Hello Friends!

It feels so good to be back to blogging after a few months.  With a new school year, a daughter now in high school, and lots of projects going on around my house, I've been crazy busy!  I'm finally feeling a little more organized and back and ready to blog!  I wanted to share about a few new products and freebies that I've been working on.

I am always looking for extra addition and subtraction practice sheets for my first graders.  These themed sets are perfect for extra practice!

This is a set of eight worksheets. Four with a November theme (football & leaves) and four with a December theme (gingerbread, New Year's, & presents). 

 Addition and Subtraction Worksheet Set

Here are a few pictures of some of the worksheets:

And here is a freebie for you!

 Subtraction Freebie

I recently updated my pocket chart calendar cards.  This update has taken me several months and it is finally complete!  If you've purchased this set in the past, just re-download and you'll get the newest version.  The older version is still available in this zip file download.  Here are some pictures of just a few of the cards and graphs included:

Pocket Chart Calendar Cards

You can check out these cards {HERE}!

If you'd like to see a blog post about using these cards in a pocket chart, you can see my older cards {HERE} in the pocket charts I use.

My first grade teacher friends and I dressed up as the Three Little Pigs and The Big Bad Wolf for Halloween.  Several weeks prior to Halloween, we all read several versions and did A LOT of activities surrounding this story.  We had so much fun!   I created a word search and would love to share it with you all!  Just click below!

Three Little Pigs Word Search

Have a wonderful week!

Our Calendar is now in Spanish!

We've had a few friends who are Spanish emersion teachers ask us about translating our calendar stuff into Spanish. We teach at a school that is roughly 25% Spanish speakers, so we'd been toying with the idea for awhile. After many drafts we've finally got it! So head on over to our TPT store and have a look!

Pocket Chart Calendar Cards
Monthly Calendars
Schedule Cards (coming soon!)

And since we have revamped our calendar areas, we also had to again revamp our Pocket Chart Schedule Cards. They include 23 school subjects/events and a title card. The cards are also in two fonts so you can choose to print the set that you like best! Also there are 3 blank cards if needed to write additional subjects/events on. The cards fit nicely in a schedule pocket chart measuring approx. 13 x 33. Make sure to check those out as well.

To kick off our first bilingual products, they will be on sale 15% off through the weekend. Hope these work for you! If there's anything else you'd like to see, please let us know! We really try out best to make sure our products are generic enough to fit all of our blogger friends. Hope ya'll are enjoying summer!

Do you have our Pocket Chart Calendar pack? Or do you just need some cute monthly calendars? One thing that we do each month is have the kids fill out a calendar to take home. We include holidays, special events, or days off of school so that the kids can follow along. It's also great at the beginning of the year for kids who need extra practice writing their numbers. So we thought we'd make a 12 month caledar set for you to have that matches our calendar cards. You can use this with our set, or by itself. If you'd like to see it, head on over to our TpT store and take a look!

Calendar Time

Over at Oceans of First Grade Fun Ms. A is having a linky party. Her question is wether to have her calendar time using the traditional calendar board method or using her new Promethean board. We decided to join in on this party because over here at First Grade Fanatics we still use the old method of having a calendar board and we LOVE it! We like it so much that we created new cards for our calendar area and we are super excited to be able to reprint if we lose a number or word! Interested? Check it out HERE at our TpT store! A preview picture is below :) Calendar time is very interactive for our first graders. Our calendar routine includes months, days of the week, the current date, money, place value, weather, a daily poem, counting our days of school, states/countries review (depending on current events that are happening), and of course our daily schedule which our students look at immediately when they enter the room! Our calendar time is very hands on and usually begins after math. It is a great way to continue practicing math strategies and provides a great transition into our morning reading block. Our students continually refer to our calendar throughout the day for spelling, writing numbers, etc... So her question got us thinking, how do you do calendar?

Our new Calendar Set! (and give away)

As our year comes to an end we of course are already looking ahead to next year. We are always looking for new ideas for our classrooms, and we both thought we'd like to spice up our calendar areas. You all know how frustrating it is to lose calendar pieces, or wear out something, only to have to buy an entirely new set! So, we thought we'd create our own calendar cards. And since we've come to love blogging so much, we want to share it with all of you. Our new Pocket Chart Calendar Set includes:

Month Headers
Calendar Numbers
Holiday Cards
Birthday Card
Special Event Cards
Weather
Seasons
Days of the Week
Months of the Year
Place Value Cards
Weather Graphs
Birthday Graph
Lost Teeth Graph

Here's a little sneak peak of what you will see in our Calendar Set:

Our Calendar Set fits with the standard calendar pocket chart and schedule pocket chart. Check it out!


And as a treat for our followers and all of you fabulous teachers, we are having a year end sale at our TpT store through next weekend! Our whole store is 20% off! So stop by and get your calendar for next year, and check out all of our other fun stuff! Our sale will end Sunday June 11th, as wee officially begin our summer break!

We know all of our friends in blogger land are super busy, but we'd also like to give one of you our calendar set for free! Just leave us a comment about your favorite calendar activity, and we will pick a random winner this Saturday night. Good luck! Only 1 week left!!!


POCKET CHART CALENDAR CARDS

On a side note, we survived the zoo today, with only a few sprinkles!
Active animals + 5000 kids = an awfully fun zoo day! Man was it packed! :)

Free Printable Friday!!!

We're kind of feeling like we haven't been sharing the love with ya'll as much lately, so we want to make it up to you! So for the next few days we will try to have a freebie everyday. Does anyone use this schedule pocket chart?

We love ours but when we got them they came with ugly white cards. Soooo, of course we had made our own. :) We want to work to work for all of you, so we tried to make sure you'd have anything you needed. Hope you find this useful!

Click here to head to our store to get your own copy:
Schedule Cards

And don't forget to re-enter our Memory Book giveaway. We'll combine the comments from both posts to draw from, so commenting on either is fine. Have a great weekend!