Celebrating 100+ Followers Giveaway Contest!!!

I have been MIA and while I was, I reached 105 followers!!! Wow! I do believe that deserves a celebration of a freebie! I don't have anything right now, but I hope to very soon! I believe it will be ready in a short TIME from now....until then I can do a giveaway!  Keep reading.....

I just updated my Literacy Workstation "I Can" task cards, which took forever but long overdue! I don't know about you, but we were getting in a slump of blah-ness and needed some new tasks. So my Firsties and I came up with a few and now I have over 80 task cards for only $5.50 at my TpT store. Be sure to check them out! I keep adding to it and would love to hear ideas of what else I can add.  Here are the tasks included:

Phonics Station	·       ABC puzzle ·       ABC game ·       rhyming dominoes ·       word wall spinners ·       code words ·       sight word Candyland ·       Roll, Code, Keep	·       ABC ball toss ·       play popcorn game ·       rhyming puzzle ·       word families ·       power towers ·       Sight word Uno ·       sort words
ABC/Word Station	·       magnets ·       stamps ·       play Boggle ·       play-doh ·       play scrabble ·       play roll and say ·       Tic, tac, toe	·       partner’s back ·       build words with letter blocks ·       magnadoodles ·       word wall spinners ·       power towers ·       play hangman
Classroom Library	·       read the pictures ·       read words ·       graphic organizer ·       play reading game	·       retell the story ·       draw mental pic ·       reading spinner ·       choose new books
Big Book	·       read a big book ·       read nursery rhyme chart ·       reading spinner ·       read with a partner ·       fill out graphic organizer	·       look for rhymes ·       underline rhyming words ·       use a pointer ·       hunt for words ·       hunt for digraphs, contractions, compound words
Pocket Chart Station	·       sort names by letters, boys, girls ·       sort by syllables ·       rhyming memory ·       match contractions ·       match vocabulary words	·       match names to pictures ·       sort rhyming words ·       make compound words ·       match rhyming words ·       make sentences ·       make words ·       sort words by sounds
Listening Station	·       listen to story ·       draw mental pic ·       reading spinner ·       play a reading game	·       draw and label the characters ·       draw and label setting ·       fill out graphic organizer ·
Buddy Reading	·       read the pictures ·       read the words ·       play reading game	·       reading spinner ·       retell the story ·       fill out graphic organizer
Overhead Station	·       do an overhead ·       spell using letter tiles ·	·       circle rhyming words in poems ·       fill out graphic organizer
Poetry Station	·       highlight rhyming words ·       put poem in order ·       find digraphs, suffixes, long vowels, etc	·       read poems to partner ·       draw mental pic ·       copy poem
Fluency Station	·       read letters ·       read words ·       read phrases	·       read nonsense words ·       read poems ·       play a fluency game

If you are interested in winning a *free* copy of my Literacy Workstation "I Can" Task Cards, here's what to do: very simply follow my blog and answer 1 simple question.  The person closest to the correct answer wins! 

How many fonts do I currently have downloaded onto my laptop??

Also, anyone that blogs about my giveway and lets me know will be entered into a chance at winning any 1 product at my TpT store.  I don't know how to do that random generator thing so I may have to manually pull a name out of a hat...

Good luck!  Giveaway ends St. Patrick's Day Eve!!!  Winners announced St. Patrick's Day morning!! 

Literacy Workstation "I Can" Task Cards

So I guess it's been awhile since I last checked in, but of course life got busy!  We just started workstations last week after 2 weeks of learning the procedures and activities.  For the most part my kiddos did good.  Ocassionally they forgot what they were supposed to do so I wanted to get my "I can" list down on paper.  So I sat down yesterday and began to make them with picture clues for my lower readers.  After I was almost done I had a late "aha!" moment.  I was thinking about how long it was taking for me to find the right pic/clipart to match and how I would have to do this again in a few weeks after adding different activities....not very appealing.  So I decided to make task cards instead that way I can add/remove cards as needed AND (here's the big one...) be able to reuse year after year.  I know I am not the first one to think of this....I just forgot that this was a choice I could make.  I did look online for premade task cards but couldn't find anything that matched what I wanted...well that and I didn't want to pay over $5.  So here they are!  

                                                   

"I Can" task cards

Mind you...they are a work in progress.  These are what I am using right now but will add tasks as we go along.  I have 3 tasks for Buddy Reading, Library, Overhead, ABC/Word, Phonics, Listening, Big Book and Pocket Chart.  I am selling it for $2.50 right now and will add to it through the year and send out update notices as I go for those who purchase.  By the end of the year I should have 8+ tasks for each station.  I will be adding poetry, writing, and fluency in the next month as well.  So, check them out at my store.  If you have suggestions of tasks to add and/or a station, please comment and let me know!