Many primary classrooms love celebrating Read Across America week. Although our class celebrates Literacy each and every day, we like to get extra wild and wacky during Reading Week each year. Here are a few of our favorite activities to celebrate literacy and Read Across America in the primary classroom. Got Books? From Costco to Target. Garage sales to dumpster diving (True story, not proud.)...We've got a ridiculous amount of Dr. S books for Read Across America Week! Before we gathered our ... VIEW POST
Read Across America Activities for the Primary Classroom
The Tale of Peter Rabbit ~ Lesson Plans and Activities
We've learned a ton about making TpT products over the years, and when we opened this one up this year, we just couldn't help but resuscitate the rabbit. Peter Rabbit was one of the very first units we ever made, and the bunny was in dire need of a little Botox. Peter Rabbit Redo... We've brought this unit from 29 to 62 pages, and added a ton more activities for those little rabbits. Here's a closer peek at our Peter Rabbit Redo... What's Included:-Peter Rabbit Vocabulary Cards & ... VIEW POST
Leprechauns on the Loose! St. Patrick’s Day in the Classroom
Come this time tomorrow, Christy is either going to LOVE or HATE job sharing... Tammy will love it...As she posted on Instagram. :) You can do the same for your little leprechauns! We didn't do anything fancy or pricey. We found stuff at the 99 Cent Store. It's also easy enough to just use what you have, like green and white unifix cubes, green pens, green torn up paper, basically anything you have that's green. Our "Lucky Juice" is simply made of Sierra Mist with the label peeled off, ... VIEW POST
Our Lucky Rainbows March Writing and St. Patrick’s Day Activities
We are lucky! We don't mean "Take me to Vegas" lucky...That will be in July! In March, we write reasons why we are lucky. We made Bubble Maps on our whiteboards with the labels, I know... I have... I am... I can... Our lucky little leprechauns realize there are so many reasons they are lucky! So after a quick check of their whiteboards from us larger leprechauns, they are given their pot of gold and rainbow to quickly disappear into deep thought as they write and color their own reasons on ... VIEW POST
Spring Giveaway & Notepad Tutorial
Day One is Done...Poof... {source} We think we might have a problem settling into Spring Break. Do you ever feel like the second you get some time off from school you kick into high gear doing other things? No, you don't... Oh... What?!? You're lounging on the beach in Hawaii for Spring Break... Eh, Hem...Sorry...Never mind... That may just be the first grade teachers on crack thing again. Tee...Hee... If you don't know what we're referring to, please scroll down to yesterday's ... VIEW POST
5 for Friday!
We're linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching again for We love this weekly linky party and love reading all the posts! If we had a bottle of this, we would pour three one, but grocery shopping was not one of our five this week. But, these were! We now pronounce us laminator and wife. It was the cheapest wedding we've ever been in! And by cheap, we mean free. Well, almost. We used our Scholastic Book Club bonus points to pay for our wedding. We are soul mates. Totally in ... VIEW POST
