7-27-10 From a request, I have added The Continents, Our Oceans, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Birds comprehension pages. Also, some new bookmarks. ENJOY! 7-19-10 From a request, I have added a Bears Poster and a Bears comprehension page. Have a great day! 7-17-10 From a request I have added an Italy poster and an Italy comprehension page. Also, Hildy, a comprehension page for Easter. Enjoy! 7-12-10 I have added B&W calendars with extra space for October, January, and July from a request. Also, Chinese New Year Poster, comprehension page, and Year of the Rabbit bookmarks. I will continue to update my A+ teacher sites. Have a great day! 7-3-10 I have added Watermelon bookmarks, Groundhog Day poster, and comprehension sheets for Pecos Bill, Christmas Alphabet, & The Groundhog's Shadow. Enjoy! 7-1-10 I have added Australian & Watermelon Posters, Australia comprehension sheet and fixed the March calendar connection. Also, I have added a mini book It's A Jungle. Have a great day! 6-24-10 I have added Safari & Pig Posters. Safari, Pig, and Rain Forest comprehension pages. Also, Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! and For Just One Day on the mini book page. ENJOY! 6-17-10 The 2010-2011 B&W calendars for kids and the colored 2010-2011 calendars are finished. I have also added a Friends Poster and With a Friend comprehension page. I have had many requests for printables, so keep checking back for updates. 5-31-10 I have added a couple posters for Teddy Bears, Father's Day, and two comprehension pages for these topics. School is out here on June 3! 4-30-10 I fixed the connection for the Amphians and Reptiles Posters. Thanks Carrie! I have also added posters for Pets, Cowboys, and Graduation. Enjoy! 4-23-10 I fixed the Frog Facts comp. page. Thanks Ginny! New posters and comp. pages for Baseball and Mother's Day. Have a great day! 4-16-10 From a request, I have added a Frog poster and a Frog Facts comprehension on my misc. printables. These go with my Readers Theater script on frogs. ENJOY!! 4-12-10 From requests, I have added a Mysteries comp., a Super Heroes comp., Cinco de Mayo comp, Earth Day bookmarks and Earth Day comp. on my misc. printables. Have a great day!! 4-9-10 From a request, I have added a Mysteries poster, a Super Heroes poster, and a Cinco de Mayo poster on my misc. printables. ENJOY!! 4-1-10 I have posted a nocturnal animals poster on my misc. printables and two nocturnal mini books on my mini book page. I did these last year but just hadn't gotten them listed. ENJOY!! 3-29-10 From a request, I have added a Circus poster and a comprehension page Let's All Go to the Circus Today on my misc printables. Have a great day! 3-23-10 From a request, I have added a Camping poster and a comprehension page I'm Going Camping on my misc printables. ENJOY! 3-20-10 From a request, I have added a Dinosaurs poster and some Animal Cards and an Animal Classification poster. ENJOY! 3-19-10 From a request, I have added a Racing Car poster, and Racing Flags comprehension page on my misc. printables. Have a great day! 3-10-10 I have added an Easter poster, Eggs poster, Outer Space poster, Planets In Motion poster, and Planet Roll Call comp. page on my misc. printables. Enjoy! 2-24-10 We are in the deep freeze this morning with -10 degrees. It is supposed to warm up to 32 degrees later this week, so hopefully we can get a little thawing of our huge amount of snow still on the ground!! From a request I have added a St. Patrick's Day poster and bookmarks. Have a great day! 2-6-10 From a request I have added a Valentine's Day poster, bookmarks, and a comprehension page. ENJOY! 2-1-10 I am updating for February. I will be adding new printables soon. 1-8-10 Well, we are just digging out from 7 more inches of snow and have had frigid temps and blizzard conditions last night. I have some Dinomite 100th day bookmarks and a Children of the World song poster on my misc. printables. Have a great day! 1-6-10 Exciting news ~ we have a new granddaughter! From requests, I have 100th day posters on my misc. printables and a Polar Bear poster and Polar Bear comp. Also, 100 Animals At the Zoo mini book on the mini book printables. ENJOY!! 12-29-09 From a request, I have added a Penguins poster and a Penguins comprehension page on my misc. printables page. ENJOY! 12-28-09 It has certainly been a snowy winter so far here with "LOTS" of snow!! I have added Antarctica Antics on my mini book printables page. Have a great day! 12-1-09 I am updating for December and trying to fix many broken links ~ that's a never ending job! Also, I hope to have some new printables soon. :) 11-18-09 From a request, I have added a Knights & Castles poster, a Knights comprehension page, and a Thanksgiving comp. page. Have a great day! 11-4-09 From a request, I have added a Gingerbread poster and a Gingerbread comprehension page on my misc. printables. Also, Turkey Turkey mini book. Enjoy!! 11-3-09 From a request, I have added a Fairy Tale poster and a Fairy Tale comprehension page on my misc. printables. Enjoy!! 10-31-09 I have added a couple A+ teacher websites and fixed broken links to other sites. We are supposed to have great weather now through next week, so >br> hopefully the farmers can finish harvesting corn and beans!!! 10-28-09 I added a recipe card for toasted pumpkin seeds and an Iowa pumpkin brochure on my pumpkin theme page. I thought I might try the pumpkin pie recipe that uses fresh pumpkin. 10-21-09 From a request I have added a Pirates poster and This Pirate Song on the misc printables page. ENJOY!! 10-16-09 I have added the mini book Leaves, a Monster Poster, and two comprehesion pages What Do Monsters Do? and Halloween's Coming. Have a great day! 10-2-09 I have added the mini book A Fall Song on my printables page. Enjoy! 9-18-09 I have added Food's From and Words on my misc. printables page. Enjoy! 9-13-09 I have made a new PDF(it's smaller) for Amazing Arctic Animals on my mini book printables page. Also, I am fixing broken links on my A+ Teachers page. 9-9-09 I added the mini book Amazing Arctic Animals on my mini book printables page. I also fixed the Arctic poster on the misc. printables!! Have a great day! 9-2-09 I added the mini book What Do You Call? on my mini book printables page. I also added Woodland Forest Friends comprehension on the misc. printables. Enjoy! 8-30-09 I added the mini book Animal Talk on my mini book printables page. From a request, I made a couple Four Seasons posters. The one goes with the months of the year poster and the other one uses clip art graphics. Have a great day! 8-15-09 I added a mini book Getting to Know You on my mini book page. Also, Welcome to School bookmarks on the misc. page for any grade level. Well, my little granddaughter is coming to visit later so I had better go for now. Enjoy the printables!! 8-13-09 I added some handwriting posters on my (new)writing misc. page. Also, Walrus, Ladybugs & Friends comprehension pages and a new Good Morning Boogie! poster on the misc. printables page. 8-11-09 From a request I added some Scientific Method posters on my misc. printables page. I also added the mini book Down In the Deep Blue Sea to my mini book page. ENJOY!! 8-9-09 I added a few new comprehension poems on my misc. printables page. We have gotten some much needed rain here. Everything was looking pretty dry. Have a great day! 8-8-09 From a request I added The Daily Five sentence strips on my Reading page. Also, welcome to kdg, lst, & 2nd bookmarks on the misc. printables page and a comprehension poem "Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs. **Remember to reload the pages to get the latest updates. Have a great day!! 8-6-09 I added Kid, Lion, & Star binder covers on the misc. printables page. I added The Daily Five cards & bookmarks on my Reading page. ENJOY! 8-4-09 I added a Bear Book2 binder cover from a request and added 2 mini books At School and Down on the Farm. Have a great day! 8-3-09 I have added several new items on my misc. printables page. ENJOY! 7-30-09 I added 2 new comprehension poems on the misc. printables page. Birth of a Butterfly and The Pollywog. Have a great day! 7-24-09 I added a Months of the Year book on my misc. page and an Invertebrate book on my mini books page. Thanks for all the emails!! ENJOY! 7-22-09 I added a Months of the Year poster, Marvelous Me!, and Farm Alphabet posters on my misc. printables page. ENJOY! 7-20-09 I added a fun ocean facts mini book on the mini books printable page and an I am terrific, I am special portrait page on the misc. printables. 7-16-09 I fixed the connection to the Animals At School mini book. From a request, I also added "Habitat" posters. Enjoy!! 7-10-09 I added some new mini books, Spiders poster, and fixed the alphabetical order of the words on some of the other posters. It just "bugs" me when I go back and something is incorrect, so...!! 7-8-09 I added the rest of the theme posters on my misc. printables that go with the theme bookmarks. I fixed the fish theme bookmark 1 ~ thanks. :) 7-2-09 I have added a few more theme posters on the misc. printables page. Also, on the same page scroll down to see three new comprehension poems. There is also The Daily Five poster on my reading page. ENJOY! 6-29-09 I finished the small posters for the theme 2 bookmarks. I will work on the posters for the theme 1 bookmarks and hope to get them done this week. :) 6-26-09 I added a B&W All About Me book on the misc. printables page. Thanks for the email Joni! I also made new small posters for the theme bookmarks. I will work on these until they are all finished. ENJOY!! 6-24-09 I changed the All About Me book a little on the misc. printables page and added a Patriotic Song book on the mini book printables page. 6-22-09 I fixed the September calendar date for Labor Day. I added an "All About Me" book on the misc. printables page. Also, a request for The Mixed-up Chameleon sentence strips on the mini-book page. ENJOY! 6-15-09 I added the Theme Bookmarks 2 on the misc. printables page and a Word Meaning Map on the graphic organizers printables page. Please email me if you have any other requests. Thanks!! 6-9-09 I updated the students' black and white blank calendars for 2009-2010 on the misc. printables page. ENJOY!! 6-8-09 I have my theme pages complete for now. I also have the 2009-2010 calendars finished on the misc printables page. ENJOY!! 6-1-09 Happy June! If you have any of my old Geocities pages bookmarked would you please change the links to my new website address. Thanks so much!! 5-26-09 I am in the process of moving pages over from Geocities but you may still see some of those connections until I get everything over to my own domain or delete some pages. :) 5-21-09 I have kept my homepage the same and will just change little things for each month. I hope to keep adding printables and updates to the main pages. :) 5-14-09 I am slowly updating my site to my own domain. So check back for added pages. Thanks! :) 5-1-09 I updated my homepage for May. We have had lots of rain again this spring and it has been hard for farmers to get in their fields to finish planting. Not good!! 4-27-09 I fixed the word "sardine" on the fish bookmark. Thanks Lisa and please let me know about any other mistakes on my printables. I will be more careful on the next ones!! 4-13-09 I have added theme bookmarks on my misc. printables page. I will keep adding to these until I have them for themes throughout the year. ENJOY! 4-9-09 I added a new award from Mrs. Melendez on my Awards page. Thanks and go check out her wonderful second grade!! 4-5-09 I know you have all seen this idea before but I added pictures of an Easter egg to Easter bunny on my Easter Theme page. :) 4-4-09 I have added the mini books Incredible Insects, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and What's the Weather? to my mini book printables. I also added a Jellybean graph to my Easter Theme page. ENJOY! 4-4-09 Happy April everyone! I will be adding some new printables and updating my spring and Easter pages sometime this week. Thanks for taking the time to stop by. 3-18-09 We are seeing "Signs of Spring" the last few days with temps in the 70's!! The rest of the week it is to be in the 50's. Hopefully it will last and we will not have any more winter. 3-1-09 I have added 2 comprehension poems to my misc. printables "Leprechauns" and "Wee Little Patrick". Enjoy! 2-18-09 I don't know about all of you but I've had enough of winter, so I decided to go back to my school theme decorations! 2-8-09 I added a Tooth Truth mini book on my printables mini book page. I have also updated my A+ Teacher page. Email me and let me know if you'd like your website added. 2-2-09 I added "Is My Valentine at the Zoo?" comprehension poem to my misc. printables and 2 Presidents' Day mini books on my mini book printables page. Enjoy! *�* 2-1-09 Updated my site for Valentine's Day. 1-8-09 I added "100 Animals" comprehension poem to my misc. printables page. 1-3-09 I added "Snow Day" and "Winter Walk" comprehension poems to my misc. printables. Also, The Rooster mini book on the mini book page. Enjoy! 1-2-09 I added a craft stick snowman and a paper plate snowman on my "Wonderful Winter" page to the left. 1-1-09 Happy New Year! We got to babysit our new granddaughter last night. What a cutie pie!! 12-26-08 Welcome winter! We have been having a mixed bag of weather for this holiday season ~ lots of snow, freezing rain, and now rain and warmer temps today!!! 12-4-08 I updated my gingerbread page with a card to make. We are getting snow here. I am just glad it's snow and not all the ice we had last winter! 11-28-08 I am updating my site for the Christmas holidays. Check back soon for added printables. 11-2-08 I added Sunflower to my misc. comprehension printables. I added I Am Thankful For... on the writing paper page under seasonal. Enjoy! 11-1-08 I updated my site for November. 10-19-08 I updated the Halloween links page. Also, a few new links on the bats page. 10-10-08 I added OWLS to my misc. printables page and Spiders, Spiders Everywhere to my mini book page. Again, thanks so much for your comments to these printables. They are greatly appreciated!!*�* 10-2-08 I updated my Index page for Halloween. I added A Colorful Halloween to my misc. printables. Also, a mini, mini book Facts About Spiders to my mini book page. Enjoy!! 9-24-08 From a request I have added the black and white calendars back on my misc. printables page but left them blank for students to fill in the numbers. There is a link to Kinder Bears for kindergarten traceable ones. Enjoy! 9-20-08 I added I Love Fall and BATS to my comp. printables page. Also, I added a mini book Ghost, Ghost What Do You See? This is black & white. If you'd like the colored version, let me know. *�* 9-11-08 I fixed The Mixed-Up Chameleon sequence and added word cards to match the pictures. Thanks Julie! :) 9-10-08 I have added Spring, Summer, and Winter,Spring Summer, Fall, PUMPKIN, and Silly Ollie Octopus on the misc. printables page. Also, I added The Mixed-Up Chameleon mini book and sequence to my mini book page. Enjoy! 9-2-08 We have had a lot of our cooking apples ready, so over the Labor Day weekend our grandson had fun helping us pick apples. He also thought the apple crisp was YUMMY!! Click on the apple to the left for the recipe. *�* 9-1-08 I added a new mini book At School to the mini books page on my printables. ENJOY! 8-28-08 I added a Book Report form on the graphic organizers printables. Also, "Scarecrow Song" and "What is a Whale?" on misc. printables page. ENJOY! 8-25-08 I added some new colored calendars and 5 Little Ladybugs poem comprehension to my misc. page. I will be adding the rest of the calendars tomorrow. ENJOY!! 8-22-08 I added a Reading Visualization Cloud on the graphic organizers printable page and 5 new comprehension poems and fact pages on the misc. page. I have had good feedback from you on these, so ENJOY! 8-15-08 I added an All About Me page to my misc. printables. Enjoy! 8-14-08 I have added 2 mini books Bumble Bee & Giraffe, Giraffe Also, more comprehension poems and fact pages: School, A Pickle Jar, Zebras, & Fall. Enjoy! 8-10-08 From a request, I added B&W Calendars with pictures. I added Apples, Raccoons, and Spiders comprehension stories on the misc. printables page. I'm going by my themes but let me know if there are others you would like. Enjoy! 8-7-08 I am starting a new adventure in making comprehension poems and stories. Check them out on my miscellaneous printables page. Let me know what you think by sending me an email. Thanks! *�* 8-4-08 I added some kids bookmarks on my misc. printables page. I corrected the Over in the Ocean mini book and added 2 more Over in... books. Enjoy! 8-1-08 I have added a new award on my awards page from Mr. Kyle. Thanks so much! *�* 7-31-08 I have updated my A+ Teacher Websites. 7-30-08 Since I had a request for black & white '08-'09 calendars, I posted them on my misc. printables page. You may need to refresh or reload the page. 7-26-08 The "good times" saying above is from DJ Inkers. I have updated my site with new graphics from Whispy Hollow. Click on the logo below to visit her site. 7-25-08 I have made monthly Word Bank Bookmarks available on my printables miscellaneous page. Enjoy! 7-24-08 I have made monthly calendars on my miscellaneous printables page for 2008-2009. I have also made some Panda Bear Panda Bear book stuff on the mini book page. Enjoy! 7-18-08 I have updated my "Over in the Ocean" page under themes. There is a mini book I made based on this book. Enjoy! 7-17-08 I hope you are enjoying your summer. I will have a few printables on my printables page soon!! 7-1-08 Happy 4th of July! I have added a new award from Mrs. Long on my awards page. Thanks Robin!! *�* 6-19-08 I have updated the calendar for the 2008~2009 school year. This was requested by a previous parent, so I am happy to do this. (Please reload or refresh the page.) Finally, we are drying out in IOWA. With all the flooding it has caused much damage to crops, homes, & businesses!! 6-1-08 Last day of school is June 3. Happy June! 5-1-08 Happy May! We are still having a lot of rain and it has made it very difficult for farmers to get in the fields but hopefully soon!! 4-22-08 Happy Earth Day! I have updated my A+ websites. I have also added a few new mini books to my printables page under spring & summer. Enjoy! 4-1-08 Happy April! 3-19-08 I have updated my A+ Websites page. Email me if you would like your site added. 3-17-08 I am updating for "SPRING" hopefully ~ we are still having a little snow this morning! 2-27-08 I have added a couple new graphic organizer story maps and a reader's theater script "Count Down for Spring" on my printables page. Enjoy! 2-24-08 I have updated for St. Patrick's Day.