The Foot Book {antonyms}

I taught the girls the offical first grade word for opposites ~ antonyms! We read The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss and listened for antonyms throughout the book. After reading the book, I had the girls trace their feet onto paper and then think of a word and the antonym. So cute! I saw this idea on The First Grade Parade. I am loving all of these great 1st grade blogs!

big, little

nice, mean

wet, dry

happy, sad

fishy fun!

Oops! I forgot to publish this post several weeks ago when we read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. I actually planned a few fish related activities for Ethan that week, but he didn't want me to take pictures of him doing his work, so I didn't :) This is what he did - worked on his name, Ff (capital and lower case) sorting, and color matching. He also did the venn diagram activity with the girls. Several times!




Here are a few of the other activities the girls did too that week - patterning, matching number word to numeral, color word recognition (file folder game) and wrote a ryhming story.





Here are some other things that we did with this book-
a word search
venn diagram
patterening

word search

I made this super easy word search for the girls to do today to go along with our Dr. Seuss book ~ One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish! I will definately be making more for them to do using their sight words. Let me know if you are interested in these too so I can make them accessible for you.


dr._seuss_word_search.zip

red fish, blue fish

Yesterday, I had the kids color fish for a venn diagram activity. They could only use their red and blue crayons. After they cut their fish out, I told them we had to group our fish on the diagram. I asked them what fish we should put in the red circle, what fish should we put in the blue circle and what fish should we put in the middle? They did this activity two or three times. For the second time, we turned the fish over and they "fished" one and placed it in the corresponding circle.

dr. seuss

This week we are learning with One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish! Yesterday, I started the week off by reading the book to the kids. Then, they made up a rhyming story (3 sentence minium) and drew a picture to go along with their rhyme.
Ella, age 5 - "A flat mat had a flat cat. The cat had a flat bat. A bat had a rat on back."


Gracelyn, age 6 - "This is Flink. Flink likes to drink drink drink. Flink is a pink gink. Flink likes to wink wink wink."


They also did some patterns (abab, aabaab, aabbaabb) on a cute worksheet that I found on What the Teacher Wants.