Meet the New Chalkies! FREEBIES

Hello Primary Chalkboard Friends,

We are so excited over here because we have just welcomed 9 fantastic bloggers/friends into the Primary Chalkboard family!

Get ready, because they are so excited to share their experience, tips, and ideas with you! Let's start right now. Below you will find out a little about each new Chalkie, a link to one of their favorite products, AND a link to one of their spectacular FREEBIES!

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We would love for you to leave our new friends some love in the comments below!

National Poetry Month

Aloha friends! It's Corinna from Surfin' Through Second. Did you know April is National Poetry Month? This is a great time to pull out your favorite poems and get your students reading and writing poetry.

In my class I have a few book boxes full of poetry and of course lots of shelf space for our favorite authors.

It's wonderful to smother your class in poetry and colorful words. Once they have heard and read a variety of poems it's time to start writing their own.

I usually start with simple shape poems. You can brainstorm ideas and write a class shape poem and then let them write their own.

Name poems are fun and kids love writing about themselves.

Click {HERE} for this acrostic name post and freebie.

This is a fun bulletin board idea using cinquains about weather.

Click {HERE} for this post on writing Cinquains

Spring is the perfect theme for poetry. Flowers, rainbows, animals and weather are all great topics to get your kids writing.

Here is a great idea from Mrs. Jone's Kindergarten for younger students incorporating poetry and literacy.

Another great pack from Vicky Moore to get your students loving poetry.

Finally a few freebies for you. This one is from Mrs. Rios Teaches. Click on the picture to grab this in Google Docs.

I have a bit of an obsession with rainbows. I see them almost everyday and I still love them!

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Hopefully this post has given you some great ideas to get you ready for a fun month!! I am looking forward it.

Peep..Peep...Hatching Chicks

Hi Friends... Anna here from Simply Skilled in Second! I hope this finds you all well on this Sunday morning. I am here to share a little bit of Spring with you :)

When I first started teaching second grade, I wanted my students to have a hands-on experience with live animals by doing a life cycle unit. I chose chicks...of course...aren't they just the cutest little things!

Unfortunately, I don't get to do this unit anymore because our Kindergarteners do this unit in their classroom so I had to give it up. Sadsville!!! :( But it was one of my favorite units to teach :)

An online friend of mine recently told me that she was going to be hatching chicks with her second graders and I begged her to send me some pics of it because I wanted to blog about this unit for a while.

Here are a couple of adorable videos on Hatching Chicks...

Check out this website of an actual farm. They have real-time video footage of different types of hatchlings...how adorable is this!!!!

Check out this cool website on Candling your chick eggs. This is AWESOME! Candling our eggs was one of my favorite things to do. It is amazing what you can see inside of the chick egg when you apply light to it.

My sweet friend shared some photos with me of her class hatching chicks this past week and I was sooooo happy to follow along on her fun chick journey through pictures...

Excited little ones checking out the eggs...they didn't even take off their backpacks...

STRAIGHT TO THE EGGS...they said!