Readers' Theater: Partner Plays

I LOVE Readers' Theater!

I love taking students through the process, I love watching them perform and I especially love writing scripts to go along with good books.

I've been looking for something lately to use with my high readers that they can do independently during my Daily 6 Groups so I don't need to meet with them each day.  I've also been looking for something that will help these readers with fluency and expression.  After not finding anything, I got the idea for partner and trio Readers' Theater plays.

You can download my first one for free by clicking here.

I'm working on a set of 10 that I'll hopefully have done by the end of the weekend.  I can't wait to start using them with my high kids and hopefully eventually all of my kids!

Come Tour My Classroom!

Here it is, my new classroom tour video!

My classroom layout/decoration changes slightly from year to year and since I was out on maternity leave for the first quarter of this year, I haven't had a chance to make and post a new video....thank goodness for Winter Break!

You can watch it here

A New Year's Resolution...

Happy New Year!

It's 12:16a.m. and I can actually see fireworks out my back deck door and they're really close!

This sums up my New Year's Resolution:

I've even created a calendar for myself to keep me on track!

Stay tuned for the updated video tour of my classroom...

Word Way Game

It's time for Monday Made It again!

I was grocery shopping this weekend and forgot something.  I pushed my heavy, overflowing cart towards the home section and passed by this:

I don't know what came over me but a sudden urge to buy it because "I could turn it into a game!" came over me.  As I then made my way to the check-out I was already planning my new game: Word Way.

I transformed this sink mat into a game board (short vowel word families) and then made spinners to go with it.

Click here to go to my website and get a PDF of the spinners.

Kids use bouncy balls (bottom cut off) as tokens and then spin and move their way across the board making real words.

I'm excited to introduce this game this week and I hope you like enough to make it too!

Number Writing Book

I made this book to go along with learning how to correctly write numbers. Each number has a little rhyme to help kids remember the order of the strokes.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Nice-Neat-Nifty-Numbers

Cyber Monday SALE @ TPT

Head on over to TPT to check out the HUGE sale on all the great teaching materials that are offered!

Check out my store too:

My products are 10% off PLUS use the TPT Promo Code!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mrs-Locke

Readers' Theater POSTER

Yay, we did our first foray into Readers' Theater last week!  

We started working on Monday and were ready to perform for parents on Wednesday afternoon.  Since we saw a performance of "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" recently at the Performing Arts Center, we performed 3 versions of the Three Little Pigs:

-original version

-the Three Little Wolves

-the Three Little Turkeys

I made a poster with all the steps we go through (complete with velcro) to help guide us through the week.  

You can download it HERE.