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I have a cute Immaculate Conception craft I wanted to share with all of you! I wish I could have gotten it up sooner, but I have been pretty busy getting stuff done in my classroom.  The Immaculate Conception (IC) is celebrated on December 8th. In my early catholic years I always struggled with remembering what the IC stood for! I made a little craft to help students remember! The Immaculate Conception is the day we celebrate Mary being conceived without sin. The kids get to make a little Saint Anne Doll holding the baby Mary. I also have an area included for the kids to write about what the IC means. I hope you enjoy this free download! Please feel to share it with friends. Click here to get your activity pack.  Happy Teaching! ​ Jezu Ufam Tobie -Mrs.Albert 

Are you running Daily 5 centers in your classroom? Is it running smoothly? Are you experiencing some hiccups? This is a post to share my experience of Daily 5 and what I learned from implementing it into my classroom. If you want to start running Daily 5 centers in your classroom, I recommend you buy The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy in the Elementary Grade   book. After reading it, you can do more research on Daily 5 online. The book lays out all you need to know in order to run Daily 5 in your class. As a new teacher, learning Daily 5 centers and implementing it in my class was a huge struggle! It never seemed to run smooth, and a lot of the time I felt like my kids were off task.  It took me three years to successfully implement Daily 5 in my class. For some, that may seem a bit crazy, others may totally relate to the struggle (#thestruggleisreal) . Instead of giving up on Daily 5, I took time to reflect. I asked myself, "What patterns of behavior did you see in your students

I hope everyone had a fruitful and prayerful Lent! During Lent, I spent a lot of time working with my students on Stations of the Cross. Prior to actually praying the stations together, we spent time learning about them through this interactive book I made.  Each day, we spent time with 2-3 stations. Then the students added their own illustrations to the book. This helped my little ones connect with the stations much better than just being shown pictures. They were also able to spend time reflecting on them and asking MANY questions!  Once all the stations had been introduced, the students took their books and we went and prayed the stations together. I have first and second graders with me. Therefore, I kept the blurb under each station very simple. If you have older students, you could have them add more details of their own, then add an illustration. Most of my students internalized the lesson and they demonstrated that through play. During our social goal time, one student p

Here is a vowel pattern resource that I have created. The purpose of this activity is to expose students to other ways long vowel sounds can be made, other than the "sneaky e." This is the first year I have had first graders in my classroom. They tend to always default to"sneaky e" spelling when they hear a word that contains a long vowel. Therefore, I have created this activity to expose them over and over again to different types of spelling (in addition to the small group activities we do).  I am currently using these for one of my station rotations. You can read about my station rotations here . However, these could be sent home for homework or even used as an early finisher activity.  As I create more vowel sorts to this bundle, I will add the revised addition to the blog. Thank you for stopping by my blog! I hope this activity helps you! You can download the vowel pattern sort here !  I had a request for a cut and paste addition for kindergarten. It

Lent is almost here! Can you believe it? I wanted to share a door decoration with you all. I was inspired by Lacy over at Catholic Icing . She has pretty amazing ideas to help bring the faith into the classroom. Each year I usually use her interactive Lenten calendar coloring page. That can be found here . However, this year I decided to do something a little different! I made a life size model of it! Check out the picture: Each day of Lent, a student will shade in the square with purple. I also had my kiddos add pictures for  Palm Sunday,  Holy Thursday, and Good Friday. They drew Jesus riding in on a Donkey. One of them drew Jesus on the cross. We added palms around Palm Sunday.  They turned out really cute! The kids are really excited to begin the count down. I'm hoping this door decoration will help to keep the season on their mind. 

Guys! This is an amazing resource...and it's FREE! This year, I had a group of kiddos that were having difficulty with vowel diagraphs or long vowel sounds other than the "cvcv" pattern. Every time they heard a word with long vowel sound (i.e. coat) they always wanted to add the "silent/sneaky e" to the end of it (cote).  I wanted them to be exposed to the other vowel teams that are out there, so I created these activities. I use some of these activities as early finishers or for station work. I do have some sheets with "sneaky e" in the pack, because I have a range of students in my classroom.  I hope this resource helps you! Please follow me on Instagram  . You can get my word pattern bundle here!

My school has a beautiful and historic Church. There is so much imagery in the Church. Our priest LOVES to ask the children questions about the stained glass or statues. Each week he gives the kiddos H.W. (well let's be honest, he gives the teachers H.W.). Before Christmas break he wanted the kids to become familiar with the different apparitions of Mary. He gave them three specifically, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Gaudalupe, and Our Lady of Czestochowa.  Teaching this concept to first and second graders can be pretty abstract. But again, I was determined to have my kiddos prepped and ready! I made another easy book (similar to my Joyful Mysteries book). The clipart is just from google, it is not my own. Again, just cut the pages and staple them together for a nice little book. On each page is the title, a very short blurb, and an image of each apparition.  While we went through each page, I had pictures of each image displayed on the board. We talked about the color pat

During Advent, our parish priest wanted the students to learn about the Joyful mysteries. Since, I have younger students I new the best way to get this done was through a visual aide. I made a very simple book for them. On each page is the Mystery with a very brief description. Using my smartboard I projected an image of each mystery on the board for the students to see. We did 1-2 mysteries a day, depending on the time. The students then illustrated their own drawing of the mystery.  First, cut out the book. If your students are older, you could have them do this. I arranged my pages in the order that the mysteries are prayed. Then place three staples on the edge! Poof! You have a little mystery book.  After using this book and reviewing each day, my students were ready to answer all of Father's questions at Mass! I was very proud of them. Here is a link for the FREE resource. Enjoy!  Mrs.Albert