Need a Fast and Fun Noun Freebie?

Add a timer to an activity and it's magic!

Kids love to be able to set the timer and race against the clock to complete a task. Print off these cards, add a timer, put in a literacy station and you've got a fun game the kiddos will love. Geared to first and second grades, this is fun practice on identifying nouns.

Just click on the link below to get your freebie.

Show the love by commenting how you've used timers with your kiddos!

St. Patrick's Multiple Meaning Words -- Freebie

Today's freebie gives your kiddos practice working with words that can be both a noun and a verb. Students draw one of the cards and write two sentences using the word. One sentence must use the word as a noun and the other as a verb.

For instance, if they draw the word root, they must be sure to use the word correctly as a noun and as a verb.

The healthy plant's root soaked up the nourishing water.

I will root for my favorite team at the championship game tomorrow.

Just click on the pic above to get your freebie.

Please leave a comment. I'd love to know if your kids were successful with the activity.

Snow Freebie -- AND First Five Win!

I love all things Cynthia Rylant!

The view outside my window today reminded me of her book Snow. If you don't have a copy, click on the link below to go to Amazon and buy one. You will not be disappointed. 

Rylant definitely has a way with words, so why not use them in our classroom? Today's freebie uses Rylant's Snow to help our kiddos distinguish nouns from adjectives. I posted this activity previously, but I've updated it to include the Common Core ELA Standards for second and third grade. Just click on the pic below to get your freebie.

Since I've had such a fabulous bonus snow day, I'm giving away a product of choice from my TpT store to the first five readers who follow my TpT store and leave a comment below with their email address, the name they use to follow my TpT store, and the name of the product they want.

If you won a product over the past two days, please give someone else a chance to win.

All items in my store are on sale for twenty percent off until midnight tonight, so go visit now.

Have a fabulous day!

Take Five Lucky Nouns - Freebie!

I have immersed my kiddos in all types of nouns this year. They are a very competitive group, so they love any type of timed race game.

I'm sharing this quick activity with you. It's part of my Nine Lucky Noun Activities packet on TpT. 

Draw one of the category cards and share it with your students. Set a timer for five minutes. Students have to list all of the nouns that fit the category. They can work in groups (good for encouraging accountable talk) or individually.

Just click on the pic above to get the game.

My Week at a Glance - and a Freebie

It's going to be a busy week.

Here's what I THINK I'm going to be doing....you know how plans change. Our nine weeks ends next Tuesday, so I'm trying to finish some things.

The entire school starts off each day in the gym for announcements. I love getting to see all the kids every morning, and it's usually the only time I get to see the teachers from the other end of the building all day!

I've planned all of my Morning Work for the week.  I have it projected on the white board waiting for us when we get to our room from Morning Meeting. 

Click on the pic above if you want a copy.

Our main focus for ELA this week is finishing up our three paragraph report on Wilma Rudolph. We researched together, but each student is writing his own report. It's been interesting to see which facts they choose for their report. Once we are finished, we are moving on to procedural writing.

My literacy stations focus on ou/ow words and a review of nouns and sentences. I'll be using my "Welcome to the Circus" packet I've added to my store. If you missed the freebie from Friday, go {HERE} to get one of the activities I'm using. 

All my sentence writing activities are from the St. Patrick's packet linked to the pic below.

 The noun literacy stations are from my Nine Lucky Nouns packet posted at my stores. Click on the pic for more info.

We are beginning telling time to the nearest five minutes in Math. If you missed the freebie, click {HERE} to pick up a copy. Click on the pics below to see what I'm doing in my Math stations this week. 

We are also celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday all week along. There's a special school-wide activity planned for each day. Today is Hat Day. I can't wait to see the kiddos all decked out!

Have a wonderful week!

Take five! for Nouns - Freebie

Review common and proper nouns with a quick category game. Students draw a card, set a timer, and list as many proper nouns that fit the category as they can in two minutes. They then add common nouns to their lists. 

Click on the pictures above to get the file.

I've added a new product with a farm theme to my Teachers Pay Teachers store and Teachers Notebook shop with ten fun activities to reinforce and practice nouns...

collective nouns, possessive nouns, common nouns, proper nouns.....nouns, nouns, nouns!

Click on the links at the right to check it out!

Halloween Noun Sort - Freebie

Here's another oldie, but goodie...updated to include the Common Core standards for second and third grades.

Students sort common, proper, singular, plural, singular possessive, and plural possessive nouns. They have to think, because some of the nouns can be classified in more than one way!

Just click on the pic above to download the activity.

And don't forget to enter my giveaway for a fifty dollar gift code to Educational Insights. Click HERE to enter.

Noun and Verb Charades - Freebie

We are almost ready to work on past tense forms of verbs, especially the irregular verbs. My kiddos need a little bit more practice distinguishing between nouns and verbs, so we are going to play charades.

Divide your class into teams. One teammate acts out a word on the card he draws. His team must guess the word and tell if it is a noun or a verb.

I included a blank sheet of cards in case you want to write in your own words.

Just click on the pic above to download the charades cards.

Nouns and Verbs - Freebie

One of our Common Core skills for this unit is to form and use the past tense forms of irregular verbs. 

Ummmmm.....my kids didn't remember what nouns or verbs were! So I read A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink  and To Root, to Toot, to Parachute by Brian P. Cleary. 

After sharing the books, my kids sorted nouns and verbs. It's basic, but I can't do the irregular past tense until they know a verb!

Here are the cards I used for sorting. I used words from the two books so that I can put the activity in a literacy station for more practice. They can use Cleary's books for reference if they need to.

Click on the pic above to get the cards.

Is There Anything Better Than a Snow Day? Linky Party and Freebie

Is there? Not in my book! Not sleeping much through the night so you can be sure to hear the announcement on TV that your system is OUT! Spending the day in your PJ's! Cuddling up to the computer or with a good book and a hot cup of tea!

But in order to have a precious Snow Day, we have to have SNOW! Maybe if enough of us get snow on the brain, the weatherman will get the message and put one in the forecast. Link up with your favorite snow-themed activity you have to share, your favorite snow-themed book to read with your class,  the best snow-inspired pin you found on Pinterest......anything snow related!

To start us off, here is a freebie based on Cynthia Rylant's precious book, Snow. Students distinguish between nouns and adjectives, then write sentences with two of the pairs.

Graphics by KPMDoodles.com  Fonts by KevinandAmanda.com

I've Got Sunshine...on a Cloudy Day....AND a Christmas Noun Freebie!

(Freebie is at bottom of all the Thank You's!)

I've gotten a little behind on my thank-you's since my observation and wanted to be sure to send some out! To all of you who left comments....thank you, thank you, thank you! No matter where I am, if my Blackberry goes off to let me know I have a message from one of you, it puts a smile on my face! 

And a special "thank you" to...

Delena at Learn with Me in Grade 3

Mrs. Corbitt at Tadpole Tidbits

Patricia at Primary Practice

Denise on Yearn to Learn

and

Mrs. L at Life with Mrs. L

All these kind ladies nominated me for a Sunshine Award. Be sure to go check out their blogs as soon as you can. I get a lot of good ideas from them!

When you receive this award, you have to do three things:

1. Say thank you to the person that nominated you

2. Answer some questions

3. Pay it forward

Here are my answers:

Favorite Color: Green (I guess....never understood why we had to pick one)

Favorite Animal: Tillie, our dog

Favorite Number: 3

Favorite Drink: Diet Coke

Facebook or Twitter:  Facebook, but not as much nowadays!

My Passion: Reading, Making activities for my kids at school (and sharing with you!)

Giving or Getting: Definitely Giving!

Favorite Flower: Zinnias and Gerbera Daisies

Favorite Day: Definitely Thanksgiving!

Some of my Go To blogs and my Nominees:

Sunny Days in Second Grade

Gingersnaps Treats for Teachers

KPM's Doodles

Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas

Okay, I promised a freebie (drumroll, please........)

We still need practice on types of nouns. Here is a Christmas themed Noun Scavenger Hunt. Click on the pic to download.

Happy Sunday!

Baking Up Common and Proper Nouns Freebie

My students just can't identify nouns as either common or proper nouns. Hopefully, this sorting activity will be good practice for them.

Graphics by ScrappinDoodles.com   Fonts by KevinandAmanda.com

Please bake up a comment if you download the activity!

The Best Laid Halloween Plans

Well, I have a plan for tomorrow.....and we all know how classroom plans for Halloween go!

I'm planning on having a slide show on my Promethean Board ready when we get to our room after Morning Meeting in the gym.

Each slide explains one activity we are going to do during the day.

First up, the students are going to work with their table group and look around the room for clues to help them make inferences about what we are going to do during the day.


Next, the students are going to choose RingPops and use their senses to write a descriptive paragraph. See the PowerPoint file at the end of the post for directions. I got the whole box of RingPops at Walgreens for about $5.00.

Next, students choose a pack of chips and look for nouns in the pictures and words on the pack. Walmart had boxes of Halloween themed chips.

Next, it's Buddy Reading time. Partners will read Halloween stories and joke books together.

After that, we will use the Spooky Noun Scavenger Hunt in our Science books that I posted about earlier. Click on the pic below to go to that post.

Then it's time for some Magic School Bus fun and fact and opinion practice.

Our local Rotary Club delivered dictionaries for each student to take home. The kids beg to race to look up words, so we are going to have a Spooky Speed Demon Race and use our dictionary skills. Click on the pic below for the PowerPoint for the activity or HERE for a pdf file. I didn't put a timer on the slides so that you could do that and use what is appropriate for your class.

For Math, we are going to use the activity I posted for The Thirteen Nights of Halloween. They have worked with it in centers, so now we are going to pair up and make posters showing different ways of representing numbers. Click on the pic below for the original post.

By then it will be time for refreshments. I have my other activities I've posted about throughout the month to fill in any gaps.

Click on the pic below if you would like a PDF doc of the PowerPoint slides or HERE for the PowerPoint files.

I hipe you have a fantabulous Halloween Day with your kiddos!

Don't forget to go HERE to enter my Giveaway for a $25.00 Amazon gift card. You have until tomorrow night at midnight.

Halloween Noun Sort Freebie

Help your kids have some howling good fun sorting these Halloween nouns! Students sort singular, plural, common, proper, singular possessive, and plural possessive nouns.

Have fun sorting! Please let me know how it goes with your kids.

Spooky Noun Scavenger Hunt Freebie

My kids have had trouble distinguishing between the different types of nouns. We are going to try this scavenger hunt for a review. Using Halloween books will make it even more fun!

Click on the link below to download the scavenger hunt.

Leave a comment after you use it and let me know how it turns out!