From Scrambled Sentences to Building Sentences

 

Hello everyone!

This is spring break for my area and it's been a very wet, rainy, stormy week. But with all that bad weather, I've had time to make some changes and add some resources to my store.

I have some products called Scrambled Sentences that are doing ok in sales. But after listening to Shelly Rees this week, I realized that my title doesn't actually fit the product clearly. So I decided to call them Building Sentences. I think that fits the skill much better than Scrambled Sentences.

That's all well and good, but the amount of time it took to change everything from Scrambled to Building was a LONG time. I may have even missed a few things here and there. If you're searching for them, you can look under Building Sentences or Making Simple Sentences.

This comes in the color version you see here and a black and white version here.

I also created a worksheet version in case you'd rather have the students cut, paste, and write the sentences in the correct order.

There are 10 different sentences included. So you could have students do one a day as part of their morning work.

Stay tuned for later this year, as I convert many of these into worksheet accessible.

April Showers Bring YOU Great Deals!

Hello April. . . . It may not be April yet, but I can see it. . . .It's on the way.

I love this time of year as it brings so much renewal. We've survived the winter (here in Michigan!) and are ready for the flowers to start popping out.

I have a special deal going on just this week. You get to be the first to hear about it. I have put the four featured resources from my store on sale for half off. That's for this week only. On Friday, April 4th they will not be on sale anymore. So look them over now and grab them if they will work for your classroom. Tell your friends too. You can click each picture to go to that product.

The title to this one is now Mixed Up Stories for April.

If the items above are too tough for your class, maybe you'd like your students to work on patterning. You can have this for free, just by emailing me at pjrbar@charter.net. Tell me that you'd like the April Patterns and I'll send it to you. Be sure to tell me the email address you want me to send it to.

Get Ready For State Assessments

 

Are you hanging in there? Is it time for your spring break? I've got you. I completely understand. That countdown is on! And then we will count down until the end of the year! That's a whole lot of counting.

Speaking of counting. . . Have you seen these? It allows your 2nd or 3rd grade students to practice skip counting. There is a lady bug on each page that helps the child to count on, or maybe they can already see the pattern and figure out the next number.

Practicing with these, helps to prepare your students for multiplication which may be in 2nd or 3rd grade. Letting them see the visual is a good idea. Also questions like these show up on end of the year testing, so that's another reason to get some practice in.

Click the picture to go to my store. 

Another way to get ready for end of the year testing is to introduce

or practice finding coordinates. This set comes with a color AND a black and white set. There is also a recording sheet and answer keys provided.

This would be great for 2nd and 3rd graders. And yes, questions like these can show up on state testing, too!

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There are also coordinate practice pages for many months or holidays.

For a September Coordinate Set, Click HERE

For an October Coordinate Set, Click HERE

For a November Coordinate Set, Click HERE

For a Christmas Coordinate Set, Click HERE

For a Winter Coordinate Set, Click HERE

For a Valentine's Coordinate Set, Click HERE

For a Spring Coordinate Set, Click HERE

For a March Coordinate Set, Click HERE

For an April Coordinate Set, Click HERE

For a generic set of 12 grids, click HERE