SALE

Check out the sale on Teachers Pay Teachers starting tomorrow and ending Tuesday!

My whole store is 20% off!!! Plus additional % off if you use the code on the banner!
And who doesn't love a sale!!!

5 for... Saturday?

I totally am losing track of days... my district is amazing and I've been off since Wednesday... and all of  a sudden it's Saturday... oops!

I am going to share some of the fun stuff we did for Thanksgiving on Tuesday!

We read Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving & made retell turkey hats! I got the turkey hat pattern freebie from Hollie Griffith's TPT store!

Then we read Turkey Trouble & disguised our own turkeys... the kiddos LOVED this!

We also made these adorable thankful turkeys... and one of my kiddos made me one with all the things he thought I'd be thankful for, too cute!

I started a little Christmas decorating! Gotta love the Target $1 bin... that's where I found these adorable little ornaments.

And finally... check out my TPT store for 20% off everything Cyber Monday (&Tuesday) sale!

Have a marvelous remainder of your weekend!

Back to School Sale!

It's hard to believe that 3 weeks from today I'll be sitting in PD 2 days before kiddos arrive... eeeek not sure I'm ready! I managed to enjoy June & July and planned on being in school today but they are currently waxing the hallways... ahhh hoping the humidity stays low so it dries and I can be in my room by Wednesday!

So anyway... I'm sure you know today and tomorrow is the big BACK TO SCHOOL sale on TPT, you can get up to 28% off in some stores (including mine) by using the code on the banner below. My store will be on sale for an additional 2 days, but I'd suggest getting over there today or tomorrow for an extra % off! Click the banner below to go straight to my store!

Book Talk Tuesday & 2 For Tuesday

I'm linking up with Mrs. Jump for Book Talk Tuesday

& I'm linking up with The Teaching Tribune for Two for Tuesday. Scroll down for the 50% off products!

 

For book talk this week, I chose When Dinosaurs Came with Everything by Elise Broach

This is an adorable book about a boy is going to just die of boredom on the typical "errands with mom" kind of day... 

but then, this day of errands becomes special because stores everywhere are giving away dinosaurs! He doesn't get a sticker at the doctors, he gets a real life, full size dinosaur! 

Of course, the little boy wants to go on ALL the errands originally planned, while mom is trying to cut their day short before they get too many free dinosaurs. What will they do with the dinosaurs? Can the little boy convince mom to keep them? Find out in When Dinosaurs Came with Everything.

Awards: E.B. White Read Aloud Award

Reading Level: DRA 24

                          Guided Reading M

                          Lexile 380L

Resources:

Web Resources:

• Teaching Ideas: Here are some discussion questions and other ideas to use with this book.
• Lesson Ideas: Check out this site for more ideas including nonfiction connections.
• Printables: Here are some dino printables if you choose to make a nonfiction connection when reading this book.

Vocabulary: errand, protested, glared

Watch this video of Anita Archer doing explicit vocabulary instruction. She's awesome and as long as you plan your lesson out with pre-made sentences (like she appears to have in this video) this is a scientifically research based method for teaching vocabulary!

Activities:

Before Reading:

• Watch the Anita Archer vocabulary video above and consider using a similar method to preteach vocabulary before this lesson.
• Teach about inferences using the Great Garbage Mystery. You can find information about it in the book Comprehension Connection and on this blog post from Simply Sweet Teaching. Students will use what they've learned about inferring to infer during reading.

During Reading:

•  Ask students to make inferences about how the mom is feeling in various pictures (her face lends itself to inferences!)
• Ask students to infer why the boy says he wants a shot at the doctor's office.

After Reading:

•  Character Change: Ask students to tell how the mom changes using proof from the text. Use this freebie from me for students to record their answers.

• Have students write a "back story" explaining why free dinosaurs were being given away on that day. Do this as a guided writing to start the story then have students finish it if you have youngers. Use this dino paper freebie for their writing!

• Ask students to answer in their journal: Would you want a dino? Why or why not?

Onto 2 for Tuesday!

Grab these 2 products at 50% off for the rest of the week!

Calendar Mega-Bundle! $20 $10!
84 pages, every month, birthday & holiday cards for every month. Fits into a calendar pocket chart! Be sure to check out the preview file before you buy as it shows every month!

Back To School Activities $5 $2.50!
Not that anyone is ready for back to school yet, but in case you're thinking about what you may do for fun activities to start the year, this product offers 3 different activities to start of the school year right!

Well that is all for now, tune in tomorrow for Whole Brain Wednesday!

Two for TuesdayTuesday Book Talk

2 link ups today... Two for Tuesday & Book Talk!


I'm linking up with The Teaching Tribune for the 2nd time this week, today is for Two for Tuesday...

Go grab these products for 50% off in my TPT store, for the whole week! Click on the images to see the product page.

[One]
Owl Themed Job Chart $3.00, now $1.50
This is the most "wish-listed" item in my store!

[two]
Monday Games & Activities Bundle $12.00, now $6.00
This is a great deal! I calculated it out and if you were to buy every product in this bundle individually, it would cost you over $20, as a bundle, I offer it for $12, but for this week you can get my money products bundled together for only $6!!!!!

I'm also linking up with Mrs. Jump's class for the first (definitely not last) time for Tuesday Book Talk...

I ordered Library Lion last year and never had the opportunity to use it. This year for my grad class, I had to do a shared reading/interactive read aloud set of lessons on a book of my choosing. I decided to choose a book I hadn't used before so Library Lion was the winner!

Library Lion by  Michelle Knudsen
Reading Level:  DRA 18
                            Guided Reading K
                            Lexile 470L

 I love the illustrations in this book. And the idea of a lion just walking into a library like it's a normal thing to do made my kiddos just get soaked up in it! It even made me kind of wish lions were calm like this so I could have one for a pet (or for a library pet at school haha).

This book offers a great opportunity to teach your students about rules for different areas of the school as well as when it is appropriate to break rules. I can't wait to use this next year to talk about "emergency" situations to break rules in such as "I'm about to throw up" or "The teacher fell down" The second one thankfully has never happened, but I always am sure to tell students what to do if there is an emergency, especially a throw up emergency (run! just run! to the bathroom or a garbage can!). This book now gives a much more fun way of doing it ;)

The story also lends itself to character change as one of the librarians (Mr. McBee) changes how he feels towards and treats the lion at the beginning of the story versus the end of the story. I also had my kiddos rewrite the story in the lion's perspective which they had a ton of fun with.

Resources to use with this book..

Web Resources:

• Scholastic Lesson: Check out this free lesson from Scholastic
• Theme vs. Message: Third Grade Bookworm used Library Lion to teach theme vs. message
• Before During After: Find before, during & after reading activities from teacherthinktank

Vocabulary: circulation, budge, scold, scowl

Activities:
Before Reading:

• Use the link below to teach alliteration before reading.
• Ask students to brainstorm a list of rules for in class, in the library, in the hallway, etc.

During Reading:

• Have the students keep track of everything they learn about Mr. McBee. Have them use what they read about Mr. McBee to describe how he changes.
• Use the questions from the comprehension sheet below and have students turn & talk to a partner, answering the questions.

After Reading:

• Use the comprehension sheet (below) to check students' comprehension of the story.
• Turn Library Lion into a Reader's Theater using the script below.

I plan on creating a TPT product with lessons, worksheets, etc. but until then, here are some freebies to go along with this wonderful story!

Thanks for stopping by today :)

GIVEAWAY starts TODAY

In case you missed my post yesterday, I'm trying my first rafflecopter giveaway!

I was motivated by Sara over at Frampton's FUNdamentals and Emily at Munchkins Inc.

I'll be giving away winners' choice of TPT products from my TPT store! Good Luck!

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Sale! Sale! Sale! & Giveaway!

Teachers Pay Teachers is having a site-wide Sale!

PLUS get 20% off every item in my store!!!

So be sure to check out my store (& others) Tuesday and Wednesday May 6th-7th!

AND in other exciting news, I was motivated by Sara over at Frampton's FUNdamentals and Emily at Munchkins Inc. to try out Rafflecopter!

 I will be giving away TPT products to 3 winners. The first winner will get to select 3 items, the 2nd winner 2 items and the 3rd winner 1 item. If I get A LOT of entries, I may choose more than 1 winner for 3rd prize. I will also offer to customize any of my current products for any of these winners if they so choose :) So be sure to enter & share with your teacher friends! Entries open at midnight tonight, and close on midnight next Sunday. I will reveal the winners on Monday!

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Sale & Mega-bundle

My TPT store sale is on... everything including my new Calendar Set Mega-Bundle are 20% off!

 

 

Calendars & Snow Day

Snow Day today (and probably another one this week) means I'm having a sale... 20% off tomorrow until Friday night, so get on over to my TPT store ASAP!

I finally have all my calendar sets DONE! Hooray! Stay tuned for a mega-pack of calendar sets to save some $$! Should be up by sale starting time tomorrow :)

Click below to check out each month...

Remember the mega-bundle is coming and I promise you'll save some $$ if you wait and buy all the months together!

Well off to do some grad class research... good news is the snow day gave me time to finish my interview paper, wooh!