To add writing in with your reading, I’ve designed 3-end-of-the-year class books that will jump-start your students’ imaginations.

1. These Are A Few Of Our Favorite Things...
2. In The Summer I Like To... and
3. Whew! It's Hot

To find these class books, in the End of the Year Class Books packet click on the link.

Since the “Spin A Story Wheels” were so popular for the other months, I whipped one together for summer as well.

Click on the link to view/download the Spin a Story Wheel for Summer.

I hope these things help you fill in the last few days/weeks that you have with your students.

Isn’t it wonderful that they now know their standards and can work well independently?

Congratulations to them, and especially to you, for a job well done!

Do you have an end-of-the-year tip you’d like to share?  I’d enjoy hearing from you. diane@teachwithme.com or feel free to post a comment here, especially if you use one of my ideas.

Thanks for visiting.  Feel free to PIN away, if you find anything on the site that you think will be helpful to others.

"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less." -Lee Iacocca

Rainbows are yet another theme for March.  It’s a wonderful way to review colors, color words and a specific color pattern.

I designed the easy reader booklet Let’s Color A Rainbow to reinforce ordinal numbers as well.

Students trace and write the ordinal numbers and colors in the matching color, cut and glue the appropriate picture to the page and then think of another object that is also that color and write it on the bottom.

Lots of core standards are covered in this little booklet!

A colored page of pictures is provided as well as one in black & white if teachers opt for their students to color them.

This might take a bit more time, but it reinforces the concept in yet another way.

When everyone has completed their booklet, read it as a whole group.  Students will enjoy taking this booklet home and sharing it with their families.

Click on the link to view/download Let’s Color A Rainbow

For some more rainbow fun, take a journey with your students to the end of the rainbow and discover the Leprechaun’s pot of gold.

What would they do with all of that money?  Sounds like a wonderful writing prompt to me, so I made it into a class book for March.

Class books are a fun way to get students writing.  Children complete the writing prompt sentence with their own ideas and illustrate the page.

Teachers collect, collate and then read to the class, or have students share their own page when they come to it.

Class books are perfect for parent-teacher conferences and a terrific way to show improvement in writing.

There are 5 class books in this collection including 2 graphing extensions.

Click on the link to view/download March Class Books

My easy reader booklets and whole-class books, are simple and quick additions that can spice up your writing centers or Daily 5 activities.

I hope these ideas color your world with excitement for reading and writing!

Be sure and pop in tomorrow for another interesting way to get your students writing with Spin A Story Wheels!

Do you have a teaching tip you’d like to share?  I’d really enjoy hearing from you! diane@teachwithme.com or feel free to comment here, especially if you use one of my ideas.  Thanks in advance.