Giveaway Winner!

Congratulations to Chrissy over at Buzzing with Ms. B for winning my Poetry Unit! Please e-mail me at glauren4556@gmail.com to claim your prize!

She is winning my brand new Poetry Unit on Teacher's Notebook! 

You can still head over to grab your own copy! Visit the link below to grab your copy!!

Poetry Unit and a Holiday Giveaway!

I have been working like a mad woman (like that simile!?) to get this unit finished and available for purchase in my Teacher's Notebook store! I have seriously been in a frenzy for the last two days trying to finish it all up. It feels good to have it done!

We are working on characteristics of poetry and devices of figurative language when we return from our Christmas break so I thought I would share the love I've put into it with all of you, for a small fee of course. =) 

This colorful unit includes elements of poetry (rhyme, repetition, and stanzas) and activities and poems for teaching similes and metaphors, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, personification, and alliteration!

Head to my store and grab your copy! 

When I reach 30 shoppers who have me as a favorite store on Teacher's Notebook, I will be giving away this unit to one lucky liker! =)

To participate in the giveaway, you must either:

1) Add me as a favorite on Teacher's Notebook

2) Like my facebook fan page

3) Tell me your favorite winter writing activity for after the Christmas holidays! (I desperately need your good ideas...)
Or do all of the above for more chances to win!

Oh and don't forget to leave your e-mail in one of the comments!

Please leave a separate comment for each way you enter.

Doubling the Final Consonant

This week, we have been learning about the double the final consonant rule! I made a cute Christmas themed flipchart with activities for each day to get into the holiday spirit!!

After we learned about the rule, we pulled a word out of Santa's bag in the flipchart and students had to spin their spinners to see which ending to add to the word! Then, they had to make the word with the ending they landed on on their white boards. We discussed how some endings don't make sense on certain words, so if that happened, they had to spin again. It was so much more exciting that just adding an ending that I tell them to. Plus, spinners just make everything more exciting! This also lent itself to a little lesson on probability!

Click on the image below to grab the spinners for your printing pleasure! 

I am also giving you the flipchart I made to go along with the activity!! 

Disclaimer: This is a flipchart and you must have Activ Inspire software downloaded on your computer for this to open. You must also have certain fonts installed for it to look like this. Just google the fonts in the flipchart.

Let me know if you like it! 

Also, don't forget to go check out what's for sale in My Teacher's Notebook store!

If I lived in a Snow Globe

Jennifer over at First Grade Blue Skies did this cute writing activity for Winter. I have adapted it just a bit to accommodate upper elementary students. Students respond to the prompt, "If I lived in a snow globe..."

Students create their own snow globe illustrations and then put the writing on the base of the globe!

(Picture taken from Deanna Jump's website who originally posted this adorable activity.)

You can use glitter spray to finish each globe after students have done their pictures. I am so excited to try this on Wednesday!

Head over to my Teacher's Notebook shop to check out my new items for sale!

Giveaway Winner!

Congratulations to Mindy Wells at Well's of a 4th Grade Nothing for winning the 400 followers giveaway!

I couldn't figure out the whole number generator thing, so I just asked my boyfriend to pick a number between 1 and 19, since that's how many entries there were and he just happened to choose 13!  

Mindy won all of the items for sale in my TN store! 

Congratulations Mindy!

You all can still purchase any of these items in my TN store!