Word Work

Good Evening everyone!

We had a *snow day* today and they have already called off school for tomorrow..... I am not even ashamed to say I am happy!

I spent the whole morning cleaning and "putting back together" my living room after the whole pipe-bursting debacle. Then I got to spend some time cleaning out my school bag and purging about 100 papers. How does it always end up in there? :)

Then I decided to start on the first of a few projects for school/my TPT store!

The first thing I decided to re-vamp was my choice board for Words Their Way. I wasn't really happy with what I had changed to after Christmas Break (shocking, just two weeks.... ughhhh), so I decided to make some changes and now I am super happy about it!

It has 9 fun activities for the kiddos to do with their sort for the week. They *MUST* complete three but there are some added incentives for completing more. I was finding that there was too much off-task time during this, so I thought maybe a few more activities to choose from would help. Also, instead of me just dictating 3 things to do, they have some choice in the matter! :)

 

Pick this up in my TPT store HERE. So I am hoping to try it out THURSDAY when we go back to school! Shew, a two day week- that will be fun! Check back later for more stuff! 

Britt

Well, here goes nothing!

Hey y'all!

Not really sure how to start this off, so I think I will just wing it!

If you don't know me, my name is Brittney Sanderson and I am a 3rd grade teacher in Kentucky! This is my 6th year teaching and I love it. I truly feel like there are people who are meant to be teachers and I am one of them! :) I got my bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from the University of Kentucky- GO CATS! I got my master's degree from the University of the Cumberlands, as a Reading and Writing Specialist. I am *gasps* getting ready to go back to school ONCE more to get either an educational leadership degree or an administration degree (haven't quite decided yet) this summer. I have a great family, wonderful friends and a sweet little kitty named Oliver. If you stick with me, I'm sure you'll learn lots more about ALL of them!

I can't really believe that here I am starting a blog. I get told over and over again by the teachers in my school that I need to "create a TPT so I can buy all your stuff!" or "start a blog so I can see everything you're doing!". So I figured, what the heck! I stalk others TPT's, Pinterest pages, blogs, and any other thing you can think of. My thinking is, if you are doing something that is working- share it (so others can definitely "steal" it)!

Someone told me once that teachers were the greatest thieves- and yup- totally believe that. We work hard enough. And if I can get something that is working from someone else and use it, why wouldn't I? So I may as well share my stuff as well!

We had a snow day today, more so for the ridiculous cold and not the snow, so I created my first **FREE** product in the TPT store! We do 5 weekly sight words in my grade level and focus on them. We address them in our grammar sentences but I wanted to do something more with them! I created this page for my students to practice ABC order, spelling the words, and writing complete sentences. I find that ABC order is one skill that we don't have time to teach in isolation but after a few weeks of this, the students catch on quickly to the concept! And, you can never have too much practice writing complete sentences! :)

Go HERE: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sight-Word-Activities-1047574 so grab that for yourself for Free!

Thanks! :) Have a great week! As for me, they already called another *SNOW* day for me tomorrow! Can't say I'm too mad about it, plus -20 is too cold for kiddos to be standing at the bus stop!

Britt