Figurative Language Alert! Freebie included!

Thanks to those who helped me proof my items and thank you to those who offered! I had to take a break from fixing them to work on plans I needed for this week! 

I seriously have been sitting at my desk ALL day. I did go to Walmart for a few things. I have been on a roll with getting stuff done!!!

I am spending a few days on Figurative Language! This is something my kids will see on their very first standardized test! 

I made a PowerPoint that goes through similes, metaphors, and personification.  It's nothing special, but gets the point across! Here are a few slides! If you would like it for free click HERE! All I ask is you leave some feedback!

Then at the end of the week, I wanted to check and see what they learned. So, I made a sort activity for them to cut out, sort, and glue!

Click HERE to get it at my TpT shop!
 
I also have some posters I found a few years back. I can't remember where I found them:( There is no name on them either. They are awesome and I use them every year! I do not take credit for these!

  If you made these or know who did, please let me know! I have attached the link for a PDF to each one for you:)

I am adding the poetry sort to my shops tonight! But if you want to win it for free...just take a guess at this question:)

Who is my all time favorite Grey's Anatomy Character?

Please do not repeat guesses!

I also have been working on a few other things today! But I am learning to keep my posts to ONE topic per post! hehe:) It's hard...so hard!

Have a great week! 

 

It's Earth Day!!!

I have 3 items I would love to have proofed! If I can get 3 people to proof one item each it would be greatly appreciated! If you are available to do right now let me know so I can email it to you!

 

It is perfect for some extra activities this week! Have fun!

All about ME memories book!

Happy Saturday friends! Hope you are all enjoying your weekend! I was able to get to the gym, have my neighbor charge the air condition in my car...thank goodness because I can't take having the window down with all the yellow stuff in the air...and run some errands! I also got to spend some quality time with the hubby, pick up dinner and now do some work!

The first thing I have been meaning to do is update my All About Me Memories Book!

 Thanks Erin Bradley for the background paper

I added some more pages, changed the graphics, and made some changes to the pages I already had! If you have purchased this unit before, you can go and redownload it for free:)

I will also give the first 5 people who comment this for free! Just don't forget your email...please!

Since I have the night alone, I plan on finishing up a few more units I have started! Hopefully tomorrow I will be blogging about...

Make sure you come back tomorrow and check it out!

There is only a few hours left in my blogaversary sale!

Head on over to my TpT or TN store!

Scavenger hunt...review game style! Plus what's coming soon!

Happy almost Friday! Thanks everyone for the sweet comments on my one year blogaversary! It means a lot! Also don't forget about my sale going on!

You got two more days to shop, save and get some freebies!

So the other day I did NOT have my observation! I really think my AP was feeling bad for me. On Tuesday I had no voice, Wednesday I sounded like a man, and today it was crackly. It is almost back! The coughing meds are helping and breaking up what's in my chest.

I was sad though she didn't come because my math lesson that day ROCKED. Oh well:( But I want to share the idea with you!

Have you ever done a scavenger hunt around your room? I have before with task cards. I would give students a recording sheet and they would have to go around the room and find the cards and write down the answers on the recording sheet. Then we would all gather back together and go over them. Well, today's scavenger hunt was a bit different! 

I gave each student one of these

a blank PowerPoint handout with 14 slides.

Before we started this lesson I placed 14 questions around the room! By each question was a smaller bag of the questions! 

They took the questions out of the bag, glued them on the blank square and worked on the question right there with their partner. 

I did it this way because there would have been no point of a scavenger hunt if I just gave them the PowerPoint with the questions. I also wanted them to glue the questions on instead of just having a recoding sheet because I wanted them to really work through each problem.

They had so much fun walking around the room with their partner looking for the questions. It took them a good hour, maybe a bit more, to find each question and solve it. I like having movement in my room that also involves learning. It's a lot more fun than just sitting down and doing review problems!

Here are some pictures of them hard at work!

I did not spend too much time on making this unit, so I don't have it in my stores. Is this something any of you would be interested in having? If so, I can work on it to make it sell-able!

I just worked on outlining a few things for the next two weeks. I have some major units I plan on making this weekend! Be on the lookout for...

Nonfiction writing unit

Mass and volume in metric

Comparing and contrasting themes, settings and characters with stories by the same author

Data and graphing project

Very thankful I have some time this weekend! Have a great Friday tomorrow!

Changing up my reading homework (freebie)

I have decided to change up my reading homework for 4th Quarter! I was doing some browsing on Pinterest and came across this awesome, yet simple, reading response unit! 

Lisa, from Fourth and Ten has created a list of nonfiction and fiction reading response questions! The best part...it is FREE! Make sure you go to her store and download this awesome resource! 

I wanted to make sure my students were recording what they are going to read...so...I made this recording sheet to go along with this unit from Lisa!

  
I also made one that has a column for "beads." I give my students beads for each 80 minutes they read. Their necklaces are getting pretty big!

 

If you would like the recoding sheet, all you have to do is click on the picture:)

I am also doing something new with turning in homework! Stay tuned this week for a post about my new homework idea!

Well, it is Sunday night and back to work tomorrow! Too bad I feel BLAH tonight! I really shouldn't have opened that window yesterday! I have sneezed about a BAZILLION times since yesterday! And it hasn't helped my throat either:(

Have a great week everyone! 

Freebie kinda day:)

What a BEAUTIFUL spring Saturday here in NC! It is simply gorgeous outside! I sit here with the window open, which is probably not the best idea since the pollen and I don't get along, listening to the birds chirp just puts me in a great mood!

I have a few items to tell you about today! 

First, I finished my Rolling Through Reading Genres unit today!

  I had fun making this unit! I fell in love with Erin Bradley's new clip art set and just had to use it!

This unit has 10 different genres with questions. There is a black and white set too! 

I also have graphic organizers that go along with some of the questions. Included is a reading response journal cover!

The freebie time has ended! If you missed out on this flash giveaway, it will be available in both of my stores! 

Do your kids like those cootie catchers? Mine do! I remember making them when I was younger! Well, I started adding them into my math block. I made a editable blank copy! This way you can create your own or have the kids create their own! My kids loved them for multiplication and geometry!

Just click on the picture to get your free copy!

And last, yes it is spring, and that means testing...ugh:( I really dislike this time of year! 

One thing I am going to do again is use a PowerPoint my Instructional Facilitator sent us 3-5 teachers last year. She received this PowerPoint from another teacher in my district. This person found it online. 

I am not the creator and could not find it for anything online! If this happens to be your creation, please let me know so I can give you credit!

It is a great PowerPoint with vocabulary words for reading. It also has fun noises! The kids liked it!

Just click the picture to get this PowerPoint for free:)

I also made a vocabulary dictionary for the kids to use while we go through each word. 

Just click the picture below to get your free copy!

You can use either page for the dictionary

 I plan on using the copy machine at work to put two pages on one! 

Well that's it for me today! I have a few hours to get some work done before heading out with my husband tonight:) Enjoy your Saturday!

Rolling through reading genres and new fonts!

Before I begin...take a look at this picture I took yesterday from the airplane!

It's the view of Lake Michigan heading to Chicago! So so pretty! 

OK, so day one of being home from my vacation in Michigan and I have...

gone to the gym 

grocery shopped

done a load of laundry

organized my office

and

changed the sheets on two beds

I now have a chance to sit down and do some work. I didn't realize my pile is SO big! Ugh!  I realized I have nothing planned for next week, papers need to be graded, report cards need to be done, and new quarter 4 centers/projects need to be made!  This is going to be a very LONG weekend!

First off I made 3 new fonts! I have a few more in the works.

 I am adding them to my file in both of my stores! If you have purchased these fonts don't forget to go redownload them so you can get these new fonts! 

I am working on, and will finish this weekend a new unit! I bring you...

This unit will be my students new quarter 4 reading project. They will have reading responses to a variety of genres. I can't wait to see how this unit turns out!

Enjoy your Friday night!