Hannah's Reading Room

  This post contains affiliate links.  I receive a small commission if you purchase from my Amazon links. One of my favorite animals at the zoo has always been the peacock . I cannot get enough of watching these incredible birds fan their feathers around the park, showing zoogoers all of their beauty. There is an old saying, " Proud as a peacock ." It tends to mean a vain or self-centered person when it is used in our everyday language. Kids can't help but get excited with these interesting birds . When I first read the poem by Effie Lee Newsome entitled, " Peacock Feathers ," I thought the poet did such a delightful job of describing the feathers of these amazing birds.  It is a wonderful poem to talk about adjectives and how to describe something to someone who has never seen an object before. A fun science experiment to do with this unit is to take a CD , a sheet of white paper , and a light source and help students create rainbows .  This science experi

  This post contains affiliate links.  I receive a small commission if you purchase from my links.  Every purchase helps keep th is blog going.  Period, Question Mark, Explanation Point, Comma, Apostrophe, Semicolon, Colon, Hyphen, Quotation Marks & Ellipsis  - MEET ALL the  Punctuation Family  in this fun, creative, interactive curriculum. Too many students progress through the grades never fully understanding how punctuation works. It is never too early to introduce the different forms of punctuation to your students. This unit is designed to not only introduce but hopefully help your students  fall in love with these fun characters. The teacher reads fun introductions from: Percy Period Qwerty Question Mark Ella Exclamation Point Carrie Comma Apollos Apostrophe Sammy Semicolon Colin Colon Hayden Hyphen Quaid & Quincey Quotation Earl, Eli & Eva Ellipsis Students then practice with  beginner reader  worksheets designed to help them succeed in using punctuation correctly. A

  This post contains affiliate links.  I receive a small commission if you purchase from my links.  Every purchase helps keep th is blog going.  One of the first things I noticed, when I became a teacher, was how confusing our language can be when students are learning to read and write. There are so many homophones, homographs, and multiple meanings for the same words, that it can confuse even the most well-read individual, at times. I created this set of 222 most commonly confused words with religious schools and homeschoolers in mind.   One way to use this product would be for the teacher to use them as a border around the classroom.  With full-color photographs, chosen to help illustrate each sentence, it is a teaching tool that can build your student's faith, while teaching them how to use the words appropriately in their writing and comprehension, during reading. Another way to use these would be to create a classroom reference binder that would allow the students to access

  This post contains affiliate links.  I receive a small commission if you purchase from my links.  Every purchase helps keep this blog going.  We have been having such a great time using this Christmas Countdown each day.  It is the first thing my students do each morning.  It is so fun to see what they write each day.  They are making beautiful keepsakes while practicing their writing. For each prompt, there are supporting questions to help get the ideas flowing. If you are seeing this post and it is not Christmas time yet, you can still add it to your wishlist on my  Teachers Pay Teachers Store .  As always, thank you for stopping by and Happy Writing!