Only 5 more days before the winter break.  I am trying to plan my lessons for the first few weeks in January so I can be on top of things in the new year....wonder how long that will last!  

Last week I made a Write the Room sight word game for my students.  It was holiday themed and part of my ELF unit on TPT.  My students loved it so much that I thought I would make another.  

We start off January with our thematic SNOW unit.  I have changed some of the sight words in the game. 


 First, I copy and laminate two sets of the game.  One set of cards I hang around the room.  The other set of cards are scattered on the table face down.  The student will pick a card and read the word.  Next, they find the matching picture with the boxes and use magnetic letters to build the word.  After they have built all 8 words, they can walk around the room with the clipboard and find the sight words.  They must write the words and bring them back to me for a final reading.  

I hope your students enjoy this game...Click Here... to get a copy!

  

How many days before winter break?  My kids sure are ready for a little time off.  We have been busy in Primary Sequence!  We are just wrapping up our Gingerbread unit.  We will soon start Holiday Helpers unit.  Go to Teachers Pay Teachers and see my Elf unit. 

Here is a little emergent reader for your class- Santa Surprise.  We are working on the sight word AND.  I hope you enjoy this interactive reader!

Is life every normal?  Sorry it has been a few weeks since I last posted anything new.  My students are working on sight words so I made this beginning literacy book for them to read.  We have been focusing on The Gingerbread Man.  I hope you can use this reader with your students... click here!

I printed the book and then cut them down to a smaller size with the paper cutter.  I wanted the text to be big enough... just couldn't figure out another way.

I am hoping to post a couple of cute elf lessons- Write the Room and Ten Frame Memory on TPT so go to my page and check them out. 

Book Art

OK.. It has been a while since I have blogged.  I have been SUPER busy with 5 days of professional development, leaving sub plans, Halloween, a hurricane and LIFE!  I really haven't created anything new.. just enjoying lesson spending money on Teachers Pay Teachers. 

I did create something exciting for more boring walls and electrical covers- BOOK ART! I went to Michael's and bought a package of "t-shirt" frames...3 for $9.99.  I took some 12 x12 blue scrap book paper and used it as a mat.  Then, I picked some of my favorite books(The Giving Tree, Thank You, Mr. Falker, Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly, The Relatives Came and Good Night Gorilla) and framed them.  I love my new wall art! 

Fall Smartboard Fun!

Happy Fall!  The leaves look so beautiful and the little squirrels are getting ready for a long winter in upstate NY.  My children have been practicing number identification, one- to - one correspondence and writing numbers to seven with this fun Sammy Squirrel Smart Board lesson.  Hope your students enjoy Sammy the Squirrel too!

fall

I am trying to keep my promise and here is a new shape game.  My students are learning about shapes with this game I created.  Students spin the spinner, identify the shape...to differentiate perhaps give an attribute ... then cover the shape on his or her game board.  Enjoy the weekend!!!!  TGIF

butterfly ten frame

We are starting a new themeatic focus- butterflies!  I have been searching blogs for ideas.  I have made a new game that focuses on the new common core math standards.

Students pick a number card from 0-10 and build that amount on their ten frame.  Students fill in the first row first.  Pick a different number and have the students build the new number.  Observe to see which students can

simply add or remove manipulatives and those that must begin from 1.  

Then assess students using the  ten frame # ID sheet.

A Great New Book

Kindergarten Common Core

I don't know about you but I have been stressing about the new common core.  Recently I found a new book to end all the stress.

This book is filled with many wonderful resources for teaching the Common Core State Standards. This workbook includes over 600 pages of Worksheets, Activity Centers, and Posters that teach all the Kindergarten English Language Arts Common Core Standards and all the Kindergarten Mathematics Common Core Standards!  Check it out...Kindergarten Common Core!

Pete The Cat

The last few days we have been reading books about Pete The Cat. 
 We just love Pete! He is a GROOVY cat!

We made Pete the Cat puppets and took a "rocking" tour of our school. 

Here is a great link for downloading a story and song http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/feature/petethecat/

New Year

It has been a really long time since I have blogged.  Last year I became a blog junkie!  I would spend hours reading all my favorite blogs.  I was so excited to start my own blog to share with teachers and friends... but then I did nothing. 
Well that has changed this year! I PROMISE to blog and share once a week.  I am  feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the new changes... APPR, Common Core, new children and teachers.  We just spent two days on staff development with the new teacher evaluation system.. yikes! 

It was so nice to actually spend time today with children.  I am feeling a little better today!  So I have a few pics of my new room.  I am so excited to be out of a cubicle! 

I made pretty curtains to cover up the electrical panels... but the new fire inspected did not like them so much.  So I guess I am stuck looking at grey panels.  Let me know if you have any ideas!

I have just finished  and posted my first differentiated unit- On The Farm.  Go to teacherspayteachers.com and take a peek.  It is filled with many hands-on learning activities for any kindergarten student.