Christmas Freebie #4 - Text Evidence Posters

Welcome Café Friends!

If you're like me, you're probably running around like a crazy person right about now.... last minute gifts, wrapping, baking, and seeing just what else can be crammed into these last few days before Christmas!

 

I would think most of you are on break now. If not, hopefully you will be soon.

 

 For this freebie {and for #5} I decided not to do a Christmas theme. Over break --at some point--- I like to begin looking into planning for our second semester of school. For this freebie I'd like to share Text Evidence Posters. We use these ALL THE TIME!

 I trim these down and display them in the front of my class. As we discuss texts, students refer to the posters when supporting their answers. This works really well with written responses!

 So... I thought I'd share these in hopes that they may help your little learners become better "reading detectives".

 

The posters remind them to dig deeper in the text to find evidence to support their answer.

 

 

CLICK HERE TO PICK UP YOUR FREE TEXT EVIDENCE POSTERS

 

 

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Freebie #3 Color Your Own Christmas Cards

Freebie #3 ~ Color Your Own Christmas Cards

 

 

Hope you all have had a great week!

The link below will take you to some Color Your Own Christmas Cards that kids will LOVE to work on during these last few days before Christmas break.

 

These cards can be used different ways:

(1) Allow students to pick a card and color it for a friend or family member. Cards are really cute with a touch of added glitter.

(2) You can give these cards to students with a personal message inside.

 

There are 2 cards per page.

 Just copy, cut horizontally, then fold!

 

 

 

Click Here for FREEBIE #3

 

Thanks for stopping by to pick up this Christmas Freebie!

Have a great week!



Christmas Freebie #2



Hello again Café Friends!

 

Thanks for stopping by for this week's Christmas Freebie!

This freebie is all about Reindeer and can be adapted across grade levels.

 

The idea is to get kids into conducting research about this interesting creature. This can be done several ways depending on the age of your students:

 

1.) Provide several copies of books, magazine articles, close read passages, etc. for students to read and find answers. If your students aren't independent readers yet, you can read facts aloud to them, noting some facts on a class anchor chart for them to use.

 

2.) Show informational websites, such as Wikipedia, National Geographic kids, etc. and discuss the information as a class. Students can record their information on the planning sheet. (or this can be done as a class)

 

3.) Allow this to be a project for home (or school). Students can use the research pages (they can use some or all pages) and include pictures to create a poster about their reindeer research.

 

4.) Choose a page (or 2) and display them with a reindeer craftivity for a festive bulletin board or hallway display. 

 

CLICK HERE FOR CHRISTMAS FREEBIE #2

 



 

 Hope you enjoy using these to get your students interested in the research process!

Thanks for stopping by, and as always, feel free to share your ideas in the comments below. :-)

Christmas Freebies!

Hello out there Cafe' friends!!

Anyone there?!?!

Oh. My. Goodness!
 

It's been SO long, I had to clean the cobwebs from my little blog! I sincerely apologize!

Starting a new grade this year has zapped every ounce of my time since the start of school. I moved to 3rd, but I'll continue to share ideas useful for my K-2 friends. :-)

 

Well, since it's almost CHRISTMAS, I need to make up for lost time------and fast! Whew!
So, I'm scheduling some FREEBIES for ya' throughout the month of December. Be sure to check back in at the Café over the next several Mondays to pick up some FREE resources:
Monday, December 7th
Monday, December 14th
Monday, December 21st
Monday, December 28th

 

We all know after Thanksgiving break the kids can start to get a *little* excited about the next vacation.

3 weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas to teach, assess, and maintain some kind of sanity can make for some long days. And let's just hope there's not another full moon on the calendar.

 

 I'm sharing Freebie #1 with ya' in hopes that it will be helpful for your students {and kids at home, for that matter--I'm thinking about using it with my own kids!} Click on the link below to pick up this Christmas freebie! It's sort of like bingo, and can be used different ways. The first page shares some ideas for using this to help encourage and reward positive behavior.

 CLICK HERE FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS FREEBIE #1

I hope you can find lots of fun ways to use this with your class {or kids at home}.
If you're interested in more positive behavior incentives for the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, check out my Santa's Little Bag of Tricks pack {Freebie #1-Run, Run, Reindeer, is from this pack.}

Thanks for stopping by! I'd love to hear how you plan to use Freebie #1 with your kids {home or school} :-) Please feel free to share in the comments below!

Class Dojo Reward Tubs

Happy Summer! Welcome back to the Crazy Critter Café!

So I've been thinking about how I'd like to use my Class Dojo reward system and here's the latest...Numbered Tubs to match the Class Dojo "point clubs". I used this idea toward the end of the school year and it seemed to work well.

Students gave input on what they'd like to have in the tubs (thus, the 2 levels of sweet treats!)

My goal was to have a daily Dojo time, but due to our hectic afternoon schedule, that couldn't always be done, so I'd find time during the week for our class Dojo time (or every 2 weeks if I felt more time was needed for students to reach certain Dojo Point Clubs).

 

I had a checklist and whenever we had Dojo time, I would write the point club for each student so I would know which reward tubs they've picked from during that particular Dojo time. At a designated date, all Class Dojo points would reset and students would start over.

 

 

 

 

I bought 2 plastic organizers to help keep the rewards separate. All I have to do when we have Dojo time is snap apart the 5-15 trays and pull out the 20-30 point drawers for easy distribution of rewards!

 

 

 

 I'm sure there are tons of ways to use Class Dojo in the classroom. I found that starting simple was more effective. I didn't get overwhelmed with keeping up with rewards and trying to grab my iPad to give Dojo points every second of the day. I used it mostly during transition, independent work, and center times.

Make it work for you and your class!

 I'll switch out rewards periodically so students don't get bored with these.

I'd love to hear how you use Class Dojo in your class. Please add a comment below! :-)

 

Thanks for stopping by the café!