FLASH FREEBIE for 3/19/16

It's about time, teachers, for a FLASH FREEBIE!  Your students will have a blast with The Circus Clowns literacy center.

Grab this cute literacy center while it's free! Please leave feedback.  Thank you.

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FLASH FREEBIE for 3/9/16

It's about time, teachers, for a FLASH FREEBIE!

Grab your copy of Hinky Pinky II while it's FREE.  

If you are not familiar with Hinky Pinkies, you are in for a treat!  This critical thinking activity is great learning disguised as fun.  Kids absolutely love them.  

If you download Hinky Pinkies II, please leave feedback and consider following me.  Thank you!

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Another Valentine's Day Flash Freebie!

Today's FLASH FREEBIE is --     

There are 60 Heart Idiom Cards to extend your students' understanding of common idioms. Challenge your kiddos to match the idioms to their figurative meanings in a variety of ways:

• small group instruction
• partner work
• individual work
• literacy centers
• games (instructions included)
• whole class Scoot activity

Although it is offered as a Valentine flash freebie, Heart Idioms Cards is actually holiday neutral. Thus you can use it any time of the year and with all students.  Moreover, it is CCSS aligned.

If you take advantage of this freebie, TPT store followers and product feedback are greatly appreciated.

If your students love this product, check out these idiom products:

   

Be My Valentine FLASH FREEBIE!

Just in time for Valentine's Day, you can make my heart happy by trying Valentine's Day Square Puzzlers absolutely FREE!

If you are not familiar with square puzzlers, you are in for a treat! Here's how they work:

The 2x2 puzzler is perfect for introducing the task and can be solved by students as young as kindergarteners. The degree of difficulty increases exponentially with each iteration of the puzzlers. My intermediate enrichment students beg to do the 3x3 and 4x4 puzzlers.

These puzzlers are a wonderful challenge for any student in that they promote visual discrimination, problem solving, flexibility, and perserverance. 

Give square puzzlers a try. I think you'll like them.  But hurry.  They are only free today.

You may find that your students want more of this fun thinking challenge. Not to worry! Here are some other versions:

     

Super Bowl Flash Freebie

It's Super Bowl Sunday!

To celebrate, I'm offering a FLASH FREEBIE!

It's only FREE until the Super Bowl is over. Rush over to my TPT store to claim your copy.

FLASH FREEBIE for 12/8/15

It's about time for a gift for the teachers! So here's a flash freebie.

          

Although this center has overtones of Christmas, it is actually holiday neutral in the materials your students use.  Thus, you can use it at any time of the year.  It's a great addition to any gingerbread man activities you may do, as well.

          Run, run

          As fast as you can!

         So you can catch

         This gingerbread man!

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Back to School FLASH FREEBIE!!!!!

It's about time, teachers, for a ---

I am offering Back to School Poetry Possibilities for FREE! But just for today, 8/23/15. 

This is a collection of 20 poems about going back to school and the changes associated with autumn.  Each poem is accompanied by a teaching point about poetry. But, that's not all! Also included are activities, skill lessons, and writing prompts. These "possibilities" for teaching through poetry range from reading skills (phonics, parts of speech, syllables,...) to writing prompts (text innovations, types of poetry,...) to math activities (graphing, ordinal numbers,...). This product even includes a stand-alone literacy center:

If all of that is not enough, this product is appropriate for ALL elementary grade levels. As the literacy coach for my building, I developed this unit in response to my teachers' request for help in teaching with poetry. Thus, the skills and activities encompass a broad range of levels. Just choose the possibilities that are appropriate to the age and stage of your students.  

This offer expires at 10 p.m. CDT. Grab it while you can!