A Blog Post just in time for HALLOWEEN!

Hello my friends!!  Today was my day to post on Teaching Blog Round Up!  I will admit I almost forgot but luckily I remembered just in time!  I decided to share some ideas about how I teach sight words in small groups!  Of course I would not let ya'll down and I included some FREEBIES!

Click the button below to check my post and snag your goodies!

 

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Five for Friday: BACK TO SCHOOL

Well friends!  I hope everyone is surviving the back to school grind!  I have been exhausted since school started and my little blog has been neglected for sure.  I hope that some of you out there are fortunate enough to have air conditioning in your school because I am not that lucky.  It is so hard for little kiddos to learn when they are melting:)  I have my fingers crossed it cools down.


1.  Tonight I was shopping at a local toy store for a birthday present and of course I found a few things for myself as well.  I am really excited out this find!!  You use a pen to pull the beads up to form the letter.  It really has a strong pull that will help my kinders follow through with letter formation.

 

2.  My sweet little girl turned the big 13 on Monday.  She is now officially a teen but not much has changed.  She still has her headphones on constantly and bops along in her own world.

Isn't she beautiful?

3.  As an interventionist, I have the pleasure of assisting teachers with not only academic problems but behavioral issues as well.  Unfortunately one of my students has fallen apart since returning back to school.  I created these forms last night to try and assist the teacher with managing the behaviors within the classroom setting.

 

I based this on an interventions one of my teaching buddies did last year with the same kiddo.  The student starts out the day with all of his X's for both the morning and afternoon blocks.  If all AM checks are still there by lunch then 5 minutes of Ipad time is earned.  After lunch, the whole process starts again.  If the student had a bad morning it doesn't matter because after lunch it is a clean slate.  

4.   Today was my day to post on Teaching Blog Round Up!  I was glad that I had a scheduled day to post so that it forced me to push through my back to school fog.  If you are interested in reading about vocabulary tiers then you will definitely want to check out my post and grab your freebie.

5.  I was very excited to actually get to read with some of my kiddos today!  I love listening to kids read.  Today the kids used LED finger lights to track text as they read!  It was so fun!!  The kids loved it and I must admit so did I.  

 

So that is my week in a nutshell:)  

I can't wait to read everyone's Five for Friday posts!!  

Until next time,

Genre Pack News!

So I have been working on updating my genre pack for awhile now.  It became almost an obsession that I am glad to finally be done so I can work on some other projects I need to get done before school starts.  This summer has sped by so quickly and I feel like I have not accomplished everything I hoped to but oh well!  My little tornado Thomas has been my main focus this summer.  He is a nonstop ball of fun:)

I wanted to share a peek at my updated pack.  If you have already purchased it please go and re-download it ASAP!  It has grown from 15 pages to 131!  I told you I became obsesses with it.  I finally had to make myself stop.

I created this great preview using Picasa.  If you want to learn more about it check out my recent post on Teaching Blog Round Up called Techie Tips.

I will give this pack FREE to the first three bloggers to comment and leave me their emails.  If you miss it the freebie then don't fret it will be half off through tomorrow night! 

Thanks for reading,

Dog Days of Summer at TBR!!!

The bloggers at Teaching Blog Round Up have but together a fun FREEBIE link up and giveaway!!!

Make sure you visit TBR to enter the giveaway and win some great goodies from some awesome bloggers.


I am going to keep it short and sweet today because I am trying to make the most of my last days with of vacation with the fam:)  Today we are going to visit Middleton Place which is a beautiful southern plantation.  I am a big history buff so I always enjoy visiting historical landmarks.  Okay so I am a total GEEK even on vacation:)

I have a little FREEBIE to share with everyone today!!

 Click on the picture below to get a SHORT I memory match freebie.

 

 

 Feel free to join the fun and link up your FREEBIE!! 
Also my entire store will be 20% off through Sunday. 
If you are a Facebook Fan there will be a special FREEBIE for everyone this weekend.

An InLinkz Link-up

TBR Here I Come!

I am so excited about joining the talented teachers on Teaching Blog Round Up!  Be sure to check out my first post and get your visual genre FREEBIE!

 

I hope to see you tomorrow for PHONICS FRIDAY!!