Halloween FREEBIES

Hee hee - I made a baby emoji flirty pumpkin at a pumpkin carving party I went to!   Check her out!

OK - enough messing around...time for some....

First....

Based off of "It Didn't Frighten Me!!" by Janet L. Gross!

Your students can fill in a little frightening reader with adjectives and nouns to describe what might be outside their window in a tree.  Of course, these spooky creatures or things don't frighten them...at first!!

 Second...

Here are some of my students singing their little hearts out while practicing some basic subtraction!!

Watch the video below of these two singing "Three Chartreuse Buzzards" for the general tune for "Three Spooky Bats"

Happy Halloween!!

Freebie - Report Card Assessment Beginning of the Year

Happy NovemBEAR:)  It is almost report card season in my part of the world!  I thought I would share a little Language Arts Assessment freebie.  The first part assesses their reading and comprehension skills.  The second part assesses their phonics and sounding out skills.  The third part they must copy the sentence so it assesses their printing skills.  Hope this is useful!

Also for those of you teaching about religion I have a little make it yourself church that was student inspired.  They found some of my scraps from a couple of projects and started cutting them out.  Pretty soon they were creating their own churches so I thought why not make it into a class project!  Voila!!

And this is how they turned out!!  The kids clapped when I told them about the project!!  Totally personalized for their learning and interest!! LOVE!

All graphics are by the lovely Kari Bolt so be sure to check out her store on TpT!

Printing Practice Freebies

So I am teaching my students about where I would like them to place their letters when printing.  I have always used the analogy of a house to help but I have never made any worksheets to match.  Finally I made a few so here you go for free!

I do a little quiz by pointing to each part of the house and having them call out the name of the part I am pointing to.  After some practice they get used to talking about the upstairs, downstairs, basement, middle dotted line, top solid line, bottom solid line, etc.  We go fast, we go slow - it is pretty fun.

Then we sorted out the letters of the alphabet into their respective houses!  Simple yet effective!  Happy printing, eh!

Left Right Hand Freebie!

Hi all - have been meaning to do this one FOREVAH!!!  Finally am getting to it as I am readying my classroom for the beginning of a new school year!  I am super pumped!  It is going to be a busy one!  I'm doing my Masters at the same time!  Eeeeeeek!!  I'm oddly excited to do my own schooling as well - it will be awesome now that I have 10 years teaching experience under my belt - I know most of the ins and outs!!  Anyhow click on the pict below to get your free poster!  Hope you love it and it works well for you!

A shout out to Hello Fonts for their amazingness!  As well as to Creative Clips for their wonderful graphics!!  I'm super appreciative!

Be sure to follow me on Bloglovin', like my TpT store, and my Facebook page by clicking on the links at the top of my blog!  Thanks and happy back to school!

Freebie! Healthy Snacks vs. Unhealthy Snacks

Hey all!!  I am off to Vancouver this weekend for a Salsa Congress!!  So excited to be dancing!!!  But I will miss my sweet little kiddos!  In the afternoon I left my sub a little healthy and unhealthy snacks sort.  Download it for FREE!!

I'm going to get her to read a couple of books too.  Then we will do a little review of the four food groups!

Voila!  A nice little health lesson on healthy snacks!!

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a TpT Sale!!!

SUPER TEACHER saves the day!!!!  Heehee - that is what I say to my students every time I find something they have lost... They usually look at me with an odd look and maybe a small smile but I am ecstatic!  One small feat after another I make my way through my day!  Why not have a day to celebrate!

Use the Promocode: HEROES and get 8% off any packet on the Teachers pay Teachers website.   PLUS I am having a sale as well so get 20% more off of any of my packets!!  KABAAM!

How about a few freebies to keep the party going!!!

I used this for some of my report card assessment - the writing and phonics portion!!

Add some skittles to these and they may a perfect welcome gift for an open house or a Meet the Teacher night!!  I wanted to save on ink so I got my students to colour the rainbow and cut out them with fancy scissors - personalize it a bit!!!

Freebie Froggy Valentine Writing!!

A little freebie Valentine for my followers!!!

 Happy Valentine's Day!  Ask your students what they see in the picture!  Practice some demonstration sentences.  I see a happy frog.  He is holding a box of chocolates.  It must be a valentine for his friend!  Encourage proper punctuation!

Also check out my Valentine posts from 2013 and 2014!!

My Own Report Card Freebie - for Parent/Teacher Interviews!!

Hello everyone!!  I have been sorely lacking in blogging lately but I made this fabulous little sheet for my kiddos to fill out before Parent/Teacher Interviews!!  I go through it with the parents and the kids are always SO SWEET and HONEST!!  

Click here and download it for free!!!

Happy Teaching!!

Easy Valentine's HeArt - Hee hee

Time for another installation of Easy ART!  This is starting to be my favourite blog inspiration.  Ok - so my student teacher found this idea on pinterest to use hearts to make different animals.  This might be the easiest, cutest, most enjoyed art ever!!  She decided to read the class Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister first.  Then she taught the class how to make the fish.  What I think is hilarious is how much the fish resemble each of the students that made them:)  Hee hee!!

So cheerful!!  

What you will need:

brightly coloured paper

heart tracers

felts

glue

googily eyes

Here we have a lovely angel fish!  Shimmer and float!!!

Directions: Have students make their big body heart first by folding their paper like a hot dog  Have them draw an ear shape (I always get them to feel the outside of their ear to get an idea of what half a heart is like.)  Next, have students used tracers to create other hearts for the tail, lips, and fins with different coloured paper.  Add details with felts for texture and Voilà!!  Magnifique!!!

Apparently this one is a fighting fish!!

I call this one the triangle head fish!

This can only be a puffer fish!  Watch out for this one!!

The best part is I heard one of my boys say, "What a cool idea!!"  I told him to tell my student teacher!

Also, I have just finished my newest set of plays/ Reader's Theater packet!!  I had so much fun writing them once again and the last set of Nativity plays were such a hit with my class I had to do more!!

Plus I found these cute, cute graphics from Teaching in the Tongass!  There is such talent in graphic design out there!!

Here are the colourful print out version to paste onto popsicle sticks!!  Insta-puppet!!

Happy Valentine's Day next week all!  Turns out it is also our 100th Day of school!  EEEEEeeek!!!  Minor panic attack....and I'm done:)

Be sure to check out last year's post for more good ideas!

Anyone for a Freggie Tale? (FREEBIE included!) AND Easy Marshmallow Print Snowman Art

Happy New Year bloggy world!!  This is my first post for 2014 and I am excited for all the things to come!!!

Before I explain how we made this cute little snowman art project how about a selfie!!!  I heard this was all the rage or maybe overused now?  Apparently selfie is the new # just like Snapchat and Instagram are the new Facebook!!

Here I am wearing my new necklace that I got for my birthday from my Aunt and Uncle - they are so sweet!!  My arm looks MASSSIVE!!  Not sure I am such of fan of the selfie - lol!!

Anywho - here is how we did our little art project this week:

You will need:

bright paper

large marshmallows

white paint in little containers

buttons for eyes

anything orange and papery for noses

jewels or baby pom poms for buttons

any kind of stretchy ribbon for a scarf - I unearthed some Easter coloured elastic - don't know where it came from but it worked

a black felt to draw on the arms

bright coloured paper for the hats

Students dipped the marshmallow in the paint and created the snow covered ground.  Then they used the marshmallow to make the body of the snowmen - making sure to lift straight up as they made each circle.

Students added details before the paint dried.  Don't you love how this one below turned out?  I love how you can see the purple paper through the white paint.  It kind of gives a nice texture and depth!

There is something so satisfying about that marshmallow squish onto the paper oooozzzzing white paint and creating a perfect round circle - sigh - I love art!

Now for a little Health snack!!  So I got this e-mail from my principal about this new health resource and I was pleasantly surprised when I checked it out!  Apparently it has really caught on in Ontario and it is FREEEEEEE!!!!  YES!   Click on the picture or HERE to get your copy now!!

 

I love how nicely it is laid out - the lessons fit on one or two pages and the activities are fun and meaningful!!  I started the first lesson for Grade 2 this week and we read one of my favourite stories called I Will Never NOT EVER Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child.

Then, I had prepared 4 envelopes with food picture cut outs from the 4 food groups - I snagged a stack of fliers from Choices - the cashier at the checkout was a doll and let me have a bunch when I told her I was a teacher!  Students had to guess which one of the pictures did not belong!!  Great introduction to the 4 groups. 

Then each kiddo got a flier and cut out fruits, veggies, meats, breads etc. to match the suggested servings according to the Canada Food Guide for a child their age.  They glued these onto a paper place - I find so many uses for these cheapo paper plates!! - they turned out totally cute!

Here is a little freebie I made up after the fact to go along with this activity!

Click HERE to download!

Happy January folks!!  Time to start eating healthy!!

Hilarious Yes Day!! Writing Freebie

YES!!!  Wouldn't that be easy?  If every answer was yes, I mean?  My muffins would surely love it...for awhile at least!  We actually read this book last year when I was teaching a straight grade 1 class.  Last week one of my 2's found it and wanted to read it again.  My goal this year has been to have my students write about topics they are excited about and they LOVED this book - never mind the theme we are working on!  BINGO - writing activity!

I decided we would make a class book.  Also, I wanted to review the use of question marks since each page has a new question.  Here is our little book we made:

  

I was confused by this one at first but then I realized he meant actually sitting on his desk rather than in his chair.  LOL

Oh yes!  ToysRUs is going to LOVE us!!

Absolutely!!

This one cracked me up!  Yes!  If you really want to - go for!

I had to ask what an alucorn is...apparently it is a cross between a unicorn and a pegasus - who knew!

YES!!  Sounds like teacher heaven!!!

Click HERE to download this for FREE!

Also, be sure to check out my newest packet.  I have really began to explore inquiry based learning and it has really made each learning experience for my kiddos individualized.  Their interest in their project is increased to the max because they have had a part in developing their own question to inquire about.  My packet details the steps needed to implement your own inquiry based unit.  I did mine on animals but it would work for any topic you were researching with your class.  It also covers a broad range of curriculum.

Here is one of the final projects one of my grade 1 students did last year on the lobster!!

Included are writing and colouring assessments, pictures, materials for mini-lessons etc.  I would say that these materials would stretch all the way to grade 3!

Can I take a break from blogging now!! YES!!  lol!  Even though I love it!