Monday Freebie/Tuesday Freebie Combined! (Freebie # 5 & 6)

Yesterday and today's Freebie got together. I teach in Wisconsin and we have a great resource called the Wisconsin Media Lab. They put together fantastic reading resources among other things.

 One of my FAVORITES is something called Storylords. It was made in the 80's so you need to ignore the costumes, haircuts, etc. but that adds to its charm!

 The episodes are free on YouTube here.

 They also have a free PDF of lessons to go with the videos.

I made a set of posters that I will add to my TPT store tonight for free!

Basically it's about a boy named Norbert (Norby for short) who needs to help different people in a faraway land from the evil Thorzuul and his sidekick Milkbreath.  Norby has to use strategies he learns in reading class!  The kids LOVE it!

Weekend Freebie - Freebie # 4

This is a reference tool that I use for my students who need phonics intervention.  They use it to help them remember their long and short vowels and all the spelling patterns possible with long vowels.   

Click here to get the board.

Friday Freebie (2 days late) aka Freebie # 3

Quick, Slow, I Don't Know

This is how we have our students sort their math flashcards.  We also have given the kids green rubberbands, yellow rubberbands, and red rubberbands to sort their cards when they finish.   This would work great with sight words too.  Please use if you can! 

Brain Break Favorite (Freebie # 2)

Today's freebie is not something I made, but my favorite thing this year that I have found on Pinterest.  Every once in a while, we take brain breaks.  I have used a variety of things but this is my new all-time favorite brain break.  It takes 4 minutes!  My kids were doing story problems in math today for an hour straight.  Before we pushed through one last page, we took a break to do this!  So hilarious to watch 3rd graders dance and it's fun for the teachers too!  :)


 

Freebie #1

This is a freebie to use before Thanksgiving!  Have your students write about what they are grateful for!

You can find it here:

I am Thankful!

Grateful

Wow! That's about all I can say.  I had stumbled upon Teachers Pay Teachers a few years ago when it had just started.  Besides teaching, I was coaching and in my Masters program, so I didn't look into it at all.  This summer I had to rewrite all of our writing lessons to meet the Common Core Standards and I began thinking of TPT again.  I also was  big fan of Pinterest and it seemed that every teaching idea I found linked back to TPT.

With the blessing of my husband, I took the leap.  I am so grateful that I did!  I have sold over 400 items, was able to purchase some things we had been saving for in our new basement, but best of all my writing lessons are being used all over the place!  I am so excited about them, that I am so excited more get to have them too!  

It might seem cliche but it has made me a better teacher too.  I think about every detail more than ever before.  I have make more appealing lessons than in years past too!

Thanks to anyone who reads this and bought anything.  It seriously has changed my teaching career, for the better!

As appreciation, I am going to be giving away free things every day until Thanksgiving.  Thankful doesn't seem to even cover how I feel!

Interesting Stats!

This was too interesting not to share!