Did You See This?, Winners and a $1 Sale

Goodness Gracious Gravy Me!  Did you see this adorable Mother's Day activity over at Fluttering Through First Grade?  Can It get any cuter than this????  It is so much fun checking out all the amazing work being done by teachers.   You should hop on over to their Facebook page where they will be giving one of these away.  

WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER!

 I am excited to announce the two winners of  my 

"All Kinds of  Fun with Adjectives, Nouns, and Verbs"  Oh, but before I announce the winners I want to say "FLASH SALE" IF YOU DIDN'T WIN, NO WORRIES I AM PUTTING THIS PACK ON SALE FOR $1 until sometime tomorrow or whenever I remember to turn off the sale! Ha last time I said I was having a flash sale it wasn't so "flashy"  because I forgot to go back and turn the flash off  for several days.  

Now on to the two lucky winners...

Lori Raines and Michelle Jaquillard

Congrats I will e-mail your copy to you.  

Have a great weekend!

Alison

Thank You, A New Game, and A Giveaway for Adjectives, Nouns, and Verbs

THANK YOU FOR LINKING UP!

WOW!  Can you believe the PLETHORA of freebies Krista from Creative Clips GAVE AWAY during her 10 day celebration?  This gal has a talent she could monopolize on so easily but instead she is keeping it real and providing amazing resources to teachers.  KRISTA, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I also want to thank everyone that took the time to link up one or more of their wonderful resources to help Krista celebrate; you too are making a difference by helping other teachers put great resources in their classrooms. 

 A NEW GAME

READY, SET, SHOW!

Ready, Set, Show is a game you can play with just about any skill.  I like playing this game because at the games end you will know which students need a little more practice on the skills you were reviewing.  This is a quick game that can be used as a follow up to a lesson or as a time filler if a lesson runs short or your schedule changes. (I’m sure that never happens at your school.) 

Here’s how you play:

Today’s skills are Nouns & Verbs. 

  

1. Make a list of nouns and verbs you would like to use.
2. Give each student a noun and verb card.
3. Have students place the two cards on their desk face up.
4. Students should place one hand on each card.
5. Say a word from your list, then say Ready, Set, Show. (hands         and cards should remain on students desk until you say “show”.
6.  Students should hold up the correct card.

***It is easy to tell which students need more practice by their      wondering eyes and hesitation. 

WHO WANTS TO PLAY?  If you would like to win a copy of “ALL KINDS OF FUN” with Adjectives, Nouns, and Verbs leave a comment with your e-mail address. If you would like two chances to win you can also stop by our Facebook page and leave a comment with your e-mail. I will pick one winner on each page sometime before Thursday. Here's a peek of what's inside "ALL KINDS OF FUN WITH ADJECTIVES, NOUNS AND VERBS"

                                                Alison

Verb, Verb, Verb....Verb is the WORD! FREEBIE

OH MY WORD learning about Verbs can be so much fun!  Last week we started a lesson on verbs by playing a little game of Simon Says. This is the kind of  activity that bring about comments like, "You are the best teacher ever" and "This is the best day of my life".  Awww what it would be like to be 7 and so easily excited again.  Ok, so after our game of  Simon Says we made a list of verbs.  Next each student picked a verb they wanted to illustrate using a pipe cleaner and a few pieces of scrap paper.  I had each student  tell me what they were illustrating before we got started because otherwise everyone would have illustrated "jump", true story it happened to me. I have been making these with my class for years and they always turn out so stinkin cute, I love art that shows such individuality.  Grab your copy of the Verb page here. 

Graphics from Teaching in a Small Town

You can find the Verb Write the Room page and 53 other write the room activities in my teacher store just click the picture.



 

 

Later in the week students became word detectives as they looked for verbs in the room during Write the Room.  My write the room activities are simple, a copy of the type of word to look for, a clipboard and a pencil.  The students look around the room for words on the word wall, book titles, charts, posters, etc.  I DO NOT prepost words I want the students to find, if I did I would have never  heard this OH SO ADORABLE conversation. 

....As two students scoured the Calendar area for words I overheard two of my kiddos arguing over whether the word March was a verb.  I wish I could have recorded their argument because as one was saying March is not a verb,  the other one was stomping his little feet in the angriest march I have ever seen and saying, "yes you can march , LOOK! I"M MARCHING!  If you can do it , it's a verb!!!!!!!! " LESSON OVER! 
 
~Alison