Happy New Year From 

Reading Olympians

Reading O is wrapping up 2012 by throwing a sale on all the items in our store-including our 

Reading Olympians and our Reading Warriors Greek and Latin Root Instruction Programs.

Please contact us if you have any questions about our programs or root instruction in general!  We will offer a word of caution!!  

Root instruction becomes addictive for both students and teachers!!  

BEWARE!!

Silence for Sandy Hook Elementary

On the Ninth Day of Christmas 

My True Love Gave to Me...

Nine Ladies Dancing and a 

GIVEAWAY!

We hope you are enjoying this amazing holiday giveaway!  We are thrilled to be a part of such an amazing group of educators as we hop from blog to blog!

Welcome to the 9th day of Christmas here at 

Reading Olympians!

We are a blog devoted to vocabulary development through the instruction of Greek and Latin roots.  Roots are like powerful little keys to unlocking unknown words to our learners! Roots are also included in common core through eighth grade!

For the Ninth Day of Christmas we are giving away two of our Christmas activities.  Please follow the link to print for today only!   

We are also raffling winner's choice 
of our root programs.  
We offer Reading Olympians and Reading Warriors.  

Please follow the link to read about the importance of root instruction!

Teachers in both Middle School and High School levels are using the programs and 

LOVING the results!  

Please enter the GIVEAWAY at the end of the post for a chance to win one of our programs!

We are giving away two of our fun holiday activities! 

Follow link for a Ninth Day of Christmas only Freebie!

First is our super fun look at roots through 

CHRISTMASOLOGY!

We are also giving away our Figurative Language activity which brings Christmas Caroling fun into your classroom as you and your students analyze holiday songs in search of figurative language!  To conclude the study your students create Christmas cards using examples of figurative language!

Follow link for a Ninth Day of Christmas only Freebie!

 

 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

The holiday season continues and so do the amazing GIVEAWAYS!  Head on over to Teacher to the Core and enter to win some amazing products!!

Don't miss this AMAZING giveaway!  In addition to a huge variety of products to be given away--there is a Kindle Fire up for grabs as well!!  Tis the season to win fantastic prizes!!  

Follow the link and enter to win!

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We hope everyone had a wonderful and restful (hahaha) Thanksgiving!

Julie and I are moving through both Reading Olympians and Reading Warriors programs! Julie has finished Reading Olympians-check out her amazing pillars!

After a student completes a set of Greek roots 

(each named after a Greek figure) he/she gets to place a name tag on the corresponding pillar.  Not only are pillars filling up-but so are their 

reading necklaces! 

They are so proud of these necklaces!

This is what Reading Olympians looks like in our classroom, but we also want to give you a peek into other teachers using the program. 

Nicole Shelby from

http://teachingwithblondeambition.blogspot.com/2012/11/reading-olympians-and-warriors-root.html

 wrote a fantastic blog post describing how she implements Reading O in her classroom.  

One of our goals for this blog is to share how teachers who implement the program tweak it to make it fit their classroom structure.  We want to share a HUGE thank you to Nicole for sharing how Reading Olympians is run in her classroom!

Christmas Sweater Synonyms

You are wearing WHAT?

It sure can be hard to keep those kiddos engaged during the holiday season!  BUT the holidays are a perfect time to dive into a study of descriptive language.  The holidays are full of enchanting things to describe such as new fallen snow, Christmas trees, and ornaments.  However--none of that for this freebie!  Let's have some fun describing 

CHRISTMAS SWEATERS!

Students brainstorm synonyms for the words used to describe the sweaters.
Once they have descriptive words for the sweaters, they get to create their own! 

Replace the word "old" and "good" with descriptive synonyms!

Now students get to create their own crazy sweaters!

Find many more fun holiday activity ideas by visiting 

The Holiday Link Up!!  

http://corkboardconnections.blogspot.com/2012/11/holidaylearning.html

Christmasology & Holiday Figurative Language

We are taking a Thanksgiving Break from Root of the Day because it is time for.... CYBER MONDAY-plus Tuesday Sale!

It is time to shop till you drop! We are excited to share a couple of fun holiday activities with you! Enter the code CMT12 for 28% off all items in our store!  Kick off the new year with a study of roots with our  Reading Olympian or Reading Warriors  root instruction programs! 
Holiday activities hot off the press...

As you may know our blog and many of the products in our store are based on teaching Greek and Latin roots (and stems).  The study of prefixes and suffixes are included in Common Core grades K-8. We have created a fun holiday activity to combine root instruction with Christmas cheer!  
The North Pole is in need of Christmasologists!  Students complete the activities to apply for jobs, create an invention to help Santa (such as an autohotcoca machine), and to help revise the North Pole Dictionary (define words such as subaquatic Santa).  The activities are geared towards any level of root knowledge and can even be used as an introduction into roots! There is a glossary of roots used for those students who have not participated in root instruction! 

Not all of our products are based on root instruction!

Have holiday fun with this Christmas themed figurative language pack!  Students find samples of figurative language in Christmas Carols.  After they identify metaphors, similes, etc...they create their own Christmas cards using figurative language!  There are two varieties of cards-one set includes the figurative language greeting and one does not include a greeting so students can create their own!

Students find samples of figurative language in the included  Christmas Carol lyrics.

Below are samples of the greeting cards!  These cards make great Christmas presents while still maintaining instruction through the holiday season!

   This Thanksgiving we are thankful to say that our products are created using the amazing graphics of Michelle Tsivgadellis. She is not only off the chart talented but helpful, supportive and kind!!

 © The 3AM Teacher Created by Michelle Tsivgadellis http://the3amteacher.blogspot.com/

 Please link to Michelle's blog to see all the amazing TPT stores participating in the sale!