Friday Fix-It

Every Friday I write a sentence on the board and my students have to help me find the mistakes. We call it Friday Fix-It!  I make sure to use the correction marks once they let me know the mistakes I've made (two lines under the letter for a capitalization, etc.) so that if I ever do that in their writing, they know what needs to be fixed. They LOVE to find the mistakes and especially love when I phonetically spell words (HELLO! Welcome to MY life).  They write the corrected sentence on the long line of the Password Books on the very last line (Friday).

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Punctuation Perfection Craftivity!

Remember this freebie I posted a few weeks ago:

{click *here* for that freebie}

Well, I had the most amazing 2nd grade teacher email me {Hi, JoAnn} and she had done the best craftivity that went along with my Punctuation Perfection freebie!  I immediately asked her if I could blog about it and she graciously shared!  Thank you, JoAnn!

Look at these commas! ADORABLE!

This little period guy is adorbs!

An exclamation point craft that will make sure your kiddos never forget their ending mark!

LOVE!!!

P.S. I had a teacher request that I add an apostrophe to the pack and of course I couldn't say no! It was a great idea! So...re-download! :)

Common Core and You {Part 4}

I've got some freebies for ya!

Here's just a quick post showing you the posters I've made the past couple of months that align with the Common Core.  I hang these in my classroom and my students use them all the time to refer to!

Have you noticed your kiddos struggling with this concept?

I made the posters and a little word work game to go along with the three sounds of "ed".

Punctuation is such a tough one. Kids are using periods on every other word, question marks where there should be exclamation points and sometimes there's...well....no punctuation at all.

I made these posters that I have in my classroom all year. At the beginning of the year, when I'm teaching about expression, I use the worksheets so that we can practice reading with expression in response to punctuation {just like the common core says I have to}.

These FREE posters are aligned with the 1st grade Common Core, but can be used in K-3.

This one's available in my TpT store for FREE!

Do you see how I spend my Friday nights? WINNER! :)


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