Wednesday, February 25, 2015

100th Day Project and Sale!

This one is definitely a keeper!  And he's so proud!!



Don't forget to check out my sale items over at TPT!  You can save up to 28% if you use the promotional code: HEROES at checkout.




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Teachers are Heroes Sale!

Let's celebrate how awesome teachers are on Teachers Pay Teachers!
You can save up to 28% if you use the promotional code: HEROES at checkout.



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Monday, February 23, 2015

Nonfiction Writing Unit… Coming Along!

Our books are coming along!  Before the break, we took notes, wrote our pages, revised our headings, and created a diagram page…. We did so much writing that their little hands were so tired after our writing block.  It was very cute to see them stretching out their hands!

 This week, we are adding the final touches to make these books even better!  We are adding photos (from google images), writing captions, making words bold, and illustrating.  Tomorrow we are going to be adding a table of contents and then it's off to the copy center for laminating and binding!  I am really proud of them.  They did a great job.  This might be my favorite writing units!







If you are interested in my non-fiction writing unit of study, click here or on the photo below.  This unit  focuses on 4 animals (cheetahs, dolphins, great white sharks, and american alligators), but you could easily use the unit for other animals or topics!




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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Valentine's Day Freebie!

Froggy is one of my favorite characters!  So I love reading Froggy's First Kiss with the class!  Here are some activities to go with the book…






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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Non-Fiction Writing

Well, we have had 2 snow days and 2- 2 hour delays, so we are s-l-o-w-l-y getting through our nonfiction writing unit.   Since we just finished our penguin unit the class had a pretty good understanding of nonfiction books and the text features.  But we took a few days to read and review those features with an anchor chart… I had them pick cards with examples and match them to the text features.



Then they got to pick an animal to research.  I narrowed the animal choices down to dolphins, great white sharks, american alligators, and cheetahs. (I just happen to have a lot of books about these animals and I made some mini books for each student to have).  They get to underline and highlight important facts in these mini books, while taking notes in their note-taking packets.  They look so cute and grown up highlighting and note-taking!!!  I love it!



If the weather cooperates and we ever get a full school day, we will start revising our books by creating captions, glueing in photos, changing our headings, creating diagrams and writing a table of contents.


If you are interested in my Non-Fiction Writing Unit, check it out on TPT!  It has very detailed daily mini lessons, anchor chart suggestions,  minibooks, a notetaking packet, posters, templates, diagrams…. the list goes on!



Here is a text-feature poster freebie…  I plan to send one home with each student so they can refer to it when reading nonfiction books.






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