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The holidays are quickly approaching, and the students are getting so excited for our holiday units to begin! We are going to be "publishing" a holiday book based on Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. By purchasing Holiday Writing, you will get: *A KWL chart for each holiday (I print these on posters so that they can hang in the room) *An anchor chart (or can be printed for each student) of subject/action or noun/verb (depending on the vocabulary you use in your classroom) * A first draft wr

In this package you will find: * 17 hand drawn letter pattern cards in color and in black and white (ch, ar, ing, ee, ea, sh, ay, all, oa, th, or, oo, oo, wh, ai, or, and wr) * 6 word cards for each letter pattern *A student practice page that can be used for any of the letter patterns * In my classroom, I have laminated the letter pattern cards and the word cards. This helps the center to stay in great condition! The letter patterns are put in packets of 3-4 letter patterns. The students like

In this packet you will find 3 different sections! In section 1 you will find Christmas Bingo: *3 different Christmas image Bingo boards (laminate for durability) *3 different Christmas vocabulary Bingo boards(laminate for durability) *Call out Bingo cards for image and vocabulary Christmas Bingo **Board markers to mark Bingo spots are not included In section 2 you will find Christmas Writing Prompts: *4 writing prompts about Christmas In section 3 you will find Christmas Math Morning Work:

This packet will get you and your students ready for Spring and vacation! This packet includes: * 5 days of morning work: word problems, abc order, and writing prompts * Writing prompts for response journals * Writing paper for centers: describe your Easter egg, "I love spring because", and a Venn diagram that compares Winter and Spring * Easter Egg Math (plastic eggs not included): Base-10 practice and Addition practice I hope you enjoy and will let me know what you think!

This is a fun way to end the school year! It is called the ABC Countdown! Each day the students participate in alphabet centered activities! There are: * suggestions for each day included * a letter page for each letter of the alphabet * abc order, definition practice, and sentence practice for each letter fo the alphabet * a writing or activity page to correlate with each day's activity I hope you will enjoy this in your classroom with your students! Please let me know what you think!

I love using posters in my classroom that are bright, eye catching, and that students can benefit from. I use these posters on my cabinet doors in my classroom. The students constantly use the posters to identify shapes and how to spell numbers in their writing. I have also included some extra practice pages for spelling numbers and for 1:1 correspondence. The posters start at 1 and go through 10. You can also print these pages, laminate, and bind the pages for students that need the extra p

I am always looking for cute reading logs, and I finally decided to create simple but fun logs for my students and myself! These monthly reading logs are a perfect way to get your students recording and reflecting on the books that they read. The reading logs can be used 2 ways in the classroom. First, I give one to each student to record and respond to books read independently at school or at home. I also print each one as a poster to display in the classroom to record books that we read as a c