A Girl's Gotta Have A Good Pen {Five For Friday & A Teacher Friend Freebie}

Happy Friday, teacher friends! I'm linking up with 

Doodlebugs Teaching for another Five for Friday!  

Here's a little peek at my week...

I have to say that I'm loving these Frixion pens!

Fine line and erasable! They are PERFECT for running records!

Use my affiliate link to find these Frixion pens on Amazon.

If you're not already, you soon will be, deluged with 

running records, phonemic awareness and phonics screeners,

high frequency word checklists and grading baseline 

writing assessments.  Am I right? 

Every day at lunch we compare notes on how many 

we have left!  I am not winning. #notevenclose

I made these for my teammates (because they think I'm funny)

and to remind them of Rule Number 1:

A girl's gotta have a good pen when she's 

checking marking like a maniac.

Hey Girl. Download the cards here.

 We wrapped up our Louder, Lili book study this week.  

I love this book! It is the perfect beginning of the year story for talking 

about kindness,being a good friend, standing up for what is right 

and treating others the way you wish to be treated. We reviewed 

all sorts of skills with it and my class really connected with these characters.  

They were mortified by how one of them tries to treat the class pet!

I overheard them talking about it all week!

  Last week we did this Math About Me activity and defined 

ourselves using math! I send home a math autobiography

so parents can help their child gather all of their math info like 

address, phone number, family ages, etc.  That way they

have everything they need to describe themselves using math!

   I got the nicest email from Gail Collins, a middle school counselor, 

to share how she used my Superhero Writing Craft 

for a back to school career counseling display!

How creative is that? I love the message!  Thank you for sharing this, Gail!

 Our center rotations are in full swing.  I wanted to do 

something different in my poetry center this year so we're doing it

Teacher By The Beach-style!  

Jen has a great poetry station routine that I just love!

A little fluency practice, a little sound/spelling pattern identification or skill

practice with a highlighter (Pure kid-joy!), spelling practice, illustrating and labeling

 and VOILA!

I've since added having students write sentences using the words from their list

 on the back for some of my kiddos.

You can read all about Jen's poetry routine and fabulous phonics centers

and find them HERE.

I introduced this center routine with a sweet little poem by Kristin Smith

from A Day In First Grade.  I purchased this poem with 

her I Can Be A Pal  pack. It tied in perfectly with our 

how to be a good friend writing.

Just like Jen, I typed up the poems I wanted to use

from Scholastic's Big Book of  Phonics Poems plus some other random 

poems I've gathered over the years. You can purchase 

the Scholastic book HERE.

I had a parent copy and cut the whole year's worth and all I do is 

change the poem each week. I love easy!

  Since I also love these silly Hey Girl's so much 

I'll leave you with this...

Get those pens! Ha!

Be sure to stop by Doodlebug's for lots more

Five for Friday!

Have a restful weekend, friends!