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Hello again!  I am participating in this week’s TpT Seller Challenge!  If you are interested in joining us, you can find that info HERE! So, the product that I created is one that I have been thinking about for ages.  I bought the clipart, borders, and backgrounds a while ago, and just couldn’t get started.  Well, thanks to the challenge it is now a reality!  Hurrah!  Without further ado, introducing: Verb Villains! This Verb unit has everything that you need to teach your kiddos all about verbs! It includes: Posters for the Verb Types: · Action Verbs · Linking Verbs · Past and

Hello all!  I am here today to tell you about a Bright Idea for a free reading resource for your classroom! I know that my main goal for reading is for kiddos to enjoy it!  So, I try to get as many different types of reading materials I can for my classroom. Every year I have a few kiddos who are LEGO crazy! Did you know that you can get the Lego Club Magazine for free? I signed up and had it sent to my classroom. You do have to sign up for the Lego Club, but then they send

I am particpating in the #tptsellerchallenge!  I am soooooo excited about the first challenge!  Makeover Madness! I made over my Super Silly Pick a Prompts! I have been working on making over all of my writing prompts products for a while now, so it is nice to have another one our of the way! When I first created these I used a myriad of borders, and only had 3 choices of lines.  With the makeover however: My kiddos love these prompts!  They have such a great time with the characters and super silliness!  Here is an example of a super

I am linking up with Ciera over at Adventures of Room 129 to tell you about what I am reading this summer! I live for summer so I can catch up on my reading.  I am a very fast reader though, so I usually have to buy a stack and go to the library a ton!  Here is my current stash: (I couldn’t resist the kitty in the picture!) So, I am cheating a little.  I have already read: The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty (I have lent it out already) This one intrigued me from the first sentence!  I

Oooooo!  Isn’t it neat?  Stayed tuned as my new blog is updated!  I also changed my name!  Welcome to Primary Planet!

“Not so far away, on the other side of teatime, lie a little group of islands.” is the first sentence in this delightful fairy tale by Nick Jordan.  It is a delightful story about poor Princess Rosehip who has to choose between two suitors.  Prince Spoon of Cup and Saucer and Lord Lid of Lid.  But then…a dragon! “at least meeting a dragon won’t be boring” thought Princess Rosehip. Who goes to seek the dragon?  Who does Princess Rosehip marry? What becomes of the dragon?  of the kingdom? No spoilers here!  You will have to read the book to find

Hurrah!  I love trying out new things in my classroom and this was no exception!   My swap partner was Planet Happy Smiles!   They sent me their Class Writing Journal Covers to try out! I have been wanting to try this forever and this was the perfect chance!  I chose a few I thought would spark my students imagination, printed them, and used packaging tape to affix them to the composition notebooks!  Aren’t they pretty? Also included was this label to put on the container you plan to store your journals in!  Here is mine: It fit perfectly on

Keri from Enchanted Kinder Garden is celebrating her 3rd Blogiversary! We’re having a scavenger hunt on our blogs in celebration. Ready to play? Here’s how this works: All you have to do is be a super detective, find the letters, and unscramble the words. Enter the words in the rafflecopter below to enter for extra entries. You may also enter by following our pages. There will be THREE winners. Up for grabs is a $50 TPT gift certificate, a $25 TPT gift certificate, and a $10 TPT gift certificate. We’ve all got hidden clues (letters) hiding on our blogs. You can find

I am blogging today at a new collaborative blog called: Classroom Tested Resources!  It is all about my one page lesson plan!  Hop on over there to check it out (and get your freebie of course)!!  Thanks for stopping by!

Hello all!  Today I want to talk about something new that I have been doing in my classroom this year and I LOVE!  I call it our “Dailies”.  I have mine on the whiteboard in front of the room.  This makes it easy to change what we are doing daily.   I will be the first to confess that I dislike calendar time (that is being polite), so I wanted to do something daily that included the date, but was not quite calendar.   This is what the Dailies Board looks like in my classroom. This is an example page

Hurrah!  March! It’s almost Spring…I can taste the warm weather!  Are you ready? I’m back with a fun bright idea for your calendar this month! 1.  Stikki Clips!  I use Stikki Clips to put up the days on my calendar! I love these things!  You can stick them up anywhere and insert a piece of paper and Voila!  They are awesome! 2. I mark what day it today with a clothespin and a bright orange sticker.  This was a spur of the moment, oh!  I have to mark the date…what can I use… types of inspirations and I love it!

Oh my goodness!  I couldn’t be more excited to share with you this fun product that I had the privilege of trying out in my classroom! I had never heard of mentor sentences before, when I came across this blog post by Ideas by Jivey.  I was intrigued.  At first I thought that this would work well with older kiddos, but let me tell you, my kiddos were champs with the one that we worked on in class!   At this time of year we start working on Folk tales and Fairy tales, so I chose The Three Snow Bears by