TPT SITE SALE IS COMING!

 It's about time, teachers, to start shopping!

Start filling your cart now.  Then on Monday, you can just check out!

Are you looking for seasonal resources? Check these out:

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IT'S ABOUT TIME FOR HOLIDAY RESOURCES!

 

Teaching between Thanksgiving and winter break is a unique challenge.  The time is short but the days can be long. The key to survival is keeping your students engaged, while managing the excitement. Following are resources that I find useful:

FREEBIES

• Christmas Confections Square Puzzlers (Scrambled Squares) 
  
  
  

• Christmas SCRATTLE (math & word work) 
  
  
  

• Jingle, Jingle literacy center 
  
  
  

CRITICAL THINKING

• Reindeer Squares (Latin Squares)
• Christmas Hink Pinks, et al.  
• Christmas Vocabulary Fractions  

  

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

• Green Tree Emergent Reader  
  
  
  

• Santa Emergent Reader  
  
  
  

• Rudolph Emergent Reader   
  

• Christmas Sight Word Coloring 
  
  
  

• Holiday Syllable Sort  
  
  
  

• Merry Monkeys Antonyms  
  
  
  

• Contractions Cookies
  
  
  

• Gingerbread Man Compound Words
  
  
  

• Alphabetical Order Toy Soldiers 
  

• Poetry Possibilities for December 
  
  
  

MATH

• Elf Riddles Computation task cards 
  
  
  

May your December be merry and bright!

12 Days of Christmas -- Day 5

Today's 12 Days of Christmas gift is Christmas Hink Pinks, et al. These vocabulary riddles are wildly popular with teachers and students alike.  My kiddos literally beg to do more Hink Pinks!

Christmas Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkies, Hinkity Pinkities, and Hitinkity Pitinkities are not only great for exercising critical thinking, but are perfect for corralling some of that holiday excitement. When you share Hink Pinks, et al., with your class, you will be giving them learning disguised as fun. They will work on vocabulary, parts of speech, synonyms, rimes, making inferences, and interpreting data. That hits a lot of CCS Standards.

If you are not familiar with Hink Pinks, et al., here's an explanation of them:

You can unwrap this gift for free, but only for 48 hours.  So follow this link to my TPT store and download your copy.

Check out these Hink Pink products, too:

12 Days of Christmas -- Day 4

It's day 4 of my --

Today's gift is Friendly Frog's Holiday Syllable Sort. In this CCSS aligned activity, the kiddos will determine the number of syllables in each holiday related word as portrayed on the sorting cards. Here's a sneak peek:

If you are looking for a literacy center perfect for this holiday season, this is it!  Head on over to my store and get your free copy.  But don't waste time; it's only free for 48 hours.

Stop by again tomorrow for another 12 Days of Giveaways.

Have you checked out these products that also feature Friendly Frog?

12 Days of Christmas -- Day 3

On the ...

my gift to you is ... Green Tree, Green Tree, What Do You See?

This emergent reader has just been renovated, with new formatting and the addition of sentence strips for rebuilding the text. I have also included suggestions for skill instruction and explanations for teaching techniques. These recommendations have their roots in the training I received for Reading Recovery™.

You can read more about this fun, little book in a previous blog post.  

Be sure to grab this emergent reader while it's free. Just hop on over to my store.

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