GIVEAWAY!!!

Have you heard... "Bird, bird, bird"... 'GIVEAWAY ' is the word!!! That's right! Wow, summer holidays and a free gift! If you are looking to update your listening centre with today's TECHNOLOGY, you have to stop over at Keri's blog:   http://teachplaysmile.blogspot.ca/. She is giving away 3...

Belkin Rockstar Multi Headphone Splitters

All you have to do is join two blogs, mine and hers!!! Ezzzy-pezzzy lemon-squeezzzy!!

Primary Poetry Comprehension and Word Study Pack

Long time no blog! This is a 29 page poetry comprehension and word study pack. Each poem comes with a comprehension response activity as well as a word study activity. Great for introducing poetry to primary students! Visit my TPT store for this and the matching FREE poetry writing pack.

Guided Reading Before, During, & After

This is a guided reading kit Primary. It has a reading behaviour checklist for each reading level, as well as a list of before, during and after lessons for each level. This is really going to keep me on track! I hope. Just click the image to go to my TPT store and get this 19 page package for only $1.

Free Printables for DRA

Here are some tracking tools that I use as I track my students' DRA scores. I've used the junior/intermediate version as a resource for designing my own version for my primary classroom. I use the rubric to score,  and record and track in the table, so that I can immediately identify the needs and groups for scaffolding. These are word documents, so you can fine-tune them to suit your own needs. Just click on the image!  Or, click here to get them from my TPT store.

P.S. Feedback welcome! 

Oral Language

Happy almost weekend! As my little ones talked, and talked, and talked, and talked some more today, I reminded myself how much I value Oral Language. One of the ways I get my students together to share their thinking is by using matching pairs. I've previously posted a set that I've used in math (freebie), but you can use almost anything. Some that I use are homonyms, antonyms, contractions, math questions and answers, rhyming words, picture associations (cookies & milk), etc. After assessing some of my struggling readers today, I realized some of them needed more practise with CVCe words (Magic 'e'). So, I came home today, ignored my dog who was barking, the laundry pile, the clean dishes in the dishwasher that needed to be put away, my messy bed... well, let's just say I did a good job of ignoring all household chores, to create this new set of Magic 'e' pairing cards for my ankle bitters! For 50cents you could have them too! Click here to go to my TPT store, where there are TONS of printable FREEBIES just for you!





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TAG, I'm it!

TAG, I'm it!
Thanks to Jessica over at Confessions of a Primary Teacher

Okay so, here are the rules...
1. Answer the 10 questions that the tagger posted for you.
2. Create 10 questions of your own to ask people that you're about to tag.
3. Tag 10 people and link them with your post (and tell them they've been tagged).

My answers!1. If I couldn't teach I would love to work for the travel network.
2. My favourite sport is hockey and I root for the Montreal Canadians.
3. To get through a rough day I have a Tim Horton's coffee and lick the icing off of at least two cupcakes.
4. My dream home would be right next to my sister's house, and it would have a connectng tunnel between the two!
5.  To relax I lovvvvve to put on my pj's and get lost in one of my favourite movies.
6. My favourite season is summer, of course. I love to spend the day on my deck with a good book.
7. My favourite subject to teach is language because, in grade one, I get to be witness to them reading for the first time. Happy tears for the sweet moments.
8. A student who has touched me... so many, but one that I think was as touched by me as I was by her would be a student who had just lost her mom to cancer. She was lost, and dad was doing the best he could. I tried to fill in the gaps. Many tears exchanged on the last day for sure. But, it wasn't until I received a letter at my new school the following year, that I realized just how much she really needed and appreciated the extra care.
9. I don't really care for Coke cause I'm a Pepsi fan.
10. Most embarrassing moment while teaching... hmm, for me to know, and you to find out!

The wonderful teacher-bloggers I'm tagging are:

1.Marsha at: http://differentiatedkindergarten.blogspot.ca/
2. Keri at: http://teachplaysmile.blogspot.ca/
3. Traci at: http://dragonfliesinfirst.blogspot.ca/
4. Rebecca at: http://www.mrsrojasteaches.blogspot.ca/
5. Kayla at: http://primaryjunction.blogspot.ca/
6. Hilary at: http://rockinteachermaterials.blogspot.ca/
7. Jen at: http://theteacherscauldron.blogspot.ca/
8. Kimberly at: http://funkyfirstgradefun.blogspot.ca/
9. Mel at: http://seusstastic.blogspot.ca/
10. Erika at: http://2bhoneybunch.blogspot.ca/
The questions are...
1.What's your favourite kind of apple red or green?
2. Tell of a time when you knew you were truely appreciated.
3. What's the tallest your hair has been? (What can I say, I loved the 80's).
4. If you could be any cartoon character, who would you be?
5. What picture book makes you cry every time?
6. If you were granted one wish for your classroom, what would it be?
7. Finish this statement: "If money grew on trees..."
8. Favourite colour of jelly bean?
9. If you won the lottery, would you hire an assistant or retire?
10. If you were a colour, what would it be?