Friendly Letter Foldable

The last couple of weeks we have been working on friendly letters. My class has written letters to classmates, teachers, and even President Obama!! We discuss the parts of a friendly letter and what is entailed in each one. Inspired by Pinterest, I created a foldable to help students illustrate each part of the letter. Take a look below at some student work and if you are interested hop on over to my TPT store and grab the foldable to use in your class!!

I made a template with a boy and a girl, but the inside is the same. The head of the foldable holds the heading and greeting, the middle is the body of the letter, and the feet are the closing and signature. 

(click HERE to get this activity)

Students can cut on the dotted lines so they can focus on one part of the letter at a time. This is great to put into an interactive reading journal as well.

At our school we focus on showing good character and write character mail to each other. So, I had my students write a character letter to another student or teacher at our school. This child decided to write to his kindergarten reading buddy.  The foldable ended up being our rough drafts. We then wrote our final copies on a fall paper to send out.

I hope that you enjoyed seeing some of our work and can use this in your classrooms!!

Halloween Freebie!!!

Halloween Freebie!!!

I love this time of year and sometimes we just need a break to do something fun and educational. Hop on over to my TPT store to get this freebie (just click on the picture above)! Good for grades K-4, an activity where students must follow directions and know how to use prepositional phrases. They will enjoy coloring and creating this fun, holiday scene. Hope you have a Boorific week!

Scoot Pad

WOW!!! It is amazing how quick time flies by. It seems that it has been an entire month since I posted pictures of my room. I wish it still looked that clean and organized. Hopefully we will get used to this new world of blogging and have more frequent posts, but we do the best we can. Today I wanted to do a quick post to tell you about a great tool (yes it is FREE) that we have started using in our classrooms this year. It is called Scootpad! Now you may have heard of it but not really known what it was so I want to tell you a little bit about it. We decided to jump in this year and give it a go. Students are given individual accounts where they can log on and practice math and reading skills that are aligned to the Common Core. What is so great you ask???? Well, the students move up levels according to when they are ready so there is built in differentiation!! Students also have access to a class wall where they can post comments and you can set up a rewards system where when they earn a certain number of coins they earn a reward (there's your motivation). There are of course upgraded accounts which add bells and whistles such as online reading logs, detailed student reports, and spelling lists and practice. They also have an app! If your students have access to technology and you are looking for a fun way to practice reading and math try this!

Just click on the picture above to visit the website.