Do Your Kiddos Know Their Parts of Speech?

Every year I am amazed at how many of my students do not know what a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb is.  I know when I was in school this stuff was pounded into our heads. I also remember taking sentences apart and diagramming them, labeling each part.  It sometimes seems that we are so caught up with "higher order thinking" that we forget the basics.

I know memorization and recognition might be on the bottom of the Blooms Taxonomy Scale, but we as educators cannot ignore the importance of these basic components of a sentence. I also know that it seems like we have so much to teach and so little time.

A suggestion.... quiz your students on Parts of Speech whenever you have a few minutes such as lining up for lunch or recess, or before leaving for the day.  Kids often see this as a "game" and don't even know they are learning.

And to assist you, I have created a set of Parts of Speech Posters that you can put up in your room.  One teacher said that she copied several to a page and had her students glue them in their writing journals in the Word Work section.

Click on the picture below to get your free copy from my TpT store: A Series of 3rd Grade Events. Please leave feedback if you feel these posters are helpful.

You can pick up even more great BTS freebies by entering the blog hop at The Teaching Tribune. A $25 GC and a tablet are still up for grabs in the prize category as well!! 

Today's the Day!!!

I have gotten together with some of my blogging buddies to form a collaborative teaching blog, and today is the day that my friend Mel and I are posting!  The theme is classroom organization, so head on over to the Teaching Tribune for some great organizational tips for teachers!

And.... you still have time to hop through the blogs and pick up a ton of freebies, as well as enter to win the last two prizes.  It looks like the tablet and a $50 TpT Gift Certificate are still up for grabs!  So hurry over and enter today!

Have fun!!!

It's Not Too Late!!!

If you have not had time to enter the Back to School Exclusive Giveaway at the Teaching Tribune, you still have some time. Only 6 out of 10 prizes have been awarded so far. You have the rest of today, Sunday, and 3 more days after that.  So... get busy hopping if you want some great freebies and a chance to win some great prizes!!! Just click on the pic below to start!

Yowza! Yowza! Yowza! Get Your Freebies & Giveaways HERE!!!

 Have you heard the news?  The Back-to-School Exclusive is underway!  We went live with our new collaborative blog, The Teaching Tribune yesterday. I teamed up with some great blogging buddies to help provide you with Pre-K - 5th grade resources all in one spot!

We are going to bring you tons of teacher tips, tricks, and resources you will find useful in your classroom. This week's posts are all about getting organized at the beginning of the school year. 

To kick it off, we are having a freebie hop through the 20 blogs. If that isn't enough, we will be bringing you 10 days of prizes!

To find out more about this giveaway, click on the pic above! 

Make sure you hop along and each day! The first Rafflecopter ends tonight at midnight EST and the prize winner will be posted Tuesday morning.  After you have completed the hop, check back each day to enter for a new prize.  Remember there are 10 days of prizes, one to be given away each day!

If you love the cute graphics used above as much as I do, visit Mel at Graphics From the Pond. Here is a link to her TpT Store :)

And.... in celebration of BTS coming up, I decided to offer another freebie just for you!  Click on the pic below to download it from Google Drive!

Hot Off the Press: A Back-to-School Exclusive

EXTRA! EXTRA! It's time to read all about it!


Twenty, yes, twenty, amazing teacher-bloggers are celebrating the fact that it is almost time to go back to school. We all love summer, but it’s time to start thinking about getting back to school. We have decided we all will need some fun to break up all those days of professional development and endless meetings, mixed with late nights and weekend spent decorating your classroom. So for the next 10 days, we are celebrating with freebies and a prize a day! Yes, we said a PRIZE A DAY… FOR 10 DAYS.

Every day, you will have the chance to enter and win one of 10 great prizes!


This is what you can win during our Back to School Exclusive…(in no particular order)



Prize #1 Quiet Pencil Sharpener & a $25 TPT from Graphics from the Pond $50 value


Prize #2 Bright Chevron Classroom Decor Set $50 value


Prize #3 Teacher/Classroom Gift Basket $200 value


Prize #4 Teacher/Classroom Gift Basket $200 value


Prize #5 Google Nexus 7 Tablet with case & stylus pen $250 value


Prize #6 Scotch Laminator $25 value


Prize #7 K-2 TPT Product Bundle over $100 value


Prize #8 3-5 TPT Product Bundle over $100 value


Prize #9 Blog ("Cuter" Design by Christi Blogs!) $70 value


Prize#10 TPT Gift Cert $50



This is the IMPORTANT part. Please read carefully. EVERY DAY, FOR 10 DAYS, you will need to visit the final stop blog

each day to enter to win and to see if you were the previous day’s winner! Each day a winner will be drawn and one of the ten prizes will be awarded. 

To keep it fun and exciting, you won’t know what prize you have entered to win until the winner is announced the next day!

You never know what you might win! I know I would visit every day to enter for a chance to win the Google Nexus Tablet!

To win one of these great prizes, just follow these steps…

Step 1: You will need to download and print the

Hot Off the Press Cheat Sheet.

Click the image below.

Step 2:  You’ll need to collect your freebies. This hop will

take you to all 20 blogs where you will collect freebies

along the way. You can start at any of the blogs,

follow the “next stop” buttons, and it will take you in a 

loop to all 20 blogs.  The very last stop will be

The Teaching Tribune. 

Step 3: Hidden in each freebie is a QR code,

which looks like this…

  (Note: This is just a sample image. You do not need it for any reason.)

Find the QR code.

You will need to scan all 20 QR codes for a cash value with your

 smart device.  For those of you without a smart device,

head on over to Sugar & Spice where she has the solution for you! 

 

After downloading the freebie at each blog stop, be sure

to record the amount in the QR code onto your

cheat sheet. 

Here's my freebie!

I am the last blog, so after downloading your freebie and scanning the QR Code, the link below will take you to the Teaching Tribune, where you can enter the giveaway!

Good luck and start hopping!

To start at the beginning, click on the picture below: