Lesson Plan Diva is celebrating 1000 followers! That is A-Maz-Ing! She is super talented. I am so excited to be a part of her giveaway. Today only, you can go to her blog, follow the blogs, and then get tons of free downloads from several fabu teachers!  Happy Sunday!!

I found this yesterday on Pinterest and it made me laugh at loud. I could imagine some of my clever students saying this. By the way…My name is Crystal I am an addict…of PINTEREST! Seriously, it is cooler than cool. I had to pry myself away from the computer yesterday between that and blogging, and get outside. I have used…
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Classroom Freebies is a fabulous new blog made up of teachers from all grade levels. I am super excited to be an author and a follower! This is a blog you won’t want to pass by. Head on over and start downloading!  Happy Saturday!!

Well, we are making progress. I decided to keep working on labeling this week. Instead of giving each student an entire blank page, I gave them each a half sheet. They seemed to do better with this amount of space. Their labeling was much better. Yeah! I put the numbers 1,2,3 in the corner of my work so I could…
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Everything is a teaching opportunity. During group time, we sing lots of songs. When learning sight words, we use the song “The word on the bus”. You can find it at Welcome to Room 36 blog. I made these sight word buses to go with the song. Click below to download. 🙂 Sight Word Bus (function() { var scribd =…
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In this center, students stamp the body and label in pencil the body parts. I heart dice games! In this games, students can play alone or with a friend. They use bears as a game piece. They role the dice and whatever they land on, they move fwd that many spaces. The student to get to the end first wins….
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I love Frog Street Press! I use their alphabet songs, charts, and books to help teach each letter. This week, we are working on letter N so we learned Nelly Nurse. The kids LOVE these. I have a small book that I made that follows the song too. The first day of the letter study, I introduce the letter, we…
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I finished my “Fall, Pumpkins, & Halloween…Literacy, Math, & Science and everything in Between” Unit. It’s a whopping 80 pages and I hope you love it. You can buy it by clicking here. Right now it is on sale for $5. I will post a few freebies tonight so check back. Have a great Monday. Where did the weekend go? J…
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This is my lesson from MONDAY. Just to clarify, we have WWS time daily but I only model write every other day because of time. Right now, I am starting lessons on Monday and we continue to work on that lesson all week. I am using a small chart tablet but soon I will use a large chart tablet for…
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