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First of all, I'm loving the flash giveaways that I'm doing with my new products, so be sure to keep your eyes open for a lot more of those! Second of all, one of my favorite art units is coming up... Georgia O'Keeffe.  Each year I teach my kindergarten students about her, and they learn how she created such beautiful images of flowers.  They are always inspired by her work and love using colored pencils to try to be an artist just like her!  After their artwork is done, I have them do a follow up writing piece describing their flower or trying to convince someone to plant their flower in their garden.  It's always adorable to see what they write! I finally made the project a little cuter and posted it up on TPT.  Be sure to check it out by clicking the picture below! Now for the flash giveaway... guess which month I teach this unit in!  Leave a comment with your answer and email address! Update 10:00pm: I teach this unit in April!  Congrats to all of ...

My students always LOVE reading all of the No, David books by David Shannon, and I came up with a really fun activity for them to go along with the books... a puppet!  It's the perfect activity to introduce classroom management at the beginning of the school year! I included 10 different writing options... perfect for all of the elementary grades: David’s Body – without any text David’s Body – with Name/Date on arms and room for an illustration David’s Body – with large primary writing lines and room for a picture David’s Body – with medium primary writing lines and room for a picture David’s Body – with small primary writing lines and room for a picture David’s Body – with writing lines and room for a picture David’s Body – with large primary writing lines, no room for a picture David’s Body – with medium primary writing lines, no room for a picture David’s Body – with small primary writing lines, no room for a picture David’s Body – with writing lines, no room for a picture ...

It's time... the handwriting fairy NEEDS to visit our classroom again!  The students have been writing longer pieces than they've even written before, but it's so sloppy that it's starting to drive me crazy!  I need to address this ASAP! I have to say, I love the Handwriting Fairy Pack from What the Teacher Wants (below) and it is 100% my inspiration for this post!  Please be sure to visit Rachelle's blog to get the original pack! Now, of course... being the tech-addict that I am... I needed to make a digital handwriting fairy to complement this post!  Here is what will be waiting on our class website for the students tomorrow! I plan on having her visit our class website quite a few times (with different messages, of course!)  I'm very excited to see the kids initial reaction to this Voki tomorrow! I also plan on using these labels as stickers for quick notes from the handwriting fairy! Note: This preview is hosted on Google Docs.  ...

Hey everyone!  As promised, I've added some really exciting updates to my "Writing a Winning Sentence" anchor chart!  I am so excited about all of these additions!  There is now: a coordinating writing goals chart, where you can post your students' names next to their individual goals ( Pinterest inspired) a self-check skills card, to help students check that they've addressed each skill two writing conferences charts - for if you have one teacher or two teachers in your classroom a SECOND writing anchor chart and set that is better suited for 1st grade and 2nd grade a THIRD writing anchor chart and set that is suitable for 3rd and 4th All of this is only $2 in my TPT store!  Click the picture to head over there and purchase it! I started using this set with my kids and they just love it!   And for all of you blog hoppers, I'm offering part of this set for free!  Check it out below... I printed out copies of this page for each of my students.  Du...

For those of you who teach Kindergarten or First Grade, I posted this new anchor chart/poster on my TPT store!  I've been trying to think of a kid-friendly way to describe the elements of simple sentence structure to the class, and I think I finally figured it out! I'll give the anchor chart for free to the first two people to leave me their email address on this blog post! Click the picture to bring you to the TPT link so you can get a much higher quality version for only a dollar!

I put together this quick freebie as a three step writing piece for my class!  Tomorrow we'll be using it to write about a rainy day that we experienced.  Feel free to use it with your class for any rainy writing piece!  Click the picture below to download it at my TPT store for free!