Holiday Linky Party!

What better time to start thinking about the Holidays than the day before Halloween!!! I wanted to have a linky party with all of my fellow bloggers so that we can collaborate with others during the Holidays! I know for me its going to get pretty crazy, so why not link up below with your favorite holiday pack or lesson? When you link up, be sure to include the price and if its free, even better!!! Can't wait to start seeing all of the amazing products from you amazing teachers!!!!

I want to start highlighting some great Holiday classroom units and plans!  Who wants to join me?  Add your link here and start looking at all of the amazing holiday resources teachers are creating!

1. November Vocabulary Activities $4	2. Reading, Writing, and Math $2.50 Thanksgiving Pack	3. Thanksgiving Color and Number Puzzles for K $1.50
4. Turkey Clip Art and Template FREEBIE!	5. Mr. Snowman Story and Build 2ft Snowman $3.00	6. Colorful Turkeys: A Color & Count Book $3.00
7. Thanksgiving Activity Packet - $4.00	8. Turkey Talk Quotation Practice $2.75	9. Gift of Gab Quotation Practice $2.75
10. 12 Days of Christmas I Have/Who Has Game $1	11. Add/Sub Turkey Facts Center $3	12. Turkey Adjectives and Adverbs Center $3
13. Ellen Weber	14. Lisa Frase	15. Thanksgiving Puzzles/Poetry $2.25
16. Turkey Craft and More	17. Thanksgiving Dinner Menu	18. Gingerbread in Disguise
19. Thanksgiving Clip Art: 32 Images $4.25	20. The Turkey Wants a Hot Dog! $3.50	21. K Common Core Math Center Game $4.75
22. $2 Christmas Tree Calendar Numbers	23. Free turkey name strips	24. Free Fall Writing Papers
25. Free Winter Name Strips	26. Thankful Turkey Craftivity	27. 2nd Grade Glance
28. Thanksgiving Shopping ~ Money Counting/Making Chan	29. Holiday Cookie Hard/Soft C & Hard/Soft G Sorting L	30. Holiday Multiplication Puzzles Cover Factors 0-10
31. Holiday Cookie Shopping~Money Counting/Making Chan	32. Holiday Division Puzzles Cover Divisors 1-10 & 1-1	33. Turkey Gobble Math Spin & Writing Prompts $3.00
34. My Thankful Mini Book	35. Harvest/Thanksgiving Read and Write the Room!	36. Mayflower numbers-$1.50
37. Winter math and literacy- $5.00	38. Thanksgiving Activities 1st-3rd ($4)	39. My Thanksgiving Writing Book ($3)
40. Turkey Talk ($2.50)	41. Thanksgiving Activities PreK-K ($4)	42. Pocketful of Centers PreK-2
43. Dean Trout	44. Christmas and Holiday ELA Activities ($4)	45. Holiday Postcards, gift cards and more
46. Polar Express Games ($4.25)	47. Turkey Treasure hunt	48. Thanksgiving characters clipart
49. Walking Tour Around the World Winter Holidays!	50. Free! Secret Santa Book Exchange	51. Brenda Martin
52. Free Santa's Wacky Reindeer Preview Grades 1-2	53. Thankful in Third - Thanksgiving Unit	54. Turkey Art Project
55. Noun or Verb? Christmas sorting $2.00	56. Mr. Turkey's Intro to Place Value	57. Christmas Owls Clipart $4
58. Noun or Verb? Thanksgiving sorting $2.00	59. Thanksgiving Clipart by JB $3	60. Christmas Clipart by JB $3
61. Winter Snowman Craftivity!	62. Thanksgiving Across the Curriculum $5	63. Poetry Possibilities -- Dec. $5
64. Thanksgiving Unit-Core Standards	65. Thankful Writing Papers	66. 10 Little Turkey Birds $2.00
67. Thankful Bookmarks and Badges $2.00	68. Algebra Thanksgiving Puzzle Simplify Radicals $1	69. Thanksgiving Literacy Pack $5.00
70. Five Gingerbread Men $3.50	71. Christmas Themed Math $3.50	72. Thanksgiving Math Review $3.00
73. Thanksgiving Turkey Disguise How to 99¢	74. Thanksgiving Writing Contract-6 activities 99¢	75. Gingerbread Man Bake-Off - Writing Directions 99¢
76. Thanksgiving and Autumn Unit $4.99	77. Freebie! Reindeer Snack ideas!	78. Thanksgiving Addition with Doubles $2.00
79. Thanksgiving Daily Sentence Practice. $2.50	80. Thanksgiving Menu Math $1.75	81. Thanksgiving Math and Literacy Fun
82. Thanksgiving Literacy Fun $5.00	83. Thanksgiving Math Color By Number $2	84. Snow Fun Math & LIteracy Centers $10
85. Gingerbread Holiday Bundle $5	86. Happy Holidays Making Words & Graphing Freebie	87. Nativity Scene Clipart by JB $3.00
88. FREE Polar Bear Clipart by JB	89. 1st Grade Thanksgiving Pack $7	90. 2nd Grade Thanksgiving Pack $7
91. The Biggest, Best Snowman Unit $6	92. Geometry Christmas Puzzle Quadrilaterals $1.25	93. Winter Holiday Pack $1.25
94. Santa's Wacky Reindeer. A Christmas Unit!	95. Thanksgiving Centers - K	96. Thanksgiving Literacy & Math Pack $3
97. The Best Gifts: Class Compliments FREEBIE!	98. Discovery Journal: Mayflower Voyage $4.00	99. Thanksgiving Writing Prompt FREEBIE!
100. I Am Thankful For.. You!	101. Christmas Geometric Santa $2.00	102. Thanksgiving ELA/Math Centers $5
103. Christmas Writing Project: Make a Pet Elf $4	104. Christmas Writing Prompts $3.50	105. Fall Paper & Frames Set - Graphics for Teachers
106. Turkey Set - Clipart Graphics for Teachers	107. Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving Book Unit $6	108. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie Unit $5
109. Thanksgiving Is by Gail Gibbons Book Unit $6	110. Thanksgiving Fun Pack $3	111. Christmas Activities Pack $4
112. Dichotomous Classification Key to Holiday Giving	113. Turkey Math Game Freebie	114. Thanksgiving Math Games and More $5
115. Christmas Math Puzzles Freebie	116. Christmas Math Games Freebie	117. Christmas Math Games and More $5
118. Mooseltoe: A Common Core Book Study $5	119. Thanksgiving Multiplication Mosaics	120. Choo, Choo, Choose Addition $1.50
121. Christmas w/ Multiple Intelligences $3.50	122. Thanksgiving Activities with Technology $2.00	123. Math Review 4th Grade $3
124. Thanksgiving Hink Pinks $3.25	125. Turkey Fractions & Pumpkin Pie, Oh My! $3.75	126. Turkey Drumsticks Lit Center $1.99
127. Tail Feathers Math Center $3	128. Thanksgiving Fast Facts, Headbands and More $6.50	129. Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Video Guide
130. Turkey Squares Critical Thinking $3	131. Christmas Hink Pinks $3.15	132. Turkey Tails $3
133. Where is the Thanksgiving Turkey? $1	134. Thankful Thanksgiving Writing Pack $1.50	135. Thankgiving Dessert Graphing Activity $1.50
136. Thanksgiving Math Dessert! $3	137. Simple Thanksgiving Fun Pack $2.50	138. Christmas Presents Game & Printables $4.00
139. Turkey Secret Word Pitch Activities $3.25	140. Chrismtas Tree Word Family Sort $5	141. Let it Snow K CC Math Center Game $4.75
142. Odd + Even Numbers Turkey Coloring	143. The Nutcracker Activity Pack $2.75	144. Turkey Pinecone Freebie!
145. Christmas Story Problems for K-2 {FREE!}	146. Ten Frame Task Cards: Christmas Edition $2.50	147. Positively Learning
148. Virginia Olivelli	149. Turkey-Quations Common Core math activity	150. The History of Thanksgiving $5.40
151. Free Thanksgiving Organizer: Charlotte's Clips	152. Christmas ABC You Pick The Pages $5.00	153. Math to the Core
154. Second Grade Math Maniac - Story Problem Cards	155. Ho! Ho! Ho! Holiday Literacy Activities $6	156. Gingerbread writing unit
157. Polar Express Writing/Literacy Unit	158. Thanksgiving writing	159. Turkey writing pack
160. T is for Thankful	161. Find, Tally and Graph Christmas	162. Reindeer Games-Math
163. Find, Tally and Graph Thanksgiving FREEBIE	164. Santa's List FREEBIE	165. Teaching Generation Next
166. Santa Number Puzzles 0-12	167. Christmas/Holiday Cards+HF Words	168. Santa's Face $1.00
169. Counting Christmas $2.00	170. Trace Christmas ABC $4.00	171. Decorate The Tree $0.50
172. Freebie! Words From Merry Christmas	173. Snowflake Geometry Project $1.49	174. Santa's Workshop Math Centers $5.00
175. Santa Math Craftivity and More $3.00	176. Santa's Beard Countdown

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Comprehension and Fluency

I've been working hard on coming up with ideas for my students who are having difficulties with comprehension and fluency.  I think we all know that when they ahve problems with these two skills, everything else seems to follow in the problem area.  I've created two different items for my Teacher Store at Teachers Pay Teachers.  One is a comprehensive folder for comprehension and fluency and the other is a unit on writing sentences and paragraphs.  Click on the links below to check them out.  I'll be giving away two copies of these in the next month, so check back for more details on this giveaway!

Reading Comprehension and Fluency Folders

Sentences and Paragraphs: A Guide to Understanding how to write descriptively!

Rubrics

So I LOVE that Peacocks and Penguins is highlighting the ever famous, but ever useful rubric!  I love rubrics because they not only help your students do what they need to do, but help you as the teacher remember what you need to grade on!!!! ;-)

Here is my "menu" rubric that I created for my kiddos during our Health unit on "good for you" foods!  Check out the menu project at my TPT store!  It's only $1.00!!!

Create Your Own Restaurant Menu

Halloween Descriptive Writing Pack

I remember last year trying to get my 4th graders to put some "depth" into their writing.  Now that we've adopted the common core standards, students are required to do a lot more with their reading and writing.  I've created this "Spooky Halloween Writing Pack" for my Teachers Pay Teachers store.  This will help your students THINK!  I used famous and not so famous Halloween quotes and excerpts of different books and poems.  What I did was have each student create a title for the excerpt and then either finish it or write about what they think it means.  This is also a great seg-way into poetry!  I've also included some photos that students had to write about.  Again, they had to look at the photo, create a title and write about what they see in the picture.  The descriptions of some of the pictures was AMAZING!!!!  I can't wait to hear how all of you used this resource!!!

Spooky Halloween Writing Pack