Valentine Book Reports

Stop by The Teaching Oasis and download these Valentine Themed Genre Book Reports!

Graphic Organizers

I found a set of graphic organizers I had tweaked, tweaked them some more and decided to post them on my blog. They'll eventually be on The Teaching Oasis. They're centered around the 8 reading strategies I'm required to teach by my school district.
 

Do you think you will use these to have students respond to their reading?

The Teaching Oasis

There has been some MAJOR changes to The Teaching Oasis... all resources are now FREE! This site will be strictly run on donations from supporters like you. So if you find something useful, please consider making a donation to help keep the website live. *Subject areas have been uploaded, monthly ideas will be complete in the next 48 hours.*

So stop by and download some items today!

Thanksgiving Freebies!

Have you liked The Teaching Oasis on Facebook? Check the page for a special link to some Thanksgiving Freebies! Bookmark that appreciation page for future reference:)

Happy Teacher Appreciation 2012

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! I don't know about you but school has tons of goodies in store for teachers this week... an hour lunch, flowers, cards, special treats, catered lunches! This is sure to be a fantastic week of appreciation. Stop on my The Teaching Oasis Facebook Page, Like Us and get some wonderful goodies this week!http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Teaching-Oasis-LLC/140757939283256

Five Days of Christmas!

Are you a fan of the Teaching Oasis on Facebook? If not click the link to the right! Starting Monday December 5th we will be giving away goodies everyday... stay tuned!

Recovery

Thank you for all the emails! I am recovering with my family. This surgery was successful, the tumor has been removed. I think we're still waiting for the pathology to come back on it though. Nothing like five incisions in your stomach for you to realize that you use your stomach muscles for everything, I coughed the other day and thought I had burst wide open! They told me my recovery would be 3-5 days but I'm finding that it's taking much longer than that. I think it has to do with the amount of weight I carry around my midsection and how deep they had to actually cut.

Oh and have you  become a fan of the Teaching Oasis FB Fan Page? Well there is a link to some Thanksgiving goodies I think you'll enjoy! http://www.facebook.com/?filter=app_134920244184#!/pages/The-Teaching-Oasis-LLC/140757939283256

Have a wonderful Autumn weekend!

Revisting Positive Postcards

So I blogged about this back in July (http://jessicaywinston.blogspot.com/2011/07/positive-postcards.html). Now that school has been in session six days, I think I'm ready to get started. So at first I was going to send home three per month until I had gotten to all students. Well I've since decided to mail eight a week for the next three weeks. Then mail 4 a month starting in November. That means that each child would recieve two postcards this year. So I just finished writing my eight postcards to my new third graders. Can't wait to see the reaction I get.

Giveaway Winners!

Since I only had 10 comments for the trifold giveaway, I will be sending them to all the people who left their email address! You should have already recieved your email with the download links, thanks for following!

8/14 Update: Sorry followers but the giveaway is now closed and I will not be sending out anymore downloads. Feel free to purchase them from the Teaching Oasis. I do apologize for the inconvienence.

Treasure's Trifold Giveaway!

So I'm in a generous mood at the moment and in honor of me being promoted to third grade :) I will be giving away the 2nd Grade Treasures Trifold Collection.

Some people have asked if I will make 3rd grade resources. Well there isn't a need to, Melissa Shaw from http://www.stageforlearning.com/thirddownloads.asp has tons of FREE 3rd Grade Treasures Resources! So I will be using them. If I do happen to create materials (and I probably will, I'm already thinking of making DRA practice packets for the leveled readers) they will be on my classroom website.

For a list of the stories I used for the trifolds click here. I did learn later that different states had different leveled readers.

So if you use Treasures and are a 2nd grade teacher all you have to do is 1-follow my blog 2- leave a comment with your email address. I will be choosing a winner on Wednesday night.

It's Friday!

Well I've managed to work in my room two days this week. Yesterday I went in with reinforcement and the bulk of the remaining boxes in my dining room and low and behold... we didn't have electricity in our pod. So I worked in the dark for a couple of hours and then left. I did manage to get some storage units put together and my curtains hung, I can't wait until it's finished so I can take pictures and post them.

Last night I was working a some small items to show my appreciation for my Facebook Fans. I made 7 sets of writing stationary. Here is the link to the Aloha Stationery. If you like it, join The Teaching Oasis fan page (click the FB icon to the right) and you will find the link to all the others.

Well I am hoping to have a productive day on the computer and cleaning up the place since alot of the boxes have now been removed. I can't believe I only have 3 more weeks of summer until teachers report back to school.

Giveaway Winners!

Since I exceeded my 200 followers for the moment, I am picking 5 winners through the Random Number Generator! The numbers are...
33- Heather
10- Adriana Wilsey
18- Kim Konecny
27- Shelly
12- Kelly B (Queen B)

Be on the lookout for an email with your goodies that I am going to send out tonight!

Another Giveaway!

Since I'm at 199 followers, I'm sure I'll be at 200 in no time:) I'm giving away some content related items from The Teaching Oasis...
Writing: Informational Book
Reading: STOP Signs
Word Study: Word Explorers
Math: M&M Math
Science: Magnet Unit
Social Studies: Black History Unit

If you would like to win these items please follow my blog and leave a comment below along with your email address. I will pick a winner Monday night!

Giveaway

When I reach 200 followers (right now I have 127) I will be doing another giveway. It will be something from The Teaching Oasis of course! Now to come up with something really special this time. Spread the word!

Winners!

So I've done two giveaways. Colleen McCabe won free materials from The Teaching Oasis on Facebook.

Keys4Education won the giveway on my blog. Please email me at owner@teachingoasis.com so I can get your materials to you:)

$10 in Teaching Oasis Materials

To celebrate reaching 400 fans on the Teaching Oasis Facebook page I am doing a giveaway on my blog. I'm also doing a giveaway on the Facebook page so you could possibly win twice.

Directions:
Become a follower of my blog.
Comment on this post and tell me...
1- What would you choose for your $10 worth of freebies?
2- What would you like to see us add to the Oasis website?

I will choose a winner (by random number generator) on Friday evening! Good Luck!

The Teaching Oasis Giveaway!

We currently have 338 fans on The Teaching Oasis Facebook page. So all of the contributors have decided to do a giveaway when we reach 400 fans! Come like us on facebook and stay tuned!

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Parent Communication Log

I've been quite busy today... making and posting things for The Teaching Oasis and trying to create documents I'll need for school. This will be the first year that I actually use this type of documentation.
Parent Communication Log

Apple Themed Reading Skills and Strategies

My intention was to make these posters in various themes to sell on The Teaching Oasis, but I decided against it. If you are a member of the Third Grade Teachers Club or Second Grade Teachers Club on the Ning Network then you will also find these posters in the Baseball, Bee, Bugs, Camping, Carvinal, Frog, Hippie, Hollywood, Monkey, Race Car and Western themes!

Apple Reading

Positive Postcards

So I have all these really cute postcards from The Teaching Oasis (the apple themed set is a freebie, but you can purchase them to match your classroom theme if you want) and I was wondering what I could do with them. I had read about the idea of sending postcards to your students somewhere on the internet and decided that's what I'd do!

I've already printed out a classroom set. When school starts I will type all my students addresses onto labels and secure them to the post card in advance. My goal is to mail 3 postcards per month to various students in the classroom. I will be spotlighting Bucket Filling, Positive Behavior, Instructional Goals Met or basically anything positive that I can say about them. I think(and hope) that they'll be a great success!