Spring is only a few weeks away! I love all of the themes that we teach each spring. A few of those themes include life cycles, plant life, Easter, and more. Here are a few of my spring resources. Click each link to grab any of them in my tpt store.

Plant Parts Poster

The kiddos will each create one of these plant parts posters. They can either use the labels that I have created that explain the function of each plant part, or they can write their own information on the second set of labels.

Spring Sight Word Poems for Shared Reading

We love to use poems during shared reading! These spring themed sight word poems are perfect for teaching sight words, fluency, tracking print, rhyme, and spring topics. We create a poetry notebook for Spring, and add to the poetry notebook. These are used during guided reading, read to self, book box time and more.

All About Chickens & The Life Cycle of a Chicken

The kids love to learn about animals! Each spring we learn about the life cycle of a chicken, frog, and butterfly. I created these non-fiction chicken slides to teach them about the characteristics of a chicken. The kids are always more engaged if I use the projector. We also complete many chicken life cycle activities including an emergent reader, craft, sequencing activity, fact/opinion activity, writing book, and more!

After we complete our chicken life cycle unit, we will create this "just hatched" chick. These turn out adorable and make a great spring display. Grab the template here!

Do your kids love poetry as much as mine do? Poetry can be such an engaging way to teach so many reading skills including fluency, rhyme, sight words, tracking print, and more. I just completed this set of 21 word family poems, that will help young readers learn the basic word families in text. I tried to include the most common word families, while still keeping the poems simple enough that they would not overwhelm new readers. 

I also created a second version, that will let the kiddos write the missing words "ig" words in the blank. We will do this after practicing the regular version a few days.

 It is so hard to believe that March is only a couple weeks away. This has been the longest, coldest winter EVER here in Missouri. I wanted to share a few March resources that you can use in your classroom this March.

I'm Lucky Hats

The kids create these I'm Lucky to Have....hats. They decorate the hats, and then write what they are lucky to have on each section of the shamrock.

Word Family Pockets

I created this set of 28 "Word Family Pockets" to use as a word work activity while we are practicing word families. These pockets are simple to create (just fold and staple), and they can be used in a variety of ways over and over again (easy to store).  The kiddos will create the pocket, and then cut out the words and place them in the pocket. The pockets are then ready to use during word work activities.

Here are just a few ideas for using these pockets in your classroom

You can call out a word and then have your students find it in their pocket. The kiddos can then build the word using tiles or magnets (whichever you have).