A Christmas Stocking Freebie and Teacher to the Core Giveaway Galore!

I just wanted to share the news of an amazing "Teacher to the Core Giveaway Galore" going on at Katie Knight's blog Teacher Core! (OR REMIND THOSE THAT ALREADY KNOW)
12 Days of Giveaways!!!

Be sure to swing by and see if you can snag some cool teaching resources!! Tell her I sent you! ;)

(Oh, I'm participating in her giveaway too (along w/ many amazing bloggers, so be on the lookout!)She's got TONS of items lined up to dish out to YOU! Congrats to Teacher to the Core on the "200 Followers" milestone!


AND FOR AN ADDITIONAL FREEBIE FROM ME...
In case you've missed my primary freebie in my Teachers Pay Teachers store, I wanted to share it with you (being perfect timing and all...)--It's a quick little activity you can do with your kiddos to instill the magic of "GIVING" during the Christmas Season! I call it "Fill Someone's Stocking with Cheer..."
We all know it's more important to give rather than receive, so without any further rambling, check it out:

Crayons and Curls and Stanford's Product Swap!

Stop by Mrs. Stanford's Blog to see more about this!!

The MAGICAL swap is here!

Hey, everyone!
I've joined in Mrs. Stanford's "Product Swap" and have the opportunity of telling you a little about Cheryl, Crayons and Curls - My Life as a Kindergarten Teacher, and one of her cute, resourceful teaching resources. It is called "I Can Read the Alphabet"and is the perfect introductory pack to letters, designed for Pre-K and Kindergarten! It also makes for a spectacular review for first grade! You can get this resource in Cheryl's TpT Store! Check it out when you click on the cover image!

Crayons and Curls' "I Can Read the Alphabet"

Cheryl created this learning tool to use at the beginning of the year, and it works really well in literacy centers! It consists of 6 student printables to use as assessment worksheets and a mini-book of the letters of the alphabet!

Those participating in the product swap actually walked through a particular product, one step at a time, and below you'll see the different stages of Cheryl's super cute teaching tool!

I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed taking a deep look at another teacher-author's work---and it took me back to when I taught Kindergarten as well! "A Little Kindergarten Friend" and I worked through this activity together! :) 

So, here we go! First of all, I printed her alphabet book pack, and you'll see that the mini-book contains two of each page on a letter-sized sheet of printer paper! That's convenient! Print once and you have two alphabet books ready to go!

Cover/Closing Pages of Mini-Book Before Cutting

Letters and Illustrations (2 of each on a page!)

The next step was to cut the pages for the mini-book in half, and putting the true Kinder Artist to work coloring the cover page, each letter page, and ending pages of the book!

Cut pages in half....to have 2 mini-books!

Color each letter and illustration.
Students read each sentence under picture.

If you noticed in the mini-book, students are exposed to a wide array of words that build on their vocabulary! Your kiddos will be exposed to, if they aren't already familiar with, lots of words, as the words are used in a sentence underneath each letter and illustration in the alphabet book, in preparation for the assessment sheets!

After the book was put together, it was time to complete the activity pages/assessment worksheets that accompany the book. There are six worksheets. Students match a the picture on the left side of the page to the correct letter on the right side of the page. For example: an apple would connect to the letter "A" and so on. The sheets break the alphabet into sets of letters, so you will not overwhelm your kiddos! That's important too!

Assessment Worksheets (six total)--Students do color the pictures here as well!

And, more coloring....yay! Students get to color each picture on the worksheets!

To complete the mini-book, I punched holes on the left side and used ribbon to bind the pages. You can easily/quickly just staple the sheets together. This was just what I decided to do! You can see the front and last page of the book below.

Cover Page of Mini-Book

Last Page of Mini-Book

This pack is 24 pages in total! See the preview of one of the assessment sheets that Cheryl has provided on her product page! 

Be sure to swing by her blog at Crayons & Curls to let her know you found out about her cool alphabet teaching resource while visiting Innovative Connections! AND, she has a product review post on her blog featuring one of my grammar resources for reviewing/practicing the parts of speech and combining sentence parts to create sentences, which is great for multiple grade levels!

Please leave a comment below to let us know you stopped by and tell us what you think or how you'd incorporate this resourceful item in your classroom! 
Besides the links to her TpT Store and teaching blog, you can connect with Cheryl via Facebook and Pinterest:

I hope you enjoyed the product swap post today! You can see more of these by visiting Mrs. Stanford's Class Blog!

P.S. If you have not heard, The 3am Teacher is an Awesome Artist and, in fact, she created our awesome magical swap button at the top!

Thanks for swinging by to read today's post! Don't forget to leave your thoughts below!  HAVE A GREAT DAY, A. Smith