The Three Million Strong TPT Sale!!

3 Million----WOW!! Teachers Pay Teachers has made my instruction so much more exciting! Thank you to all the ladies and gentlemen for creating and designing hands on materials!! In honor of this great achievement, Teachers Pay Teachers is having a sale----can I get a WOOT WOOT!! Please check out my store and all the TPT sellers' stores by clicking on the link below:)

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data notebooks

I am soooooo glad I finally decided to do data notebooks! They have made life very easy when it comes to keeping track of my firsties progress....or in a few cases....no progress. In those few cases (3 to be exact) I can then create a small reading group for those children and voilà...problem solved. I created my own data notebooks to use for my students and my team of teachers. You can find these at my teacher pay teachers store by clicking the tpt button :) Here's a few pics.

first we read a story. It might be from our reading series and/or a story of the week.

This week we used Go To Sleep Groundhog! I chose a response sheet that targeted the skills we are learning. These response sheets are super duper because they each (over 70) have the Common Core stander at the bottom for you to seeand record into their data notebooks. Plus it shows parents what their child is learning....love it!

Next...if they have mastered the skill I record it in their data notebook....or just highlight the standard...easy peasy!

for each standard they master, my students earn a colorful card on a ring. This way my students and their parents see the progress they are making. Yay!

please see my earlier post from June on how I put my notebooks together. It is aaesome fun to do! I love Michael's craft store so I went crazy putting mine together.

Thanks for visiting!

Groundhogs and puppies

Happy Groundhogs Day! My firsties are having a great time learning all about groundhogs and wood chucks. First we started our unit off with the cute book...Go To Sleep Groundhog! By Judy Cox. Since the Groundhog already came out of his burrow, we predicted if this groundhog would see his shadow or not. I read the story up to the point where he finally came out. They loved it!

Then we went to our workstations

For the rest of the week we will read other groundhog stories....

Here's some pics from my Puppy Time Pals Common CoreLiteracy Stations.

We read the story Fancy Nancy Puppy Party. It is amazing how engaged they were over these puppy dogs. We did puppy compounds and y sounds like e. Fun~fun~fun! Thanks for stopping by!