Fall Writing Prompts

Fall Writing Prompts!

 Here, in Arizona, the weather had FINALLY begun to cool down! (Meaning under 100!) As I sit here with my apple cinnamon candle burning, I couldn't help but to share my Fall Writing Prompts! With over 90 fall themed prompts, the ideas are endless!

How do I use them? There a variety of ways to use writing task cards. My favorite is to grab a few and put them at the writing center. I usually have them optional in case students are stuck with what to write about. With over 90 different prompts, my firsties are never at a loss!

FREE writing response sheets can be found by clicking here!

Some other ideas include: daily writing prompt, morning work, early finishers, conversation starters, and many more! I would love to hear your ideas!

You can find Fall Writing Task Cards by clicking the pictures or by clicking here!

Want to test out Writing Task Cards for FREE? Grab the freebie by clicking below or by clicking here!

I hope you are all enjoying the beginning of Fall!

Happing Writing!

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FREE Valentine and Friendship Cards

Happy Valentine's Day! To show some love during this season I have brought you FREE Valentine's Day and Friendship Day Notes. Each note comes in two versions. A: Happy Valentine's Day and B: Happy Friendship Day. These are perfect to print out and give to students who can't buy notes. Find them by clicking on any of the mages or clicking here.

Here are some examples of what is included. You can find this freebie by clicking on any of the images or by clicking here. 

You can find these FREE Valentine's Day Notes here!

Need more Valentine's Day resources? Fall in love with these Valentine's Day Math Bingo.

Find addition and subtraction within 10 here.

Find addition and subtraction within 20 here.

Want even more Valentine's Day Math Games? Find the packet here!

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Resources that Sprinkle Winter into your Classroom

Ah, winter time. Who doesn't love the wintery cheer that is abundant outside and the giving nature of people around this time of year? Even though I reside in Arizona, I grew up in the wintery city of Chicago and can't resist getting excited about winter time. I wanted to share with you some of my favorite winter resources for the classroom. Enjoy a Christmas Cookie Writing Freebie found in this post!

I love having an Elf on the Shelf show up and play tricks on our classroom each holiday season. The first day he always brings some holiday decor to make out classroom bright and cheery.

Integrating useful and purposeful addition and subtraction practice is simple with these Math Bingos. To find the link to any of these products please click on the pictures. Addition and Subtraction Bingo within 10 are great for those Kindergarten classrooms and some first grade classrooms. Perfect to differentiate your different math learners.

Need Math Bingo for your First Grade and Second Grade  classrooms? These sets include addition and subtraction up to 20.

Another great math center and game is Winter Warriors. It is a wintery spin on the classic card game "War." Included in Winter Warriors are three different sets of cards creating three different games for the price of one! Players deal out the entire deck to two players. Each player flips one card over. The player with the greater amount wins that round and collects both cards. The player to have the entire deck of cards in the winner! Find Winter Warriors by clicking on the pictures or by clicking here.

Each player plays their card...

And the winner takes the cards for that round!

Who doesn't LOVE a freebie! As promised, here is your Holiday Freebie! Students can choose their favorite Christmas or Holiday Cookie and write a recipe for it. I love having a "Cookie Party" while students write their recipes.

These next two resources are some of my favorites and students love them! These Christmas Literacy Centers include five engaging games that will get your kiddos excited about your literacy block.

Students get to unscramble mixed up sentences in this Christmas Literacy Center.  

Students sort parts of speech in this Christmas Literacy Center.

Students sort real words and silly words in this Christmas Literacy Center. 

Need Christmas Math Centers? Look no further! Included are FIVE unique Christmas themed math games for your students. Find them by clicking here or on any of the pictures.

These fact family Christmas trees are perfect for Addition and Subtraction practice.

Christmas Bingo with cute presents as the markers are another great addition.

Students wind their way around this Elf Math Game by practicing addition and subtraction.

I love having printables on hand for review of different topics covered. These always come handy when there is s substitute, a student needs extra practice, a student needs to be challenged, center work, or even morning work. This Winter Printables Packet is JAM PACKED with math and literacy practice, plus each page has a unique wintery theme. Grab your say clicking here or on any of the pictures.

Winter Writing Prompts is another resource JAM PACKED with writing for informative, opinion, and personal narratives prompts. Each prompt includes steps in the writing process such as brainstorming, rough draft, editing & revising, and finally a final draft. There are several formats for the final draft and rough draft to differentiate your learners.

Find all these winter resources and more by clicking here!

Happy Wintering!

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Five for Friday -- October 2

I am linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for the weekly Five for Friday linky party.

We shave been reviewing short vowels the past couple weeks. Students have so much fun finding which "house" the words belong in. These words families are super easy to make. I make houses and put the word family at the top. I cut index cards and write the different words on them. 

Students come up and tape the the missing word into it's home. Students can reference these anchor charts while doing word work or reading.

I had to share this awesome student gift I got! He knew I liked to eat salad, and during his walk to the garden he brought me some vegetable to make a salad. Too cute!

We started our Daily 5 by talking about expectations and learning targets for each of the five activities. We talked about a think about before starting on work on writing. This is one of the foundation lessons described by The 2 Sisters. Click the link here to visit their website. Students refer to this chart to remind them of the thinking process before writing.

I love these little erasers from Target. They can be found in the dollar spot when you first walk in. Each season they have new ones. I use them as a math manipulative with number bonds, adding & subtracting, fractions, etc.

I finally got around to labeling some of my supplies. You can find these labels here or by clicking on the picture. These labels make it so much easier for me and my students to find what we need, and quickly.

Thanks for checking out this week's Five for Friday!

Happy Teaching!

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