We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and here’s to a happy new year! Thanks for all your support in 2013. Just a quick post to let you know that we’ve got 4 new vocabulary units coming for your Jargon Journal for January. But we’ve also got a special New Years themed unit…
3rd Grade
Top 5 Christmas Themed Traditional Tales
1. The House that Santa Built by Dianne de Las Casas W New for 2013, this is a Christmasy spin on that old favorite The House that Jack Built. The author tries hard to work in lots of sound words: creak, clap, stomp, squeak, etc. 2. The Little Red Elf by Barbary Barbieri McGrath WW Adorable…
Top 5 The Night Before Christmas Reads
It’s a classic poem. We’ve all heard it. We can probably recite it. But how can you not love it?? And with such beautifully illustrated versions available, you’ll want to make it part of your Christmas library. Of course, it’ll be hard to narrow it down to just one. Every year I’m tempted by a…
3rd Grade Common Core Aligned Morning Work
I am ready to share this product with you (Translation: I am ready for this product to be finished! There is a bottle of sparkling grape juice waiting in my fridge as a celebration for when this wrapped up!) If you’re not familiar with our Morning Work books, let me give you a little background. …
Top 5 Feliz Navidad Reads
#1 A Pinata in a Pine Tree: A Latino Twleve Days of Christmas by Pat Mora W A secret amiga is bringing gifts for the twelve days of Christmas. There are pinatas and pastelitos and doce angelitos. #2 Hurray for Three Kings’ Day by Lori Marie Carlson WWW The author combined several Three Kings’ Day…