Pinning Permission

Have you seen the great post that is over on Corkboard Connections? It is about one of my absolute favorite things...Pinterest. 

Did you know that you need permissions to post things from other people's blogs on your boards? I didn't until I read this article. I have always not minded others posting things from my blog, that is why I have a teaching blog. However, I have always asked that people link it directly to my posts or Teacher's Notebook store. Well now it is official because I am putting this button on my blog that gives your permission to pin from my blog.

Head on over to Corkboard Connections to see what other bloggers are giving you permission too!

Spelling Task Cards and Pinterest

I am obsessed with Pinterest and am so thankful for it! I have found so many amazing ideas to use in my classroom on it. I just did some serious revamping to my teaching boards and you should go and check them out here!

I was also quite excited when I saw several things pinned from my blog on other's boards. Most of them were of my interactive notebooks that I have been using in class. I am going to be doing some serious blogging about them again in the next couple of weeks as we revamp them for the spring semester. 

I also just uploaded some spelling task cards to my Teacher's Notebook Store. I am really excited about how they turned out. You can find them here for purchase.

Here is an example of one of the task cards. 

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and Holiday!

Anchor Charts and Spooky Stories

I have been inspired by all of the anchor charts that I have found on Pinterest and have made a few of my own these past few weeks.

We made one last week about predicting and made predictions about our novel The Best School Year Ever by Barbra Robinson. My kids love using sticky notes and having the opportunity to stick them on the chart. 

We also did a character one about Jonas in The Giver, but it is not nearly as cute.

Today we made two about adjectives. I started by reading a book to my kids about adjectives and then we thought of as many adjectives as we could to describe the pumpkin and ghost. I was also trying to interest the students because after this we began our Spooky Story brainstorming. 

I have also decided to do a fun writing assignment with my students. We are writing our own Spooky Stories. Today we began by thinking of Halloween related words and we wrote them on our interactive board together and the students filled them in on their own chart. We then made a web for our stories that gave us a skeleton for what we wanted to write about. Tomorrow we will begin with our introduction paragraph, a body paragraph on Wednesday, 2 bod paragraphs on Thursday, and the conclusion paragraph on Friday. We will then publish our stories on Halloween while watching a Halloween movie. I am so excited to see my kids creativity with this project. I am getting it together to put in my Teachers Notebook Store. 

Are you doing any fun writing activities for Halloween?