Merry Christmas to YOU!

While I'm enjoying what is bound to be the last few hours of my *snow* day (we got ice instead of snow!), I wanted to quickly share with you a freebie that I will be using in my word work station!

 

Christmas Vowel I SPY!

My children LOVE I Spy!  This is a fun way for them to practice long and short vowels with a Christmas theme while having fun!  There are 5 different pictures with a recording page.  There are different words on each page, but each picture has 5 short and 5 long vowel words to find.  Click HERE or on any of the images below to download your set!

Have a great week!

 



getting centers ready & a new product

I mentioned in yesterday's post that I have not had centers in my classroom, until now.  One day this week we did "mock" centers and tried to get everybody to each center {even for 2-3 minutes}, just to practice rotating quickly and quietly.  Here are a couple of pictures of what we were doing.

listening center

read to self {this little kiddo struggled to read CVC words at the beginning of the year, now she's reading entire stories from the basal on her own!}

art center - making clocks to use in our math lessons next week

iPod center - everyone's favorite!

I also have a computer center and sight word center, but didn't get pictures of those.  I created a 6 day schedule (no guided reading on Mondays and Fridays), which will take us 2 weeks to go through.  I most like the fact that I only will need 1 craft/art project every 2 weeks, which is very manageable between now and the end of the year.  Pinterest, here I come!

In yesterday's post I also shared that I have finished my singular/plural noun packet.  Here are the preview pictures.  It has a spring theme and I'm looking forward to using it once we have our sequencing writing completed.  Click here to see the packet with details.

 

The first three to leave an email address in his/her comment below will receive the packet for free!

Happy weekend!

 

Post #100! Linking up!

This is my 100th post!  Wow! :)

Today I am linking up for my Five for Friday!

1. Today I had 10 minutes before lunch, so I pulled out my build-a-word twistables from Lakeshore.  I purchased 2 different sets - build 3 letter words and build 4 letter words.  My children grabbed boards and markers to record the words they created.  It was an exciting 10 minutes!

2. This week I added a lot of games to my center tubs.  Here is one of my groups playing "Go Fish" with Fry words.  Click here to get the set for your room!

3. Today is March!  We are everything St. Patrick's Day and leprechauns in our classroom!  My children have become used to having themed words up each month to help in writing.  {I just realized my cards are crooked!  Oops!}  Here are my March Words.

4. Our schedule was very off this week, so I pushed my reading group plans to next week, allowing me some extra time to focus on sounds and sight words in my groups.  Here, one of my groups is playing "Sound Switching BINGO" with beginning sounds.  They loved it and did very well!

5.  Write the Room with word sort features.  We've moved from Read the Room to having word boxes with the picture.  This little group is slowly progressing, but I'm pleased with their confidence in these activities.

Since I've included a freebie on the first in this post, I am also linking up with Freebielicious for Fabulicious Freebies on the First!

 

Have a fabulicious weekend!