Pout Pout Fish Goes to School!

(look at these pout pout faces!!!) 

My book lovers were super excited to enjoy a visit from the author and illustrator of The Pout Pout Fish series. 

We loved reading along to

and watching Dan Hannah teach us how to draw fish!

We practiced our pout pout faces.. and  did a little singing and dancing to "If You are Pouty and You Know It"

BOOK LOVERS...

I thought you might like these Pout Pout Songs... 
:)

or this website:

                                                           

Ten Timid Ghosts (Fast Freebie!)

I wish I would have recorded my students acting out and retelling this story today.

SO.MUCH.FUN. :):)

These retelling cards (and other ghost literacy and math games) can be found in my Ten Timid Ghosts Pack.

You can check out THIS POST to see what other fun things are included. 

1st person to leave a comment gets the pack for free!!

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Ten Timid Ghosts - FUN!!!

We just LOVE this book...

It is a fun counting book with many great illustrations and rhymes.

The students are so engaged while listening to it and want to read it again and again! They LOVE retelling it too!

I decided to create some ghostly materials to go with this story. I am SO happy I did! My students reeeeeeeeeally love using all of the materials. 

Check out the fun Literacy and Math pack that I created that go along with 

TEN TIMID GHOSTS. 

Included in the pack:

Large character pictures for whole group story retelling.

Small character picture cards and name/word cards for small group retelling

Ghost number and quantity match up or ordering

Ghostly 10 frames for students to build quantities for 1-10

Subtraction sentences, answers, and ghosts for students to use for solving

I will share pictures of the students retelling this story as a whole group tomorrow! 

Want to use it with your students?
Click HERE to see it my TpT store! :)

GIVEAWAY!!!!

Two things that I love...
Children's Literature + GIVEAWAYS

Isn't it *the best* when you find amazing new books that you know your students will LOVE??

Have you heard of this little gem yet?

Lacey loves to talk... 
 All day long...
Until she loses her voice.
A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!

This is a MUST READ for the beginning of the year. 
I love it for so many reasons...
the message, 
the illustrations,
the end pages
and of course the adorable owls!
I shared it with my 6 year old daughter and she doesn't want to give it back!

Check it out here!
(Amazon is currently out of stock = hot book!)

If you'd like to win a copy of this book for your classroom enter below:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

GOOD LUCK!! :)

Book Lovers Giveaway!!!!

I have found many great new books to share with my Growing Readers this year. 

Good thing, because a I have a group of TOTAL BOOK LOVERS that can't get their hands on enough books! :)

Two new books that my students 
ABSOLUTELY LOVED
were:

and

Being Frank is a wonderful story about being a little too honest. The writing is very witty. I found myself giggling  as I read it to my students... and they have been passing it around for read to self time. 
They love it!!!

We "reviewed" Green when the Caldecott Honors were announced. The illustrations and cut-outs in the book are amazing!! Also a class favorite!

Want to win one of these great titles to share with your Growing Readers??? 

ENTER BELOW!

a Rafflecopter giveaway 
All entries must be submitted by Wednesday, May 8th @ midnight.  


GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!! 

1-2-3 Peas!!

I may or may not have jumped up and down,  with PURE excitement when I picked my students up from library and one of them had this in their hands:

We went right back to the classroom to read it... and, as expected, all of my students LOVED it!!!

I always read LMNO Peas to my kindergarten friends when working on the alphabet or list books. It has been one of our classroom favorites all year... so we were thrilled that Keith Baker decided to keep up the pea fun with 

1-2-3 Peas

The illustrations are gorgeous, I love the writing, and I have about 5 different ideas of what we can do with this book. :) 

Hooray for fun mentor texts!!!!!!!

Here is a peek inside: 

You can check it out on Amazon by clicking HERE. 

Don't forget to enter my book lovers giveaway... I am giving away 2 other awesome new books!

You can enter HERE. :)

Crayon Resist Owls

Oh.my.word.

I am having SO MUCH FUN with my owl theme!

Yesterday we read this:

and then made these:

Love! 

So much more owl stuff to come!