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Natural Fall Leaf Collages {FREE Printable Included}

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Maybe it’s the beautiful color collage of fall leaves visible everywhere you look. Maybe it’s the smell of pumpkin spice. But there’s just something about fall that screams, “Craft time!” Every year, we make place mats from the leaves in our yard. But this year, I wanted to do something else. So we made natural fall leaf collages! *This post…
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FREE Fairy Tale Printable Pack {for Reading, Writing, and Storytelling}

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Over the last few weeks, ALuv {2nd grade} has been studying fairy tales. To accompany our study, I created several activities for him and today, I’m sharing them with you! {Link to download is at the end of the post.} Recording Fairy Tale Features Although he was already familiar with many of the fairy tales I read, I wanted him…
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Make a Book: A Simple Publishing Strategy {Week 11}

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Welcome back to Simple Writing Lessons for Primary Grades, a collaborative series between The Measured Mom and This Reading Mama (that’s me!) If you’re new to this series, please click HERE to read the introduction and see all the topics we’ve covered so far in 10 weeks. Today, we’re moving onto the next stage in writing…publishing. Woot! Hop on over…
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FREE BOB Books Printables: Set 4, Books 5 and 6

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I’m joining Royal Baloo and 3 Dinosaurs today as we post our FREE BOB Book printables for Set 4, Books 5 (Samantha) and 6 (Willy’s Wish). *This post contains affiliate links. If you’re looking for more Set 4 printables, click here. Find even more BOB Books resources here.    {Click on the links below each image to find the freebies!} Book…
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FREE Pumpkin PreK/K Pack

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*This post contains affiliate links. Pumpkin Learning Pack for Pre-K/K I’m excited to share my Pumpkin Pre-K/K Pack with you today! It’s fresh off the press and I just printed off a few of the activities to do with my preschoolers this coming week. In the pack, you’ll find an emergent reader and other pumpkin activities that work on rhyming,…
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