research standard.
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Students begin the journey of figuring out where they are in the world by going from them- selves on out to the world community. The teacher leads them through the research. |
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I love Sandra’s suggestion to have students write a directed sentence and then allow them to write a sentence of choice. This gives this resource a great relational element. You learn a lot about what is important to your students by what they chose to write. (Look closely at my pictures! My little dancer loves her Kidz Bop! How sweet is she?) Thanks, Sandra for creating such a great resource!
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What a great product to use for social studies. I am so glad the instructions are super clear because I agree that I always seem to mess up the copying. Thanks Amber for participating in the hop and Ida Mae for providing a home for Amber’s post!
Christina
Hanging Around In Primary
Christina, the directions were AWESOME! Sandra had a lot of pictures in her directions too! Perfect for the busy teacher. Thank you for the comment. ~Amber
I did a similar activity with my Grade 3 class last year, but I like that Sandra’s version of the flip flap book has space for the students to write full sentences, rather than just filling in the blanks. This makes a great hallway bulletin board display!
Nicole, thanks for noticing! The lines and space were perfect in Sandra’s resource for encouraging students to write in full sentences. Thank you for stopping by and reading my review. ~Amber
Amber, what a thorough review, and Sandra, what a wonderful product!
That Fun Reading Teacher, Sandra’s resource is lovely! However, you get much of the credit for my blog post. You are so talented at design! Thank you! ~Amber