Ten in the Bed Interactive Readers

As soon as I saw these graphics from Melonheadz I knew I had to make them into an interactive reader.  I have a student that is non-verbal and has very little fine motor skills.  She loved this book and it was a great opportunity to use her augmentative communication system.  When moving the children down, we gave her choices.  Did she want to move a boy or girl?  What colour pyjama's was the child wearing that she wanted to move? and so on.  Oh, the smile on her face.  I have aligned the books with common core for math.  If you are interested, you can click on the picture below.

Summer Book Study

I'm so excited to be doing another book study this summer.  I was discussing things with some bloggin buddies of mine.  We all said that we wanted to focus on becoming better at guided reading.  Next year my school is going to try a different model for our literacy portion of the day and I think this will fit in perfectly.  This is the book we came up with.  You can order you book by clicking below.

I have heard great things about Jan Richardson! I just started to read mine and it's great!

Some of the bloggers that will be working on this book study this Summer are:

We will be posting a schedule soon!! So, don't delay and order your book today!

New farm unit

First off, I would like to say congratulations to Melissa, the winner of my t-shirt giveaway.  If you didn't win, don't worry, you can use coupon code, FREE20 to get 20% off orders over $20 until June 15, 2013.

My students loved the zoo math activities that I made so much that I made a set with a farm theme too.

These are on sale for $2 off until the weekend.  Click on the first picture if you are interested in them.

Freebielicious T-shirt giveaway

We at Freebielicious are so excited to announce teaming up with Teacher Shirts (the greatest t-shirt company for teachers and more, in case you haven't heard of them!). We all received the fanciest custom designed t-shirt we've ever owned AND now we can give a t-shirt of the winner's choice from each of our individual blogs.

I just love my t-shirt because it is so much more than just a shirt.  It represents friendships, fun, and business relations (oh wait and STYLE, of course!) all in one "blinging" design.  Where else could you get all that from one t-shirt?  A  special thanks goes out to Doug from A+ Images.  He worked with us to make just the right shirt to represent our company and is still giving us a shirt to give one lucky winner for each of our blogs!

We have made this giveaway super easy for you to have almost 50 chances to win one of 23 t-shirts.  It is a blog hop, so you can enter as many or as few giveaways you would like!  The contest begins Saturday, May 18th, at 8:00 a.m. EST and ends on Sunday, May 19th, at 12:00 a.m. EST.  Winners will be announced on the following Monday.  Easy peasy, lemon-squeezy!  Start by entering my giveaway here:

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Next, you will head over to my friend Jeannie's blog Kindergarten Lifestyle and enter there and keep going until your fingers are too tired to hit click (that is how simple we made it for you!).

Go to our Freebielicious Facebook page and like us so you never miss a freebie or giveaway like this one!

New Assessment Pack Freebie

I'm starting to finish up my Dolch Assessment Packs on the request of a follower.

Here is the Grade One Assessment.  It includes instructions for testing children with little or no verbal skills.  Remember:  A child does not need to know how to speak, to learn how to read.

 

Here are the links to my other two packs if you missed them the first time.

 

 

Pinterest

I was talking to a few of the other teachers at school the other day and I mentioned Pinterest.  I was totally thrown that they didn't know what it was.  I mean who hasn't heard of Pinterest?  Maybe you haven't?  If you haven't, you totally have to check it out.  I love Pinterest.

In the past, I used to search the web for ideas for crafts or something for the house, or articles about something or other.  Once I found something I wanted to go back to, I would bookmark it.  Weeks later (or even longer) I would want to find it again and I would have to search through bookmark after bookmark trying to find it.  Quite often the name of the site would have nothing to do with the item I was looking up.

Then along came Pinterest.  Now I can "pin" a picture of the item I was looking at, on a board.  I can have as many boards as I want and I can give them names so that I can find things easily.  Now when I want to look up all those fabulous Christmas ideas I found last year, they are all in one place.

How easy is that?  I can also follow people or boards.  When somebody I follow pins something, I'll see it in my feed.  Now I don't have to search the web for great ideas, I can just re-pin items that other people have sent.  What a time saver.

If you want to check out my Pinterest boards,  you can find them here.

Calendar Printables

I've finally put all the printables together that I use in my calendar books.  You can pick them up by clicking on the picture below.