Educents ELA SALE

We are so excited to announce that our Word of the Day Calendar Bundle is on sale at Educents on Oct.8-15.

We have noticed that our kiddos have shown great improvement in their writing as well as vocabulary development.  These words keep them focused on a topic, and appears to give them confidence in their writing.

Just click on the picture below to purchase:

This is a sample from the October Calendar. The first set of words have to do with Columbus, and then will move into Fall and Halloween words. This pattern is an AB pattern, orange pumpkin, green pumpkin. The picture is Mandy, Quality Quentin's friend. If ya'll want to check any of the products we have with Quality Quentin or Mandy, just look under Quality Quentin under our custom categories on the left side of our store.  There is also a definition sheet and a journal sheet in the packs.

If ya'll would like to just purchase October to see how you like it, then just click on the picture below:

We use  calendar notebooks and the students write their words, sentences and do illustrations of the words in them.

The kiddos love sharing their notebooks.

The students have their own black and white versions of the calendars. They choose 5 of the words that go together to help them write a story for the Word of the day Stories for the month.

These are just a few samples of the writing that some of our students have done using the calendar words. They circle the words that they use.

 This paper was written by one of my ELL students who struggled with writing at the beginning of the year. I noticed he would improve each month using these words. This is what he did in April. I was so proud of his improvement!:)

Here is how they were writing by the end of the year:)

We bind all the stories into a class book each month that the kiddos can read all throughout the year. 

We hope that y'all will check these calendars out and will have as much success as we have:)

We hope y'all will come back and see our Halloween Bundles with books and fun printables. for Fun Friday ! We will be offering them 50% off in our store. See you then:)

We would also love to hear from ya'll!:)

FUN FRIDAY and 50% off Five Senses Unit!

My kiddos had so much fun learning about five senses! We sang and danced to the Five Senses song, which is included in this unit. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to take pictures of that. The students made these puppets with the words about that sense on the back of the puppets, so we read the back as we held up the puppets. Have your kiddos glue the stick between the two pieces that match.


You can purchase this unit 50% off for Fun Friday-Sept.26-27. Just click on the picture below to purchase.

 This is the big book that I read after we sang the song.

This is one of the pages from the book. It was our favorite page because we talked about listening to the five senses song.

This student was so cute showing me this: "I have green eyes."

The kiddos colored their own black and white books and matched their puppets to the pages.

The students put their puppets and books in a ziploc bag, so we could practice reading them every day. They loved holding up the pieces as they read the words on the back of the puppets.

Then the students used their books to complete fill in the blank sheets.

They also did this cut and paste sheet.  I used these at a center while I was calling reading groups.

We had a lot of fun doing this science experiment. The kiddos took turns pulling items out of a bag and passed it to the student beside them until all the students in the group had a chance to feel it. They loved closing their eyes and pulling an item out of the bag!:) I did this with small groups of students, and it worked out great!

I love this picture of this little guy rubbing the bear against his cheek! He said,"This is so soft!"

The students filled out a hypothesis sheet and a conclusion sheet.

We sorted the items under the correct headings.

The students also sorted tasting cards under the correct headings.

We hope y'all enjoyed reading about our Fun Five Senses Unit! Thanks for stopping by our Fun Friday!:)
Have a great weekend!

Remember the unit with all this, song and more is 50% off this Sept.26-27.

4 Week Coin Unit on SALE

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We have this large pack of money activities on SALE 20% off at Educents Sept. 22-23.

I use these coin books at a math center. The kiddos love matching the coins to the pages in the books. 

FUN FRIDAY: All About Quality Students!

Our FUN FRIDAY ACTIVITY:

We made these cute "Quality Students" today after singing and learning all about what a quality student was this week.

We sang and danced to this song that teaches the kiddos all about good behavior. They also learn to spell"Quality" as they sing the song. We are offering this fun song for free today and tomorrow for FUN FRIDAY! Just click on the picture below to get it.  We would really appreciate a nice comment when y'all download the song. Thank you so much!:)

The first thing we did was meet Quality Quentin, our class mascot and I read them his book about being a quality student.

Then we had a class meeting where we pass Quentin around the circle and each student introduced themselves and said what they remembered from the song about good behavior. They said, "My name is_________ and a quality student__________________. I was so pleased to see so many of them remember things from the song:)

The students illustrated their own books about what all the letters of "Quality" stood for.

Then we had some fun making Quality crowns or hats. They have a word family color code, so we learned about word families as we made our crowns or hats, whatever you would want to call them. They are like Quality Quentin's hat, so the students loved them!

Here are more sheets that are in the Back to School Unit. The song, books,crowns are also in this large pack. There is also fun puppets and a pocket chart poem included. We will be offering this unit that helps teach about good behavior 50% off today and tomorrow for FUN FRIDAY:)

Then the kiddos made themselves as "Quality Students." First you take a 12"x18" and fold it so you have 8 squares.

Then cut out the first and last square on the bottom row.

Then you cut out a small triangle to make pants.

Then you fold the first and last square on the first row in the middle, and glue the two squares you cut out behind these squares to make sleeves.

Then ut out a head and glue it on the back.

Next the students will decorate them with yarn for hair or they can just draw their hair. My kiddos love the yarn! My girls also decided to make skirts.

This little guy decided to add a mustache:)

Some of them also added shoes and hands. Lastly the students wrote their name, and what made them a quality student . They had a lot of fun using their creativity!

We hope you enjoyed our FUN FRIDAY activity and that your kiddos will enjoy the Quality Student song. If y'all use the song or buy the unit, we would love to know if you had success with it:)

Have an awesome weekend! We hope that you will come back next Friday!