an excuse to craft, sneaky peeky, and a winner!

Since I’ve moved to 2nd grade, I am addicted to making little crafty goodness. For Johnny Appleseed’s birthday we made Linda Kamp’s knapsack craft and inferred what we thought he’d have inside-this is a great little file btw. Ok, direct correlation to common core>check

Today for Columbus Day we made Teri’s {cupcake for the teacher} ship craft. Or we started it. That’s another story. So I was thinking…what can I do to make this all mesh and fit nicely with our curriculum, and have something to display for our student-led conferences tomorrow night?

enter the double bubble-can I tell you how much I love thinking maps!

tomorrow my kiddos will fill these out with traits. We’ve worked dutifully naming inner character traits and backing them up with evidence from the text. So hard. They are great at it since I used the terms inner trait and outer trait. No more skinny, blonde, wearing a coat traits here! Thanks Amanda!

here’s a little sneak peek at some matter we changed up today! Can’t wait to share! Excuse the cornball picture-you have to keep it lively for the kiddos!

and Jen and I have a winner! Congrats Paula! Your goodies are on the way!

Just Go With the Flow {Map}

I could not help myself. As I was thinking about Dr. Seuss and this literacy file, I realized some people may need just the sheets, minus the centers…like me! My students and centers are just not conducive this year.

We do much of our learning whole group.

You know some years are just like that…

But oh well.

Soooo, I made a pack of reading response sheets solely centered around Seuss! They are freakin’ precious! I love this clipart!

This file has over 30 Thinking Maps and graphic organizers to use all year long! Not just in March!

I also included ALL the sheets {minus the center directions} from the literacy pack. So if you were holding out-wait no more! Each map has a way to use it in the classroom and a blank version, too-except the ol’ stinkin bridge map! I don’t get a long with that thing!

I told you I had too much time on my hands sitting at home! I am also working on adding all this stuff to my much neglected Teacher’s Notebook store-I just do not like the uploading process as much over there, but I will get it!