Language Arts

<p>March is on its way out the door and April is ready to bloom! What does this mean? It is time to break out the new picture books and their corresponding April Picture Book Pals! Using Picture Book Pals with these four amazing books is a great way to help students boost their reading skills &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/4-amazing-april-picture-book-pals-books/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about 4 Amazing April Picture Book

<p>So here&#8217;s a simple Language Arts idea for Earth Day.  This lesson idea is easy to apply to any book you may read to your class.     First I read my students The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.  Then we went over the storyline.  With a little help from me, we came up with 19 steps to &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/lorax-language-arts/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Your students will love this fun, educational Lorax lesson.</s

<p>I&#8217;ve got a few new products up in my store. I&#8217;ve been working hard on products about Inquiry Based Learning.  I have just released one about Christmas Around the World.  I will post in more detail about this over the holidays, but for now, my class and I are right in the middle of this &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/inquiry-based-learning/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Inquiry Based Learning: PBL for Chris

<p>I really love the book I&#8217;m Bored.  CLICK HERE to go to my store and get your own freebie.</p>

<p>So I&#8217;m trying something new this week.  I&#8217;ve been working on using Instagram more and more.  So I&#8217;m going to share with you some highlights from my Instagram feed once a week. If you want to check out my Instagram feed &#8211; click on the camera icon on my blog header above. Here is my &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/peek-at-last-week-3/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Some ideas you&#8217;ll love from

<p>I created this product to stimulate the brain cells and get kids thinking about writing.  And what’s better than writing about something fun that they have done? CLICK HERE This activity is called Summer Snaps, short for Summer Snapshots.  And what I ask the kids to do is create a camera as a fun motivational &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/tried-and-true-linky-party/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Kids will love Summer

<p>First, I must apologize for neglecting this poor blog lately. &nbsp;I got horribly sick with a nasty, nasty head cold that turned into a chest infection. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve never taken off so many sick days in a row before. &nbsp;Add report cards to that mix, and I&#8217;ve been completely swamped. But I&#8217;m baaaack! Here&#8217;s what we&#8217;re &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/fathers-day-is-coming-soon/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-re

<p>Phew!  It&#8217;s finally done. I&#8217;m totally excited to show you my latest unit. It&#8217;s part two of my three part Science pack on Air, Water, and Soil. You can pick up SOIL, HERE. You can pick up WATER, HERE. and AIR will be in my store soon. I&#8217;m totally excited to share with you my &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/soil-primary-science-unit/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about SOIL &#8211; A Science Unit for K t

<p>So I had all the extra paper plates and decided to try a Spring Wreath with a poem inside.  I came up with this cute Spring Poetry lesson  and it&#8217;s FREE CLICK HERE to get your own copy. Here&#8217;s my attempt at Photoshopping a few photos together to show of my bulletin board.  I know &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/welcome-spring-free-poetry-and-art/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Welcome Spring &#8211; a free po

<p>Today I&#8217;d like to share with you a quick and easy writing lesson that is free from Tara West over at Little Minds at Work. &nbsp;&nbsp; Here&#8217;s my little display out in front of my room. It was a quick and easy lesson that I left out for a substitute to do for me when &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/friendly-letter-writing-lesson-and/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Friendly Letter Writing lesson and a FREEBIE<

<p>So here&#8217;s a quick and easy activity that we did in my class the day before Spring Break started.  I wanted to come back to a classroom full of bright, happy, Spring-like images.  So why not rainbows? So here&#8217;s how this activity worked. First they wrote their names vertically down a page of their journal. &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/rainbow-name-poetry/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Cute Rainbow Name Poet

<p>I have revamped my St. Patrick&#8217;s Day unit.       CLICK HERE to check out your own copy.   My original freebie is still available HERE   I&#8217;ve included the full-colour class book in my new unit, PLUS a blackline master version for your students and&#8230; tons of activities for ELL. like&#8230;   making &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/st-patricks-day-unit-now-available/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about St. Patric

<p>It&#8217;s taken me 3 years to put this product together, but I finally think it&#8217;s ready to share.   This little program is an excellent way to teach story writing skills to Primary aged children.  And it doesn&#8217;t even matter if they know how to write yet.  I have used this method with Kindergarten to &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/super-simple-story-writing/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Super Simple Story

<p>I revamped an old unit of mine just in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day     This unit has tons of Language Arts activities for Valentine&#8217;s Day.   Lots of songs and poems A classification activity Story starters Making words Secret messages A pop-up card activity Valentine&#8217;s phonics More valentine sentence starters Blank writing forms Primary &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/valentines-day-is-coming/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-r

<p>I don&#8217;t usually post only about new products, but I&#8217;ve been so busy lately with new ideas buzzing around in my head.  Here&#8217;s my latest.  It&#8217;s a multi-leveled shape booklet which is so easy to prep and super motivating for the kids.  They really love shaped booklets.  This one comes in a Christmas Tree shape. &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/christmas-shape-booklet-fun-and-new/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-tex

<p>I&#8217;ve redone an oldie but a goodie. And now it&#8217;s waaaaayyyy cuter!   check it out HERE       Here&#8217;s more details about what you get. It&#8217;s perfect for children from K to 2. There&#8217;s three different levels which suits differentiated learning perfectly.  </p>

<p>  Here&#8217;s my latest unit &#8211; perfect for Remembrance Day or Veteran&#8217;s Day. I just added a few Poppy crafts &#8211; check these out.   CLICK HERE to get your own copy   And here&#8217;s a closeup of the rest of the unit.</p>

<p>Parents are the most important people in a child’s life.  Did you know that a Kindergarten Aged Child’s brain is not developed enough for them to feel proud of themselves, without some feedback from a parent?  That’s why you hear a lot of “Look at me Mommy!!!!” called out by children on a playground.  When &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/literacy-at-home-parents-are-most/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Literacy at Home:

<p>Here&#8217;s a cute little Language Arts activity I just had to share with you. My student&#8217;s love Mo Willem&#8217;s work. One of their absolute favorites is Don&#8217;t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! They can&#8217;t get enough of Mo Willem&#8217;s comic book style. Imagine my surprise when I found this cute little resource on Mo &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/dont-let-pigeon-cute-language-arts/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-t

<p>So I&#8217;m sure you know that teacher who shows movies all the time.&nbsp; I have a really hard time with this.&nbsp; I feel like the kids deserve better &#8211; I mean at least during Centres&nbsp;Time they are working on Social skills right?&nbsp; But being a Zombie and watching a movie is not educationally sound.&nbsp;&nbsp; But &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/a-movie-review/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about A movie r