A Late Thanksgiving Idea and a Freebie

Happy Friday After Thanksgiving!

So what did you do today?  Eat leftovers, go shopping, put up Christmas decorations?  It is very cold and blustery here in southern Michigan.  And even though I don't want to admit it, I think I see some snow flurries outside.  Brrrrrr.....

I wanted to share something I did during my small group time with my students last week.  I didn't have my pictures downloaded until now to be able to share.

Who knew that students would love feathers so much?  I found the book, "When You Meet a Turkey" on Mrs. Meacham's Classroom Snapshot page.  The book talks about tickling a turkey and on the last page the turkey runs away.  I made a book for each student (or more accurately, my wonderful teacher's aide did).

Then when it came time for me to meet with my small groups, I called one group over at a time. I allowed each student to pick out a feather from a large box of  feathers (I have no idea how the box got into my classroom).  Then I took a piece of yarn and taped one side to the feather and the other side to the inside of the book.  Next, the students and I read the book together and the students used their feathers to point to the words in the book and to "tickle" their turkey.  They loved using the feathers to track print.  Now, some of my students were able to read the book, others could read a few of the words and still others were able to read it because of the repetitive text.  But it was exciting to see all of my students enjoying reading the book.  (Many of my students said, "Mrs. Lattea, can I really take the feather home?"  I love it when I can tell my students, "Yes, you can." and make them smile.)

Here is a picture of one of my students using his feather:

I have also decided to link up with Teaching Blog Addict for their freebie Friday:

My Freebie is a game that my students love to play.  We call it our hidden picture game.  The students play it during center time.  They put 8 to 10 pictures up on the magnetic board or felt board.  Then one student takes down a picture while the other students hide their eyes.  The other students take turns guessing what picture is gone.  The students who guesses correctly gets to hide a picture the next time.
Here is a link to my freebie:

Click here to visit my TPT store and download this game for free.

Enjoy your weekend!

My 1st Sale

I love to buy things on sale.  That might be why Kohl's is one of of my favorite stores.  I bought a cardigan, a pair of pants and a blouse for under $40 yesterday.  I save $109 according to my receipt (and the salesperson).  It really is like "getting paid to shop".  (Not that my husband ever looks like he really believes me when I tell him that.)

So since I love a sale, I have decided to join TpT sale that is taking place today and tomorrow.  I have 20% off all items in my store plus with the sale that TpT is having, that makes everything 28% off.

Click here to go to my sale.

I am going into my classroom tomorrow and trying to get furniture moved around and put where it belongs (with the help of my 2 teenagers).  So hopefully, I will be able to share some before and after pictures of my classroom with you next week.

Enjoy the sale!

I *heart* Walmart and Freebie Friday!

As we (my husband and I) were walking into Walmart the other day, we saw the school supplies.  My husband said to me, "So I'm leaving you here while I go get what we need."  You know I said, "Of course."  What was he expecting, he has been married to the teacher for more than 20 years.  Anyways, I found some great headers for 88 cents each.

I also found some shape cards.  So I thought I would put the shapes headers or the color headers on the pocket chart and have my students sort the cards.  But there weren't any cards for  the number headers.  So I made some tens frames cards for my students to sort under the number headers.  I am sharing these with you as a freebie.  Even if you don't have the headers, I thought you could make the ten frames and put magnets on the back and have your students match the ten frames with magnetic numbers.  (I may actually do both at the beginning of the year.)

Click here to get my freebie.

I have also linked up with Teaching Blog Addict's Freebie Friday.

Please also take time to enter my Ice Cream Party Give Away.
I hope that you have a great end-of-July weekend.

ICE CREAM PARTY!!! (and give away)

I think my favorite food in the summertime is ice cream.  Okay you caught me, my favorite food at anytime of year is ice cream.  (While I was pregnant with my son (who is now 18), there was an ice cream store that my husband and I drove by on our way home from work.  I had a craving for a chocolate ice cream cone on our way home almost every day.  So my husband (not wanting the wrath of a 7 month pregnant woman) would stop and get me a large one.  He swears it only took us 4 or 5 minutes to get home and I could have it eaten by then.  So you can see how much I LOVE ice cream.)


Okay so back to the Ice Cream Party.  I have been working for the past week on several center activities that have ice cream as their theme.  I finally have them uploaded to my TpT store.


Here is a peek at them:


Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters

Click here to see it.

Sight Word Readers (color words, I, see)

Click here to see it.

Ordering Numbers to 20

Click here to see it.

Write the Room (color words)

This one is my favorite.

Click here to see it.

So now that I have the longest blog post in the world, I am having a give away for one of these products (or any other product in my TpT store).  It is very simple to enter using the Rafflecopter, just follow my blog, or follow my TpT store or comment on this blog about which product you would like to win.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Sorry!

After wondering why there weren't many downloads of my free Favorite Apple Graph, I went to my TpT store to see what was going on.  I clicked to download the graph and it didn't work.  So I uploaded it again.  I'm pretty sure it is working now.  I'm so sorry for sending so many of you to the site and having it not work.  Here is the link again:

                                                                             






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Again, I'm very sorry,


Sue Lattea

TpT Store

Well, I finally did it!!  I was able to publish two items on the Teachers Pay Teachers website.  There are two graphing activities.  My "Favorite Apple Graph" is a free download.  There is also a "Favorite Color Graph".  Please visit my TpT store and grab my free download.

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Thank you for visiting my blog,

Sue Lattea