Super Sale and Throwback Thursday!

Happy Independence Day! In celebration of America's freedom, I'm throwing a 20% off sale in my TPT shop for today only! Lots of other great bloggers are, too! Click on the button below to go straight to my store and check it out!

Credit: Ashley Hughes, KPM Doodles, Cara Carroll

I'm also linking up with Cara over at The First Grade Parade for Throwback Thursday! Read below for an old post from September 2012... there's a free labeling activity in there, too, so feel free to read and download!

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

{September 2012}

Well, a month and a half into school and we have been rockin' and rollin' with ourselves! My class has been amazing and they keep impressing me every single day with their learning. I'm currently knee-deep in benchmark testing for the first time this year, but in the meantime we've been busy working on colors, beginning sounds, letters, writing skills, shapes, and counting. One thing I like to do to help my kids practice their early writing skills at the beginning of the year is labeling activities. I'll usually post the words either on the word wall, at the writing center, or on the whiteboard for the kids to use as references to label their pictures. For some reason, when we do these labeling activities, their handwriting turns out more beautiful than anything they've ever written before! I made up an activity sheet and matching word cards for our latest labeling activity we did this week using animal naming words. I hung up the four word cards on the board for them to look off of:

Then, using them as a reference, they labeled their animals on the activity sheet and then colored the picture.

You can download the animal naming words labeling sheet and word cards for FREE here on Google Drive (formerly Google Docs!): 

Animal Naming Words Labeling Sheet** (read note below about printing)

Animal Naming Word Cards

**One thing to note about the Labeling sheet - I made it to be printed on LEGAL-sized paper, so you'll have to manually go in on the PDF and change it to print on that size or else it will automatically print it to 8 1/2x 11 paper. Hope that makes sense! I wanted the kids to have as much room as possible to write their words.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

That's it! Click on the picture below to join in Cara's linky!