Teacher Appreciation!

Good morning you guys!

I hope your students have been showering you with appreciation this week! 
I'm popping in really quick to let you know about the TpT Teacher Appreciation sale! Woot woot! What teacher doesn't love a good sale?! lol! Click HERE to visit my store!

I just uploaded a new comprehension packet last night: "It's Almost Summer!"

My kids really have come a long way with these comprehension pages. I used to have to sit and guide them through the color codes and slowly break apart the sentences and use our strategies to read the sentences. Now they are breezing through! They know the routine but the passages and questions still make them think!

Grab the freebie page from this packet to give it a try!

Have a happy Tuesday!!

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Winter Comprehension!

So this is *way* late... but maybe you can save it for next year!

So we had Thanksgiving at our house...but we don't have enough place settings for everyone 

{there were 16 of us} so I made these cute little napkin/ silverware holders to fancy thing up a bit. All I did was fold the paper so that there were equal amounts of "white space" around the "give thanks" part then cut the extra paper off. I unfolded the paper and then used the paper cutter to trim the top half of the paper off. I used a good 'ol Elmer's glue stick to glue the flap onto the back paper. Easy peasy! Click on the picture to snag these up from Google Docs.

I also finished up this new Winter Comprehension Pack that I'm sooo excited about! 

I know some of y'all can't use Christmas themed things in your classroom so this works perfectly for the season without being Christmas-y. I'm planning on using it AFTER Christmas up until Valentine's Day in my own classroom. My kids go bananas for these {they love finding the matching pictures and then drawing them} 

Here are a few sample pages {I copy them front to back}

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Christmas comprehension!

Happy almost- Thanksgiving! We're having dinner at our house tomorrow so I'm going to make this short and sweet! 

I've been working with Ella today on fluency and comprehension- it is SO much fun to see her become a reader and grow this year! I created this Christmas comprehension pack to make it a little more exciting. She was putty in my hands! 

I love this packet because I added a back side to the pages where students write a sentence about the passage and then illustrate a connection that they have. Click HERE to see it on TpT!

First, students will color code the sight words and then illustrate the passage to check for understanding. Then they get to pick through the visuals that are included and add them to the work board to help with the illustrations!

 End product....amazing!!

"get toys and they get cars and they get hats" LOVE!

Grab this freebie page from the product preview HERE or on the picture below! Click the "preview" button underneath the thumbnails.

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TWO!

 Gosh.. when I typed that title it might be misleading. LOL

No- I'm not expecting (anymore- ever! whew!) and definitely not two!

Our best couple friends have twin boys. They just turned 1 and are the most precious little twins ever. But I can not imagine doing two teeny tiny babies at one time! Bless any of you who have twins!

The baby I've been working on is my Kindergarten Comprehension pack TWO!

I've had such a wonderful response to my first pack and several requests for more- so here it is! 

I printed and laminated a few things from the pack this weekend and started with it in small group today. They LOVE these pages! My kids like having the visuals to dig through to figure out which picture goes with the story.

I don't know if your kids are bananas for sight words like mine- but they LOVE to find them in EVERY (and I mean EVERY thing) that we read- random ad on the side of YouTube?! "I see go Mrs. Alderson!!" "I see like! play!" So the color code in the story is right up my kids' alley!

 

I love the blue hair on that little guy- this was extraordinary work for this student! Comprehension? Easy check!

Don't worry- I'll leave you with a little freebie from this pack. Scrambled sentences!

 Just click on over to the product description and "Download Preview" to snag this one up!

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