Kindergarten and first grade students can strengthen their emergent reading and writing skills with these cute party animals. This book contains a repetitive text pattern and cute clip art to engage young readers. Two versions are included in this download: A. An emergent reader mini-book to print and fold. Great for guided reading. B. An emergent reader with words on each page left out for students to write themselves. Great for use in a literacy station.
This activity is designed to give student the opportunities to explore addition fact family sets from 1 – 10. This cute owl activity is an ideal way for students to practice their basic number facts.
Included in this product are: Owl Nest Player Cards (1-10), 2 Sets of Egg Number Cards, 1 Nest Ten Frame & Egg Counter Cards.
Game 1: Place the Owl Nest Cards & Egg Number Cards on the table. Players choose a nest. They find two egg cards that they can add together to make the number on the nest. They record their number work on the recording sheet. Students record 5 fact family nests.
Game 2: Give each player a Nest Ten Frame and a set of Egg Counter Cards. Place the Owl Nest Cards face down on the table. Students pick an owl nest card. They use the egg counter cards to explore how to make that number on the ten frame – ‘how many red and blue eggs can you add together to make X?’. “I used _____ red and ______ blue eggs’. Students record their fact families on the recording sheet. Students repeat this activity 5 times.
This is a peek at what the Nursery Rhyme packets include! It shows examples from all the different activities and includes a freebie. The actual packets contain much more!
Adorable little birdie and owl themed Daily 5 Posters FREE for you to download for your classroom. Thanks for downloading my free product! Any feedback is much appreciated!!
“Pencil Pen Crayon Marker” is a fun center activity that can be used at the Writing Center, Sight Word Center, Word Work Center, and many other places.
This is a fun way to practice writing sight words, friends’ names, spelling words, and word families.
Living or Non-Living? Let your students decide with these phonics-based science worksheets. If your students are learning to decode CVC words, you can help them use those words on a “real world” level by sorting living and non-living objects on a reading level they can handle. Students can learn vocabulary, decoding skills, and science concepts all at the same time!
In response to the “even-number-of-objects” requests, each lesson/worksheet now has two living and two non-living objects. Note: This set includes Short “A” only.
CURRENT FILE (Short “A”) Lesson 1: fan, man, jam, ram Lesson 2: Jan, van, Sam, ham Lesson 3: hat, bat, dad, lad Lesson 4: Nan, pan, man, can Lesson 5: cat, rat, map, cap Lesson 6: bat, mat, pad, dad Lesson 7: rag, bag, rat, bat
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It’s May already, time sure flies. Time to stop by and see what our teaching friends are doing during the school closures. This is the last link-up for this school year. We’ll see you again in August.
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Now That School’s Out. What Will We Do for the Summer?
Summer is the time for fun, fun, fun! School is out no more hitting the books. The only problem is that much of what was learned during the school year is forgotten, “out of sight, out of mind.” Not so with these fun educational activities that will keep the children looking for more and not even realizing they’re learning.
I am SO thankful for the many teachers who know more than me and their willingness to share their expertise! There is no reason to reinvent the wheel! Here are some tried & true tools that have saved my time and sanity with distance learning!
Will a delayed start to kindergarten improve a child’s success in school? Many kindergartners have not experienced a full school year due to the pandemic. This re-post might help some parents and teachers in reaching what might be a more difficult than usual decision this year.
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This graphic organizer is a great way for students to record math vocabulary in a way that will help them understand and remember new words!
What’s included? 1. A full page graphic organizer – perfect for whole class or group work! 2. Sample – use as a model for students 3. Two different sized partial sheet graphic organizers – perfect for cutting and pasting in math journals OR stapling together to make a vocabulary booklet 4. Covers – one for each size to use if you want students to create vocabulary booklets
Free. This will give you an example of the type of open-ended questions you will find in No-Nonsense Teaching read aloud ‘Theme’ series of resources. The paid ‘Theme’ series of resources includes enough purposeful talk questions to last 2 – 4 lessons depending on the book.
Quality open-ended comprehension questions take time to develop. No-Nonsense Teaching has done the time-consuming work for you.
The Hueys and the New Jumper by Oliver Jeffers is an entertaining read aloud which asks readers to reflect upon our need as humans to both conform with others and at the same time be an individual.
This resource includes scaffolded questions to help guide children in thinking deeply about the text and understanding the theme or big ideas.
The questions are intended to be used in conjunction with purposeful talk strategies.
These questions are incredibly valuable to: * include in a school’s book room * use the questions for discussion purposes at PLCs * Literacy Coaches, Consultants and support teachers * Administrators to lead PLCs and offer suggestions and book choices
Included: * open-ended comprehension questions that require high-level thinking * suggested flow of a lesson broken into BEFORE, DURING and AFTER reading
Theme, Big Ideas, Purposeful Talk, Accountable Talk, Comprehension, Read Aloud
Are you looking for a fun “Spring” reinforcer activity to use with your students? Do your little ones love bugs? Then this fun FREEBIE is just the activity to use to keep your students engaged and learning!! There are two variations to use this activity.
Catch a Bug Game Directions for version #1: Print the bug jar (page 3) and the blank sheet of bugs (page 4) on card stock and laminate. Adhere velcro on the jar and bugs. Use as a token board or let the students take off a bug after they complete their speech or language target.
Directions for version #2: Print the bug jar (page 3) and the sheet of bugs with numbers (page 5) on card stock and laminate. Use an empty container and place all the bugs in the jar. I put paper clips on the bugs and then we used my magnetic fishing pole to catch bugs and earn points. The student with the most points wins the game!
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This packet is designed to set up learning centers in your classroom. Labeling each center helps your students locate their designated center for the day and helps you stay organized.
Included in this packet: • 26 Full Page Signs (8.5 by 11) • 5 EDITABLE signs with clip art to personalize your centers(8.5 by 11) • 24 one quarter page signs (3.5 by 5 ) • 12 EDITABLE one quarter page editable signs with clip art (3.5 by 5) • 8 small EDITABLE signs to enter student’s names or to label center materials.
Center signs included: • Sand Center • Social Studies Center • Write the Room • Word Work • Drama Center • Pocket Chart Center • Poetry Center • Puzzle Center • Listen to Reading • Partner Reading • Writing Center • Art Center • Technology Center • Blocks Center • Big Book Center • Independent Reading Center • Math by Myself • Math with Someone • Math Technology • Work with the Teacher • Spelling Center • Phonics Center • Fluency Center • Creative Writing Center • Library Center • Math Center
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This 15 Minute Timer is set up in a PowerPoint Presentation. It is set to change slides every minute. If you want your students to work for only 10 minutes, set the timer to 10 minutes and click start. No one will need to ask you how many minutes are left.
This PPT is also editable. You can change the amount of minutes you want your students to work. You can also add or subtract slides, add your own pictures, or insert sound at the end.
This timer can be used for any classroom and/or any grade. Use it for your center rotations or for a math fact drill.
However you use this timer, it’s here to get you started.
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In this FREE packet, you will find a compilation of 14 roadway photos to use for formative assessment. At different points in a particular lesson or unit, you can have your students rate their own knowledge in relation to the 3-4 pictures that you choose. This is applicable to any grade level K-Adults as it is a teaching tool that can be used with any topic.
Chicka the Clown is a book I created for my class years ago when we were just ending our Chicka Chicka Back to School unit, but just starting a color and shape clown unit. So Chicka the Clown was born…a segue, if you will, between themes! I wanted an activity for them to complete at a literacy station, but I also wanted a drawing tutorial they could easily follow. Chicka the Clown is what I came up with and I have to say I was really impressed with the drawings my children produced. I also like the fact that they were reading the instructions and practicing colors and shapes as they went along. I hope you enjoy Chicka the Clown in your classroom! Richi Reynolds 2012
From Stick It Clip Art Studios I bring you…my first clip art freebie! These are stick figures with fractions.
I’m just getting started and would love any feedback you may have about how to improve my clip art.
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GUARANTEE: I guarantee you that all the clip art in this bundle was created by me. You are in no danger of copyright infringement. But if you try to sell this clip art as your own, I will hunt you down and prosecute to the fullest extent of copyright law!
If you like this small packet, check out my fractions clip art! And keep an eye out for new clip art, coming soon!
Looking for a fun interactive game for your students to practice telling time to the hour? This game will do that and keep your students engaged and having fun!
How to Play Scoot Every student gets a copy of the response sheet. Students will move from desk to desk or seat to seat, reading the card or you put there and answering it on their sheet in the corresponding box.
It is very important to practice moving from desk to desk or seat to seat before playing the game. Do this a couple of times so they get the hang of moving to the next number. When you say “Scoot” they get up, push in their chair and take their clipboard and pencil to the next numbered desk or seat.
Included: ❊ 24 time cards ❋ Blank template to create own time cards ❊ 2 response sheets with and without numbered boxes.
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This is an activity from my “Fun With Digraphs” pack. It is designed to practice the digraph /th/. This freebie includes ONE of the Roll and Graph activities from the full version! This Freebie includes: * Roll and Graph * Roll and Graph Recording Sheet
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It includes: Roll and Graph (4 versions for each digraph) * Puzzles- Matching and Create-Your-Own * Practice page (One for each digraph) * Room sort activity * Interactive Notebook review page * 8 Anchor Charts (2 for each Digraph- One has just pictures, and one has words and pictures)
I made this simple letter/sound path game for one of my reading groups. It covers the first 6 sounds that I introduce : p, m, t, a, s, and c. Students must give the sound for the letter they land on.
Simply print, grab a die and some playing pieces and you are all set!
The directions are in black and white. I print them on the back of the game boards.
I’m sharing it here in case it may be helpful to someone else. If it was, please consider leaving feedback! It encourages me to post more resources.
These are FREE samples from my Kindergarten Morning Work Bundle.
Free Kindergarten Morning Work includes 18 worksheet pages. These pages are great for Preschool, kindergarten and first grade students. Children will practice tracing, writing, sorting, comparing, counting and more. Children are encouraged to use thinking skills while improving their writing and reading skills.
It is a simple word sort I used this week for double medial consonants- similar to the 1+1+1 or doubling rule.
Small amount of colour so it can easily be printed in black and white or colour! No need for instructions- simply cut, sort and glue! Even if the kiddo’s don’t get the rule, they can still visually identify the pattern and sort them.
I hope you enjoy this resource, and I would love to hear your feedback, good or bad.
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Turning my thoughts to sunny days and warmer weather!!! Can’t you just smell spring in the air? Daffodils beginning to bloom, Lilac trees starting to flower, and Lilies of the Valley popping up. A vaccine for Covid-19 hopefully soon.
It’s been five weeks since we’ve been quarantined and it has taken me this long to even try to organize my thoughts (& life!) Well, still working on the life part. . . How are you all doing? Despite teaching 30+ years, I feel like a brand-new teacher again, attempting to get a handle on “distance learning”, “remote learning”, whatever you want to call it: learning without physically being with my students! Here are 5 tips to help ease the transition to distance learning.
This Coronavirus pandemic is extremely serious and stressful, but independent reading can be part of a useful solution to children learning at home. Now is a good time to hook kids on reading because they can choose their own books according to their own interests. At the same time, they can practice previously taught reading skills and improve in many ways.
Each year, my husband reads the book “My Side of the Mountain” to his science students. As a culminating activity, the students make falcon hoods since Sam has a peregrine falcon for hunting. Take a look at some of the falcon hoods his 6th grade students made in my latest blog post.
Use these simple, yet practical, ideas to help safeguard your family during the Coronavirus pandemic. Be sure to read the comments section for other great ideas and videos shared by our readers.
The package contains 6 worksheets on even and odd numbers. It includes coloring in the odd and even numbers, filling in the gaps and completing odd / even numbers mazes. These resources all contain a cute pencil theme.
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This original song from Elementary Music Teacher is sure to be a favorite for elementary students in the general classroom, music classroom and beyond! The funky beat and clear actions inspire us to get engaged and moving with the music. Use this song as a reward for students or as a planned movement activity. OT/PT professionals and Physical Education teachers can readily incorporate this song into their curricula, as well. Enjoy!
Scoot is a fun game that gets your students up and moving around the room. This scoot game uses tally marks up to 25. There are 24 scoot cards included in this set along with a recording sheet and a teacher answer sheet. Please contact me with any questions: thechocolateteacher3@gmail.com
Use these traceable alphabet pages to create student alphabet books. Students can add to the pages by drawing, writing, or gluing clippings from magazines or other sources.
Are you looking for a simple emergent reader text to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? This emergent reader text is available as a free product. It includes easy to read sight words and a repetitive pattern for your emerging readers. All pages, images and text are black and white to save on ink. Page numbers are included on each page.
Sight words include: is, in, with, on, by
Common Core correlation for kindergarten: K.RF.3 K.RF.1 K.RF.1 K.RF.4
Super Sentences – CVC Edition is the perfect resource for helping your students learn how to write a sentence, read sentence and understand sentence structure. In this multi-sensory approach, students will practice writing sentences in a fun and engaging way. As a teacher I am always looking for ways to practice multiple skills at one time. These Super Sentence pages do just that. Your students will practice reading, writing and comprehension all in one page.
Each page includes the following sections: *Read It – I encourage my students to read the sentence independently and touch each word as they read . *Build It – Students will cut the words from the bottom of the page and build the sentence correctly. Having the sentence at the top of the page allows the students to practice a proper sentence using matching as necessary. *Write It – Students will copy the sentence and write it on the lines provided. Encourage students to use proper handwriting and spacing during this step. *Draw It – Students will illustrate the sentence. If students have read the sentence independently then you have a chance to assess reading comprehension in this section.
