Thursday, January 16, 2014

Catching Up

I took a blogging break during the holidays. We had EVERYONE at our house which was great but a little crazy and exhausting! Then report cards were due and I had Open House to prepare for... You know how it is.

Here's a quick update:
I had my students decorate candle holders with fingerprint snowmen for their parent present.
Yes, they were glass but we only lost one and had time to make another. I did wrap them in bubble wrap to make sure they made it home. They were so proud to take them home.

Last week, we wrote New Year's Resolutions.


 
My second graders used the word resolve and wrote in cursive to differentiate.

My first graders are focusing on adjectives this week. We read Tacky the Penguin and brainstormed a list of adjectives to describe Tacky.

Then each student picked an adjective and wrote me 2 sentences explaining how Tacky fit that adjective.
I've posted a Tacky craft in previous years but this year I needed something smaller and less time-consuming. Tammy over at Live, Love, Laugh, Everyday in Kindergarten was nice enough to share her Tacky patterns so I shrunk them by 50% and copied the shirt and tie on scrapbook paper. I found the writing paper by Moore Fun in Kindergarten.

I also made an Adjective Penguin QR Center.
The students read the sentence and identify the adjectives.
 I post the cards around the room and the students use clipboards to write their answers on their recording sheet.


When their recording sheet is full, the students get an iPad to scan the QR code to check their work.

Enter below to win a copy! Or you can grab a copy for only $2 in my store.

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I feel totally out of the blogging/selling loop. Any interesting news I should know about?

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Saturday, December 7, 2013

Pronoun QR Code Center Giveaway

My kids are begging for more QR Code Centers so I made a Gingerbread themed one for pronouns.
I use mine as a Read the Room so I tape up the cards.
The students walk around with a clipboard and a recording sheet. In this center they will read the sentence and replace the underlined words with a subject pronoun.
When the recording sheet is full, the student gets an iPad and goes around scanning the QR codes to check their work. I really like this immediate feedback that doesn't usually happen in centers.

This center is only $2 in my TpT store. I thought we'd try a Pin It to Win It game for the giveaway this time.  I added the second option of following my TpT store in case some of you aren't on Pinterest so you can still play. Enter via the rafflecopter widget below.
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I am finding with my smaller bulletin boards and a portfolio requirement at this new school, I am reworking some of my old projects.

This Santa's Stuck project (original idea from Cara) now fits on a single piece of construction paper.
Sadly, I had to forgo  the shaving cream & glue snow since it needs to be laminated for their book. :-(
" If Santa was stuck I would call workers to come ad make my chimney bigger."
And the one that made me laugh out loud.... "If Santa was stuck in my chimney I would bring a treadmill to the chimney so Santa can work out and then when he's not so fat he can get out."

I'm off to Goodwill to see if I can find an ugly Christmas sweater for a party tonight!


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Monday, December 2, 2013

Nonfiction Winners and Spalding Posters

Congrats to the winners of my new nonfiction book club packets!

 Monica Trevino gets Sharks and Penguins!
 and Jillian Rob Palmatier won Weather and Frogs!

I also uploaded Spalding Rule Posters for those of you who use this program, too.

Thanks for playing friends. Don't forget to visit my TpT store to grab these or some other goodies by tomorrow night at 28% off! I'm off to go shopping myself!



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Sunday, December 1, 2013

Cyber Sale!

I'm joining the TpT Cyber sale!

 I love a good bargain so I am getting my wish list ready! Need some ideas?
 Best Sellers
Sight Word Superstars
  
 

 Book Clubs Packets
 Math Games

centers
crafts
Common Core
and much more! I now have 78 items in my store, many free!
Click {HERE} to visit my store. Happy shopping!


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Friday, November 29, 2013

Informational Text Book Club Packets

Are your students reading enough nonfiction? I have been focusing on getting more informational text into my guided reading plans.

I bought sets of National Geographic Kids books with my Scholastic book club points and made these book club packets.
 I included questions on text features as well as comprehension.

 There is even a related descriptive writing assignment about weather.
I found related videos and included the links in the packets with an optional QR Code for fun.

I grouped them by reading level so you can grab Frogs and Weather or Sharks and Penguins.

As always, I will give away a copy of each new product. Thanks for being a loyal follower!

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Congrats to Karyn Wilbur on winning the DJ Inkers Gift certificate from my last giveaway!

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