Short E Literacy Activities...TpT!

Click the pic to get my Short 'e' literacy activities. On SALE now! And if the Heat wins tonight, I just might extend the sale, which includes everything in my store and my Math Madness packet for $2.

**First three to comment get a free copy! :)

TpT Sale!

Everything in my store in 15% off today only! I was hoping to finish my spring unit yesterday so it could be included in the sale, but I'm still working on it. When I do finally get it uploaded (hopefully today!) I will put it on sale for 1 day too :)

Long /i/ Ice Cream Literacy Centers

Click here to see! First three to comment get them free :)

Unit 5 Scott Foresman Reading Street Questions of the Day

Click the pic to get the Unit 5 Questions of the Day for the Scott Foresman Reading Street Series. Freebie! :)

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! :)

Easter Fry Phrases

Click here to see my Easter Fry Phrases. They're on sale 'til Sunday!

A Hippity Hoppity Easter is on its Way Sale!

I'm throwing an early Happy Easter sale! Everything in my store is 15% off now thru Sunday!

 Click here to visit my store! :)

Easter Math Centers

I've just uploaded my Easter math center activities. You can find here. First three to comment get a free copy.

*** I've had a lot of people email saying their comments aren't showing up. I set my comments to post only after I've approved them, so no comments will appear until I publish them. If you click 'post', I will receive your comment and publish it when I log onto blogger the next time. So just because you don't see your comment or any comment for that matter, doesn't mean it didn't go. 

It'll just keep you guessing! ;) ;)

Show Me The Money! Money Math Centers

Click here to get my newest unit, Show Me the Money. First three to comment get it free!

For those who have emailed and asked about Easter math centers, I'm working on those, along with a literary companion for the cutest Easter book, and also Unit 5 Questions of the day for the Reading Street series. Look for these within the next couple of days. It's Spring Break for me, so I'm hoping to catch up on things while working on my tan ( sadly just at home, not at the beach :( )

Isn't spring break great?? :)

Long o /oa/ and /ow/ Literacy Centers

Click the pic to get my new literacy centers for /oa/ and /ow/. First three to comment get a free copy! :)

Easter Literacy Centers

I've just uploaded my newest literacy centers unit. I plan on creating math ones as well, but I will post them separately. This does come with a bonus counting odd numbers set of eggs. :) 

Click the pic to get it!

Also, don't forget the big Leap Day Sale on Teachers Pay Teachers Tomorrow!!!!! Are y'all as excited as I am?? Who doesn't love a good sale :) Everything in my store is 20% off, which when combined with the discount from TpT, makes it 28% off! Visit my store here.

As always, first 3 to comment get the Easter Unit free! :)

Leap Day Sale on TpT!

I'm participating in TpT's huge Leap Day Sale on February 29th. My entire store will be 20% off. And if you use the promo code in the banner, you'll save even more, for a total of 28% off! Visit my store here to see what's on sale. **Anything else that I upload from now 'til Thursday will also be included in this fabulous sale. 

Lorax Craft Patterns

Click here to get patterns for the Lorax!

Dr. Seuss Sale

I've just put all my Dr. Seuss items on sale for 15% off now through Sunday. Happy soon to be Dr. Seuss Week! :) Check out my sale here.

Cat in the Hat Nonsense Words

Click here to get Cat in the Hat nonsense words.

Dr. Seuss Math and Literacy Centers-TpT

Update: I think y'all guessed every book Dr. Seuss ever wrote except my favorite! :) My favorite book is The Sneetches. If you haven't read it, you must! It has the best message. I also found the cartoon movie of it at Target several years ago and it is WONDERFUL. My kids always request it during snack.

I'll send a free copy to the first 3 commenters. Have a great president's day!

Click here to get my Dr. Seuss Math and Literacy Centers- These are centered around Green Eggs and Ham, the Cat in the Hat, and Fox in Socks. I'm working on a literacy companion for The Lorax, Horton Hears a Who, and The Sneetches. Hopefully they'll be up by the end of the week. 

First three to comment and name my favorite Dr. Seuss book get a free copy! :)

Last Week in Pictures (Plus Pirate /ar/ activities!)

First off, sorry to everyone who has emailed or commented here lately. My week was beyond crazy so I didn't have a lot of time for blogging. I've also become addicted to a new TV show that I've been trying to pull myself away from. :) Did anyone else see the new Revenge episode Wednesday night where we finally got to see who was shot at the White Party???

 To the first three who commented on my Math Madness post, I promise I'll email them to you today! To those who have commented or emailed to ask about a Dr. Seuss unit, I'm working on it now and *hope* to have it up by Monday. I didn't realize Dr. Seuss week was week after next. Can y'all believe that?? My kids are starting to get his books for AR and they are getting sooo excited about Read Across America Week. 

This week, we talked a lot of presidents. I wasn't sure how much this would interest my kids, but they loved it! I think it was one of their favorite topics so far. 

We made hats for our door:

Side note: I did the same thing with Cat in the Hat hats for my door last year and thought it turned out really cute.  Check it out here.

We also made George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. I had planned on making a President Obama, but we ran out of time. 

You can find the facts sheet and bubble maps in my President's Day here.

 I also started doing something different for our  "A to Z sounds" board. I use to just put the name of the sounds we had covered like Long a or /th/, but I realized that was just a waste of space since it didn't have any words that contained those sounds. Everyday, we make charts for our weekly sounds on our smartboard, so I started copying those charts onto paper and displaying them on this board. It has worked out sooo much better and now the kids can actually look to the board to see examples of those words. Here's a few of the charts:

And lastly (sorry, I know this is a really long post!) my kids need a little extra help with the /ar/ sound. I've created a ARRR!!! Pirate mini unit that we will be doing next week at Word Work. You can get it here. It's a short packet, so it's cheap! :) 

Reading Street Teachers- we've been busy with so much other stuff in my classroom, that we haven't had much time for extra stuff in our reading series. So if you've noticed a lack of "extras" for the last few stories in Unit 3, that's why. Plus, Unit 3 is my least favorite unit. The good news is Unit 4 is my favorite, so I'll start posting more fun things for each story. We're on Mama's Birthday Present next week, complete with a fiesta on Friday! :)

Unit 4 Questions of the day will be uploaded soon!

Math Madness Basketball Math Centers

March Madness is right around the corner so I thought I'd bring a little basketball into our math centers. This 64 page unit includes 9 math centers focused on addition facts, time (to the hour and 1/2 hour), tally marks, analyzing picture graph data, sums of 10, and ordering numbers from least to greatest. Click here to get it

*** First 3 to comment get a free copy. 

President's Day Unit

When I started creating my President's Day unit, I realized I really like teaching about all our presidents. There are some really interesting facts. Here are my two favorite books for teaching this holiday:

So You Want to Be President

A classic, right? This book is *wonderful*. I loosely based my unit on this book. It has so many interesting facts. Not to mention the illustrations are beautiful. 

What Presidents Are Made Of

This book is super cute and the pictures of each president are too funny. I can't wait to read this one to my kids.

Here's my President's Day Unit. Click here to get it! 

Included are the patterns for my Yankee Doodle Kids:

First 3 people to name my favorite president get a free copy! Just comment below :)

**Hint: I have a Pinterest Board devoted entirely to his wife. Love, love, love her style. He's also the cutest president we have ever had.  ;)

This should be super easy now!

Update: Obviously, my clues were so easy. Of course my favorite president is JFK. Although Bill Clinton is a close second. He was a terrific president, despite what happened at the end of his presidency. 

Free copies go to Megan, Annie, and Team Burns Elementary. Team Burns Elementary: leave your email address and I'll send you freebie to you!

Thanks for everyone who commented! :)

Groundhog Day and Valentine's Day Sale!

My groundhog day and valentine's day units are on sale now 'til Friday for 15% off! Check them out here :) Happy 1st day of February!