3 New Things!

In between baking cookies, trying to figure out how to use this thing, and enjoying megatons of coffee in a real cup for a change, I've been busy creating things in my little teacher resource workshop! That whole Santa thing must be rubbing off on me.

After I made my Weekly Word Wizard packs which are mostly aimed at second graders, I started to get lots of requests for other grade levels, especially first grade. These packs take a ton of time to create, partly because I'm a freaky perfectionist and partly because they are completely common core aligned. Some of the first grade skills are tough! Like teaching shades of meaning among verbs and adjectives, for example. I started off in the first packet by having them eliminate a choice that wouldn't fit the group and I'll start to work on understanding intensity through the other packets. I have set one finished and uploaded on tpt, but I'm sharing a sample with you all here that I'm not sharing anywhere else. Just click on the picture to download week one to see if you like it and if it's something you'd like to use with your kids. If you do, you can see the whole set here on tpt. I have the other 3 nine-week sets all sketched out, I just have to type them up so I'm hoping to have them all listed in a week or so.

I also created this fun bingo game. I often find that my kids don't know some things that seem to be common sense, like how many things come in a standard set, like 12 cookies in a dozen or 52 weeks in a year. So to help them learn some of these important numbers, I created a bingo game. It has 32 calling cards, 30 printable bingo cards and some ideas for play. After you play it a couple of times as a group, you can even leave this as a math center. We do partner activities with older classes, this could be fun for that too.  I'm thinking I might tuck it into my emergency sub tub. This would be perfect for that! Click {HERE} to see it on tpt.

And finally, my calendar center task cards for January are ready. The set comes with calendars from 2013-2015 so you're set for 3 years. I'll update them in 2016 :) My kids dig this center and they are getting so much better at understanding a calendar. I was shocked at how much they didn't know abou the calendar, even after having calendar activities every stinking morning since pre-k! Now with these cards, they're really using the calendar more than just repeating rote facts that they've memorized.
Click {HERE} to see them on tpt.

I've been getting questions about if I have a product for this or that, or when certain things like Word Wizard or my calendar cards would be ready, so I figured I'd share them with you this way for a change. See you soon, friends!