Winter Literacy Center Activities and a Student Teacher!

We have been back to school for 3 days now.  I think we're finally back in the swing of things.  My student teacher has been with us for 2 days so far and we LOVE her!  She is the sweetest thing.  I am super excited about having her and I know she'll do an awesome job!

We started a few of our winter literacy center activities today.

Here is our word family snowman:

(Background paper: Whimsy Workshop)

 Here is our compound words snow balls:

(Background paper: Whimsy Workshop)

We have also been using this fabulous freebie from Laura Clarke.

These are only a couple of my winter activities we will be doing over the next several weeks.  Here are all of my winter units if you would like to check them out individually.  I hope to be back soon with more pics of these centers in action.

Here is the whole bundle:

I hope you guys are staying warm!  

Getting Back into the Groove

Oh my.  It's been awhile friends!  I took a break the last few weeks from all things work.  I spent all my time and effort with my family and had a wonderful time.  We had a 1/2 day work day today to get ready for our little ones tomorrow.  (Of course, I've never stayed only half a day in my entire 13 years of teaching!) 

What's up with this crazy Arctic weather?  This is what my car said this morning when I got to work:

10 degrees!  Now, I know that many of you are many digits below 0 but 10 is dang cold for Oklahoma!  We are not used to these temperatures and I can't stand it.  I do not like cold weather!  

In keeping with the Winter Weather theme, we are starting on our winter centers this week.  Here are a couple we will be working on.

~Word Families~

The students match the buttons to the correct word family hat.

(Background paper: Whimsy Workshop)

~Compound Words~

The students match the correct word mittens to the snowball pictures.

(Background paper: Whimsy Workshop)

Both of these centers are a part of my Winter Literacy Centers Pack.  

There are a few more center activities in this pack that we will work on next week.  Hopefully I'll be back with more pics of them. :)

Click on the picture above if you would like to take a closer look.

Have a great week back at it!

Get your SHOP on!!!!!

Are you ready to get your shop on?  I don't know about you guys, but my wishlist is OVERFLOWING with great products!  My store, along with many others, will be 20% off Monday and Tuesday.  Well, get your cart ready and don't forget to use the code: CYBER.

Here are a few of my holiday and winter products you might want to check out:

Gingerbread Men

Christmas

 Winter

Or - If you'd like all the winter units bundled together:

Freebies:

Happy Shopping!

MLK + Winter Centers

Our 3 day weekend was really nice but back to business today!  We started our MLK unit and my firsties were sooooo excited!  We added MLK to our timeline, made a "smart art" of him and read our fluency stories with our 2nd grade buddies for the first time today.  It went really well and my kiddos were very excited to read with their new buddies.

All of the ideas came from the very talented Katie Knight's 13 American Heroes Unit.  Check it out below!

It is AmAzInG!!!!

Here are some of the centers we're working on this week.

Roll and Graph from my Winter Math Centers.

Winter writing stories - These are vocabulary cards and writing sheets taken from my Winter Literacy Centers and Winter Writing Centers Pack.

You can also check out my Winter Mega Pack which contain all 4 Winter units combined for a cheaper price.

Here's our MLK center for the week.  There are many books, pictures and past weekly readers for the students to read and discover.

We are working on Gladys' ABC order from her Peace and Dreams Unit.  

We are working Tally Marks for math also.  Here is a few cuties working with Kelly and Kim's Monster Cube Game.  Check it out here.

It's going to be another GREAT week - I'm excited!  Hope your's is productive!