Way back when I created a whole series of Label the Superhero sets to use with my class. For obvious copyright reasons they’re not something I can sell, but rather than let them go to waste, I thought I would share them with my lovely readers, in case they’re something your students mind enjoy.
I only ask that if you do download these, that you leave me a comment below to let me know!
These match my other labelling sets, which can be found in my TeachersPayTeachers store.
Hello friends! I’m back on home soil after 24 wonderful days spent with my best friend in Toronto. I have that lovely bittersweet feeling of enjoying being home, but being sad that I had to say goodbye to some people that I love dearly. But, the wonderful thing about living in this day an age is the awesomeness of Skype and FaceTime!
I’m interrupting my scheduled blogging program to share a fun giveaway that some friends and I are putting on to celebrate the start of the new school year here in Australia!
So, to all my Aussie friends – this post is to cheer you up as we embark on a brand new year. To anyone who’s not starting the new year now, there are still PLENTY of wonderful things for you to win, so do join in the fun!
For those of you who are new to my blog, or those of you who missed this last year, here’s a fun freebie for you – a Valentine’s Day class book that coordinates perfectly with my Start Write Away pack included in the ELA giveaway!
Finally, you have the opportunity to win a $10 voucher for TpT! Simply complete the Rafflecopter below for your chance to win, and don’t forget to check out the other fabulous blogs involved for a chance to win other vouchers, too!
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Oh my word, it’s been ages since I made anything!
This little freebie (click on the above image) compliments my Peas on a Plate subitising pack (below):
If you’re teaching the little ones to recognise and count groups of objects, this is for you!
There is a lot of freedom in using this freebie:
1) Let students pick a number to show with the peas on a plate,
2) Assign each student a number,
3) Have them roll dot dice to determine the number they need to record.
Once students have their number, they colour and cut the peas and glue them on to their plate – a template has been provided, but use a real paper plate for extra fun.
(Would you believe that I don’t have a SINGLE paper plate in my house… despite the drawer full of them at work?!!! Oh well, I like the cute yellow plate, too!)
Then students go in and record their number – numeral, word and illustrations!
Simple, easy to use – just print and go!
(Or, you know, add your own additional accessories!)
If you download, please leave some feedback! Also, if you use it with your class I would love to see how they turn out! Please feel free to send me a photo or link if you do!
Happy Tuesday, friends! ❤
How sad! It is the last Free Font Friday from the Summer blogging series with The Teaching Tribune! 😦
So here is one more font for you today!
Simply click the image above to download from TeachersPayTeachers.
There should also be an update to my Exclusive Font Pack before the end of the weekend, too, so keep an eye out for that! (If you’ve purchased it, it now also includes ALL my free fonts, too, so there’s no need to download them all!)
I missed this last week, but I’m back, with a BRAND NEW font, that’s actually a freebie from my EXCLUSIVE FONT PACK (when I get to TpT to update it!).
Don’t forget to click on the Teaching Tribune banner for more fun, free fonts.
And while we’re on the topic of fonts, the following 4 fonts have been added to my pack, taking the grand total to 50 fonts for personal and commercial use!
You guys know how much I love Educents and their bundles, right?
Educents is currently offering Miss Galvin Learns readers $5.00 to any new members who sign up to purchase products on the site! Simply click the IMAGE ABOVE!
Earlier in the year (or last year, I can’t remember!) I was fortunate enough to be a part of a Writing Bundle and there are ALWAYS great deals happening on the website.
And, since I tend to post a lot of K-2 stuff on my blog, I was having a look through the website for some fantastic resources for Middle and Upper primary for my readers who teach in those areas, and there are some fabulous deals going on!
$15.99 (for a total value of $74.00, which is about 78% off!)
$24.99 (for a total value of $121.15, which is about 80% off!)
Plus they have some fantastic links, ideas and resources for Summer Fun!
So, don’t forget to stop by and check out the great deals and freebies that are on the website!
Happy Mid-Week, my friends!
Hi all, it’s been a while.
I have been on holidays, but I confess that I’ve not been doing a whole lot (other than SHOPPING!) because I’ve really needed to decompress after the first term. Yes, it’s been one of those starts to the year.
However, I have completed all my planners for Term 2 (with the exception of my weekly breakdowns). I still have a couple of pre-tests to modify for my Grade 1s and a whole stack of laminating and cutting out to do.
But besides that I’ve done a LOT of shopping (hello, new wardrobe!) and a lot of creative writing (I write in an online game and despite starting with only one character in December I may have picked up another 2 along the way…!). I’ve also ordered my new Erin Condren planner for July 2014-June-2015 to replace my current one when it runs out this term, and I have a brand new Kikki-K Personal Planner, too, which I’m planning on using for organising the rest of my life and blogging and so forth. If you’d like pictures of those once they arrive, just let me know and I’m happy to share my attempt to get myself organised!
But, in the meantime, I have some font freebies for you!
(Note: I’m considering condensing my fonts into a single file on TpT, but that will take some time on my part. If that happens, I will let you all know!)
MGL Carrot Writer is available for free in my TeachersPayTeachers store. This font is perfect for headings/titles, alphabet matching cards, etc. I wouldn’t recommend it for large chunks of text because it could appear cluttered, but it definitely works for sprucing up titles and adding a bit of seasonal flair to your activity pages! Click the image above to go directly to the download.
MGL Smiley Writer is only available on my Miss Galvin Learns Facebook page (scroll down a few posts and you’ll see the above image with a link in the comments). This was to celebrate my Facebook page reaching 2000 likes which is BEYOND THRILLING for me!
If you don’t follow me on Facebook yet, make sure you do (don’t forget to hover over the like and select Get Notifications and Add to Interests Lists to ensure you don’t miss any future freebies!
I’m hoping to be back soon with a review of the new Targeting Maths K app. I also have another Wantable Box (do people want to see it?)
Also… I’ve been floating the idea of doing a video post for my blog. Is that something you would be interested in seeing? And if so, what sort of content would you like to see (i.e.: a show and tell/demonstration of my products, a Q&A sessions, etc)?
I’ve been teaching letter writing to my Grade 1 students over the last few weeks and we had a bit of fun with a great story called Dear Greenpeace by Simon James.
(Purchase on Amazon or Fishpond)
For those of you who have never read the story, it’s told through a series of letters between a little girl named Emily and Greenpeace. Emily discovers a whale living in her pond and writes to Greenpeace to learn about (and how to look after) her whale.
It’s a very sweet, very endearing story, with a great environmental message, too.
My kiddos just adored it.
We used it as a springboard for writing imaginative letters to each other about wild animals living in strange places (e.g.: polar bears in freezers, dogs shaving on toilets, snakes in pipes, monkeys under beds, etc).
They had SO MUCH FUN brainstorming their ideas and their letters turned out great, too.
(For the beginning of the year, my expectations included an opening statement sentence, a sentence explaining how they knew what their animal was, and something that their animal was doing in its’ strange location.)
I’ve made up a couple of template pages for you to use if you’d like. Click on the sample letter below to download the letter and two template pages!
This year I’ve jumped on the Elf on a Shelf bandwagon, and my class and I are having a ball.
It all started on November 29th, when my Principal got a special delivery, that was very cold and very fragile, and addressed to my class. (My Prin was awesome – she played it up so well for the kids who were just GIDDY with excitement.) She let them all feel the box and had a wonderful conversation going with them.
Then we opened the box…
Our elf – as yet unnamed – arrived complete with her book and a special Merry Christmas banner for our classroom. She watched the class from the box for the rest of the day.
By a very democratic vote, she was named Elfina by the children in the class.
What was really, really lovely, though – at lunchtime (just after she arrived), a group of my Grade 1 girls were running around to the yard duty teachers to tell them all about the elf that had arrived to watch their classroom and report back to Santa. Their excitement was just gorgeous.
And it’s yet to disappear.
Every morning this week the students have run into the classroom and LOOKED for Elfina to see what she’s gotten up to. They usually drag along parents, grandparents, siblings, and anyone else they can find to see what she’s been doing.
Here’s our week in pictures:
On Monday, Elfina hung up our Merry Christmas banner… then hung around and watched the class from the wall for the day.
On Monday afternoon we were building things with Lego… so when we came in on Tuesday morning, Elfina and Pete had been hard at work building a house and a Christmas tree!
On Wednesday she got tangled up in the Christmas lights she bought the class for our Christmas tree.
(Side note – it was pouring down with rain on Wednesday and the kids were stuck inside ALL DAY. Whenever someone walked into the room, the first thing the kids shouted out was ‘DON’T TOUCH THE ELF! SHE’LL LOSE HER MAGIC!!’ So not kidding!)
On Thursday, Elfina took a nap in the tissue box. Popular theory is she was partying at the North Pole over night. 😉
The kiddos were quite put out by the fact that they couldn’t access the tissue box. We had to dig out a spare box for the day. Just in case.
Earlier in the week we made ELF acrostic poems and the kiddos drew their own elves to decorate their poems.
Well… Elfina spotted a remarkably accurate likeness on the wall and had to point it out!
We also spend 15-20 minutes each day journalling about Elfina’s adventures in our An Elf’s Life journals. (I forgot to take photos – but I’ll take some next week to share because they’re just GORGEOUS!) My kiddos have done such a wonderful job on them. We brainstorm a list of important words they might need for the one or two sentences and then they go and write. I don’t have to prompt – they’re SO excited to write about what Elfina is doing that there are no complaints, no one sitting around staring into space…
Seriously, I need something like this all year ’round!
If you haven’t grabbed my An Elf’s Life freebie, yet, just click the link or the image below to download it.
AND… as an added bonus for all of you elf-loving folk, I’ve got a class book template for you all to use:
(BLM cover included)
Just click on either image to download the freebie!
So… that’s been my week with the elf. I’ll have more pictures next Friday of our adventures. (Alternatively, if you follow my on Instagram, you’ll catch them a bit earlier!)
Enjoy your weekend, lovelies!
Okay, so technically the elf is hiding on my bookshelf in the classroom. (But shhh! don’t tell my kiddos that!)
Yes, folks, I am jumping on the bandwagon of the Elf on the Shelf – and what a fun bandwagon it appears to be! I’m super excited about it. I’ve even plotted out the different adventures our elf will have in my diary so that I remember.
Today, though, I broached the topic with my K/1s to get a feel for where their heads were at. (My Grade 1s like to remind me that I’m the person behind the Table Fairy points… I swear I’m not!)
We talked about how Santa knows who’s been naughty and nice. I got some really great responses, like the Santas in the shopping centres are actually reporting back to the real Santa at the North Pole, and that Mums and Dads and teachers also report to Santa. Then we talked about Santa’s special helpers and how sometimes – if kids are really good – Santa sends a special elf to watch over the classrooms.
… it worked like a charm.
Can I just say, my kiddos are SUPER excited and can’t wait for our elf to make their Grand Entrance on Friday.
I’ll be sure to post some photos of what the elf gets up to!
But, in the meantime, I have a freebie for you – for those of you who have your very own Elf on the Shelf. (And even if you don’t, this would make a cute creative writing task!) Plus, hey – FREEBIE!
Simply click on the image above to download your freebie!