"Tilly was a silly goose," starts this adorable book by Eileen Spinelli. This book takes us on an adventure and shares with us the many silly things that Silly Tilly does. She likes to kiss fish, take baths in apple juice, comb her feathers with a rake, annoying the rest of the barnyard with her wild antics. When she sits on Rooster's birthday cake it's the last straw. The other animals tell her that she must stop all her nonsense and behave like everyone else. Sadly, she complies with ... continue reading...
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Book Talk Tuesday: Rub-a-Dub Sub
Hey Y'all! Summer is almost over so I thought I'd share one of my favorite ocean themed books before the school craze sets in. My class loves this adorable rhyming book, Rub-a-Dub Sub. A little boy goes on an undersea adventure in his submarine... and describes all of the animals he encounters using higher level vocabulary and rhyme. All is well on his underwater adventure until he meets a SHARK!!!!!! The kids made their own subs and ocean animal they ... continue reading...
Activities for Thanksgiving (Free File)
Kindergarten Activities for Thanksgiving FREE files are included in this blog post. This is going to be a LONG post because November is one of my favorite months so I have lots of things to share. Pilgrims and Thanksgiving I just love how these adorable Pilgrims turned out! Each one is unique just like the child who created it. :) They are big... but I'm from Texas y'all! For the writing, they wrote about what they would take with them if they sailed on the ... continue reading...
Snowman glyph and freebies
Need some fun snowman ideas to chase away the winter blues? These are the Snowman glyphs from my Snowman Unit. Here's a peek at some of the literacy and math activities included in this pack: Here's the link to view the unit on TPT Here are some FREE snowman downloads! Snowman Poem Homework sheet to go with snowman poem IF YOU PURCHASED THIS UNIT PREVIOUSLY, YOU WILL WANT TO GO TO TPT ... continue reading...
Pigeon Books: K-1 Lesson Ideas
Pigeon books lesson ideas. Fun reading lesson ideas for kindergarten and first grade. Reading comprehension, responding to literature, and word work! Kids absolutely LOVE these books by Mo Willems and so do I! Using books that kids love AND teaching reading comprehension strategies is a win for everyone! Check out some great lesson ideas for kindergarten and first grade using two of my favorites. All of the lesson plan printables can be found in Engaging Readers March Set Two. Pigeon ... continue reading...
Valentine Inference Lesson for Grades K-2
Whenever a holiday approaches, students get extra excited. From Christmas to Valentine’s Day, students love being able to celebrate with classmates. Therefore, teachers put a lot of pressure on themselves to create the perfect celebration. However, there is not enough time in the school year to create day-long celebrations. Due to the number of standards to get through, teachers need to utilize every minute possible. However, there are ways to embed a holiday with a ... continue reading...
Inference Detectives Lesson: The Missing Snowman’s Hat!
Many times, students love to go on adventures with their classmates. For instance, an exciting scavenger hunt for different items around the classroom or school is always fun. However, this excitement can easily be incorporated with a challenging skill: making inferences! Students may not realize it, but working on inferences is like going on a scavenger hunt within a story. Instead of looking for items, they are usually looking for crucial details. Thankfully, Inference Detectives: The Case of ... continue reading...
K-2 Reading Lesson Plans for December | Seesaw and Google Slides
Reading lesson plans for December are here! Digital response activities for your favorite Gingerbread and December stories! Reading Lesson Plans for December December is certainly one of my favorite months for teaching! In addition to the excitement in the classroom, there are so many fun learning activities for the holidays. Now, of course, it's important to keep students learning during this time. Our Engaging Readers units offer just what you need to keep the teaching going, but have a ... continue reading...
Reindeer Activities | Nonfiction Unit About Reindeer and a FREEBIE!
Kindergarten and first grade students will love learning about reindeer with these engaging reindeer activities. Informational texts, response to reading, directed drawing, and more! It's nearly December! How is time going by so quickly? I hope your school year is going smoothly as we are approaching winter! This is always a fun time of year in the classroom. With the holidays coming, it can be a little difficult to find engaging activities that are not related to Christmas. If that ... continue reading...
Valentine’s Day Activities
We only had a three day week thanks to getting Thursday and Friday off for a mini Winter Break! :) And Oh, my Word the weather today was a BEAUTIFUL 76 degrees. I hope the cold weather doesn't come back! Since we only had three days we did lots of Valentine activities from my unit. First, we sorted and graphed our Valentine cards. Then, we analyzed our data. We played a fun probability game. We wrote a class book following the pattern in the ... continue reading...
Walruses, Literacy Centers and Guided Reading, oh, my!
We made these adorable walruses from my Arctic Animals unit today. I love how they all turned out so unique. Our penguins are still fishing on our bulletin board so the herd of walruses won't be hung up until next week when we use them to decorate our polar bears and walruses venn diagram. I will post a pic next week when they are all hanging. So, I've had some questions about how I do Literacy Centers.This is a picture of my Literacy Center board. The pirates on ... continue reading...
The Best Digital Sentence Building Activities for Kindergarten
Digital sentence building activities that are preloaded to Seesaw for distance learning, or use of technology within your kindergarten classroom. Sentence Building A few months ago, I posted about a sentence building activity that makes a wonderful literacy center. With the changing times, I teamed up with Deedee Wills to convert the activity into a digital format. You can check out the previous blog post showing the printable version here: Sentence Building Activity OR, keep ... continue reading...
Batty Over Bats!
Happy Monday Y'all! This is a throwback post about another unit that I LOVE to teach during the month of October. BATS!! Oh, my word! I absolutely love bats. Okay. I'll admit that I wouldn't really want to meet one up close and personal but they are fascinating and little ones love learning all about them. If you already have my bat unit you'll want to head on over to TPT and download the updates that I just added to the unit. The link is at the end of this post. We always start ... continue reading...
Fun and Family! Happy New Year Linky
Happy New Year! I love this time of year. A brand new year. Time to reflect and make goals and brand new memories. I'm linking up with Blog Hoppin' this week and today's topic is Fun and Family. I LOVE talking about my family because I am so blessed to have such a sweet, loving husband and amazing kids! We've been married since we were babies and I can honestly say he is my very best friend. The best thing is he does laundry and cleans!!! YES!!!! We love spending time just ... continue reading...
Insects Unit and a FREEBIE!
I will admit that I was kind of sad for my spring break to end. I LOVE being able to sleep in just a little bit and it is so much nicer to wake up without having an alarm clock buzzing in your ear. But today we started one of my favorite units so that made going back to school a little easier, Insects Unit. This Insects Unit can be used with an Insect Animals theme or as stand-alone Reading and Writing lessons and activities. Here is how I plan out my Insects ... continue reading...