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All About Writing! {freebie packed}

Hey friends!  Well I have to say that writing the past couple weeks was so wonderful!  I will be completely honest and say that some weeks our writing time is good and some weeks it's GREAT!  The past couple of weeks the kids were "on" and really had a passion for what they … [Read more...]

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Work on Writing: Part Two

Hey hey!  Around Thanksgiving break I started to notice that my students were completing their work on writing folder tasks quickly...too quickly!  I made it my mission to create some new activities that would be engaging and of course still "fun" for them!  They took off like little … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Writing Tagged With: Daily 5, Writing

First Days Back! {full of freebies!}

WOOOOWEEE!!! Every year I think we might forget what back to school really means!  I feel like I am getting to the point where I don't need to live at school anymore :)  I am enjoying my three day weekend and a follow up professional development day on Tuesday!  The start of the … [Read more...]

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Work on Writing Folders!

I still remember hearing all about this 'Daily 5' talk...how it would save us so much time for teacher prep and the benefits for our students would be tremendous.  Well, everything I heard was absolutely true and beyond!  I love my Daily 5/Guided Reading block. I think I've … [Read more...]

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Keep them learning over the Summer! {and a giveaway!}

Clipart from TeachersScrapbookWell, here in Missouri the end of the school year is near!  At my school we have 14 more student days!  I noticed that several states go up to June or near mid-June!  This year the only long break we had more than a couple days was for … [Read more...]

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Career Day FREEBIE Writing template

A few day ago we celebrated Career Day!  We had some great presenters and the kids learned a lot!  To get the kids excited for career day I sent home a quick career day writing homework assignment.  This could easily be done in the classroom too! :)Here are a couple of the … [Read more...]

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Opinion Writing {freebies}

Hello!  Hello!  Last week we worked on writing opinion pieces.  This week we will be focusing on writing our opinions as a response to literature we read!The kiddos wrote their opinions on who was their favorite: The Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus!  It was actually a split- - I was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Freebies, Writing Tagged With: Common Core, Freebie, opinion writing, Writing

Narrative Writing {freebies}

Yesterday we finished up our second look at narrative writing this year!  We completed the unit with "polished" narrative story booklets!  Since this was our second look at narrative writing we added additional features:-added feelings-Using words like first, next, last-we added an opening … [Read more...]

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Invitation Writing

Hello friends! Hope you are all set for the new week!  As part of our ELA series, we introduce invitation writing!  It is one of those types of writings that is fun to introduce.  The kids did enjoy it and I have placed these blank templates in their writing folders as well to … [Read more...]

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◾️FREE DOWNLOAD◾️ Download this freebie Phonemic Awareness Assessment! This could be completed via virtual learning as well 1:1!

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💻📱NEW! INSTANT Digital Practice activities! These activities have been carefully designed to give students practice/introduction to dragging items in digital platforms and typing! This is a set of 10 themes and 30 activities! In this example, students drag the bees to the hive! Snag this packet here: bit.ly/2KYQBGL

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Erin has her take-home distance learning kits all prepped for the kiddos! She used pieces of my ELA and Math tool kits along with supplies for the kids!

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