Featured Freebie Fridays - July 21st, 2017

Happy Friday! Keep enjoying every day of your summer as I know many of you head back in a week or two. Enjoy every minute you have left!!!

This week's Featured Friday Freebie is my Apple Au and Aw Word Sorts. Children sort the apples by the spellings of the au/aw sound into the correct basket. Please show your kindness by leaving positive feedback if you download it. Click on any of the pictures to grab it free and follow my store so you don't miss any more!

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Open Word Sorting in Kindergarten

I mentioned about the fun Open Word Sorting that I did last week with my students.  I thought I would write a little bit more about how I got it to work so well.

First I printed off pictures off of the FCRR website under letter sound correspondence.  Next I divided children into groups and gave them cards with sounds that some are having difficulty with W, V, U, and Y.  The tricky part was I gave them both long and short U pictures.  This was to challenge my higher level students.

I instructed the students to put pictures into rows that had the same sounds.  I did not tell them what the sounds were so it would be an open sort.  In a closed sort you give them the sounds.  I also gave each group 5 index cards to write the beginning sounds on once they had sorted them.

The interesting thing is the group that had no high level students happened to be the group that finished first and had separated the long and short u cards!  It was also very interesting to see who stepped up to be leaders.

I plan to do more of these in the future.  Has any other Kindergarten teachers tried this?  If so what were the results?

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St. Patrick's Day New Products

Are you following me on Teacher's Pay Teachers?  If not you are missing my newest St. Patrick's Day creations.

I made a wonderful packet recently filled with St. Patrick's Day centers geared toward a 2nd grade level.  They are all common core aligned.  Your students can practice regrouping, counting coins with my popular word problem task cards, sorting aw/au words, contraction match, and more!  Click the pictures to check them out!

The next new St. Patrick's Day product is my Leprechaun's Mixed Up Addition Gold Rush Center.  It uses addition facts for 7's through 9's.  Children find the correct addition sentence on the coin and match it up with the sum on the pot of gold.  There is a black and white worksheet available as well where they paste the number sentences on the pot of gold!

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Bucket Filling Freebie!

Those of you who follow me know how much I preach about being kind to others.  We should do what we can to make others feel good and teach that to our students.  That can be as simple as smiling, opening a door for someone, giving a hi five or giving someone a hug.

As many of you know I'm a huge fan of the books "Have You Filled A Bucket Today" by Carol McCloud and "How Full Is Your Bucket for Kids" by Tom Rath.  You search bucket filling to find my previous posts on the topic.

Today, I would like to share a freebie that I made to go with the book.  It is a word sort on bucket filling and bucket dipper. 

Do you use the bucket filling system in your classroom?  How do you use it?

Stop by tomorrow for another freebie.

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Easter Products and the Famous Bossy R is Back!

I have been whipping up a storm on products today for my wonderful fans to check out!  First up is another Bossy R center.  This one is a word sort for er, ir, and ur.  It also contains cut and paste activity and some great extensions for extra practice and some to help your more advanced students shine!  Click the picture to check it out!

Next up is my best selling product.  Everyone has been loving the I Have Who Has Games that I created for St. Patrick's Day and a few of my Easter ones have sold already.  Thank you fans!  This one is for Multiplication!

For the younger grades take a look at my I Have Who Has Kindergarten Games.  They include pre-primer dolch words, numbers, lowercase letters, and uppercase letters.

Last, but not least are my Easter I have Who Has Addition and Subtraction Games.

If you make a purchase I would appreciate it if you would leave me feedback and a good rating.  You get credit toward free products by doing so.  Also tonight March 25th until 11:59pm Eastern you can make a purchase and e-mail me and give me your username and what you purchased and another item of equal or lesser value that you would like and you will receive it for FREE!  Please also head to the right side and follow my blog!

Brian :-)

Crabby Bossy R

Boy, those bossy r words sure can make a child crabby when they can't figure out the words because the r sound changes the vowel.  I just had to make a fun word sort to help the children practice so they won't be so crabby! haha  This word sort focuses on ar and or.  If you'd like to see an er, ir, and ur word sort please let me know in the comments below!

The activities include a word sort helping Crabby the Crabs find their way to to the correct seaweed, a cut and paste activity, and some terrific extensions to help reinforce the two r-controlled vowel sounds and some will help challenge your higher level readers and writers.

Click the pictures to head to my TPT store to pick yourself up a copy.  You are so going to love this one!

As always parents and students who I have previously taught or subbed and teachers I have worked with or subbed for may send me an e-mail (check my About Me tab) and get the word sort or anything else for free!  

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Brian :-)