Cause and Effect Throwback

Hi! It's Mary from Pitner's Potpourri again. Checking my stats on my blog, I found some of my most popular posts were on cause and effect activities.

One of my favorites is my Cause and Effect Treasure. Click on the pic below to get the freebie!

Have a great weekend!

Freebies and Activities of Christmas Past

Hello everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your December. I am always in extra good spirits this month. I love all the Christmas cheer, lights around the neighborhood and extra seasonal activities. Over the years, I've posted quite a few freebies during this time of year, so I thought it would be fun to repost some of them here in one post for your convenience. Hopefully this will spread some cheer. :)


This is such a fun picture prompt! The kids really get into it. You can click on the picture to download...

or you can see the entire post here.

I also did a class story. This is ALWAYS a favorite. We come up with the story together and every student gets to contribute to the writing of it as well.

I made this flip book to use with my reading groups or centers. They flip the cards to made sentences that make sense. The orange words are all positional words. You can get that freebie by clicking on the picture.

I blogged about this freebie reading passage yesterday on my own blog, but just in case you missed it...

If you are looking for some big units with tons of activities, you might want to check these out:

Click on the pictures to see what's included.

My Gingerbread pack has hands-on phonics and sentence building activities, reading passages with close reading questions, and an original poem and my own version of The Gingerbread Man. This is one of my favorites so far!

You can find this writing freebie there too:

If you are looking for literacy centers for the entire month, you will LOVE these:

    

There is an explanation included in each pack about how I manage my literacy centers. It has saved me so much time overall! Plus the kids get into a routine early on and then the rest of your year is so much easier. You can click on the pictures to see those.

If you just want some ready to go Christmas printables, you will find TONS in my Christmas pack:

Phonics, grammar, reading passages, comprehension practice, writing prompts, you name it!

Free 50th Day of School Activities and a New Unit

 

Our 50th day of school is this upcoming Tuesday and I have this pack printed and ready for my kiddos to have fun with! We'll be counting to 50 a lot and in many different ways!

Click the picture below to download this FREEBIE!

 

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And I just finished this labor of love! We are about to have a farm theme in my classroom and I wanted the perfect unit to go along with it!

(It's HALF OFF for today only!)

Click the picture below to head over and check it out!

Happy Sunday!

 

 



Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! Freebies! Freebies! Freebies!

Happy Labor Day Weekend!

We have been out of school all week for our Fall Break. Our town is home of the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration and we get out for the show after being in school for about three weeks. I got a quick girls trip to the beach in and am ready to start thinking about next week.

I've got two poetry freebies for you....both focusing on setting.

I did the first activity with a class of firsties.

I read the poem, "Over in the Meadow," to them. We talked about the vocabulary and the pictures they saw in their mind as I read.

After reading, I sketched out a rough meadow on large paper. I divided the class into groups and gave each one a different verse of the poem. They had to illustrate the setting of the verse. We glued the verse next to their drawing.

Click on the pic of the poem above to visit my blog for more info.

The second activity is based on a simple, yet eloquent, poem by Walt Whitman.

Click on the pic above for the freebie.