I can't believe it is already time to start talking about First Day of school activities. Mercy! The summer flew by! If you are a mamma stuck at home in the house with littles who love the phrase, "I'm bored!" it probably crawled by! But, for me it seems like it is almost over before it even got started! Handprint puzzles are a great activity to do on the first day of school. One of my favorite things to do on the first day of school are these handprint puzzles (Thank you to Little ... continue reading...
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Pumpkin Patch Palooza and a FREEBIE
Fall is one of my favorite times of year to teach! I love all things Fall: pumpkins, apples, scarecrows, bats, spiders, owls.... Did I mention it is my favorite time of the year to teach? The littles get so excited about learning and isn't that what it's all about? Sometimes teachers get so bogged down with teaching what's in the basal (no basal for me, thank you very much!) that we forget that true learning takes place when the teacher and students are EXCITED about what they are ... continue reading...
The Wheels on the Bus Interactive Chart FREEBIE
Enter your email at the bottom of the post to get your FREE download. If you want more ideas to use with names check out my unit by clicking on the image below. ... continue reading...
Monster Poem FREEBIE!
Hey y'all! Can you believe that it is almost November? I don't know where the time goes but the older I get the quicker it flies! It seems like just a few weeks ago everyone was busying themselves with getting their room ready for the first day of school. We've had a BUSY fall. We welcomed two new boys into our family. My daughter Taylor married her high school sweetheart, Nick on Sept. 28th and then my sweet little grandson, Carson was born on October 14th. He is so adorable and his big ... continue reading...
What are the Other Kids Doing? {FREEBIE} Literacy Centers and Guided Reading
As I'm traveling and presenting this is a question I get A LOT! What are the Other Kids Doing while I teach small groups? So I thought I'd spend a week or two going through some of the things that my kids are doing while I teach small groups. Let's start with the basics. As I'm teaching small groups my kids are working at centers. This is my center rotation board. It helps me manage where my students are working each day. The first row of pirates shows the name of my groups. I ... continue reading...
Book Talk Tuesday: The Day the Crayons Quit and a FREEBIE
The following content was provided by the publisher about The Day the Crayons Quit. "Crayons have feelings, too, in this funny back-to-school story illustrated by the creator of Stuck and This Moose Belongs to Me -- now a #1 New York Times bestseller " The Day the Crayons Quit is a book about Poor Duncan who just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough They quit Beige Crayon is tired of playing ... continue reading...
First Day of School Freebie
Aren't these little cuties adorable? GAH! It's hard to believe that I am a Deedee (read..grandmother) to a Kindergartner and Second Grader! Holy.Moly! Time flies by way too stinkin' fast. They started back to school on July 31st (CUH-RAZY! Summers aren't what they used to be.) and I made these cutie patootie First Day of School signs for their first day picture and I thought I'd share them with you. I made them for Kindergarten-Third grade and I also made an editable version if you want ... continue reading...
A Dab of Learning Fun {FREEBIE}
Kids LOVE using bingo markers {daubers, do a dot markers...whatever you want to call them} so this little packet is the perfect way to get your Littles to practice and review basic skills. The pages in this packet cover a wide variety of skills so they can be used throughout the year. Here are a few of the pages that are included. Free File After I created the packet I decided to make a few more sheets to share with you so that your little ones ... continue reading...
The Mitten | Reading Comprehension Lesson Plans – FREEBIE
The Mitten lesson plans for teaching reading comprehension skills. Responding to literature through writing, studying vocabulary, and a STEM activity. The Mitten Reading Lesson Plans The Mitten by Jan Brett is a fun winter read aloud. In this story, animals squeeze in a mitten to keep warm from the winter cold. Our Engaging Readers units are full of resources for a week-long book study. Students engage in developing reading strategies and have wonderful conversations along the ... continue reading...
Phoneme Segmentation! Make and Take Freebie and Book Talk Tuesday
Segmenting words is an important skill that we work on throughout the year. Kids need a variety of hands on ways to work on this skill in order to make it more concrete. We use a variety of manipulatives to work on phoneme segmentation. Building words with unifix cubes as we say each sound, stretching the words with a slinky, sliding a pony bead for each sound and using our stretchy the word stretcher (as seen above). To make the word stretchers you need the template (below) ... continue reading...
Writer’s Workshop: Writing Through the Year FREEBIE
Sometimes it can be a challenge to organize your curriculum in a way that is easy to use. Deedee Wills and I have been working on reorganizing and updating our writing workshop units. I prefer to keep my units in these 2" binders. You can find the spine labels at the end of this post. I will walk you through a unit to show you how it's organized. Each unit starts with a unit overview. You can also easily see the standards that are addressed in the unit. A writing continuum ... continue reading...
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities & a Freebie
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities for Back to School. Kindergarten and first-grade classroom ideas with a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom directed drawing, science, and writing! Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is simply one of those books that is perfect for back to school time. See how we use this book throughout the week! Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities: Reading Ideas I always seem to start the year off with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, I bet you do too! But just because it is the ... continue reading...
Busy Bunnies Directed Drawing and Writing FREEBIE
Spring Directed Drawings free file with a writing activity. These are perfect for Easter! Your kindergarten and 1st-grade students will love this! Shoo!!! Please forgive me for not blogging in a while. I know that I'm supposed to be smack dab in the middle of a book study but my life has been CUH-RAZY the last few weeks. I promise to catch up on all of the chapters that I've missed soon! (pinkie promise!) As a peace offering, I made a quick Directed Drawing/Writing activity and I ... continue reading...
Happy New Year Photo Booth Props FREEBIE!!!
The photo booth props are great to use for a memory book picture each month. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! Our family had a great time together. Every year on Christmas Eve the girls and I (now we have a little man too) have a pajama party. We listen to Christmas music and decorate gingerbread houses and cookies. My little sweeties are so adorable I could just eat them up! Mel and I updated our New Year's Eve Photo Booth Props so that you could use them at your New ... continue reading...
November Worksheets in a Snap {FREEBIE}
Free November Worksheets for kindergarten or first grade Happy Halloween! I hope y'all are surviving the day with your little ghouls and goblins. I just finished up my November in a Snap packet so I thought I'd drop by and give you a little treat. Sometimes you need a quick and easy worksheet. Am I right? Although I don't use worksheets regularly in my classroom, they are helpful to use as a quick formative assessment. You can find more of these worksheets by ... continue reading...