Groundhog Day and a Freebie

Groundhog Math Game Boards

Fun YouTube Groundhog Video

Brainpop Jr. Groundhog Day/hibernation video

A day of fun and learning with :

10 more or less

even and odd

missing addends

word problems

money

making new words

compound words

abc order

groundhog booklet

word search

poetry

 50% off this weekend

Groundhog Day Booklet Freebie for you!!

Happy 100th Day of School

 I am amazed that we are 100 days into the school year!

Time is flying by!!!

Next Friday, we are celebrating our special day.

It is a short day, but it will be packed!!

How do you celebrate this fun day?

I'm always looking for new ideas.

Happy  Wednesday!

Converting our AR Dots to Lexile Reading Levels

Google Doc Lexile Reading Levels

updated charts w/ blank

We are getting ready for our next SEP conferences next week and my cute co-workers and I were discussing how we could get our parents on board with LEXILE reading levels vs. AR reading levels.  Sadly, we lost our AR this year... we are missing the accountability and motivation that it gave to all the students, however, we've been told it's history!  

All of our library books were labeled with color dots on the spine of the book for easy choosing.  Many teachers did the same thing in their classroom libraries to enable the students to easily get a "good choice" book. We thought it was a good idea to help the parents see the connection between their student's SRI reading scores and LEXILE level.

We converted a chart to match Creekside's leveled colors (dots). 

We plan to discuss this with our parents and students at SEPS... hopefully clearing things up a bit and getting us all on the same playing field.

Fingers crossed!!

Collaboration is Everything

So true... I'm so grateful!!! xo

My Coin Booklet - Canadian Version, too

I added a Canadian Version to MY COIN BOOK.

Thank you friends up north for the opportunity and

 chance to learn a new tid-bit of Canadian history!!

MLK Sale and more

I'm linking up with Sassy, Savvy, Simple Teaching to celebrate MLK.

I have put my MLK Celebration on sale plus the

 20% off Monday and Tuesday the entire store.

Just added today... 

Teacher, I Done Task Cards for Winter for 1st Grade

and

McGraw Hill WONDERS 2nd Grade Unit 4 weekly Tri-folds

Meet Stella!!

My sweet friend, Janiel Wagstaff did it again!!

She has created an adorable series to help us teach 3 writing types to our kiddos. I was lucky enough to review her original manuscripts and I was so impressed and excited to  add them to my writing tools.

    Here's the scoop!

Meet Stella, an eager second grader. In this lively series of three, 32-page illustrated picture books, you'll find effective and engaging ways to teach and model the three writing types outlined in the standards: opinion, informative, and narrative. Each title includes several suggestions real writers use to craft effective writing, cleverly presented through the eyes of a second grader. Teachers are clamoring for explicit resources for teaching the standards, and these books provide a unique tool, both practical and fun, to inform that teaching.

I am so proud of her... 

so happy for her accomplishment 

and thrilled to use them in my class.

Purchase your own set here!!

Grab your Stella Writes! poster here!!

The Mitten

Today Mrs. Evans needed to be daughter to her father.

My dad has Alzheimer's and is in his final stages.

My amazing mother is taking care of his every need 24/7... but

it is taking a toll on her.

Monday night, my siblings and I decided we needed a quick pow-wow to

assess her needs and dad's.  We made a long term plan and short term plan.

(love my dad!)

One part of the short term planning was Lory spending the following day with dad at the house while mom got out.  It was a nice day for all involved. 

I was grateful for this little file...

 I had it copied, laminated, cut out and in a "just-in-case" box.

Quickly I was able to provide the sub with ELA, Math, Reading and Art

...all tied to the darling Jan Brett literature.

I was able to be where I really needed and wanted to be...

AND my students still had a great, productive fun day!

If The Mitten is a favorite of yours OR you want to fill your "just-in-case" box

this file might be what you're looking for.

Daily Language

Thank you friends and followers for your support and 

encouragement to complete this project.

Term 3 is finally posted and term 4 is around the corner.

I am so glad your students are enjoying and learning from these daily spirals.

I love the quick, daily review and simple conversations we have while completing them... it makes me happy you do, too.

Thank you for leaving your comments and feedback (yeah TpT credits ;)

I read them and take them to heart!

Similes and Related Facts

We've been learning about Similes this week and we've had a lot of fun reading good literature, comparing 2 different things, giggling at our creativity and writing a few similes of our own.

Cute YouTube video

We also had a great time learning about related facts... 

robots always make things exciting!!

I believe we are ready for next week's lessons of fact families.

Tri-Bits Fact Families

Wordless Wednesday

I'm linking up with Miss DeCarbo's today.

My picture is a personal one today...

We had a wonderful Christmas break in Utah.

My question...

"Why do our babies have to grow up so fast?"

HUMP Day Highlight Link UP

Have you seen this CAMEL lately??? Pretty cute!

We all love the middle of the week mark and now Jessica Stanford

is giving us another reason to love HUMP DAY...

We get a chance to virtually hop into each other's classrooms and check things out.

See what we're doing, making, watching, growing, reading...etc...

the sky is the limit AND we'd love all of you to jump in and share your ideas, too!!!

Here's the scoop...

Hump Day Highlight will be a weekly linky hosted right here EVERY Wednesday! 

Be sure to: 

1.) blog about something you are currently doing/using in your classroom

2.) use the linky button and hyperlink it to today's linky 

on my page by using my permalink to the current post

3.) go back to your page and find the permalink to your post 

to add to the inlinkz tool at the bottom of my post. 

4.) hop around to other posts and be social! everyone loves comments :)

In my Utah classroom we are becoming familiar with our new McGraw Hill WONDERS reading program.  Today I want to show and share with you something that has made it really nice and thorough BUT extremely easy.  It is a 1 page printable

 (folded into a tri-fold) that covers all of the above standards each week.  

 It keeps me accountable,

 guides my planning and

 the kids really enjoy them.  

We do them together as a class... with a bit of discussion and interaction.

The idea can obviously be used with any reading program...

 for those using WONDERS, 

click  to grab Unit 3 tri-folds.