Winter!

We have been doing everything winter around here!  The kids and I thought since mother nature couldn't provide the real deal, we would celebrate snow in our own way.  We have been reading and practicing two new winter poems in our fluency mini-lessons.  The kids started giggling when we first read the snowball poem.  It took a few of the kids a second to figure out why a snowball would pee the bed...but we all got there pretty quickly and enjoyed a good laugh.  There is a cute poster for Shel Silverstein's Snowball poem at Teeny Tiny Teacher's Blog.  You can download it from her here.  She has some great printables to go along with it!

I made a poster for the Chubby Little Snowman poem.  You can grab a copy of it from my TPT store here.

I hope everyone is having a good middle of the week...it's all downhill to the weekend!

Daily Five Minilesson idea on ch with a freebie...

Hey everyone!  I'm gearing up for a new week and I thought I would share one of my Daily 5 ideas with you.  My district uses the Treasures Reading Program, and this next week we will be studying ch and tch spelling patterns.  Now, I don't know about your class, but in my class there are always students who confuse the sh and ch (tch) sounds during spelling.  I thought I would create a poster to help my class remember the look and sound of ch.  Well, my ten year old son always goes around the house singing this song he made up about french fries.  LIGHTBULB!  My class needs fluency practice and our rule is ch and tch...why not use my son's song and create a song (poem) poster for my class to learn. 

Click here if you would like to download a free copy from my TPT store.

Then I had another idea...create a word practice or word sort game for my Working with Words area. 

 I think I am going to go with a word sort using three fry boxes...one marked sh, one marked ch and one marked tch.  I will write the words I want to put in the word sort on yellow popsicle sticks that can be sorted.  I am going to be creating a printable with the words on paper for those that need a quick printable activity as well as a self-check chart.  I will get those uploaded as quickly as I can get them made...

If you would like to download a free copy of the poem you can get it here from my TPT store.  The printables to go along with it will be part of a kit, that will be available for purchase later this week.  I hope everyone has a great week!