Happy New Year!

New Year's Activities for Reading and Writing...
Includes classroom decorations and printable student gifts.Activities for Reading & Writing
with Classroom Decorations & Easy, Printable Student Gifts. Enjoy!

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Cyber Monday

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Also take a look at new winter, holiday, and Christmas themed items:

  

 

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Writing Like Todd Parr

We LOVE Todd Parr's books. We've read Reading Makes You Feel Good, The Family Book, and It's Okay to Be Different. I love his ideas, illustrations, and the way he ends each book with a note to the reader. We modeled our writing off of Todd Parr's style... We chose a topic, wrote a different message about it on each page, and wrote a note to our readers at the end. I love the way they came out! Please check out part of one student's first draft:

Cover: "The Food Book"

One of the inside pages: "A apple is a food. I like the yellow ones."

Other pages included... "Some people eat sausages. They can be spicy"

The author's note to the reader: "Dear Reader, It's okay to like different food or have different food. Being you is being unique. You should always be proud of yourself. Love, -------"

Click here for a link to Todd Parr's website. 

New Downloads!

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Equivalent Equations are ready to print and go! Sorts include:

- making ten

- doubles

- doubles +1

- three addends

- add to 10, 20

- subtract within 10, 20

- tens and ones, making numbers using 10

mixed addition and subtraction

It is oh, so very Common Core aligned!!!

1.OA.B.3, 1.OA.C.6, 1.OA.D.7, 1.OA.D.8, K.OA.A.4, K.NBT.A.1, 2.OA.B.2 

6 different autumn themed word searches... Columbus Day, Halloween, Election Day, Thanksgiving, Veteran's Day, and autumn. Great for morning work. Enjoy!

 

Fall themed Reading Bingo! ...I've sent this home as an optional assignment to encourage kids to read at home! This reading motivator has been very effective.

My kiddies LOVED this! Sort items that go with Halloween and Thanksgiving:

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4-in-1 Thankful Pack for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving activities about being thankful. Includes an emergent reader, emergent writer, read aloud, wants and needs sort, and student sized reader. Perfect for enjoyable holiday activities that still align with Common Core standards. 

Thanksgiving Persuasive Writing

Lots of primary teachers LOVE holiday activities... But with all this common core stuff, who has the time to fit it in?? Problem solved! Check out this Thanksgiving writing activity that requires students to form and opinion and support it with reasons:

Click here to download: Thanksgiving Persuasive Writing Free Enjoy!