tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23387865574862805382024-03-13T13:33:22.478-07:00Mrs. Kelly's KlassWelcome to my blog! It is geared toward Primary Teachers! Sam Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11658702315156062253noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2338786557486280538.post-43372486167603038422017-03-26T15:17:00.001-07:002017-03-26T15:22:46.273-07:00Mystery Egg - Easter Clue Solving FUN! <br />
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I saw a giant egg at Target and couldn't resist. I knew I had to have it but wasn't sure what I needed it for! I saw some equally amazing giant eggs at Kroger if you're looking for one. After some thought, I landed on this idea for a little whole-class fun! </div>
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SUPER easy, all you need to do is hide a whole group activity inside a large Easter egg (or an Easter basket if you can't find an egg). Some ideas of what you can hide would be sidewalk chalk, paints, bubbles, gum, lollipops... whatever you think might be fun for your class!</div>
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Then, you will provide four clues for what is inside the egg! Reveal each clue one at a time. After each clue, discuss predictions as a class. Talk about how your predictions changed as clues were added based on the new information. For this freebie, I have provided clues for three different objects: sidewalk chalk, paints, and bubbles! If you'd like to hide something else in the egg, all you will need to do is come up with four clues that build upon each other. </div>
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After the final clue, send students to their desks to draw and label their predictions of what is in the egg.</div>
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Then, the reveal! Open up the egg to reveal the Easter surprise! Talk about how it fit each of the clues given. Send the kids back to their seats to finish their recording sheets. Then, of course, the BEST PART! Whatever you've hidden in the egg, you can now enjoy together!</div>
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This activity works just as beautifully with a cute little Easter basket! </div>
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And that's it! Be sure to grab this freebie to try with your kiddos! You can <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easter-Mystery-Egg-3069769">click here</a> or click the image below to download. </div>
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Have you grabbed this Easter Literacy Freebie yet? It has a cute little emergent reader, a beginning blends sort, and a CVC "bunny belly spelling" station. </div>
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And don't forget to check out these spring thematic units! </div>
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It's almost Spring - though we are expecting our first big snowfall of the season this weekend... Yikes! Regardless, I love Spring and the fun topics that come with the season. Here's a peek into some of the activities we use to teach about plants and weather. Be sure to grab the freebie at the end of each section! </div>
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After reading some books and watching some videos on plants, we create this brace map for what plants need, what they have, and what they are. </div>
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We learn about the parts of a plant and do some labeling. </div>
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We also learn about the life cycle of a plant before we prepare to grow our own! </div>
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Through the course of our plant unit, the kids will get to sprout their own lima beans and grow marigolds (either one as a class in a clay pot or individually in small cups!) Before we plant our marigolds, we will get our hands into a soil exploration. </div>
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We also do some learning about plant needs to prepare them for caring for their plants. I love these little flipbooks with a sentence starter!</div>
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Then we'll learn about the steps for growing a flower with this chart. We also do some how-to writing on this topic. </div>
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In addition to growing their own flowers, the kids will each sprout their own lima beans in a plastic bag. We make these cute little garden templates to frame the plastic bags and so kids can easily identify their seeds. </div>
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We learn a LOT in our weather unit. We learn about the different kinds of weather, the seasons, what meteorologists do, and the clouds! </div>
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<br />We make this cute little poem/craft with cotton balls as we learn about the different kinds of clouds.</div>
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We read the book "It Looked Like Spilt Milk" and then draw our own clouds with white crayon on blue construction paper. These make a great class book or hallway display!</div>
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And of course we HAVE to read Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs!! We learn a little poem about food falling from the sky and write about what foods we would and would not want to rain down!</div>
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In Kindergarten, I spent a lot of time with CVC words. Why? Because they encompass a variety of skills and students are generally successful since they are simple. We use CVC words to work on beginning sounds, middle sounds, ending sounds, isolating phonemes, segmenting, blending, rhyming, fluency... the possibilities are endless. I wanted to share a few of the activities we do and share a few freebies for you to try out with your kids! Every activity shown is part of my CVC Bundle on TPT and is also listed individually in my store. </div>
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My kids love working with anything new and different. We don't pull stamps out all that often, so they are super exciting every time! Again, I focus on a medial vowel at a time with these <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Station-Stamping-2042012">CVC Stampers</a>.</div>
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These <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Station-Matching-Mats-2049623">CVC Matching Mats </a>are also great to save for guided reading. Each kid picks a word or picture card and matches it to the correct word or picture card on the mat.<br /></div>
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I sometimes struggle to find independent ways for young learners to practice fluency. Love these <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Printables-Word-Family-Fluency-2426563">CVC Fluency Passages</a> for some independent practice! We do a different passage for each CVC word family. The kids read the pyramid passage, adding a word each time. Lots of opportunity for repeated reading here! They highlight all the word family words (why do kids love highlighters so much?!) Then they write the word family words at the bottom and illustrate.<br /></div>
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I love these <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Printables-Word-Family-Word-Search-2042037">Write and Finds</a> but I am such a sucker for word searches. Did anyone else absolutely love word searches and get super competitive about them as a kid? No? The kids look at the pictures and write the CVC words. Then, they go up to the word search to find their words! We just use crayons to color the words, but throw a highlighter in the mix and you will be the best.teacher.ever! </div>
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Everything I showed you above is apart of this <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Word-Work-Stations-2041959">CVC Mega Bundle</a> if you're interested. I hope you enjoy your freebie pages! </div>
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My kids love stations. I love stations! Done correctly, stations can be one of the most beneficial (and enjoyable) times of the day. BUT some people make a case against stations - saying that they are chaotic and they require too much planning time. The solution? Consistency! Choose a few staple stations and use them often throughout the year, just varying the difficulty and theme. One station my kids LOVE is Scrambled Sentences. I love them, too, because they are PACKED with great practice. </div>
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My students love completing sentence scrambles of each thematic unit we cover! This keeps the station fresh and exciting even though they are technically doing the same thing each week. Students unscramble three sentences by reading the words to decide what makes sense, searching for the first word by the capital letter, and searching for the last word by the punctuation mark! After they put the sentences in order, they write them on their paper. Each paper has a self-assessment at the bottom so they can check their writing for a capital letter, a punctuation mark, and finger spaces between words. </div>
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Or you can have students build sentences in a pocket chart - during stations or whole group! I also like to laminate cards and put a piece of magnetic tape on the back so students can manipulate the words on the board!</div>
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There is another Scrambled Sentence option for students to work independently! I like to use these in a writing station or for morning work. They could even go home as homework! Students cut the sentence out, unscramble it, write it on the lines, and then they illustrate! The illustration adds a meaning-making piece which is great for students working on comprehension.<br />
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<br />Sam Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11658702315156062253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2338786557486280538.post-44957400680703361372016-08-20T13:00:00.003-07:002016-09-15T07:26:47.462-07:00Beginning Writing - Launching Workshop<div style="text-align: center;">
Writing at the beginning of the year in kindergarten is all about building confidence. The kids have to see themselves as writers - even when that just means drawing pictures or writing squiggles. It can feel like a slow start, but it's so important that as we develop these tiny writers, we take our time to build them up step by step. </div>
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I start early in the year by introducing the structure and purpose of our writer's workshop. Kids learn what and why writers write with an emphasis on the fact that THEY ARE WRITERS! They learn the structure of our writer's workshop. Each day, writer's workshop consists of a minilesson, writing time, and sharing time. During the minilesson, we look closely at a mentor text or writing example to learn a particular strategy. The teacher models and guides students through practice, then releases them for writing time. The number one rule of writing time is that students are working the <i>entire</i> time. The teacher can take this time to do individual or small group writing conferences. Finally, comes share time, where students share their work with one another and the teacher can highlight some things that went well. </div>
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My writers use writing binders to store their work and to hold reference materials. They can decorate their own cover, then slip it inside the front of the binder. Inside the binder, we have charts, posters, and checklists that students can use to aid their writing. They are placed in plastic sheet protectors to keep them in good shape for the whole year. In the left pocket of the binder, students will keep works in progress. When they have finished a piece, it moves over to the right pocket of their binder. Students can always access these "finished" pieces and add more to them! </div>
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To kick off our writer's workshop, the kids learn the process they will follow for writing in Kindergarten. I emphasize four steps - think, draw, label, and write. I leave this anchor chart or a smaller poster up in the room all year long. Also, toward the end of the year, we start working on revising by adding detail to their pictures and words. </div>
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We start the writing process with <i>thinking</i>. Students brainstorm a list of topics that are of interest to them - things they love and things they know a lot about. These will serve as inspiration for their stories! Students learn that before they can write, they have to think of a story. We practice this with oral storytelling. Students practice sharing opinions, facts, and narratives out loud to their peers. They learn the importance of including details in their stories AND learn some crucial speaking and listening skills which are so important to emphasize at the beginning of the year. The motto we take on for oral storytelling is <i style="font-weight: bold;">LOUD AND PROUD! </i>This teaches students that their stories matter! </div>
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After learning to think of and tell a story, students get their first practice of putting their story down on paper - through pictures! Before I ever ask students to write a story, I teach them to tell their story through drawings. They learn to draw the who, what, when, and where of their stories. They learn to convey emotion through faces and colors in their drawings. They learn that their drawings represent their thoughts and are just as important as words. </div>
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Here's a chart we make to teach students to put their best effort forward in their drawings. They learn to color using appropriate colors, in the lines, and to fill up all the white space. We leave the poster up all year long and remind students often to make three star pictures. </div>
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After students have practiced thinking, telling, and drawing their stories, we start to dabble in writing. A good place to start is with one word labels. Students learn that labels help tell their story by telling what something is. It's a great way to ease into inventive spelling and letter-sound correspondence without overwhelming. We learn how to stretch out words by saying them slow like a turtle, listening for the sounds, then writing the letters that represent those sounds. We practice labeling many ways before asking students to label their own drawings. Remember, students will be at a different place in their writing journey! Many of your students will be able to point and tell you what their label says, despite it being a squiggle or a random string of letters. Other students will produce the letter that represents the beginning sound of their word, some will get the beginning and ending sounds. What's important is that their writing is validated and that you are CONSTANTLY modeling phonemic spelling and asking for students to engage in phonemic spelling with you! We do a LOT of shared writing outside of workshop time, too. </div>
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Finally, it's time for students to practice crafting sentences. It is still very early in the year and these beginning writing experiences are introductory - allowing students to view themselves as writers and get their toes wet. All of these strategies and rules they have learned in these five weeks will be elaborated on throughout the year in their genre writing and reinforced through shared writing experiences and independent practice. As students are learning about writing sentences in writing, they are also learning to read sentences in reading! They are learning the difference between letters, words, and sentences among other important concepts of print. ALWAYS do your best to connect across the curriculum. When my students are learning to write a sentence, they learn that if they can <i>think </i>it, they can <i>say </i>it, and if they can <i>say </i>it, they can <i>write </i>it. Writing is NOT a silent time in my classroom. Students are whispering words, stretching sounds, repeating, and rereading! This is what writing in action looks and sounds like! We go through introductory lessons on using the word wall, spacing words with finger spaces, starting with capital letters, ending with punctuation, and there is SO SO SO much modeling. In the end, students are crafting simple sentences which THEY can read and that match their labeled pictures! </div>
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I cannot emphasize this enough... the most important thing for students to learn at the beginning of the year is that they ARE writers and they have stories worth sharing. Ignite that fire and you will see tremendous growth throughout the year. And there is absolutely <i>nothing </i>better, nothing that makes this kindergarten heart smile bigger, than the pride on my little writers' faces when they are sharing their work! </div>
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I don't know about you, but for me - June is all about relaxation, and July is when I start preparing for the next school year. I wanted to take some time to share with you some activities and freebies to use in your classroom at the beginning of the year! </div>
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We know that our Kinder kids come to us at the beginning of the year at crazy different places, but I have found that one area in which they all have SOME experience - is colors! I like to use that to my advantage in those hectic first few weeks of school. <a href="http://mrskellysklass.blogspot.com/2015/09/color-crazy.html">Click here to read about using colors to introduce literacy and fine motor skills</a>! Click the image below to grab my color red print and go pack for FREE to try in your classroom! If you and your kiddos love it, you can view the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Color-Unit-for-Color-Words-857632">big bundle here</a>. </div>
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I hope the weather has been as lovely in your neck of the woods as it has in mine! The sunshine is definitely working to chase away my winter blues! Wanted to share a few resources and freebies for Spring! </div>
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I just whipped up this Scrambled Sentence station. My kids LOVE Scrambled Sentences because they play like a game, but they are PACKED with K-1 skills. When they are themed, they hit on content. Then there's capitalization, punctuation, fluency, comprehension, decoding, sight words.... all rolled into one easy prep activity! YES, PLEASE! </div>
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We usually cover Weather in March or April. I combine weather with seasons and clouds! Kids do lots of observing and they love being able to apply their learning to the world outside those classroom walls. I haven't snapped any pictures yet, but here are the many activities in our <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-2443840">weather unit</a>! </div>
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Easter is right around the corner. It is so early this year, which makes March a really packed month. I know we have all discovered the joy of the cheap plastic Easter eggs and the magic powers they have to make kids extra engaged in the same stuff we've been doing all year ;) If you need some recording sheets to go along with your Easter Egg activities you can grab <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easter-1174132">this freebie! </a></div>
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I also whipped up some<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easter-1768590"> Free Literacy Activities</a> for your Easter Celebrations. </div>
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And once Easter and Spring Break have come along, it won't be long before Earth Day! I really think it's important for kids to learn how to take care of things. Especially in Kinder and First, we are constantly trying to help them understand the importance of taking care of our classroom... that translates out into the world as well! Here are some activities we do for Earth Day (week)! </div>
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Alright! Sorry for the choppiness today! So much to do in Spring and so little time! ;) And that doesn't even include plants and insects! Phew! </div>
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First we read about Ruby Bridges with this non-fiction teacher read-aloud and an emergent reader for the kids. </div>
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After learning about Ruby, we complete these activities! </div>
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I give glowsticks for Valentine's Day because, #1... the kids LOVE them, #2... They are CHEAP at the Dollar Tree, and #3... It's a nice change from candy and I have had allergies in the past. </div>
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We make these sweet and simple Valentine's bags from <a href="http://mrsriccaskindergarten.blogspot.com/2014/02/valentines-day-ideas-freebie.html">Mrs. Ricca's Kindergarten</a></div>
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For parent gifts, we make adorable torn paper mosaics like this. SO easy! Just grab some different colors of paper and set your kiddos loose! They will tear off small pieces and glue them into the heart. Perfect for fine motor and independent... win-win!</div>
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And of course I love any excuse to use candy conversation hearts around valentine's day! These <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Conversation-Heart-Patterning-2352768?aref=ymowouxw">pattern mats</a> from my friend Michelle are perfect for an independent station! Click the picture to download and leave her some feedback on TPT as she is just beginning her store! :) </div>
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Valentine week is important to me for another HUGE reason! If you've been following my story for long, then you know my daughter is kinda sorta a major miracle baby! She was born with a condition called HLHS, which is essentially half a heart. She has since had 3 open heart surgeries, 3 cardiac arrests, 10 long months in the ICU, two runs on complete life support through ECMO, and a heart transplant. She is now 18 months old and doing well, all things considered. The week of February 7 - February 14 is CHD Awareness week! CHD stands for Congenital Heart Defect and 1 in 100 babies is born with some form of CHD. <a href="http://www.childrensheartfoundation.org/about-chf/fact-sheets">Learn more here! </a></div>
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Here is my miracle baby when she was very sick and pictures a picture since she has recovered from her heart transplant! </div>
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I made this fun Valentine's Day freebie in honor of my daughter and it includes a page to spread CHD awareness! Grab it up and tell someone you know about CHD! </div>
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This will be a fun experiment for students to see the effects of a cavity. Grabbed this idea from <a href="http://moffattgirls.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-cute-dental-health-activity.html">Fun Fabulous First</a>. Just poke a hole in the apple to signify a cavity and give it some time to start decomposing. Re-assess the apple at the end of the week and discuss what happened over time with the cavity. </div>
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We learn about what helps teeth stay healthy and what causes harm, then complete this sort and the kids search through magazines and grocery ads to cut/paste onto their own templates.</div>
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CVC Write and Wipe. For added fun, throw some dollar tree toothbrushes in to erase the dry erase marker writing from the teeth! </div>
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Kids race to fill their mouth with marshmallow teeth in this comparing numbers game! They each draw a number, compare the values, and the person with the higher value gets to put one of their teeth on the mouth template! Then they get to eat their marshmallows at the end. SO FUN! </div>
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That wraps things up for our February. We also spend a couple of days for Presidents Day. So much to do in February... tough to fit it all in! Hope you all have a great month! </div>
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Pulled this post from last year, but I have since added some Science and Social Studies to our apple unit, so I wanted to be sure to share the updates with you all!<br />
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See what kinds of items Annie can make with the apples she picks!<br />
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An apple and worm as best friends? This cute little book is great for community building!<br />
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Students will explore and label the parts of an apple.<br />
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Students will graph about their favorite kind of apple and their favorite way to eat an apple! </div>
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LOVE this cute little poem craft using a gummy worm, paper plate, and paint!<br />
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All of these activities can be found in my Apples Integrated Unit! Click the image below to check it out!<br />
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In Kindergarten, we start each school year learning about a color every week. You never know what you're going to get with your new batch of kinders in terms of number sense or letter recognition, but almost all of them know their colors. We take advantage of that by introducing them to some kindergarten skills (writing, spelling, coloring, cutting, pasting, etc.) using those colors that they come in knowing! </div>
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LOVE using songs in Kinder... especially at the beginning of the year to get those sweet littles out of their shell a little. Here are some good color videos on youtube. </div>
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(Frog Street Press has a song like this for every color!)</div>
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Show a little spirit by having your kiddos wear the color of the week on Friday. If they don't have it, no worries.... make these color crowns that they can sport! :) Isn't my sweet baby an excellent model?</div>
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We do a fun little tracing and torn paper craft. This is great for practicing gluing skills and is excellent fine motor practice. These make a cute little bulletin board display as well! </div>
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We do a cute little pocket book sort. I couldn't find the picture I took of this, so you'll have to settle for this little digital version! </div>
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We learn a poem together and then they practice it and respond to it throughout the week during their literacy stations. </div>
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And we complete some printables for a little extra practice! </div>
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We love working on colors during our station time, too! </div>
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And we read plenty of books about colors. These are some of my favorites! :) </div>
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You can pick up all the activities mentioned above in my store. Just click the images below to check them out! :) </div>
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Are you back to school yet? The schools in my area returned last week. As you get settled into your routine and start shifting into the academics, prepare for the painful reminder that most of your kids have no idea how to read -- like no clue at all where to even begin! Remember those kids you waved off in May or June -- those BIG kid READERS AND WRITERS? Well, you gotta start somewhere. </div>
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So today I'm going to share a couple ideas for going back to the basics with Print Concepts! </div>
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When your sweet little kinders happily prance into the classroom on Day 1, half of them won't know how to handle a book, let alone read one. It is my suggestion that, after some assessment to see where they are in the process, you do majority of your Print Concepts teaching and learning in small groups so you can truly focus in on individuals and you're teaching what THEY need to know -- not more, not less. </div>
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I like to use posters and lots of modeling to teach the concepts. Posters are a great way to introduce an idea because of the visual component. Then, they are always accessible and visible for kids to refer back to as needed. </div>
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Concepts of Print is a pretty big undertaking -- so I like to break it down into three main focuses </div>
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<b>*Parts of a Book/Book Handling</b></div>
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<b>*Reading Behaviors (Tracking Print, Return Sweep, Pictures Vs. Print)</b></div>
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<b>and *Conventions of Text (Capital letters, Punctuation, Word/Sentence Study)</b></div>
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Teaching the Parts of a book obviously requires a lot of modeling and a lot of repetition. I suggest getting their hands on real books as well as taking this time to introduce small paper books, like the ones you might have them reading each day in Guided Reading. Confession: I LOVE take-home emergent readers. LOVE LOVE PUFFY HEART LOVE. </div>
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I don't have a picture of what I actually use, so you will have to settle for the digital version. I use a pre-labeled teacher modeling book and an emergent reader as well as some cute little prompt cards. The card might say "Show me the front cover of your book" and students would point to the front cover. The next prompt card might say "Highlight the page numbers in your book" and they can DO THAT in these little paper readers -- because they are THEIRS! Then they can take them HOME and tell their grandma all about it! ;) </div>
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When teaching <b>Reading Behaviors</b> you really learn where your kiddos are as readers. Some of them will know where to start reading, and some of them won't even know that we read words! Here are a few activities I love for teaching students to <b>track print one-to-one </b>and to practice that good old <b>return sweep</b>. </div>
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When it comes to teaching <b>Conventions of Print</b>, I really like to hone in on the difference between letters, words, and sentences. Students need to know that letters are the building blocks of words and that words are the building blocks of sentences! </div>
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We do a lot of highlighting, underlining, and counting in our Emergent Readers (again, they're paper, and they belong to the kids so they are free to mark them up!) </div>
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One tool I LOVE to use to teach <b>Reading Behaviors</b> AND <b>Conventions of Print</b> is the <i>Morning Message.</i> </div>
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1. You can model Concepts of Print while you read it aloud. </div>
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We mark ours all up! I start out by reading the message aloud, using a pointer or my finger to point to each word as I read it. I read it aloud by myself once, I invite the kids to read it with me (still tracking print) the second time, then we dive into it! We circle capital letters in one color and punctuation end marks in another. We use a dot under each word to count them. We underline each sentence to count them. We pull out a focus word and count the letters and recognize the first and last letters. It's the PERFECT tool for pulling everything together! I like to do Morning Message whole group as it is something that we can truly complete TOGETHER. </div>
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And of course, after teaching a lesson, modeling the skill, and working together with the kids on it, I like to release them to work on it independently. Sometimes this just means sending them off to "read" in their book baskets, sometimes it means completing a printable and sometimes it means working on the same activities we did together during their station time. </div>
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I absolutely LOVE teaching Kindergarten students to read. If you're like me, then your favorite part of Kindergarten is looking at those sweet babes at the end of the year knowing EXACTLY where they started. They make such a huge transformation over the course of the year. They leave as readers and they start RIGHT HERE! </div>
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Can you believe it's already that time of year?! BACK TO SCHOOL! I'm staying home another year with my baby as she recovers from her heart transplant and we transition back into "normal" life, but I have plans to get my masters, blog, and spend the year preparing for my return to the classroom! </div>
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One must-have for the modern classroom is a tablet. There's just so much you can do on them and the kids LOVE them! I'm teaming up with my friends at iTeach Kindergarten to give away and iPad Air 2 with a cute little case, a stylus, AND an iTunes giftcard! Click the image below to head on over to iTeach Kinder and enter to win! </div>
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I've been a BUSY BEE cranking out units to get you ready for the school year! Now is the PERFECT time to grab those resources that can span the course of the entire school year! Click through the images to see some of my new and year-long resources! </div>
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If you've been following my blog for a while, then you know that a year ago today, I gave birth to the most amazing little girl -- an amazing little girl who was born with half a heart. Since that day, that sweet girl has had 3 open heart surgeries, one closed heart surgery, two ECMO cannulations (complete life support), a terrible run of endocarditis (infection of the heart), 6 cardiac arrests, 270+ days in the hospital, and *drumroll please* a heart transplant! She received her hero heart May 7th and has been doing well. She finally put on some weight and is hitting milestones like crazy. Her biggest milestone yet is today as we celebrate her FIRST BIRTHDAY. I can't believe my sweet girl is one. It has been a crazy year and we are so very grateful to the amazing family who shared their sweet angel's heart with us. </div>
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These cute little handheld mazes are $5 for a pack of 18 at Target! </div>
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Pick your favorite treat, buy a class set, plus some extra for kids who will move in mid-year, print your tags and VOILA. </div>
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ORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.... Do what I do and make yourself a Birthday GRAB BAG! Buy ALL the fun goodies, throw them in a cute Birthday Bag, and let the kids pick their poison! </div>
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I made a generic tag in case you want to do that! Otherwise, you could have all the tags printed and give them the right one when they pick their gift! </div>
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Grab your freebie tags below and thanks for helping me celebrate my Sweet Sawyer's First BIRTHDAY! </div>
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<br />Sam Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11658702315156062253noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2338786557486280538.post-41978120072754233152015-07-23T16:37:00.000-07:002016-06-01T06:21:19.559-07:00First Week of Kindergarten<div style="text-align: center;">
So flash back to the end of the school year. You were high-fiving and hugging your <i>practically first graders</i> and sending them off for some fun in the sun. You sent them off as readers and writers, scientists and mathematicians. In that moment, it's difficult to remember how they came to you. When you met them in August, they couldn't read, write, add, tie their shoes, spell their name. Oh, and they were short. When do they get so tall?!?? The first few weeks, from what I can recall (since I block most of that stuff out) are... well... uhh... interesting. Once or twice you might find yourself asking, "What was I EVER thinking becoming a kindergarten teacher?" It's okay. You're not alone. Hang in there. It gets better... in fact, it gets SO good! I thought I'd share with you what week 1 in Mrs. Kelly's Klass looks like.</div>
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Do you have a Meet the Teacher night prior to the first day of school? This is such a good way to:<br />
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2. Meet your students to help eliminate fear.<br />
3. Open the door to communication with parents.<br />
4. Get yourself organized before the school year starts.<br />
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Here's how Meet the Teacher works in my classroom!<br />
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Here are some of the forms families complete. I do my best to stay organized - get contact information in place, know what parents are interested in helping in the classroom, know how kids are getting home. These forms help me get all that information in order, and they go in a binder with copies of the kids' enrollment cards. </div>
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All of the items for Meet the Teacher night are available alone in my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Forms-and-Printables-for-Meet-the-Teacher-2574115">Meet the Teacher pack</a> OR as part of my HUGE <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Pack-for-the-Beginning-of-the-Year-1946604">First Week Pack</a> that has everything you will read about next! (Don't get both! The forms are included in the First Week Pack!)<br />
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So then, school starts. The beginning of the year is a chaotic but exciting time in Kindergarten. We practice, A LOT. I set clear expectations from the very beginning and I enforce them from the very beginning. But along with these expectations, I also like to kinda dive right in, so to speak. I want the kids to start doing some of the things they will do all year long -- like printables and stations, sitting for read alouds, participating in whole group and small group activities, reading, all of it! I like my kids to learn the rules, routines, and expectations in TANDEM with the actual things they will be doing for the rest of the school year. I like them to learn what is expected of them by DOING. I refuse to spend an entire week just talking at my kids about rules.</div>
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For the first few weeks, kids participate in stations that will get them acclimated to the materials we will be using all year {unifix cubes, snap cubes, pattern blocks, dry erase markers, clipboards, play dough, etc.) I like to introduce a station whole group -- go over the instructions and expectations for using that particular material {i.e. snap cubes are NOT for building swords and/or guns and playdough is NOT meant for squishing into the carpet}. Then EVERYONE in the class does the same station. They get used to working in a group, and I don't have to worry about managing 5 different activities at the same time. Next day, new station, and so on... until I've introduced enough stations to start an actual rotation! </div>
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Kids need to get used to putting pencils and crayons to paper. I don't expect them to be writing novels, but you have to start somewhere. I can use this opportunity to teach them how to get supplies, what to do when their pencil breaks, where to turn papers in, how their mailboxes work, etc. </div>
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Two of my favorite books to read during the first week of school are <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wemberly-Worried-Kevin-Henkes/dp/0061857769/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437692965&sr=8-1&keywords=wemberly+worried">Wemberly Worried</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933718005/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-1&pf_rd_r=1GE9E68NM8PZ3ZMWKZZ9&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2079475242&pf_rd_i=desktop">The Kissing Hand</a>. Perhaps it's because I'm a bit of a worrywart myself. These books are so relateable and by reading them, whole group, at the carpet, we get to practice norms for read alouds. </div>
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We will do a s<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Kissing-Hand-1946059">chool room scavenger hunt</a> after reading The Kissing Hand. Students will search the school for clues left behind by Chester. They get to find all the important places AND we get to practice hallway expectations. </div>
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Developing that strong classroom community early on is so important. When kids can relate to one another and open up about their feelings, they create a positive and welcoming environment.</div>
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Because they are FIVE. Because they are nervous. Because they have never been asked to sit still for this long. Because they miss their moms. Because dancing is FUN. Because it's good for their sweet little brains and bodies! </div>
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Above all, have fun and be happy. If you're happy, they will be happy. If you're welcoming, they will feel welcomed. If you create a structure, they will fall in place. You can pick up all the activities/printables/STUFF shown above in one nice pretty package by clicking the image below. For those who return to school next week, wishing you a happy school year! :) Grab EVERYTHING you read about today all in one place by clicking <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Pack-for-the-Beginning-of-the-Year-1946604">here </a>or the image below. </div>
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OH, and if you missed it before... be sure to go pick up these <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Dismissal-Tags-1967951">Dismissal Tags for FREE</a>! I blogged about them last week. <a href="http://mrskellysklass.blogspot.com/2015/07/dont-dread-dismissal.html">Click here to read </a>and click the image below to download. </div>
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Oh, back to school. Whether you are a brand new teacher or a seasoned veteran, as we inch closer to school year, we all have those dreaded beginning of the year nightmares. Maybe in your worst nightmares, you show up to school with absolutely nothing planned. Maybe your principal comes in to do a formal observation on day 1. Maybe you have a class full of rabid wolves. My back to school nightmare consists of losing all my kids at dismissal. </div>
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The bell rings, and *Poof!* they're gone and I'm left fielding calls from terrified parents wondering where their kids are and how I could possibly lose one in the <strike>utter chaos </strike> super smooth process of dismissal on week 1. If you share those fears, I'm hoping this little tool can ease your mind just a little. </div>
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Picture it now: the dismissal bell rings. You have 6 kids head off for the car rider line. Fingers crossed they make it to the right place and the appropriate person comes to pick them up at an appropriate time. 2 kids go off to the walker area. 1 kiddo stays after for YMCA and you're left with 20 some kids to head off to the gobzillion buses lined up outside the school. </div>
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Each tag has the kid's name (because a shy studentmight not answer a random teacher when they ask them what their name is) and their teacher's name. I put the teacher's name so that they can easily be contacted by any adult in the school regarding dismissal questions. The bus tag also includes their bus number. Each kind of transportation is copied on a different color for ease of visibility. Those who monitor the car rider line can easily spot someone who is out of place and send them on their way to the proper place. It eases my mind knowing that any adult, or even older kid in the school can look at my little's tag and help them get where they need to be, should they become lost, AND they can get a hold of me to ask me questions or let me know what's going on. </div>
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It's getting to be that time of year. You know what I'm talking about. That time of year where teachers are absolutely swamped. Desks piled high with papers. Assessments coming out your ears. Grades to enter. End of the year fun to be planned. And energy running low. Let's face it. The end of the year is exhausting. You might find yourself feeling a little drained and a little less than appreciated. But rest assured, teachers, you ARE appreciated! Those very kids that are driving you bonkers right now, will come back next year just to give you a hug and see your smiling face. Their parents will SUPER appreciate you a few weeks into summer break when they realize how much energy their child has. </div>
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If you're not teaching nonstandard measurement in your kindergarten classroom... start... start NOW! This is exactly the kind of hands-on, exploration based learning that is growing more and more absent in K classrooms. And, as one of my favorite math concepts to teach, I'm excited to share with you some ideas and resources to use in your classroom! </div>
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My kids LOVE LOVE LOVE Sid the Science Kid. He's a staple in our classroom. This fun video explores the concept of nonstandard measurement as they attempt to measure their classroom using "Geralds" (one of the characters on the show)</div>
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Another from Sid the Science kid. This cute little song uses non-standard measurement to measure a whale! </div>
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This cute little song uses some of your kids' favorite characters to teach measurement concepts. This song is great for an intro into a measurement unit as it runs down all the reasons we measure things and the various kinds of measurement (height, weight, capacity, length, etc.)</div>
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I love using <b>picture books</b> to teach math concepts. Here are several great picture books for introducing and reviewing measurement concepts!</div>
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This book is great for opening up the conversation of which animals are bigger/smaller, longer/shorter, heavier/lighter. </div>
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Another size comparison story. Students will compare the animals on a page as they progressively get larger!</div>
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LOVE this cute book for comparative measurement. Not only does it compare animals on the page to each other, but also to real world objects. </div>
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The King wants to build a bed for his wife, but doesn't know how to decide how large to make it! Love this book to intro an activity on measuring our feet with nonstandard units OR measuring WITH our feet!</div>
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A little inchworm uses his body to measure. Can't pass up a Leo Lionni book! </div>
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Mighty Maddie, by the amazing Stuart J. Murphy, compares light and heavy in this cute tale of a little girl who must clean her room!</div>
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The last two are more advanced and geared toward the concept of standard measurement, but would be great to use at the end of a nonstandard unit to shift gears into standard measure. </div>
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Below are some of the resources and activities I use to teach non standard measurement! They can all be found in my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Measurement-1782162">Let's Measure</a> pack! </div>
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(Fill a large tub with water or sand and some of the items shown here for a capacity exploration!)</div>
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You can get hands-on during ALL of your measurement exploration. Several of the activities in my measurement pack call for measuring using materials that you already have in your classroom. </div>
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Above are just a few of the activities we do for learning about length, height, weight, and capacity. Click the image below to <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Measurement-1782162">check out the pack</a> in my store and view the preview to see everything included. </div>
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And here's a little freebie for some delicious, hands-on, nonstandard measurement practice! <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ZBoQfnxQOpR3FSM2lGa2x2TXM/view?usp=sharing">Click to download</a> then go out and get your mini marshmallows! :) </div>
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I have decided to team up with some of my very best kinder buddies to write for a collaborative blog! </div>
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Whatever you call it...sneaky e, super e, magic e....Silent E (in all its forms) is the man! I love teaching Silent E and my kids love seeking it out in words. We take the *magic e* approach and the kinders love it. I find that when a magic wand is involved, kids are engaged. Magic E has one job... to make the other vowel say its name. He's so busy doing that, he doesn't even bother to make a sound himself. There are several awesome songs and videos for Magic E. I have sorted through youtube and pulled out my favorites to share with you! </div>
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I would also love to share some activities we will be doing with Magic E during centers and small group time. </div>
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When introducing the magic e rule with each of the vowels, we'll use these Whole Class Flipcharts! The students will read the word without the silent e, then we'll say our spell "Alakazam, Alakazee, Look what happens with Magic E!" One of the kids will use the magic E wand to make the new word!</div>
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Magic E Write and Wipes! I laminate these Magic E cards and give the kids Dry Erase materials for some Write and Wipe practice!</div>
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Magic E Puzzles. My kids absolutely love puzzles. When they put the picture together, it spells the Magic e word! </div>
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LOVE these flipbooks! They really show how Magic E changes words! </div>
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Sorry for the long absence, friends. As many of you know, my daughter (now 3 months old) was diagnosed in-utero with a rare heart defect. We had her first open heart surgery at 7 days old and have recently returned to the hospital (2.5 months later) for severe complications. My little girl went into cardiac arrest, received 27 minutes of chest compressions, and was placed on emergency ECMO. She is off ECMO now and recovering. She also has endocarditis (an infection on the heart) that we are treating with antibiotics. My family so appreciates any thoughts and prayers you would be willing to offer.</div>
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The hospital is not the most happening place, so I've had lots of time to work on classroom goodies. I love teaching word families so I thought that would be a nice, big project to tackle! Check out some of the goodies I made for teaching whole group, small group, and independent practice! </div>
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Everything I ever teach, I introduce whole group. Teaching word families is no different! We have a song that we sing for each word family using the word/picture cards. We also make a flipchart for making word family words with onset/rime. My kids LOVE shared writing, so I made some sight word sentences where kiddos can fill in the blanks with word family words! </div>
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After we've gone over everything whole group, kids are ready to work with these words in stations and with you during guided reading! Stations include Write the Room and Onset/Rime Puzzles. There is a Word Family Slider Craftivity for kids to practice making and reading word family words. I like to play the Grab It/Dab It game during Guided Reading. Students reach into a bag and pull out a picture or word card. If they pull a picture, the whole group uses bingo dabbers to dab that word on their sheet. If they pull a word, they dab the corresponding picture. SO FUN! </div>
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I like using printables to reinforce concepts either as morning work or homework. These printables are no-prep so they are teacher-friendly but they also provide great practice for your kiddos. I also included an emergent reader. My kids L-O-V-E these... honestly. We read the word family readers together, then I pass out highlighters. The kids go back through the story and highlight all the word family words. Then they write them on the lines on the last page. I have no idea why they love this so much, but there is something about highlighters -- They are great motivators! </div>
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There ya have it! So far I've done the Short A families - Ag, Ad, An, Am, At, and Ap. You can grab all 43 pages of the <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Word-Families-At-Family-1520475">AT pack for FREEEEEEEEE!</a> The rest of them are set up the same way.</div>
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Sam Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11658702315156062253noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2338786557486280538.post-44011263528702725692014-10-09T10:03:00.000-07:002014-10-09T10:03:44.194-07:00We Heart Writing!!! AND Freebies!<div style="text-align: center;">
I'm an elementary school teacher. I chose elementary education vs. secondary education for a number of reasons, one of them being that I love teaching all subjects. I never wanted to limit myself to just one subject like secondary education majors do. But if I had to choose a favorite subject to teach, it would be writing. </div>
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I love trying to make sense of the invented spelling of a sweet Kindergartner. </div>
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I love that their creativity has no bounds and they can express that through their storytelling. </div>
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I love the pride on their tiny faces when they write a book -- an actual book!!!!! </div>
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My kids enjoy writing. They enjoy the freedom of it. They like that they can take a story wherever they want and they can show it through words and pictures. Last year, our writers workshop time just wasn't enough! We wrote in journals upon returning from lunch and we had a dedicated writing station in their weekly rotations. In an attempt to get more organized with my writing station, I put together <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-Station-for-All-Year-1487970">this bundle! </a></div>
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The first step for writing in Mrs. Kelly's Klass is oral storytelling. We spend a nice chunk of time telling stories around the carpet. **Ohhhh, I think next year, we'll tell stories around the "Campfire".. I'm picturing butcher paper fire and S'MORES!"** Someone remind me when next September rolls around. Anyway... kids practice telling stories out loud, whether whole group, or to a partner. </div>
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Then, we take that story they just told, and we turn it into a picture. Students learn to draw their stories to make them come to life. </div>
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And finally they are ready to add labels. Cue the *<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-Station-Labeling-1487978">We <3 Writing: Labels</a>* part of this pack. </div>
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I like to start with simple labeling sheets to teach kids HOW to label parts, then we move into more complex "scenes" like those that they will draw when they are drawing their stories. Here is an example:</div>
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I admit, I'm probably creating a bunch of little monsters by teaching them to write lists - they'll all turn out like me with a list for everything! :) BUT, it is a fun and RELEVANT way to practice writing. The kids LOVE coming up with words that fit a topic. I like to give them a little help to get started by providing what I call an "idea chart"... It just gives them a few ideas of things that might belong in that particular list. Check it out! </div>
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We've been "writing" books since the first few weeks of school! Their books start as pictures on pages... then we add labels... now we've added sentences! I L-O-V-E watching their books progress over the course of the year! I love allowing them to write the same kind of book multiple times over the course of the year. An "I can" book goes from pictures only in September, to spectacular picture/label/sentence filled literary masterpieces ;) </div>
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And, I'd be doing you and your kiddos a disservice if I didn't give you this one tiny piece of advice when it comes to writing. Let your kids read their writing to you. Let them come to your desk and read you their "story". Their eyes come to life, they read through a grin, and they can't wait for you to ask to see their picture. Every day at the end of stations, it's a RULE that the 4 or 5 kids who were at writing station absolutely MUST share their book with me before taking it home to share with their family. </div>
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Couldn't show you all this writing goodness without sharing a bit of it! Here's a little "sampler" ... a page or two from each of the packs included in the bundle. Grab it for free by clicking the picture below! </div>
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Sam Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11658702315156062253noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2338786557486280538.post-76769231361214563062014-10-01T14:39:00.000-07:002014-10-01T14:39:24.196-07:00Counting in Kinder<div style="text-align: center;">
Counting is one of those skills that seems so simple, but it's so incredibly important! It's truly foundational in nature because our kids need to know how to count in order to learn to add/subtract and eventually multiply/divide! In my normal grown up life, I count every day. I'm also guilty of counting too fast and having to count the same thing 3 or 4 times. Many of our kids come to us with the ability to rote count... maybe to 10... maybe to 100. But even those amazing rote counters can have some difficulty with one-to-one correspondence. So we practice. A LOT. The biggest problem my kiddos encounter when learning to count one-to-one is that they go too quickly or forget which items/pictures they've already counted. I like to teach them different ways to keep track. </div>
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<b><u>I can count like I read. </u></b></div>
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Since our counting unit hits at the beginning of the year while we're teaching print concepts, this is an easy way to help kids understand how to count in an organized way. I tell them to count left to right, top to bottom. I tell them to touch the objects/pictures they are counting just like we touch the words we are reading. </div>
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If we are working on a paper or they are counting something written, I tell them they can keep track of what they have already counted by crossing an item off for every number they count. As they count 1, they will cross out an item, 2... cross out another... and so on. </div>
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When we are counting something tangible, I teach them to move the items over. For example, on the chart above, we practice with post-it notes. I put some post-its in the first box, and we practice counting while moving them to the next box. We practice this with unifix cubes, counting bears, and even candy or goldfish crackers! They know that once they've moved all items over, they have reached their total. </div>
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We practice counting with lots of different activities. I have put a few of our favorite stations together in a mini-unit that you can check out on TPT! Click the picture below to get a closer look. </div>
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The kids LOVE this station and you can put all sorts of little trinkets in the bags to be counted. They can practice the <b>move it over</b> strategy while counting. </div>
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These sorting mats are for numbers 1-5 and allow students to practice touching while counting. </div>
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Love these cute little puzzles. Kiddos can practice <b>counting the shapes like they read. </b></div>
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Count and clip is a big favorite in my classroom. Put a smiley face on the back behind the correct answer to make it self-checking. </div>
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My kids love getting up and around the room. In this station they search for the ten frame kids and <b>count like the read</b> to answer How Many. </div>
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Sam Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11658702315156062253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2338786557486280538.post-83023631928771094822014-09-23T14:47:00.000-07:002015-10-10T10:04:31.406-07:00Cross-Curricular PUMPKIN fun! <div style="text-align: center;">
It's October. The leaves are changing and falling. The air is cool and crisp. But most importantly... Pumpkins. Kids love pumpkins. And you can have a lot of fun with pumpkins in your classroom. </div>
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Awesome, awesome book to talk about counting and estimating. Then, OF COURSE, having the kids count the seeds in a pumpkin! </div>
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This witch grows a HUGE pumpkin but nobody can seem to figure out how to move it! </div>
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Oh, Splat is hilarious! Your kids will love this funny book about trying to get the perfect pumpkin home! </div>
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Excellent for learning about the life cycle of a pumpkin. </div>
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And here are all the integrated activities we will be using for some pumpkin learning and fun. </h2>
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Will be reading this quick non-fiction text aloud to help build background and knowledge about pumpkins. </div>
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Kids will learn the parts of a pumpkin and work on these labeling activities.</div>
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We will explore the outside and inside of a pumpkin and chart our results using our five senses. I prefer to use one big pumpkin for the whole class, but you could use small pumpkins at tables. </div>
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We will make these cute little life cycle crowns and flipbooks! </div>
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LOVE LOVE LOVE this cute little estimation station with pumpkin candy! I will pour the pumpkins into a jar, show the kids what ten pumpkins look like, then chart their estimations. As an extension, I like to fill the same sized jar with candy corn and compare the two jars. </div>
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Read and teach this poem whole group then kids can work on it during stations! </div>
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I-Spy. Students use magnifying glasses to find the tiny CVC pictures and record the CVC word or the beginning sound. </div>
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Roll a Jack-O-Lantern. Students roll the dice, and color in the matching shape on their jack-o-lantern. There is a version with a blank pumpkin where students draw in their own shapes, or the one shown below where they trace. </div>
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Rainbow Pumpkin Graphing. Students use a pencil and paperclip to spin a colored pumpkin, then color it in on their graph until one reaches the top. There are questions to answer about the graph afterward. </div>
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<br />Sam Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11658702315156062253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2338786557486280538.post-66757773238035773852014-09-16T11:59:00.000-07:002014-09-16T11:59:46.711-07:00Motivating Reluctant Readers<div style="text-align: center;">
It's mid September and schools around here are finally getting out of their beginning of the year craziness and settling into a routine. You may be noticing who your high fliers are and who needs a little kick out of the nest. When it comes to reading, it's a mixed bag. Every year you get some kids who absolutely love reading and some kids who require <strike>bribery </strike>a little motivation. There are tons of ways to get these kids excited about reading -- book clubs, reading incentives, sticker charts, I'm sure you've tried countless ways. Today, let's talk about the goodies. </div>
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So many little goodies that I like to use to <strike>trick the kids into reading</strike> get kids excited about reading! I rotate these in and out of my Read to Self station! </h2>
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Use toy cards to have kids track while they're reading. </div>
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Let them choose a stuffed animal for a reading buddy. They will practice fluency by reading to their friend! </div>
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I got these amazing googly eyes at Michaels. They are great for tracking and keeping their "eyes" on each word! </div>
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You're going to need a plethora of pointers. As you can see, I'm quite partial to star shaped pointers. My kids also loved using silly straws and flyswatters to point to words and pictures as they read!</div>
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Magnifying glasses are fun for reluctant readers. You could challenge them to find certain letters or words using their magnifying glasses!</div>
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SO FUN! Love these little witchy fingers. Throw in some fluency practice by telling your kiddos to read with their best witch voice!</div>
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Give them something to read into like a fake microphone or phonics phones!</div>
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Tell the kids to put on their "reading glasses" and give them some goofy cartoon glasses or giant sunglasses to wear. </div>
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Motivate them by giving them a special place to read like a reading chair, reading rug, or... *GASP* your TEACHER CHAIR!</div>
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What kind of goodies do you use in your classroom to get those reluctant readers excited about reading time? </div>
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