St. Patrick's Day is coming and I have a plan to get your little loves activity engaged in learning using this book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover! Every student loves the old lady. She eats the oddest, craziest things things and gets our creativity flowing. I love to read to my students out loud to show them emotions, voice hesitations and speed, and fluency to my … [Read more...]
Common Core Cubes~ Reading Comprehension
You guys inspire me! And I love that you guys make me THINK and PONDER and QUESTION and EXAMINE how I do things in my classroom. While preparing a presentation for you guys on reading comprehension, I researched and found some great information of reading comprehension. It is extremely important to our little kinders minds. When I began teaching Kindergarten 9 years ago, we had no … [Read more...]
Easy as {Eskimo} Pie
Happy Snow Day! It didn't actually snow here in GA, but man is it COLD. We had yesterday and today off of school, so I was able to spend a LOT of time with the girls and spend a little bit of time on my newest art project. Here is a look at this pack called Easy as {Eskimo} Pie. The center of the pack is the Eskimo Art Project. {I included directions and tracers to make this as … [Read more...]
New Thanksgiving Materials
Thanksgiving fun; Turkeys, Pilgrim, Native Americans, Pumpkin Pie Fun? Let's get ready for an outstanding month of November with engaging activities, meaningful lessons, and great hands teaching tools that will make you and your little learners smile! I am finishing up my prep for next week's Thanksgiving activities. I snapped a few pics to show you some of the things my class will be … [Read more...]
Reading Comprehension Game Questions Answered
I guess last week's post about "Write Me Three Questions Answered" got you guys asking, because I had a sweet friend ask me about the Reading Comprehension games I create based on awesome Children's Literature, many of which are now request from you guys. She asked how I use these games and why I feel they are important. LOVE IT... I started creating these games a few years ago because I … [Read more...]
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat
Take a look at my newest activities I am prepping for the upcoming week. We are using a sure fire hit... There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat We are sequencing the story using these cards and a sequencing sheet. That you can grab FOR FREE! We also played the class favorite reading comprehension game... We also use the word wall and writing prompts to make writing … [Read more...]
Write Me Three Fall Pack with a FREEBIE
I am working away on the to-do list you guys have given me this summer. This item is something I have been looking forward to for a while because my students and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. I finished the newest Write Me Three pack! This one is perfect for the fall these you teach. It has themed word walls for back to school, lunch room, recess, bats, spiders, nocturnal animals, community … [Read more...]
Christmas with a FREEBIE
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell Integrated Activity FUN! It hit me today... I have to start planning for Christmas this week! When I leave school on Friday, I have to have all Thanksgiving put away and have my lesson plans for the week we come back from the break! {Breathe... Breathe...} Good thing I have been busy making activities for when we come back! Here is just a … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day Literacy Idea
This is a FUN idea to learn about nouns and adjectives in a FUN way. Take a themed sentence and write it on a sentence strip. Cut it apart. Add a few die cut shapes. Since I picked a March themed sentence, I chose to die cut circles for gold coins. I added the coin pieces in front of the nouns. I have my students add "sparkles" to make the nouns shine! We go noun by noun. We give each word … [Read more...]
MLK Jr Lesson
I love to teach this little lesson to my K kids. Let me tell you why I do this story for MLK Jr. Day. I read any non fiction books about MLK Jr to help my kids learn about Dr. King as a famous man who gave speeches and he helped people.But I have found that they don't get what he actually did for everyone! I found a way to do more than just teach the person, but the actual message of Dr. … [Read more...]
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