If I Were the Easter Bunny

Forgive me, I realize this is my third post today, but since I've just finished up this mini unit and I knew a lot of you were already doing Easter activities with your classes, I wanted to let y'all know about it. I've created a literary companion for the book If I Were the Easter Bunny by Lousie Gardner. Such a cute book. If you haven't read it, click here to get a summary of it.

Included in the literary companion are patterns to this bunny craft:

Click the pic below to see the mini unit ( On sale now thru Sunday!)

And I promise, that's the last post for today! First three to comment get a copy free! :)

Writing Activity

Today's question of the day really interested the kids, so we decided to do a writing activity. The question was "What do you want to be when you grow up?" and went along with our weekly story Ruby in Her Own Time. We made an older version of ourselves to go along with the writing activity.

We also made little Ruby ducks to add to our board:

We finished our SWBC chart that helps us with helping the plot of a story. We used favorite read alouds like Aliens Love Underpants and Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. They loved doing this.

If you want the people pattern or the duck pattern, let me know and I'll post them! :)

Elf Patterns!

I just posted the patterns for the elves on Teachers Pay Teachers....it's a freebie! Merry Christmas!! I'd love to hear from you if you are able to use them in your classroom :) Click here to get them.

Sheep in a Jeep- Teaching Long 'e'

Aren't these cute?? Our phonics skill this week is long e so along with our reading series story (Honey Bees), we read Sheep in a Jeep and found all the long e words- all 32 of them! This is a wonderful story to help teach long e and my kids loved it!

***I've gotten a lot of emails and comments asking how we have time to do all this. I precut everything in order to fit it all in. There's no way we could do it if the kids had to cut all the parts out. It is very time consuming, but the kids love it and I think it brings so much more to the learning process and allows the kids to better understand concepts and skills since they feel more involved in the process. :)

***patterns coming soon!

Pattern for the Fox...scarecrows coming soon!

Here's the pattern for the fox from yesterday's post. I'm working on the pattern for the scarecrow, so hopefully it'll be up tonight, although it's the Emmy's tonight, so I'm not promising anything!! :) :)

Fox Pattern 1

Fox Pattern 2

Bird Pattern Download

I've had requests for the pattern I used to make the birds on my door, so instead of emailing each one of you, I just decided to upload it onto here. Let me know if you have any problems! :)

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