What We've Been Up To (in photos)

Is it just me or was this the longest.week.ever?!

It is 8pm and I have pizza in my hand, my jammies on, and the first 3 seasons of Friends in the DVD player ready to keep me occupied for the weekend!

That being said, I will not be "talking" a lot in this post. Here are just a few things we did this week:

 We started addition with 3 addends this week and my kiddos were rockstars! They used their addend mats to practice showing and solving addition story problems. These mats and loads of other activities and games can be found in my {Addition with 3 Addends packet}.

 My *power-hour* group is beginning their long vowels with bossy e and we played this fun read the room game! It is a fabulous freebie I found from Mrs. Pollard over at Tales of a Teacherista! The students make their own little bossy e wand and walk around the room adding the e and recording the new word. They were loving it!

 Oh ya... and it was Halloween this week! My kids were wild n' crazy all day Wednesday but I kept them pretty busy. This is a game my ah-mazing teacher-friend, Michelle, showed me last year. Essentially the students put 10 Q-Tips on the skeleton and take turns removing 1 or 2 of them at a time. The goal of this strategy game is to NOT be the last person to remove a "bone." Once the students catch on, they love this game and giggle all darn day!

There are loads of other pictures of Halloween and our field trip we took Monday, but my kiddos smiling faces are plastered all over them and I don't feel like covering them all up with goofy circles, so you'll just have to trust me... we had a BALL!

Now, this teacher is exhausted!

I will see you in a couple days with a few treats I have for ya :)

NightyNight.

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Spider Word Families!

 Parent teacher conferences are this week - ahhhh!!

That being said I have tons to do and not enough time to do it all! So this post will be short and sweet. I made this little spider craftivity that we will be completing tomorrow afternoon. It is EZ-PZ and free! Click on any of the pictures below to snag yourself a copy!

 

I also want to show you a sneak peek of my Halloween bulletin board:

 It isn't finished yet, but I will be choosing some of the word family spiders to decorate and a few more of my riddle crafts to fill up the board. Once the whole thing is put together I will take a good picture for you guys!

Happy Sunday :)

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In Awe! 500 Follower Giveaway!!!

I am in awe...

 Last Saturday around 2:00pm I reached 500 followers!!!

I am so thrilled and I love all of you ladies n gents so much that I went all out for this giveaway! Seeing as we are getting into the Fall season, and being that I am from Salem, MA, I thought it would be fitting to have a Fall/Halloween themed giveaway!

I called on the big dawgs.... the real big dawgs.... and they answered! These ladies are some of my ALL TIME favorite bloggers in all the land. I would've never started creating products or blogging if it weren't for them. Many thanks to these inspiring women!!

First up,

{Abby}

 (source: The Inspired Apple)

Abby has donated The Candy Corn Bandit. This is such a fun idea! Your students will be making predictions while trying to find out where this bandit went and what he looks like. All the while you are traveling all over the school! Anything to get my kids up and movin'!

Next,

{Rachelle}

Rachelle has donated "A Halloween Unit" to the giveaway! This huge unit is jam-packed with Halloween activities!! Some of my favorites are the "guess what we're being for Halloween" class book and the paper plate scarecrow craft!

On to, 

{Teri}

Teri's craftivities?!? Yah... I'm obsessed. This little pumpkin pack is no different. It is so stinkin' adorable I can't even contain myself! She always has the best activities to go along with her picture perfect crafts!

Then came,

{Kelley}

Have you checked out this woman's morning work?!? If not, you need to! She has the perfect September morning work packet to keep your little ones busy n learnin' in the morning! All the activities are aligned to to common core and I swear my kiddos are smarter because of these activities! She just, just, just came out with her October pack - and you can be one of the first to have it!

and next,
{Stephanie}

Are those witches adorable or what?!? Steph's creative craftivity also comes with an original poem and some how-to writing prompts! I am super excited about this pack!

Last, but not least,

{Me}

You can read more about this mini-unit here, but I kinda love it! There are loads of activities I can't wait to do with my kids!

Enter away & good luck to everyone!

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One Haunted Halloween & Pumpkin Patch Kids!

Happy weekend everybody!

I am so excited to have finally put all the finishing touches on my new {One Haunted Halloween} packet!!

There are 7 fun activities in this packet. If you click on the picture above you can see a preview and a detailed description of the pack, but I wanted to highlight a couple of my favorites:

First, is this little craftivity:

"Who is hiding there you ask? Who is the classmate behind that mask?"

Students draw a picture of themselves and then cover up their eyes with a mask. On the bottom portion they write about themselves and try to guess who is who! We did a version of this last year and it was a big hit! I hang them up in the hallway so other students can guess too! *My packet comes with the face & mask templates, writing sheet, and a map-it-out brainstorming page*

Another Halloween favorite is this EASY & fun skeleton strategy game:

*click the image to read how to play*

Both activities are in my new packet and I cannot wait to use them with my kiddos!!

In the Fall spirit, I also have my Pumpkin Patch Kids mini-unit we will be breaking out soon!

[Some of the activities include]:

Digraph spin, Even & odd activities, roll a Jack-o-lantern subtraction game, and a punctuation board game

 

Until next time,

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