December 11, 2009
Winter is approaching…
October 27, 2009
While I was away…
I hope everyone has been enjoying the beginning of the new school year. I apologize for being away. However, I am now 4 months pregnant and expecting my first baby in the Spring!
I will still try and post periodically but I have been exhausted!
Rhyming words/word family printable (ignore the color words labled on each page)
June 30, 2009
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!
CCBB Arm and Hand Painting:Paint the student’s hand green and part of their arm brown. Press their hand and arm on a large peice of paper, this will make a coconut tree print. Add letter sticks, foam letters, or have the students use letter stamps on their painting after it had dried.
CCBB Letter Match: I made a large coconut tree out of construction paper and wrote all the lower case letters on the tree. I then made 26 brown coconuts and wrote the upper case letters on them. After laminating everything the students place the coconut letters on top of the coconut tree.
June 28, 2009
Summer Goals
Clean and oragnize the media room closet
Read more: I recently finished The Last Lecture and started The Five People You Meet in Heaven. So far I reccomend both books.
Clean out and organize scrapbooking materials
Clean 2 bedroom drawers
Clean out and donate clothes I took all the clothes out of my closet today and sorted through them. I placed all the clothing that I have not used in a while in garbage bags. I am going to call someone this week to come pick them up or drop them off somewhere. A lot of the things I got ride of are still very nice and I hope someone who can really use them finds them…
June 16, 2009
Kindergarten?
Today I was working on my kindergarten sub binder for next year in an attempt to be organized! I cam across an article about a substitute kindergarten teacher. I found it humorous and it gave me some prospective… Enjoy!
June 7, 2009
The Kissing Hand
February 24, 2009
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
February 18, 2009
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Very Hungry Caterpillar “movie”
Printable Booklet from Hubbard’s Cupboard
Making Learning Fun Cut and Paste Caterpillar
Making Learning Fun Cut and Paste Butterfly
Making Learning Fun True/False Cards (counting)
Making Learning Fun Upper and Lower Case Match
Making Learning Fun Days of the Week Flip Book
February 11, 2009
Letter Recognition
I have been thinking about next year. Already you ask? Yes, because that is just how I am! I plan ahead in my head and my website is just one way to get out all the ideas and actually organize my thoughts. In the process I thought it could help some other teachers as well.
Tips for home from Little Giraffes
ABC (items to glue on each letter) Projects from Giggle Potz
Ideas for sorting letters (some examples)
Sorting by color (magnetic letters)
Locating a particular letter and sorting them from the rest of the group
Sorting by upper and lower case
Letters with sticks vs. letters without sticks
Letters with circles vs letters without circles
Awesome ideas from the Florida Center for Reading Research
Font Box Letter Sorting For this center the teacher would decide ahead of time which letters the students will be looking for. The teacher will then write or type the letters on the top of the graph. I left the graph in a Word document so that it can be changed to meet the needs of individual students. The students then search the font box for the letters they are looking for. The font box is any old box with papers that have different letters in different fonts. The box would also contain glue sticks and scissors.
The font box concept can then be done by giving students the same graph and a magazine. The students will flip through the pages looking for different letters.
Menu/phone book/television guide letter hunt: For this the students need one of the previous mentioned items and a highlighter. The teacher would tell the student a particular letter to look for and the student would highlight as many of that letter as they could locate.
Write the letters of the alphabet on the outside edge of a paper plate and write the letters again on individual clothespins. The students would clip the clothespins to the outside edge of the plate. The students can match letters to themselves or upper to lower. (I do this one in summer school for the group that will be entering kindergarten in the fall and they love it!)
We also do the above activity when learning about our first names. I have each students first name written on a sentence strip, the students have to locate the letters in their name and clip them in the appropriate spot.
Starfall This website has short activities for each letter. I use this in the computer center of my room and the kids enjoy using it. The site also has stories and ideas for the year as it progresses.
