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!