A Little Book Fair Fun

Hi friends! It's Haley from My Silly Firsties! Next week is one of my FAVORITE times of the year. IT's BOOK FAIR week. I LOVE books...but something about buying from the book fair is just more fun that buying from Amazon. Why is that?!

Anyway...the babies are super excited too. Yesterday we got to watch some little Scholastic previews about the books they would see at the fair and our fabulous librarian talked with them about how it would work.

They don't deliver the books until Friday, so our preview day is Monday. Until then, we let them look over the book orders and choose some books they were hoping to get. WELL...it just so happened that we are writing reviews and persuasive pieces in writing right now. So I whipped up these little books for them, and we read I Wanna Iguana as a mentor text. We talked about the ways Alex talked his mom into getting him the iguana and how they could use that in their writing.

Then I had them cut the books out that they were hoping to get and glue them on their little books.

I absolutely 100% love their letters to their parents! 

So...here's the thing. I whipped those up at school and they aren't as cute as I wanted. So I made some cuter ones for my friends! 

Just click the picture to grab your copy! :) I hope you can use this! I made an additional cover that says Book Order in case you want to do the activity with a monthly book order. 13 wake ups before Christmas Break! We can do it!! :) 

Haley {My Silly Firsties}

Hi friends! I am SO excited to be here! This group of girls is fabulous and I am loving all the freebies so far!! 

Now for a little about me! :) I blog over at My Silly Firsties! I have been teaching first grade for 4 years, and I did a year in 3rd grade. NOT my favorite, haha. I think I would love it now but it was my first year and you know how that goes!! :) My favorite time of our day is Read-Aloud. I try to read 2-4 books everyday to them. Then they have tons of schema when we do mini lessons in Reader's Workshop or need Mentor Texts for Writer's Workshop. Plus I love hearing them laugh, make connections, and use their comprehension strategies!

Those answers are pretty self-explanatory, hahaha! :) Anytime someone visits my classroom they comment on the level of organized chaos, haha.  Sometimes they just comment on the chaos!! :) I'm a pretty laid-back teacher and my room gets pretty crazy and loud. I am also OBSESSED with chips and queso...much to the dismay of the constant diet I am on, haha. 

I have a serious Amazon problem. Last night I ordered like 12 books. It's bad. We are starting a new author study and I THOUGHT I had every Mo Willems and Oliver Jeffers book but I was wrong! I had to rectify that!! :) 

I'm married to a fabulous, supportive, and hilarious computer nerd. No one makes me laugh like my Keith does! We have a sweet puppy named Tucker that we love! You will also see tons of pictures of Liam..my sweet baby brother. He's 6 years old and in kinder. And I am totally biased but the boy is a math WHIZ! I seriously can not stump him with story problems no matter how hard I try! 

Here's a few of my favorite things! I love Target, glitter, leopard print, laughing, and NAPS! 

And finally, my classroom! I believe in relationship. Every decision I make starts there. I try to build kindness, empathy, and independence in my kiddos. I also try to make everything as interactive and fun as possible :). 

And now for your freebie! We are working super hard on nouns and verbs so I made this little Super freebie for you sweet friends!! It includes a sort for your pocket chart and 2 little no-prep activities for them to practice with! :) Head on over to my TPT store to snag it! :)