FREE Winter Math Worksheets

Weekend.... what does that word even mean?
Since I work most weekends, for me that word means running around like a crazy person trying to accomplish everything I was too tired to do during the week and spending several hours on a train. This weekend I brought my laptop for my commute so I could work on some future units and so I could finally post the Winter Math worksheets I promised on my TPT. They are available there for FREE (let me know if you download) and are meant to be used in conjunction with my Winter Math packet.





Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! Next weekend I have 3 whole days off.... the next 5 cannot go fast enough :)

I promise I will catch up next week and acknowledge all of my comments/new followers/blog awards!

Dolch pre-primer train success!

Admittedly I already posted about my Dolch pre-primer alphabet trains, but I was lucky enough to be able to actually use them in my classroom today (well actually just the 6 of them that are this week's Words to Learn).

Let me take a step back and explain my class for a second. At my school teachers usually have the opportunity to loop with their class (teach them for two consecutive years) and last year I jumped at the opportunity to keep my Kindergartners for First Grade. Last year I only had 4 students (we are a 6:1:1 ratio), but this year I was blessed with two little newbies. My two girls from last year learn sight words quickly, but some of the others struggle so I decided to use this resource from Evan-Moor to expose them to 6 or 7 sight words every two weeks.


I have a variety of activities the students complete on the SmartBoard to reinforce skills as well as a storyboard format they fill out (drawing pictures of the words and writing them correctly spelled) and put in their study books. Even with all of this, they needed more practice and exposure! So that's where my pre-primer sight word trains come in. Today I gave them a variety of letter sets (after completing our typical activities) and they went to work spelling away and acting out some of our words (jump, play and run are three of this week's words).

Look how focused they are!



I'm glad they were such a hit... even with the girls!


The work day was great (no surprise there), but as I left it took a turn for the worse.... subway trouble turned into being late for an appt, which meant I had to be rescheduled. To cheer myself up... I perused Banana Republic's early spring collection again. As usual, I love it and want one of everything, but I think this polka dot pencil skirt is next on my list!

TPT Sale

What I thought would be a nice leisurely week of planning quickly disappeared and instead I've been working my other job and have neglected all of the ideas that have been running through my head. My loss is your gain...

Since my TPT store is lacking many of the materials I was hoping to add this week... I'm offering a 20% off sale for the few things that are there.

Here is a brief look at the adorable pre-primer alphabet trains... set includes all 39 Dolch pre-primer words (a-you) and would be great for a variety of work work activities (alphabetizing, ordering based on number of letters) or for support on a word wall.

So if your students need additional work with tallies (up to 49) or you're working on pre-primer sight words, head over to my TPT store and add something new to your classroom repertoire.


In the meantime, I'll be outfit planning for next week.... any special outfits planned for the first day back (or am I the only one that does that)? I bought an amazing orange/red skirt from LOFT yesterday that just screams 2012. Excuse the terrible quality picture.... how would you style this to wear in the classroom?

Tally Birds on TPT!

My TPT is officially open (granted there is only one item and it is FREE)!

Click to check out my adorable tally birds.

How cute are they?



If you head over and download them please leave me feedback and a comment here so I can check out your blogs as well!