FERN'S FREEBIE FRIDAY ~ COLOR BY CODE THE LETTER A SIGHT WORDS

A is for Alligator and Airplane Too!

Color By Code The Letter A Sight Words Freebie

Your students will adore this Color Your Answers The Letter A Sight Words Freebie while learning and reviewing sight words.

Practice The Letter A Sight Words and reading skills at the same time as having some coloring fun & joy in your classroom! You will love the no prep, print and go Color By Code Worksheet with Answer Key Included. 

Perfect for independent seat work, or morning work / bell work. Perfect for homework that will not have confused and angry parent emails! Perfect for emergency substitute classroom work, answer key included to help the sub. 

The possibilities are endless!

Click here to purchase the entire Deeply Discounted A - Z resource, Color By Code A - Z Sight Words Alphabet Book!

Terrific for an Emergency Sub Tub or Homework!
These high interest black and white printables are great for seat work, homework or small group work.
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Did You Know I have Two Big Bundles of My Color For Fun Coloring Pages for the Entire School Year?

AND that they are deeply discounted?

Fall Coloring Pages Big DISCOUNTED Bundle!

This DISCOUNTED bundle comes with a SUBSTANTIAL DISCOUNT of less than 3 cents a page compared to purchasing each resource separately. Your students will love how this coloring pages bundle has over 700+ pages of Print and Go Coloring Pages for Back to School, Fall, Apples, Vowels, Pets, Cute Kids, Fire Safety, Halloween, Columbus Day, Spiders, Bats, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas and Classic Children's Stories, more than enough for an entire semester! Bind different pages together for your treasure box or an adorable Christmas gift! Color for Fun First Semester Bundle for July to December. 

Winter Spring and Summer Coloring Pages Big DISCOUNTED Bundle!

This DISCOUNTED bundle comes with a SUBSTANTIAL DISCOUNT of less than 3 cents a page compared to purchasing each resource separately. Your students will love how this coloring pages bundle has over 530+ Print and Go Coloring Pages for the Second Semester of School! Coloring Pages for January, Winter, Penguins, New Years, 100th Day of School, Dental Health, St. Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, St. Patrick's Day, Spring, Easter, Earth Day, Mother's Day, Fairy Tales, Summer, Presidents' Day, Farm Animals and much, much more! Color for Fun Second Semester Bundle for January to June.

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Do Your Students Love Star Wars? Star Wars Student Binders For Your Classroom!

Star Wars Student Binder Covers

Do you use student daily work folders in your classroom? If your students are still a little "EXCITED" from the holidays, there is nothing wrong with starting some new organizational and management ideas. I love how student binders keep my students organized. Even in first grade they were able to pull out their BLUE MATH folder. This helped to eliminate missing work and work stuffed into the back of the desk, that normally would never be seen again!

Star Wars is a timeless theme, children from many generations love Star Wars. Is space or Star Wars your classroom theme? If so, you will love how inexpensively these folder covers can help with your classroom management. The students can keep certain folders in their desk and other folders, for example, their Homework Folder, can be in a bucket at the door for a parent volunteer to stuff each day.

Star Wars R2-D2's Blue Border Word Work Folder

There are SIX different character / color schemes included in this download:
1. Yoda with a green border.
2. Darth Vader with a gray border.
3. Chewbacca with a brown border.
4. C-3PO with a gold border.
5. R2-D2 with a blue border.
6. Princess Leia with a brown border.

Star Wars C-3PO's Gold Border Writing Folder

Classroom Folder Subjects Included in this Download:
1. Homework Folder
2. Reading Folder
3. Math Folder
4. Science Folder
5. Social Studies Folder
6. Word Work Folder
7. Spelling Folder
8. Vocabulary Folder
9. Reading Group Folder
10. Language Arts Folder
11. Take Home Folder
12. Writing Folder
13. Phonics Folder
14. Work Station Folder
15. Center Folder 

Star Wars Yoda's Green Border Homework Folder

Organize your reading groups with three or four different characters / colors to match your classroom theme. Your students will love their folders!
Group One - Princess Leia
Group Two - Darth Vader
Group Three - R2-D2

Star Wars Princess Leia's Brown Border Center Folder

You can use the different characters and colors to organize your reading groups, center groups, math groups, the possibilities are endless!

Star Wars Chewbacca's Brown Border Word Work Folder

These bright and colorful covers will surely liven up the binders in your classroom with a student loved Star Wars theme! 

Star Wars R2-D2's Homework Folder
You can print them on colored paper with black ink only to save money and they turn out just as adorable!

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Student Binder Covers - Star Wars Space Themed Student Work Folder Cover

Each folder comes in all six characters. 

Darth Vader, Yoda, Leia, Chewbacca, R2D2 and C3P0! 

This resource comes with:
Homework Folder,   Reading Folder,   Math Folder
Science Folder,   Social Studies Folder,   Word Work Folder
Spelling Folder,   Vocabulary Folder,   Reading Group Folder
Language Arts Folder,   Take Home Folder,   Writing Folder
Phonics Folder,   Work Station Folder,   Center Folder

Use one space character for your high reading group. 

Use a different space character for your middle group, etc.

   

This reading group folders example is from this resource, Student Binder Covers - Beach Monkeys Student Work Folder Cover, click here to buy it.
You can do the same with Math Stations, Centers, etc. the mixing and matching is endless!

You can do the same with Math Stations, the mixing and matching is endless!

   

 

 

* Print in color or the black and gray version to save you the cost of colored ink!

*Looks great if you print the black and gray version on colored paper!

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Are You Lesson Planning for Long and Short Vowels?

Long and Short Vowels

Students are ready to study long and short vowels and the connection between them when they can read word families (like hat, sat, cat, fat, etc.) and when they are starting to include vowels in their spellings. During this stage, a student might consistently attempting to spell long vowels words, but confusing the spelling, for example, RANE for rain. This is a perfect time to add word work to their day comparing and contrasting long and short vowels.

One of my favorite series of vowel resources that I've created comes with a lot of hands on materials to make your centers, small group and seat work time easier for you and enjoyable for the students.

Today I'm going to share with you the Long e and Short e resource. Once your students are use to the games and printables in this resource, it is the same for a, i, o and u, just with the different appropriate words.

The resource comes with:

*Center Sign and/or Center Folder Cover
*Teacher’s directions
*Student’s directions
*Center Game Cards
*Interactive Notebook Activities
*Student worksheets, great for assessment
*Answer Keys / Student Self-Check Sheets

 

 

One set of cards with just the words for sorting.

 Printable worksheets.

One set of cards with the words and picture clues. 

 

Student directions included.

 

Vowel Sorting Short e & Long e Center Games and Interactive Notebook Activities

 

Help in a variety of student levels.

Sort by picture clue cards only.

One set of cards as pictures only for your different student levels.

 

Sorting by words only.

Interactive Notebook Activities

This example is sorting the cards that have the words AND the picture clues.

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Vowel Sorting Short e & Long e Center Games and Interactive Notebook Activities

Common Core Listing

 Three ways to play to differentiate for your students' needs.

I hope you have enjoyed this post and gained some ideas to help teach your emerging readers with some long and short vowel fun!

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Fern's Freebie Friday ~ FREE Large Kindergarten Number Flashcards 0 to 10

These FREE Large Kindergarten Number Flashcards, are PERFECT for your one on one number testing of students during your first few weeks of Kindergarten.

Large Kindergarten Number Flashcards 0 to 10 Freebie!

This is a set of large number flashcards with the numbers 0 - 10 designed with a cute Smart Cookie theme. They are perfect to print on cardstock, 4 to a page, laminate and then use again and again each year.

Print multiple times, for more than one of each letter. Use them with a parent volunteer or small group lesson to create matching, number recognition and number sequence games and activities for Preschool, VPK and Kindergarten children. 

Large enough to use for bulletin boards too!

When it comes to the ease of prepping this resource, all pieces are rectangular and easy for you or a parent volunteer to cut on a paper slicer. No need to cut around eight flower petals, however, the graphics are still adorable and eye catching to hold your students' interest!

Here are a few new items that you might also like while preparing for your back to school plans.

Number Clip Card Centers for Numbers, Number Words & Ten Frames September Bundle

This Back to School & September bundle has SIX different sets of Seasonal Numbers, Number Words & Ten Frames Matching Clip Card Centers, with each center having four different forms of differentiation. You will love how simple it is to prepare this easy to prep bundle for your literacy centers. Perfect for small groups, centers, tutoring, homework, and center seat work, so many ways to use these Clip Cards that the possibilities are endless. Your students will enjoy working on their number skills with these Seasonal Differentiated Clip Card Centers! Perfect for an assessment grade for each week or for a substitute teacher day!

Four Ways to Differentiate for your class. You can dedicate one of your math centers, math workstations, as a clip card center. You can differentiate it for your different students' math levels or use the four different levels in this 24 pack bundle for 24 different weeks of independent level work.

1. Numbers to Number Words, 1 to 10 and 11 to 20.

2. Number Words to Numbers, 1 to 10 and 11 to 20.

3. Ten Frame to Number Words, 1 to 10.

4. Ten Frame to Numbers, 1 to 10.

Click here to see this resource at TpT.

Alphabet Clip Card Center Uppercase & Lowercase Back to School September Bundle

This Back to School & September bundle has SIX different sets of Seasonal Alphabet Matching Clip Card Centers, with each center having four different forms of differentiation. You will love how simple it is to prepare this easy to prep bundle for your literacy centers. Perfect for small groups, centers, tutoring, homework, and center seat work, so many ways to use these Clip Cards that the possibilities are endless. Your students will enjoy working on their alphabet skills with these Seasonal Differentiated Clip Card Centers! Perfect for an assessment grade for each week or for a substitute teacher day! 

Four Ways to Differentiate Using Uppercase & Lowercase Letters for your class. You can dedicate one of your literacy centers, reading workstations, as an alphabet center. You can differentiate it for your different students' reading levels or use the four different levels in this 24 pack bundle for 24 different weeks of independent level work.

1. Uppercase Letters Matching Uppercase Letters

2. Lowercase Letters Matching Lowercase Letters

3. Matching Uppercase Letters to Their Lowercase Letters and

4. Matching Lowercase Letters to Their Correct Uppercase Letter.

Click here to see this resource at TpT.

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Perfect for Back to School Free Lunch Box Love Notes For Home OR School!

While you're planning and getting ready for back to school, here's one of my favorite freebies for you. Lunch Box Love Notes. 

FREE Lunch Box Love Notes!

For Teacher-Moms, as tired as we are once August and September hits, we don't want to short change our own children. I remember I really wanted my children to have a good day at school, listen to the teacher. learn a lot and make new friends. But mornings for Teacher-Moms are not like something out of the Full House TV show....many a morning at my house SOMEONE crying over SOMETHING because they weren't the center of attention at that given moment. SOMETIMES it was even me! {Just kidding, OK, no, maybe not....}

These love notes are a quick and easy way for you to show them some love when they are away from you in that big, ole' school cafetorium, as they call it in my district.  BUT no lie, a very easy prep, I would write five on Saturday afternoon or Sunday night and hide them in my bedroom. That way I was ready to slip one in their lunch box each morning and if they wanted to buy their lunch that day, I had it ready to slip into their backpack. My FREEBIE has enough for 24 notes, that way you can use a different one each school day for a month! 

These Love Notes are also perfect for teachers to use as an End Of The Day student note! ♥

My favorite author, Erma Bombeck once said something about school notes....If they are typed on nice paper and signed in pen, they have been forged by the child, a real Mom has to grab a red crayon and writes on a kitchen napkin. :)

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Some mornings, showing your love with a red crayon on a napkin is just terrific too! Enjoy!

While your getting ready for back to school, you might also like this freebie for your files. :)