Winner

Just wanted to hop on here real quick to let you know the winner of our Bossy R Giveaway.

Congrats to commenter #32, Kate!!  You left your email, so I will email you!

On another note, don't forget to start stocking up your TpT Cart for the big Leap Day Sale tomorrow!  This only comes around once every four years and the next discount code offered from TpT won't be until Teacher's Appreciation Day in May.  Here are some things you will find in my store.

       Making Character Count                

My Five Senses

 

         Language Arts Games         

Space Unit

              Synonyms & Antonyms                

                Teach Me Science             

                                        Change-a-Word Circles       

                           Saint Patrick's Day Activities

 March Poems and Songs

{I also have January and February available.}

                       Spring Fluency Packet

 President's Day Booklet

 March Fluency Packet

{I also have September - May available.}

Plus many more!  You can click below to go directly to my store.

Leap Day Sale

Leap Year comes around once every 4 years and to celebrate, Teachers Pay Teachers decided to throw a sale!  Who doesn't love a sale?  On February 29th, TpT will be offering a 10% discount off every purchase.  So, of course, a group of us decided to have an additional 20% off sale!

Click on the picture above for the PDF file with the links to all the blogs and stores.

Here is a direct link to my Teachers Pay Teachers Store if you want to check some things out now.

Start filling your cart right away!  I know I am :)

Don't forget to use the promo code L2P9Y at checkout for your extra 10% off on Wednesday!

Happy Shopping!



Fairy Tales

This week in our reading series, we studied Fairy Tales.  We talked a lot about problem and solution and read a ton of fairy tales.  At first, my boys weren't very excited about this unit of study.  {This made it a little difficult since I have 14 boys and 7 girls.  Unlike last year, where I only had 3 boys by the end of the year.  There is definitely a different dynamic in the classroom this year in comparison to last.  Not bad, just different.}  The second day, we read Jack and the Beanstalk and the boys loved this one.  After that, they were hooked and couldn't wait to hear more fairy tales.

Anyways, yesterday, I had my students do a fun writing project.  I had a different version for the boys and girls. Just click on either picture to download for free.

The girls pretty much said they would use their hair as a ladder or they would yell for a prince to help them.  The boys responses definitely varied.  Some said they would rescue them or use a ladder.  However, one said "I would leave the princess there for a couple of days and then I might go and rescue her." Lol!

Then the boys made themselves into prince's and the girls into Rapunzel.

They loved it and they turned out so cute.  You can download the patterns by clicking HERE. 

Here are some pictures of our bulletin board.  The lighting and picture quality from my phone is horrible.  Sorry :(

If you download this, I'd love to hear from you :)

Bossy R Giveaway

I'm teaming up with Abby over at The Inspired Apple for a Bossy R Giveaway!  We will be giving away two of our units to two lucky followers.  The winners will win Abby's Learning "ar" with Pirate Mark (which I have to say if fabulous) and my Meet the Bossy R Triplets. 

All you have to do is be a follower of both of our blogs and both of our TpT stores. {Click on the links below.}

Abby's Blog

Abby's TpT Store

Jodi's Blog

Jodi's TpT Store

Then leave ONE comment on my blog and head over and leave ONE comment on Abby's blog.  We will each be picking one winner from our comments next Tuesday, February 28th!

President's Day Booklet

We will be finishing up a couple of President's Day activities tomorrow. {We are not one of those lucky people that have the whole week off.  I'm just very thankful that we had Monday off, some didn't even have that.}  I made this President's Day Booklet for us to complete tomorrow morning.

It's a 9 page booklet that is very similar to my Veteran's Day booklet.

You can check it out by clicking below.

President's Day and March Poems and Songs

I love February because there are so many fun topics to teach this month.  One of my favorite topics is teaching about President's Day.  We have been busy this week learning all about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

After reading some books about Washington, we created this anchor chart together.

The students made these George Washington's and wrote some facts.

These are some of our favorite George Washington books.

Next, we began learning about Abraham Lincoln.  We created this anchor chart together.

The students filled out their own sheet.  Click on the picture to download.

The students created these hats to write about Abraham Lincoln.

Last year, we made log cabins out of pretzels.  We just haven't had time to do this yet.  Maybe next week.

These are some of our favorite Abraham Lincoln books.

I also created this President Fact Sort that my students will complete next week.  Students will trace Washington and Lincoln's profile onto red and blue paper.  They can glue them onto a large white sheet of paper.  Next, the students will cut out the facts and glue them onto the correct president.

Click HERE for the sort.

I also wanted to let you know that I have uploaded my March Poems and Songs to TpT and Teachers Notebook.

This packet includes 9 original poems/songs, illustrate the poem pages, and word cards or each poem.  You can check it out by clicking below.  Have a GREAT weekend!!

Spring Fluency Packet Bundle

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I received an email yesterday from Katie over at Queen of the 1st Grade Jungle and she gave me the idea to bundle my fluency packets.  I LOVED this idea!  So, I have bundled my March, April, and May Fluency Packets into one Spring Fluency Packet.  I will still be selling them as individual months and also as individual weeks, but this just gives you another option and it allows you to save a little bit of money :)  That's always a bonus!

This 3-month packet includes 60 fluency passages and 60 additional language arts activities, for a total of 120 pages.  You can check it out by clicking below.

I also have just the March packet available, if you'd like to just purchase the one month.

You can check out the FREE samples of the March packet by clicking HERE from my post last year.

I'm currently working to update my FREE Dr. Seuss Unit that I posted last year as well. 

Click here to check out my Horton Hears a Who activity.

Click here for a Yertle the Turtle activity.

Click here for The Sleep Book.
Click here for activities for The Lorax.

And here or There's a Wocket in my Pocket.

All of the above are FREE activities.  I'd love to have you pin them while you're there :)