Chef Chops A Lot...A Unit on Syllables Coming Soon

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Surfin' Back To School! Is R.E.A.D.Y!!!

Hi there friends...I am finished with Surfin' Back To School!

Surfin' Back To School is the perfect unit to start your year with. It is a Common Core ELA and Math based unit packed full of hands-on and minds-on activities. This unit will engage your students and excite them about learning. There is over 100 pages of games and activities in this unit that promote high level thinking as well as cooperative learning skills. In this unit you will find each game or activity labeled with the Common Core standard it covers making your life that much easier to plan your lessons. Activities included in this unit are:

ABC Uppercase and Lowercase Match Up and Sequence
Sentence Scramble
Spin and Color a Short Vowel Word
Blending Short Vowel Words with Initial/Medial/Ending Sound game
Catch the 1st Sound
Blending Slides
Surfin' For The Partner Letter
Parts of...Setting and Story Retell Maps
Sand Castles and Sun Uppercase and Lowercase Match-up Game
B stands for Beach: Initial Sound Game
3 Sorting Maps: Initial sounds, Medial Sounds, and Ending Sounds
Let's Go Surfin' Now addition dice game
Hundred Chart Madness
Surf On By Counting On...game to practice counting on to 120
Time To Learn Time: Time to the hour
Equal or not Equal: True or False addition sentences
Surf The Earth With Two 10 Frame Games
Got Waves?: a counting on game
Roll a Trapezoid Castle: an addition dice game with trapezoids
Ride the Waves Number Order game

Have a look for yourself:

 Sentence Scramble

 Reading Short Vowel Word Practice

 Initial Sound Identification

 Counting On...Practice Counting from a random number

 Listening for Ending Sounds

 Basic Addition Dice Game

PLUS SO MUCH MORE!

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Be sure to grab this unit...you will love it!

I'M BAAAACKKKK!!!!! with a Surfin' Fun Freebie!

Hi there friends... it has been a while, but as promised I am back and ready to go! I have started my newest unit called...Surfin' Back To School 

and I have decided to GIVE AWAY (yes you heard... I mean read it right!-I am GIVING AWAY) the first game. It is called "Feelin' Crabby!" and it covers ELA Common Core Standards RF1.2.b,c, and d.This game is one of many included in the Surfin’ Back To School Unit. If your students enjoy this game they will definitely enjoy the entire unit because it is packed full of hands-on/minds-on games just like this one and includes math and ELA activities. This game focuses on blending sounds together to make words, segmenting, and identifying beginning, middle, and ending sounds. I only ask one little favor...please follow me here on my blog AND follow me on Teachers Pay Teachers. If you already are a follower, please introduce my little blog and shop to one of your teacher friends-and that is it! I thank you in advance in helping me grow my list of friends-you NEVER can have too many friends...right?!

Below is a preview and you can grab a copy at my store...remember to join my blog (if haven't already) and my TPT store, or introduce a friend to me!!! Take a look below:

Stay tuned because Surfin’ Back To School Unit is coming soon and you won't want to miss out on this one! Make Back To School the easiest it has ever been by grabbing Feelin' Crabby and my Surfin’ Back To School Unit !

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Let's Get Buggy...With ELA Common Core and So Much More!

Hello all my wonderful friends! I finished my Common Core ELA unit. This unit is packed full of activities and games your students will love to play. What I love most about these activities is students have a blast while learning at the same time. This unit covers many Common Core Standards plus a lot more! The following activities can be found in this unit. 
-ABC order
-Syllable Sort
-Sentence Scramble
-Homophone Game
-Synonym Game
-Inflected ending brace map
-Contraction brace map
-Friendly Letter brace map
-Beginning and ending sh/ch tree map sort
-word family sort
-Sentence correcting with punctuation 
-Rhyming game
-Noun sort
-Nouns and Verbs sort

Check out the preview below:

Here are a few more pictures (I couldn't fit them all in on the same page).

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I am going to try the random number generator for a giveaway. I am going to give 2 units away so be sure to leave a comment. (Any advice on the random generator thing would be greatly appreciated). 

This unit will cut your planning time in half! Kids love to learn using the fun and highly engaging activities found in this unit. It is a must!

Long Vowel Kids and Base word + Ending Activities

I FINALLY found some much needed time for ELA Common Core. Below you will find two activities for reading and identifying base words + endings. The first activity students use a brace map (laminated). Using the word cards provided in packet and seen below, students choose one card and write the whole word on the left side of the brace (using an expo marker). Then they break the word apart to find the base word and the ending. They create an addition sentence at the bottom of the brace map practice putting the word back together. 

If you like the above game and would like to use it in your classroom, then click HERE and visit my TpT store. 

The next activity included in this packet is a game. Students work together and race to the finish line reading and identifying base words. 

Next, I created a little packet to address Common Core Standard: RF.1.3.c. Students are required to read words with the final e sound and common vowel team representing long vowel sounds. So I made a packet full of word sorts using tree maps and recording sheets as well as a silly animal story to go with each sort. Students will read the silly story and highlight the words with the long vowel patterns emphasized. Then students will write the words they found on the tree map recording page. There is a set of activities for each long vowel (a,e,i,o,u). See some examples below:

If you like the activities seen above, go on over to my little shop and grab a copy of each. You can click HERE or click on my TpT button on the right side of my blog. I am thinking I will give 3 lucky winners BOTH of these games for FREE. How about the first three fabulous teachers who leave a comment!

Tomorrow I will be back with more opinion writing freebies and a marshmallow bunny graphing and sorting activity.