ABC Mini-Books & a Freebie!

For Manic Monday this week, I have a cute St. Patrick's Day craftivity to share. 

I had in mind what I wanted do with my kiddos, but couldn't find exactly what I wanted, so I made my own and decided to share with all of you! Just click on the picture below to get it from my TpT store!

And I am SO excited to post about my newest TpT product, because it's been in the works for the past month. This is definitely the biggest project I've ever taken on (500+ pages!). Click on the picture below to go straight to it. Find the new SPANISH version here.

Mini emergent books - which are quickly becoming my favorite thing to create - are included for each letter of the alphabet. This project definitely fed into my clip art craze, as I had a good reason to buy even more! In fact, PayPal thought I was purchasing too much clip art online because it temporarily suspended my account, thinking it had been hacked! haha. Ah, the addictions of a teacher. :)

A quickie preview:

This pairs perfectly with my FREE My Book of ABCs I posted last week! 

My Book of ABCs + freebie

I've had an alphabet book on my to-do list for months, and finally had the time to work on it thanks to this glorious long weekend. This was a fun opportunity to put my clip art collection to work! For each big product I post on TpT, I like to also post a coordinating freebie of some sort just for fun on my blog, so I put together some fun ABC match worksheets. Just click on the picture to download it from my TpT store.

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Now, onto my newest TpT creation! =)

My Book of ABCs has an alphabet chart, plus 2 worksheets for each letter of the alphabet, all featuring adorable line art from Scrappin Doodles, and KPM Doodles.

There is also a cut-and-paste review activity at the end of the book, which could be used for assessment.

The file also includes an ABC mini-book, perfect for emergent readers.

I've even thrown in a colorful set of alphabet posters for the classroom! Each vowel has a picture representing the short and long sounds they make.

To check it out, just click HERE! =)

I'm currently engrossed in a BIG project making mini-books for each letter of the alphabet, which I hope to have up soon!

There Was an Old Lady FREEBIE!

WHEW! After working away the last 4 days on my newest idea, it's finally done! *insert cheers* My 1st graders love the There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a ____ (insert favorite book title here) books, so I finally bit the bullet and purchased ALL of the adorable Old Lady graphics from Scrappin Doodles.

I've had so much fun with them, creating 13 (!) new mini-books based on every possible variation of the book I could find. Some of these I didn't realize even existed, like There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose! for Valentine's Day. I found out about that just in the nick of time!

Inspired by all of the great things I can create with my newest clip art collection, (and believe me, I have way too much clip art for one person! It's a bit of an obsession now.), I've decided to create an Old Lady FREEBIE to share with you all! I made a set of three Old Lady sequencing worksheets, which can be used with any of the Old Lady books. The worksheets use both ordinal numbers and transitional phrases, all things I'm practicing with my kiddos. Just click here to get them!

And to check out my Old Lady mini-book MEGA pack, just click on the picture below to go straight to my TpT store! (ETA: product has since been updated to include 15 stories!)

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Word Family & Anchor Chart Fun

Just had to share a little project I've been working on to help my firsties understand how "bossy e" works at the end of certain words. I found the inspiration for this cute, cute anchor chart from this post by my friend Nicole at Teaching With Style.

This was the perfect companion for the new word family workbook I'd already created to use in my class. It includes 36 word family rimes, all with long vowels. I also threw in several pages at the end for review/assessment with a fun cut & paste activity. Just click here to see this in my TpT store.

 

 I also re-created this adorable chart, inspired from the same post. In fact, I asked the school secretary to special order me my favorite markers in the entire world for this project: Sharpie flip chart markers. If you have not tried them, you must! I just discovered them last school year and am in LOVE.

I also created a word family workbook featuring 37 rimes with the short vowel sounds: