Getting Ready for Battle

 I saw this today, and it made me wonder what you would be fighting with.

I would be fighting with a digital food scale, a laptop riser, and fruit bubbles to make bubble tea.  

It's been nice knowing you all.

One thing I won't have to fight this school year is being prepared no matter what the school year throws my way.  In person?  No problem.  Online?  No sweat.  Last year taught us a lot about how to teach no matter the circumstances, didn't it?

I spent a lot of time last year creating digital resources, like this one, that are quick and easy to assign in a digital environment.  

Click picture for a closer look and to download.

I also have plenty of PDF resources that I can use in the classroom.

Click the picture above to see more and to download!

So what are you going to be fighting your war with this year?

Two for Tuesday

Today I'm joining up with Chalk One Up for the Teacher and many other sellers to bring you #2forTuesday.  I have put two of my items on sale for 50% off today only.  One is my Short Vowel Stories companion pack.  It goes along with the free item Short Vowel Stories that you can find in my store here.

                                      

As I review each vowel sound with my students, I use the games, interactive notebook pages, and printables in this resource to reinforce and practice the vowel sounds.  

You can find this resource by clicking the picture below.

Sight words are essential to reading success. I pretest my students on the weekly sight word and send a note home to parents letting them know where their child stands for the week.The resource also includes a week's worth of intervention activities to use with children who need extra help. I give a post test and record results on my class tracking sheet to  keep track of my class' progress in mastering the sight words -- very handy to have on hand during conference time for a quick reference!

The activities are consistent through out the series, so your children, after the first time going through the activities with you, will know exactly what to do in subsequent lessons. Because these activities are so low prep, they also are good activities to send home with the child who needs extra help for parents to use.  Today, this resource is also 50% off.  Click the  cover below to find this resource in my store.

Be sure to visit the InLinkz to see more great deals!

An InLinkz Link-up

Launching Off with Educents!

Have you heard the news!?  Educents is opening their MARKETPLACE!  What does that mean?  That means that besides the already AMAZING deals they offer on a daily basis, you can now purchase items from sellers stores, also on a daily basis!  WHAT!?  That’s right!  Over 500 sellers have already created stores in the Educents Marketplace, so you are sure to find some money-saving deals anytime you need them!

To LAUNCH the whole thing, several of the sellers are joining in to bring you a sneak peek at a FREE product offered in their new sale, as well as hosting a giveaway for $50 worth of Educents Credits.  You can buy a LOT of educational materials with that kind of money!  And, there are several groups of bloggers who are joining the LAUNCH, which means multiple ways to enter.

Here is a little information about my FREEBIE.   It is one of my favorite items that I use every year to help my firsties master short vowel sound

                 

click the picture above to find my freebie in my Educents shop!

I love these five short little stories that tell stories incorporating the sounds of the short vowels.  I laminated them and hung them by my reading table for the kids to use as a quick and easy reference when trying to remember which vowel has which sound.

I also have this great freebie available in my store

This one is a free resource!

It's a sample of a much larger companion pack I made to go along with my Short Vowel Stories.  There are games, interactive notebook pages, flip-flap booklets, and so much more in here to go along with each vowel to help your students master the sounds!

And, of course, I have the complete Learning the Short Vowels bundled resource available in my Educents store as well!

This one is not a free resource!

Leave a comment below for a chance to win the paid resource "Short Vowel Stories Companion Pack Bundle:  Learning the Short Vowels"!  Let me know what the best thing YOU have found on Educents has been (past or present!).

Be  sure to enter for your chance to win $50 in Educents credits!

Educents Marketplace $50 in Edubucks Giveaway #6 - First Grade Stores

And finally, be sure to follow the blog hop around the circle to visit other great Educents shops and claim your freebies!  Next up is Mrs.  Thompson's Treasures.  Click on the picture below to get to her blog.  If you get lost, look for the Link Up at the bottom of the page to get to the next blog and the next freebie!

                                             

An InLinkz Link-up

Have a great day!

October Already?

Wow, I can't believe it's October already!  Today sure feels like fall in our neck of the woods.  After a beautiful week of lows in the high 50s and highs in the mid '70s (perfect weather in my book), a cold front came through while we were at the pumpkin festival, and the temperature dropped 20 degrees in 10 minutes!  We had sleet!!  And now it's 42 degrees.  BUT on the plus side, I've got chicken soup on the stove and the fireplace going.  For everything there is a season, right?

So, how's your school year going so far?  I'm thrilled to say that I have the sweetest group of first graders this year.  They're not perfect, but they are bright and cute and inquisitive and eager for school, and I love going to work every morning.  The days are flying by with this group.  That makes me happy because believe me, there have been years when the opposite was true!

We've been really focusing on the short vowels this first quarter, and most of my kiddos are doing really well with sounding out and blending words.  I created these awesome short vowels resources to use with them each week, and it really helped.

                                     

We created short vowel interactive notebooks for each short vowel sound using  a lot of these resources.  I tried to make the activities engaging and fun, from making short vowel crowns to playing games in small groups with the kiddos who need extra support with applying the sounds.

I'm pretty excited about these resources, and I think they are a must have if you are teaching short vowel sounds to your students.  For tomorrow only, Sunday, October 5, all day, I am putting the bundle of these products on sale for 10% off.  It would be $15 to buy all five resources separately.  I have bundled them for $12.  But tomorrow only, you will be able to buy the resources for only $10.80, and you can choose one of my two newest resources, Word Sorting Mats set 1 or Word Sorting Mats set 2, to receive completely free!

Click on the picture above and to view my Learning the Short Vowels bundle up close.  You can also sample some of the resources by clicking on the picture below.

If you'd like to see other great deals, visit All Things Apple in Second by clicking on the picture below.  

It's a Freebie Linky Party!

Thank you to the fabulous Ladies over at Feebielicious for hosting a Fabulicious Freebie linky party.  I'm sure there will be lots of great freebies, so click on the picture above to see what interests you!

Here's my newest Freebie I'm offering at my TPT store.  I'll be using this in December wth small groups.

Look for the companion products, Spn-a-Word blends.  It includes blends wtih R, L, and S, as well as follow-up worksheets!  I plan on using all of these products in small groups during the month of December, since our focus this month in our reading series is blends.

In case you missed it, this has been my best freebie.  I used this in the first month of school as we reviewed each short vowel sound, and I constantly refer to the sounds in the context of the stories when a child is sounding out words and mispronounces a vowel, as in "Remember what Miss Short U says with her umbrella?  U-u-u-u-u!"

I hope you find these resources helpful and find lots of great resources over at the Freebielicious blog!  I know I did ; )