Celebrations and Getting Ready for the Holidays

Creatively Crazy With Learning is Celebrating and Getting Ready for the Holidays

Milestone Celebrations

I hit my $20,000.00 in earnings milestone on TPT since beginning back in October 2013 so now it's time for a celebration.

I also just hit 900 followers! 

I cannot wait to hit 1,000 so please follow me on TPT and share with a friend if you have not already.

My focus has changed from just supporting first grade to K-2 resources and some 3rd-grade items.

Please note: My name used to be Creatively Crazy in First Grade, but I changed over to 

Creatively Crazy With Learning. 

I am still trying to update my products to reflect my current information.

Here is my TPT Link access my store directly.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Creatively-Crazy-With-Learning

Polar Express Items

I am so excited to get back and prepare my classroom for the holidays. My class will be having a Polar Express Party, but before that takes place, I have some great items in my store that can help you teach this along with this great book/movie.

Polar Express Interactive Brochure

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Copy these two pags front:back. Then have students fold into a tri-fold brochure style.

Read the story, watch the movie, or both and then have students interact with the questions and writing prompts. I find my interactive brochures easy to use, especially if you are short on time.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am spending my Thanksgiving break in Panama City Beach, FL.

Although it is not warm enough to jump in the ocean or pool, there are so many great restaurants, shopping, and things to do here.

I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post and check back for more. 

I try to post every Friday a.m. with Doodlebug's Teaching for her Five For Friday.

Looking for more? 

Here are my winter products and interactive brochures you can also view.

Winter Products Here

Interactive Brochures Here

It's a Mother's Day Giveaway!

It's a Mother's Day Giveaway! 

Lovin-Life Teaching and I have teamed up again to offer some great downloads! 

Raffle Starts tonight! May 3rd and ends on Sunday, May 10th.

You will get 4 Products for FREE from our stores; retails for $16.00

We will choose 10 Winners on Sunday, May 10th. 

We will e-mail these products to your e-mail entered into Rafflecopter. 

You must completed the required steps in order to be considered for a prize. 

1. Conjunction Detective Game $4.00 Value

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Conjunction-Detective-Game-with-Printable-BEST-SELLER-640568

2. Pollution and Conservation Lapbook $ 4.00 Value

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pollution-and-Conservation-LapbookFoldable-1807270

3. End of the Year- Let's Get Ready for Summer ELA , Math, and Beach Ball Glyph $4.50 Value

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/End-of-Year-Lets-Get-Ready-for-Summer-ELA-and-Math-Packet-Beach-Ball-Glyph-696027

4. End of Year Surfboard Glyph with Writing and Luau Keepsake $3.50 Value

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/End-of-Year-Surfboard-Glyph-Dream-Vacation-Writing-and-Luau-Themed-Keepsake-711361

Enter Here!

  a Rafflecopter giveaway

Check out many more products at our Teacher Pay Teacher Stores! 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Creatively-Crazy-With-Learning

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Lovin-life

Five for Friday

Let me just say, T.G.I.F...Hello Spring Break!

This week has been long, but soooo fun! This also starts our spring break here in Georgia, Woo, Hoo!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Creatively-Crazy-With-Learning

Thank you Doodle Bugs Teaching for hosting this Hop!

http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com

Check out Doodle Bugs Teaching Here

Directed Drawings! 

My class is loving the directed drawings lately. Here are some samples of the Easter Bunny and cute little chicks. Thank you FirstGradeBlueSkies for sharing these for FREE. 

http://firstgradeblueskies.blogspot.com

I paired this activity with my 

Spring and Test Prep Common Core Aligned 

ELA and Math Packet

You can get it here: TPT

I am also proud of how my Firsties are using commas in a series in their writings.

The coloring contest winner! Great job Pressley!

We Are Tweeting About Spring !

Our Cute Chickie Drawings! 

I even held a coloring contest so students would color their best. The winner received a FREE ice-cream from me :)

The winner is in the middle of the top row!

How cute????

Easter/Spring Products

Introducing Dollar Deals!

This is my Easter/Spring Eraser Sort and Graphing Activity. Get it for only $1.00.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spring-Graphing-Activity-100-1788248

Bunny Mallows Marshmallows Fraction Task!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spring-Bunny-Marshmallow-Fraction-Task-634451

Spring Read and Write the Room Cards with Documentation Sheet

4 Different Word Sorts for Extension of Activity 

1. Long and short vowels

2. Singular and plural noun 

3. Write 10 sentences using your words

4. Syllable Sort

 My students are required to glue the sheet into their interactive reading notebook and then create the sorts.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spring-Read-and-Write-the-Room-Cards-wExtension-Cards-Documentation-Sheet-1199010

My Favorite! 

!!!Technology!!!!

This week we are using A LOT of technology. 

For morning work: Splashmath.com and take a daily Timed Test on the app called, Timed Test FREE

Whole Group Math: Splashmath.com

Small Group Math: I am re-teaching in small group skills students did not do well with from their last benchmark assessment. Then I am using Splashmath.com to reassess on our iPads.

Reading Fluency App

Students can read texts at their own level. It is timed and then students can take comprehension questions.

One of my all time favorites, Hungry Howie Phonics Apps

There are several different skills you can get! (word families, building words and rhyming words, long and short vowels).

1st Grade Phonics App

Happy Easter from my classroom to yours. 

I responded to a followers request to allow Flat Stanley come to my classroom. 

My students are going to have so much fun writing about their week and sharing with this class.  This is such a great way to teach writing to a real audience.

Birthday Treats & Easter

So this week I celebrated my birthday! 

Did you know you can get a FREE drink from Starbucks on your birthday? 

I figured that most people already knew about this. Well, if you didn't know...now you do. All you have to do is sign up with an account and become a GREEN or GOLD member by making purchases throughout the year. I also received so many flowers this year of my birthday. It was so nice to get treats like that.

Sooooooo Pretty! 

So lastly, we celebrated Easter with a fun Easter Egg Hunt. I made these cute little baskets for my Firsties and gave them a great surprise inside little eggs.

My daughter, Adrianna

XOXOXO

We saw the Easter Bunny at the Mall! 

I hope you have a fun Easter!

Valentine's Day Fun

Valentine Fun! 
Here are some of my centers in action for Valentine's Week.

Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentine
Book Companion
Get it Here!

The Kids loved exchanging valentines with each other. I used red and white bags and let them decorate them with stickers. It was so much easier than covering boxes.

Valentine's Day Fun

We had such a fun time today. Let me share with you what we did.

This is a FREE app for iPads. My students loved making V-day words during center time.

More of my V-Day themed centers!

Get the packet here!

TPT

Black History Month

Get your FREEBIE here! 

TPT

Check out the MLK Interactive Brochure I made to help celebrate MLK's birthday.

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This is what I call an Interactive Brochure. It is a quick and simple way to integrate reading, research, and writing. 

Print this front to back and then fold into 3 sections. You will get 6 sections total to work on. 

You can use Pebblego.com or Brainpopjr.com to research MLK. 

You can also use any resources you have already, books, magazines, videos, etc. 

This is a birthday card students can write and create. Fold it and in the inside, you can have students draw pictures of themselves doing something to make the world a better place.