Help Us Help Others: The Heavenly Hat Foundation

What a busy week! My students spent a busy week charting the growth of bean sprouts, using iPads and iPods, reading AR books and passing TONS of quizzes, and mastering reading center rotations during our Daily 5 time.  It was a full, productive week for all of us!   It didn't take long before these SmArTiEs were rolling dice and answering questions about their reading stories using my Rattle, Roll, and Read activities.  It was our first experience with these games, and I'm glad to announce...they were a HUGE success!  

 

Students worked in pairs while reviewing their reading skills for this week's story and previous stories.  It was a great way to pull in students who needed "extra" help with skills from the past few weeks, while others were ready to move on to the new "stuff" for this week. 

  I've created 2 more activity packs this week in preparation of our upcoming stories.  They are now available in my TpT store.   

  These activity packs are my biggest selling items in my TpT store so far.  I've been very blessed these past few months to be able to share them with others and hear their positive feedback about the games in their classrooms.   In appreciation for my success, I'd like to announce that all proceeds from my Rattle, Roll, and Read Activity Packs for the week October 6-12 will go toward a great charity called, The Heavenly Hats Foundation.    This charity provides hats to cancer patients all around the United States.    Source: www.heavenlyhats.com    Schools around the country will be participating in a Heavenly Hat Parade this Friday, October 11th.  My class will participate in our school-wide Heavenly Hat Parade in support of this charity, too.  Everyone will pay $1 to wear a hat, and all proceeds collected from our students and staff will go to this great charity.    It's a great feeling knowing you are helping others, and a great way to include students in giving back to others.   Happy Teaching!  

Rattle, Roll, and Read - Parts 2 and 3!

I'm on a mission to complete Rattle, Roll, &  Read Activity Packs for Reading Street's Unit 1 stories this week.  Here are the second and third stories, "Pig in a Wig" and "The Big Blue Ox" both completed today! (whew!)

 

 

You'll find these fun activities in my TpT Store.  They are full of skills for your firsties to use in the classroom or at home. 

 

 

Again, these packs include a game board as well as 20 question cards that will help your students review skills taught during a particular week of study.

 

 

 

I am super excited to get to use these with my kiddos this year.  I hope you find they are a great supplement to your reading lessons as well.

 

Rattle, Roll, & Read!

I'm so excited to debut my new activity pack!  It's the first of a series I am in the process of creating for my students to use each week to review their reading, grammar, and spelling skills. 

 

 

 

Who doesn't love a good game?  This pack includes a game board with directions, and answer key, and 20 question cards.  Just add a die and game tokens!

 

 

This pack includes 20 questions focusing on short /a/ and /ck/ words, character, spelling words, and sentences.  What a fun way to review and learn new skills!

 

 

These are now available in my TpT store.  Follow me and be the first to know when other Rattle, Roll, & Read Activity Packs are available!

 

Comment below and let me know what you think!