Christopher Columbus

Hello Blog!  

I have missed you so!  Since school has started I have been going non-stop!!!  So after several weeks of doing the “need to” things I took time Friday night to do the “want to” things.  I really needed to do something fun to remind me why I became a teacher! 

For the next two weeks we are focusing on  Christopher Columbus and I now have a super cute bulletin board with our focus words, essential questions, and an eye catching ship ready to set sail on Monday!  Land ho!!!

I have links below to download the vocabulary words, essential questions, and listening center page if you are interested!  The boat was easy to make…I just used the clipart from my listening center page as a guide!  I think I was inspired by some higher power as I cannot draw to save my life!   

vocabulary words

essential questions

listening center page

Enjoy your weekend!

A Newsletter for every Month!

Happy Friday!

It's hard to say this but SUMMER IS OVER!  We go back July 31st!  I want to go back to the time (I was 8) when summers dragged on for-ev-er!!!  

Oh well, at least I can look back and say I was productive!  I opened up my tpt store and have been busy filling it with items to make teacher's lives easier...and, okay, cuter because I love cute stuff!

If you get a chance, check out my tpt store for my editable newsletters.  I send out a newsletter every Friday.  This template (one for each month) can be quickly completed and shared with parents and posted outside your room for all to see.

Let me know what you think about it and I hope you enjoy your weekend!

Sincerely,

Beany Baby Reading Comprehension Posters

Hello!  It has been a long time since I posted on my blog!  I have had a tough year personally but with the summer to regroup, I am hoping to get back in the swing of creating and sharing with teachers around the globe.  I am planning to become a seller on Teachers Pay Teachers - but until I do, please enjoy this "freebie for now”.  If you scroll down, you will also see my beany baby reading decoding posters.  Enjoy each day of summer! Click on the picture to grab your posters.  
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I finally became a tpt seller...yay!  It sure took me long enough...I am a born procrastinator!  Please click on the picture to be taken to my tpt store!  Wish me luck!!!

Sincerely,

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!

Beany Baby Decoding Posters

These decoding strategy posters were so fun to make! And they will look great hanging in my classroom...or yours.  The kids love connecting learning to fun and what better way than with these adorable posters.  Click on the picture to be taken to my tpt store!

Sincerely,

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.