Fun and Fabulous!

Write the Room August to June is done!! Over 200 pages of awesome ELA and Math Write the Room Sets. I love, love, love it!

Kiddos love to “write the room”! This product is perfect at center time for both Literacy and Math. Just print, cut, and “hide” words around the room for a fun way to get kids writing, learning vocabulary, and practicing skills.

This product includes:
August: Back to School, Friends, Short Vowels, Colors, and Shapes
September: Apples, Rhyming, Punctuation, Number Words, Addition Dice, Ten Frames
October: Fall, Pumpkins, Halloween, Nouns, Ten Frame Addition, Odd & Even
November: Thanksgiving, Nouns & Verbs, Syllables, Sentences, Tally Marks, Counting On
December: Christmas, Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives, Long & Short Vowels, Sentences & Punctuation, Numbers Before & After, Making Ten
January: Winter, Contractions, Black History, Polar Habitat, 3-D Shapes
Fractions
February: Groundhog Day, Dental, Valentine’s Day, Presidents Day, Commas,
Fact Families, Word Problems
March: St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Dr. Seuss, Compound Words, Tens & Ones,
Adding 3 Numbers
April: Spring, Insects, Earth Day, Weather, Subtraction, Measurement
May: Families, Space, Field Day, ABC Order, 2 Digit Addition, Unknown Numbers
June: Summer, Beach, Farm, Mixed Up Sentences, Time, Ten More, Ten Less,
One More, One Less

Here are some of the cute newest pages for you to see.

Kiddos love to “write the room”! This product is perfect at center time for both Literacy and Math. Just print, cut, and “hide” words around the room for a fun way to get kids writing, learning vocabulary, and practicing skills.

This product includes:
August: Back to School, Friends, Short Vowels, Colors, and Shapes
September: Apples, Rhyming, Punctuation, Number Words, Addition Dice, Ten Frames
October: Fall, Pumpkins, Halloween, Nouns, Ten Frame Addition, Odd & Even
November: Thanksgiving, Nouns & Verbs, Syllables, Sentences, Tally Marks, Counting On
December: Christmas, Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives, Long & Short Vowels, Sentences & Punctuation, Numbers Before & After, Making Ten
January: Winter, Contractions, Black History, Polar Habitat, 3-D Shapes
Fractions
February: Groundhog Day, Dental, Valentine’s Day, Presidents Day, Commas,
Fact Families, Word Problems
March: St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Dr. Seuss, Compound Words, Tens & Ones,
Adding 3 Numbers
April: Spring, Insects, Earth Day, Weather, Subtraction, Measurement
May: Families, Space, Field Day, ABC Order, 2 Digit Addition, Unknown Numbers
June: Summer, Beach, Farm, Mixed Up Sentences, Time, Ten More, Ten Less,
One More, One Less

Set 1: August to December is available for purchase.
Set 2: January to June is also available for purchase.

Welcome to Fun Fabulous First!

Hello!

I just want to welcome everyone who is visiting from The Hands on Teacher in First! Thanks, Marie for featuring me today! I love visitors!  I hope you can find some ideas or items to help you on your teaching journey. I just started blogging this summer, but am loving it, and hope to help someone, just as other blogs have helped me. Anything to make life easier, right?!

As promised, my Spelling Sparklers Freebie is ready to download! Click here for the original post about how this idea formed. Click the picture below to get this for free in my TpT store.

I had another idea that I sort of like even better! That goes right along with Spelling Sparklers/Skywriting.

You know these little finger flashlights

Wellllll, I have a couple and tried them out and they are perfect to use as Spelling Sparklers. The kids just stick them on their finger and can write in the air with them and it actually looks like a sparkler. They would LOVE to use these in spelling, especially if you turn the lights off. :) You can get them from Amazon for cheap at this link. Finger Flashlights I'm totally getting some. 

So there you have it. Several ideas for making spelling fun and exciting. 

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Be fun and Fabulous!

~Mrs. Sweeney

Ideas, Ideas, Ideas!

Three days of Common Core Training- check! Today was our last day AND we got out over an hour early. Woohoo! It was a good training, but I'm glad it's done. I'm excited though because I got some great ideas, not just for my classroom, but also for you! My mind is filled with lots of things I can make for TpT that go right along with Common Core. Yippee! I'm excited and can't wait to get started. In fact, I haven't waited! I came home, made dinner, and got right to work. I'm gonna share a preview with you, but I think the thing I am most excited about is going to wait a week. I'm being featured next weekend on Marie's blog, and I think I'll include this little freebie at that time. :) Thanks to The Hands-On Teacher in First for being so fabulous!
So Common Core is majorly into Phonics. Guess what?! Me too! I think it is SOOO important and I'm glad it's being pushed. I did not do my typical Phonics instruction this year, and I think it showed. So, I am back in action, full force. There was a lot of talk in class the last few days about Phonics programs. What do you use in your classroom? What do you like about it? Dislike? I really like Johnny Can Spell. We also do 95% Group, which I wasn't sure about at first, but I really see the benefits now, especially when mixed with more Phonics instruction in the classroom. Now on to the preview! Thanks to my table-mates: Jessi, Pam, and Miriam for helping refine the idea and being a great team to work with this week. We didn't know each other before, but I'm glad I got to know them. Hi, Girls! :) So, we were doing a spelling activity today and part of it was to skywrite the word, which means to write the word with your finger in the air. I do that a lot, but the comment was made that it is better to keep your arm straight out in front of you, rather than bent at the elbow by the side of your head. I believe that is because you can see what you are spelling, so it makes a connection with your brain. I think most of us, at least most that I have seen, always just bend at the elbow and do it close to our bodies. As we were talking about it, I said, it's like writing with a sparkler. The idea kept growing and I decided I am going to make Spelling Sparklers for my classroom. Awesome! it will help remind the kids to keep their arm straight, let them see what they are spelling, and it's fun! I'm going to make a paper version for everyone to use and a "souped" up version for them to use in small groups. I like the idea so much that my husband has practically convinced me to make the product and sell it for real. I'm really thinking about it. I think it is a great tool. We'll see. :) can you tell I'm excited?! Soooo, get ready because this baby will be ready for you next week. I know my kiddos will love it, and I'm sure yours will too. Anything to make spelling fun!

Check back next week and you might get this little gem for free! :)

Be fun and fabulous!

~Mrs. Sweeney