Friday, January 23, 2015

Five for Freebie Friday!

TGIF!

I hope you had a fantastic week!

This week I'm linking up with Kacey for Five for Friday :


Here's what we were up to this week:


(don't mind the breakfast wrappers - we don't waste a moment!)

We practiced Long E this week! 

Please click here to download a FREEBIE set of picture/text cards to use for the Long E spellings ee and ea. We also played "NEAT FEET" and practice more Long E activities with my 



I posted my STEP Progress Monitoring Toolkit earlier this week:


Now I'm working on the sequel: Phonics!
Here's a sneak peek:


Although phonics is technically a K-2 skill area, this progress monitoring is more concise (vs. instructional). I'm using it with a 3rd grade intervention group as a diagnostic. It will also help support my 1st graders as a "quick check," as well as provide a work sample, after instruction. I hope to wrap it up this weekend! 

This week I also had the honor of having my latest contribution posted at Ellison Education Blog. Here's a picture of all the cube fun we've been having (my students LOVE these & they were SO EASY!):



I'm also linking up with the fabulous Style Me Bloggers for some wishlist fun! This week's question:

What am I coveting?

Hmmm...this is quite a loaded question. Most things on my wishlist cannot be purchased. Unless you can put a price tag on sleep, an empty gym to workout in, and students who are as excited to learn as I am!

Earlier this week, One Fab Teacher (♥) posted a similar question on Instagram.I had the same trouble...I couldn't come up with three wishes, but I did have one important wish:


What is your wish? I'd love to hear!

I've really stepped back from my shopping lately because it's FREEZING out which means style goes out the window in exchange for my many pairs of love-worn UGG boots.

Sadly, I think the only thing I'm dreaming of is INK.
I know there are teachers nodding their heads with that one!

I just posted a new Donor's Choose  project: Colorful Links to Literacy begging asking for SIX ink cartridges. That's a huge wish!

I really hope the other Style Me Bloggers did MUCH better than me with this question. Please click on their links below to find out!

Have a wonderful Friday!



4 comments:

  1. I love your three teacher wishes....it is so true! There are far too many other things that get in the way of teaching! Great post.

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  2. Love your wishes! Have a great weekend.

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  3. I saw that wish on Instagram and it is just so true! We are drowning in paper work and test scores and more junk than ever! And I don't even have a regular classroom! My only wish is that my sweet daughter ( who is teaching her very first class this year) has an amazingly wonderful class every year. Don't we all want that?
    Carol
    Teachers Are Terrific!

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  4. Thank you ladies for the sweet comments :)

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