Thursday, November 20, 2014

How to Cook a Turkey Writing Activity

This is a great activity to do with your students right before Thanksgiving. I love to do this with my students every year. I let them have a discussion on how they think they should cook a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. I let the children brainstorm together and then write their papers. After they finish writing their final drafts, we talk about how to REALLY cook a turkey! I love this part! What the kids write is always so far off from the real way to cook a turkey. The kids laugh and I laugh and it's a great learning experience.





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Good luck and have fun with this! Happy Thanksgiving





Superhero Themed Weekend News

Each week in my class, my 2nd graders write about what they did over the weekend on a Superhero Weekend News. They love that they get to pretend they were a superhero over the weekend and write it from that perspective. This fun and engaging worksheet is perfect for any superhero themed classroom.

I'm keeping my worksheets for each student and we are going to make a book for each student to take home at the end of the year called "My Superhero Weekend News." The kids are really excited about that and they try really hard each week to make sure their weekend news is good enough for a book!

You can download a copy of this by clicking here!



Thanks for reading! 


Fall Thankful Tree

This year with my 2nd graders, we had each student make their own Fall Thankful Tree. In the previous years, we have made a huge class tree, where each student could add thankful leaves to it. But, this year we wanted to have something that each child could take home and share with their families.

I created this really easy and fun Fall Thankful Tree for my students to make. Each student choose as many pre-copied leaves as they wanted to fill up their tree with. On each leaf, they had to write down what they were thankful for. The students loved this assignment and I loved that they came up with so many things to be thankful for.





There is still a few days left before Thanksgiving. You can still grab this download from my TpT store right now for 20% off!!  Click here to download!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Personalized Custom Christmas Cards

It's that time of year again! Christmas cards are one of my favorite things to look forward to sending out each year. But, I also love receiving them in the mail!

SummerBloom creates personalized and custom Christmas cards. Here are some samples that I have made in the past.

Gold & Red Ribbon Front and Back


Chalkboard Style B&W


Chalkboard Syle Red & Green


Snowflakes on Picture

'Tis the Season

Colorful Blocks



If you like some of these, I can easily switch out the picture with a different family photo. I can also make custom cards. If you find a design you like, let me know and I can design something similar to your tastes. Prices start at just $10 per digital download. Please contact me for more details. You can even look me up on Facebook.