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My Happy Classroom
If you follow me on Facebook, then you know that I’ve been toying with the idea of re-doing my classroom. Thanks to some great FB followers, I’ve decided to stay with my same theme, and just change a few things up! I am going to stick with the circus theme
A Teacher’s Plan Book
I have so many summer projects going on, and I am excited to show you my first finished product! This Teacher Plan Book will help you get organized for the upcoming school year and can easily used from year-to-year! It is also affordable, practical, and ink friendly. All the planner pages come in B&W
Introducing…. PRETTY PAPERS!
Wahoo for SUMMER!! I love being a teacher and during the summertime, I really love being a teacher. Like many of you, I will continue to work on school lessons {TpT stuff}, plans, and activities during my summer break. I don’t think it’s possible to turn-off my teacher brain! I
End-of-the-Year Gifts (For Students, Parents, and Teachers)
Since I only have 5 days of school left, I finished up my end-of-the-year gifts for my students and parent volunteers this weekend. It took a whole lot of ribbon and cellophane, but I am finally finished! If you follow me on Facebook HERE or Instagram HERE then you got a little
First Grade Word Families
I am so excited to share these Word Family Workbooks with you! This workbook includes 100+ long and short vowel word families that come at the end of a word (and common digraphs). It is a FANTASTIC year-long tool that will help your students learn about different word families and
Free Testing Printables
My students start taking their end-of-level test next week (EEK!). Since the rest of you are either testing already or getting ready to test, I thought I would share a few things that I am doing to prepare. All of these printables can be found in my Teachers Pay Teachers
Here Comes the SUN!
According to my cute li’l summer countdown, there are only 29 school days left until summer vacation. It’s amazing how fast time passes and I know the end of the school year will be here before I know it. Here is a little writing activity I’ll be doing with my students in the
Mr. Fly! (Long /i/ Sound Spelled “Y”)
Raise your hand if you love Fly Guy!! My students are nuts about this little character and these books don’t stay on our book shelves for long. Fly Guy books are great for teaching about the long /i/ sound spelled ‘Y’ (For example: fly, sky, my). Last week we learned
Behavior Race
I wanted to share with you all what I have been doing in my classroom to manage my students’ behavior lately. My students have a serious case of “spring fever” so I had to get a little creative on this one… My students are really into this Behavior Race, which
Summer Countdown
How many more days do you have left in the school year? To make your own summer countdown download the printable here and put it in a glass picture frame. I got this frame at the dollar store. Then you can use a dry erase marker to write in the number of
Pirates (and First Graders) say “ARRR!”
Along with learning about the /ow/ and /ou/ sound, we’ve also been learning about the /ar/ sound. To help reinforce this particular r-controlled vowel, I gave all my students an “ar” eye patch. I got them cheap from Amazon HERE. To put the “ar” on them I cut out vinyl with
Clowning Around {Vowel Pairs “OU” and “OW”} Update!
Last week we learned about the vowel pairs “ow” and “ou”. I used all the activities from my Clowning Around unit on TpT. I also added a lot of new activities to this packet and I’ve spruced up some old ones! If you already own this packet, then be sure to re-download
All About Biographies: Update
I have updated my All About Biographies unit on TpT and I’ve added four new activities! (BTW: You can view my original post about this unit here.) My students started their autobiographies last week and they will present their final pieces at our school’s Literacy Night! I love teaching my
How to Make Tiny Leprechaun Hats
Have you ever made leprechaun hats? Not for your students, but hats for the actual, “REAL” leprechauns?? They are so fun and your students will LOVE them! To make the hats, you will need to decorate Styrofoam cups with markers (I used 8 oz cups). Then your students will leave them on
100 Book Challenge – FREEBIE!
A few months ago, I challenged my first graders to read 100 books! My students all had different reactions to this challenge… Most got really excited and started right way. Some thought it was absolutely impossible. (It’s hard enough to count to 100… let alone read 100 books!) However, no matter
