Reknrek 101

Our school has encouraged us to use reknreks this year.  I found a great link to share to help you get started if you are like me and not quite sure of all the possible ways to present this to the kids.  This link includes beginning lessons for K-2...very informative!

Reading Strategy Posters

Happy Labor Day! I love three day weekends!  Before I head outside for yard work I wanted to post some strategy posters I made with a polka dot background! 

I saved them two different ways...one as a pdf power point and the other as an XPS document...I was trying to see which one would save the fonts I used but I had a hard time saving the background in power point... so please let me know which one worked for you!!!

Just click one of the links below!

posters in power point pdf

polka dots didn't show in preview but should in download... J  

or

posters in XPS document

no preview available so click to download…J

I missed my blog!!!

Wow!  Hats off to teachers who manage their classroom AND their blog!  I have neglected this poor blog since school began and I've missed it so!  Yay for long weekends!!! 

what a huge help it is to collaborate with peers!  we are incorporating the common core by reading one narrative text and one informational text to tie in our social studies / science / health standards so I created a page for the kids to use to write a response for each book. 

I plan on trying it out this week for our theme: "family and home" and hopefully it will be successful.  Here are the two books I will be reading aloud...

(click the picture to download)

I incorporated the informational format from Deanna jump’s idea and just a plain old text box with lines for the narrative story.  we will do the narrative text and left side of page one day and the informational story and right side another day. The frame (border) is from scrappin doodles and the font is hello firstie.  Hope you find this useful...if you don't have the font, just hit ctrl A and change to a font you have! It looks a mess when you open in google docs, but if you click file...download it should look "normal".  If not, email me and I will email you the page!!!

Sincerely.

Common Core Language Arts Posters

How can summer be gone already?!?  It feels like I just left my classroom and now we are heading back!  I must be getting older if time is flying by this quickly!! 
A few weeks ago I posted a Common Core math posters freebie and now I am posting the matching language arts posters.  These posters are for the whole year so you can store them in your lesson plan binder or post them on your classroom door!  Click the picture and enjoy. 

Weekly Newsletter Template

I am hooking up with Freebie Friday over at Teaching Blog Addict.

Here is a newsletter template that I created to use each week to share news with parents and students.  It was quick and easy to fill in each section.  Click the picture above to grab your copy.  You can change the font to suit your needs and also change the size of the boxes depending on how much information you want to share.

Happy Friday!

The Liebster Award!

Lisa over at Teaching Kindergarten Kiddos gave me a Liebster award! Wow!  My first blog award!  This is just as good as finding a great deal at Target..okay, I know I need a life, but, seriously...I am really happy!!

This award is named for the German word "Liebster," which translates to "beloved" or "favorite", and is given to a "new, up and coming blogger." 

Here are the rules:

1. Link back to the person who gave it to you. 
2. Post the award to your blog.
3. Give the award to at least 5 bloggers with less than 200 followers.
4. Leave a comment on the 5 blogs to let them know that they have been offered this award.


I am giving the award to:


Karla at...




Patti at...

Penny at...

Sue at...

Cindy at...


Please take a look at these great blogs and thank you again for this award, Lisa!    

Common Core Math Posters for Kindergarten

My county has broken our math standards into four quarters which will be reflected on our new report cards.  My team usually posts the standards for each quarter on their wall or door.  I will use the standards I purchased from Deanna Jump's tpt store in the classroom to show current weekly standards being covered but I will  also use these posters I created to see the "big picture" each nine weeks.  Since I tend to be an out-of-sight-out-of-mind kinda person, this will come in handy.   I teach in Cobb County, Georgia so I don't know if all of you are dividing up the standards like this, but, please feel free to use if you can!  Just click the picture below.