Back to School Basics: Giveaway and Freebies

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Fabulous Feature Friday has arrived!  Oh... this will be a good one.

Today I'm featuring new units and back to school freebies!  Up first, the giveaway!!!  

One copy of my unit will go to both primary 

and intermediate winners!!

I created Comprehension Skill and Strategy posters to align with my content focus walls.  The focus walls include graphics rather than words for students to make connections.  I was surprise the images made such an impact on our discussions during Reader's Workshop this past school year.  I also created Reading Genre Posters with the same Chevron background.  These posters will remain on display with the essential questions for the week!  

 

**Primary Giveaway Begins Here**

Hadar Maor of Miss Kindergarten has a  first day of school keepsake to help remember the day or week of school.  

Kim Adsit and her daughter Megan Merrell created Yee Haw- Wild About Numbers.  There are games, activities, pre-made sets, and starter questions for mini-lessons on dot plates, fives frames, tens frames, rekenreks, and dominoes. All of the activities in this packet are correlated to a common core standard.

 **The Next Two Units Feature Colors**

 

You guys have no idea how much I love Kacey's work from Doodle Bugs Teaching!!!!  She recently featured her new Color Words Unit.  This 43 page file includes 11 centers!  Honestly, I have no idea how she does it all.  Have you seen her posts?  The time it takes to prepare, laminate, cut, display, photograph, watermark, and feature her work within a post is remarkable!  

A perfect compliment to Kacey's centers is a unit created by Deanna Jump. Colorful Cats Math and Literacy Fun was featured on her blog yesterday!  We all know a kid approved cat who loves wearing different colors, right?  I love this spin!!! Deanna revamped her unit and added new and creative ideas.  The emergent readers are so stinking adorable!! 

 

**The Next Four Units Feature Writing**

Erica Bohrer's Back to School Writing Prompts and Activity packet focuses on establishing classroom rules and routines. Lessons scaffold off picture books such as First Day Jitters, Know and Follow the Rules, The Little Engine that Could, Hands are Not for Hitting, Words are Not for Hurting, Listen and Learn, Mary Wore Her Red Dress, and Don't Squeal Unless It's a Big Deal.  Love these books!!!

Michelle from Fabulous in First has the cutest punctuation unit!!  In this unit your students will be introduced to the following punctuation: Periods, Commas, Question Marks and Exclamation Points. The Punctuation People will aide a reminder of the proper conventions when writing. 

I heart Deedee Wills.  She inspires me as a teacher and a woman!  Really!!  Five minutes talking with her in person and you will know why.  Read her blog and see why she soars to my hero list!!!  Deedee featured monthly writing work stations this past school year.  Each month included approximately 45 vocabulary words, different writing paper, and I Can charts to help your students work independently with themed writing work stations. Newly featured is the "Complete Set"!

** The Next Two Units Feature Common Core**

Anna Brantley of Crazy for First Grade is one of the sweetest and strongest women I know.  I am inspired by her compassion and generosity.  Anna has a brand spanking new Common Core Unit-Writing Narratives All Year Long.  This supplemental resource was designed to reinforce the Common Core narrative writing standard for first grade {W.1.3}. It includes graphic organizers that can be used for organizing ideas for any narrative, writing prompt sheets for the entire year {all major holidays, seasons, etc.}, personal and fictional narrative task cards, checklists, and reflection sheets.

**Intermediate Giveaway Begins Here**

Natalie Kay from What a Teacher Wants has worked with Rachelle to complete Common Core ELA and Math Galore {Checklists} for 3rd through 5th.   Don't you just love the cover!?!?!  Winner can choose their grade level!

Amanda Nickerson from One Extra Degree is an eloquent writer, enthusiastic teacher, and all around wonderful lady! I love the simplicity of her work stations.  Amanda's created Words Galore for students to build on skills through new spelling and vocabulary each week.

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Hope from Second Grade Shenanigans prepared a back to school unit entitled, "Go for the Gold".  Imagine the excitement as kids are reminded of the 2012 Olympics!  Get your students excited and motivated about a new school year with tons of activities to build a classroom community! 

You will have an opportunity to win a copy of the primary or intermediate copies above! The requirement for entry is to follow all stores and can be done by clicking the product images above!  One winner will be randomly selected on (TOMORROW) Saturday August 4th for the Primary Giveaway and one winner for the intermediate giveaway.  You are only permitted to leave one comment. All other comments will be deleted.  Please include an email AND which giveaway you are entering.

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And the freebies...

Katie Jones has a Back to School Activities download comes with two centers to help your students get their brain turned back on during the first week of school.  

Primary Graffiti (that's me) shared Back to School Nameplates a year ago.  Numbers skip count by twos.  I will be updating them to include all numbers now that I'm moving down to Kindergarten! 

Amanda Nickerson has a fluency folder for elementary or intermediate students! It contains a Lucky Listener sheet, a resource sheet, a parent letter, a reading rubric to inform parents, and a resource sheet for students!

Mrs. Miner's Monkey Business has a unique way to welcome new students to the school year with Jitter Glitter and Parent Notes. 

Erica Bohrer has a great general information file for back to school.  This post is filled with resources!

Head Back to school with this FREE glyph from the Glyph Girls! This is an easy and super fun activity for the first few days of school. 

Rachelle Smith featured her I know my ABC's for Back to School.  This book is great for teachers or parents!

Are you looking for an easy craft to create a cute as all get out display in your room during that very first week? The Best Thing Tear Art Project might just be the Back to School ditty you are looking for! It even comes with a great little writing activity by Kelli Dolling. 

Deanna Jump has a cute freebie: Rainbow Hair Emergent Reader.  This book is based on the fun poem, Rainbow Hair. Have your littles add hair to match the text so that they can read it independently during Reader's Workshop. 

Tammy Lee created a Super FUN and CUTE way to get your kiddos working on words! You can make a "BOGGLE" board and change the letters each week. The kids make their own words using the letters that you put up on the BOGGLE board. 

Productive Pants, aka Anna Brantley, has a Making Word freebie available for download on her blog. 

Susan Moran of T.G.I.F and pal from Vegas has a cute file for you.  This little freebie is just something fun I use in my classroom to highlight our Star of the Week!

Michelle Oakes has a set of word wall cards decorated with rainbow banner, as well as the letter labels for your word wall. One page of both the word cards and letter labels is editable.

I have a fun way for kids to learn US states. This file works well with postcard exchanges too!  Link here!

Do you have a Back to School "FREEBIE" product or post you'd like to feature?  You are welcome to join my linky party here but it must be a direct link to a post on your blog or a FREEBIE product in your store!  Please follow the rules, I hate having to remove links!!