I have a great blog post to share with you from Marsha at A Differentiated Kindergarten entitled, Look what I found . . . Differentiated Reading Done For You and a FREEBIE!

This is a such a great resource showing how she used The Funny Farm to differentiate instruction in her classroom.  She outlines four days of lesson plans and includes a freebie of her own to go along with the book.

Here’s a sneak peak of day 1… click to view all the differentiated lesson plans:

I am always so excited to see how others are using my materials to teach their children.  I hope this gives you some inspiration for your own classroom.  :)  All of the books in the KinderReaders series feature four reading levels plus a wordless version so the differentiation is done for you!  Every child in your class can read the same story on his or her own level.

KinderReaders • Nursery Rhymes to Go

Nursery Rhymes to Go BUNDLE

I hope you all are having a wonderful week!  With the Teacher Apprecation Week specials I’ve been running, things got a little bit crazy so I haven’t had a chance to announce the winners of the giveaway.

Speaking of specials, in case you didn’t already know…. the entire KinderReaders line is 20% off through Saturday, May 12!  This includes the KR series, word walls and Nursery Rhymes to Go titles.  No coupon code is required, so shop and save!  This is the only sale I’ve run since last year, so get the discounts while you can. There are hundreds of other products on sale as well, so you should check them out, too!

Now… to the giveaway.  THANK YOU to all who participated in the giveaway.  I truly appreciate your support.  :)

The random number generator selected these two comments for our two winners:

Candy Pena – I pinned this on Pinterest. You know how teachers love free stuff!

Jennifer – I already subscribe to kr newsletter . It’s fabulous!

Congratulations, Candy and Jennifer!  Please look for an email from me!

It’s time for more free nursery rhyme printables!

Today’s freebie is for Old MacDonald Had a Farm.  I had a lot of fun with this one!   There are 23 pages in this download.  It includes strips for assembling the rhyme in a pocket chart, for mounting on posterboard, etc.  There is also an individual size sheet.

The clipart I used for this set is by the very talented KPM Doodles.  Isn’t it the cutest?

The Nursery Rhymes to Go guided reading title designed to go along with Old MacDonald is The Funny Farm!

I have some ideas for other Old MacDonald printables, so stay tuned!  If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them as well.  :)

Speaking of fun, I forgot to mention that when I was creating the Shoo Fly printables, I literally had the most annoying fly buzzing around me.  Oh, the irony!  I taught the song to my girls the next day (instead of freaking out when a fly was buzzing), and it was so fun to hear my 3 year old singing from the other room.  If you listen to the YouTube video linked from the Shoo Fly page, it will be hard to get the tune out of your head!

Don’t miss yesterday’s freebie:  Humpty Dumpty printables

Have you maxed out your entries for the Nursery Rhymes to Go giveaway yet?  You have until May 6 at 11 pm CT to enter!

Anyone ready for another free nursery rhyme printable?

Next up is the Humpty Dumpty Resource Kit (6 pages):

Cracked Up is our Nursery Rhymes to Go title that goes along with Humpty Dumpty.

Mother Goose Day was May 1 so I’ll be adding new nursery rhymes printables all week.

Here is yesterday’s freebie:  Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me printable activities

I’m also planning to update the Shoo Fly kit to include a different font option and I will be making nursery rhyme WORD WALL CARDS!  If you have any suggestions or ideas for the nursery rhyme printables, feel free to let me know!

Have you maxed out your entries for the Nursery Rhymes to Go giveaway yet?  You have until May 6 at 11 pm CT to enter!

I made an update to the giveaway for those of you that already own one or more of the Nursery Rhymes to Go titles:  If you win, you choose any KinderReaders title in the place of the one(s) you already own!  :-)  Go enter now – you can enter up to 6 times!

I continue to work on updating the books in the original series with new illustrations and new format. It is a slower process than expected, but we are almost done. The new books have lesson plan help, word cards, sequencing cards, and a big book. I hope you are enjoying them!

That’s all for now!

Sandi