FREE Themed Writing Paper

If you are a teacher, it's always nice to have themed writing paper.  My students LOVE doing a final copy of a paragraph or story on cute paper. They see it as something special.  With themed paper, they can present a writing they are proud of.  On my Teachers Pay Teachers site, I have a downloadable themed writing pack.  It has 14 pages of paper to fit all sorts of themes.  There is everything from Mother's Day writing paper, to Back to School paper, to Dr. Seuss writing paper.  All you have to do it click on my link below, and it will take you to my Teachers Pay Teachers store.  You can then download it for FREE!  Enjoy, and let me know what you think by leaving me a comment on the TpT site. 

FREE downloadable Writing Paper

 

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Feedom to Blink

Do you blink your lights at ongoing traffic to warn them of a waiting patrol car?  ... come on, admit it!

As I was riding into work the other day, a news story grabbed my attention.  Evidently, there is a man filing a class-action lawsuit in Florida. He cites that his Freedom of Speech rights were violated when he was ticketed for blinking his headlights at oncoming cars.  The class action lawsuit includes motorists that have been ticketed for the same thing over the last five years.  What is the offense?  ... Telling people, "a cop is waiting for you!"

It really got me thinking.... is it okay to blink?  Well, I agree with the fact that honking one's horn or blinking one's lights is a form of communication (just like throwing up the middle finger at someone), and the First Ammendment right has protected people when speaking with an 'unspoken' language. So, I guess the man does have a point.

I will say this... I am not a big speeder, but I have appreciated on several occassions when someone has blinked their lights at me. 

I say blink away people!  What do you think?

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Native American Lesson

Native Americans....This is a topic where most people would fail if staring on the show Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader. I mean, come on.... what can you tell me about the Hopi or Pawnee Native Americans?  How about the Kwakiutl?  Nothing, ah? ......Yeah, I thought so.  I love it though when you are required to teach a topic and you basically have to create everything that goes along with it (did you hear the sarcasm in my voice). They give you a concept to teach yet they provide you with very few materials.  Where does that leave the teacher?  Busy making all kinds of creative activities.

I did an activity with my students the other day and then hung the items outside my classroom.  They looked cute, so I thought I would share.  I created a very basic organizer where the students had to use a book on the Plains Indians to provide information on several topics: clothing, shelter, buffalo, foods, and the region itself.  I then had the kids glue the sheet between the top and bottom of a Native American boy or girl.  What do you think?

I also made a Native American diorama project if you are a teacher and interested.  I have it for sale in my Teachers Pay Teachers store for a very reasonable price.  Click HERE to go straight to the project, or click on the image below to visit my TpT store to view all of my other creative and fun ideas.

 

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Subject Predicate Game

Oh me, oh my!  Subjects and predicates is one of those topics that can really frustrate a teacher.  Just when you think your students have it....... well, they don't!  The students get to fourth grade and they can't recall what they learned in third grade, and yes, they were taught subjects and predicates. You can teach this topic and then leave it for a month or so and come back to it, and students can still get messed up on the subject being a noun or pronoun and a predicate being a verb.  Heck, sometimes they can't even seem to recall that a noun is a person, place, or thing!! 

So, what do you do as a teacher?  You keep coming back to it all year long.  And how do you do that?  Well, games are a great way to review skills.  In an effort to do just that, I have made a subject and predicate game. This game can be purchased for a great price through my Teachers Pay Teachers store.  It works great as a file-folder game in a Literacy center, and I have even included a cover to put on the front of the folder.  The game board is easily stapled on each side of the inside the folder. 

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Homophone Game

Oh my goodness!  I have not blogged in a LONG stinkin' time!!  I am safe, I am alive... thank goodness. My only excuse is I have been so busy.  As much as I love to blog, I simply can't do everything, which would include teaching full time, going to my two older kids' sporting events, taking care of little Huddie (who is now 17 months, if you can believe that!), being a wife (yes, that takes time), laundry, cleaning (not doing much of that either), and so much more.  Life is fast paced here at my house. 

Despite being so busy, I have had time to focus on my teaching.  I went back into the classroom full swing, and I am loving it.  One of thing things I have been doing is making lots of games and centers, which I plan to post on here.  I have these already posted for sale on Teachers Pay Teachers, and if I may so so myself, I am quite proud of some of them.  They are creative and fun, and my students have made comments like, "Oh this is FUN!"

So, here is one of my latest games.  I figured with the weather getting cool and Halloween right around the corner, why not review homophones with a Halloween Homophone Game. This is one of those skills that can't be reviewed often enough.  Kids are constantly asking, "Do I use they're, their, or there?"  Anyway, this is a fun homophone game that includes a Halloween themed game board, which can actually be used with other games if you would like, 20 sets of homophone cards with a Halloween themed picture, a cover sheet in case you choose to use this for a file-folder game, and a skill sheet where the students can choose three sets of homophones and write a sentence with each of them. The homophone cards can actually be used to play other games and don't have to be used with the game board.  The kids can play concentration or a homophone version of Go Fish.  If you are a teacher, I'm sure your class will enjoy it.  I will include a picture below and a link to my Teachers Pay Teachers store where you can purchase it for a very reasonable price.

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