Last year I wrote a post about Preventing the Summer Slide for TeachHub and included a calendar to give to your students for the summer. I have updated the calendar for 2013. (I think it looks much better!) I have also added a sheet for parents about ways to practice sight words at home.   You can find if for FREE at my Teacher's Pay Teachers ...

Hang in there friends, summer is coming! But until then, do you have a terrific freebie or two to help each other get closer to the end of the year? We would ♥love for you to link up! Our featured item this week comes from Missy at Wild About Fifth Grade! She has a wonderful packet for using with the upper grade ...

I can't believe I'm about to type this... Today was the last day of school for the kids! It is absurd how fast this year went by!  But those last few days (especially after grades had already been turned in) were a little shaky.   Yesterday we broke out the sidewalk chalk.  The kids were like, ''Where did that come ...

End of Year Poems and Festivities Where are you in the countdown? Already celebrating summer or still with a few heartbeats to go? I'm making my annual rounds of 'end-of-the-year' Author-Illustrator school visits and I have some new images to share.  The poem above came home in the summer bags for the WonderPeeps. Miss Janet and Miss Dee had ...

We have 3 days of school left and our class party is on Monday! The kids are so excited and I am too! I have done so many themes each year and my favorite is always the ice cream parties. The kids love it and it is not a huge hassle. I don't have a room mom this year so the ice cream party theme was easy and perfect! I buy a gallon of vanilla ...

Summertime and the living is easy! Well it may not be summer for all of us, but it is summer for some! Lucky, lucky, lucky you! Teaching Blog Addict is happy to help those of you that are still teaching with a terrific new freebie or two. Maybe you're planning for summer school, we can help you as well. No matter what, we're glad you're ...

Memorial Day has special meaning for me as I am the wife of a retired soldier. During my husband's 30 year career he lost several soldiers to the war called ''Desert Storm''. There have been so many who have sacrificed so much to defend our country and so many who continue to do so. I thought about writing a unit about Memorial Day and what I ...

It's the 14th of the month, are you ready for your freebie from Wise Owl Factory? This month I read Help Me Learn Addition, which is a math picture book with activities based on the kindergarten Common Core State Standards (CCSS). It has ideas for helping children work with numbers from 0-20. It was the inspiration for this month's freebie from ...

There are 17 school days left here in my neck of the woods and my to-do list is getting longer by the second! We have our end of the year testing next week and our big grade level parent event to get ready for, so it's definitely still full steam ahead. I don't know about you, but my kids love bingo games. So I made this one for them so we ...

Hello darlings!  What a crazy week!  I'm Linking up at three fun Friday themed linky parties.      1. The first crazy thing this week was when I had to tell my grade level that we have to move storage closets this year...  Not fun! You know how much work there is to do at the end of the year already...  In the process of looking at the ...