A New Activity

Hi, It seems like forever since I've had time to sit down and work on a new fun activity for my students. AND have time to share it with other teachers online.
In class we have been working on learning a host of sight words. We have been working on reading and writing our words in sentences. Sometimes my kiddos have a hard time making up sentences so I wanted to create something to help them out a bit. My ROLL, WRITE, READ, DRAW packet is designed to provide practice, variety and fun.
To prepare for your kiddos... Choose the sheet(s) for students to work with. Provide materials for writing and drawing and a dice (1-6)

Each sheet has a focus sight word. Many sheets build upon various sight words, so be sure you expose students to the words to ensure success. Oh and yes, they are Common Core aligned. (CCSS are printed on each page)

Directions: Students roll the dice, match the number on the dice with a word in the word bank at the top of the page. The student fills in the blank in the sentence with the word from the word bank. Then the student draws a picture to match the completed sentence.

Sight Words: a, the, and, big, little, my, is, here, blue, red, see, it, one, yellow, can, in, make

This is a GREAT activity for your independent literacy/word work centers. Students can work side by side on the same sheet and create their own sentences and illustrations. You can also differentiate by assigning the more complex sentences to your stronger readers and writers.
Click on the image below to get a sample page to try:

Then visit my Teachers Notebook Shop to get the entire set for your class.

President's Day Fun

We had President's Day off from school...but there's still time for this fun activity! I taught Lincoln last week and plan to teach Washington this week.  If you're in the same boat....you might find this President's Day Freebie fun to share with your class! My Kiddos LOVE doing "Write the Room" activities.  They can't seem to get enough! They actually CHEER when they see a Write the Room as Station Work..LOL!
 Click on image to get your copy and ENJOY!

I've added another Freebie....hope your kids have fun with these:

Tablet Give-Away

Happy New Year...I know I haven't posted in a while...life was getting a bit hectic. The holi-DAZE are behind me and I think I'm back! ;-)
I wanted to let you know there is a GREAT Give-Away going on over at Teachers Notebook. The winner gets a choice of either an iPad Mini, a Kindle or Nook. Click on the image below to learn more and enter.

While you're there....be sure to visit my shop!

THANKS!

More Labels Please...

I've gotten a few requests for more Label The Parts activities from my students and other teachers.
It's taken me a little longer to get to these than planned but they are finally ready...this time with a WINTER theme. There are two levels to each image. The first level provides a cut and glue label for students to label the parts. The second level gives students the word in "Letter Shaped" boxes to label the parts. Each provide great fun for both Independent Centers or Partner Work. The set includes

• Charlie Brown-type Christmas Tree
• Gingerbread Boy
• Gingerbread House
• Santa
• Mrs. Claus
• Polar Bear on Ice Skates
• Penguin
• Mug of Hot Chocolate
• Girl with Hot Chocolate
• Elf with Candy
• Shelf Elf
• Standing Shelf Elf
• Snowman

My kids LOVE learning to read and write new words...hope yours will too....click on the image to head over to my TN shop to get a set for your kiddos:

Huge 3-Day Sale

In case you haven't heard, there's a GREAT GIVING BACK  sale over at Teachers Notebook! The folks at Teachers Notebook is "giving bad" to all its members. Make a purchase from a teacher shop and Teachers Notebook will take off an additional 10% from your ENTIRE ORDER!! In addition, I'm offering several items on sale. Please click on the sales tag above to check out the 3-Day Sale. Happy Shopping!

Halloween Freebie

Are you looking for a quick game to use in a Math Center or during a party? Try this "Halloween Tic-Tac-Toe". There are several ways to play....as they win, the kids can collect "candy" and count how many times they won. OR use the "graphing score card" and the first player to the top is the winner. Or for those who can use Tally Marks, score can be recorded with tally marks and students count the score, then add up how many games were won in all. If your students are equally matched at Tic-Tac-Toe, a fun way to play is PLAY TO LOSE! This requires a different way of thinking...the first player to GET 3 in a row is the loser and the other player gets the point. That would be interesting to watch! ;-)
I hope you can use this and your kiddos have fun!

 

Click on the image to download this freebie!

Creating Posters & Mini Pocket Charts

I love creating posters for my classroom. I use them to decorate the classroom, share poems and chants with the students in a LARGE version, and now I use posters in some of my Centers to help scaffold learning for some of my Kiddos! Once upon a time I created them all in PrintMaster, but as the versions changed, it seemed to drop the option to make POSTERS. I recently discovered I can make both POSTERS and MINI POCKET CHART images for classroom centers. This week I used the poster to help with a label the pumpkin sheet from my LABEL THE PARTS packet. I am also using mini versions of the theme related words in my BIG pocket chart at my word work center. Watch this video to learn how you can turn any PDF image into a poster or mini pocket chart images....

Please let me know if you found this video helpful, or if you have any questions about how I made the posters/mini pocket chart images.
You can visit my Teachers Notebook shop and get my LABEL THE PARTS packet for FREE!
I hope you have lots of fun making posters and mini pocket charts for your students to enjoy!