Hello, friends!  We are on snow day #5 today, so I have tried to be productive in my pjs this week.  ;)  I finally wrapped the final unit in my  Growing Comprehension Bundle .  This one might just be my favorite!  Freddy Fact and Olivia Opinion are here to help teach fact vs. opinion to your little ones!  I am all about a craft, and this one is just too cute!  These activities would be perfect for first or second grades, especially if you are just introducing fact and opinion.  Let's take a look at each component! I always open the unit with an anchor chart.  If you know me, I like to prep them ahead of time.  I print the chart using the poster print setting in Adobe on my personal printer.  It prints on 4 sheets of paper, so you can trim and tape the pieces together to form a large poster.  I then laminate it to use year after year. For this particular one, I will write statements that are facts and statements that are opinions on sticky notes and let them sort ...
Valentine's Day will be here before you know it.  I am starting to think about what I want to give my students and what they will use to store their goodies in from their Valentine's Day party.  I love doing Valentine's Day bags with my class!  I have done boxes in the past, and it's just too much.  It's also a lot to ask parents to make, as well.  So, I started using gift bags with my class.  I pick them up at a dollar store or Hobby Lobby;  there are typically several in a pack.  I really like the 8X10 brown craft bags for these particular ones...a cactus and a unicorn.  I also think it's just a really fun way to let students be involved in the creation of their bag.  Plus, it's just something extra fun to do that day! I haven't decided which one I am going to make yet with my class.  They're both so cute and super easy to make!   What do you use in your classroom for student Valentine's Day gifts?  Hopefully, these wil...
Just dropping in to share  February's Interactive Read Aloud Lessons  for the following books:   What If You Had Animal Teeth? , Presidents' Day , How to Heal a Broken Wing , and I Am Helen Keller .  I love incorporating interactive r ead alouds, because they allow us to teach a broad range of standards.  You can't cover an ELA standard once and expect your students to automatically master it.  These allow you to continue to continually revisit it.  You will find that each week’s read aloud below will cover several standards, but I focus more heavily on a specific one each week while also including the others.   Each read aloud is designed to cover five days but can be condensed to four depending on your schedule.    All of my read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and ...