Free Digital Frames... Hand drawn by Gretchen

Guess who got a Bamboo Capture for Christmas?!!!!!!!!!! I have been playing for days, learning how to make doodle broders, clip art.... love it, love it! I compressed a zip file, free on tpt, with 14 hand drawn borders for your fun and use.... I hope they work in your documents! Click here for a quick link to TPT store.... Hopefully no more drawing and scanning for us. This should help us up our game and make our products more polished!

Getting ready for a New Year with the story, Chinatown.

Students will become familiar with Chinese culture and celebrate New Years Day by writing a New Year's Resolution and making a parade of dragons.  Gretchen and I decided it was the perfect time to share this story with our students.

Getting ready for Christmas!

How stinking cute are these cookies? The awesome room mom showed up today with the Grinch movie and a special treat for the kids... homemade yummy cookies, Grinch punch, green candy canes and green twizzlers. Kids loved it! Tomorrow is the holiday parties. Holly and I are making gingerbread houses with the kids.... our holiday tradition! Happy Holidays!

In Memoriam

We are so very saddened. We witnessed a teacher's and a parent's worst nightmare.

Freebie: am and pm sorting game

This week we are still studying time. I searched everywhere for a simple game to use during our Math Workshop segment that worked with a.m. and p.m.. I gave up and made this. It's very simple: a map with a.m. and p.m. and 18 cards to cut out. The kids will read the selections and sort onto a.m. or p.m.. I also made a page that has two frames for a simple drawing of things you do in the am and pm. for my fast finishers.  I used free worksheets that I found on the internet for the cards. Click here if you would like a copy!

 Shades of Meaning Poster

 

So I am totally obsessed with the 3 A.M. Teacher's borders. She had this as a freebie on TPT and it worked perfectly for the shades of meaning project that has been rolling around in my head. TOO Excited! Click the poster for a copy to use. Thanks 3AM teacher! See her button on the side to go to her blog. Too Cute. 

 

The project turned out great! It has 6 posters and a booklet to use for teaching shades of meaning. I am excited to use. Some of our team mates are trying it out next week- They'll be my guinea pigs to get any kinks out.

Freebie: Measuring with inches and feet

Freebie!!!!

 

Holly made this Measurement Activity to use in a station for our Math workshop segment of the day. She put together a mystery bag that had all kinds of items in it: a tie, ribbons, belts, a newspaper... The kids had a good time pulling items out of the mystery bag and measuring. They got a good surprise when they found a red ribbon that was 15 feet long! They learned that they had to work together to measure it and determine the inches and feet.

 

 

Now  I'm off to buy some things on my TPT wish list! We are getting ready to work on telling time... my least favorite concept to teach, but it will be easier with the great items available on tpt for teaching time.

 

Fables and Morals

Fables for kiddos to read and respond to..... The fable is a little booklet tucked inside the puppet. There is a grahic organizer on the back for resonses and a place to write about the fable. Holly made a fable patch for storing. Each animal can be displayed. The kids will love doing voices for each animal. Click here for a view in our TPT store.

So Holly remade James Oglethorpe.... She was a little freaked out by the other one's eyes. I think they were both cute :)

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Important Georgians

So next week we decided to continue our study of Georgia's history, including three important Georgians: Mary Musgrove, Tomochichi, and Jame Oglethorpe. The problem was there isn't anything cute out there! The texts from our series is dry and not that kid friendly. So we made these to help us teach the concept. We even wrote extended texts for our reading lessons. We will be using the texts with All about ... organizers. Then we are making the Who Am I? pockets. The arms came out a little wonky, but the kids always like an outline to follow. We thought it would be fun for the kids to write clues about the person and then use voice to share the clues. We went ahead and posted these activities on TPT... as we thought others may want something different to do.

We're getting ready for Thanksgiving this week! The Pilgrim diorama and writing project is available as the free preview for our Thanksgiving unit on TPT. The kids loved it last year and were able to add their own artwork to our simple drawings. They also used the graphic organizer to write a brief summary of the first Thanksgiving. This year we're doing a play! We have some real hams who will love it!Click here to download preview

Bats 'nSpiders and Place Value!

 

 We are reviewing Unit 1 this week and thought that these Place Value Pumpkin s would look really cute displayed under our bats and spiders Informational writing projects.

After gathering facts about the differences in frogs and toads, our students were eager to write an informational paragraph to reflect their new knowledge.

Our students had a great time learning about a spider's body parts, diet, and habitat.

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Use these spectacular spiders to gather facts and write an informational paragraph.

Celebrate John Chapman's birthday next week using this writing activity!

Use our CINDERELLA UNIT to teach your COMMON CORE LEARNING TARGETS! Students will compare and contrast two versions of the same fairy tale.  Go to hollishemmings on teacherspayteachers.com

Use a royal theme to post your COMMON CORE LEARNING TARGETS, ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS, AND VOCABULARY.
Create the castle using large pieces of gray and red felt.  I used simple rectangles and triangles for the pattern.  I attached the felt using hot glue and then tacked onto an existing bulletin board.  For additional royal themed classroom labels and desktags, go to Hollishemmings at teacherspayteachers.com.

We just published a science unit to teach concepts such as: What are the reasons for the seasons? and What Makes Day and Night?  The unit is called Seasons and Such and available on TPT.

A moment to remember...the final Harcourt Trophies story...Ruth Law Thrills a Nation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Student will use questions words, who, what, when, where, and why to locate facts about Ruth Law.  Facts will be written inside her vest.

Students will make a Bio Mobile.  They will infer three adjectives or characteristics to describe Ruth Law, then support their inferences by writing details from the story on the clouds.

Montigue On the High Seas
Foldable

Bottle Accordion:  Students used transition words to organize the events from the story.  They drew pictures to recall the details and wrote captions for each picture.

Check out other activities to go with Montigue on the High Seas.  Go to Hollis Hemmings on www.teacherspayteachers.

Latest Posting:  Montigue on the High Seas

Just in time for summer!  Your kids will make connections to the story through its ocean and friendship themes.

Go to Hollis Hemmings on www.teacherspayteachers  to get this unit.  There's a free printable to download, too.

DINOSAUR RESEARCH WRITING PROJECT  Every student is guaranteed to participate!

DINOSAURS TRAVEL

An informational story with correlated comprehension activities has just been posted on TeachersPayTeachers.  Students create their own Travel Guide Brochure.