I am so excited to be participating with my FREEBIELICIOUS FRIENDS! We are all providing you with some fabulous freebies while trick-or-treating through our blogs. This week I am working on Author's Purpose which I have always struggled teaching this concept to my little nuggets. My students absolutely LOVE when I read to them. They are in a trance & I have 100% of their attention any time I read to them. I have been tying in a lot of concepts with trade books & it really seems to be helping. These are the books I used to teach Author's Purpose. This book is ABSOLUTELY H.I.L.A.R.I.O.U.S! I wouldn't expect anything less from Jerry Seinfeld. I picked this gem up at a garage sale! I love reading it & being ALL DRAMATIC...I should tape myself for you! This book is a MUST for Halloween. After reading the book I have the students fill out the above graphic organizer....which can be used with any book...BTW. … [Read more...] about Treats for Our Sweets!
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Exciting News!
Here is our new blog! Please go follow us. You won't want to miss any FREEBIES! Here are the SWEET authors that will be contributing! We are super excited about this. We will be adding new authors in the next few days! Make sure you visit us often. Now, for your first FREEBIE!! Head on over to FREEBIELICIOUS to grab your FREE "The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid Of Anything-Number Sense" It includes:number cards, ten frames, and tally marks! Follow our FB page so you don't miss a thing! … [Read more...] about Exciting News!
Classroom Management Linky
I am so excited to link up with Rachelle & Natalie's linky party. This is honestly my favorite topic to blog about! This has been my biggest obstacle when I started teaching nearly 10 years ago. If you're anything like me if it's a challenge you must accept the challenge and overcome the obstacle and I did! Last year's group of students was the MOST challenging bunch I've ever had! I knew within the first day either I was going to retire @ 39 or have to come up with something really good. First I'm going to give you some examples of things I do in my classroom that have gotten me to this point & have worked magically. I have a secret...it's magical & it's NOT too late to start.............2 words.........WARM FUZZIES. I have been using this for at least 9 years & LOVE IT! Here are my fuzzy containers. Here are my two containers for big & little warm fuzzies. One BIG one equals 5 little ones. So to get a big one is … [Read more...] about Classroom Management Linky
Daily 6 Chapter 6-Part 2 Word Work
This is by far one of my favorite parts of D5. My students have loved all the activities I've made for them. I split up this chapter because I have so many ideas that I have used for writing & word work & wanted to share them with you! I do work work activities based around spelling, vocab, seasonal, word wall, amazing & sight words. First I show them some but not all the materials they can use during word work. They must know where to find the materials and where to put them back independently. Then I go over the following chart. Click on the pic to take you to your freebie Work on Writing/Word Work packet. Now I'd like to show you some of my ideas for Word Work. You have to make it fun & exciting for them. Make things so they don't even realize they are learning. My kids would fight over going to Word Work & it was because I always had different things to offer. Their VERY FAVORITE Word Work activity is the following games I … [Read more...] about Daily 6 Chapter 6-Part 2 Word Work
Daily 5 Chapter 6 Book Study & a Lakeshore Discount!
I will be honest......I have always struggled getting my firsties to love writing. I am confident they leave my classroom with a love of reading but my goal last year was to do that with writing.We are giving them the foundation for reading and writing and it's our job to prepare them for the dreaded "writing" portion of state tests. If you have been following my blog then you know I use warm fuzzies. Last year I actually started taking warm fuzzies if they forgot a capital or punctuation. They would get so frustrated but it did work. Daily 5 provided my class with the opportunity to write daily and they ended up being the BEST writers I've ever taught. You have to make it exciting for them & change things up. As soon as I sniffed out any boredom at all I would change things up. There are so many resources out there in blogland and on TPT that I took advantage of this year. I start out discussing the following chart. Of course you need to provide them … [Read more...] about Daily 5 Chapter 6 Book Study & a Lakeshore Discount!
Daily 5 Chapter 5 Book Study
On day 1 of Read to Someone I introduce the concept of "EEK". We also demonstrate the right and wrong way to Read to Someone. Click on any D5 pics below to grab your FREEBIE Read to Someone & Listen to Reading packet. After you are done modeling this you proceed to discuss the various ways to Read to Someone. I READ, YOU READ! One student reads a page or two & then their partner reads. Some really awesome books that our HSA bought for us. CHORAL READ Partners read the same page or section at the same time. READING ONE BOOK One book is shared between the partners. I use the following books for this as well. These two little cuties are reading the "You Read to Me, I'll Read to You" books. … [Read more...] about Daily 5 Chapter 5 Book Study