Spring Break

I am on Spring Break but I'm not at the beach!  Instead, I am propped up on the couch recovering from surgery.  I am having melancholy feelings about my children being grown up and out of the nest.  I miss them!  I don't often have long periods of time alone and when do I make more TpT stuff.  My husband won't let me do any work around the house until I am fully recovered.  My lesson plans are reaping the rewards of this!!  I am, as you can imagine, making more stuff for my classroom.

I am sure my second graders will come back from spring break raring to go.  We were working on money before I went off to the hospital.  Of course story problems aka word problems are always difficult for students to master.  I've made a packet that includes 40 problems.  Half of them are for addition and the other half are, of course, subtraction problems.  All of them are about money!

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There are 20 Addition Problems

There are 20 Subtraction Problems

Of Course this packet is completely NO PREP!  

To download click here.

I have another week of my recovery time so I may be posting more than usual! Thank you for your time.  I hope that you are having or have had or will have a wonderful Spring Break 2015!  I am

Cordially yours,

Jan’etta

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President's Day

Can you believe two blog posts in two days?  I must be on a roll.  Since we have finished our move, I finally have a little time for my hobbies.  Isn't it great that my favorite hobby reflects my profession? I should be unpacking, hanging pictures, putting things away, etc.  However, you know what I am doing!  I decided that I needed some practice worksheets to go along with President's Day.  I created this math and literacy pack.  It is completely Print & Go!  Otherwise known as NO PREP!

There are 20 worksheets!  Answer keys are included where applicable.  I realize that most teachers won't use all 20 worksheets at once.  The great thing is, we love our country everyday, not just on special holidays.  These worksheets can be used at anytime!  The ones you aren't using for President's Day can be used for a substutute 180 days a year!  I keep sets of these in my 'Substitute Drawer'.

This is the preview of the packet:

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The following are included in the packet:

Math Skills:

Measuring in Inches

Measuring in Centimeters

Making Change

Two-Digit Addition-Without Regrouping

Fact Families

Expanded Form

Hundreds Chart

Even and Odd

Less Than/Greater Than

Literacy Skills:

Nouns

Verbs

Adjectives

Word Search

Compound Words

Singular and Plural

Syllables

Aphabetical Order

Making Words

Comparative and Surperlative Adjectives

You can click HERE to go over to my TpT store to download this NO PREP Math and Literacy Pack!

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Cordially yours,

Jan’etta

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New Year's Resolution Craft

In our classroom, we have been talking all week about resolutions. We discussed how resolutions and goals are similar.  We also talked about how when you set goals, you also have to make steps to complete them.  To go along with that, we made this craft.  

New Year's Resolution and Craft

Students wrote their resolution on the writing page and then drew a picture to illustrate it.

They recieved two sheets of white copy paper.  You could also use construction paper or cardstock.  I gave them tracers to trace the circle for the face and the triangle for the hat.  You could just print the circle and triangles using a copy machine.  I like to use tracers in my class because I believe it is a good skill and I think it gives them ownership of their craft.

 I keep crafts pretty controlled in my classroom.  After students did their writing and traced their face and hat and completed their coloring, I gave them the rectangle to make their fringe.
This page contains enough for nine students.  I printed this on colored paper.

After their fringe is cut, I let them choose their straw color.  I keep neon colored straws in my classroom so that is what we used.  I taped the fringe around the straw.  You could let the students tape it, but I was under a time constraint so it was easier for me to do it.  

The students taped it all together and ended up with the cutest project.  I hung them on the wall outside of our classroom and they were an immediate hit with students from other classrooms.

I gave the templates to my colleagues so that their students could make them as well.  And, I decided to share them with you!  You may click HERE to download this for FREE in my Teachers pay Teachers store.

I hope your students enjoy making these as much as mine did.  I am

Cordially yours,

Jan’etta

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* The writing page on the example is from Sara Rucker's Happy New Year Pack. Click HERE to download this great pack.

Winter Literacy Bundle

Tomorrow is supposed to be our coldest day this week.  The perfect time to bring out my newest classroom bundle.  It has 77 pages of literacy center games and worksheets.  All of the worksheets are Print and Go!  The games can be printed on cardstock and laminated which doesn't take a lot of time.  I hope you decide to check it out!

Winter Literacy Bundle

Are you looking for a low prep bundle to practice

literacy skills? This is for you! Winter Literacy 

Bundle contains 9 learning center games and 16 

worksheets. Each is designed to work

on a specific literacy skill. Including ABC Order,

syllabication, synonyms, antonyms, parts of speech,

capitalization, mixed up sentences, and more.

Click HERE to download this fun and educational resource.

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Calendar

So, with only one day left of this glorious vacation, I've been thinking about things I need for my classroom.  My students need extra help on calendar information.  I was trying to remember when and how I learned to read a calendar.  Honestly, it seems that I always knew how.  My mom probably taught me by example.  She was a good mom like that.  Anyway, my classroom kiddos aren't all faring so well.  The thing is, I don't want to make a new calendar activity every month.  Frankly, I don't have time.  I need something that I can keep bulk copies of.  They need to be in a place where my second graders can get them for themselves.  We do some calendar activities everyday.  Yet, when I ask questions I invariably have some students who can't answer.  When I ask, "How many Sundays are in December?' I still get a few blank stares.
To help with all of that, I made a new calendar set.

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It has calendar pages with the months already on them.  At the beginning of the school year, and for my late-bloomers, I'll use this one. But, for my on the ball students, I've made a page with a blank calendar.

I've included all of the months and days printed with seperate borders for students to use as a learning center.  There is also a cut and paste activity for months and days to go with these two centers.

Lastly, and possibly the best part is a printable page with generic questions that can be used for each month.  As I said earlier, I will print this page in bulk and have them available.  This is one less thing I will have to worry about each month.

Click HERE to go to my TpT store and download this year-long, monthly use Calendar.

Thank you so much for reading and I hope you find my Calendar as useful as I.  I am

Cordially yours,

Jan’etta

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