Can you believe that summer is already coming to an end? I am amazed by how quickly the past few months flew by! I taught summer school for five weeks and was lucky enough to be able to squeeze in a little beach vacation at the beginning and end of summer. As soon as I finish this post I am headed to the beach to spend one last day in the sun before heading back to work tomorrow!
Since many of you have already started school and some of you, like me, will be heading back this week, I wanted to share a few of the projects that I worked on this summer and give you some freebies to make the beginning of the school year a little bit easier!
Freebie #1: Small Group Planning Template
For summer school this year I did reading intervention with four groups a day. I created the planning template below to keep myself organized and to match the adorable bins that I bought at Michael's.
(^Those are the bins that I posted about on Instagram earlier this summer)
Here is a blank copy of that small group planning template in case you would like to use it!
Freebie #2: Vocabulary Posters
I created these three posters to hang on or near my vocabulary bulletin board & you can just right click, save, and print them if you want to use them in your room as well!
Freebie #3: Building a Reading Life Posters
This year my county is adopting the Units of Study for Teaching Reading by Lucy Calkins and Kathleen Tolan. We've been using their Writing Units of Study for two years now and I absolutely love them! I know the plans take a bit longer to read than an ordinary textbook would, but there's something about the introduction where they share the importance of each lesson and their own experiences that I find so motivating and easy to connect with.
Anyway, I decided to get a head start on planning out our first unit for reading and I wanted to share some of the posters that I created to decorate my classroom!
SALE ALERT
In case you haven't heard yet, Teachers Pay Teachers is throwing a BONUS back to school sale tomorrow for ONE DAY ONLY! (I am super excited about this sale because the other back to school sale was a bit early for those of us who go back after Labor Day).
I'm giving away a $10 gift card over on my Instagram (click that link to follow me and enter) & I wanted to share a few products that are in my cart or that I already bought during the last sale.
Here are some of my favorite products that you may want to check out during the sale:
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