Literacy Centers - Letter /Kk/

Whoa! Must get back to blogging!  Got some new refreshing ideas from our Little Apple Tech Festival that I attend each year for Technology professional development.  Attended my co-worker and friend's session on blogging.  It was just the thing to motivate me to focus on getting my blog back up and current.

This is my third year in the primary grade of Kinderland!  I say that like it is Candyland, but truly we are in our own little world.  We have so much to do with the bitties that a lot of the time our needs as teachers are completely different from other grade levels.  I have been spending time creating and working on building my material for primary over the past couple of years.  I still have a LONG way to go to fill like I have my resources where I want, but who am I kidding can we ever really have too much to pull from?

One of my goals has been also to increase my products on my Teachers Pay Teachers site. I enjoy tweaking and adding my own spin on activities, while also creating new ones.  Sharing is also one of the things I love to do!  If I can help others this bring me joy!

We finally have gotten to work with guided groups.  We have mostly now can manage our own behaviors so that I can focus on the needs of my kids.  Working in a building that is 65% free and reduced status out needs of our students very greatly.  We have done mostly whole class teaching due to teaching appropriate behaviors.  I am excited that we can now start to work like "student's".  I knew they could, we just needed LOTS of practice.  We are getting reading to work on the letter /Kk/ so I created my own Write the Room that included three different types of levels to meet the needs of my learners.  Students can practice just finding and writing words/write them in sentences and create their own sentence.

Building Reading Response Skills Early!

I am a believer that it's never too early to introduce skills as long as they are grade level appropriate.  We are starting to learn about responding to reading with our writing.  One of the easiest ways for a young students to respond to reading is asking them what their favorite part of a book was.  This week we are reading "Down On the Farm" by Scholastic and is included in our Harcourt curriculum.  I love modeling for students and cannot stress enough how important it is for teachers to model reading and also how we thinking when we read.  I created a worksheet to help support this modeling and am happy to share this with you at my TpT store!

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I think it is also important to encourage drawing to support how an illustrator matches the pictures to the writing is the book and this is supported in this worksheet.  The project also includes and editable sheet so you can add your own book covers to match the needs of your classroom.  My hope in including a picture of the cover is to help parents see the books we are reading and encourage them to pick up a book or two that their child enjoys for their home library.

Enjoy!

Building Numbers 1-20

Wow, it 's been almost a year since my last post!  In my defense we put our home on the market and bought a new/old home:)  We have been remodeling the kitchen so that has taken quite a bit of my time....ok let's be honest...my husband's time!

I am excited to share a new product! Building Numbers 1-20 activity. 

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I hope you enjoy it as much as my students do!

"Bee" Mine Valentine Project

Since switching grade levels it's been hard for me to keep up on the blog because I have myself so focused in learning all the standards for Kindergarten while creating a learning environment for my bitties. I have however created a new project and uploaded it to my store. Found a super cute Bee Mine project but it didn't have a template so I created a template for us busy teachers that cannot hand trace and cut all the parts to a project.  You can get the template I created HERE.

Jamberry Cash & Carry

Excited for Kindergarten!

I'm so excited to teach Kindergarten next year.  My mind has been racing since I was told I get too!  It was so fun helping last week with Kinder Screening and seeing the new little ones so eager to be here!  BIG change from 5th grade.

Most of the Kinders I screens recognized their alphabet but as with every class you find those that need more practice.  Last night I was looking in Really Good Stuff and saw Letter cards for Concentration...I didn't like the ones they had so I decided to make my own!

 

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I love the Monster Graphics from TpT!  I am printing out today and laminating so I can start preparing for the upcoming school year in August.  My mind is flooded with ideas and want to do so much.  My husband reminded me of the story of the "Tortoise and the Hare" and that you don't always have to finish fast, it's the consistency that will have you finish well!  He is so smart!

I'd love to hear your ideas on how you could and can use alphabet cards in the classroom. 

Show NOT Tell!!!

What a great idea to incorporate ELA standards into your Show and Tell time!  Instead of students telling about their item have them create questions and present in front of the class!!  I have created a simple packet to help you easily incorporate this into your classroom!  Visit my teacher stores to purchase for only $1.00!

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