New Fairy Tale Packs

If you are a fan of my 3 Little Pigs and Goldilocks Reading & Writing Mini-Units {blogged about them here}...

  

Then you will love my two newest packs... Gingerbread Man and Little Red Riding Hood! All of these packs feature the same reading and writing activities, but are adapted for the certain fairy tale. You can use any version of the stories that you have. Each pack includes a book list of examples of the different versions you can find! Check them out at TpT by clicking on the pictures below...

New Word Work Packs

I am *loving* being on maternity leave. The weather is finally warming up, we're starting to settle into our daily routines, and I get to spend all day with my sweet little muffin! I can't believe she is 7 weeks already. Wow, time flies!

I also love finding bits of time to work on some new products to use in my class when I go back and of course to share with you on TpT. I finally finished my word work centre packs. I just uploaded two new packs--Halloween Word Work and Fall Word Work. Each pack contains five different centres.

Halloween Word Work Centres focus on stamping Halloween words, putting Halloween words into alphabetical order, sorting short "e" word families, making words out of "Happy Halloween", and creating real or nonsense CVC/CCVC words.

Fall Word Work Centres focus on stamping fall words, sorting short "o" word families, unscrambling sentences, rhyming words, and a simple fall poem to practice colour words.

Here's a peak of all the available word work packs in my store. Click the links below to check them out at TpT.

Back 2 School Word Work Centres

Halloween Word Work Centres

Fall Word Work Centres

Christmas Word Work Centres

Winter Word Work Centres

Valentine Word Work Centres

Lucky Word Work Centres

Easter Word Work Centres

Spring Word Work Centres

Summer Word Work Centres

Camping Word Work Centres

I will be back soon with some new math centre packs!

TpT Teacher Appreciation Sale! (and some adorable baby pictures)

Even though I'm away from the blog for a bit (until I get a handle on life as a new mom!!) my entire TpT store will be on sale for the big Teacher Appreciation Sale. Everything in my store will be 20% off May 6 and 7. If you use the promo code: TPTXO, you can get an additional 10% off. Click the logo below to visit my store. Happy shopping!

Also, my beautiful baby girl Zoe Elizabeth just turned 5 weeks today. WOW, time flies! Here are a few beautiful photos from her newborn photo shoot when she was 5 days old. She was such a fuss pot the entire time, but you can't even tell from her pics! :)

I am loving my time off and enjoying every minute with this precious little bundle of joy! :)

Five for Friday

It is the last day of February. Can you believe it?? I only have four more teaching weeks until I am off on maternity leave. I can’t believe how quick it is coming. I still have report cards and parent teacher to get through though!
It has been FOREVER since I linked up with Doodle Bugs Teaching, but here I am with my Five for Friday. It’s a quiet house right now… dogs and cats are sleeping, the fiancé is at work, and I’m just watching some Twilight. Who doesn’t love some teenage vampire love story??


February was a crazy month. First we had Valentine’s Day. I didn’t do anything too crazy. We made simple brown bag card holders… gave the kids construction paper scraps and foam stickers and just let them go to town. We did some candy heart graphing and had a little party at the end of the day. It was actually a pretty calm day, especially for a Friday!

Next up, 100 day! It was a crazy-filled day. We made crazy 100 day hats (using colourful dot stickers) and of course fruit loop necklaces. I think that was the quietest my class has ever been this year. Of course we threw on some Olympics while we were stringing our fruit loops together. We watched the end of the Women’s gold medal hockey game. Sorry USA readers, but go Canada go!!! :)

We also did the adorable writing and craft to go with “When I am 100 years old…” Some of them were super funny. My favourite was: “I will be a grandma. I will give grandpa some coffee. I will love being 100.” Bah ha ha!

We also did four fun, math centres: Roll and Tally to 100 (from Mathwire), What’s Missing? (freebie from First Grade Blue Skies), Hop by 10s (brilliant skip counting hop scotch by Kinder-Craze), and 100 chart puzzles.

Then we ended the day with some delicious, gluten-free cupcakes made by yours truly. Yum! Definitely a fun, but exhausting day.

I don’t know if you were big into the Olympics at your school, but it was craziness at ours! February is I Love to Read month, so we went with an Olympic theme. Each morning some older students read some Canadian athlete bios during the announcements. We had a dress like an athlete day and a read with a torch (flashlight) day. We even had our own Winter Olympics activity afternoon with broomball, floor hockey, luge, and snowboarding! We read medal winning books. We set reading goals each week and could earn our own gold medals. Here’s the fun display we made. Like the Olympic athlete I made? I used some adorable winter Melonheadz clipart as my inspiration! Turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself!

We did a few fun Olympic crafts. The athlete with flag came from here and the moose (the Canadian Olympic team mascot Komak… go here if you have never even heard of him!!) was designed by a kindergarten teacher at my mom’s school. So cute! I actually left that for a sub one afternoon and they had a great time putting it together!

    

The neat thing about the Olympics this year was that in January I had a new student arrive. He actually just moved to Canada in October from Russia (somewhere near Moscow). In our Social Studies curriculum one of our units is about “Connecting with Others” and talking about diversity and similar needs of people all across the world. So we are learning a little bit about Russia. It’s so fun to connect our students’ real lives to our curriculum. They love learning about other places!

Before I left school today, I got my room already for March! I took down the Valentine’s Day stuff and put up my March decorations. The March calendar looks a lot less busy than February did…

Lastly and totally un-school related…. the baby room is complete!! 5 weeks until my due date. The room is done, the car seat is bought (but not installed yet), the hospital bag is packed… now just to finish report cards and I will be ready for her to come! (Ignore the ugly insulation in the window…. we live in a trailer and it’s to save heating costs in the winter… lol… it will be removed when spring finally comes!)

   

   

That’s it for me tonight! Have a great weekend.

3 Million Member Sale!

I'm sure you've heard already, but Teachers Pay Teachers is having a huge sale February 27th and 28th to celebrate 3 million members! How exciting! Everything in my store will by 20% off and if you use the promo code TPT3 at checkout, you get an extra 10% off. Have fun shopping! Click the picture or {here} to visit my TpT store.

(image credit: Rachel Lamb for Blog Hoppin')

February Currently

I finally made it around to link up with Farley's Currently! I missed the last few months, so this is pretty exciting for me! :)

Of course you can tell that I've got baby on the brain! Well, the truths are... yes, the baby's nursery is purple with owls. It's almost done and is looking super cute! I'll post pictures once it's all complete. I just love going in there and looking at some of the cute baby clothes I've gotten already. So precious... :)

And yes, we start our first prenatal class next week! Nine weeks to go and counting... I'm starting to get a little nervous!! :)

And the fib... no, the car seat is not installed yet. lol. It hasn't even been bought yet! I am having a heck of a time deciding on which one. Hopefully we decide before she comes! Otherwise we won't be leaving the hospital... lol

Happy Weekend, everyone!