Comprehension Posters

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Giveaway Winner!

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Congratulations Maria Y.! Email me with your shipping info! lifeinfirstgrade@gmail.com

***Still waiting to hear from Beth Arnott, the winner of the HearALL Assessment Recorder!

New Winner for the HearALL Assessment Recorder

Since I never heard from the original winner of the Learning Resources HearALL Assessment Recorder, I generated another one:

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Congratulations Beth! I sent you an email! :)

**Don't forget about the giveaway for the Easi-Speak USB Recorder that's ending soon! Go enter now!

Teacher Supply Store Haul

I ran out of border this morning while working in my classroom, so I ran to Davies, a local teacher supply store. As usual, I ended up with a little bit more than just border. I always love when my favorite beauty bloggers do a haul post from Sephora or Ulta showing what all they bought, so I thought I'd do a teacher edition :)

Here's an overview:

I got my name plates. I can't wait to get my class list so I can put names on these cuties!

Here's a close of the name plates:

Love them! I almost went with some cupcake ones by Trend, but then I saw these and liked them better.

Our school colors are maroon and white, so these will be perfect to use for something during football season. 

These are my *favorite* item from today's trip. I've been meaning to order some from Lakeshore, so I was thrilled to find these by Learning Resources. They will go perfectly with my Say, Spell, and Stamp  center:

I've been looking everywhere for these! I can't wait to create some anchor charts with these. Hopefully they're as good as Mr. Sketch!

Aren't these cute? I'm going to use these for literacy centers. Maybe for sight word practice? I'm sure something will come to mind!

I don't know about y'all, but my kids always *love* getting their paper stamped. They especially love 'smelly' stamps. I try and always pick up a few of these whenever I'm at Davies. 

I'm just loving cupcakes this year. I'm going to try and incorporate these somewhere in the room and if that doesn't work, then I'm going to make centers out of them. 

And, of course, the original reason for the trip. :) I also got two different colors of bulletin board paper, but they are in the trunk of my car. Hopefully one will work for the math board. Speaking of which, any Go Math! teachers with pictures of their math board, please send them my way! We haven't received the math manipulatives yet, and I'm not sure how I want to do the board, having never taught the series. 

***I still haven't heard from Carol O., the winner of the Learning Resources HearALL Assessment Recorder. If I don't hear from Carol O. by tomorrow, I will pick another winner! :)   

Don't forget the Easi-Speak USB Recorder from Learning Resources giveaway! Tomorrow is the last day! Go enter now!

Classroom Makeover Day 6: The Word Wall

I've never had so much trouble creating a board. It may not look like much, but after all I've gone through with this word wall (trying out three different backgrounds, running out of border, etc), I'm quite happy with the way it turned out. Yes, the boxes on the right might be a tad bigger than the rest, but at this point, I'm just happy to be done with it! What do y'all think? 

It was coming a thunder storm as I was finishing up, so I quickly took the pic to show y'all, but forgot to take a close up of the letter circles I made. If you want a copy, let me know and I'll post! They can also be used for center activities too!

I'm working on my math board next. We adopted Go Math this year. Has anyone used this before? I'd love to hear about it!

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Behavior Plan Freebies!

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I've just uploaded the different versions of my behavior plan onto my TpT store as freebies. Click below to get them. The links will also be on the new Freebies page on my blog :)

Preschool Behavior Plan

Kindergarten Behavior Plan

1st Grade Behavior Plan

2nd Grade Behavior Plan

Behavior Plan Freebies and a new Giveaway

Hi everyone! Right now, I'm working on my behavior plan for the upcoming year. I liked the one I did last year, which you can find here, but I want to make a new one for this year. I'm keeping the idea the same, just making new pages, which I will upload as freebies as soon as I finish them :) I've had a few emails asking for ones that could be used for other grades, so I will make ones that say "kindergarten' or "second grade" instead of first. I've also had emails saying the behavior plan can't be downloaded from Scribd. I'm not sure what's up with that, but I'll fix it! Look for the freebies within the next few days!

Now for the exciting part of the post! I'm teaming up again with Learning Resources to offer another fabulous product that I know y'all will love as much as I do. It's the Easi Speak USB Recorder and this little product is just as neat as the HearALL recorder.

This is perfect for practicing fluency and the kids will love talking into the microphone. How perfect would this be if you had a rockstar theme classroom? I'm thinking of making a rockstar themed center for this device. There's just so much you can do with this product and it easy to use! It plugs right into the computer so you can hear the recording:

I feel like this will be a favorite in my classroom. Now don't y'all want one? Here's how to enter!

*Follow Life In First Grade and share how you would use the Easi-Speak USB Recorder in your classroom. Just comment below and leave email!

*Follow Learning Resources on Facebook and say Life in First Grade sent you

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***BONUS: for 2 more entries, blog about this giveaway! Be sure to leave the link to your blog post in the comments section

And don't forget to add your email in case you are the lucky winner! The winner will be drawn Friday(7/13)! :

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