St. Patrick's Day Centers, Games, and some Freebies!!

All kinds of sickness is going through my school and now it's my turn.  I left work early, because I feel awful.  So I'm being productive and finally getting a blog post up.  Too bad I need to be sick in order to get something done around here!  

I worked long and hard on getting my St. Patricks' Day Luck of the Irish Centers done in plenty of time that I could use them BEFORE St. Patty's day.  For me that is an accomplishment!

We started using the centers today by working on syllables.  My kids are making sooooo much progress on this skill, and it makes me sooo happy!

There's a ton more of activities in the unit: rhyming, medial sounds, mixed up sentences, addition, counting and more.  You can check it out {here}.

I've also got some super fun St. Patrick's Day games.  My kids love playing games and Save the Gold has always been a favorite every year.

If your kids are working on CVC words, this game will be perfect!

Now onto the freebies!  :)  These were freebies that I made last year but now I've revamped them and made them better.  So if you downloaded them last year, you'll want to redownload them.  Click on the pics below to download them.

I've also updated my Making Words - St. Patrick's Day to include the words shamrock and clovers.

I hope everyone is gearing up for a great St. Patty's Day.  The best part is St. Patty's Day means spring break is getting closer!

A Sight Word Game About a Cat....

I think all teachers know there is a birthday for a certain Dr. coming up.  That Dr. may or may not haver certain copyright laws that make it difficult for teachers to create really awesome stuff in honor of said birthday.

If you are celebrating a certain Dr.'s birthday or spending a day in March reading the day away, you may be interested in a sight word game that has a cat AND it doesn't break any copyright laws (that I know of).  

I don't know about you guys but my kids love playing sight word games.  Goodness knows they need a lot of practice reading sight words and it can be hard to keep them engaged.  We usually play one sight word game a day.  My kids love it, I can see their progress, and they're engaged.  That's win-win for sure!  I've got a whole post I want to write about teaching sight words (whenever I get time and remember to take pictures of tools I use).

So now onto the game.  I've discounted the price to $2 from now until March 2nd.  My kids love playing it (and really any game).  It's great for small group, centers, RTI groups, or something for volunteers to do with students.

These are words typically taught in Kindergarten and reviewed in 1st grade.  There's 72 sight words and 12 special cards.  I've also included a blank page in case you want to write your own words in.  And there's a recording sheet for students to write their words on and color some on for after the game.

If you might be interested, click on the picture below.

Are you doing anything special for a certain Dr.'s birthday?

Five for Friday!

Lately, it seems like I've only had time for Doodle Bugs Teaching's Five for Friday.  I've got a ton of ideas I want to blog about: sight words, St. Patty's Day, new behavior visuals, etc.  I just can't figure out the time.  :/

I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am that it's Friday!  Anyone else have a countdown till spring break?  15 teaching days to go!!!!

So let's recap the past week.  I'm going back till last Friday for this one.

1.  We had our Fun Fair at my school.  It was a great turn out.  Can anyone guess what booth I worked???

I got to spray hair color on the kids for 4 hours!  It was a lot of fun but that was a lot of fumes to breathe in!  Yes, I know I could have worn gloves, but I'm allergic to the powder that is sometimes in gloves.  Not the latex but the powder.  Weird allergy to have, huh?  I try to avoid all balloons, rubber bands, or gloves if possible.  Otherwise I'll feel like my face is on fire!

2.  One of the perks of being part of the military is shopping at the commissary.  Sometimes they have some great sales.

Sometimes.......not so much.  Seriously, I have tons of pictures like this.  My favorite are the ones where the sale price is actually MORE than the regular price.  :/

3.  Thank goodness for Katie at Teacher to the Core!  The other resource teacher had to call out sick unexpectedly.  I told him no worries!  I'll cover his kids and mine.  Katie has this awesome President's Day book for FREE!  It totally saved me.

If you didn't use her book this year, you should go download it {here} for next year.

4.  I finally decided that my classroom needed a super cute welcome sign and one that listed me as the teacher, too.  ;)

I've made welcome signs before back at my old school for my friends.  I've been wondering if other people would be interested in something like this for their classroom???  Maybe I could do some sort of custom order thing?  Would anyone be interested?

5.  I downloaded some great number freebies this week that I'm sure you don't want to miss out on.  Click on the pics to download these freebies!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!!!