4 Weeks...But Who's Counting?!

YES. 4 weeks. SUMMER!

Although..I am teaching summer school so I really have a little longer than that, BUT it will still be a nice break!!

I know my kids are itching for summer just as much as the teachers!! Therefore-we have lots of Noodle Time! What is noodle time?! Go Noodle brain breaks!! If you haven't hopped on this train...you need to!!! The kids LOVE it. No, really. Like, go crazy for it! They got to pick their class character, and each time we do a brain break it increases us a little towards the next level. Whenever we advance..their monster grows. They eat it up. Not to mention that they love to do yoga, Zumba, Olympics. and dance to the HAPPY song! (Yeah, I am a little sick of that one!) Anyways, check it out!! It is amazzzzing. 

Speaking of the end of the year.. Amanda and I have recently added some great activities for your kiddos to get you there!! 

I wanted some cute awards to be able to print for my students towards the last day of school. Haney Helper, Amazing Artist, Earth Saver, etc! These include a color, black line, AND a boy and girl version! I am so excited to give them to my kiddosd

If you are like me/my team the last week or so(maybe more! ha!) are just used for fun things to get you to summer break! I love using that time to give my students fun worksheets about their time in 3rd grade. My Rock On packs are fun activities for your students to reflect on their year! Simply print & go! There are packs for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, grade! 

Speech friends:

These summer calendars include fun activities that allow my students to practice their articulation, language and fluency skills over the summer. Each day provides a short activity for my students to complete with a parent/guardian. I also created a page for my students to write what they learned in speech. I will attach these pages to their summer calendars.

I also wanted to create “theme–based” task cards to support language development. Each day of the week has 10 different activities! Providing my students  with fun, engaging activities is a great way to make practicing skills more enjoyable and less of a “chore” during the break. 

On a personal note, Amanda and I went to a Women's Conference, Pink Impact, at a church local to us last weekend. It. was. awesome!! We really had a great time. I truly cherish her friendship and that we can grow in our walks with the Lord together!

By the way, anytime you buy 3 items from our store--we send you a 4th free! check it out! 

Raise The Bar!

Hi friends!

I wanted to stop by quickly and show you my newest pack! It is a graphing pack! 

This pack is great for introducing graphing to your kiddos or as a review with some fun activities!!

There are seven adorable posters you can hang up in your classroom as a constant visual reminder to your students. I can't wait to get mine printed and laminated! 







I also included some key terms to add to your focus wall/word wall! 

Last there are 9 print&go activity pages! These range from surveying/data collecting/analyzing graphs/graphing/etc!! These are so easy to print and copy for your class for a quick activity or for math centers! 

Don't forget to head over to TPT for the 3 Million Teachers Strong Sale!! 28% off our store!!

Have a great rest of your week!!

Peek at My Week!

Happy Sunday!! Wowza-it has been for-ever-er since I have posted! Thanks to Amanda for posting the other day! We are going to get better-we promise!! :)

I wanted to show you a quick peek at my week coming up!! It is going to be a pretty fun one! & short and sweet for me. :)

Tomorrow is a Professional Development day which I am FINE with after Valentine's Day! I am STILL pooped from those kiddos ;) I get to sit in meetings all day and learn how to be a TELPAS rater. Boo!

Tuesday we take a field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art!!! I am super excited! The kids are too!

Wednesday is one of my teammates baby shower! It is going to be so cute! I have really enjoyed using my "creative teacher" side to help create cute banners/labels for her shower!  

In my classroom I use buckets/sparklers as table "points". Once their table receives 10 sparklers they get a prize! I LOVE this classroom management tool-I saw it first on A Cupcake for the Teacher!I have three tables who each have 9 sparklers so one is definitely going to win this week! When they get to 10 sparklers they get to scan a secret QR code from my QR Code Prize Pack. They LOVE it! We have them scan on the Elmo so that when their prize pops up the whole class gets to see what they got! It is a lot of fun!

If you don't know much about Qr codes or ways to use them in the classroom, I will be soon posting a how to post on our NEW collaborative blog: The Collaboration Connection  We are now having a launch party with tons of awesome giveaways! Be sure to follow/like/share/whatever to enter yourself in all of them!

Friday of this week- I am OFF! Yippeee!.. Not really. I get to take the day off to change my last name. Lots of lines and waiting time for me that day! 

Thanks for stopping by! What does your week look like?! 

-Ash

Sweet Talk

With my Jamberry manicure complete, I am ready for Valentine's Day!

This week I will be spreading the love throughout my speech room with my Valentine's Day language and articulation activity unit! 

This unit will target multiple goals! Be Mine: Comparing and Contrasting cards allows students to identify similarities and differences between the two items on the card. 24 total cards are included! 

"Sweet Treat" targets multiple meaning words. Heart gumball machines are included for students to collect their cards! 

"Secret Admirer" allows students to identify objects from an oral description. Read the cards with the closed envelopes to students and have he/she the item inside! 24 total cards included! 

Hearty Irregular Past Tense Verbs- have the student read the sentence on card "A" and then identify the irregular past tense form of the underlined verb. Match all "A" cards with their corresponding "B" cards. 36 total cards included!

"Sweet Speech" is a great activity sheet to target articulation. Perfect to complete during the therapy session or send home as a carry-over activity!

Candy Hearts: Board Game- open-ended game to use as a quick reinforcer with any articulation or language activity! 

Sweet Talk: Speech and Language activity unit is available in our TPT store: For His Glory

Recommended books for this week: 

Hope you have an amazing week!

{Last} Friday Fall Freebie!

I cannot believe this is our last Friday Fall Freebie!! We have loved being a part of this link up with Crystal and Marie and can't wait for our next freebie linky! Stay tuned for that.. ;) This post is short, sweet, and to the point! Here is your freebie:

Fall Into Math: A Fall Themed Math Hunt

My kids just did our spooky halloween math hunt this past week and LOVED it. I can't wait to use this one in November! 

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Enjoy!!

Monstrous Monsters!

Hey Guys! 

This past week at school was a super duper short week-can I get a Hallelujah?! Thursday was a half day and we had Friday "off" for conferences. Since our week was so short we did not take Language Arts in 3rd grade SO seriously ;) What I mean by that is we didn't do the usual grades/worksheets/packets/tests/etc! Instead we had a week full of MONSTERS!

It was so fun! Our week was based around writing a story about monsters. Here are some pictures from what that included!

The first thing the kids did was pick a prompt. Of course I had to make a cute slide for this right?!

Then, they used a graphic organizer to help them get their creative juices flowing! After they had their draft, peer reviewed, and wrote their final copy, they got to CREATE their Monster. This was so fun for them. In our district, 3rd grade is the FIRST year that  we take grades. So, that leaves less room for craftivities. :( This was a treat for them! Here are some of our monsters:

My team decided to put these out on our hallway bulletin board. My cameo is such a lifesaver when it comes to bulletin board letters! PLUS-I get to use any font I want! Yes, please! I also couldn't resist printing these adorable monsters to add to it. I LOVE the way it turned out!

To wrap up our week we read, "There Was An Old Monster!" Super cute book! And like the one in the last post, it too has a song to go along with it from Scholastic!

Let me tell you, these monsters definitely got me through this week! I sure am feeling it! Teaching/creating/wedding planning/moving/house stuff is wearing me out a little bit! Haha but I love it!

I know a lot of you all are doing "spooky" stuff this week and next as well! I can't wait to blog hop and see the fun things going on in yall's classrooms! 

Don't forget to stop by on Friday for our last Friday Fall Freebie! :)

Next Week in {Speech} & Friday Fall Freebie!

Hi Everyone! 

WOW!! This school year if flying by! It's about this time that I feel I am searching for new ideas as it seems I've gone through all of the units I planned this summer. Here is a peek at what's happening next week in speech. Hopefully, you'll get new ideas to send you through October! I would love to hear your ideas as well, so feel free to share them in the comments below!

For my younger kids we will pretend to be monsters as we read/sing, "If You're a Monster and You Know It." I read this book with one of my Kindergarten groups this week and they absolutely LOVED it! The book even has a sing-a-long on the Scholastic website!

We'll also be coloring these Halloween-themed "Color-by-Word" activity sheets. These coloring pages are perfect for addressing multiple articulation goals in a single session. I also plan on sending them home as a carry-over activity. 

Many of my kids struggle with making predictions and inferences. I will be using this awesome, Halloween-themed inferencing game to address NUMEROUS IEP goals! The activity comes with 18 inference cards and a "how to make an inference" poster. Grab it at my TpT store! 

And for my "non-speech" related activity...I will be decorating my door for Drug Free week at school! This year the theme is, "Be a Hero. Be Drug Free." Of course, I immediately thought of the Superhero Melonheadz! I think I may have a slight obsession with them, but they are so adorable! Check back soon! I'll post pictures of my door once it's completed! :)

Finally, I will start printing, cutting and laminating (not my favorite task at all) my November Speech and Language unit! This time I have also added a "Parent Newsletter" informing parents of our upcoming objectives, along with the books we will be reading! Parent communication is extremely important and a newsletter is a great way to reach multiple parents at once! Grab the November Mega Bundle today and start planning with me! 

Of course....the moment you've been waiting for...our Friday Fall Freebie! This week we would like to share "Color-by-Word" October Edition! Have a wonderful week! 

Click on the link below to snag the next Friday Fall Freebie!