Spring has Sprung

Well at least at my TpT store :)!

The ground is still covered in snow here, but hey we hit 40 yesterday...so here's to progress!

For those of you that are familiar with my vocabulary building packs (grab winter here or fall here), my spring pack is up and ready to go just in time for the season.

It includes:

20 word wall cards with illustrations 

Memory game cards (illustrations and words) that your students can use to cut and play

A "My Spring Words" printable list for your students to practice writing and drawing examples of their newly learned words

All of course comes in both English and Spanish.

Click on the image below to head to my store and pick up your copy :)!

Spring Narrative Kites

So each spring break I send a "Spring Break Journal" home with my students and ask them to write in it each day at the end of the day, relaying some of the days important events. This is an easy way to keep them writing over spring break.

Then when we return from break, the students use their journals as a tool for creating a narrative writing piece. I ask them to select one event (could be their favorite, one they thought was special, etc.) from their spring break that they had shared about in their journal. They then will use that event as their topic and elaborate on it to create a detailed narrative paragraph.

These are always so fun for me, because it gives me a glimpse into the kids daily home lives as well as is always interesting to see what they choose for their "one" event to base their story on. I had kids chose events ranging from Bull's games, to a play date with friends, to a trip to the laundromat, believe it or not- and they all did exactly as I asked- they told a story about an event in their lives!

To make them more spring timey and pretty to hang- we mounted our final copies onto scrapbook paper to make a spring kite and used yarn and colored tissue paper to create the kite string and matching bows! Have a look!

Anywho...here is what the rest of my night entails....

Anyone else having an egg-citing evening!?

Spring Freebie and Linky Party!

The first day of spring is tomorrow! To celebrate, I have created a quick memory game freebie for you, that I will also be using tomorrow as a vocabulary review with my students!

I only created this one in Spanish this time, but if anyone would like it in English and think it could be useful for you, please let me know, and I would be more than happy to whip it up!

Also, I thought in honor of this auspicious occasion (as spring means we are a step closer to summer!), that we could celebrate with a little linky party! I would love to see some of your "spring time" activities in English or Spanish, as I am sure would many others- thus, why not get them all together in one place! Make sure to directly link us to your post so that we can easily find your activity, and provide a little description of your activity too! Join in as we go "Splashin into Spring"!