Poetry, Fall Centers, and a MUCH BETTER WEEK!!!

First of all I have to say a HUGE thank you to everyone single person that posted a comment on my previous post. You all mean so much to me and I was overwhelmed to hear all of your positive words. I have been so happy knowing that you all do enjoy my posts and I am absolutely not giving up blogging.

As for school news does anyone else have to give the SAT-10 test this year?? It is similar to T-CAP (for the upper grades) and is a 3-day 2 hour test. Poor babies! I feel so bad giving my little ones this test. The bad thing is that this is only the pretest and we have to take it again in May. Because of this I have been taking it light with classwork this week and we have focused on poetry. A great idea I got from Pinterest was the OUCH poems. We came up with what makes us say ouch and wrote them on our "Band-Aids." Here are how they came out.

 

Next, we studied acrostic poems. I decided to use the word fall and the word autumn for my more advanced students. Then we used the scarecrow template to "cutesy" it up. I adore these and my kids did such an amazing job. Click here to get the template. There is a color version and black and white.

 

 

 

And speaking of fall don't forget to check out my Happy Fall To All Math and Literacy Centers. It is on sale 15% off until Friday. Click on the picture to pick yours up! Happy Wednesday!!

 

 

 

 

 

Sad Week : (

I have to admit I have been a little bummed out this past week. I had a giveaway where I was giving away 4 of my best selling items and I only had 3 people enter all week long. I decided since only 3 ladies entered they were all winners and I sent them each all 4 of my packets. Congrats girls!

I was wondering if you do follow my blog would you mind leaving me a little comment and letting me know. I have started feeling like I write these posts and post freebies and nobody is actually ever seeing them but me. I would feel so much better if I knew someone out there was able to use what I am offering.

I am not at all trying to sound like a complainer, but we all know how busy teachers are, and I LOVE to post my ideas and freebies but I am almost thinking it's about time to hang up the blogging hat with the turn out from my past giveaway. If you do follow my blog, I truly appreciate you and hope my posts have helped you as a teacher in some way.

Main Idea and Supporting Details With The Little Red Hen

We are doing main idea and supporting details in my room this week. It is such a hard skill for them to grasp. Today we read The Little Red Hen and then made a cute little hen craftivity with the main idea and supporting details. I made a template for the hen and the kids wrote the main idea and 3 supporting details on the wings. You can get the template by clicking on the picture below. If you don't have the Little Red Hen book you can actually listen to it online here. Don't forget to enter my giveaway from my last post. Hope you enjoy!!

Labor Day Giveaway

I LOVE the labor day holiday. It is so refreshing after being back in school for a month to get a day off. If you are like me you have went nonstop since school started back. It's nice to have a day to relax.

In honor of having a day off I want to have a giveaway. I will be giving away my best selling products. Yep, that's right products with an "s." I want to giveaway all 4 of my common core math packets. These packets cover all math standards and will have you set all year long. Click on any of the pictures to see a preview.

Here is how you can enter. You must be a follower of my blog and my TPT store and since this is my biggest giveaway there is one more thing that is required to enter. You must also either pin my giveaway to Pintrest OR you can blog about my giveaway. Leave one comment only telling me that you are a follower of both and the link to your pin or blog. That's it! If you want more than one entry you can pin my giveaway AND blog about it. Just leave a second comment that you did both and make sure you leave the link for both. The giveaway starts today and will go through Friday of this week.

Good Luck!

Story Element Poster Freebie

Quick post today. Just had some story element posters that I used last week with my kiddos on our reading focus wall that I wanted to share with you. Click on the picture to download yours for free. Have a great weekend!!

Unkas The Reading Dog and Tasty Tuesday

I discovered the neatest thing in my county. A lady has a dog named Unkas that she takes to the schools in our county and the kids go out in the hall one at a time and get to read to it. My kiddos LOVED this today. Here are some pictures.

 

 

We also started Tasty Tuesday this week. If you haven't heard of this you HAVE to check it out. The kids get to "cook" something one Tuesday every month and then write a review. I even bought aprons for mine and had Mrs. Perkins' Chef put on them. They looked too cute. We made Carmel apples this time. The kids thought it was just the neatest thing. Click here to get the Tasty Tuesday directions from Sunny Days in Second Grade. Check out some of our apples.

 

I have parents volunteer to pick up the pictures each month so I don't put the kids face. That's their number so we know who is who. You keep their pictures and recipes and make a book at the end of the year to show their writing progress.

 

 

This kid went crazy with the sprinkles.

 



First Week Back Linky

Well we have been back at it for a whole week now. I LOVE my new class of little second graders. I have some cuties! I wanted to share what we did our first week back to school. Here are some pics of our finished products. Link up below to show what you did for your first week back.

First we used Hope King's Going for the Gold packet and made the adorable little glyph athletes. I wanted to use something with the Olympics since they were just finishing up, but I was shocked that half of my class didn't even know what the Olympics were.

We also made Olympic torches and wrote about what made us shine.

Here is our work in the hallway.

Then we used Babbling Abby's Super in Second packet to make these little backpacks. They wrote about what a second grader needs to be successful and put crayons in their pocket. So stinkin' cute!

Next, we read First Day Jitters, read Abby's poem, and made Jitter Juice. Oh My Goodness, the kids LOVED making this juice. They thought it was the neatest thing when we mixed the ingredients together.

I asked everyone to write a letter to a friend telling them about their new teacher. I went around reading them when they were at lunch and they were so sweet. This one if from my Korean girl. Love it!

Winner of Giveaway and More Classroom Pictures

First, today was the last day to enter the big back to school giveaway. The lucky winner of all these fabulous prizes is Janine N.. You will be receiving your prizes soon.

For other news I have joined Corinna from Surfin Through Second's Classroom Theme Linky. I already posted a ton of pictures in my previous post, but I have some more to share.

I found this idea on pinterest. Just hot glued clothespins to my card stock.

This is my writer's eye wall. I am still working on my writer's area, so those pics will come later. I can't find where I got my owl posters but you can get a different set here for FREE.

This is my homemade pocket chart. I am not totally happy with the way it turned out but it will do. You can find directions on how to make your own here.

Here is my reading center. I have showed this in a previous post, but it is just my favorite part of my room. I worked so hard on this and am pretty sure the fire marshall will get me for it. But I guess until then we can enjoy.

These little letter owls came from here for FREE.

This is our listening center.

This is my school supply shelf and you can get the labels here for FREE.

 When my kiddos don't finish something they put it in the "I'm not finished yet tub."

This area is right behind my small group table. I know it looks like a lot and like it would be overwhelming to the students, but I plan to help them find the letter sound they are stuck on when in small group with me so they can figure the word out on their own. You can get them here for FREE.

 Here is my part of speech wall. It seems like no matter how many times you say an adjective is a describing word, they just can't remember. So, I thought it would be nice to have up all year. You can get these posters here.

Don't you always have the kids that want to turn their paper in first and miss half of the directions or write so sloppy you couldn't read it if someone paid you?? Well I found this adorable smiley work poster. This way they have to make sure they have done everything before they turn it in. There is also one for writing too. You can get them here for FREE.

Saw this idea on pinterest and HAD to make one. Just brightens up the room.

Here are my voice level posters that you can get here for FREE.

Here is our clock area. You can get the clock numbers for FREE here. I was very disappointed when I found FREE owl ones here though. The skip counting hands and feet can be found here for FREE. The key words for addition/subtraction can be found here for FREE.

Here is my new morning calendar area. I am using The Secret to a Successful Calendar that can be found here.

I am going to use table numbers this year. I get these adorable ones here for FREE.

I am also going to try the "Fill Our Class Bucket." I found this cute sign here for FREE and just painted a frame from the Dollar Tree for it. The rocks and green bucket also came from the Dollar Tree. We have 4 nine weeks so this sign works perfect for me.

I got this idea from here. You just make your own flash cards for whatever skill you want and they put the question side up in the top and it shoots it out answer side up. LOVE IT!!

Here are some pictures of the whole room from different angles.

Hope you were able to get something from this. Don't forget about the big sale from TPT. My products will be 20% plus the discount TPT is giving. August 12th-13th

Have a GREAT weekend!!