Paula's Place: November 2016

TpT Cyber Sale - November 2016

My whole store is 28% off when your use the code - CYBER2016 at the checkout

I have just started a growing bundle for writing for topics all year round. It is heavily discounted already as a bundle and while it is on sale it is a huge saving for you.

Click here for the Growing Bundle

This link is for the December Pack

The November Pack is available through this link

So far the bundle includes

Writing Prompts for all Year- Growing Bundle 190 pages

This Writing Prompts for all Year - Growing Bundle will be all you need for the whole year for writing.

There will be a pack released prior to each month.

You will be able to update this through ‘My Purchases’, so check back each month as I add an extra pack. You will make a huge saving as each pack is $6.00 - $10.00 depending on which month – this bundle is only $55.00. (On sale for $44.00)

Each topic has the following pages

- Word Splash for words or phrases on the topic

- Parts of speech, record the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs we can use for this topic

- KWHL – what do we know, what to know, where might we find the Informational, new learning - Roll and Write

- Recount topic - Informational prompt

- Different lines for different writer’s needs

- Adding a craftivity or topper

- At the end of the pack there are pages for the following

- Recount planner

- Narrative Planner

- Informational Report Planner

- Procedure Planner

- different lined pages to use

Currently in this growing bundle are - December Writing Prompts

These December Writing Prompts contain the following topics

Letter to Santa Day

Elf Arrival Day

Tree Decorating

Christmas Feast

Christmas Eve

Christmas Day

New Year’s Eve

Hanukkah

Kwanzaa

November Writing Prompts

November Writing Prompts 80 pages

This November Writing Prompts pack contains the following topics

Author’s Day

Aviation Month

Letter to Santa

Veterans Day

Thanksgiving

Peanut Butter Month

Motivating writers is hard work - but this makes it easy.

Summer or Winter?

In the Northern Hemisphere Winter is well and truly on your doorstep!

These two packs will help you keep those little brains working and focused while waiting for Thanksgiving.

Click here for more detail.

Those of us in the Southern Hemisphere are preparing for our Summer and counting down the weeks until our Summer break.

These packs will keep those brains thinking until the last day of term.

Check out more details by clicking here.

Dress Like a Pilgrim

Pilgrims – Clothes they Wore 24 pages

This set provides a small reader (2 options), a set of word wall cards and a template to dress. Your students will love learning about this Pilgrim way of dressing by working through the tasks.

Word wall cards for a Pilgrim Wardrobe - Discuss and display each card. These words will increase the vocabulary that your students use. They will also gain an appreciation of how difficult it would have been to get dressed and how many items the Pilgrims wore every day.

Little Readers- male and female Pilgrim Outfits - Print and go! Choose which reader you want – there are 2 options. This will give you two books –. One girl and one boy version. Copy and staple together and then cut in half. Use these each day of the unit to consolidate common sight words and the letter/sound relationship.

Be a designer, make a Pilgrim outfit - Use what you know about the Pilgrim lifestyle and make a set of clothes. Use colored paper and materials to glue onto the template. Explain your choices. Please read the description and download the preview before purchasing. The preview clearly shows you what is included in this pack.

Click here to see it in my TpT store

Pilgrims - Chores Now and Then

Looking back into history - there is always more than one side to tell.

This pack - doesn't go into whether the Pilgrims were right or wrong!

What it does do, is look at the types of chores the children of Pilgrims had.

Pilgrims – Chores Now and Then

49 pages

Pilgrims – Chores Now and Then is a pack that provides a small reader (2 options), and lots of supporting tasks to improve literacy.

Your students will love learning about the chores that Pilgrim children did every day.

Discover what the Pilgrims did as chores and how their lives were very different from ours.

A Little Reader - Print and go!

Language Vocabulary Cards

English Tasks - KWL

Four chores for the day Beginning middle and end of day chores

A Pilgrim’s Day

Word Splash INB

A Day on the Life of a Pilgrim

A Pilgrim is-has-can

Text Connections Compare the chores

Pilgrim Chores – draw and write

Make a list of chores

Recount a day of chores

Compare then and now

Questions about chores

I see, I think, I wonder

Click here to see it in my TpT store

Factors - a focus this week

Kids find factors difficult to conquer - they get them mixed up with multiples all the time.

So this week we worked on factors and getting them clear in our thinking.

This is a peg it task - look at the large number in the middle and peg the factor.

You can use counters too.

This pack goes all the way up to 100.

It is a great addition to your math centers.

This pack is available in my TpT store - click here.

Talking Turkey Math

I just adore holidays and while we don't celebrate Turkey Season for Thanksgiving, here in Australia, we do eat a lot of turkey at Christmas time.

So to celebrate a new turkey season that is soon to be here I have put together this new pack.

It is suitable for K-2

Click here to see it in my TpT store

Poetry

Here is a post I just posted over on the Australian Teachers Collaborative Blog.

You can access my Poetry Pack by clicking here.

I love teaching poetry - read on to find out why?

I have included some video links and a Pinterest page link at the end of this post.

(please note the poems by my students are first draft and haven't been edited at all)

A big hello this week from Paula's Place

These are my ten reasons why I use poetry in my learning space

Poetry is enjoyable

Children need to develop a love of poetry, they need to enjoy reading the whimsical nature that most poetry has. Reading needs to consist of all types of texts and poetry is one of them.

Poetry increases Vocabulary

Choosing each word carefully is a skill that develops over time.

It is a great way to explore alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, metaphors and similes.

Poetry impacts on other writing

Other text types become richer, as we work on the play of words, meanings and how to manipulate what the reader build as a picture.

Poetry gives children the freedom to explore

Children don't often choose poetry to read and the more we share and explore the more they want to explore. As teachers we need to build up a selection of poetry to share and just for enjoyment. They make great read alouds.

Poetry helps to show the writing cycle in a shorter space of time

Writing a poem allows for planning - drafting - revising - buddy edit - conferencing - publishing all to occur in relatively short space of time.

Poetry supports struggling and beginning writers

As the finished product is usually only a few lines - it supports success for beginning or struggling writers.

Poetry allows for differentiation and point of need

No matter what type f poetry or skill level all children can write or recite some form of poetry.

Poetry allows us to have fun with words

Poetry doesn't have to rhyme, it doesn't have to be punctuated like a narrative, it can be long and it can be short.

Poetry needs to spoken with intonation

Poetry is a great way to practise fluency, voices and to be able to experiment with different presentation styles. it is a great way to help assess speaking and listening.

Poetry helps us track how language has changed over time

Ye olde poetry is fun to share and compare with what we read today. We don't need to over analyse poetry, but we need to be able to understand it - what better way to get across the importance of understanding your audience.