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on December 3, 2012 at 12:21:41 pm
Here it is all in one place, poems, songs, writing, art we did in grade 1 around the theme of winter and Christmas (with some 5 senses and seasons outcomes in there). Winter unit materials are listed here along with several 'work on writing' options for students. Posted exemplars of completed writing projects and booklets are often helpful for students during independent writing time.
Winter visual dictionary (link includes both colour and black and white) for the unit, colour copies are laminated and available to students during writing. By the end of the year we have a bunch of them on all different themes. Especially helpful for reluctant writers or those who have difficulty transcribing from a word wall.
Black and white version glued into agendas or journals for writing (good communication tool for parents to show what students learning).
"L'hiver" class collaborative books. In kindergarten students simply add the names of their friends. Students are also encouraged to label items in their picture.
In grade 1 students add the names of their friends and what they like to do in the snow. Students learn to add "ent" to the end of verbs when more than one person is doing the action; jouent, glissent, lancent des boules, roulent.
We use this sentence structure in our daily journals too.
Students are encouraged to label their drawings as in K and in grade 1 enjoy adding speech bubbles to the characters in their picture.
Speech bubbles to cut and add to pictures, encourages students to write, add to pictures, small manageable writing areas.
This could also follow learning the Charlotte Diamond song "Un bon chocolat chaud". I haven't found a subtitled version yet so I opted for the song above by Les Enfantastiques.
Use a sheet of construction paper to make a mug booklet.
Song "Un bon chocolat chaud" by Carmen Campagne (but not subtitled!).
L'hiver collage - art project.
We all started with many shades of blue paper for the base, a road and dotted line. Then we built cities from scraps, newspaper, foil, and finally plastic snow bits. See the post here.
Sing the song and learn the poem "Rouli, roula". I recorded it just so you can get the tune, it sounds pretty silly!
Photocopy budgets are always shrinking, perhaps many of these books and ideas can be inspiration for something of the students own creation. I find that in grade 1 a blank page can be intimidating for students, hopefully these can at least be a place to start when students are working on writing during The Daily Five.
Merci beaucoup to Jennifer Monette who shared this video and song with us about Santa getting dressed, Quand le Père Noël vient me visiter. Students love it! Students add the missing words (don't forget "les pluriels") in the printable song book here.
We made toilet paper santa's to go with the song. If you forget the order of the song just remember Santa gets dressed from the feet up!
See Hedgehog Blog here for this idea and instructions.
SOME REPETITION HERE BUT I DON'T WANT TO DELETE ANYTHING AS IT WILL MESS WITH LINKS TEACHERS HAVE BOOKMARKED OR PINNED!
I originally saw this idea on Pinterest - you have to check it out under education, tons of visual teaching ideas, many go beyond "cute" and are sound teaching practice.
Here are my thoughts on some pre-writing ideas:
Pass a snowball around the circle singing the snowman song (a silly poem we chant, see below), how many times around can we go before it melts?
Ask students to describe the snow and record students ideas, providing the French vocabulary terms.
What kind of snow is best for snowballs? Tobogganing? Does snow have a sound? A smell? A taste?
What do you like to do in the snow (record on chart paper)?
Read "La neige parfaite" by Barbara Reid
What would you consider "perfect" snow? (no snow!)
If possible display and let students handle snowglobes.
I am really and truly not a fan of this kind of busy work but that last month of December when we were only in school for 2 weeks and there were musical rehearsals and assemblies and all kinds of interruptions having this in their desk was kind of nice.
This is a very old song, I haven't been able to find a recorded copy of it anywhere. There are some teeneage girls singing it on youtube but you'll have to do the search, they sound really bad so I'm not putting the link here! Great little song about Papa Noël getting dressed.
I have a smart board component too and will have to post those.
To the tune of "Sur le pont", book to complete. There are two versions, one requires students to draw a picture, in the other the pictures are already there. By the end of February our small group literacy development groups have spent a week learning each of the sound blends. This song seems simple but it is a great review of some of the sounds. We encourage the students to always look for those sound blends and so they are once again thrilled to find an "in" and an "eau" and so on in this book.
Our classes do an outdoor pursuit unit in February. The students go skating and snowshoeing in the school yard. I plan to add a the photos of each student doing those activities to our books too.
And a new version contributed by Paola of Primary Success:
We had a lot of fun making these shape trees before Christmas. Students could build a tree using only circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. They then had to count them up and write about their trees. So cute!
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