Last week, we did a mini-unit on bats. We started with a KWL chart, filling in the "K" and "W." Then throughout the week we read non-fiction books on bats. Towards the end of the week we filled in the "L" of our chart and wrote Bat Acrostic Poems using our new knowledge. We decorated the poems ...
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The Lost Tooth Club Take-Home Bag
When a student loses a tooth, he/she gets to take home The Lost Tooth Club Bag. His/her name goes on The Lost Tooth Club Bar Graph. I have uploaded The Lost Tooth Club Take-Home Bag Packet to TpT and you can purchase it for only $2 (click {here})! Here are some books I recommend ...
Selective Mutism
Have you heard of this before? Selective mutism is a condition where a child is unable to talk in certain social settings. The child is not deaf or totally mute and will speak where he/she feels comfortable, usually at home. In my ten years of teaching, I had heard of it and I had seen students ...
Celebrating Birthdays with a Take-Home Bag
I like to utilize Take-Home bags in my classroom to enhance The Home-School Connection. I have a Star of the Week Bag, a Scaredy Squirrel Class Mascot Bag, a Dr. Seuss Bag, a Nursery Rhyme Bag, a Lost Tooth Bag, and a Birthday Bag. I have previously posted about my mascot bags {click ...
Free Halloween Downloads
Halloween is just over two weeks away. My students, have been busy with my Halloween Math Centers. They are enjoying them so much so that I decided to create more Halloween themed math centers! I created this free Candy Corn Estimation and Counting Math Center packet. ...
Words With Bonus Letters
Ms. M posted last week about needing help with bonus letters. I sent her my Words With Bonus Letters File Folder Word Wall from TpT. Then Erika from The Honey Bunch emailed me that she was doing a post on Bonus Letters and would give me a shout out. So I checked out her post and ...
Haunted House Inhabitants Math Center
To create this center, you will need foam Halloween stickers, large blue paper, black paper, a haunted house tracer, and a recording sheet. I recommend purchasing my Halloween Math Centers packet so that you have the recording sheet, tracer, student directions, and word walls. To see my ...
Halloween Math Centers
I love math centers and I especially love to create math centers that focus around a specific holiday. I have been doing these Halloween math centers for years and thought I would update them to sell on TpT. My Halloween Math Centers packet is a 42 page download of hands-on ...
Busy Teacher’s To-Do Lists
I love To-Do Lists! I write them on post-its, on those To-Do List pads, and on my Blackberry. I also like to make To-Do Lists of ideas I have for TpT, my blog, and Scholastic. I created free "Busy Teacher's To-Do Lists" for TpT and posted about them on Blog Hoppin'. Click ...
Laura Numeroff Author Study
Laura Numeroff's newest book, If You Give a Dog a Donut is being released on Tuesday, October 4th! Last week my students spent the week imersed in Laura Numeroff's books. We used the activities from my updated Laura Numeroff "If You Give..." Author Study Packet. If you have ...
