Author Archives: Carolyn Wilhelm

About Carolyn Wilhelm

Carolyn Wilhelm is the author of The Wise Owl Factory and The Wise Owl Factory Book a Day Blog. She has an MS in Gifted Education, an MA in Curriculum and Instruction K-12, and is a National Board Certified Teacher.

10 Winner Giveaway on Teachers Notebook 5-17 through 5-23-2012

Posted on 05/16/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

10 Winner Giveaway on Teachers Notebook for my Reading Rodeo, Grade 1, reading and math day! Enter the giveaway on 5-17, 10 winners will be notified by TN on 5-23-2012, so good luck! Click here to enter the giveaway Carolyn … Continue reading →

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Small Hands Creating Hope Project for the American Cancer Society

Posted on 05/14/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

Small Hands Creating Hope MaryAnne from Mama Smiles will celebrate 30 years in May since she was diagnosed with pediatric cancer at 22 months of age. In honor of the occasion, MaryAnne has put together a Small Hands Creating Hope book as a fundraiser … Continue reading →

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Free Pocket Chart Cards for Fun and Fractured Nursery Rhymes

Posted on 05/14/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

Free Pocket Chart Cards for Fun and Fractured Nursery Rhymes Ms. Tonya at Strings, Keys, and Melodies has such a great blog post about nursery rhymes that I was inspired to make a free PDF.  Please visit her blog for … Continue reading →

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Father’s Day Freebie

Posted on 05/09/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

It is nice when there is time to make something for dad before the end of the school year, so I’m posting this in case teachers have time!

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Mother’s Day Freebie PDF

Posted on 05/08/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

Updated

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Teacher Appreciation Jackpot Event May 6, 2012

Posted on 05/04/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

Teacher Appreciation Jackpot day May 6th! Thank you to everyone who participated in the Teacher Appreciation Jackpot!  I hope you all had a wonderful time finding freebies all day long.  I am adding this post to the CAUGHT IN THE … Continue reading →

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Book 296: Quack and Count by Keith Baker

Posted on 05/03/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

Quack and Count by Keith Baker Quack and Count by Keith Baker is a book about seven ducks and is really several pages of pictures of the seven ducks doing two different things.  It makes and excellent introduction to the … Continue reading →

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Book 295: Double the Ducks

Posted on 05/02/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

Double the Ducks Math Start Book by Stuart J. Murphy,Valeria Petrone (Illustrator) Recently, Jackie Higgins wrote a blog post about Double the Ducks, which inspired me to check the book out of the library and read it for myself.  It … Continue reading →

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Free Interactive Italy Presentations

Posted on 04/30/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

FREE Interactive Italy Presentations I an pleased to be a guest blogger on Globicate again today, and I made a free interactive Snapshot of Italy SMART board presentation, and a the same thing as a free Power Point presentation for that post.  Italy is so interesting … Continue reading →

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Globicate’s Daily G.L.O.W

Posted on 04/29/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

Globicate has just posted a free Daily G.L.O.W. with writing prompts about Italian buildings. I made a free interactive Snapshot of Italy SMART board presentation, and the same thing as a free Power Point presentation to accompany her post.  My … Continue reading →

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Free Join Start Unknown Space Theme Math PDF (updated)

Posted on 04/27/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

Free and just added to Teachers Notebook: Addition Start Unknown Space Theme Math for K-1 Cognitive Guided Instruction math (CGI) has basic problem types that are more easily explained to adults with math sentences such as _____ = 3 = … Continue reading →

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Free: 18 Lessons on Teachers Notebook by Wise Owl Factory, a Round-up!

Posted on 04/23/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

Did you know that Wise Owl Factory (me) has 18 free lessons on Teachers Notebook?  This post will be a round-up of my free lessons on that site.  It is free to join Teachers Notebook and there are hundreds of … Continue reading →

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Book 294: STAR WARS: The Story of Darth Vader

Posted on 04/19/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

STAR WARS: The Story of Darth Vader by Catherine Saunders A DK Reader, Level 3 (reading alone level) So many children’s books are written for girls and so many girls naturally love reading or being read to that it is … Continue reading →

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10 Winner Giveaway on Teacher’s Notebook

Posted on 04/17/2012 by Carolyn Wilhelm

10 Winner Giveaway on Teacher’s Notebook 10 lucky winners will win the Grade 1 Everyday Math SMART board Pack item from the teacher shop of Wise-Owl-Factory. This giveaway is hosted by Teachers Notebook who decides the winners and handles the … Continue reading →

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