Scholastic - Let's Find Out Review

Welcome back to my blog friends! Today I am here to share about a fantastic resource you can utilize in your Spanish Immersion/Dual Language classroom. I was recently contacted by Scholastic to review their Let’s Find Out Bilingual Magazine. Imagine my excitement!!!

I have been trying these out with my kiddos for about three weeks and wanted to share with you this wonderful, highly engaging magazine and some of its components.

Magazine

First, I received magazines for each of the students in my classroom. I have been utilizing these in small group. I love the crisp photographs and easy to read format that my students can easily follow. There is an individual magazine for students and a BIG teacher edition. I love posting this BIG version on my wall to engage interest even before reading. The magazines are great for Pre-K – 1^st grade students. You can even use them like me – with my struggling 2^nd graders. The content aligns with the standards as shown below. 

Online Components

Let’s Find Out in Spanish is simple and effective to implement in the classroom. It has an online component which not only reads the magazine out loud to the students, it also includes a building background video, learning games, and even links to related printables. Students are making connections and recalling content with these high interest activities. 

Vocabulary

Building language and vocabulary is always of high importance in the classroom. Just look below at all the vocabulary students read and studied throughout this past year’s issues! My students immediately started adding words they were learning to their Libro de Palabras.

Printables

Last, but certainly not least, the printables are SO helpful and easy to access. There’s prediction charts, observation recording pages, following directions, patterns to cut/paste, and so much more. The reading is engaging and it is followed by an activity that is just as engaging for the students.

You can subscribe here and start planning for next year :) 

So now, time for a GIVEAWAY! Scholastic has allowed me to choose 1 of my blog readers to win a free class set of the May/June issue (limit of 30 magazines). If chosen, you must provide your full name and address to receive these.  All you have to do to enter is leave a comment with your name and how you would utilize these magazines. Winner will be chosen on May 5, 2017 and contacted by May 6, 2017.

Hope you’ve enjoyed this post and found helpful ideas for your classroom. Until next time!

Teacher Appreciation

Welcome back to my blog friends! Today I am sharing a quick idea for teacher appreciation and FREE gift tags in English/Spanish.

First, I'd like to begin by thanking each and everyone of you for all that you do for your students day in and day out. At this time of the year, we are exhausted and any little handwritten note reminds us of our daily impact on our students lives. I cherish each coloring picture, each "I love you, teacher", and each day with my students.

I have created a free gift tag you can share with your child's teacher. Just grab some sweet snacks, print this out in either color or black/white, sign child's name, and attach. Your child's teacher will love the thoughtfulness.

Click HERE or the pictures to download.

ALSO, with Teacher Appreciation Week right around the corner, my friends and I have joined to give one lucky reader an amazing prize pack! Just look at all the goodies you could win!

GIVEAWAY DETAILS:  

Prize: 10 Teacher "Must Haves" prize pack including: Mr. Sketch Markers, Flair Markers, Personal Laminator, Dry Erase Pockets, Dry Erase Markers, Astrobrights Paper, Sharpies, Ticonderoga Pencils, a Wall Calendar, and a $50 Teachers pay Teachers gift card.

Giveaway Organized by: Kelly Malloy (An Apple for the Teacher)

Co-hosts:   An Apple for the Teacher,  MM Bilingual, Debora Marines TeachMagically, Cara's Creative Playground, Amanda's Little Learners, The Craft of Teaching, Jackie Crews, Sugar Cube Learning Resources, Stephanie Rye-Forever in Fifth Grade, Teach with Hope, 180 Days of Reading, The Literacy Garden, Sandra Naufal, Teacher Jeanell, Sliding into 1st, Teacher Mama School, Tried and True Teaching Tools, Third Grade Giggles, The Chocolate Teacher, Sarah Griffin, Peas In A Pod, Heart 2 Heart Teaching, It's a Teacher Thing, Teacher Gameroom, Save the Teacher, A Plus Kids, Digging Deep to Soar Beyond the Text, It Happened in 3rd, The Literacy Garden, A Place of Story, Kindergarten Is Crazy, and Knowledge Mobile.

Rules: Use the Rafflecopter to enter. Giveaway ends 5/8/17 and is open worldwide.

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Exit Tickets in the Bilingual Classroom

Welcome back to my blog friends! Today I am sharing ideas on how to use Exit Tickets in the bilingual classroom.

Exit tickets are a way great to assess your students quickly and effectively. I do not use these every day, but I do try to incorporate them at least two to three times per week. On other days, I utilize Plickers for an easy way to check for understanding and collect data. (Blog post to come soon).

So how do I use these and what are the benefits? Keep reading to find out and grab a FREEBIE.

~Participation

During whole group teaching, I always have the same students that are participating and showing their understanding, while the rest of the class is quiet. With exit tickets, all student are accountable to be paying attention. I do tell them "Class, there will be an exit ticket after this so make sure to focus and pay close attention." This promotes 100% engagement. 

~Reflection

Through this exit ticket students can self reflect. I'll have students that cannot answer come up to me and tell me, they didn't understand or know what to write. I can do a quick reteach and it's wonderful to see their faces when the lesson clicks and they suddenly "get it," Also, I love seeing those that can answer accurately right away and their comments such as a confident: "I know this!"

~Writing

Writing about content is such an important skill for my students. Exit tickets help me evaluate their writing and they get extra practice in writing about what they've learned. This is the perfect time to spiral in proper capitalization and punctuation in a quick way. 

~Assessment/Reteach

Students post these up on my wall and I am able to gauge almost instantly who needs extra help. During small groups, I am able to group based on their needs and reteach the skills necessary to master the concept. 

Here are a few pictures of exit tickets in action and how I display them in my classroom. I team teach so I have two anchor chart sheets posted by my door. These charts have squares with numbers on them. Students in my class are assigned a number at the beginning of the year and that's where they will place their exit tickets throughout the year. 

Here is a freebie you can use right now with your students.

My Spanish pack of exit tickets is available at my TpT store! These are perfect to use with any content and promote self reflection after a lesson.

Have you used exit tickets in your classroom? Let me know how they've worked for you! Until next time friends!

Celebrating 2,000 with Brinca Into Bilingual

Welcome back to my blog friends! Today I am very pleased to be celebrating with my good friend Mrs. Nicolau from Brinca Into Bilingual. She has reached a huge milestone of 2,000 followers and I am helping her celebrate YOU!!!! Below are some amazing prizes we are giving away. Enter on the rafflecopter's at Mrs. Nicolau's blog. XOXO Good luck!

GIVEAWAY TIME!!!

ALL GIVEAWAYS WILL RUN FROM SATURDAY 18TH (6AM CT) UNTIL TUESDAY 21ST (12AM CT)

Mrs. Nicolau is giving away TWO RAE DUNN MUGS!
These cute mugs are very hard to find (depending where you live) and everyone is going CRAZY for these!

Let's giveaway a gift card!! Enter the Rafflecopter for a chance to win a $25 TPT Giftcard! Remember the more entries you have, the more changes you have to win!!!






Who does not LOVE TARGET?! We ALL do!!  So let's do a giveaway for a $25 Target giftcard!






Since we are going crazy with prices, why don't we get even crazier?!... Let's also celebrate with a $21.00 gift card from the AMAZING Melonheadz!

Last, but definitely not least! I have many blog friends that have joined me to celebrate this amazing event! They have all joined me to giveaway bundles by grades!!!

The first bundle is for our Bilingual K-1 teachers!

Next is the 2-3 Bilingual Bundle!

Last is our K-2 Grades Bundle in English!

Are you excited enough?! We sure hope so! Stop by Mrs. Nicolau's blog to enter on all these great prizes!!!

While you are there, drop a note to her. She LOVES hearing from her readers! :)

Click on Brinca into Bilingual

Elf-tacular Giveaway

Hello friends and welcome back to my blog! Can you believe December is here?? This is my favorite time of the year! Today I have a few ideas to share with you and an Elf-tacular Giveaway you won't want to miss!

Recipe
A nice cool front just came in here in South Texas so it's time for hot chocolate and these delicious hot cocoa cookies I came across on Pinterest! Check them out, they are easy to make and look so tasty.

Craft
This time of the year is so busy that I want to share a quick craft I will be trying with my kids this year. Nothing too fancy or difficult, you just need popsicle sticks, paint, sequins, glue, scissors and twine.

Freebie
In the spirit of Christmas....here is a fun SPANISH FREEBIE for you - Christmas tree organizers. They can be used with any story and cover story elements, main idea, and vocabulary. Share the link with any bilingual teachers you know :)

Here is my Elf-tacular letter!!!

Now keep on blog hopping over to The Science School Yard to grab your elf letter

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TpT Cyber Giveaway!

Hello friends and welcome back to my blog! Today I have exciting news to share with you....TpT is having a Cyber Sale tomorrow so I hope you are ready to go shopping.

I am highlighting a few products to help you plan over the next few weeks. These will be 20% OFF during the TpT Cyber Sale and you can use the discount code CYBER2016 to save even more!!! Keep reading for ideas and to enter for your chance to win a $10 TpT gift card!!!! Wooohoo!

December Word Work

These activities are great for centers or early finishers. From grammar to sentences, to word building, shapeboxes, etc. this pack is a must have!

Finish the Story December Edition

What better way to engage kids than with holiday themed prompts. Check these out for a quick, just print and go activity. 

Here's a holiday gift for you! Christmas Tree Graphic Organizers in Spanish...

Enter the rafflecopter below for your chance to win a $10 TpT gift card, then hop on over to Susan from Lopez Land Learners for another great giveaway going on! Good luck and happy shopping!

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Gobble the Goodies - Fall Linky

Gobble Gobble! Welcome back to my blog friends! It's been a while since my last blog post, but I'm happy to be back along with my K-2 teacher friends to bring you awesome Thanksgiving goodies, freebies, and giveaways! Keep reading .... 

Videos

I like to begin my Thanksgiving/fall units with videos. Videos are always engaging and give students the background information needed for lessons. Here are links to a few of my favorite:

Education World

Brain Pop Jr.

YouTube

Resources

As a bilingual teacher, I have SPANISH resources available including my brand new Harvest of Verbs perfect for this fall weather. I have them all at 50% off during this linky (November 5th - 8th). ENJOY!

FREEBIE

Here's a freebie for both English and Spanish teachers. My students love writing acrostics and then decorating them for the season.

          

Be sure to enter the rafflecopter for your chance to win TpT gift cards!!!

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Don't forget to visit the entire linky for great ideas and freebies just for you!!! Happy Thanksgiving and see you next month!

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