January Writing Freebies

Here are some of my favorite January writing freebies #BlastFromThePast

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Another snowy freebie & a sale

image from What the Teacher Wants

I'm participating in the TpT Teachers are Heroes sale! Check out my store here

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Snow Day!

So I thought we were going to go alllll long winter without a snow day. We've had some two-hour delays because of ice or temps but today is my SECOND snow day in a row. I was actually surprised by both of them. I was completely expecting delays but I wasn't let down by having the time off.

I'm thankful to have a job where they do not want kids out in these temps or road conditions. I'm also thankful I get these little gifts, too!

Well last night I was laying in bed, banking on a 2hr delay, and I realized I wanted to do a writing about what the kiddos did on their snow day. I immediately went to Pinterest. I found some cute things but they were based on a book that I don't currently have! So I took this extra time off work to do------well------work! (I even worked on my Journeys packets yesterday)

So here's a Snow Day freebie from me to you!

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Sick Stories

Not sure about you but the sickness has hit my school. I really thought my class was holding strong....not so much.

Well, with all the coughing, sneezing, and sniffling going on I thought it was the perfect time to hunt through my Pinterest board to follow through on something I pinned months ago. I'm great at pinning but need some encouragement on following through.

I found the idea for 'Sick Stories' on Pinterest and when I followed the pin I landed on the blog "A Teeny Tiny Teacher" (who I was already following but not when this idea was blogged about!) Well, I loved her idea because the kids sure tell me about being sick but I wanted them to put it on paper.

I created a quickie writing template and I sent her a copy just to make sure it was okay to blog about this. (I didn't want to step on any toes and she was super nice about it and had no problems with it.) So, check out her post when you're done here, she has some cute examples.(The link above will take you right there!)

I had the kids freehand their heads and hair and we traced our own hands.

Here are how some of mine turned out...not everyone got to do one....you guessed it....someone was out sick!

I felt like I was going to throw up. I got to watch tv. And I got to sleep on the couch.

I had a really bad cold. I puked a lot. I didn't feel good.

I had strep. I was exhausted and sleepy.

There's a close up of the writing template.

Click this image to go to TpT and snag your freebie!

Gearing Up to Go Back

I know...I know...I said it. I don't go back until the 7th but I need to go in and have a little 'work day' for myself. I have plans, copies, rearranging desks, taking down decorations, and gr...grr...grading. (eek)

I'll need some new centers and word work activities for my kiddos when they return. Can't keep doing stuff with Santa and elves on them!

Here's what I finished up from the comfort of my couch in a chihuahua sandwich.

Oh, and yes some are common core aligned but as you all know there are tons of things we need to teach that are not standards.

You'll get 5 reading focused centers and 5 math focused centers

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sort words by their real spelling or their sound-out spelling

 

nonsense word game

 

sort the sentences by the punctuation they should have

 

put words in ABC order

 

complete the number patterns (counting forward and backward)

 

fill in the missing part or whole

 

read the number sentence to decide if it is true or false

 

match number sentences to their answer

 

count the coins and match them to their written representation

 

unscramble the sentences

 

If you like this please pin one of my (many) images. Leave the link to the pin and I'll follow you on pinterest and pick someone to get a free copy! 

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