Thursday, November 28, 2013

Black Friday Sale!


I hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving full of lots of love and yummy food.  I'm dropping in real quick to tell you about an early bird sale happening tomorrow on Black Friday! I love a good sale, don't you?!  

In honor of Black Friday, I am joining a whole bunch of my blogging buddies, and putting my entire TPT store on sale on Friday, November 29!  I will be braving the Black Friday crowds myself to try and get a little bit of my shopping done.  Christmas is right around the corner:)  Plus my little guy turns 3 on the 9th of December.  I currently have zero presents purchased.  Wish me luck!

On Friday only, you can save 20% off of every single product!

If you choose to wait for Cyber Monday and Tuesday you'll receive an additional 10% off with the code CYBER, this is just an option for those of you who want to shop early so you can get it prepped for next week!

I am so thankful for all my bloggy friends!!  I hope everyone has a great holiday!!



Thursday, November 21, 2013

Gobble........Gobble...A Thanksgiving Post

I enjoy teaching the kiddos about the Pilgrims and the 1st Thanksgiving.  I am a total sucker for themes.  One of my biggest frustrations as an intervention specialist is TIME!  I never have enough time get everything done that I would like to accomplish.  Unfortunately it seems to be a common problem for all teachers.

To begin:

Student's wrote their schema about the Pilgrims before we began our reading.  This chart is not that pretty but it works!! 

**Looks like we still need to take time to add our new learning to the chart:)  That is my favorite part.  I love it when students are pumped up about their learning!

         



Many of you know that I am a firm believer in using visuals when teaching concepts.  I believe our school psych calls it visual and verbal pairing of information.  I created vocabulary cards with visuals and definitions to accompany them to enhance my students learning.  The kids love to match the definitions to the correct word.






I get frustrated when I want to teach about a concept and I can't find material that the students can READ!  This year I decided to create three different levels of Thanksgiving books to use with my various groups.  Then I realized that I needed a sight word reader for my kinders so I created a fourth book. This way I can still get my kiddos to learn some factual information and also work on decoding skills.

Below are examples from the 4 different versions.
 




As with anything we read, written responses are a critical piece.  The students and I do a ton of oral discussion while we are read but I also require them to put it in writing to prove to me that they can put their responses on paper.

 
This pack is available you still need a little something for next week!
It is half off until after Thanksgiving!!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-1st-Thanksgiving-Differentiated-Mini-Books-More-986561

Also if you didn't get my updated Thanksgiving word wall pack and visual writing cards click the picture below.
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/THANKSGIVING-WORD-BANK-AND-CARDS-FREEBIE-988881

The first 5 people to comment can get my newest Thanksgiving pack for FREE!

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Welcome Fall.......with a Facebook Freebie Hop!!




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I am teaming up with my Firstie Friends today to share some fun freebies with ya'll!  We have put together a little hop.  All you have to do is hop along our Facebook pages and pick up freebies as you go:)  Click the picture to get started hopping along the fall freebie trail!!!