Instagram, My Classroom, and a FREEBIE

Guess what.......You can now find MoreThanMath on Instagram!  Follow me {here}!  If you have an Instagram account, leave a comment below with your Instagram user name so I can follow you.  

How many days of summer do you have left?  I still have 3 weeks but the preparation has begun at my school.  I love starting a new school year! Check out my Wal-Mart finds from yesterday!

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I was so excited to find the variety of colors (at one location, in one shopping trip) so that I could make my shelves bright and colorful.  Here are a few more pictures of my progress in getting my school ready for August 16.

This is a picture from my Instagram.  Click the picture to see that post.

The beginning of my morning message wall.  The crates below my board are from Target.

How about a FREEBIE...

This 14 page download includes 12 puzzles that have students read a phrase and match it to the picture it describes.  The phrases use sh and ch nouns and include adjectives for you to integrate some grammar practice with phonics.  You also receive a picture sort with 12 pictures that begin with sh and ch plus 4 sorting printables.  Click on one of the pictures above to download it from my TpT store.  I would love to hear your comments and feedback on this product because I am trying to decide whether to make a bigger set similar to this with sh, ch, th, and wh.  Thanks!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

A B2S Must Have and FREEBIES

Learning Sight Words is an important skill for all early elementary teachers to cover.  As everyone is nearing back to school and planning the upcoming year I want to remind you of a great resource that I have available in my TpT store. My Read Color Circle Create sight word printables are very popular in my store.  Each set covers a different grade level's Dolch sight words.  If you teach many levels of sight words throughout the year then I offer a bundle which includes all 220 sight words.

The bundle includes:

Click on the picture above to see this bundle in my TpT store.  If you want to see each grade level, click on the pictures below.

      

     

In addition to my Read Color Circle Create products, here are a few other sight word resources available in my store.

 

  

   

Now for a FREEBIE!  We practice 3 main principles at my school - Be Responsible, Be Respectful, Be Safe.  Under each principle, my students come up with class rules that can be placed in each category.  I have made free posters for you to download.  See pictures below.

You will receive 3 boy posters and 3 girl posters.  Each with room to write 3 rules on.  

This picture shows what they look like after rules have been written in.

Click on any picture to download your copy from Dropbox.

Plus...if you missed my last post, be sure to click below to download my most recent ABC Order Cut and Paste FREEBIE with the Back to School theme.

Thanks for stopping by!  I'd love to read your comments, feel free to leave me one :)

Back2School Friday FREEBIE

Wow, I am working on so many new products at the moment.  With that said, this post will be extra short.  Here is your FREEBIE for today!

I hope you enjoy my newest ABC Order Cut & Paste FREEBIE.  Click on the picture above to download your copy from TpT.

I look forward to sharing my new products with you soon. Stay tuned :)
Have a wonderful weekend!

Pirate Math & your Friday FREEBIE

Hello Friends!  I am back from my wonderful vacation - we had a blast!  Here are a few pictures from our time at the beach.  

  

                              

The weather was beautiful, the beach was clean, and I am now well rested.  I guess it's time to start planning for Back to School! Yipee!! I love the beginning of a new school year.

One common struggle with the students I teach is always with basic math fact fluency.  I have tried many different ways to teach students to fluently add and subtract and what I have found to work the best is simply constant practice and review with basic facts especially through games and hands-on practice.  With that in mind, I find as many games and activities as I can for students to play throughout the year.

I recently purchased a cute pirate clip art set from the amazing Ashley Hughes, from The School Supply Addict, and decided to make some math fact fluency games with these adorable designs.

Click picture to visit Ashley's TpT store

Here is my newest TpT product, Pirate Addition Activities & Printables {Sums 11-20} which includes math fact fluency practice with addition sums of 11 - 20.

This product includes sorting activities, task cards with a recording sheet, a card game I call -ZAP-, plus 12 printables.  The sorting activities and -ZAP- game are offered in both full color as well as black and white in order to give you more printing options.  The sorting activity includes over 80 sorting cards, 10 sorting mats, plus 10 headings for use in pocket charts.  This activity allows for differentiation in order to meet your students' needs.  The task cards can be used in a center, as a Write the Room activity, as well as a Scoot game.  Teacher suggestions and directions are included for all activities.  There are a total of 75 pages in this set.  

Click on any picture above to visit this product page in my TpT store.  I am hoping to have this set covering addition (sums 0-10) and subtraction in my store in the near future.

WoW- that was a long post-sorry guys!  For those of you who stuck with it and read all the way to here, I have a gift for you.  Although it is Saturday, here is your Friday FREEBIE:

Click the picture above to download 3 of the printables from my new Pirate Addition set.

Thanks again for visiting my blog.  If you download the freebie, I would love to hear your feedback.  Feel free to leave comments on this post :)

Giveaway Winners Announced

Congratulations to...

Susan F. 

and

Kelly A!!!  

You 2 ladies were chosen by rafflecopter as the winners of my Bloglovin' Giveaway.

You both win your choice of ANY 3 products from my TpT store (no $$ limit).  Check your email ladies.  Thanks to all who participated!  I am absolutely lovin' Bloglovin' :)

As a token of my appreciation I have a FREEBIE for all my wonderful followers!
****Be sure to grab it today---it will only be available for download until midnight.

This freebie includes portions of my new Math Key Words Unit.  By downloading this file (free for 3 days only!!!) you will receive the board games and one printable from the unit.  Click the picture above to download the freebie.  Click the picture below to learn more about the entire unit in my TpT store.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  I am signing off and heading to Florida for a week long beach vacation with my little family.  My home for the next week will be Portofino Island Resort in Pensacola Beach, Florida.  Check out the resort here:

www.portofinoisland.com

Friday Freebie and more

Today I'm linking up your Friday FREEBIE with Freebielicious' Fabulicious Freebies on the First.

Today's FREEBIE is a 21 page activity set that can be used to review nouns and verbs.  Your students will have a blast sorting words with these adorable Super Heros.  Click on the picture below to download your copy of this set.

While you are at my TpT store, check out my newest math product.

This 71 page unit has everything you need to teach and reinforce using keywords to solve addition and subtraction word problems.

Don't forget to enter my BlogLovin giveaway.  You have until midnight tonight to enter.  Click on the picture below to enter.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Now head over to Freebielicious to scoop up tons of freebie from some amazing bloggers!  Click the picture below.

Have a wonderful day!  As always, if you download my freebie, I'd love to hear your feedback in the comments here or on TpT.