A Camping We Will Go

I don't know about you, but with the last few weeks of school, I want something fun, interactive, and low prep to keep my students engaged! So a few years ago I put together a fun camping unit that covers summer safety!

My students love this unit EVERY year! They get to bring in sleeping bags, we have a real live tent in our classroom, and we get to make s'mores!

I don't think it can get any better!

We started off the week brainstorming what we know about camping and then we come up with camp names for ourselves. The name has to describe something about themselves or something they enjoy doing. The names they come up with are so funny. One year, one of my lovies named herself "toothless wonder" HA!

Here are some of the things we learn about during camp week. Sun Safety, Swim Safety, Bike Safety, Campfire Safety. We also do hiking safety, but I forgot to take a picture of that. Opps!

We brainstorm ways we could get hurt during the summer and what we would need to make sure we could take care of any boo boos. We learned about first aid and made our own first aid kits.

And let me tell you!!! These babes are making connections left and right! They have so much to connect to in this unit! That's part of why they are so engaged!

And the best part of the week is writing our "how to make s'mores". They work so hard on these books and can't wait to eat their s'mores. For one of the steps, one of my sweeties asked if in their book should they write "next, roast the marshmallow over the fire" or "next, put the s'more in the microwave". Since that's how we made ours :) Haha. 

Some of the other 1st grade classes actually put their entire s'more in aluminum foil and put it outside in the sun for the day. It actually worked! Try it!

Want to try out this amazingly fun unit? Head over to Educents where you can purchase this unit AND get my "End of the Year" Character Quality awards too! It's a great deal!

What fun themed units do you like to do at the end of the year? Are you going to add camping to the list? I sure hope so!

$5 off from Educents

Have you heard of Educents? It seriously is such an amazing website! The website has tons of educational products for discounted prices! EVEN freebies! Have you signed up yet? If you haven't, click the image to be taken to educents website to sign up! And if you do, you will get $5 to spend on the website!

Two of my items are listed on Educents right now too!

The first one is FREE!

And the second is an all time favorite of mine for 50% OFF!! And if you haven't signed up for Educents before, you can use your $5 off that you get for signing up to purchase this fun end of the year unit for FREE!

Want to see us camping in my classroom? Click here to read that blog post.

So head on over and check out all the amazing deals!

Five for Friday {and giveaway winners}

Without prolonging it any longer, here are the winners to Lindsey Griffith's and I's giveaway!

Congrats ladies! Be expecting an email from either Lindsay or I or one of the giveaway contributors either tonight or tomorrow!

Amanda, the email you gave us didn't work. Please email me at flyinghighinfirstgrade@gmail.com by Monday so we can send you your unit!

Now on to Five for Friday! My 2nd to last one before summer. Oh summer. You can't come soon enough!

can I get an amen?

In first grade this week we have been camping using activities from my "A Camping We Will Go". If you are still in school (like me) this unit is a must have for a fun week filled with camping and summer safety fun! Check out what we did this week!

1. We started off the week brainstorming what we knew about camping and then we came up with camp names. The names they came up with were so funny. My favorite was "toothless wonder" HA!

2. Here are some of the things we learned about this week. Sun Safety, Swim Safety, Bike Safety, Campfire Safety. We also did hiking safety, but forget to take a picture of that. Opps!

3. We brainstormed ways we could get hurt this summer and what we would need to make sure we could take care of any boo boos. We learned about first aid and made our own first aid kits.

4. And the funnest part of the week was writing our "how to make s'mores". They worked so hard on these books and couldn't wait to eat their s'mores. For one of the steps, one of my sweeties asked if in their book should they write "next, roast the marshmallow over the fire" or "next, put the s'more in the microwave". Since that's how we made ours :) Haha. Some of the other 1st grade classes actually put their entire s'more in aluminum foil and put it outside. It actually worked! Try it!

5. And last but not least I am jumping on the healthy eating band wagon and getting these last few pesky pounds off! I have recently hooked up with alot of teacher friends on instagram and we all on this app called my fitness pal that allows you to get support from friends! Go check out Ashley's blog, Ms. BBZ, she has some fun stuff planned to make this healthy lifestyle change fun! It's been great so far! And on top of the app I am starting the Advocare 24 day challenge starting tomorrow. So wish me luck!

Have a good weekend and go check out everyone's Five for Fridays over at Doodle Bugs!