I love the book, Where the Wild Things Are and we had a lot of fun with this book last week. You can view my unit on TPT by clicking HERE  We made our very own Max and wrote about what we do when we feel wild.   I love how they all turned out so differently!   This is the writing chart we did before we made our Max's. This chart makes a great shared reading piece for the rest of the week.  Students love going back to it time and time again.   We have a class full of ... continue reading...

I love how cute the bald eagles turned out!  This is a picture of our Chit-Chit message.  These messages are how I teach and review phonics, reading and language skills.  There is no better way to teach letter sounds and sound chunks than in the context of authentic reading and writing.  We read a sentence just as it is written and then use our schema and other context clues to help us figure out what would make sense in the sentence.  Once we think we have it figured ... continue reading...

Comparing and Contrasting Polar Bears & Walruses using a venn diagram.  {All of the directions for the crafts and the venn diagram strips are included in my Arctic Animals unit).EXCUSE the fact that it says, live in Antarctica!  Mercy!  I didn't even realize I had made the mistake until a sweet person told me.  Ya know how your brain just kicks into auto?  As a class we read these together and we read, lives in the Arctic.  (didn't even notice the mistake). ... continue reading...