Hello darlings! One of my favorite writing assignments each year is creating a Diary story based on the Diary of a Worm series. My students LOVE this activity every year!  We spend a few days reading  Diary of a Fly, Diary of a Worm, and Diary of a Spider.  We chart the characteristics that each book shares.  For example, each story is a diary ...

All my Freebielicious friends/authors are sharing some spring-y freebies with you today!  Hop along our bunny trail and fill your baskets with lots of PK-1 fun for your students for this upcoming week.  I am not generally a fan of kids even talking about ''bopping'' anything on the head, but I love me some Little Bunny Foo Foo. So...I use ...

Friends~I am going to tell you a little secret.  I HATE eating jellybeans but I sure LOVE teaching with them.  My kiddos are heading off on Spring Break on Thursday.  They will enjoy some much needed family time and all of them will be celebrating Easter.  A Sunday morning at church possibly and a basket of goodies from the Easter Bunny that ...

Friends~We have been using our Patricia Polocco books this week as mentor texts for our narrative writings in Writer's Workshop.  We have spent many mini lessons focusing on vivid words and how they can bring a story to life.  We read the book Hairy, Scary, Ordinary by Brian P. Cleary.  My students always love this book and get a huge kick out of ...

Yesterday, I was digging around in the dungeon, mancave, basement, and ran across a box of goodies my kids created in kindergarten. It brought back fond memories of when I taught kindergarten and of the way I taught back then.  When I taught kindergarten, I always had a full length mirror at my cut and paste station so the kids could look at ...

Our 100th day of school will happen on January 16th. My kids and I are so excited!  The kids look for any reason to have a celebration (and I don't blame them).  So I had sketched out several activities, but couldn't decide on a theme. After much thought and tons of great advice from everyone on the FB page... I ...

This was originally scheduled for my ''Friday Freebie'' post, but after coming home Friday and finding out about the shooting...I had to hold off.  My heart pours out for the families, the school, and the community involved.  May God bring them peace and guidance as they work through this. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Second ...

Are you looking for some ways to splash FUN into your school day? Education.com is the answer! They have thousands of printables for every grade level and subject area. Warning: This is a teacher's dream site so make sure you have lots of ink on hand and your printer is ready to go! You may get lost in the hours of ...

Oh yeah, friends!  We made it!  It's Friday!!!  (Can you tell I'm excited?!) My Friday freebie is all about writing!  My kids have a folder that we call their ''Writer's Notebook.''  This is where they keep all of their current writings and resources to help them during writing.  One of the resources is this writing process ...

Happy Wednesday, y'all!  It feels like it should be Friday already! Anywho...I'm getting ready to start my GA Habitats unit with my kids and decided to make some activities and assessments to supplement our county's materials.  It includes: - vocabulary activities - vocabulary assessments - a booklet to complete for each ...