tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80217708035684769222024-03-05T09:20:11.775-08:00Love of TeachingKimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10385977553594423045noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021770803568476922.post-23648573968002202902015-07-04T13:05:00.000-07:002015-07-04T13:13:24.391-07:00Sample Saturday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have decided to start a new blog series. I am going to blog about a different sample pack I have in my store the first Saturday of every month. My sample packs are a freebie to allow potential buyers to see what they will get in a larger bundle. My hopes are that other blogger teachers will link up as well.<br />
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This month's sample pack comes from my new Interactive Notebook Sight Words pack. I created this pack because I am reworking how my center time works in my classroom this year. One of the rotations my kinders will go to is a sight word practice. This is will be one of MANY activites will use during this rotation.<br />
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Here is a closer look at the different activities that are included in this pack. These pages are the exact ones you will receive in the sample pack. <br />
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These activities are a sort and then practicing writing the words. For the SORT IT students will color each word a different color and then they will cut out the pieces and glue them under the correct flap.<br />
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For the TRACE AND WRITE students will first students will trace each word and then practice writing it.<br />
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For the TEAR AND WRITE activity students will tear small pieces of colored paper and glue them on the inside of each word. They will also practice writing each word. <br />
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For the CIRCLE,COUNT,and GRAPH activity students will circle each weekly word using blue and red crayons, markers, or colored pencils. Then they will count up each word and graph it at the bottom of the page.<br />
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CUT AND MAKE activity has students cut out letters and glue them in the correct order to make the words correctly. Then the students will write the word on the line. Each page has rectangles and squares showing how many times the students should make each word.<br />
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ROLL and COLOR: Students will roll a die and then color color one section by using the code. Students will keep rolling the die until all the parts are colored in. It is okay if they don't use a color or use the same color more than once. For longer words the letters are not divided up into sections. <br />
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The TRACE, READ, and WRITE activity has students tracing sentences. Students will then read the sentence they traced. Next students will use the blank lines provided to write the sentence. They will cut out their sentence and glue it under the correct flap.<br />
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The last activity is WRITE a SENTENCE. Students will use the weekly words to write a sentence. They will write three sentences. Students will use the lines provided to write their sentences and then glue them under the flaps. For students who can not write a sentence they can either practice writing the weekly words or copy pre-written sentences.<br />
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I hope you enjoy this sample pack. If you want to download this sample please click the picture.<br />
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If you want to win a copy of the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sight-Word-Interactive-Notebook-Pack-One-1939496" target="_blank">FULL PACK</a> head over to my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-Of-Teaching/326068240791415" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> page for a chance to win. <br />
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I started my journey on Teachers Pay Teachers to create resources for my classroom and make them available to teachers across the United States. Over the last three years I have had the pleasure of supplying resources for teachers and enhancing my own students learning. Here are my Dreams for my TPT journey.<br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">1. Build friendships with other teachers across the nation. I have already met some wonderful teachers who have helped me on this crazy ride. I hope to create long lasting real life friendships with like minded people who will continue to inspire me and make me a better teacher. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">2. Help pay off debt. I would love to have extra money that can help pay down credit card debt, car debt and even help with the house loan. Being a teacher who has a husband who works for himself in an industry where its either feast or famine having a steady income from TPT would help with those famine times.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">3. Take family vacations. I would love to be able to take a vacation every other year as a family. Right now we go to my Dad's for Thanksgiving and well that really isn't a vacation. I want to go somewhere that doesn't involve staying with family and just being able to relax and have our own agenda. I hope TPT will help with that. </span><br />
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My dreams are not crazy and they are all attainable (well I hope they are). I don't need to make millions just some extra padding in those times where my husbands business is not producing as much income. <br />
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This is my first time linking up with 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made It. I am very excited because it seemed like I just never got to it last year but I am going to make it happen this summer. <br />
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For this Monday Made It I am going to share my word wall words. I got this idea from Kinder Craze. I can not take any sort of credit for this AMAZING idea. I am just showing what mine look like. I hated my word wall last year and I know hate is a strong word so that should tell you something. Here are the supplies that are needed to complete this Monday Made It.<br />
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1. Labels (2in X 4in)</div>
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2. Cardstock</div>
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3. Laminating pouches (if you are laminating at home)</div>
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4. KinderCraze sight word freebie.</div>
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These were super easy to make. All I did was type up the sight words I need on the template that I downloaded from the Avery website. Then I printed those words onto the labels. </div>
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To prep the cardstock I measured out cards that were 3inches by 5inches. This took FOREVER because I don't have a paper cutter at home. After I measured out all the boxes I need I stuck one label on each box. </div>
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Then I sent each sheet of cardstock through the laminator. Here is a picture.</div>
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After all the sheets were laminated I cut each card out. Now they are ready to be placed on the word wall when school starts back.</div>
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Here is the finished pile of words that are now ready for my classroom next year. I am very excited to have these.<br />
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For the second part of this post I am showing off my product makeovers I did last week. These two products needed a MAJOR makeover. I created them way back when I started creating products and they are embarrassing. I hope you like the updated look and the additional pages added to each pack.<br />
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To celebrate my first week of the TPT Seller Challenge I am going to giveaway one copy of each of these packs. Here are the links so you can check them out. Enter below.<br />
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I want to start off by saying that I am not the definition of organization. I do have a basic plan and try to stick with that plan as the week unfolds. I have a toddler so my week NEVER unfolds as I plan it to. <br />
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Now this next planner is AWESOME. I had it printed and bound today. I started filling it out tonight. here is what it looks like. You can get this planner <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Teachers-Pay-Teachers-and-Blog-Planner-2015-1907971" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
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I am finally getting a chance to write about my experience at the Nashville Bash. The weekend was full of fun, friends and food. I think every weekend should be filled with those things. Before I get into all the details I want to give a HUGE shout out to our presenting sponsors. Thank you <a href="https://www.gonoodle.com/" target="_blank">GoNoodle</a> and <a href="https://www.esgisoftware.com/" target="_blank">ESGI</a> for helping make this a memorable weekend. There were many more companies that supplied giveaways and freebies for all the teachers who attended.</div>
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I arrived in Nashville an hour early. This is big because I never make it anywhere that early. Since it was my first time in Nashville I didn't want to explore alone so I went to Chili's for a drink to calm my nerves. When it was almost time for the meet up to start I walked next door.</div>
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The main event took place at this super cute café. If you are in Nashville you should pay them a visit at Atmalogy. They had a basement room that we had our gathering in. Now that only downfall was there was no AC and it got hot. It was a lot of fun meeting new friends and eating great food. </div>
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Later that night we spent time at Opry Mills. I was super excited to get a chance to chat with more teachers. I can't explain the feeling I had all day being around so many fantastic teachers. It is nice to be with others who think like I do and enjoy being in the wonderful profession. You can tell how much they enjoy being a teacher by just talking to them.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first tip is know what your procedures are going to be before a single student enters your classroom. Then teach and reteach those procedures every day starting the first day of school. This is something I rushed and I regretted it the whole year. I was worried about digging into lessons and curriculum but I should have been worried about building AWESOME routines. Don't be afraid to reteach procedures through out the year if they are not following them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Make learning fun and engaging. Remember these cuties are 5 and 6. They need lots of time to explore their learning. Lots of hands on activities and even play time will keep your students engaged in your lessons and they will produce better work for you. I plan on adding more play time for my students this year, especially during those first weeks.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is huge and is something I am working on this summer. I am digging into the standards and placing them on a year long calendar to help with my lesson plans. Teaching lessons that go along with what is already happening in their lives will allow your students to really buy into each lesson. For example if you need to teach the life cycle of pumpkins it doesn't make sense to teach that in January, it makes perfect sense to teach it in October. They are already thinking about pumpkins and will probably be going to a pumpkin patch where they can see the life cycle in action.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My last tip is enjoy what you do and let your students see that enjoyment. If your students see that you love what you are teaching then they will LOVE learning about it. Students what to know that teacher really enjoys being their with them and is excited about the lessons. Students will be more engaged if you seem to be invested in the lesson and in them.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope these tips are helpful. Don't forget to check out all the other blogs that have Linked Up over at </span><a href="http://www.sharingkindergarten.com/2015/06/are-you-teaching-kindergarten-next-year.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sharing Kindergarten</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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I will be giving away my March Centers Bundle. This bundle has ELA and Math centers for kindergarten students. I will give one bundle away and then I will give one ELA pack and one Math pack away. That is three winners.<br />
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I have been getting my wish list ready for the sale. I thought I would share 4 items I will be buying during the sale. I will include links the products and a break down of the final cost of each item. <br />
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The first item I will be moving from my wishlist to my shopping cart is from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Keri-Brown" target="_blank">Keri Brown</a> at <a href="http://enchantedkindergarden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Enchanted Kinder Garden</a>. I am about to start our unit on weather and review our seasons. Keri has a wonderful interactive notebook pack for this exact skill. My students LOVE working in our notebooks so I know this pack will be a big hit in my classroom.<br />
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Here is the product break down. The product cost 7.50 before any discounts and this is already a good price because this pack has 99 pages with over 50 of them being the actual activities.</div>
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We start with the 7.50 and we subtract the 20% from her store discount. That brings the total to 6.00 even. Then you will get an addition 8% off when you enter the promo code (heroes) at check out. </div>
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6.00 - .48(8%)= 5.52</div>
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My second item is a product from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Moffatt-Girls" target="_blank">The Moffatt Girls</a>. I LOVE everything I have purchashed from this store. I have a crazy amount of items from them and I am about to add another. I have placed the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fluency-Strips-Set-1-Quick-and-Easy-Practice-and-Assessment-1402582" target="_blank">Fluency Strips Set 1</a> on my wishlist and it will be moved over to my shopping cart tomorrow. </div>
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That brings the total to 8.00 even. Then you will get an addition 8% off
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8.00 - .64(8%)=7.36</div>
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Third item on my wish list is from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Teachinginhighheels" target="_blank">Teaching in High Heels</a>. I will be purchasing her <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Comprehension-for-Little-Learners-1533224" target="_blank">Reading Comprehension for Little Learners</a>. This pack is filled with passages for my students to read and then questions for them to answer. My students could really use help with this skill and I will be using these in my small groups. <br />
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3.20 - .26(8%)=2.94</div>
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This product will cost you $2.94 during the sale tomorrow.<br />
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The fourth and final item on my wish list for this sale is from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Tweet-Resources" target="_blank">Tweet Resources</a>. The pack I am getting from them is a growing bundle. This means buy it now and all the updates you get for free. This growing bundle is all about sight words and my little friends need help with this desperatly. The growing bundle is called <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sight-Word-NO-PREP-Fluency-and-Word-Work-A-Growing-Bundle-1711520" target="_blank">Sight Word NO PREP Fluency and Word Work</a>.<br />
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This product will cost you $8.46 during the sale tomorrow.<br />
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I want to give as reminder that I am assuming these stores will be running their whole store at 20%. They might now include all their items or they might have their sale at a lower percentage off. You will get the 8% off no matter if the items are on sale. I figured these prices as if they were 20% off I can not be held accountable if they don't place their store on sale tomorrow.<br />
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One last reminder, don't forget to go to your purchases before the sale and make sure you have left feed back on everything you have already purchased. You can use your feedback credits to make your total cost even lower. I will be heading to do this right now.<br />
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I will be running a giveaway during the sale. Make sure you check back on Wednesday to see what I will be giving away. <br />
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There are total of nine different centers. For a description of what skills are covered you can go check out the product on <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentines-Day-Centers-1675148" target="_blank">TPT</a> or <a href="http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/ksveska26/lovely-ela-centers" target="_blank">TN</a>. <br />
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I created this freebie for my students so they can build words using these cute hearts. My students are going to go crazy when I pull this center out. Don't worry I will have extra hearts for my sweeties to eat. It would just be mean to make kindergarteners use candy in a center and not have some extras to snack on.<br />
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Click the picture below to get the freebie I created. I hope you really like it. This freebie is ONLY available on my Facebook page for my fans.<br />
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It's Super Bowl time again. I am celebrating by throwing a sale at my TeachersPayTeachers store and my TeachersNotebook Shop. I have marked all my product 20% off. TeachersNotebook is offering an extra discount if you use their site wide code. <br />
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Here are a couple of my most recent products that are included in the sale. Click on each picture to check out more details about each product.<br />
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First product is my Ultimate Letter of the Week Bundle:<br />
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The second product is my Numbers Numbers Evverywhere pack.<br />
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The third product is my newest product. This is my Lovely ELA Valentine's Day Centers.<br />
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All that is left to prepare for super bowl is to decide what snacks I am going to make! Have a wonderful Weekend.<br />
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The first freebie was created to go with a freebie I found over at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-Of-Teaching/326068240791415?sk=timeline" target="_blank">Rowdy in Room 300</a>. Make sure you jump over to her blog and get the freebie to go with what I created.<br />
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Congratulations Jessie V. I am going to email you the pack shortly. As an I am sorry for making everyone wait for the results this pack will be on sale for Wednesday and Thursday of this week. If you didn't win then go grab it on discount. <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/For-The-Love-Of-Teaching" target="_blank">TPT</a> or <a href="http://www.teachersnotebook.com/shop/ksveska26" target="_blank">TN</a>.<br />
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I thought I would share what is in each letter pack. Each pack has the same sheets. I did this because I wanted my students to work towards being able to do these sheets completely independently. <br />
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Each pack has a cover sheet. This is so that all the following sheets can be made into a booklet. <br />
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Then each letter has a sheet for students the practice tracing each letter both capital and lowercase. Then they practice writing each letter both capital and lowercase.<br />
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There are two different find and color sheets. There is one where students will use dotters. I believe they are really called dobbers. Then they count how many capital and lowercase and record that number. The second sheet students color using crayons or colored pencils both uppercase and lowercase and then graph how many they find.<br />
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There are two different cut and sort sheets. One is sorting capital and lowercase. The other is sorting the letter and not the letter.<br />
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There are two write and draw sheets. One is simply writing a word that starts with that weeks letter and drawing a picture. The second sheet takes it up a level and now they write a word, draw a picture and use the word in a sentence.<br />
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This sheet has students color the pictures that start with the letter. There are 4 pictures that should be colored.<br />
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This sheet has students color the path to get from the top picture to the bottom picture. They color both capital and lowercase of that week's letter.<br />
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The last two pages are used to create a hat. Students will color the pictures, trace the words, trace the letters, and practice writing the letters. They pieces should be cut out and glued on to a sentence strip or strips of construction paper. Then the strips are stapled together to for a hat for students to wear.<br />
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If you would like to see an example please download the letter A pack it is a freebie in both my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Letter-of-the-Week-Aa-1261862" target="_blank">TPT</a> store and my <a href="http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/ksveska26/letter-of-the-week-aa" target="_blank">TN</a> store. Click the store name to download. If you download the freebie please leave feedback.<br />
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Finally, I want to giveaway one copy of my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ultimate-Letter-of-the-Week-Bundle-1305295" target="_blank">Ultimate Letter of the Week Bundles</a> away. Enter using rafflecopter below.<br />
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I can't believe it is summer already. I feel like I blinked and the school year was over. This year was full of changing classrooms, a new reading series, and life after having a baby. I loved my class this year. They were talkative but they were wonderful students who worked hard and gave lots of hugs. I was looking forward to a summer where I didn't have to move rooms, learn a new series and get to relax with my cutie pie daughter. Those dreams were crushed when I was asked to move to Kindergarten. I am excited to teach kindergarten but that means my relaxing summer is now filled with pinterest, blog stalking, product creating, professional developments and new curriculum. <br />
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I have dived right into the product creating and have started making Letter of the Week Packs. I have created letters A to G. They are posted in both of my stores. I have bundled these first letters into a giant pack. <br />
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Here are some of the pages that are included in each pack. I created each pack to follow the same format. This was so that students would be able to work towards independence with their letter booklets.<br />
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Click <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Letter-of-the-Week-Aa-1261862" target="_blank">HERE </a>to grab the A pack for free. Please leave feedback if you grab the freebie. <br />
Click <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Letter-of-the-Week-Bundle-One-1277159" target="_blank">HERE</a> to grab the bundle of letters B to G.<br />
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If you made it to this part of the post please go to my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-Of-Teaching/326068240791415?fref=nf" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> page and enter my Pin It to Win It giveaway. Pin my new bundle from either my TPT store of my TN store and leave your link to the pin on my Facebook page post about the giveaway. I will pick ONE winner tonight at 9pm. <br />
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<img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i918.photobucket.com/albums/ad24/BannerBlvd/Kimberlysignature.png" />Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10385977553594423045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021770803568476922.post-54509618404192834792013-08-07T20:22:00.000-07:002013-08-07T20:22:55.793-07:00Top 5 Must Haves on My TPT WishlistHello blog world how I have missed you. If you have read my very pitiful blog lately then you know that I had a baby girl in April and before that I had what was a rough pregnancy in my opinion but I am sure others would beg to differ. I am slowly getting my TPT and Blog life back on track. My beautiful girl is 4 months old and allows me to put her down for longer periods of time now. Since I have been on maternity leave since the beginning of April I have had some time, once I got some sleep of course, to think about my classroom and some products that I wanted to have to spice up my classroom and help me with this transition into Common Core. Since I am less than a week away from students being in my classroom I thought I would share the Top 5 products on my TPT wishlist. These are not ranked in any special order.<br />
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<u><b>Number One:</b></u> This one is really two products but I am counting them as one since they are for the same reading series just different units. Anna over at <a href="http://www.simplyskilledinsecond.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Simply Skilled In Second</a> has created some wonderful packs to help supplement the 2013 version of reading street. Since my school just adopted this series I was BEYOND excited to find these. If you use this series you need to check them out. She even has some blog posts about how she uses them in her classroom. Click <a href="http://www.simplyskilledinsecond.blogspot.com/search/label/Pearson%20Reading%20Street" target="_blank">HERE</a> to read the blog posts. Here are a couple photos of these packs. If you are interested jump on over to her <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Street-Grade-2-Supplemental-Resources-Unit-2-802485" target="_blank">TPT</a> store and give them a look!!! <br />
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I know that my students are going to LOVE doing this activities with each story from the units!<br />
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<u><b>Number Two:</b></u> The next item is the Back to School Bash. This pack is jam packed with activities for back to school. There is one activity in this pack that I am the most EXCITED about and that is the Everyone is Smart activity. This activity helps students see that everyone is really good at something. It helps them see that one person might be really good at math, while someone else might be really good at music. I can't wait to use this with my students the first week of school. I believe every child deserves to know that they are good at something!! This pack was created by Stephanie over at <a href="http://fallingintofirst.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Falling into First</a>. If you are interested in seeing how she does this lesson in her classroom click <a href="http://fallingintofirst.blogspot.com/2013/07/first-week-of-school-activities-1st-2nd.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> to read her blog post.<br />
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These are a couple pictures of the Everyone is Smart lesson. There are other activities that come in this pack this is just the one that I was the most excited about. Here is the link to her <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-To-School-Bash-2nd-Grade-Back-to-School-Unit-767887" target="_blank">TPT</a> store so you can go and check this great product out. <br />
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<u><b>Number Three:</b></u> My third wishlist item was one that I just added today. I am always looking for ways to assess my students on the math Common Core Standards. This product I believe will help me in the journey of mine for this coming school year. Mighty Math was created by Angela over at <a href="http://hippohoorayforsecondgrade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Hippo Hooray for Second Grade.</a> I came across this product while I was doing some searching on Pinterest. I came across her blog post about this pack of assessments that she has created and I was instantly interested in it. They look to be wonderfully made and quick to give. Click <a href="http://hippohoorayforsecondgrade.blogspot.com/2013/08/mighty-math-2nd-grade-ccss-weekly-math.html" target="_blank">HERE </a>to read her post about this product. One great feature is that it progress though the year. She has them broken down into assessments for each quarter of the year. This pack is for the first quarter of the year and I believe she is currently creating the next pack.<br />
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Check out this photos of the product.<br />
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<u><b>Number Four:</b></u> Getting close to the end. Here is item number 4. This item is on my list because I am in desperate need of help with this concept. I am new to close reads and honestly TERRIFIED of them. I was searching for a product and came across this one created by <a href="http://www.oneextradegree.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">One Extra Degree</a>. I am excited to get this pack because she set it up to walk you through a close read. This is exactly what I need to get me started. I am someone who needs step by step instructions until I am comfortable, then I can put my own spin on it.<br />
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<img alt="Close Reading: Reading Like Detectives! {Editable!}" class="preview-product-image" id="simple-target-2" src="http://mcdn1.teacherspayteachers.com/thumbitem/Close-Reading-Reading-Like-Detectives-Editable-076363400-1374075378/medium-776025-2.jpg" /> <img alt="Close Reading: Reading Like Detectives! {Editable!}" class="preview-product-image" id="simple-target-4" src="http://mcdn1.teacherspayteachers.com/thumbitem/Close-Reading-Reading-Like-Detectives-Editable-076363400-1374075378/medium-776025-4.jpg" /> Click <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Close-Reading-Reading-Like-Detectives-Editable-776025" target="_blank">HERE </a>to go and download the preview of this product and read the detailed description. <br />
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<b><u>Number Five:</u></b> Here is the last item!!!!! Again this is group of items by the same creator. I am OBSESSED with the Flip Flap books that Simply Skilled in Second Grade makes. I know I have picked one of her products already but you will LOVE and I mean LOVE these things. She has them for EVERYTHING. She has them for reading, science and social studies.<br />
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Here is a short list of the ones that I already have:<br />
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Guided Reading<br />
Plants<br />
Butterflies<br />
I love to Read (FREEBIE)<br />
Guided Reading Detectives<br />
Frogs<br />
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Here are the ones still on my wishlist:<br />
American Symbols<br />
Matter<br />
Columbus<br />
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Click <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Simply-Skilled-In-Second" target="_blank">HERE </a>to go to her store to see ALL the ones she has created. Picture below of some of the books.<br />
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I hope you have enjoyed seeing what is on my wishlist and hopefully found an item that will help you this year! Since this was a LONG post I am going to do a little giveaway. I just finished my Money Math Notebook pack. I will give a copy away to the person who guesses my favorite candy. Leave a comment on this post with your guess and your email address. I will read all the comments tomorrow night (Thursday 8-8-13) when I get home from open house. Here is a <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Topic-5-Math-Notebook-Activities-811536" target="_blank">link </a>to my math notebook<br />
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I am happy to be back creating and blogging now that my sweet little baby girl is almost 3 months old. How time flies! I can't believe how big she is getting and how much she learns each and everyday.<br />
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I have decided that I am going to celebrate the Super Bowl like it is a holiday. I am taking part in the HUGE TPT super sale that is going on today. Jump on over to my store and see if there is anything that you need for the remainder of the school or get a head start on next year!!! My sale is going to have a 5th quarter and doesn't end until the end of Monday, so if you are busy being with family and eating lots of yummy snacks today, then you won't miss out on my sale!!!!<br />
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I have doubled down and have taken part in the super sale on TN as well. Same rules apply as the TPT sale. My sale on TN will not end until Monday night.<br />
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My new informative writing packs are just one item that is a must have from my store that is on sale. Also my most popular item, which is my Research pack is also on sale. The majority of my items are on sale, so go stock up on some great items!!<br />
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Here is what my Freebie looks like. I hope you enjoy this great center.<br />
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This freebie includes the directions page, 12 cards that need to be placed in ABC order and a Recoding sheet. I would laminate this center so that it last longer.<br />
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As I have been getting back into the swing of things now that I am in my 3rd trimester and have been feeling great for several weeks now, I have caught up on some blog reading and have gotten back into creating for my classroom and my TPT and TN stores. I came across on blog post about Visual Lesson Plans. I am not over clear on what they are but by the looks of the plans I have seen it involves placing pictures and visual cues into your lesson plans.<br />
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If you are curious what they look like jump on over to <a href="http://mrsshipleywholebrainteaching.blogspot.com/2013/01/sunday-stationsand-looking-forward-to.html" target="_blank">Fabulous Firsties</a>. I know she created hers based off of a different blogger. Here is the other blogger who has talked about these visual lesson plans <a href="http://www.ericabohrer.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-do-spelling-hw-in-notebook-and.html" target="_blank">Erica Bohrer's First Grade</a>. I am so in love with these plans. I have purchased the template that Erica uses for her plans. I am going to give it a shot for this up coming week. I will post how it goes after I create them.<br />
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I can't believe today is the last day in January. Where has the time gone. Only 2 short months until I get to welcome my daughter Lily into the world!!!!<br />
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After finishing the pack I showed it to a friend of mine who is our curriculum coach at our school. She loved it and suggested that I make a pack for first and third grade as well. Each pack has the same sheets type of sheets but each one is tailored to fit the needs of that grade level. I was super nervous about making something for other grade levels so I bugged the teachers at school to look sheets over before I finalized each pack.<br />
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Lets talk about a giveaway!!!! I thought I would give away one copy of each pack. The person from each grade level to leave me a comment and follow my blog. Will get the pack that matches their grade level. Make sure to leave your email address in the comment. I have packs for First, Second and Third.<br />
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Hope on over to my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/For-The-Love-Of-Teaching" target="_blank">TPT</a> or <a href="http://www.teachersnotebook.com/shop/ksveska26" target="_blank">TN</a> store to check out the packs! I hope you like them. <br />
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Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all! I have been enjoying my time off from school and getting a chance to relax, sleep in and visit with family. With a week left of break I have found myself thinking about school. With only about 3 months left until I get to meet baby Lily, I have been making mental lists of everything I need to get done before I go on maternity leave. I keep telling myself that I still have time to get everything done and then I run though my list and it freaks me out a little bit. Here is the list that I have running through my head about what I need to get done before leaving my little ones with the substitute. </div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">1. Map out the last two months of school</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">2. Clean and organize my room</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">3. Plan the end of the year party for the kiddos</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">4. Create my Focus Wall</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">5. Create everything needed for the focus Wall</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">6. Write out rough lesson plans for the time I am gone</span></div>
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Here is what I have so far. I am sure there a lot more things I should be thinking about. I would love some ideas and advice on how to prepare for Maternity leave. This is my first child so I am pretty clueless on what needs to be in place and how much I can place on the shoulders of the person who will be taking over for me for the last two months of school. </div>
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One thing that I know I want to get going as soon as break is over is redoing my Focus Wall. I have a large bulletin board near my reading table that is meant to showcase what is being currently taught in science, social studies, math and reading. This I have to say has fallen by the wayside. I have been looking at Focus Walls all day today and I have found a few that I am going to use as inspiration for my wall. I am going to start by making it a Literacy Focus Wall only! I plan on using it to display the current spelling words, vocabulary words, reading skill, writing skill, and the grammar. With this being said here are a few examples I have found. I will do my best to give credit to the correct person but all I did was Google focus walls so I am not sure if the links take me to the person who created the wall or not. </div>
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I found this on <a href="http://2ndgradestuff.blogspot.com/2012/01/clutter-free-classroom-project-linky.html" target="_blank">2nd Grade Stuff Blog </a></div>
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Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10385977553594423045noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021770803568476922.post-69107378643749479822012-12-03T17:14:00.002-08:002012-12-03T17:14:19.595-08:00Animal GroupsI am back with an update! I am in my 5th month of pregnancy and feeling so much better. I am feeling more like myself each day. I have been able to get back to a normal eating pattern and taking less naps. I am excited that I have the energy to start teaching and planning like I normally do.<br />
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If you have read my last post then you know that I have been reviewing products for <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/" target="_blank">Creative Teaching.</a> I have finished reviewing my 2nd product. This product is the <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/p-499-types-of-animals-mini-bulletin-board-set.aspx" target="_blank">Animal Group Mini Bulletin Board Set</a>. Like the Plant on it could be used in many different ways. I used it both as a bulletin board in my classroom while teaching the topic. I also have plans on pulling it back out to use as a review center towards the end of the year.<br />
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I was truly pleased with this product and every other product that I have purchased from <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/" target="_blank">Creative Teaching.</a> I would highly recommend using them from anything from boarders and posters to these bulletin board sets.<br />
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Keep your eye out for a giveaway soon! I am hoping to get a new product done shortly so that it can be added to the giveaway. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. 3 more weeks and then it is Christmas Break....I need it!!!!<br />
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Right before the morning sickness and all the naps I agreed to review a couple of products for <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/" target="_blank">Creative Teaching</a>. As everyone who reads my blogs I used their Black and White collection to decorate my room this year. I really think that <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/" target="_blank">Creative Teaching</a> puts out some great products.<br />
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The first product is the <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/p-497-plants-mini-bulletin-board-set.aspx" target="_blank">Plants mini bulletin board set</a>. I am in LOVE with this product. It can be used in so many different ways. Here is how I used it in my classroom. I punched it all out and had it laminated. Then I when I was teaching a certain topic I would pull those pieces out and use them in my lesson. Students and I would talk about the pieces and would place them on our focus wall. We just kept building out focus wall throughout the whole plants unit. Sometimes our whole lesson was placing items on our focus wall. For example we had been talking about plant parts you can eat, so we went and did a sort on our focus wall.<br />
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Creative Teaching has offered to give this product away in a giveaway on my site. Please stay tuned for more details on this giveaway!<br />
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Yay for being awake enough to blog!!Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10385977553594423045noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021770803568476922.post-41025622449960134192012-08-08T17:56:00.001-07:002012-08-08T17:56:46.065-07:00Math Notebooks Round TwoLast week I presented at my school district's summer conference that they had to help teachers prepare for common core. Back in April I applied to be a presenter and well I was picked but I am not sure how strict they were since there were over 600 choices to pick from. I still felt honored and well terrified. My partner and I worked all summer on our presentation and we decided we would do a fun make and take session with Math Notebooks.<br />
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We took our math series which is Pearson's Envision Math and created foldables and journal entries for each lesson in the first two units. Along with the foldables there were I can statements for each lesson, directions for each activity and a grading sheet. After hours of creating and talking about what we wanted to say and making our flipchart it was D-day. I had never been so nervous in my life. I was terrified that they would hate it or that I would say something that wasn't right. To my disbelief everyone LOVED it and were so excited to use them this year in there room. They were so happy that it was a make and take session. They all left with the whole first unit done in their notebook.<br />
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As with any good PD session we had giveaways. This was in place just in case they didn't like our session. One of my giveaways was my I CAN posters to go with every lesson from the math series. This was a huge undertaking alone. I thought I would debut these poster here on my blog. Here are a couple of the posters that I made.<br />
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I hope everyone is having a great summer....well I guess summer is pretty much over. I started on Tuesday but students don't start until this coming Tuesday. I am almost done with my classroom and once that is done I will post some pictures.<br />
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