I Have, Who Has... a cold.

Well, I'm officially sick.  I've been in denial.  We went to Verbier this weekend to ski and I finally accepted it on the way home when I found that I was 'mouth breathing' and wiping snot from my upper lip every thirty seconds.  Turns out it wasn't the skiing or altitude.  :(

That's me in the hot 'lemon' pants.

I'm excited that I've reached the 6 follower mark!  Woohoo!  I might throw myself a wine party when I hit double digits.  I'm really enjoying having this blog.  It's fun and I'm making some new connections in the process.

Onto business...

You know the ' I have, who has' game?  Hopefully.  I love it and it's a great activity for vocabulary, reviews, math... basically anything.  I have found that this game even works well with my EFL kids.  It tackles the listening, speaking, and reading components I work into each lesson.  

I've had this template for a few years and just adapt it to whatever I've need.  I went ahead and made it TPT/follower friendly.  I also took pictures of my own sets, included directions, ideas, sample cards, and 32 adaptable cards. This template is so easy to use.  You click on the boxes, type text, enter pictures, and print.  The boxes don't shift and the pictures will re-size themselves to fit... no giant clipart overtaking the document when you insert it.  

I'm going to post some free PDF sets (various content) on here in the next couple of days, so be on the look out.  In the meantime, here is the set you can customize yourself.  I've posted to TPT.  It's $2.00 and you can 'Save As' to keep each set you create.  Make as many as you want!      

Hopefully you find it useful!  Also, don't forget to enter the 'giveaway' for the 'Build-A-Board-Game' in my last post.  The deadline is this Friday (2.3.12).   

Hope everyone has a great Monday!

{ashley}lllllllllllllll

TPT Stuff

I've been on a TPT rampage the past 24 hours.  I keep finding goodies on my computer that are ready to post. :)  Here are some recent ones....

My EFL kiddos had a super hard time learning the concept of  "this is, that is, these are, those are."  So, I made this fun little packet of printables to use.  I laminated everything so they can't be destroyed easily... I have one kid who has a habit of folding everything in half. Click to go to the store!

Next up: Pick-A-Dot SmartBoard game.  My kids were O.B.S.E.S.S.E.D. with this thing.  Choose a student, they pick a dot, and then read the sight word.  I did this a lot with teams and it even made a great center... once I could trust them with the SmartBoard.  You can adapt it to anything... kind of like the Jeopardy setup, just dots.  Click to download!

This next little activity was always so cute.  I used them each time I introduced a new letter, but they can be used for other things too.  Very simple.  It says:  "They used to be a's, but now_______________." (fill in the blank) and they'd have to create a new picture from whatever letters were in the middle. My kiddos came up with some hilarious stuff.  Click to download!

Drum roll........ The Mystery Bag packet.  Ooooooo.  Aaaahhhhh.  I always did a little mystery bag in my classrooms and just recently broke it out again with my EFL kids.  They love it just as much and it's a great inferencing activity and vocabulary builder.  There are lots of things included: posters, clue cards, examples of questions, a journal page, different levels of worksheets to go along with your own mystery bag, guessing slips, and a lot more.  Click to check it out!

Lastly, Assessment Grids.  I recently did a post on them, but I decided to add a little more variety (2 more grids, plus versions with numbers).  I can't tell you how many times I used these bad boys.  I. loved. them.  They came in so handy when I wanted to assess my kids... for anything.  You can seriously use them for LOTS of stuff.  Easy peezy... lemon squeezy.  Click to download!

So, that's it for now.  I've got a couple more on deck for this weekend.  :)  

Bon weekend! (have a good weekend in French... my husbands favorite phrase over here).  

{ashley}lllllllllllllll

Blog Link Page... Yay!

I've created a new page!  It's called 'blogs i love'... and that's what it is.  Blogs that I stalk.  I have them sorted by grade level (or area) and you can just click on their buttons to be taken to their page.  They're all so cute.  I don't have every blog I stalk up yet, but they're coming.  Click below or on the link in the top left corner of this site to check it out...  

Enjoy and hope this is helpful!

Sorry there are 900 polka dots in your viewing area right now.  

{ashley}lllllllllllllll