Fluency Fun giveaway and a freebie!

As an educator, you play an important role in building confidence as your students are learning to read.  Fluency is an important component of reading instruction! Repeated reading has proven to be one of the best strategies for developing reading fluency.  Many times, due to time constraints, educators cannot “fit in” as many fluency activities as they would like to during their day. This is where our “Superhero Fluency” Unit will help support you!

(Many more fluency cards ~ Upper-case letters, shapes, numbers, count by 2's, 5's, 10's, etc.)

When do we use the “Superhero Fluency” Unit?  Well, first of all, we place the cards on a ring and store them in each students' book box.  Then the possibilities are endless, but here are just a few ways we have used them over the years. This unit can be utilized during...

• Read To Self Time
• Rest & Read Time
• Quiet Time
• Assessments
• A classroom volunteer's visit

Enter the Giveaway for a chance to win this SUPER unit!
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Now for our FREEBIE...

This is one fun example.  Download for many more!

Click {right here} to grab our "Sounding Out Word Cards" freebie!

Thanks for Reading!
Amber & LuAnn

Kiss Your Brain & Freebie!

I love to sing the song, "Kiss Your Brain" by Dr. Jean...with my kiddos.  This year when I catch my students working extra hard on his/her work I will tell them to go and kiss their brain.  When they get 5 kisses on their brain...they get 3 real Hershey Kisses for their AMAZING effort!

The kisses are attached by Velcro dots.

The students can choose between "KISSES" or "HERSHEY KISSES"!

I made it into a classroom book.  Here is the cover. 

    

Other Ideas... 

Have you heard of  The Polka Dot Patch !?!  I believe she can make this 'SWEET" thing for you!  I would probably eat everyone of those kisses myself...while planning for my kiddos!  It just even makes them look yummier!!!

Click here to see Kinderbykim's post!

After singing "Dr. Jean’s Kiss Your Brain" song, Vanessa Levin of Carrollton Texas makes this darling class~made book. A wonderful way to greet your children each morning!

Don't forget to check out Dr. Jean's website by clicking {here}!

Click {RIGHT HERE} for your "Kiss Your Brain" Freebie!  Enjoy some sweetness!  

I am off to Denver, Colorado this weekend for a Love & Logic training.  I am so excited...2 more sleeps!  

Pete The Cat...And A Freebie!

I wanted to share our "Pete the Cat" graph from this week.  You are probably thinking...we are so over that right now.   But...we just cannot get enough of him!  Having my little 4K kiddos in my classroom in the afternoon gives me even more of a reason to keep reading his wonderful books!  The students are singing Pete's songs all...day...long...and so am I!!!

Want to make your own graph for your classroom? Just click {right here} !

The "Rockin" shoes in my graph are from this FABULOUS Freebie.  Click {right here} to go to Peace, Love & Learning Blog. 

Have a great weekend.  I am going to Madison!!!

THANKS FOR READING! 

Classroom Pictures...Finally!

These are the pictures I took today of my wonderful classroom.  It doesn't show everything, but I hope you enjoy looking at them.  Warning...I teach a 4K-5K split! 



Our Welcome Board.  The students colored in their names at Open House.

This is my 8th year having a "Secret Password" to enter my classroom & I still LOVE it.  What a great way to greet the precious kiddos each morning and review concepts learned in the classroom.

Bulletin Board Title

Here is our "Daily 5 CAFE" Board.  I used wrapping paper as the background.  Chevron bright green and LOVE IT....so much!  I used the resources from Chalk Talk Board for my Café board.  Click {here} !

Loved it so much...I added it to our Calendar Board, too.  My students love this time of the day...because they get to be the teacher/leader! 

5K students Rainbow Names...idea from Deanna Jump.  Click here for her post!  

4K students Rainbow Names.  For 4K, they used longer sticks to build their name.  

Our Word Wall!  We use the "Freeze Line" style in our classroom.   {Click right here} to go to my previous post about our word wall style. 

A closer look.  YES...that is a carpet wall.  Can you say a whole lotta Velcro is going on in our classroom!  BTW,,, my number line, shape posters, and word wall were from a fabulous unit from All Students Can Shine.  Click {here now} to check it out!

Writing Area Wall.  I just adore DeeDee Wills "Writing Work Station" Units through out the year.  You should check them out...{by clicking here}..if you haven't already! 

Our principal read, Have You Filled A Bucket Today, and we followed up with this activity from Ashley Reed.  Here Unit is perfect.  {Click here} to see it yourself! 

We also made Miss Viola Swap activity from Julie Lee and tied it in with being a "Bucket Dipper".

Ohhh..I had to add this picture because it make me smile and cry all at the same time.  These are the AMAZING K team I taught with in another building.  This year, I moved to another building in the district and I am the only K teacher.  MISS & LOVE working right next to these girls bunches and bunches!

I think I adapted this activity into a pocket chart poem from...Kindergarten Crayons.  I am not sure...I just wanted to give her a shout out.  I love her, her work, and HER BLOG!!   

This is one spot that I hang my "Readers Workshop Posters" from Kim Adsit & Michele Scannell.  I took time this summer to make ALL the posters for units 1 - 7.  I love that I can just whip them out and teach! 

Famous Birthday Balloons.  I have crazy straws hiding behind the cupcake bag. 

I just love using binders to keep organized.  Thanks "Little Lovely Leaders" for helping me make them cute.  Check out her unit by clicking {right here now!}

 Growing Kinders blogged about this "cutie" letter activity.   I used a Ziploc Sandwich bag to make my alligator.  I think he is so ugly that he is cute!   

These are my "Read To Self" Buckets "Really Good Stuff".  Kindergarten Kel just bought ice cube holders for her set.  Great idea and so much cheaper!  The pictures below are what you will find inside my "Read To Self" Buckets right now.  Let me know if you have any questions! 

Have a great week.... and I'll be back over the next couple of days...with a freebie!  Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think!  I love your comments & e-mails!
Amber

Who stole...who took...the cookies? and freebie!

To learn our friends names we are learning the song...Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar.  Do you use "stole" or "took"? in your classroom.  Just curious!  I wanted to share the interactive chart I made to use with the kiddos.  I have the cookies in a zip lock bag on the back of the chart.  The kiddos LOVE reaching into the jar and grabbing someone's name to sing.

I used pictures of students with my 4K kiddos!

Here is a closer look at this handsome 4K student...my son...Cayden.  He goes to school in another building in our district.  My husband and I felt it would be best if he was not in my classroom.  HE HE HE  Do I ever wish I could see him walking down the halls!!!

I used names of students with my 5K kiddos! 

 If you noticed in the picture above....

My 5K kiddos made Miss Viola Swamp from Julie Lee's Unit.  
Click {here} to get yours now.  

We also did Deanna Jump's The Wheels on the Bus Freebie.  Yes...it is free!  
Click {right here}  to get your now!  

Have to share his precious smile again....Cayden on his first day to 4K!  

Please {click right here for your freebie!}  I have also included printouts to make a classroom made book.  I will share mine later this week! 

ThANkS fOr ReAdINg!  Amber