Teachers Notebook Super Sale Weekend

Are you ready for a Super Sale this weekend? Head on over to my Teachers Notebook Shop and check out my sale. Everything in my store is 40% off from Saturday February 1st through Monday February 3rd. TN is adding an extra 10% in addition to my 40% off. I have revised all my February products plus my Iditarod: The Last Great Race. Just click on the image at the top of the post to get some great bargains! Have a great Super Bowl Weekend! Hope you are warming up from all the cold temperatures and snow. Thanks for all you do to make a difference for your students.


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Presidents' Day: Free Resources, Activities, Craft Ideas, Books, and a Free Word Sort

When I was growing up in the fifties and sixties we celebrated Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays on their actually birthdays. Today we combine their birthday celebrations and celebrate them together.  Many of you just have a one day holiday but some school district have a whole week winter break. I have put together some great resources for your classroom Presidents' Day celebrations.

If you are looking for some great craft ideas for your students to make, I found a few great sites. How about this cute Patriotic Hat George or Washington Cotton Ball  Paper Craft ? Just click on each picture to find lots of craft ideas and directions.

If you are looking for a list of good books for Read Alouds, just click on the picture below.

For lots of wonderful free resources and activities, for all grade levels, you need to check out Scholastic. Just click on the picture below.

Apples4theteacher has lots of free resources including printables, worksheets, and poems. Just click on the image below.

There are more good activities at Education World you can check out by clicking on the image below.

There are more than 25 great free activities at Family Education that you can check out by clicking on the image below.

Finally I found lots of free activities at The Teachers Corner that you can access by clicking on the image below.

I finally revised and updated my Presidents' Day Packet for Grades 2-3. You will find a Word Wall, Picture/Word Cards, 3 differentiated Reading Texts about both George Washington and Abe Lincoln.

There is a Presidents' Day Fact Sort or a Picture Sort for your ESL or Struggling readers. Students will find Character Traits about each presidents and find proof in their reading texts, write Informative and Opinion Pieces using any of the 6 writing prompts, and one Compare and Contrast Activity.

Just click on the picture below to download the Preview file to see sample pages of all the reading and writing activities in this packet.

Finally a freebie for my wonderful followers and viewers. If you click on the picture below you can download my Free Presidents Day Noun Sort. Students will sort words related to Presidents' Day into 3 categories:

Proper Nouns, Plural Nouns, and Common Nouns. 

Hope you will leave feedback and enjoy using it in your classrooms.

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2 Super Giveaways!

Here's the 1st!

My friend Mary over at A Classroom Full of Smiles had a great idea for a Linky and decided to include a giveaway to get it started. It's called Saturday Sweets and you really need to check it out. Each Saturday you can visit her blog and get some great inspiring ideas and lessons from other teachers on what they are planning to teach the following week in Math, ELA, Science, and Social Studies. All grades are welcome! For the giveaway this week she has included $10.00 Kohl's Gift Card and 10 Great Gifts from 10 Wonderful Blogger Friends. I'm giving away:

Even if you don't enter the giveaway it's a wonderful blog post and great links to what other teachers are teaching this week. Just click on the image at the top of the post.

Then there is one of the BIGGEST GIVEAWAYS EVER from my friend Emma over at the Clever Classroom:  $600.00 dollars worth of prizes from 80 fantastic bloggers! 

Hope you don't miss out on this one! Just click on the image above to enter !

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Thanks for all you do to make a difference for your students. Good luck everyone!

Flying into February with Poems, Readers Theater, & a Freebie

February is such a great month for poetry! I had so much fun writing poems about all the holidays and celebrations while revising my February poetry packet, "Flying into February with Poems". I also revised my Readers Theater script called "The Symbols of Valentine's Day." I love using poetry in the classroom to get all my students participating and interacting. It's a great reading activity that the whole class can do together even with the most differentiated group of students. With lots of practice students build confidence and fluency. Just click on the picture below to download the Preview to see all the poems and activities that are included. For each poem there is either a writing activity to include informative text, opinion piece writing, or poetry writing, or a literacy activity.

I've included 8 original poems about February, Groundhog Day, Valentine's day, Presidents' Day, and Black American History Month. Here is a sample of "February Is" which includes all the celebrations listed above.

Here's a sample of a Cinquain about Groundhogs. Students will also learn how to write a cinquain about another woodland animal.

Here is a sample of a Subject poem about George Washington. After learning the poem and how to write one, they will write one about Abraham Lincoln.

There is a poem for Valentine's Day and a Poem Book below called, "Valentine, Valentine."

Be sure to click on any of the pictures above to find out more about it. When you download the Preview you see sample pages of all the poems and activities. 

I also revised my Readers Theater packet which you can check out by clicking on the picture below.

There are Character symbols for making headbands, a Daily Lesson Plan, and 2 differentiated scripts: one at the 2nd and the other at the 3rd grade reading levels.

Finally a freebie for all of my followers and viewers. I like to make thematic word sorts. It is a great way to help students learn vocabulary and become more fluent with it. This is a wonderful literacy center activity that can be used with my February Poem unit or anytime during the month of February. There is a whole group activity to access students understanding of Common nouns, Proper nouns and Compound Nouns. Then students will sort February words into the three categories of nouns and write their answers on their recording sheet. Just click on the picture below to download your free packet.

Thanks for all you do to make a difference for your students. Have a great February!

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What's your favorite February holiday celebration?

Amazing Martin Luther King Product Giveaway!

My friend Melissa over at Common Core and So Much More has put together an amazing giveaway of Martin Luther King products. How would you like to win all of these fantastic Martin Luther King Day Packets? You only have 1 day to enter. Winner will be announced tomorrow on Martin Luther King Day.

I'm giving away 2 products:

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Groundhog Day: Free Resources, Craft Ideas, Books, and Free Activities

For many of you I'm sure you are hoping that Punxutawney Phil won't see his shadow this year and spring will be early. Did you know that he is only correct 37% of the time? I have put together some wonderful free resources for your Groundhog Day activities and fun books for Shared Reading. Of course I have a special free activity for all of my followers and viewers.

How about some lesson plans from The Punxutawney Groundhog Club Website? You may have to do a little bit of searching as the link doesn't take you directly there. Just click on the picture below. Then go up to the top and click on TEACHERS. Then you click on the grade level you are looking for.

What's your favorite book to read for Groundhog Day? I like the one below. Find a complete list of great books for your Shared Reading by clicking on the picture below.

Looking for some some cute craft ideas? I found this one and lots of others at dltk. Just click on the picture below to find this one and several others. You will also find a cute mini book and other free activities.

I really liked this Triangle Shaped Groundhog, especially if you are working on Shapes in Math. You can find the directions for making it by clicking on the picture below.

For the Pre-K-K Teachers I found this great Free Groundhog Day Unit. Just click on the picture below.

You can find more free resources at apples4theteacher 

I finally revised one of my favorite units: Groovy Groundhogs.

You will find 2 original Shared Reading Books, 3 Differentiated Emergent Readers and Comprehension Activities, 2 Differentiated Reading Texts about Groundhogs, Woodland Animal Report Writing, and other Writing and Literacy Activities. 

You can see sample pages of all the reading, writing, and literacy activities in this packet by clicking on the image above and downloading the Preview file.

 I made a fun Freebie packet that you can use as a literacy activity with this unit or separately.

Students will look at 6 pictures/word cards. Then they will read 6 clues and write the word that matches the clue. Just click on the the picture above or below to download your freebie. 

Thanks for all you do to make a difference for your students. Here's hoping that Phil predicts that spring will be early this year. 

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Chillin' and Hoppin' Winter Blog Hop Giveaway

 

Have you made any New Year's resolutions?  Have you made new goals for your professional life, too?  If so, you will probably need some new materials to use with your students.  You are in luck!  Some friends of mine and I have organized a blog hop.  You can hop from blog to blog and get a freebie on each blog.  

We have some amazing prizes for you, too!  

• Fourteen lucky teachers will win a bundle of lessons.

• One very lucky teacher will get a $150 BuySellTeach gift certificate  AND the bundle of prizes.

Be sure to enter the rafflecopter on each blog because each blogger will pick her own winner. The more blogs that you enter, the greater your chances are of winning.

We realize this is a busy time of year so you will have a week to visit our blogs.  The winner will be announced on our Facebook pages the evening of January 19th.  Make sure you follow our Facebook pages!

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Be sure to enter the rafflecopter on each blog because each blogger will choose her own winner!

That means 14 Winners will win 14 Products!

1 Winner will win the $150 BuySellTeach gift certificate and the 12 products!

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