Happy New Year!!!!

I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year!!  Happy 2014!

 

 

TPT New Years Sale!

Be sure to visit my TPT Store and many others for a great New Years Sale!

Everything in my store is 15% off- perfect time to get ready for back to school!!!

Author Study Poster...FREEBIE!

To say good-bye to 2013, I have created an author study chart FREEBIE!!!

With the adopting of the Common Core ELA standards, author studies have become more regular in my classroom. I love when my students make connections between stories and can find patterns that repeat in stories! It gives so much power to reading!!!

To create, all you need is a poster board, the printout and some colored tape (or markers and a ruler!) Visit my TPT store and download the FREEBIE! Click here.

 

The final product:

 

And a recording sheet:

 

Have a happy New Year and ENJOY!!!

 

Walking in a Winter Wonderland...

Now that the hustle and bustle of Christmas is over, I am gearing up my classroom for winter, penguins, and snowmen! Our first week back from Christmas break is a short one, so I have created a mini-thematic unit on winter, snowmen, and hot chocolate- all in 1 unit!!!

This 78 page unit includes the following:
Words to describe Winter Graphic Organizer
KWL Chart Winter
Winter Can-Has-Is Graphic Organizer
Winter Organizers
Winter writing
Snow Flakes Can-have-are Graphic Organizer
How to catch a snow flake writing
Hot Chocolate organizers
Hot Chocolate Looks-Tastes-Smells
How to make a cup of hot chocolate writing
Do you like hot chocolate? Graph
Snow Flake Poem
Snow Flake Pocket Chart Poem
“Winter” reader
Winter Tens Frames
Winter Counting Mats
Winter Puzzles

This is a great unit to transition back from your Christmas break and back into the everyday routine. Sit back, talk about snow flakes and weather, and sip on hot chocolate! This unit contains colored pages, adorable clipart, and black line masters for all graphic organizers. If you would like to purchase this unit, click here. Enjoy!

 

Penguins Thematic Unit

I hope everyone is having a fabulous Christmas break! I have spent my break pinning excellent activities and working on a Penguin Unit for when I get back to school!!!

This unit is so adorable! First of all, I LOVE penguins! Students love learning about penguins and I love teaching about them!

 

There is also a great live penguin web cam http://www.calacademy.org/webcams/penguins/. My students love to watch the penguins.

 

Here is a preview of some of the super cute activities and organizers included in the unit.  

This 114 page unit includes:

How to describe Penguin
Penguins Bubble Map
Penguin Vocabulary Cards
Penguin KWL Chart
Penguin Facts and Fact Organizers
Penguin Can-Have-Are chart
Penguin craft
Penguin writing pages
Blubber Glove Experiment with organizer
Penguin Labeling- Anchor chart and student copy
“I’m a little Penguin” Poem, book, and individual poem for journal
Upper/ lowercase letter match
Penguin Tens frame
Penguin counting mats
Penguin Memory
Penguin Number Puzzles

It has activities and organizers in color and black and white!!! 

To purchase this unit, click here.  I hope you enjoy!!!

Run, Run as fast as you can....It's Gingerbread Time!!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE when it's getting close to Christmas and I can do my favorite unit of the year....GINGERBREAD MAN!!!! I have 10 or so books and variations of the Gingerbread Man. My classes always love the books and have such a great time working in the unit. We even decorate our class Christmas tree with Gingerbread ornaments and a gingerbread man tree skirt!!!  Did I mention I LOVE the gingerbread man?! 

With all of this love, I have FINALLY made a Gingerbread Thematic Unit. It took some time and some hard work but I absolutely love how it turned out! It's one of my favorite units yet!!!! You can purchase this unit from my Teachers Pay Teachers store by clicking on the picture or clicking here.

 Here is a preview of all of the fantastic organizers, activities, and graphs in the unit:

 This is my cute graph that I did for my classroom! I am so excited about filling it up with all of our learning!  This week we are studying comparing books with similar texts so I know this will help!!!

Do you have a special thematic unit that is your favorite?

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

I hope everyone has a very wonderful Thanksgiving! I don't know about you, but I have SO much to be thankful for!!!  Enjoy your day with your family and friends and I will see you on Friday with a special preview of my Gingerbread Unit!!!!!