Martin Luther King, Jr. Booklet Freebie

Please don't hate me... I'm clinging to my last days of vacation. Tomorrow is my last day off. We go back to school Monday. I'm excited to get back to my kiddos and start on some fun units. But at the same time I'm enjoying staying up late and sleeping in. I really have to go to bed earlier tonight and Sunday.

It's been so much fun having this time to blogstalk! All the "first week back" pictures are so inspiring and motivating. Thanks for being there! I do love this blogging community!

My one little word for this year is CREATIVE. Since I chose that I figured that I better get started. So here is a Martin Luther King booklet for you. In the past I've had my students write about their "dream" hoping they'd come up with something insightful. Sometimes they did, but this time I'm going to start with a dream they have for themselves since they're still so self-centered ( I don't mean that in a bad way.), then move on to a dream for their family then the world hoping they'll better understand what a dream for the world means by that time. 

All you have to do is copy it, cut it down the middle, add in a few staples, and *presto!* you've got a booklet! Easy-peezy! Remember, though, that you only need to made half the number of copies as what you need since it's 2 per page. I'm mad at myself when I forget and copy 20 when I only need 10. But then again, you can also just file the extras for next year. Just click {HERE} and leave a sweet note if you grab them. You know how we all like those comments. Have a wonderful Sunday!

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The Colors of Us and 2 freebies

It wasn't raining and my car wasn't frozen today- YIPPEE! And today one of my students came back. He left suddenly a week before Christmas. I was told after school one day that he and his family were going to Mexico to see a sick grandmother and didn't know if they'd come back or when. And this is a nice, really smart kid. I didn't want to see him go. Since he left without warning, I still had the gift he made for his parents and some of his projects. Yesterday I got a note that he was returning today! He walked in and the other kids were sooo excited. They hugged him and showed him where his desk is now and even got out his folder and pencil box for him. It was a fun way to start the day.

After school I took a picture of our art project (yes, art. Once in a while we get to it.) that we did last week. It came from a class I took, although I can no longer remember what class it was.  I hadn't done it in quite a while but knew this class was careful enough and would do a good job. I read the book The Colors of Us by Karen Katz.  We had studied about Martin Luther King, so this fit right in. My parent helper traced the kids hands, I premixed skin color paints, and we were ready. The kids painted the backgrounds the second day. Don't they look great?

A couple of freebies...
The first goes with the Leo Lionni story A Busy Year and is for Daily 5- Listen to Reading. Since this story is only a few minutes long, I made this to go with it. Just click on the picture to grab it.

There's also a Math Work Stations freebie to work on equivalent number sentences. Again, just click on the picture to grab it.

Here is an idea for Math Work Stations too. These are laminated die cuts from 0-99, each 10 in a different shape and color. My students will have 50 at a time to put in order on our magnetic white board. After a while I'll probably change it to counting by 5's or 2's.

Wishing you lots of fun blogstalking,
 Chrissy

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