Thursday, January 21, 2016
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Monday, November 30, 2015
What's on your TpT Wishlist?
Here's a peek into my top wish listed products from my store, Polka Dot Firsties. Thanks to Teaching in Tongass for hosting this linky!
All About Landforms was one of the first items I've ever made. I recently updated it over the summer. It's still one of my best selling items and my most wish listed item!
It includes a landforms dictionary for students to create, a memory game, I Have Who Has Game, ABC order center, and printables.
Over the summer, I created a bundle of All About Landforms and a new product, Landforms Posters: Using Real Images. If you love to save even more, be sure to check out the bundle {HERE}. Individually, it would cost you $10, however, with the bundle discount AND sale, it is priced at $6.40
Karate Sight Words is one of my favorite products in my store and I was excited to see that it was one of the most wish listed items too!
I designed this product in 2012 because I had trouble tracking sight words for the students in my classroom. I wanted a way to streamline how my students learned, what words they learned, and a way to motivate them. Sight words are divided into different karate belts and students move up to earn a black belt. The packet uses Dolch Sight Words and Fry Phrases. I updated the packet in the spring to make it editable so you can add specific words.
This item is perfect for this time of year! If I'm being 100% honest, I have a hard time teaching individual reading groups in December. I want to take the time to do themed activities in December and my students need some help focusing during the month.
Reindeers on Strike is based upon the book, The Great Reindeer Rebellion. You can probably find it at your local library (or Amazon). It includes a reindeer craft, reader's response activity, graphic organizers, sequence the story printable, label a reindeer, and a comprehension test.
Throughout our "reindeer" week, my students complete the activities in the packet. On Friday, they take the comprehension test and I'm able to count it as a reading grade.
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Those are the most wish listed items from my store. You can check out other seller's wish listed items {HERE}.
I added a few products to my store over the weekend and wanted to be sure to point them out to you.
Bible Interactive Notebook: Old Testament will be 50% off for today, 11/30. All new products are 50%, so be sure to follow my store.Tomorrow it will be on sale for 20%.
A Christmas Story: the birth of Jesus includes activities you can use in your Sunday School classroom, private school classroom or for homeschool students.
My students love playing phonics games, so I created a bundle of Long Vowel SCOOT games. You can also use these as task cards. The bundle price is already 20% off, but I also put all of my bundles on sale too. :)
My class also loves playing I Have, Who Has Games. I bundled the Long Vowel SCOOT games AND I Have, Who Has Long Vowel Games into one package of Long Vowel Games.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
A Spider Freebie
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Bats, Spiders & Pumpkins FREEBIES
I have a confession. I love candy corn. Is there anyone else out there with me? True candy corn lovers are few and far between. Of course I have to bring this love of candy corn in the classroom! Students get a baggie full of candy corn, Indian corn, and pumpkins to sort and graph.
By October, we've completed our addition unit. Once they've gotten the basics, we move onto harder concepts like sorting facts into true and false piles.
Now, I don't start our place value unit until November. By then Halloween candy has taken over, Thanksgiving is approaching and after that is Christmas/Elves/Santa. It's so important to get this concept in, so I introduce it early through the pumpkin patch and bat craft above. The bats are amazing to decorate the classroom with!
A few years ago, I started doing whole group reading instruction with holiday themed books. Typically I do this to start off reading groups. The students have to complete an activity about a book we've read together and then go to literacy stations. It's my way of sneaking in themed activities.
Let's face it, grammar can be a little boring to teach. Practice is needed to cement the concept in the brain. Why not do it with bats, spiders, and pumpkins?
Make sure to visit The Primary Peach for more ideas and freebies for October!
http://primarypeach.blogspot.com/2015/09/sharing-sunday-october-edition.html
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
A Peek At My Classroom
I'm so excited to announce that I've joined The Primary Peach collaborative blog!
Come sneak a peek and see a glimpse of my classroom!
Friday, September 11, 2015
Five For Friday: 9/11/15
Band-aids. For those real wounds and not so real wounds.
I didn't tell my class this up front, but I put a container of band-aids at the back of the room. When someone asked, I told them where to get one.
I really thought if I told the students up front, they would have to suddenly get band-aids all the time. You know those classes, right?
They manage to open and put the band-aids on just fine by themselves.
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Making Your Bible Curriculum More Engaging
Days of Creation - Students color the story of creation (written using Bible verses), make a creation bracelet, and make a flip book about the days of creation. There are also posters that show what was created each day.
Garden of Eden - Students color the story of the Garden of Eden (written using Bible verses), fill out a bubble map about Adam and Eve and make snake craft.
Cain and Abel {FREE} - I always found this difficult to teach when I first teaching, so I included tips on how to explain this story to young children. There are posters about Cain and Abel and students can fill in a bubble map about them.
Noah's Ark - Students color the story of Noah (written using Bible verses) and sequence the story of Noah.
My students are also required to learn a weekly Bible verse. They have to be able to verbally tell me on Fridays. Higher grade levels have to write it and their verses are usually a bit longer.
I wanted the students to learn the verses in a more engaging way and be able to visually connect the meaning.
Last week's verse was Psalms 147:4. I used precut stars and had the students sponge paint the stars. You could always use yellow stars and just star stickers if you are limited on time.
For John 3:16, I had students use watercolors to paint the world.
Both verses and activities are available for free in my TpT store.
I hope that this helps you in your classroom, homeschool, or Sunday school!
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