TpT On Sale Now

Join me at my Teachers Pay Teachers store TODAY ONLY for an amazing sale!  My products are 20% off and with the code L2P9Y, you can get an additional 10% off!!  Visit my store here to order now.  My new Time Practice Pack is ready and available too.  It has 10 resources including activities, student created book and a list of time resources and books. 

100!!

100 followers just now between google and networked blogs!  Hip Hip Hooray!  Thanks to all of you for making these first two months fabulous!  Be sure to stop in on Thursday for the start of a collaborative giveaway.

THANK YOU!

TpT Sale Reminder and a Few Stores To Check Out

If you get the Teachers Pay Teachers newsletter every Sunday or saw my previous post, then you have heard that there is going to be a HUGE Leap Day sale Wednesday.  Many teachers are offering 20% off and with the 10% off you get with the Promo Code: L2P9Y--well what a deal!!.  This sale only comes around every 4 years and will be the last big sale before teacher appreciation day in May.   My store will be on sale Wednesday at 20%. ****Don't forget to use the promo code to get an extra 10% off.  Here is the link to my store.

 DillyDabbles TpT Store

Here are some great stores to visit from my bloggy friends!!  Take a look at their stores and blogs! I guarantee you will find something that you like! :) 

First Grade and Fabulous TpT Store

 

A Special Kind of Class TpT Store

                                    

                      Sharing Kindergarten's TPT Store   

           

 Teaching With Style's TpT store

 Teaching 4 Real's TpT Store

 Kindergarten Lifestyle's TpT Store

 HoJo's TpT Store

 JD's Rockin' Readers Tpt Store

 For The Love of Teaching Math TpT store

 Teaching Tales TpT Store

 Corkboard Connections TpT Store

 Mrs. Lirette's Learning Detectives TpT Store

 Kids Cog Works TpT Store

 Minds in Bloom TpT Store

 Fisher Reyna Education TpT Store

 Mrs. Miner's Monkey Business TpT Store

 Nyla's Craft Teaching TpT Store

 First Grade Blue Skies TpT Store

 Teaching in Room 6 TpT Store

 The Lesson Guide's TpT Store

 Wise Guys TpT Store

Reading Week First Day

We started out Read Across America Week with making a poster about reading.  Our principal asked for each class to make a poster celebrating reading with the hope that it will stay up through next year this time. Well here's our result:

I took each students pictures as they read and they each finished the writing frame: Reading is....Because....

I connected the writing to opinions and similes.  We've already discussed writing opinions and have been learning about similes with our current poetry unit.  Some got it and some didn't, but they all wrote about why reading is good.  I printed each picture wallet size and the students rewrote their writing draft into the speech bubble.  The two blanks are for the two that were absent today to finish tomorrow.  

Click here to get all of the pages I used, including the Header, Seuss pictures from the3amteacher, the speech bubbles and the writing frame to draft their message.

TpT on Sale for Leap Day

Join me at my Teachers Pay Teachers store on Wednesday, February 29 for an amazing sale!  My products will be 20% off and with the code L2P9Y, you can get an additional 10% off!!  Visit my store here and get an idea of what you'd like to order now.  My new Time Practice Pack will be ready and available then too.  It has 10 resources including activities, student created book and a list of time resources and books. 

Permission to Pin

This is a note to all of my followers and visitors.  I'm happy for you to pin the pictures from my blog as long as they are properly linked back to my blog.  I've added the "Permission to Pin" button to my sidebar to let all of you know.  You are welcome to follow my Pinterest boards and repin what I have there as well.  See the link on my left sidebar to get to my boards.  See Laura Candlers explanation about why I posted this this here.

Tattling Troubles

I think there's really some kind of dark magic that happens at the end of January every year.  Something in the air changes... and so do my students.  We were all getting along pretty good until a few weeks ago.  Then, the tattling bug hit full force.  You all know that specific whine...Mmmrsss. Greeeen?  or TEEEAAACHERRRRR!  which is followed by a most important tattle.  My head was aching and students were getting less and less work done because they were so busy being nosey.  Well, I had to solve this persistent problem.  One of my colleagues suggested that I have the students tell the President.  Light-bulb!! So, that is exactly what I set up.  I set an empty dishwasher tablet container in a basket with a stack of paper slips.  I posted a picture of the U.S. President along with a list of tattling rules.  Voila!  No more tattling to me!  Of course the excitement of this new avenue to tattle was a little disruptive at first as they all ran to "Tell the President", but it is slowly waning and the two or three that really have to tell everything are the only ones who really post any more.  When I get that whine, I just say, "Is this something for the President?"  and they do an about face.  I read through the tattles each Friday and address concerns with the class. They feel like they've been heard and we can discuss ongoing problems as a class and not fifty times throughout the week to everyone individually as they tattle. Here's a FREEBIE of the rules and picture of the President that I posted. I'd love to hear about your tales of tattling in the comments below!

New Word Ladder Books

I was on Amazon and saw these new books from Tim Rasinski.  These are the K-1 books.  I didn't see other levels, but I'm sure they're coming!
This one is for Interactive Whiteboards...Awesome!


And this is the regular print version...

Making Words FREEBIE

In my aforementioned comprehension class, we briefly discussed the importance of increasing vocabulary and word knowledge.  One of the methods we discussed was the activity of "Making Words."  For this activity, students are given several letters and then make as many words as possible.  Then students can sort the words and add words that fit with the pattern of the words they formed using additional letters.  This great book Month-By-Month Phonics for First Gra (Month-By-Month (Scholastic))


contains many suggested letter combinations and a step by step guide to lead students through the activity.  Another way to come up with the letters is to use the letters of any word you choose, put the vowels in alphabetical order followed by the consonants listed in alphabetical order.  For example, you may choose the letters from the word tamale.  You would present the letters like this  a a e l m t.  I think we often do this type of activity with holiday words.  Well, I've put together a set of these making words activities in an easy to use format.  Come get a couple pages FREE in the preview at my TN store here.  The full Making Words Pack can also be found at my TN store.  All items are on sale now through Wednesday!

Great Giveaway

First Grade Bloomabilities is an auther and teacher.  She's having a giveaway of her newest set in the series. Winner will be chosen March 1.
 

Common Core K-3 Done and Available

Yeah!!  I now have the Common Core Packs done for K-3 (4-6 coming soon).  As promised, each time I finish a grade, all my Common Core Packs go on sale in my TeachersNotebook shop for 20% off for 3 days.  The sale starts now and will end at the end of Wednesday.  In celebration of Presidents Day, all other items in my TeachersNotebook shop are 15% off.  You can download previews of the packs under my free items in TeachersNotebook and with the Preview button on TeachersPayTeachers.  I'll be adding several new items tomorrow (my kids are begging me to play Guess Who with them right now), so be sure to check back tomorrow for more items.  If you prefer TeachersPayTeachers, my Common Core packs are available and on sale there too, however not all of my other items are there just yet nor are the multi-user common core packs. (maybe by tomorrow ;0) )