Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! By The 2 Teaching Divas

Santa's little elves have been working hard to get this little kindergarten pack ready just in time for Christmas!  You can Get Yours RIGHT HERE!!!  This kindergarten Christmas pack includes the following items (most in color and black and white). Most of the activities are designed for centers and include some type of recording sheet. Inside this pack you will find: Christmas Tree Counting Lights, recording sheet, letter to Santa (color and black and white), wish list (color and black and white), syllable sort, recording sheet, Christmas Story Map (color and black and white), Christmas rhyming, Christmas word list (color and black and white), Christmas countdown (3 versions, 2 in black and white), and a Santa puppet for retelling.  It covers the following Common Core State Standards: RL.K.1, RL.K.2, RF.K.2a, RF.K.2b, L.K.1, L.K.1a, L.K.1b, L.K.1c, L.K.1d, L.K.1e, L.K.1f, L.K.2, L.K.2a, L.K.2b, L.K.2c, L.K.2d,  K.CC.A.1, K.CC.A.3, K.CC.B.4, K.CC.4a, K.CC.4b, and K.CC.B.5.

As always, here are a few pics just for you!!!

Merry Christmas!

Cute Holiday version of the desk fairy by the 2 Teaching Divas. Plenty of room to attach a pencil, piece of candy, or some other small token. Happy Holidays!! As always, you can  Get Yours Right HERE

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Fun and informative learning pack about The First Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving in general. Printables include: How many words can you build from Thanksgiving, T-chart comparing Thanksgiving Then and Now, I'm Thankful for...., teacher notes for inclusion of technology, a place to take research notes for both the pilgrims and Indians, Venn Diagram comparing the daily life of a pilgrim and Indian, THANKS acrostic poem, non-fiction reading response, and summary graphic organizer (2). This mini unit is designed for grades 2-4. Hope you enjoy.  CLICK RIGHT HERE for your own copy. 

Covers Common Core Standards:RI.2.2, RI.2.5, RI.2.6, RL.3.1, RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.5, RI.3.7, RI.4.2, RI.4.7, RL.4.1, W.2.2, W.2.5, W.2.6, W.2.7, W.3.2, W.3.4, W.3.6, W.3.7, W.3.8, W.4.2, W.4.4, W.4.7, W.4.8

As always:

Click Here to get our New Punctuation Unit.  This is a mini-unit that covers a variety of language skills for the 1st grade classroom. Example skills include: complete/incomplete sentences, asking/telling sentences, and punctuation marks. Includes mini-posters for the classroom (punctuation) and mini-mini-posters for the writer's notebook, a punctuation flip book, and several printables! Cute graphics, and very useful in the 1st grade classroom!! It covers the following common core standards: L.1.1a, L.1.1b, L.1.1c, L.1.1e, L.1.1j, L.1.2, L.1.2a, L.1.2b, L.1.2d, L.1.2e...Hope you can use!  Here are a few pics for ya!!!

Mr. Turkey Desk Fairy FREEBIE!!

Happy ALMOST Thanksgiving.  We haven't had a freebie in a while, so my mom and I whipped this one up for you.  I know most of my teachers and teacher friends have the desk fairy visit from time to time (just to keep us all up on our toes).  Well, here is your Thanksgiving version.  Hope you like it!  If you do, please leave some positive feedback!  Be KIND, IT IS FREE!!!!  If you don't like it, don't use it!   However, I hope you can enjoy it!!  I left a blank area so that you can tape on some kind of treat (candy, pencil, goodie).  :) You can get it by clicking RIGHT HERE!

Guided Reading!!!!

One of the most difficult times in my teacher life, was when I started implementing guided reading groups....I knew I was in a little over my head.  I needed help.......and back in my time, there weren't any literacy coaches or mentor teachers.....I was on my own.....I asked around and of course everyone did/does it differently.....and truthfully, you really do have to find your own grove.  I researched a lot and find some good things here and there and combined what I liked with what was researched based....It wasn't until I went back to get my master's degree in reading education, that I truly understood the reading process and how to teach it.  I have been working, for some time, on a pack that I hope will help novice teachers or seasoned teachers that need some new life into their teaching/implementing of guided reading materials.  None of the information in the pack is something I make up myself, but researched based and often a part of a balanced literacy model.  What this pack is: an organizational tool, a toolbox, a type of support system for the teacher during implementation.  Please note there are NO lesson plans included in this pack.  I really feel like lesson plans can't be pre-planned too far in advance, especially without knowing your learners and their needs and response to prior lessons.  So, included in our Guided Reading + Pack you will find the following items: prompt cards (1 each for supporting early literacy learning, self-monitoring, using all 3 cueing systems, self-correction, fluent reading, meaning cues, structure cues, and visual cues, and one blank card for your use), suggested skills and strategies for text levels (1-38), 2 guided reading lesson plan templates (with a sample), template for keeping up with guided reading groups, forms for reading conferences (both color and black and white), reading fluency scale, 2 guided reading take-home logs (one for a boy and one for a girl), strategy cards (large and individual), and poster size strategy cards for student reading logs.  As always, you can get this wonderful pack Guided Reading Prompt Cards + by The 2 Teaching Divas Right HERE!!!!  My suggestion is to print off the prompt cards and hole punch them and put onto a ring, just so you can have them handy!!  I hope that you can use these cards as you implement the common core and teach your babies how to read!!!  Here are a few pics for you:

Happy Halloween! by The 2 Teaching Divas

Whew!  Where does the time go???  I have been working diligently on a new Halloween pack.  It is finally ready (yea....too bad Halloween is almost over!!!!)!!  Anyway, this is my favorite time of year and I couldn't help myself!!  This pack just kept getting bigger and bigger!  I wanted to include some additional items, but I simply ran out of time. I hope to do so later.  This pack will be a wonderful addition to your learning centers for the week before and week of Halloween.  it includes the following activities:Creative Writing (including all 3 Common Core Genres: Informative/Explanatory, Opinion, and Narrative), CGI Word Problems, Fact Family mats, syllable sorting, rhyming sort, true/false math equation sort, Halloween Word building, capital/lowercase letter matching, and a few other things.  As always, you can get this great pack by clicking right HERE!!!  And, here are a few pics for you!! FUN!!!!