Creepy Carrots - Book Extension

Creepy Carrots is such a fun book to read! The kids love this story. Who knew you could feel sympathy for carrots. This is a perfect book to teach point of view. How would YOU feel if you were a carrot in a field of rabbits? This packet will have your children making those Text To Self connections as they are introduced to these fun characters. This extension has activities for point of view, but also many other reading and language skills as well. It has activities for summarizing, retelling the sequence of events, letter writing, and more. It has math graphing activities and addition to 10. This packet is filled with fun activities that will keep your children engaged and thinking in a fun way. Use them whole group or introduce and use as center activities.

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Spider Subtraction

We made this activity to use as a math center for October while we learn about spiders and other creepy creatures for Halloween. Just print the webs and task cards on card stock and laminate. We use plastic spiders for counters that were spider rings from the party store. We cut the ring part off. Children use spiders on a web as their manipulatives to solve the subtraction problems on the task cards.

THEY LOVE THIS!

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When The Clock Strikes on Halloween - Book Extension

This cute rhyming book is perfect for k-1 children. It is great for teaching time to the hour. We created a book extension that includes activities to teach telling time, writing activities, rhyming, word order, graphing and more. This pack is filled with fun activities that will keep your children engaged and thinking in a fun way. Use them whole group or introduce and use as center activities. This book is a must have for Halloween.

SO...if you have read this book, you know the part that they all love, right?!?!?!  "When the clock strikes three..."  HAHAHA!

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Grandparent's Day

We LOVE our grandparents, and they LOVE getting anything that their angels color, draw, or make for them. Can you tell we are grandmothers???? (GiGi and Nana)

In this pack there are two Grandparents Day cards to choose from, two styles of bookmarks, each to print on colored paper, or white and let the littles do all the coloring (grandparent preferred method). Students can write about their favorite grandparent memory, and draw their grandparents too. They can also tell why their grandparents ROCK and list reasons why they are the best in the world.

The pack is 29 pages, but here are a few...

    

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Mary Wore Her Red Dress - Book Extension

This book is perfect for k-1 children learning about colors and color words. It's perfect for the beginning of school.  It's perfect for getting to know each other. It's perfect for talking about illustrators.  It's perfect for those first day school clothes. It's catchy.  It's fun. We LOVE this book!

 We included many matching, spinning, and more fun color word activities to help children become proficient in reading color words. 

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Practice with Color and Color Words

This is a fun pack of practice with colors and color words for the beginning of the year as a review for first graders or for kindergartners any time during the year. It could also be use for struggling second graders or those with special learning needs. And what do they love to talk about? Oh how we love those new school shoes!! We created color puzzles and games that lend themselves easily to that all important center time when you are working with your small groups. Print, laminate, cut, and drop in a center box. Children never get tired of playing with colors. This could also be a fun extra filler for art teachers. 

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I Wanna Iguana - Book Extension

This book is perfect for teaching how to write a persuasive or opinion piece, as well as friendly letters as the boy writes letters to his mother to convince her to let him have an iguana for a pet. In this pack we included many writing activities, an informational guide to help with writing this kind of piece, and many more fun things to do with this book. 

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BEE ON TIME - Telling Time Activities

Your students can put the BEE on TIME in this pack that we created with games for matching the analog time with the digital time. There are worksheets and an assessment included. In this pack we included activities that help students practice telling time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, and a record sheet to go with the games as well. The children will enjoy learning about time with these colorful bees. We included black and white versions as well. They can be used whole group, in math centers, used for homework and distance learning.

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Grumpy Monkey - Book Extension

In this book, Jim Panzee teaches children that it is OK to feel grumpy sometimes. No matter what his friends try to get him to do, there is no use. He is just having a grumpy kind of day. It is something with which we can all relate!! In this book extension we have provided many activities for writing about what makes you grumpy. We also included many other activities for comprehension, using quotation marks, and math.

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The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf - Book Extension

This is the classic tale we all know and love but with a twist. When the farmer moves to Florida, the pigs have to figure out how to make it on their own. They each build houses, but 

YOU KNOW WHO shows up to show his stuff, or should I say his huff. Check out this book by Mark Teague for a new twist on an old lovable story. We have included many comprehension and writing activities and much more to go with this book that kids will enjoy. 

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I Love Bugs - Book Extension

Do you love bugs? 

Chances are you said no, but for all of us science lovers and many of the children in your class they can be fascinating. Learning about bugs always creates excitement. This easy read by Emma Dodd is just the thing to start your journey to a great bug education. Our kindergarten teachers that use McGraw-Hill Wonders Reading Program were asking for this extension.  This is one of their BIG BOOK shared readings. (unit 2, week 3) Bug our firsties love it too!  These activities can be used for seat work, center work, during small group time, or even for distance learning. Check it out!!

MATH-terpieces - Book Extension

If you love math, then you love Greg Tang books.  His books are a part of every math workshop I've ever attended. (and that's a lot!) This detailed book uses historical works of art to teach math concepts. It will not only help your students with decomposing numbers to 10 , but it will give them an abundant amount of information about art history. This would be great for art teachers as well. The book introduces an artist, gives you a little bit of information about them, then uses an object from their works to pose a math problem. The children LOVE this book and the teachers do too.

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MARCH MADDNESS

 It's almost time for BASKETBALL!! Are you ready for all the games? Chances are your students will be seeing a lot of games at home, too. So, why not get in on the action at school!?!?! We have a 17 page FREEBIE that you'll need to  download today.  

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Click, Clack, Moo I Love You! Book Extension

LOVE is in the air this month, and there is nothing more fun to read about than this click, clackin' barnyard crew getting ready for a Valentine's Day dance. We love all of Doreen Cronin's click clack books, but this one is extra special due to it's BEAUTIFUL glittery pages your kids will love and HAVE to touch. GO GET THE BOOK!  And then click below for an extension to the book and an EASY day full of love and learning!!

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Valentine's Party Panic?!

Well, it's February!  Time to squeeze in a million skills while trying to plan for the big Valentine's Day Party!! No problem, right?!?!?! Riiiggghhhttt!

We'd like to help! Valentine parties can be a smooth and pleasant experience with the right tools and the right plan. In this package you will have some of the things we have learned after many years of trying to manage the unmanageable. You will have games and activities to print and play, making YOUR day easy and fun as well. And guess what?  They'll be here, ready to go for years to come!!

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And while you're here... check out some of our other Valentine FREEBIES!!

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The Jacket I Wear In The Snow Book Extension

This book extension is based on the classic story by Shirley Neitzel 'The Jacket I Wear In The Snow'.  It's an all time favorite of ours that we started using nearly 30 years ago as new teachers.  It is still being read today.  And we still love it!!  You'll find so many activities in the extension, including a fun "I Have Who Has" that will have your students practicing story detail, sequencing and recall!

           

     You can get this extension here!                           I Have Who Has

Polar Opposites( Revisited)

This is a repost from 2016, but I just had to put it back out there.  This book is seriously the cutest and so so so perfect for this time of the year.

Have you seen Polar Opposites by Eric Brooks?  LOVE IT!  It's simple, but so cute!  The story is about a polar bear named Alex and a tiny penguin named Zina.  The story tells all the different ways that they are opposites, but still the best of friends. The illustrations are adorable and perfect for January! 

You've got to have this book extension.  I'm telling you, it is the cutest book and these activities are perfect to go along with it!  There are anchor charts for the genre fiction-fantasy and purpose. There are also many engaging activities for reading such as comprehension involving rereading to match opposite words, labeling, letter writing activities, coloring page to practice our artistic ability and work on fine motor skills. 

You also get a bonus! 

We INCLUDED the Game of I Have Who Has - Opposites.  It also sell separately.  Check out the links below!

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The game of I Have Who Has is such a GREAT way to assess your students on High Frequency Words and in this case, they will also be practicing OPPOSITES! In this game the students must read the cards to find out who has the opposite of their word.  It requires listening AND reading. Our students love to play!  If you would like your own, you can click here to purchase it from our store!  Did I mention it's only $1.50!  (or FREE if you get the book extension above!) What a deal!

And...while we're talking about OPPOSITES and WINTER and FRIENDS, check this out too.  This is an old book and I truly hope you can find it.  

This book is about two animals from polar opposite parts of the world who meet up and compare how OPPOSITE they really are. There are anchor charts for the genre fiction and purpose. There are also many engaging activities for reading such as comprehension involving rereading to match opposite words, labeling, letter writing activities, coloring pages to practice our artistic ability and work on fine motor skills. There is also a fun animal sort. 

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The BIGGEST Snowman Ever Book Extension

Books about snow are always a big hit with children everywhere. This book in particular is a great book to teach your children about team work. We all love Steven Kroll's characters, Desmond and Clayton!  In this book, these two little mice work together to build the BIGGEST SNOWMAN EVER!!

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We also want to tell you about a favorite activity that one of our favorite Kindergarten teacher does with this book.  She has all her students tear up pieces of white construction paper into 1 inch pieces. (white copy paper works fine too.)  She doesn't tell the student "why".   Once they have finished, they try to hold all the pieces in their hand, they stand in a circle, and she counts...one, two, three...then, they "MAKE IT SNOW"!!!!  They throw all the pieces in the air.  Yes, it's crazy.  Yes, it's a mess.  But, now you read the book.  And now it's their turn to build THE BIGGEST SNOWMAN EVER!  They work hard to pick up all the "snow" and glue it down to make a class snowman!!  You can also make them in groups to see who makes the biggest.
HAVE FUN!!! 

Sneezy the Snowman Book Extension

Sneezy the Snowman is the perfect book for winter. This "cool" snowman is trying his best to find a way to warm up, but nothing seems to work. The children LOVE it, and it lends itself well to teaching rhyming words, writing activities, and sequencing activities.

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MUST BE SANTA Book Extension

This song brings out the performer in us all, doesn't it??? Admit it! Teachers LOVE this song. It's a favorite song for kids too, and is also a book by Tim Moore, available on Amazon. It will have your kids singing with excitement about our favorite storybook character at this time of year.

   

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