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<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>I have been wanting to share my little room with you all for a while now. &nbsp;But the time needed to be just right (I mean, I needed to do a major clean up) &nbsp;So I just spent the last weekend ( a long weekend here in Canada) and reorganized and tidied the whole room &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/where-i-create/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Where I Create</span></a></p>

<p>Well we&#8217;re slowly finishing up our Science unit about Farms. As part of this unit, I used this adorable 3D Life Cycle activity created&nbsp; by Robin Sellers Aren&#8217;t they adorable? The kids really enjoyed making them. (and I think they learned something too) First I read the story It&#8217;s Pumpkin Time by Zoe Hall. &nbsp;This &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/pumpkin-life-cycle-fun/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">abo

<p>I found this adorable witch painting idea from Art Proejcts for Kids. I&#8217;m sorry that it took me so long to get these posted.&nbsp; I actually need to take them down and put up my Remembrance Day art now.&nbsp; I&#8217;m only a week or so behind right? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Here&#8217;s a closeup of a &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/colourful-witches/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Colourful Witches</span></a></p>

<p>Last week we had a lot of fun painting these tiny little pumpkins that my colleague picked up for the kids. &nbsp; &nbsp; I found the idea on pinterest.&nbsp;&nbsp; I changed the eyes to these enormous googly eyes that I found in my stash and painted the pumpkins with acrylic paint and voila!!!! &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/minions-minions-minions/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Minions, minions, minions

<p>This year I decided to decorate my fireplace, like I did at Christmas last year. So the kids and I filled the firebox with pumpkins and haunted houses. &nbsp; &nbsp; Look what I found at Home Sense last week. &nbsp; &nbsp; Don&#8217;t they remind you of the work of Dale Chihuly? I really love this &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/this-year-i-decided-to-decorate-my/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Happy Halloween</span></a>

<p>Here it is!!! My latest unit on Teachers Pay Teachers. Click here to download. This is a mini graphing unit.  It&#8217;s good for early primary. I have used these lessons with children from grades K to 2.                             This unit is specifically designed to be for children in K to Third Grade.   This unit &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/my-latest-unit-on-tpt/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about My Latest Unit on

<p>Introducing my latest unit on Teachers Pay Teachers. CLICK HERE to get it now!!! In this unit there&#8217;s centres activities with blackline masters for the children to record their work. This one&#8217;s about skip counting. This one&#8217;s about Fact Families This one&#8217;s about number sense. And this one&#8217;s all about Number formation. And this one &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/new-product-on-teachers-pay-teachers/" class="more-link">Read More

<p>Well it&#8217;s been a busy, busy, busy summer. The weather in Vancouver has been fabulous most of the summer. Of course, the two periods of rain happened to fall during our two camping trips. Well, we learned that the tent leaks, but if you&#8217;re warm, you can sleep even if you&#8217;re wet. I start work &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/september-currently/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about September</span></a></p>

<p>A few days ago, Teagan dragged out her scrapbook which Santa had brought.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a Hello Kitty Journal (Smashbook style).&nbsp; It inspired Connor, so the 3 of us went shopping for a Smash Book for Connor.&nbsp; And, I just couldn&#8217;t help myself, so I got one for me too. &nbsp; It&#8217;s not so easy at &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/simply-smashing/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Simply Smashing!!!!!</sp

<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

<p>&nbsp; Whaddya think???? Looks like a shirt and tie right? But it&#8217;s actually a cover of a booklet for Father&#8217;s Day &nbsp; Here it is half open&#8230; &nbsp; &nbsp; And here it is all the way open. I downloaded this freebie from 1st Grade Hip Hip Hooray, but I noticed that she doesn&#8217;t have it &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/happy-fathers-day/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Happy Father&#8217;s Day!!!</sp

<p>My class got a chance to try Project Chef.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a fabulous program run by Chef Barb Findlay and her non-profit society. Here&#8217;s just a little peek at our morning. Check out how organized they are and how everything is prepped for the kids. &nbsp; Click here to check out the Project Chef website. &nbsp;</p>

<p>I actually had this post up and ready 2 weeks ago, but then life got &nbsp;in the way.&nbsp; I was waiting to give credit to the lovely person who created this Earth Day pack that I got last year, but I finaly decided to post this up and then hopefully I&#8217;ll get my @#$%@ &nbsp;(I &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/so-im-little-tardy/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about So I&#8217;m a little tardy&#8230;</span></a></p>

<p>Here&#8217;s a peek into my morning today. I finally organized my literacy centres with some freebies from TPT.  I&#8217;ll come back tomorrow and post the links to the creative people who made these wonderful centres, but of course, that info is at school, and I am here at home.  Ever have that happen to you? &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/word-work-centres-up-and-running/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Word Work Centr

<p>I am super, super, super excited about my latest unit. I have been working very hard on this for the past month. Introducing&#8230; CLICK HERE  TO DOWNLOAD I even created my own original clip art for this unit. Below is a peek at what&#8217;s in this unit. And below are some more images from the &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/my-mom-is-my-superhero/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about My MOM is my Superhero</span></a></p>

<p>&nbsp; Happy Earth Day everyone.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a quick post about a little mural we made last year. &nbsp; Check out this post here on how we made this Earth-Friendly globe.</p>

<p>I had great aspirations&#8230;  Well, I had great  hopes&#8230; Well, I started out with a fabulous idea, and just not enough time to finish it.  Sometimes life just gets in the way right? With the tragic demise of my computer last week, I have been struggling to finish up this Easter Unit for you.  I &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/hippity-hoppity-easter-fun/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Hippity Hoppity Easter Fun!</s

<p>So it&#8217;s Spring Break in Vancouver. &nbsp; &nbsp; We&#8217;re on our annual trip to Palm Springs and decided that this year we&#8217;d pop in and visit The land of Disney. &nbsp; &nbsp; We tried to find an inexpensive place to stay, but Wow &#8211; did we find a dump.&nbsp; Fortunately it was right across the &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/the-happiest-place-on-earth/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about The Happiest Pla

<p>I am sooooooooo excited about this unit. Many, many years ago, I developed this unit with a teaching colleague. It&#8217;s designed to work on higher level thinking skills. We decided to use Fairy Tales as the framework as most children have some experience with these kind of stories. &nbsp; This is the unit on the &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/fairy-tale-language-arts/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Fairy Tale Languag