Buggy Shadow Writing Freebie

Just a quick freebie for anyone who is studying bugs or ladybugs.  These are great for handwiting practice.  Our sight word (heart word) of the week is said, so I added quotation marks. That should be a good challenge for this time of the year.  Enjoy!

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Please let me know if you will be using this! Thanks!

Luck O' The Irish Fun: Pictures, Links and a Shadow Writing Freebie!

Last week was busy, fun and frustrating!  My centers were a little too much for my kids and me.    The activities were not too hard and I had adequate help, but I made a mistake in letting students ask survey questions during centers.  It got too loud! Lots of teachers talked about their kids having trouble staying on task(Spring Fever)  I just think I over planned and lots of little things added up to a very hectic center time on Thursday.  I am hoping things go smoother this week. It happens! 

"Partner of the Day"  went really well however!  I am finding new ways to partner the kids up and they come in excited to see who they will work with. Lots of smiles and talking with each other.  I love it!  These are the tasks we did this week:

• sharing what you did on the weekend
• saying a word and the partner making a connection by saying another word (ex. "apple"-"pie") This was really fun and the kids came up with some great things!
• reading sight word/short vowel books from Starfall
• giving each other a quiz on sight words with whiteboards
• matching base tens blocks and numeral cards

Here you go!

Here is a freebie for Shadow Writing 

I am using this cute little Leprechaun named "Lucky" of course.  Each day he does something a little "naughty" and the kids have to figure out what it is.  So fun! 

Here are some of the fun/academic things we are doing this week:

Finish dictation sentences about rainbows and add them to the bulletin board

Use this spinner throughout the week and change the activities as they are completed

Short U work with Gus The Duck from Starfall

Great classic story!  The students will write in their journals following the story.

Our Sight Word/Reading Group

They will "warm-up" with blend and digraph practice and sight word reading

This great Write the Room for CVC words is from

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Here is a free activity from Mrs. Ricca  Grab it Here

 An awesome center on larger numbers Grab it Here

This is an excellent addition activity at a super price

See it here

  Another addition practice with "Golden Coins"

from the FabulousMrs. Ricca's Kindergarten

and it is FREE!

 

Here is a hands on way to practice addition in a strip book freebie from

Fran at Kindergarten Crayons

Here is a wonderful activity for students who are having trouble with segmenting and blending sounds.  This is from Julie Van Alst and I have recently discovered her.  She has a great website and blog plus a new TpT store.  She is an RTI expert and she has quality activities for students who need intervention and extra practice.  I have bought almost everything she has and I am making them to use.  Please check her out!  You won't be sorry!  Here is a link to the above activity

I am also having my students make an adorable Leprechaun hat Found Here   and "Lucky" will fill it with golden coins and candy on Friday. 

Plus we will be doing a few fun activities for St. Patty's Day.  Skittles math (taste the rainbow), an art project and a writing page.  I also often have rainbow sherbet floats (rainbow sherbet = lemon lime soda with rainbow colored straws)

I hope you enjoyed this look at my week and find something useful.  Please leave me a comment and
thanks for visiting my blog!

Shadow Writing (Cat in the Hat) Freebie

I can't wait for next week when we celebrate the birthday of none other than Dr. Seuss!
Thanks to many blogger friends, my kiddos will be doing some great learning activities and of course listening to books in his honor.  I created a shadow writing freebie for you to use.  Who couldn't use an easy, independent activity next week?  I will be assessing my students all week, so I know I need some easy, but meaningful activities for my students and they can always use handwriting/copying practice!

Please leave a comment if you will use this next week. It's fun for me to read them!

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New Shadow Writing Freebie for Valentine's Day

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My students have enjoyed doing these "Shadow Writing" worksheets for handwriting and reading basic sight word sentences.  I thought one about the holiday of love would be cute!

Enjoy and please let me know if you use it!

Weather Watcher Book Pocket Chart freebie

I have created pocket chart words to go along with my Weather Watcher book.  Thank you to all of the sweet ladies who have given me positive comments.  I totally eat them up! Pocket Chart Freebie