Have I told you before about my weakness for online shopping - especially online book shopping??? Well, the Scholastic Dollar Days sale was too good for me to pass up. In total, I ended buying 56 books! FIFTY-SIX!!! (How could you not at $1.00 a book?) This morning I quickly looked through a few of the books and found some really fun activities to do with my students (or lack of students). My favourite had to be our Ink Blot Poetry. Well, it was actually paint splotch poetry, but it worked all the same. After the students made a ink blot (paint splotch) picture, they had to write a rhyming couplet describing what they saw. We mounted them on construction paper, and I've got a brand new bulletin board display ready to go on Monday. LOVE IT!
For my Friday Freebie this week, I decided to post my Monitoring Comprehension Strategies Bookmark. I know some of you have already finished school for the year, but there are many of you (like me) still plugging away. How many of you give books as an end of the year present? I know I do (thank-you, Scholastic coupons). You can laminate these bookmarks and stick them in your books to remind students to think about their reading (yes, even in the summer). Click on the picture to bring you to my TpT store for the download.
Lastly, there are still 2 more days to enter my Graphics Factory Giveaway. I know my followers gadget doesn't seem to be working (is blogger ever going to get this fixed?), but there are still 4 other ways to enter. I will be drawing one winner Sunday evening.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
