There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell!

Happy Hump Day! Hope everyone is having a good week! My house is all decorated for Christmas, the new episode of Tori and Dean is on Tivo ready for me to watch, AND I am going out to dinner with my sweet hubs tonight…life is good! :)

Denyse at Scrappin Doodles worked her magic again and designed graphics for the book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell by Lucille Colandro. Love, love, LOVE! Click {here} to check out the There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell mini unit on TpT! It includes sequencing cards, a sequencing printable, an alphabetical order printable, a sentence frame printable, noun and verb sort cards, a noun and verb sort printable, and a Spin and Graph activity with printable.

BELLS make me think of music!!! The first FIVE people to guess my favorite Christmas song will get the There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell! {Mini Unit} for FREE! I will email the unit to the winners tomorrow! :)

***Congrats to Deborah, Gladys, awrinkleintime, Sandra, Kellie, and ruskieroo! You guessed it...my fave Christmas song is JINGLE BELL ROCK! Check your email for your FREE copy of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell! {Mini Unit}
Merry Christmas, ladies!

Stay tuned for some festive fun in December!  Beginning this weekend, I will be celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas! For 12 days I will post a freebie! Who doesn’t love a freebie…especially around the holidays??? If you can’t use the freebie, please pay it forward and tell one of your co-workers about the post! The more, the merrier! Some of the freebies will be holiday related for you to use right away, while others can be used later in the year!

WAIT! There’s more!!! Five Bama (that’s ALABAMA for you non Southern folk!) bloggers have teamed up to host a merry giveaway of 5 TpT units of YOUR choice {1 unit per blog/TpT store}! Details coming soon!

Enjoy the rest of your week!

 

Black Friday and Cyber Monday!

YAY! It's officially the most wonderful time of the year!!!!! CANNOT WAIT to decorate our house! :)

Everything in my TpT store will be 20% off today for Black Friday and it will 20% off again {plus 10% with TpT code CMS28} on Cyber Monday!

Happy shopping!

The Legend of the Five Corn Kernels {FREE!}

Happy Sunday Funday! I CANNOT WAIT for some DELISH sweet potato casserole in T minus 4 days!!!

This is a little activity I have done since my very first year of teaching. This is one of those things that had been passed from teacher to teacher…so I am not sure where the original idea came from, but I DO know it is not my original idea! :) This would be perfect for those of you {ME INCLUDED! :)} who have school Monday and Tuesday this week!

First, you read a paragraph explaining that during the first winter in America, the Pilgrims only had five parched kernels of corn to eat on some days! After reading, show the students a paper plate with 5 popcorn kernels glued in the center. This is SUCH an amazing visual for them! One of my sweet firsties said, “WOW! I would be STARVING!” I know, right???!!!!

You can give your kiddos a snack size baggie, with the The Legend of the Five Corn Kernels story and five pieces of candy corn, to take home. :) I also included a fill in the blank story page that the kiddos could fill out and you could simply staple a baggie with five pieces of candy corn to it.

Click {here} to download The Legend of the Five Corn Kernels activity for FREE on TpT!

I extended the 20% off sale {both units are $2.40} of the I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie mini unit and the Oh My, Pumpkin Pie! mini unit until Tuesday, November 22. These mini units would be great for this short Thanksgiving week, too!

I hope you and your family have a very blessed Thanksgiving!

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie!

Happy Monday, y’all! I know many of you are in your final days before the Thanksgiving break {jealous!}. We go next Monday and Tuesday, BUT I am excited because my kiddos are performing in the CU-TEST Thanksgiving music program on Tuesday. Turkey Tango, anyone? :)

I absolutely LOVE ALL of the ‘Old Lady’ books!!! They have been one of my faves since I began teaching! Last week, we used I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie as we wrapped up our unit on the Human Body and nutrition. I contacted Denyse at Scrappin Doodles and asked her to create graphics to go along with I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie. She did an absolutely AMAZING job! Could they BE any more perfect {Chandler, anyone??!!!} Can I please be her???? She whipped them up in seriously, like, 24 hours. Now, THAT is service! :)

Click {here} to check out my I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie mini unit. It includes sequencing cards, a sequencing printable, an alphabetical order printable, syllable sort cards, a syllable sort printable, and a Spin and Graph activity…all about the foods the old lady ate! This unit would be perfect for those of you who have school Monday and Tuesday next week and need a little something fun to do, while reviewing some key concepts!

Please comment below to receive this unit for FREE! I will give away 8 copies in honor of my followers! :)

Enjoy your week!

Seashells by the Seashore

TGIF, my friends! Ahhh....Seashells by the Seashore! I SO WISH I was at the shore. Instead...I am in my fleece pajamas, Cherry Coke Zero and Bagel Bites by my side, and TiVo remote in hand! :) You know you’re getting old when…haha! But seriously, this is HEAVEN {if I can't be at the beach}!

Considering the climatic Halloween rush, quickly followed by the post Halloween meltdown that always ensues on November 1, we had a great week! Our word study was digraph /sh/. We read Shelly’s New Shoes {LOVE Phonics Tales ~ always so perfect for a sub!} and completed a word sort activity.

Click {here} to check out my Seashells by the Seashore Digraph /sh/ Word Work activities on TpT.

In Writing, we are still focusing on Descriptive Writing. This week, we focused on using color words to make our writing more interesting. We started off the week with Abby’s presh crayon box activity. Then, we used books such as My Many Colored Days, The Crayon Box That Talked, and A Bad Case of Stripes during our mini lessons, always pausing to point out and discuss color words.

Still pounding away on Fact Families in Math and the Human Body in Science…nothing noteworthy there. Can’t wait to wrap it up next week so we can begin busting out the turkeys!!! :)

Have a FAB, FALL weekend!