Click HERE to download the graph. Click HERE to download the spider book. We read lots of poems. Our favorite poems are the ones that use our names. ... continue reading...
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National Holidays for August and September
Students always love to celebrate holidays with their friends. Typically, this includes holidays like Valentine’s Day, Halloween, and Christmas. However, the fun doesn’t have to stop there! There are countless quirky, and even strange, holidays that most of us don’t even know exist. I love to use these national holidays to create extra excitement and engagement in the classroom. In this post, I’m going to share national holidays for August and September that are perfect for celebrating in the ... continue reading...
Math Units with FREEBIES and Toolkit binder covers {REPOST}
Hi friends, as many of you are starting the countdown to summer you are already starting to think about next year! I don't think ANYONE works harder than a teacher. We never turn our teaching brain off! Deedee and I have received a lot of requests for more information about our Math units. So I thought I'd do a quick blog post to share how we structure the lessons and give you some free sample lessons so that you could check it out if you're interested. We are both ... continue reading...
The Snowy Day: Pictures from You! and a FREEBIE
I don't know about you, but I love looking at pictures. Pictures capture moments in time and help us remember life events. I love these pictures of my sweet friends and family. I also love seeing pictures of student work. There is nothing more gratifying than seeing our units being used in classrooms all over the world. Thank you to all of you who have shared your photos with me by tagging me on Instagram. I've shared a few of the most recent ones here. Retelling the Snowy Day ... continue reading...
Calendar Time: Building Math and Literacy Skills!
Building math and literacy skills takes time and LOTS of practice. So I like to build in practice during our calendar time. We know when we start the year, our students come in with a variety of skills and prior experience. Some students start kindergarten with a year of "school" already under their belt ready to hit the ground running. While others start the year a bit overwhelmed. I love seeing all of my students progress, but it is especially exciting to see my little newbies take ... continue reading...
Gingerbread Week
Gingerbread Week Lesson Plans for Kindergarten and first grade! Crafts, literacy and math lessons to make these lessons a classroom favorite! For the last few weeks, we have been working on all things Gingerbread! We spent a few weeks reading and studying Gingerbread stories (Gingerbread Baby and Gingerbread Girl), at the end of the study we had fun creating our Gingerbread Glyphs analyzing the data, and we made Gingerbread houses! Gingerbread Week: Glyphs Our gingerbread glyphs ... continue reading...
Adorable soldiers for Veterans Day
Today, we made our adorable soldiers for Veterans Day. They turned out so cute! If you already have this unit go to TPT and download the new additions to the unit. I've added a new shared reader, emergent reader and patterns for the soldier. You can download the new editions by going to your My Purchases folder. ... continue reading...
Valentine’s Day Unit UPDATES
Hey Everyone, I just updated my Valentine's Day unit and added the Emergent Reader to it. If you have already purchased this unit please go to TPT and download the revisions. Here's a link to the post about Valentine's Day unit. This Valentine's Day unit will be the perfect addition to your Valentine's Day fun. It includes an original story for Shared Reading picture cards. Also, If you don't have this little packet.... go get it. It is FREE! ... continue reading...
Book Talk Tuesday: The Nuts Bedtime at the Nut House
It's Book Talk Tuesday... errr...Wednesday! {sorry...I'm a day late} Today's book is SO stinkin' CUTE!!!! The Nuts Bedtime at the Nut House is a book that every mamma can relate to. It's bedtime at the Nut house and Mamma Nut is trying to get her little nuts, Hazel and Wally Nut (do you see what he did here? :) to bed but they want to keep on playing so they resist going to bed. Hazel and Wally ignore Mama and keep playing and singing their song: 'We're Nuts! We're Nuts! We're ... continue reading...
It’s Owl Right! Owl fun and Freebie
Today, I'm giving you Owl fun and Freebie! Learning about owls is always so much fun! This was the perfect opportunity to learn about the "ow" sound. This is the chart of words we thought of. Notice that there is also a place to record ou words. Our cutie patootie Owl glyphs We made a graph to show our data for each question. A close up of our owl glyphs. Shhhh......sleeping owls. We made a picture chart for some of ... continue reading...
More Back to School Fun!
You can download the survey sheet for free by clicking here. You can download my Free book, What Do Scientists Do? by clicking here. Okay, Friends... I know y'all are losing your patience with me. When are the updates to Pete the Cat going to be ready? I promise I am working on them. If they aren't ready by Wednesday I will ground myself from Sonic coke (which I must have every day) for a solid week! If that isn't motivation I don't know what is! Have a ... continue reading...
Build a Pumpkin Freebie! LINK IS FIXED!
Click HERE to download the file. Last year, I shared this fun activity we did with pumpkins and a sweet friend asked me to upload and share the spinner and recording sheet. So here it is! Just click on the picture to download it. All you need to do is laminate the spinner and add a paper clip and a brad. To play the students take turns spinning the spinner to see which piece they get to add to the jack o' lantern. For the pumpkin pieces you can purchase them at Wal-mart. Make sure ... continue reading...
Tacky and the Winter Games Lesson Plans (Free File)
Winter Games Lesson Plans for kindergarten and first grade. These are perfect to use during the Winter Olympics. Tacky and the Winter Games Don't you just love Tacky the Penguin? My class has always enjoyed this character, so when I saw Helen Lester's book, Tacky and the Winter Games, I knew I had to add it to our Engaging Readers Series. The version of the Engaging Readers one comes with 5 days of close reading comprehension activities: Visualization Retelling Connections ... continue reading...
Ocean Unit of Fun!
We have been learning a lot about ocean animals. We learned all about different types of sharks and we decided that we thought the Great white Shark was the most interesting. We labeled the parts of a shark. This is our schema chart based on an idea from Debbie Miller. We made sharks and orca whales and then sorted the information we learned by using a venn diagram. A close up of some of our shark and whale ... continue reading...
Organization Station!
I've had a lot of requests for my bin labels so here they are. You can click on the pictures to download them. The ones pictured above are for my smaller math storage bins and containers there are about three pages of them. I cut them out and laminate them on my Scotch Laminator (another one of my favorite things that I forgot to mention in my post). Wal-mart sells them for about $25 and then I buy the thick laminating sheets from Sams really cheap. Sams is about half the price of ... continue reading...
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