Silence for Sandy Hook....God bless!

Winner!! Weekly review

Hey guys! I am excited to say that Rachel M won the giveaway of the Fox and Kit packet. I hope that everyone is enjoying these. I know that my students love them and love the familiarity of the packets. 


I wanted to put together a 100 follower giveaway. I am very close. If you would be interested in giving away a packet, please contact me at kimberlycollatos@comcast.net.

Okay...so I am getting caught up so the blog will be getting the long needed attention!!


I'm going to add a few pictures to show a few things that we have been working on. 


1. We are working on building our stamina with Read to Self. 

2. We are working on shaving cream spelling. I went over this again and again with my students about the correct way to use it. STILL...I had a student come up to me with an icky face because he thought it was whipped cream lol...NOOOO :)

3.  We have been working on sentence order. Students were responsible for taking a sentence and writing it correctly before cutting it and putting it in a bag. They had to use correct capitalization and punctuation. Then, they traded with the other teams to see which team would correctly put together sentences in the correct order. They had a BLAST!

4. We had a bunny come visit to discuss fiction and non-fiction passages. THEY LOVED THIS!!!

First Grade Common Core

Hey guys! I wanted to share with you a resource that I have found that I am really excited to share. I saw the Kindergarten version bouncing around and I couldn't wait until there was a first grade version...well I found it! I am really impressed to be able to find many great ideas right here in one book. Please go to the website to check it out! It even has a free download so that you can see what all is inside. For the best First Grade Common Core ideas please click the link to check out this workbook.

I'm baaacckk :) GIVEAWAY

Hey all! Well...I am still alive lol. I am sorry that I have not been blogging too much lately. It is just very hard to find time right now. I am totally enjoying this year with my kiddos.


I have FINALLY finished my packet that goes well with Reading Street Story "A fox and kit". I hope that you enjoy this as much as I do :) I am going to be giving away a packet to one lucky winner. I hope that you will please let me know what you think.

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As of next week, I will be starting to update my blog more. I am just trying to make it through my observation. I'm being observed when I will be teaching doubles. Does anyone have any great resources or lessons for this?

Sick already?

Sorry that I haven't posted recently! This year is very chaotic.

On top of that...I'm sick. I'm pretty sure that I have strep. Yuck! I hope to get to the dr tomorrow. However, we have open house tomorrow night until 7. I am just not feeling good at all.

I am working on the next two units for the Reading Street story. Does anyone have any requests for the units?

I am happy that we are starting to build some routines. :) So not much posted tonight. However, I will definitely post some pics by this weekend and hopefully finish one of the packets this weekend. I am hopeful anyways!

Winner and who else but me :)

Hey guys! I am sorry that I am just now announcing the giveaway! I have had SO much going on at home.

I burnt my hand with a hot glue gun at school. (LOL YES only I could do that!!!) I left my glue gun at home...so I borrowed another teachers. Needless to say lol I shouldn't have. That thing worked amazing. I was so impressed until it fell over knocking a glued piece onto my hand. It held on and I couldn't get it off. My hand was all blistered up! I received 2nd degree burns. It has healed mostly now. I only have like three scars so no biggie :) Thanks to my wonderful best friend Margaret for taking me to the doctor btw.

Then, the very next day my mother fell. They still haven't figured out what is going on with her leg. She can't feel it and so it caused her to fall at work and bruise and wound her head :( Please pray for her! We go BACK to the neurologist tomorrow!


On to the winner.....


I am sincerely sorry that it has taken so long to tell who the winner was. I hope that you guys enjoy the packets. I absolutely LOVE it. I can't wait to use it with my kiddos. If you would like to purchase a copy for $2, click the picture below. I hope that you enjoy!





And the winner is: 

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Congrats!! I have already emailed you! :)

Reading Street- Unit 1, Week 3 Short o: SCHOOL STARTS :)

FINALLY...School starts tomorrow! There is no budget in place though.  The scary part is that on Tuesday we will get our calendar and they are making teacher cuts. I have already prayed about it and it is in God's hands.

My mother- Thank you to those of you who are praying! She is not doing any better. They have the MRI back and all that they told her was that she is declining, but they feel that it is related to age. This concerns me because she is only 62. Please keep praying!

I was so happy to hear that school was starting that I was able to finish Unit 1, Week 3 for the Reading Street story "The Big Blue Ox". I focused on the skill because I couldn't find any cute blue ox clipart lol. I found cute dogs instead :)

Here it is (click the picture):

 


It includes:
Pages 1-3- Intro slides and lesson examples
Pages 4-8 Short O Word Sort
Pages 9-13 Ending -s Word Sort
Pages 14-15 Student Response Sheets
Page 16- Writing Activity
Page 17- My Word Bank
Page 18- Listening Sheet
Pages 19- 23 Games
Page 24- Assessment Sheet
Pages 25-26 Spelling Words

I hope you like it! Make sure to check it out!! I will be giving one away for my birthday on Friday. However, I am requesting that the person that wins writes an honest assessment of the product. Thank you!!

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Just an update...

Hey guys! Sorry that I have slowed in posting. I just feel that I have so many things going on. I will be starting Big Blue Ox games soon.

However, the county that I live in is facing budget issues. It is a long story, but they have delayed the starting of school until further notice. We are a week and a day late starting. Our county commission meets tonight and I am praying that there is a resolve. I want to be teaching these kiddos. I have been very involved and unfortunately I have lost my motivation to create right now. I will be back VERY soon though :)
 


Also, my mother has lost her feeling in her left leg. I have been to many doctors appointments and specialist. We still have no answers and she is not able to walk. My focus is there for now. However, I will be back soon I promise :)



Thanks for listening! Here is a link to my first week plans should I ever go back lol: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B65GqiVHpegvYWN2UkYtQW5XQTg

Numbers

Today is the longest day ever! I have to be at school at 7 and I get to leave around 3. I have to be back at 4:30 until 8 for Registration Night! I only have four more kiddos that are supposed to show up. I can't wait to meet them. However, I am not looking forward to such a long day.

Anyways....I am looking into number review for my kiddos for the first week. I am changing my lesson plans slightly. I created this packet so that the kids would be able to recognize numbers, number words, numbers on a ten frame, and dot patterns. I am including this as a freebie. I hope that it will be useful for you guys!

Winner

Thank you to everyone that entered. Please check out


on TPT. It is only $2. I hope that you will enjoy it as much as I do.


And the winner of the Pig in a Wig packet is....

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Congrats! :) Well...I am off to relax. This is my last day of summer! I got to meet some of my kiddos last night. We have registration again tomorrow night after a full day of inservice...FUN FUN FUN lol.

Classroom Tour

Okay guys...I'm going to give you a quick tour of my classroom. It's not perfect lol but it is perfect for me :)

This is my entry way.

This is where I display student work.

Rules, Clip Chart, and Behavior Marbles.

Sink Area

Job Chart

Folder Basket, Teacher Supplies for week, and Turn-in basket and board.

They move their magnet above the line when they have turned in their work.

Teacher Area/ Office

I can boards.

These are my sweet angels helping me lol.

Pig in a Wig: Short I packet..freebie...Giveaway

Ahhh! Is it possible that summer vacation is over? CAN IT BE? Sadly...for me it is.


This week we are doing inservices and registration nights. I need to work in my room for a while tomorrow. Then, I have training on a new sub system on Tuesday morning (which I get to come back and train the school....AAHHHH lol.) Then, that night is registration night until 8 pm. Then we have inservice days the rest of the week and Thursday is a 12 hour work day basically.


We start back on Aug. 6th. It is a full day and a full week. It is going to be a long long long week lol. I am looking forward to getting my class list tomorrow (hopefully before registration night!)


Okay...on to the next week of plans. I have already completed a packet to go with Sam,Come Back. I just finished this great packet for Pig in a Wig. Please check it out! It has:


Pages 3-10: Word Sort

Page 11: Writing Prompt

Page 12: Word Bank

Page 13-14: Spelling Words

Page 15: Listening Response

Page 16: Puppet

Page 17: Gameboard

Page 18-25: Roll, Read, Keep

Click the picture to check out this amazing product on TPT.

It is a great packet that I have used with my own kids and they loved it! It is only $2. That is a great price!

I am going to give away one packet to a winner. You must be a follower of my blog to receive it. Good luck! I would love any feedback that you have!


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