Welcome to 5 Days of Freebies! Follow along and enjoy gingerbread themed activities for the next five days! Gingerbread Man One Sentence Summaries Click to download this gingerbread one sentence summary activity. These little guys … [Read more...]
A Peek Inside Our Gingerbreadland!
It's been a busy couple of weeks in my classroom! We've taken the Polar Express to Gingerbread land and if my kids have their way we're not coming back! We've been reading, comparing, and analyzing many different versions of The Gingerbread Man. We started out with a … [Read more...]
Informational Expert Books
Happy Friday! It sure was hard to go back after 4 days off! I thought I would share some things we started before Thanksgiving and wrapped up this week. We did a little gallery walk of informational text features. I placed a sticky note on each … [Read more...]
Pigeon Fun Thanksgiving-Style!
Who doesn't love Mo Willems' books? I thought I'd share this fun twist on disguise a turkey that we did. It's persuasive writing Pigeon fun, Thanksgiving-style! The Pigeon is by far our favorite Mo Willems character. Our librarian and art teacher do all sorts of … [Read more...]
Stellaluna, Some Sugar, & A Freebie!
We've placed a lot of focus on "twin texts", pairing fiction with related nonfiction or informational texts this quarter, and for the last couple of weeks we've been reading about nocturnal animals and learning about informational text features. This week, it's been all things … [Read more...]
