Friday, October 24, 2014

Freebie Friday October 24th

I have a thematic word wall in my classroom that my students just love. The word wall includes writing activities to work on independently. Because my students enjoy the activities so much, I thought I'd offer one as a freebie. I hope your kids enjoy it also!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4dkVYoybDGRTFJtWEZxRGlWcXM/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4dkVYoybDGRTFJtWEZxRGlWcXM/view?usp=sharing

Have a great Friday!

 Freebie FridayTeaching blogs share freebies all the time and at Teaching Blog Addict, we give you the place to find them all in one spot! Be sure to come back each week to see what's new! Find free downloads and teacher resources for kindergarten, first grade ,second grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade and sixth grade.

Monday, October 20, 2014

BOLD Beginnings!

Each year I'm dying with excitement to teach Bold Beginnings. It's like I want to just jump right in and skip every other important piece of writing because once I teach kids about Bold Beginnings, their writing becomes amazing! 

So last week my world became complete. I was able to teach my 2nd graders the best thing ever, BOLD BEGINNINGS! Yay! I love it!

OK, rewind. . . I was also really impressed by how well my students picked up on this temporal words activity. 
We put together the temporal word notebook page in out Interactive Notebooks. The students will use it to reference while writing. Right now, the kids are writing a personal narrative after tons of class practice.
Interactive Notebooks, where have you been my whole life?
I just love how the kids have these notes to look  back on. 

OK back to the Bold Beginnings!

It all started with this book.
It's filled with sounds heard throughout a city, which is a great way to introduce onomatopoeia.  

 That's a real life kid page right there.

We put together this notebook page and wrote a Bold Beginning under each flap. The kids had so much fun making the Oo oo! Ah ah! noises of a monkey.

Once we tried out each B.B., we chose a new topic. . . Halloween!

Kids worked in groups to write all four of the B.B.

Here is our collection of Bold Beginnings.

The thing I enjoy most about teaching writing is teaching kids to let go of spelling. 

"Don't worry about your spelling!" I say. And once kids let go, you get some great writing.

More practice. More fun!

Today my students had to apply this new learning to their narratives. Each was able to write four different Bold Beginnings to topics of their choosing. I was so proud of them.
The best part, they had fun writing!

Mission accomplished.

Friday, October 17, 2014

Freebie Friday for October 17th

Happy Friday!

This is an addition to my Interactive Grammar Notebook for the Primary Grades and it's FREE! If you like it, check out the full product at my TpT store. If you haven't tried interactive notebooks, you're missing out! Kids absolutely love them and. . . shhh. . . don't tell. . . they don't know they're learning.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4dkVYoybDGRLW5kaUtJSURqaDA/view?usp=sharing


Thanks for stopping by! Have a restful weekend :)

  Freebie FridayTeaching blogs share freebies all the time and at Teaching Blog Addict, we give you the place to find them all in one spot! Be sure to come back each week to see what's new! Find free downloads and teacher resources for kindergarten, first grade ,second grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade and sixth grade.


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