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    Reading In A Winter Wonderland: The Snow Globe Family

    November 27, 2015

     

    Hello and welcome to the second annual Winter Wonderland link up! At the bottom of all of The Reading Crew’s posts, there is a “map” of the blogs so you can hop through them all at once, visit some today and some later in the week, or see what best matches your literacy needs.

    On each blog, we will be sharing a mentor text lesson using the book we’ve chosen. The lesson will be modeling a reading skill (comprehension or writing typically, but some at the primary level may target vocabulary, fluency, or word building). The materials that are shared may be forever freebies or may be free for a limited time. Please take note of this as you visit the blogs.
    Again, we welcome you to our blogs and wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season.
    Reading In A Winter Wonderland with Ideas by Jivey.

    The Snow Globe Family is one of my very favorite books because it reminds me of that anticipation of a coming snow! Here in Georgia, we don’t get snow much (and yes, it often shuts the state down) so anytime the “S-word” is in the forecast, I get very excited!

    The Snow Globe Family is an adorable book by Jane O’Connor and illustrated by S.D. Schindler. It tells the story of TWO families- one that lives in a big house on a hill, as well as the family that lives INSIDE the snow globe sitting on their mantle! Everyone in the “big” family has forgotten about the snow globe – everyone except Baby…

    My activities are great for first, second, and third graders. There are many similarities between the two families, and that is what you will focus on in this lesson. Before reading, let the students know they should be looking and listening for things that are the same about the two families, either in the text or the illustrations. (There are several similarities!)

    Reading In A Winter Wonderland with Ideas by Jivey. One of the things they will notice right away, of course, is how tiny the snow globe family is. I suggest completing the first activity while you read the book the first time. This activity asks the students to note the details (evidence) the author gives to show that the snow globe family is small. This can be done together as you read on a chart, or depending on your students, you might give them the activity page to fill in as you read. The author does a great job describing how small things are in the snow globe, such as their footprints being smaller than sprinkles. After reading the story, either the same day or the next day, complete the Venn diagram to compare the snow globe family and the big family, this time focusing on more than just the size of them. You might want to re-read the story for this activity, or thumb through and show them certain pages, but I would first see what they remember on their own!
    Reading In A Winter Wonderland with Ideas by Jivey.

    This book is perfect to extend into your writing time, too! Students can imagine they were in a snow globe and draw a scene, which would make a great story starter. I have included a page they can use to draw their scene, as well as a lined writing prompt page.

    Reading In A Winter Wonderland with Ideas by Jivey. You can also turn this writing activity into an adorable craft! Check out my blog post to see what I did in my fourth grade classroom, which you can easily do in any grade! I took pictures of the students pretending to be in their snow globe. I also traced around a small plastic (clear) plate on construction paper and students illustrated the inside of the circle, complete with their photograph. We dropped some fake snow and glitter flakes (and even some snowflake confetti) onto their illustration, then I hot glued the plate on to the paper for them. The “snow” moved freely around under the plate. My students absolutely loved this project, and it made their writing some of the best they had done all year!

    Reading In A Winter Wonderland with Ideas by Jivey.
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    Of course, you know me! I can’t integrate this book into reading and writing and leave out GRAMMAR! :o) You can also get this mentor sentence lesson for free for this book. The focus skill is adjectives.
    Reading In A Winter Wonderland with Ideas by Jivey.


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    If you want even more IN-DEPTH step-by-step help with implementing mentor sentences, check out my courses!

     

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    Jigsaw Puzzle Day!

    May 25, 2015

    You might recall from my previous post that I do an ABC Countdown at the end of the year. Even if you don’t do a countdown, you can easily incorporate many of these “days” into your end of the year! One of the days my kids loved was Jigsaw Puzzle Day. We put puzzles together and made our own puzzles, too!

    I have a cabinet full of puzzles I’ve acquired from places like the Dollar Tree that my kids like to put together sometimes when we have indoor recess. It’s amazing how many of them don’t even have puzzles at home! We work on puzzles throughout the day on Jigsaw Puzzle Day.

    Jigsaw Puzzle Day withIdeas by JIvey
    We also make two fun displays. Both are freebies on TPT!
    First, my kids thought of their FAVORITE thing we did this year in 4th grade. They decorated a puzzle piece and we made a quick door display! (As you can imagine, I got a lot of “winter party” pieces, but there is some content in there, too!)
    Favorite door display with Ideas by Jivey

    Here’s a close up:

    Favorite door display with Ideas by Jivey

    You can find this puzzle piece to download for free here!

    We also made puzzles all about 4th grade. This was during Teacher Appreciation Week, so you’ll also see all of my gorgeous flowers they got me! :o) The finished puzzles are something fun and colorful for the wall- and my kids loved looking at everyone else’s when there was some free time.

    Puzzle days with Ideas by Jivey
    Puzzle days with Ideas by JiveyPuzzle days with Ideas by Jivey

    You can download this freebie here!

    Don’t teach 4th? Here is a puzzle template freebie!

    Puzzle template freebie with Ideas by Jivey

    If you want to make a smaller puzzle, Krista has some free puzzle piece clip art you can download!

    Free puzzle piece clip art by Krista with Ideas by Jivey

    I hope this will be a fun way for your kiddos to reflect back on the year! I know mine sure enjoyed it! :o)

    by Jessica Ivey 
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    What If You Had Animal Parts…!? {Freebies!}

    April 3, 2015

    Hello again, friends! Starting Friday at 3:15, I’m on Spring Break (woohoo!!!) and for the first time EVER, I already have my entire week planned for the week we return! What?! No, really!!! I do!

    We are learning about animal adaptations in science, so when we return, we’ll be using all three of Sandra Markle‘s awesome “What If You Had” books!

    Animal adaptations in science using Sandra Markle's Books with Ideas by Jivey.

    I have created activities that go along with our adaptation unit for the students to complete as we read each book book, and you can download each one for free!
    

    Animal adaptations in science using Sandra Markle's Books with Ideas by Jivey.
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    Animal adaptations activity with Ideas by Jivey.
    Click to download the freebie!
    Animal adaptations in science using Sandra Markle's Books with Ideas by Jivey.
    Click to see this book on Amazon!

    For each animal, the author includes what would happen if YOU had that animal’s hair, so I will wait to read that part until the students give their own ideas about each animal.
    

    Animal adaptations activity with Ideas by Jivey.
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    Animal adaptations in science using Sandra Markle's Books with Ideas by Jivey.
    Click to see this book on Amazon!
    Animal adaptations activity with Ideas by Jivey.
    Click to download the freebie!

    I hope you enjoy these freebies, and these books! My kids absolutely loved “Teeth” and “Hair,” so I knew I had to get “Feet” when it was released earlier this year! If you have followed my blog since last year, you might already have the teeth freebie, but don’t forget about the other great book from the same blog post last year, What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? There’s a freebie in the post for this awesome book, too! :o)

    For more Science Resources and ideas, follow my Pinterest board!

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    by Jessica Ivey 
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    Lucky You! Blog Hop

    March 13, 2015

    Want a little luck on this Friday the 13th? Here is some St. Patrick’s Day FUN with lots of FREEBIES! Hop on through to grab all the freebies from some awesome upper elementary bloggers!
    Since we’re talking about being lucky, I’d just like to take a minute to say I am SO LUCKY to be a part of the awesomeness that is TPT! And if it weren’t for TPT, I wouldn’t be lucky enough to have such wonderful best bloggy buddies! There are many more that aren’t even in this picture that I am just so blessed to have in my life! 
    Best Bloggie Buddies with Ideas by Jivey.
    Why do you feel lucky? Let me know in the comments! 🙂
    Here’s one reason to feel lucky! Check out this super fun freebie that your kids will love doing!
    Design a leprechaun trap freebie with Ideas by Jivey.
    Don’t forget to make all of us bloggers feel lucky with your fabulous feedback on the freebies you use! :o)
    Now hop on over to fabulous friend Molly! 
    She is the next stop of the hop! 🙂

    by Jessica Ivey 
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    Very Important Info About Your TPT Free Downloads!

    January 14, 2015

    Hello friends! I am blogging today to tell you some very important information about changes that have been made to TPT. They aren’t bad changes at all, but it’s something that us sellers want you to know about…

    As you know, providing feedback on purchases AND freebies is equally important to sellers. Not only is it polite to show that you are grateful, but it helps us know we’ve done something you like and we should continue! Or, of course, use it if you need to provide constructive criticism…

    However, when you download freebies now, instead of getting the option to immediately leave feedback, TPT shows you some other items you might like, too- which makes sense because you can’t really leave feedback until you use it, right?

    BUT it’s important to remember to go back and leave feedback once you have used it! How do you do that? How will you ever remember? Well, TPT made it easy! First, go to your purchases:

    Then, click on the Free Downloads tab!

    Last, click on the “provide feedback” link under the product name. Remember, the more you show sellers you love our freebies, the more motivated we are to keep making freebies for you!

    And hey- check out this great tip from Diane at Fifth in the Middle! If you want to make sure you’ve left feedback on everything, you can sort your downloads!

    Now, what if you downloaded a freebie and realized it wasn’t really what you thought and you aren’t going to use it? No harm, no foul! You didn’t pay for it, so no loss for you, right? There is no need to tell the seller this- remember, feedback is given after you’ve used it. But please try to remember to leave some love when you DO use it. Here is an example of why I say this:

    Almost 7,000 people downloaded this freebie, and 34 people rated it. Now, did 6,857 people download and actually use it? Probably not. But odds are, more than 34 people did. It’s okay if you don’t remember to go in right away and leave feedback- but when you go leave feedback on paid products (gotta get those credits!!) go ahead in to your freebies and leave some love on those, too!

    And hey, if you don’t want something in your free downloads list anymore, just click that little green X on the right of the item in the list that says “remove.”

    And last but not least, here is a tip about your purchased products and freebies- sometimes, sellers make mistakes. And SOMETIMES, they add to the product you’ve already gotten. When either of these things happens, they mark the file as revised. But if you are like me and have a bunch of things in your lists, you might not see those revisions right away… so you also want to sort by “Recently Revised” every now and then and check to see what you might be missing!

    Please spread the word to all of those you know who download from TPT! :o)

    by Jessica Ivey 
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    Five For Friday: Weather Edition!

    September 20, 2014

    This week, my teaching life revolved around weather! Here are some of the super-fun awesome things we did this week!
    I used Can It Rain Cats and Dogs? this week for my nonfiction mentor text. My kids were obsessed with it! They wanted me to read the whole thing, but we only read about what we have covered so far in my weather unit. I will read more next week when we get into fronts and weather maps.
    Can It Rain Cats and Dogs and non fiction mentor sentences with Ideas by Jivey.

    You can read more about how I used this book, as well as Come On, Rain! in reading this week in my Workshop Wednesday post!

    My mentor sentence this week was from the book, Come On, Rain!

    (Need more info on mentor sentences? Check out this post!)
    Come On, Rain and mentor sentences with Ideas by Jivey

    My kids have gotten really good at imitating the week’s mentor sentence! It’s getting hard for me to pick only four for the wall. They are also loving our interactive notebook activities for language arts– this week’s was all about vivid verbs.

    We also did interactive notebook activities for our weather skills!

    Weather interactive notebook activities with Ideas by Jivey.

    And we did interactive notetaking with a passage from the website, k12reader.com. This is my go-to site for leveled articles on all kinds of topics!

    Interactive notetaking with Ideas by Jivey.

    We also made cloud models!!

    Cloud models with Ideas by Jivey

    And last, but not least, we made our own weather instruments!

    Weather Instruments with Ideas by Jivey
    Weather Instruments with Ideas by Jivey
    Weather Instruments with Ideas by Jivey

    Want the directions to make these in your classroom, too?

    Freebie Make your own weather instruments with Ideas by Jivey

    Get them for free here! :o)

    I hope everyone enjoys the weekend!! :o)

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Your students will have a rootin'-tootin' time, and I can guarantee they won't forget these grammar skills!

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    🦑🐙🦕🐟🦈Whether you want to assign the 🦑🐙🦕🐟🦈Whether you want to assign them as digital assignments or print, these paired texts are sure to keep students excited to practice rigorous reading standards!

This set contains two pairs of informational passages and one fiction/nonfiction pair (six total passages) about mysteries of the deep.

⭐️ Loch Ness and Megalodon

⭐️ giant squid, and lion's mane jellyfish and anglerfish

⭐️ mermaids: informational passage and also an excerpt from The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

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