Cool Compound Penguins-Freebie!

Aren't these penguins cute?? This activity was perfect for teaching compound words. Grab your copy of the patterns below! :)

Click below to get yours.

Five for Friday

Link up for Five for Friday with Doodle Bugs here.

1. My week started off GREAT. This happened:

Roll Tide!!1

2. I started my new Valentine's Unit (started, not finished!)

3. The Bachelor returned this week, but I STILL have not seen it. I watched the game Monday night and then it's been such a busy week that I haven't had a chance to catch up yet. Please tell me I'm not alone in watching this cheesy show. 

4. We started our new author study on Jonathan London (author of the Froggy books). We are using lots of activities from Jennifer's pack over at First Grade Blue Skies. I'll post pictures of some of our activities soon!

5. After an exhausting week, I'm ready to relax tomorrow night by watching the Miss America pageant. I LOVE watching Miss America and Miss USA. My mom and I always write down our favorites at the beginning and then see how many we have that make it to the finals. :) 

New Phonics Pack

Want to hear a funny story? When I was 16 years old and had just gotten my license, my best friend and I were driving home one night. There was something in the road, which I thought was a paper bag- a perfectly acceptable object to run over. No biggie, right? WRONG. That "paper bag" turned out to be a skunk, which sprayed my car as I ran over it, creating the WORST smell that I have ever smelled in my life. My new car smelled like a skunk for weeks! I will never be able to look at anything skunk related and not think about that scent filled night!. Click here to get my newest phonics pack- featuring the final -ng and -nk sound. 

Alfie the Apostrophe

Have y'all ever used this book to help teach contractions and possessives? It is the CUTEST book! I created an anchor chart to help reinforce this skill and then made little Alfie's after reading. 

I've created a packet that contains the patterns for this craft and also a contraction sorting activity. You can find it here.

Want to win a copy?? Head over to Facebook to find out how.

MPM School Supplies

Several weeks ago, I had the privilege of shopping at  mpmschoolsupplies.com. I was able to spend $25 in exchange for writing an honest review of their company for my blog. I LOVED shopping on this site! I don't know about y'all, but it is so hard for me to find a good teacher supply store to order from. The closest one to me is an hour away, so I'm a huge online shopper and I'm just thrilled to discover this new company. Let me show you what I got for $25!

I love these reproducible books from Evan Moor.  

 These ABC cards from Dr. Seuss are meant to be displayed, but they are the perfect size to use for a center activity.

Another great Evan Moor book!

 The thing I loved most about this site was the fact that I was not only able to get teaching things, but picture books as well! I nabbed these two fantastic reads!

Want to know the best part??? SUPER FAST SHIPPING! I'm not kidding y'all! I received my items in 2 days! I LOVE super fast shipping! That in its self won me over!

They even provided my fabulous readers with 10% off your first 10 purchases. Click here to redeem it!

A Roll Tide Sale!

Tonight's the BCS national championship...Roll Tide!!!!! In honor of this huge event, I'm throwing a one day sale in my TpT store. Everything is 15% (because Alabama will be winning their 15th national championship tonight!). Click here to visit my store. 

Phonics Packs

I've had several emails asking about my phonics pack, so I thought I'd do a post showing what all is included and the ones that are available. I make these each week and upload them. So far I have all the short vowels and all the long vowels covered. I've also got a pack for /sh/ and /th/ and y as a vowel. I just finished laminating and cutting out the long /e/ ones, so I thought I'd use those as examples so y'all can see the different activities included.

Each pack comes with four word work centers: a word sort, word scramble, fill in the blank, and ABC order. The word scramble and fill in the blank come with a word bank for the kids to use, as you can see below. Each center comes with a recording sheet for the kids to use.If you have any specific phonics skills that you would like to be created into a pack like these, feel free to email! 

 **Sorry for the not so great iphone pics! 

Word Scramble

 Word Sort

 Fill in the blank

 ABC Order

Click on the pics below to check out each unit. 

Updated: Click the "Phonics Fun" link at the top to check out all my phonics packs!