April Nonsense Words-Freebie

Here are practice sheets I created for those students who need nonsense word fluency practice.  Click on the picture to download.

St. Patrick's Day "Where Is" game-Freebie

I created this game for my university pre-intern and my parent volunteers to use next week as a literacy center.  Click on the pictures to download.

The first one uses the high frequency words from the Harcourt Brace Trophies Reading Program as well as a few extra words that our district has required this year.

The second game uses words from the 2nd grade Dolch word list.

All clip art is from Microsoft.

March Nonsense Words -Freebie

Here are the sheets I am going to use of nonsense word fluency practice for March.  I couldn't find exactly the clip art I was looking for so I just used Microsoft.  Click on the picture below to download. The red lines won't show up when you print.  I jsut snipped it from Microsoft Office and not the pdf like I usually do.

Walking Through the Jungle Bingo Freebies

I made a couple of sight word bingo freebies to go with the book "Walking Through the Jungle".

Click on the picture below to download. This are mostly the words from our Harcourt Brace Trophies reading series;

This one has higher level words for my above grade level kiddos:

Penguin Party!

The kindergarteners voted to adopt a penguin from the John Ball Zoo, so we had a party to celebrate the penguin.  Here are some of the activities from our party.


We played a roll and color a penguin game.

They made cute little penguins:

Playing Bingo

We made a cute little book about penguins:

We had tons of fun!!

Celebrating Tet!

We had a fabulous time this morning learning about the Vietnamese New Year Tet!

A parent came to teach us about Tet because her daughter was born in Vietnam and they wanted to share her heritage with us!


First the parent read us a book about Tet called "Ten Mice for Tet".

Here is the parent reading the story:

Next, we made a dragon craft because it is the year of the dragon.  They turned out really cute!

We learned a lot and had fun! 

Polar Themed Site Word Game-Freebie

I created a polar themed game to practice sight words.  The first set of words are for my below and on grade students and the second set is for my above grade level students.  Click on the picture below to download.

Please leave me a comment if you download or pin :)  Thank you!

Nonsese Word Fluency Winter Themed Practice Sheets-Freebie!

My students are just not getting nonsense word fluency.  Frankly, it doesn't make much sense to me either! :(  But it is a hoop that we must jump through....so I created some nonsense word fluency practice sheets and just to make them more fun added some Scrappin Doodles clip art!  Click on the picture below to download.

If you download or pin these, please leave me a comment :)

I got the Versatile Blogger Award!

I won The Versatile Blogger Award! Thanks to Fantastic First Grade  for giving me this awesome award!

On with the rules:
1. Thank the person who nominated you! Thank you Sarah!!!

2. Tell 7 Things About Yourself  ( See Below)

3. Nominate 15 Newly Discovered Blogs and let them know they've received the award!

Seven Things About Myself:
1. I was born and raised in Flint, MI...now I live in Kalamazoo
2. I am the 4th generation in my family to get a teaching certificate.
3. I just got a Keurig for Christmas and I think I am addicted.
4. I love to read!
5. I am not organized, but know what pile everything is in
6. I have curly hair and really sensitive skin
7. I love it when people give away things on their blogs!

Fifteen Blogs I have recently found that I think rock: (in no particular order) 
1. 1st Grade Learning Stars-not new to me but I love this blog!
2. A Place to Share
3. A Rainbow Of Teaching
4. A Special Kind of Class
5. A Teacher's Treasure
6. A Teeny Tiny Teacher
7. Always First Grade
8. Barrow's Hodgepodge
9. Can Do Kinders!
10. Chalk Talk
11. Cole's Little Pups
12. Crazy for First Grade
13. Differentiation Station
14. Doodle Bugs Teaching
15.  Ed Link - First Grade