4 Square Writing Freebie!

Four Square Writing has endless possibilities! You can get it here for free or you can get it by clicking on the picture. I left it blank so you can put in your own topic. You can check out my previous post about how I used 4 square writing in my classroom during our author study […]

Let the Force of Literacy Be With You!

The boys in my class are obsessed with Star Wars this year. So much so that the girls have started to get books out of the Star Wars basket to put in their book bags during Reader’s Work-shop too. since the boys think it’s so great, they think they might just be missing out on […]

Valentine Literacy Pack Giveaway and A-Z linky!

I am really excited to start using these stations for the next literacy rotations! I LOVE these graphics that I got from KPM doodles. They are my all time fave! The kids were already looking in the baskets saying “Oh, I love those candies!” I think my girls are excited because of all the pink!  […]

Writing Freebie

No snow today so we were back at it 🙂 The kids are getting pumped up about our 100th day Friday! I feel like everyone has already done 100th day but we don’t celebrate til Friday. The kiddos come in dressed like they are 100 and it is quite comical! I am looking forward to […]

Jan Brett!

I’m finally done! This was by far my longest and most extensive unit I have made yet! It’s probably because this is my most favorite author/illustrator. I LOVE Jan Brett. I try to get my kids to enter the contest every year so she will come to our school library. One year, we got a […]

Real vs. Nonsense

It’s just $1.50 at my TpT store! I wanted highlight this literacy station because it can be hard to differentiate literacy stations! I like this one because students are working with the same words. They write the missing V with an Expo marker on the CVC cards. You can put them in a page protector […]

Winter Writing

Download it here for free Get it by clicking here 🙂 I just created these two documents for my students for when we get back on Tuesday. You can pick either one…I like to do four square writing with my students on multiple topics. It’s a great way to brainstorm or to do reading comprehension. […]

Christmas Clean out and Reader’s Theatre!

How fabulous is my Dad for building this Reader’s Theatre for my classroom!?! YAY!  I spent all day yesterday painting it that fabulous shade of green (blue?). I have some pretty unbelievable readers this year. Meaning I can put anything in front of them and they can read it…so this is my solution. We have […]