Move It With Brain Breaks Music Videos {FREEBIE}

If you're like me, you'd like one place with all your fun music and movement videos at your fingertips.  And it'd be great if those videos were in a safe format so that annoying content wasn't displayed before or after your video played.

Swing by {I Love 2 Teach} today to see how you can have just what I described FOR FREE!

Place Value Monster Game {freebie}

Stop on by I Love 2 Teach for a {free place value game} that can be used with kids working on building numbers from 2-digits to 6-digits.  The materials you need are super simple and the fun your kids will have while working on place value is super high!

How To Make Ice Cream Informative Writing

 I know, I know. It's doesn't seem like ice cream weather. Being as I live in Florida, last week was perfect ice cream weather!

Stop on by to see my class making ice cream and then writing all about it! 

Literacy Center Cards

I do a combination of Daily 5 and the requirements of my school district. Here are some cards that help me communicate with the children.  I mount these on tagboard and put magnets on the back, and I can organize our Literacy time anyway I want.  Come on over to Elementary Matters to see ideas!     

Booking Across New Hampshire

Happy Booking Across the USA!  There are over 50 bloggers representing 50 states who posted about their states!  What are we posting about?  Books, of course!  Everyone has found a book that represents their state.

I'm so excited about the book I chose!

Click image for link to Amazon.

A River Ran Wild by Lynne Cherry is a piece of history, and a lesson about respect for the environment.  Plus, it is a beautiful taste of the state of New Hampshire!

When I first picked up this book, I thought I had a nice picture book about a river that runs through Massachusetts and New Hampshire, but it turned out to be so much more!

This book would be a great book to read when learning about Native Americans or when learning about the environment.  It's a great choice to read on Earth Day because of the environmental lesson.  It's also a great book for teaching history as well as the beauty of New England.  

I had many thoughts about activities connected to this book, but settled on one that celebrates the beauty of the clean waters of the Nashua River.

Come on over to Elementary Matters to see more about the book, a fun art project to go with the book, and see more books about New Hampshire as well as more books by Lynne Cherry!  (I'm sure you'll recognize a few!)

Rockin' Teacher Materials: Lakeshore's Computer Games are a Hoot! Win One!

Rockin' Teacher Materials: Lakeshore's Computer Games are a Hoot! Win One!: Read how you can use them in your room and win one too!

Find the Leprechaun's Gold

Need some great resources for St. Pat's Day? Or want a chance to win $100 of TPT gold? Stop by and check out what we are up to!

Samantha 

Classroom Freebies: Infer Like a Pro!

Teaching kids to infer can be tricky and it is a difficult skill to grasp. I have found that using pictures  really helps them 
'get the picture'!
 (get it? hee hee hee)

If you would like a short preview of how I teach inference in my classroom, just click {here} to grab a preview pack. If you would like a more detailed description and my kids in action, then just click to head on over to the {Rockin' Teacher Materials blog}.

Enjoy!

Armadillos, a Little Bit of Texas and a SALE!

Howdy!!

 

I am so excited about my post for the Booking Across the USA blog hop! I was able to represent the  state of Texas in a bog hop across the country! It has been so much fun to read about all the states and see all the fabulous ideas that the teachers and bloggers presented to go along with their state inspired books. 

 

I chose two of my favortie books (I am a fiction/nonfiction pairing type of girl)!

 

Come by

to check out the super cute Aramdillo activity that I use with my kiddos each year to celebrate the rodeo coming into town!

 

In addition, I am having a sale at my TpT store! My lastest and greatest is a fun set of fonts that I have created that I think you will love! The best aprt is that they are only $3.20 and the resource will definitely keep growing....WOOHOO!!

 

 

 

Rockin' Teacher Materials: A Trip Down Kindergarten Lane & a Freebie!

Rockin' Teacher Materials: A Trip Down Kindergarten Lane & a Freebie!: A long time ago, I taught kindergarten and I always had a full length mirror at my cut and paste station so the kids could look at themselves as they created their paper people. You would be amazed at how quickly the paper people went from 'heads with arms and legs' to 'heads, necks, bodies with arms and legs', and the list goes on.
Stop by to see more!

Recently, I was talking with a friend of mine who still teaches the little ones and she asked me to come up with a rhyming activity sometime. I had so much fun coming up with this! I just love the clip art that is available now too!

If you would like to check out a close up of the pack and get a free rhyming worksheet, just click {here}.