It is never too early to start thinking about college! (FREEBIE)

I am so excited about this pack! I can guarantee your students' parents will be very impressed if you sent this home! I would love to see what my son thought about college and all of his future expectations and this pack has it all! 

These persuasive letters will be very amusing to read 

as they try to convince the college recruiter to accept them! 

This pack includes: 

My Persuasive College Entrance Letter

I am a College Student Writing Activity

(primary and ruled lines included)

Adjectives Graphic Organizer

College Venn Diagram

What is a major? Graphic Organizer

College KWL Chart
My College Application

My College Mascot Activity

Graduation Cap craft

Graduation Cap Page Topper

Color My Own College Book Cover to combine all activities as a keepsake!

This pack has the cutest activities for your little ones to start thinking about college. It will get their minds racing and get them excited about it! No need to wait until they get into the upper grades why not start now?! The best part of this pack is when they have completed the whole thing you can combine all of the activities and send it home as a keepsake! I would love to show this to my son on his college graduation day! How cute would that be?

Be sure to grab your freebie here! 

Can't wait.... get the whole pack here!

We started off this pack by reading Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss! This is my favortie book! We took a quote from the book and discussed how it relates to real life and the kids wrote their thoughts on it. These turned out really good! I explained to them how part of this book was read at my college graduation and how it is not only a kid book but an adult book! I should them pictures of my degree and the college that I attended- The University of Tennessee at Knoxville. GO VOLS!!!!

Next ,we completed our KWL Chart. We discussed things we did know, things we wanted to know and things we learned. These questions were HILARIOUS!

Some questions were:
Do they have centers in college?
Is there a field fay in college?
Do they have silent lunch in college?
How old do you have to be to go to college?

I answered every single question and the kids were so engaged! It was awesome!
Some of the students had no idea what a college was! Not anymore!!!

Then we worked on our college entrance letters, I was very impressed with these!
They really did a great job!

Terri Rogers Stauffer and
Christine Yazzie are the winners!! Congrats!

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Summer Reading and Writing Pack!

This pack is awesome for your kiddos to use during the summer! It includes a reading log, a summer reading journal, color your own bookmarks, color bookmarks and an accomplishment color in chart! This will keep your students busy during the summer!

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Great Guided Reading idea and Mentor Text Activitiy

So I am finally getting around to organizing even though this is the end of the year! lol I did want to share one thing that has worked really well for me though. This is a guided reading file folder of all of my reading levels. I got this great idea from my friend Katie who saw it on Pinterest from What the Teacher Wants.  I immediately decided to try it to see how it worked for me. I always have to to try to remember or write down all of my reading levels when going to the book room to pull books. I have a guided reading log that I use but I am constantly editing it because the students move levels so often. So I thought this would be perfect and it was! The only thing that you need is a file folder, velcro and some cute labels and paper.You can even use some decorative letters. I took some names off for the picture and covered the rest.

I put on the adhesive velcro strips on the folder and added velcro to the back of the paper strips with the names on them. I wrote the names on all of the rectangles with a sharpie. I added the DRA levels with the sticker letters and I also wrote in the number equivalents. It fits right into my plan book and is easy to grab and move students around when necessary.This is definitely one to try!

Also we just finished a mentor text lesson on Duck on a Bike and inner thought. My kids love this book and it is a great way to teach inner thought. This is a great way to make their writing way more interesting!  We point out examples of inner thought in the book and make our own using the included graphic organizer. We also wrote new stories and did the reading comprehension activity on using inner thought also. The students really wrote some great stories. I was surprised at how well they were able to incorporate inner thought into their writing after this lesson. The ducks were the best part, so cute!  I will post more pictures when we are all done!

You can check it our here! 

And check out one of our mother's day activities. We made cards and
portraits of our moms and wrote some wonderful letters! We also used
adjectives to describe these wonderful women! They turned out great!

Duck on a Bike Mentor Text Activities

Duck on a bike is one of my favorite books and my kids love it too! It is also a great book to use as a mentor text during writing on inner thoughts. This book does an excellent job of using it throughout the book. My students love to point out examples and make up their own! This pack gives them a chance to do that with a graphic organizer, reading comprehension activity and writing assignment that focuses on inner thought. Plus you get to make this cute craft! OMG so cute!

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Two Digit Addition Activities

We are wrapping up this year and ending with a little 2 digit addition and perfecting our regrouping. I really wanted to make some engaging activities that the kids would enjoy doing these last few days. When I teach double digit addition I always tell my students to draw an imaginary line down the middle so they can focus on adding the tens and ones place so I thought of using a window to help them visualize it.

There are 30 pages in this pack with several great activites.

This pack includes:

4 Double Digit Addition Facts Sheets

with answer sheets

Double Digit Addition Dice Game

(laminated version and unlaminated version)

2 Double Digit Addition Anchor Charts

Double Digit Addition Window Craft

Double Digit Addition Foldable

Double Digit Addition Foldable 

(with regrouping)

3 Double Digit Addition Problem Solving Activities

Double Digit Addition Pocket Chart Center

There is a 2 digit addition window with corresponding anchor charts.

There are also some great foldables for regrouping and no regrouping!

All of the templates are included!

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And don't forget, if you purchase it tonight it is 20% off!!

Teacher Appreciation Jackpot!

There is an amazing blog hop event going on and over 150 bloggers
are participating on May 6th!!! Wow! 

Everyone participating will be giving away one paid item in their TPT store for FREE! This item will be worth between $3-$8. This is all to show our appreciation for our fellow teachers! I can't wait! This event is divided into 3 grade levels.

PK-Grade 2- April NcNair on A Modern Teacher
Grades 3-6 Laura Candler on Corkboard Connections
Grades 7-12 Adrianne Meldrum on The Tutor House 

Download my FREE Product here!
Inflectional Endings Centers and Activities!

Be sure to check out the great sale while you are there!

Every single person wins in this event! There are over $500 worth of products and they are yours for free! Thank you so much for being wonderful teachers and we appreciate all that you do!

Dental Health Crafts!

This little activity pack is very special because it all happened on accident! I have been so busy lately I have not had much extra time but I really needed a health activity for next week. Well it started out as a simple "how to brush your teeth" writing assignment that I was going to use for a health and writing grade. Well it turned into so much more than that! It turned into a dental health craft activity pack! who-hoo! I has having so much fun making it I just kept adding on. My craft activities take awhile because I do most of them by hand and then make the black line masters for them so they look as professional as possible. So putting 4 in this pack took me awhile! lol

The first activity is a cute craft and writing assignment. All templates are provided and

and the students can write about ways to keep their teeth healthy. 

                          

The next is a cute tooth book that focuses on first, next, last and then. The students are to write down the steps of brushing their teeth correctly. 

Next we have our dental describing toothbrush! The kids make the handle by folding it over and inserting the bristles. Then they can write adjectives to describe how their mouth feels after they brush their teeth.

Last but not least, we have our tooth fairy! There is a girl fairy and a boy fairy. Isn't she so cute?! I added   a little gold glitter and she was ready for a night teeth! The kids will enjoy pretending to be the tooth fairy for a night! I had so much fun making this pack! I hope that you can use it in your classroom Click here to get it! enjoy! 

Check out our field trip!

I am finally getting a chance to update you guys on our field trip! We had so much fun! It started out a little shaky because it rained almost the whole time but we didn't let that get us down! We visited the Center for Puppetry Arts to see Peter Pan and it was an amazing field trip. The Center for Puppetry Arts has a museum in the front of it that has tons of characters that the children love.

The kids had a chance to walk around and see the actual characters from the muppets movies and many more. I loved seeing these characters because I remember them all. My favorite movie was The muppets Take Manhattan. Some of my kids had never heard of it! Oh how I loved Ms. Piggy!!

 Everyone knows this character, Big Bird! It was exciting to see a lifesize Big Bird! I think the kids loved him most. Most of them have never seen anything like this so it was a special treat for them.

This exhibit was the most exciting for me. Have you seen the movie Labyrinth? OMG it is one of my favorites! I used to watch it all of the time when I was younger. They had most of the puppets and characters form the movie. I loved every second of it! 

After our tour through the wonderful museum we say our play, Peter Pan! This whole play used black lights behind this transparent screen. This play looked like a real movie! It is amazing how far technology has come because last year when I visited they did not have this.

The kids were glued to the stage! I loved it and and so did my kiddos! Afterwards we did our field trip writing prompt about our field trip when we returned to our class. The kids had a ball coloring the school bus and drawing their faces in! If you have not downloaded it yet, get it here. Enjoy!

Reading Comprehension Giveaway!!

I am giving away 5 of my reading comprehension packs in this great giveaway!!!

This is my best selling product, check out some of the comments about it! I use these comprehension sheets everyday and they go with any book! This is my favorite product!!!

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This giveaway ends on Monday!

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Persuasive Writing

This week has been a great week and we are still working on persuasive writing. I think the kids are finally getting the hang of it. It can be so difficult to get them to make that connection on how to properly write a persuasive writing piece. We had a very fun assignment that we were working on this week. I really wanted to get the kids excited about our writing assignment so I made them a fun deal. They were to write me a letter and try to persuade me to buy them ice cream. If they were successful at doing this then I would really buy them ice cream at lunch on Friday! Well the kids were so excited and were definitely motivated for this assignment! I was happy that I had sparked their interest! First we created a graphic organizer to help them think of reasons why I should purchase the ice cream for them. Boy did I get some interesting answers!

One student told me that this ice cream was going to help him focus! Too cute! lol

Next, the students used this information to help them write. They added more details and information and came up with some pretty convincing letters! They also used the ice cream printable to make ice cream cones and write adjectives to describe their ice cream on the scoops. This was to help make their writing more interesting. They had to use these adjectives in their writing. The printable can be used as a template or they can color it and put it together. 

After we were all done I had some pretty convincing papers! I am highly impressed! I think I am going to treat the whole class to ice cream tomorrow for all of their hard work! If this is something that you think you can use in your class check it out here!

After our field trip we did a another cute persuasive writing assignment. It was all about on Peter Pan, which was the play we saw. The kids had so much fun with this and I really had some great persuasive arguments on whether or not Peter Pan should go to jail for pushing Captain Hook over the boat. Check them out!