Sorting Things Out!

We have added the letter sort mega pack that we use in our Kindergarten word work station at the beginning of the year.  The pack is filled with 156 SORTS!!!!!  These sorts really help our students with differentiating between capital and lowercase letters and identifying the fancy letter formations they run across in texts.   Our kinder kiddos are always amazed by the fancy "a" or "g" :)  Included are capital, lowercase and letter pair sorts.  Check it out here in our TPT store!  Since it's our first week back to school... it's free to the first 2 friends who comment below!  Have a great week!!!!

Fluency Phrases and High Frequency Words

Looking to improve your student's fluency?  Use these Fry Fluency flash cards!  This pack includes the 300 most frequently used phrases.  We have the kiddos practice the phrases, but we also sometimes time them to give them a goal to work towards.  We give the kids 1 minute to read as many as they can.  The ones they know are counted, and graphed onto the sheet provided to track their progress.  We also know to increase fluency kids need a good base of  high frequency/ sight words.  Below are the Fry 300 most commonly used words flash cards.  For both of these we printed the sheets onto colored card stock, cut them out, laminated them, and used a book ring to hold them together and keep us organized!  Hopefully you can find some use for them too!  The first person to leave a comment can have these both for FREE.  Don't forget to leave your email!

As the school year begins we are updating our classroom décor and posters.  These are posters for the numbers 0-20.  They display the numeral, written word, base ten, ten frame, and tally mark representations.  These are great to hang near your math center for your kiddos to be able to use as anchor charts.  We will give away a copy of them for FREE to the first person that comments below.  Be sure to leave your email!  If you would like a copy, click the image below.  Good luck beginning your school years!   



Apples and Back to School Skills

Hey!  We are back again with our new Apple unit and a back to school skill sharpener set!  Apples is one of our favorite themes to do with our kiddos! Included in the Apples pack is over 120 pages of literacy and math centers and activities, plus some fun class graphs and writing activities.  Check out the preview below or click on the cover to see it in our TPT store:)

We have also added our cutting, gluing and pre-writing skill pack to our little store.  There are 30 pages of  practice for your little ones to work on using just a lil' bit of glue, building scissor skills (straight, curved and zig zag lines) and pre-writing skills like making straight lines, curved lines, circles, and slanted lines.  We use these activities the whole first month of school to get those skills perfected.  Check out the preview below or click the cover to view it on TPT.

And clearly they are both free to the first person who comments:)  Have a great day!

Calendar Journals

Start your school year off with this Calendar Journal.  This Calendar Journal is tailored for the first grade curriculum.  Over the years we have seen many different "calendar helpers".  While they were all fabulous, we needed to make one to fit the needs our kiddos.  Maybe your kids can benefit from it too!  It includes the following: calendar journal covers for each month, calendars for each month, poems for each month, a daily recording page, reference sheets, and a weather chart!  Check it out below!  Be the first person to leave a comment with your email and you can have it FREE!

Student Passes Freebie!

As we are getting ready for school we are revamping our classroom décor.  Grab yourself a free copy of our student passes.  There are passes for the bathroom, hall, nurse, office, lunch and recess.  

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!!

Don't know about you but school starts for us in 2 weeks!  Yikes... so much to do!  :)  We are still sooooo busy getting everything ready for back to school  including our back to school centers... maybe you're looking for some too?!  We have added our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom unit to our TPT store... it's filled with lotsof literacy and math centers activities that are perfect for back to school and getting your new kiddos motivated about learning!  Included are tons of letter and sound recognition games and activities, letter sorts, an emergent reader, a color word game, 10 frame activities, number/quantity relationship games, number word identification, a missing number game and much more!  Check out the preview below or head over to our little TPT store by clicking here :)

P.S.  Thanks so much to our friends for leaving us some Brown Bear and Chrysanthemum love... hope you're liking the units!!!  We love a good giveaway soooooo first one to comment gets this little number for free too!

Back to School with Chrysanthemum and Brown Bear!

Back to School with Chrysanthemum and Brown Bear!

Hey friends!  We are back with our favorite units to start off the school year... Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?  by Eric Carle.  We have added 2 packs to our TPT store for only $3 each or you can grab them both for a lil' discount:)  You can click on the previews below to see what's included in these units and the covers to take you to our TPT store.  Here is a demo if you want to check it out!  P.S. the first 3 friends to comment below can get them for free!  Make sure you leave your email address with your comment:)  We will be back soon with more FREEBIES!

Shape Posters

Shape Posters
     Hey friends!  We are still busy getting all of our stuff ready for back to school and have been updating a lot of our classroom resources! We are posting our shape posters in our TPT store for free!  Check out the previews below for the bright polka dot and chevron themed shape posters that match our clip charts and math manipulative labels!    Hope you like!!!

Back to School Freebies!

Back to School Freebies!

Hey!  Just finished making some stuff for back to school!  We made signs for our kiddos to hold up for first day of school pictures and a fun little Pop Rocks treat topper to get them excited for back to school!  Thought you might be able to use them too:)  The signs are posted  in our TPT store for grades PK-5 and the treat toppers for grades K-5... check out the previews below and click on the covers to grab them for FREE!  Check back soon for more back to school freebies!

Welcome to our Blog!

Welcome to Our Blog!

Thank you so much for stopping by our brand new blog!  We are 3 teachers with experience in the primary grades and special education.  We love creating fun units and activities for our kiddos and making things for our classrooms.  We have been so inspired by all of the other amazing bloggers our there over the past few years and are hoping we can share some useful ideas and activities with you! Please click on the image below to check out some of our freebies on TPT!  Be sure to add your name to our email list and follow us on TPT.  Please check back for some new freebies soon!!!