Write Me Three Freebie

Hi FL fans. This is

 

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I love meeting so many of you in Vegas.

 And I love giving you guys free stuff.

And I really love using word walls and 

the Write Me Three structure to help beginning writer build their confidence 

to write more than one sentence about a topic.

Please check out this freebie for back to school with a Word Wall and Writing sheet

by clicking on the picture above or here...

This link will take you to my blog and it has a link to the freebie!

I am already back at school! 

How about you?

Top Secret Gluing Techniques Freebie

 

Do you have a love/hate relationship with white drip glue and kiddos?

I know I do! I love it because it is CHEAP and LASTS way longer than glue sticks and the kids can't lose covers OR forget to put the covers on for that matter. 

But, we all hate it simply because kids don't know how to use it...and teaching them has always been so difficult that I used to just give up and go with the easy to use, easy to waster, EXPENSIVE glue sticks...how about you? 

I thought there MUST be a better way to do this. There must be a way to get these kiddos familiar with this white, sticky stuff and to get them to use it effectively....

I wrote an "original" song that can easily be sung to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell" and created sheets that students actually practice the new terms they learn: dabbing, globs that take forever to dry, making frames, and dots in the corners!

It has made a world of difference in my classroom and I hope it can end this gluing nightmare in yours.  Even if you are one of the more than 40,000 teachers who have already downloaded this FREE product, please feel free to grab it again since I have made it more kid-friendly and (for our sakes only) prettier!

 While you are at my TpT Store, I would LOVE it if you made sure you were a follower of my store!

Picture Directions!

Hi!  Cupcake here to share an improved version of an old freebie! :)  Picture directions are a great classroom management tool for little learners!

I posted a set of picture directions in my shop two years ago, and decided they needed a facelift… so I made them pretty and added to the set!  They will match any bright classroom, and they also coordinate with my chevron decor.

Stop by my blog to see a preview of all the included cards, or just go directly to my shop to pick up {or redownload!} your copy.  I hope you love them!!

Setting Up Procedures

Hello everyone! Kristen here from A Day In First Grade. With the back to school season quickly approaching, I wanted to put together a quick packet to help me organize my thoughts on some of the things I will need to do/teach at the beginning of the year.

I created a FREE guide for you on setting up procedures in your classroom! It is full of posters, questions, and pages for you to download to help you get organized.

I hope that you enjoy it!

Simply click HERE to get taken to this HUGE freebie!!

It even includes posters that you can use in your classroom like this one:

Enjoy,

Kristen 

Parent Communication Binder

COMMUNICATION friends! Teachers and parents are PARTNERS in education. I have a cute binder that I want to share with you today.YOU can choose the color of your binder. I have provided 6 popular colors and they all have a chevron/polka dot theme! :-) Who doesn't love chevron and polka dots?!

I have also included the log sheets for you to include. I use tabs  for each student and keep some sheets behind it. 

I am sharing some ideas on parent communication all week. Hop on over to my blog to grab this freebie and hopefully get some ideas! 

Are You Heading Back to School? {We Have a Surprise For You!!!}

Some of your favorite Freebielicious authors have put their TpT shops on sale for the next two days. Perfect time to stock up and get prepped for a new school year!

{thank you Tara West for the button!}

Save 20% in our shops on July 27th and July 28th!

An InLinkz Link-up

ABC's of Your Class!

Are you ready for Meet the Teacher yet?  (Sigh for sure right?)  So much to do between now and then for so many of us!  So here's a fun freebie to make your lives a little easier and a little more organized for welcoming your families into your class!  ABC's of Our Class!  Full editable so you can customize it to your specific classroom!

Stop by for an easy organizational tip that keeps me from stressing out when meeting 25 parents at once!  

FREE Printable Sight Word Labels

Are you busy getting ready for back to school? Ready to add a little fun and flair to your classroom Word Wall? Or maybe just help your students associate color with their sight word flashcards? I have the PERFECT freebie for you.

My classroom word wall reviews letter sounds while providing students with a visual anchor for the sight words they have already learned. Here you can see the sight words displayed beside each corresponding letter on the word wall.

Creating the word cards is EASY! To prepare, I just cut 3x5" pieces of brightly colored cardstock and printed the sight words onto Avery 5163 labels. When I am ready to create the word cards, I just peel the labels and stick them onto the card stock pieces. 

EASY PEASY!

Free Sight Word Labels are available for the Pre-Primer, Primer, First, Second, and Third Grade Dolch lists. To download your FREE sight word labels, stop by the Kinder-Craze blog!

First Day Management Techniques

Swing on into Mrs. Miner's Monkey Business to get three of my most useful back to school tips! Find out what on earth ^^^^ this kid is doing and how it will save your sanity (not to mention your voice) for those first few days of school. 

You can also grab stop signs and find out how those never ending lines become easily manageable with them at the beginning of the year....

See you there!

Click here to swing in for some freebies!

Learning about Shapes! {free shape poems}

Throughout the first week of school, our focus during math is introducing 2D shapes. I made some fun posters to help my students remember the names and properties of each shape {and they referred to them all year long!}

  {clip art from Love Two Teach borders from Teaching in a Small Town}   My class absolutely loved these! We learned each poem and talked about the characteristic of each shape. We even learned that Sandy Square has a booooyfriend ;)

{Download the shape poems here and ignore the fact that I clearly need more ink ;) I copied 2 to a page so that they printed out smaller than a regular sheet of paper.}  After we learned about each shape, I hung the posters up in our classroom for future reference.   We also played this super fun shape game! After we met our new friends and talked all about the shapes, we sat in a big circle {applying what we learned about circles!}. Then I walked around with a bunch of shapes in a bag and had each student pull out one shape. They told their neighbor what shape they pulled out {to practice identifying and to help their neighbor if they weren't sure} and then we played the Shape Game!

After everyone had a chance to stand up, we switched our shapes and played again. It was a lot of fun :) To see what else we did during the first week of school, visit my blog, Miss Kindergarten!

Kindergarten Assessment Notebook

Hi freebie friends! I am getting my assessment notebook ready for the 2014 school year! I keep this notebook in my small group area. I love having all of my assessment sheets in one place!

I have included some literacy freebies today! 

Hop on over to my blog to grab your freebie! 

Pacing Guide for Planning!

Are you planning yet?  Be sure to stop by Simply Kinder for this blank pacing guide to make it super easy!  I don't know what I would do without my big picture master plan!  (Be sure to download it to your computer and then make edits!)

For me this is a working document that I will print once a month or so.  I do this because things change and need to be altered as we all know!  I also make it real simply so I just have like a map to ensure I fit everything in! My regular lesson plans are of course more detailed!  Take a peek:

Hopefully you can use to help you stay organized!

The Teacher Cheat Sheet

Hello!  It's Reagan from Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits

Sometimes the simplest things end up being the most valuable in the classroom for me!  The teacher cheat sheet is possibly the center of all classroom happenings and it gets little to NO attention on the blog!  Time to fix that today!!


I am NOT a fan of constant documentation.  I mean we don't usually have the time to use the restroom let alone document everything happening daily, can I get an amen?

So here's a simple solution to the documentation issues we all face daily!


Each week on a cute clipboard of choice, you have a blank cheat sheet.  {pictured below on the left}

As 3,647 small things come up each day you jot down on your cheat sheet so you only have one consistent place to look for the entire week's happenings.  Keep it where you always have it handy.  Take it to recess, take it to lunch, have it when parents call asking when things happened.  It's a simple solution to the chaos!  

The red marks on the right are examples of things I may write down in a given week. 

I keep it to ten rows because I never used all 24 kid's names in a week and the spaces get too small to really write what is happening if you put to many boxes on a sheet.  Ten seemed to be the perfect amount per week needed.

 I leave all of the sheets on the clipboard for the entire semester underneath so I can flip back when I get a phone call and have answers ready!  Once the pages on the bottom are really outdated,  I slide them out and place them in a file until the end of the school year.  {Just in case}

To get this cheat sheet I am going to have you head to my facebook page and use the freebie tab!  Hope it helps simplify your school year craziness!  :) 

 

Back to School with Freebielicous

Freebielicous is dedicated to free resources but there is ever so often a time when we come together to offer you a deal so AMAZING that you won't want to miss!  

And so we have teamed up with Educents again (we did this last back to school as well) to get you an amazing savings of our top back to school items!

Twenty-three products, over 1200 pages of materials from some of your favorite Freebielicous  teacher authors.  73% off and for a very limited time!  We just had to share!   Click here to grab this deal!  

Enter to win $50 in Edubucks to help us celebrate!  Edubucks will be awarded after the deal closes so you can go back and get more stuff for your classroom!
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Classroom decor, printables, centers, book units, readers theaters, craftivities, and so much more, it's a bundle you are sure to LOVE!  There is even a clipart set from Melonheadz you can use in your own resources!  Take a peek at the links below:

An InLinkz Link-up

Back to School Word Work Freebie!

Hi everyone! Kristen here from A Day In First Grade. I hope that the summer is treating you well and that you are able to RELAX and enjoy some down time. However, if you are like me, my "teacher brain" never shuts off!

I have been thinking about the ways to kick off work on writing and word work in my classroom and made a few freebies that might help you!

First off, I have a whole PDF available that outlines my writing center available on my blog. In the PDF you will find posters, writing pages, and more! You can get it by clicking on the picture above!

I also made some word cards to help me kick off word work and write the room in my classroom. To get them, simply click on the pictures below.

 

Feel free to head over to my blog to read all about how I set up writing in my classroom and to grab your freebies!

I hope you enjoy them!
~ Kristen