NIce to Meet You

Hello Teaching Blog Round Up followers! I don't know about you but I'm very excited about this collaborative blog. I was able to find some great bloggers through it already. (I can't believe I didn't know some of my co-authors!!!)

Anywho.

I'm Brenda from You Might Be a First Grader... I've been teaching first grade for 5 years now (wowie wow wow) I also did a stint in 2nd grade. I love this age group.

I'm here to offer a freebie, a tip, and a chuckle.

First all a tip...
I've been blogging for about a year. I really try to reply to as many comments as I can. My particular layout doesn't offer a 'reply' option so unless you subscribe to comments on every blog you post to (which may result in a TON of emails, lol) you may never know that you had a reply!


I type a reply and then so many times I see this nasty thing in the address bar (I should look there before I type my reply but live and learn)

the dreaded 'no-reply' commenter

If you'd like to receive comments go here (I had a post on my blog about this but now there is this Blogger/Google+ mashup so there are different directions)
Click here to check out a really good post by Fluster Buster (I googled and it had the best how-to)

Now a freebie!

practice a variety of sounds!

• ee and ea
• final y
• ai and ay
• short a and i
• long a silent e and long i silent e
• oa and ow
• oi and oy
• ou and ow
• er, ir, ur
• or and ore
• I'll try to update the packet as I add more 
• (follow TBR, You Might Be a First Grader...,and my TpT store for guaranteed updates on products)

click here to get your freebie!

And of course a chuckle
H: I need to show you something
Me: Okay
H: (turns around to show me the back of her shorts)
Me: *chuckles*
H: It says MUDD. *smiles* It's a brand.