Take Home Sight Word Book #4

It's here, it's finally here! Y'all, I have been slowly working on this for what feels like forever. I'm happy to say that the fourth book in my Take Home Sight Word Book series is complete. :) The fifth one is in the works and I promise it won't take a year to finish. All of my sight word books are 20% off today and tomorrow.

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Updated Winter Unit and Cyber Monday Sale

Hey y'all! I was looking over my winter unit from a couple of years ago and I decided that it needed a little bit of updating. I added over 30 pages of activities! If you've already purchased it, be sure to redownload it to see all of the new activities. The revised unit includes:

Math Activities
Pages 9-12 Artic Addition Game and Recording Sheet
Pages 13-15 Snowy Subtraction Game and Recording Sheet
Pages 16-18 Addition I Have Who Has Game
Pages 19-21 Math Journal Problems and Cut Out Manipulatives
Pages 22-24 More Wins Number Word Game
Pages 25– 27 Wonderful Winter Probability Graphing
Pages 28-33 Frosty Fact Families
Pages 34-35 Count and Graph Pages
Pages 36-39 The Time for Snow Game

Literacy Activities
Pages 40-44 ABC Identification Game
Pages 45-51 Winter Sentence Match Up
Pages 52-55 ABC Order Center
Pages 56-67 Winter Writing Pages
Pages 68-71 Color and Number Word Memory
Pages 72-74 Penguin and Polar Bear Venn Diagram
Pages 75-77 Penguin Race Sight Word game
Pages 78-81 What’s in the Mitten class book

 Click on the pictures below to check it out.

Don't forget about the big TpT Cyber Monday Sale!

Fall Giveaway and Sale (Day 6)

Today is the sixth day of my Fall Giveaway and Sale Week! Each day this week, I'll post one item from my store and offer it for free to the first 2 people to comment with their email addresses. I'll also list that item for sale in case you're not one of the first two to comment. Click on the picture to check out the item in my TpT store. Here's item number 6:

The first two people to comment with their email address will get this Long A Activities unit for free. It will also be on sale for the next couple of days. Happy Fall, y'all!

Fall Giveaway and Sale Week (Day 3)

Today is the third day of my Fall Giveaway and Sale Week! Each day this week, I'll post one item from my store and offer it for free to the first 2 people to comment with their email addresses. I'll also list that item for sale in case you're not one of the first two to comment. Click on the picture to check out the item in my TpT store. Here's item number 3:

The first two people to comment with their email address will get this Take Home Sight Word Book Combo Pack for free. It will also be on sale for the next couple of days. Happy Fall, y'all!

Short A and Short E Activities

We've spent the first few weeks of first grade reviewing cvc words and vowel sounds. Each week we'll focus on a different vowel sound. Last week was short a and next week will be short e. I'm creating a unit a week to review these vowel sounds. I'll post them on TpT as I complete them. I just finished short a and e. Click on the pictures to check them out. 

Don't forget that the big TpT sale starts tomorrow!

Daily 5 Choice Cards

I just adore Daily 5! I've been following the program in my class for the last three years and it has worked wonders for my reading instruction! I can't say enough about how wonderful it is! If you'd like more information about using Daily 5 in your classroom, click HeRe.

I created some choice cards for my students to use during our Daily 5 time. I display each sign next to that choices' materials. In kindergarten, I have dots on each card for how many students are allowed at that choice. Students place a clothespin with their name on it on an empty dot.

Click on the picture to download these cards for free. :)

Spiders and Bats Mini-Unit

Spider and bats are not exactly the cutest animal around, but my kiddos sure do love learning about them. I made a new Spiders and Bats Mini-Unit to incorporate into my curriculum this year. I also tried my hand at making crafts for the first time and they actually turned out pretty cute. Click on the pictures below to check out my new mini-unit.

Four Fantastic Fall Units Giveaway

Well I learned how to use Rafflecopter. It's pretty much the best thing ever! To celebrate my new tech savvy skills, I decided to have a giveaway. My friend Kim over at Adventures of a K/1 Teacher has agreed to donate two of her fabulous units to this giveaway. If you win you'll receive:

Spiders and Bats Mini-Unit created by Samantha Halbert

 

Fall, Apple and Pumpkins Literacy and Math Activities by Samantha Halbert

Happy Halloween: K/1 Math and Literacy Fun by Kim Cavett

Pumpkin Power by Kim Cavett

That's $25 worth of Fall Units! Your month of October lesson planning would be totally done! You can enter up to 6 times to win! The giveaway ends on Saturday, October 13th. Click on the Rafflecopter link below to enter. Good luck! 


a Rafflecopter giveaway

Emergent Readers

When we started the school year, my kinders weren't quite ready for reading groups, but I still wanted to send home some sort of reading practice. I went a little emergent reader crazy and created several of them for the first few weeks of school. I wish I could share all of them with you, but due to the terms of use of some of the clip art illustrators, I'm not allowed to give them away for free. I do have one that I can share. Click on the more or less picture to download that emergent reader.

You can also have the umbrella positional words emergent reader. It's a free preview from my positional words unit. Click on the picture then download the preview to access this book. 

If you would like more emergent readers, click on one of the books below to purchase them from my TpT store. 

New Take Home Sight Word Book

I finally completed the third Take Home Sight Word Book! So sorry for the delay. I looped back down to kinder this year and it's hard to find time to make a resource that you're not currently using. It's really just hard to find the energy to do anything outside of school at the beginning of kindergarten. :) I loop up to first grade every other year so it's always quite an adjustment to go from end of first grade with one group back down to beginning of kinder with another group. Luckily, I have the cutest, sweetest little bunch a teacher could ask for. Anyways, thanks for your patience with this last book!

Click on the picture below to check it out book #3:

 Have you checked out my other two sight word books? The first one is free!

I also combined all three sight word books together into one file at a discounted rate. The first three people to comment on this post will receive this Take Home Sight Word Book Combo Pack for free. Please include your email address in your comment.

The Reading Race, Fluency Logs and Rewards

I am loving every minute of my spring break! I've had several days to finish up some things around the house and now my mind is back on school. I just added 15 new pages to my reading race fluency logs and rewards. This resource helps my firsties stay motivated while improving their fluency. It now includes 15 sight word lists with the first 300 of Fry's Instant Words. I bought some super cute space clip art and used it to create two additional fluency graphs and rewards. If you've already purchased it, please re-download it so you can enjoy all of the new additions. As a special spring break treat, the first two people to comment on this post will receive this resource for free! Please be sure and include your email address.

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Camping Unit

Hi, Sweet Bloggy Friends! I apologize that I haven't posted in a while. I've been super busy working on my new camping unit! I just finished it and posted it on TPT and Teachers Notebook. This 64 page unit uses the theme of camping to teach and review essential literacy and mathematical skills. These activities are designed for use in a first grade classroom but, they can also be used for advanced kindergarten students or for review in second grade. This unit includes:

Math Activities
*Math Journal Problems with manipulatives
*Camping Probability with Spinner and Graph
*Fact Families Center
*Camping Survey with Graph
*Fireside Fractions Center with Review Printables
*Camping Coin Counting Game

Literacy Activities
*ABC Order Center
*Four Different How To Writing Sheets 
*Sight Word Game with Fry's Instant Words 1-100
*Let's Go Camping Class Book
*Noun and Verb Sort Center

It's on sale through Sunday! You can purchase it on TPT or Teacher's Notebook. 

ABC Order Center

Next week my students will learn about dictionary skills. To introduce using a dictionary and review ABC order, I created this center activity using clip art from KPM Doodles:

Students will put each set of pictures in ABC order and then record them on the recording sheet. Once they are able to successfully complete that task, I am going to ask them to find the words in the dictionary. Click HERE to download this center.

Wondrous Winter Unit

The winter unit is complete and the best part is that it's on sale through Thursday! Click on the picture to check it out.
 

Math Activities

*Arctic Addition Game and recording sheet

*Snowy Subtraction Game

*Addition I Have Who Has

*Math journal problems and cut out manipulatives

*More Wins Number Word Game

*Wonderful winter Probability 

Literacy Activities

*Color and number word memory

*Penguin and Polar Bear Venn Diagram

*Penguin Race sight word game

*What’s in the Mitten class book

*Camouflage prediction writing

*Camouflage mystery art and writing 

Guided Reading Bookmarks

Every week my students go home with a new guided reading book. I usually include a bookmark. On the bookmark, I write down the reading skill that they are currently working on for their parents to reference and use as a guide for at home instruction. I recently revamped the bookmarks to make them a little cuter. Click HERE to download the bookmarks that I'll be using with my reading groups next week.

My First Freebie!

Welcome to Learning with a Happy Heart!  The inspiration for this blog came from my favorite after school pastime, checking out other teacher's blogs. Hopefully, you'll find some things on my page that you can use in your own classroom.

I just posted my very first free activity on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Click on the picture to download the sight word book.

The words in this Take Home Sight Word Book come from Fry's Instant Word List. Inside you will find:

Pages 3-4       Covers for student book (pick the one you prefer)

Page 5            Letter to parents

Pages 6-20    Word Lists for Words 1-100 and Corresponding Sentences

Pages 21-24   Fry's Instant Phrases for Review

Thanks for stopping by!