Needs & Wants

It feels like forever since my last blog post, but we have been CRAZY busy the last two weeks.  We finally got base housing, so I've been moving.  I cannot begin to tell how happy this has made me.  Seriously, the quality of life for my family has drastically improved by moving.  

I figured I would update you guys on a unit we just completed that I LOVED.  Seriously, this was so stinking cute.  We were learning about Needs & Wants, and I found two great resources.

First, I used this AMAZING Needs and Wants packet by Teach It With Class.

My students LOVE the Pigeon and this was a perfect way to talk about what the Pigeon really needed versus what the pigeon wanted.

My favorite part of the unit was a guided drawing lesson to teach them how to draw the Pigeon.  I used the guided drawing lesson from this unit but used the paper from Mrs. Miner's Draw It Now Guided Drawing unit.  

We also read this cute Needs and Wants Emergent Reader by Class of Kinders, but I forgot to take a picture of my kids reading.

We also did some writing at the end about our needs and wants.

I have one student with some pretty serious behavior issues.  Some days, I need a whole bunch of patience.  Since coming back from spring break, I've listened to a lot of tantrums, experienced a lot of defiance, and had may things thrown at me.  :(  However, his I Want writing was probably my proudest moment of the year.

My student came up with this all on his own!!!!  And he drew a picture about his personal sticker chart {which you can read about here}.  You can only imagine the amount of positive praise I gave him over this writing.  This student has come leaps and bounds since I started in January.  So the next time I have objects thrown at me, I'm going to try and remember this writing.  I must be doing at least something right.