We live in California and we don’t have snow. I like our weather, but I also like snow! The other week we went to the mountains to visit our very good friends…they have snow! The girls played in the snow and just LOVED it! They went sledding, they stomped in the snow and had snowball…
Writing is an area that we are ready to place more focus on, starting this January! Although we have done a bit of writing here and there, I am super excited about our Daily Journal Prompts for January! These Daily Journal Prompts are a great way to give students an opportunity to write in a daily…
The Elf on the Shelf is such a great way to enjoy some Christmas fun! This will actually be our 3rd year with “Sparkle”, which is our elf’s name. I created a FREE Elf on the Shelf writing paper pack and I hope you can use it too! FREE the Elf on the Shelf Writing…
I have a little Moffatt Girl who loves to color, cut and paste. She also loves her letter sounds and learning them makes her feel like she is reading. Well…learning beginning sounds is one of the first steps to sounding our simple CVC words. We are getting Ready2Read! 🙂 Beginning Sounds (Color, Cut and Paste!)…
How do you teach color words? It is a very good question. Teaching color words is an area that is very important for young students to master. Some color words are sight words, but you don’t really get to the color sight words until later. Other color words are decodable with simple phonics, like the…
I am busy planning and prepping for this coming year. I really want to be organized this school year, so I need to start NOW! I don’t know about you, but I feel like the summer is just slipping away. I just made a printable called ABC Tic-Tac-Toe that helps with handwriting, upper and lowercase letter…
I wanted to create a packet that works on ABC’s, numbers, shapes and colors so we created our Build-a-Book set! I love this set because it is a hands-on interactive set of mini-books that allow students to color, cut, paste and put things in order. This packet makes 5 mini-books for the following concepts: *Uppercase…
