Winter TPT Showcase

Welcome to Fishing for More TPT Products! is a series on this blog to showcase some inspiring Teachers Pay Teachers products. I will talk about some items that have caught my attention. If you'd like for me to feature your product, please comment below or contact me with the links and a preview!

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Winter Fun!

Sharon Dudley at Teaching with Sight inspired me to share some winter fun TPT products I've been liking lately.  It's summer break here in Australia, but I miss the January winter fun!

Be sure to check out some of Sharon's products: Writing Picture Prompts - Winter, Winter Sight Word Board Games,  & 1 to 20 Winter Bingo.

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By:The Moffat Girls

Product Description:  This Winter Math and Literacy Packet has it all and requires NO PREP! The resources in this packet are designed to meet Common Core Standards for Kindergarten while making learning fun, hands-on and interactive! ($7)

My Thoughts:  Great for our younger learners to use in Literacy & Math Centers!

By: Miss DeCarbo

Product Description:  Get your students to USE the text! Included are 44 text based evidence passages for your students. 22 high interest topics are covered. Each topic includes a nonfiction passage and a related fiction passage so you can pair the passages and help your students make connections across both genres. With the introduction of the Common Core standards, comes a big shift in students being able to not only comprehend text but use and state evidence directly from the text to support their understanding. These passages allow your students to build and practice this skill in a fun, engaging manner! ($7)

My Thoughts:  Reading passages for our primary/elementary readers with a great winter theme!  I like that it is text based evidence.  She also has more packets for all seasons!

By: Deedee Wills

Product Description:  Daily shared reading for January-common core aligned. Arctic Animals, Mittens, Penguin, and Snowman themed poems are featured. Common core standards aligned chart. ($10)

My Thoughts:  First off, 93 pages! I find it hard to locate poetry that we can analyze in class.  This winter poetry packet looks great for small groups or centers!

By: Amy Lemons

Product Description:  This winter writing activity can be used with students of many different ages! There is a title poster to display, 5 pages of winter cards to generate ideas, prewriting, template, and an example. ($2)  

My Thoughts:  Writing is always so great to utilize with a theme! I love Amy Lemons and her blog, she always does great job with her products. I love her penguin unit too!

By: Caitlin Cabby Kindergarten Smiles

Product Description:  An entire all around unit about penguins from Kindergarten, 1st, and Homeschool students. ($10)

My Thoughts:  I love the mini books, graphic organizers, and great detail that was put into this product!  Looks very well thought out and allows our younger learners utilize lots of skills.

What have you been enjoying for any Winter Themes?

Reading Anchor Chart

I recently created anchor charts for various reading skills.  I have used these to introduce skills, display in the classroom for student reference, and to review skills.  These full page charts provide a bright title, definition/explanation, and a mixture of related images, examples, and further details.  I covered 29 different skills, and I hope I got them all.  (If you can think of another one, please let me know!)

There are two versions of this product.  One with a bright rainbow (chevron) background and another with an Ocean Waves background theme.  The rainbow theme is great for nearly any colorful classroom.  I created the ocean waves theme to match my ocean themed room.

I will be working on a packet for Figurative Language, Base Words, Text Features, and Parts of Speech.  

Click below to the packet you'd like to check out:

Reading Anchor Charts - Bright Rainbow

Reading Anchor Charts - Ocean Waves

Five for Friday

Five for Friday is a weekly teacher linky party where you post five random things from today or this past week and on your blog. Check out the linky party at Doodle Bugs Teaching.

Mmm... Cranberry Chicken Salad Wrap recipe!  I've been trying to prepare my lunch meals in advance in order to choose healthier options.  I love using Pinterest to find recipes and this one is quite delicious!  I love the sweetness with the dried cranberries.  However, I substitute mayo with 1-part light mayo and 1-part Greek Yoghurt.  

I've been pushing myself to workout more regularly.  I mainly go for a run between 2-5K, for at least 30 minutes.  (20 minutes on the day I'm slacking.)  You've got to mix it up and although I have the Kayla Itsines Bikini Body Guide (and know the awesome results), I'm more of a fan with follow along videos. YouTube is awesome for that and my absolute favorites are the ones at Tone It Up.  (Look up the Love Your Body Series!)

In February we're off to Japan for a few weeks.  We're spending a little over the week in Tokyo, then spending most of our time in the mountains snowboarding.  I'm trying to read up all I can on Tokyo traveling.  I really enjoy reading entries from a traveler's perspective in this case.  (This way I can check out things I enjoy as well.)  The Beautiful Day Blog's entry is my favorite! I can't wait to go now.  (I'm looking forward to Disneyland and snowboarding!)

Since we'll be traveling I'm looking for some backpacks to travel with.  I'm hoping to replace the need of a purse with a stylish backpack.  I wasn't going to bring my DSLR camera because it's so heavy, but in a backpack it'll do great.  Two straps on my back is much better than one strap across my body.  Loving this one from ASOS, and at $39 it sounds like a good deal!

I've been spending some time working on this packet for my TeachersPayTeachers store!  I used anchor chart last year to introduce the skill and display in class for the students to use as a reference when they get confused/lost. Look out for it in my store!  I'll be posting it soon, as well as the same packet with an ocean themed background.  I enjoyed this so much that I'm also working on a packet for parts of speech, figurative language, base words, and more!  

Happy New Year!

Welcome to Fishing for More TPT Products! is a series on this blog to showcase some inspiring Teachers Pay Teachers products. I will talk about some items that have caught my attention. If you'd like for me to feature your product, please comment below or contact me with the links and a preview!

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Happy New Year!

This week I decided to focus on New Year's Activities/Resolutions! These are some great products to get your students about writing some personal goals for the remainder of the year.  I loved doing this with my students because it also gave them a chance to learn about goals and setting personal goals.  A lot of my students excelled in so many aspects of their lives because they gave themselves a goal, pushed themselves, and worked hard for their achievements.  Hopefully these products can help out with that!

By: Michelle Chan

Subjects: English Language Arts 

Grade Levels: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, Homeschool 

Resource Types: Worksheets, Fun Stuff, Printables 

Cost: FREEBIE 

New Year's Resolution pages: This packet includes 3 versions of writing New Year goals that appeal to students at different grade levels. There are also two sets of each: one for girls and one for boys.

By: Linda Kamp

Subjects: Writing, Holidays/Seasonal, The New Year 

Grade Levels: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Homeschool 

Resource Types: Activities, Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas 

Cost: $3.50 

This January printable contains 2-4 days of mini-lessons and activities for your students to learn about the history of the New Year's resolution and to write some resolutions of their own!

By: The Busy Class

Subjects: Life Skills, Winter, The New Year 

Grade Levels: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Homeschool 

Resource Types: Activities, Fun Stuff, Printables 

Cost: $2.50 

A new year (or a new school year) is a great time to turn over a new leaf, try new things, and end bad habits. Right around winter break (or at the beginning of a new school year) have a class discussion about resolutions. Brainstorm goals that are attainable and share some of your own. Have students create foldable and then hang for others to read.

By: The Lesson Plan Diva

Subjects: Creative Writing, For All Subject Areas 

Grade Levels: PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th 

Resource Types: Activities 

Cost: $3.00 

 Help your students bring in the new year with this cute craftivity. The students can write about what their resolutions are for 2015. There is also a "My Goals for the New Year writing prompt included. They make the face template to look like themselves. They can use construction paper or a hair template that is provided. Hair templates are provided for a boy and a girl. There are 2 brainstorming graphic organizers included. ( I will update this yearly with the correct current new year if you purchase.) There are handwriting and ruled lines provided.

By: Clutter-Free Classroom

Subjects: English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Writing 

Grade Levels: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th 

Resource Types: Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas, Graphic Organizers 

Cost: $3.75 

This is a great activity for the month of January as it focuses on resolutions or as I referred to them with my class...goals.

By: Anne Hofmann 1st Grade

Subjects: Basic Operations, The New Year
Grade Levels: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Homeschool
Resource Types: Worksheets, Projects, Printables
Cost: $2.00

 Welcome your students back to school in 2015 with these fun activities. Use as your first bulletin board of the new year.

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What are you looking forward
to use in your classroom for New Year's?

One Word Resolution: Create!

Got this from Primary Powers and I think it's a great way for narrow down your goals for 2015!  

My One Word Resolution is CREATE!

I like to focus more on creating this for my class, my career, and this site.  I'm currently waiting on visa paperwork to begin full-time teaching, so I've got time to create more!  

I've got some personal goals:

1. Become closer to an Australian citizen. 
2. Read & study up on primary education.  
3. Continue becoming more creative. 
4. Don't let fear hold me back from new things.  
5. Eat healthier options. 

You can read about these goals more in depth on my personal lifestyle blog on 1st January 2015!

What are your goals for 2015?