tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13525398804108831042024-03-19T04:48:07.798-04:00A Pinch of KinderYukarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04849000290547332559noreply@blogger.comBlogger208125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1352539880410883104.post-52952549990805896202024-01-20T09:51:00.011-05:002024-01-20T09:54:06.412-05:00Recap: January 2024<p style="text-align: center;">Happy New Year!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">I hope you had a great holiday and are getting back into the swing of things at school! We had a great holiday :) Both kids didn't want to go back to school but they have been rotating being sick so one or the other has been home most of the month :P Still, I've been able to complete some things I'm excited about (and you were too based on your responses to my sneak peek stories on Instagram!) so I'm excited to share them with you!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: center;">1. Letter Formation Practice Sheets with Phonological Awareness Practice + Mazes</h4><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The name is a mouthful and it pretty much explains this resource! I started making these during winter break because my son has recently shown an increased interest in printing letters and I wanted to capitalize on that! He can print most of his uppercase letters independently now, so I decided to do both upper and lowercase for printing practice (the uppercase portion gives him a sense of confidence and makes it more likely for him to attempt the lowercase portion).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Then I added a section of phoneme isolation of beginning sounds (identifying if a word begins with the focus letter and circling it). It also helps to build on vocabulary if you are doing it as a parent/teacher guided activity!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigPNCBJ6AXODCDnwp5Rz8l4iQS66c2CnBX3FYYusOnrJ113YFKNETh4A8aYe_Y_tNVmqDMpwh77h_MkZv-rCYc1POo9nnTTuXgFFcGVK5rnlptt8z5wAV1B27HDtGJg0-DA4MAUfg0MlsnRCJ0yjQTKVOrNNCcXTra6Jiamhf33pz4OFq-gsozVyydnfZM/s1265/Slide1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigPNCBJ6AXODCDnwp5Rz8l4iQS66c2CnBX3FYYusOnrJ113YFKNETh4A8aYe_Y_tNVmqDMpwh77h_MkZv-rCYc1POo9nnTTuXgFFcGVK5rnlptt8z5wAV1B27HDtGJg0-DA4MAUfg0MlsnRCJ0yjQTKVOrNNCcXTra6Jiamhf33pz4OFq-gsozVyydnfZM/w640-h640/Slide1.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Finally I added several different phonemic awareness activities to the bottom left corner. These ones shows rhyming but some other early reading and writing skills I included are syllables, phoneme isolation (identifying where the sound is in a CVC word; beginning, middle or end) and blending CVC words and encoding CVC words!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also added a little maze at the end (each maze is shaped like a word that begins with the focus letter!) to further build fine motor skills and for fun! My son loves mazes so I knew this would motivate him to try these worksheets.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyways, my son really enjoyed these so if you pick them up, I hope your students enjoy these too!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can find them in my TPT store here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Letter-Formation-Practice-Sheets-with-Phonological-Awareness-Practice-Mazes-10843735" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Letter-Formation-Practice-Sheets-with-Phonological-Awareness-Practice-Mazes-10843735</a> or by clicking on the cover below!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Letter-Formation-Practice-Sheets-with-Phonological-Awareness-Practice-Mazes-10843735" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHD-_RoN98TgzNw_hyphenhyphen6iaay5shgxuoD5ABKVIJYel4AgtOgPYooRkzmZGeIPktxtIGkeM7hcH3HJSf6QpL6M1mSlxJf4fUk4JsIZTx2iBfkRfpUu1eRG-MWbEO8Z5wgQ7Oq2l5O7wVXlUfWOlTzj-AsxfzzvFBN1Ghuf-vee8VhoWXB0sxCa3TAYuPv0fs/w400-h400/Slide1.png" width="400" /></a></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></h4><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2. Lunar New Year Lessons + Centres</h4><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another resource I was able to finish this month was this Lunar New Year pack! This one is near and dear to my heart as I grew up with many Asian friends who celebrated and they often included me in their celebrations as well (Japanese New Year (which is my heritage) is has some similarities but is celebrated on January 1st unlike Lunar New Year ;)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was able to find some lovely read alouds to go with this unit and I hope you enjoy them too! The format is the same to the other cultural celebration packs I've created this past school year (Diwali, Hanukkah etc.) but a new activity was added to this one, the CVC missing letter cards!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1oUkWhXpNM0EtZ6Uz6cM9l2ycnsGVKi8fw13xMlPXrTzAV32jRRqknnrAU3aIW5tOZhZjh3EWOWOt-QGpzMCNQvwLxgtqgKXWR5ttJ6vtK-AE7V63M8g6UKD4Yo4-ozU-4A4qs18lJ65_EFkDO9WiEd_z_ohSWCQOZhozMEtOFF2MHK7j2wUXeWl8tv4s/s1265/Slide2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1oUkWhXpNM0EtZ6Uz6cM9l2ycnsGVKi8fw13xMlPXrTzAV32jRRqknnrAU3aIW5tOZhZjh3EWOWOt-QGpzMCNQvwLxgtqgKXWR5ttJ6vtK-AE7V63M8g6UKD4Yo4-ozU-4A4qs18lJ65_EFkDO9WiEd_z_ohSWCQOZhozMEtOFF2MHK7j2wUXeWl8tv4s/w640-h640/Slide2.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I know many of you were waiting eagerly for this one and I hope you enjoy using it in your classroom! If you want to grab this you can find it in my TPT store here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Lunar-New-Year-Activities-Lessons-Centres-10859860" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Lunar-New-Year-Activities-Lessons-Centres-10859860</a> or by clicking on the image below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Lunar-New-Year-Activities-Lessons-Centres-10859860" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLnDDs9OblExCIL8p1ZvXxDN4Lpa3KUyYbdTD0Wt9Nz-JPuAGPAKM-F8JDwECximPX4ijXgHMxrkRRmQfenXy__uPqgsbb9lM8VGh8kp0a20aB4pmF4RglYYxGKxBWEhK1TEepgxbFCwg3pZtYI9yaUzPIwaCvhwo4CsSx7YynqrjKINPoasRwgfS4XZtU/w400-h400/Slide4.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">3. Sorting Cards FREEBIE</h4><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Little cars were a big interest in all of my Kindergarten classes (and now with my own two sons). I already have many activities using little cars (like the letter and number tracing mats, shape tracing mats in my 2D shape unit etc.) but I thought it would be fun to have a sorting activity so I made these!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYY570Dx4YpdhSBom3shzDSFT2-y5lLtmncZjKIEi8pIOTGHjw0sJAaFrIp412aMhWW31evfVeMOV261z-lEGEphdKivac5e4dbq9re2CuHRHdWvIhFFwi88RKdPKvOgd03GsAbja9-q4DoFjCiI-2XhVwnS6KSbJ4TV0xLiw_78-7Dy8RG8yA0bq0YCyf/s1265/Slide3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYY570Dx4YpdhSBom3shzDSFT2-y5lLtmncZjKIEi8pIOTGHjw0sJAaFrIp412aMhWW31evfVeMOV261z-lEGEphdKivac5e4dbq9re2CuHRHdWvIhFFwi88RKdPKvOgd03GsAbja9-q4DoFjCiI-2XhVwnS6KSbJ4TV0xLiw_78-7Dy8RG8yA0bq0YCyf/w640-h640/Slide3.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Both kids enjoyed sorting the cars onto the correct roads! I made a couple different versions so you can print the ones that work best for the colours of cars you have (and 2 versions for the gray/grey page so you can print the spelling that works best for where you live!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can grab these for FREE here: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oCa2N7KdglU7jIuST0VokQrRiFSlI3Ay/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oCa2N7KdglU7jIuST0VokQrRiFSlI3Ay/view?usp=sharing</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">or by clicking on the image below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oCa2N7KdglU7jIuST0VokQrRiFSlI3Ay/view?usp=sharing" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="545" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4FVR3zwBxWxpKIY9H3S5Fkzr5OG6B23lAlw4Xr3BYDGJ4fLseOiNRPrx0JVIpcfzdSqEH4BCM40ZXIO3Z0hPOamNHjx0euBcr7JbM-7fhxvappnxnnS_dDVHTrekSknWAxLhMZJkx1gbyoinjejAlIXtXZmKyPYXtIenMcm1mB62GVHytC2Q4rdMVd-y_/s320/freebie.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's it for now! I hope you enjoy the sorting freebie if you download and use it :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">- Yukari</div><p></p>Yukarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682488311720997666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1352539880410883104.post-65314119971287347762023-12-04T11:12:00.006-05:002024-01-19T10:09:09.626-05:00Recap: November & December 2023<p style="text-align: center;"> Hi friends!</p><p style="text-align: center;">November was a bit busy (good busy but busy) and I couldn't start a blog post for it in time so here is I'm sharing all of the new stuff I shared over on Instagram and/or Facebook and TPT in this blog post and I'll also be adding December stuff as they come up until the month ends :)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: center;">1. { UPDATE ALERT! } 3D FIGURES</h4><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZrpmRtLndwYIlIOUuj9Te7UOYp_nA1qnYvBEp-_9GRy7AckOJ7fs4BxdRAjLvyLyrCDuP67l-bCpWsjcMzfbITOEPUw25NST1GuF6Rk2uzzxoGpwnP3N0awxYftl0pQWvguO4HmtSnS1dosSpOmVKJPGgoWhpkgMzGD5Mu4Cgwe-H8jTdMwjuk8IZhAmk/s1265/Slide1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZrpmRtLndwYIlIOUuj9Te7UOYp_nA1qnYvBEp-_9GRy7AckOJ7fs4BxdRAjLvyLyrCDuP67l-bCpWsjcMzfbITOEPUw25NST1GuF6Rk2uzzxoGpwnP3N0awxYftl0pQWvguO4HmtSnS1dosSpOmVKJPGgoWhpkgMzGD5Mu4Cgwe-H8jTdMwjuk8IZhAmk/w640-h640/Slide1.png" width="640" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><br /></p><p>The 3D figures unit got a face lift and lots of new activities were added too!</p></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLc20heVrHTOkSdUl4n7Q9QUduC7NNH1oUDLP7U5vOxt3jZeGL42u00B6TEiWJp05Vw0mfMd_VvBKIapzabUkhr-HgFC4jSR7LFuJNtMBsRV-0aIGkyIuUXGSAvdDPtrZwNWxJZCSpdSnl5Oe-Lis6_PrmZOvxGhsTSeF6PUhT4EJ-xM-d_5onVo_b8bK/s1265/Slide2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLc20heVrHTOkSdUl4n7Q9QUduC7NNH1oUDLP7U5vOxt3jZeGL42u00B6TEiWJp05Vw0mfMd_VvBKIapzabUkhr-HgFC4jSR7LFuJNtMBsRV-0aIGkyIuUXGSAvdDPtrZwNWxJZCSpdSnl5Oe-Lis6_PrmZOvxGhsTSeF6PUhT4EJ-xM-d_5onVo_b8bK/w640-h640/Slide2.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can see more of what's included or re-download the file to get the updated file if you already own it here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/3D-Figures-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-1520624">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/3D-Figures-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-1520624</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h4>2. { UPDATE ALERT! } GRAPHING</h4><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSvXHhm7J0WFoTub-2YKmSarmN9n9q4G1A_O8l32z2bJJNtstGOssDRwfdLQ-XdSSePFp6hvKdUAeMnpL26Wy1BekL62m3y9Katba8M6c8TTA9CHd3A_ml8CtICFqKaWTDHI616smfL02ykHEJbTjLuz2iILkbQntg2lY4fEWuzxot9a7l2SB0kkxTyqVM/s1265/Slide3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSvXHhm7J0WFoTub-2YKmSarmN9n9q4G1A_O8l32z2bJJNtstGOssDRwfdLQ-XdSSePFp6hvKdUAeMnpL26Wy1BekL62m3y9Katba8M6c8TTA9CHd3A_ml8CtICFqKaWTDHI616smfL02ykHEJbTjLuz2iILkbQntg2lY4fEWuzxot9a7l2SB0kkxTyqVM/w640-h640/Slide3.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Graphing unit was also updated! Apart from updated graphics and fonts, I also added a bunch of simpler, pre-filled graphing sheets (this was requested by many of you) AND I added an editable version as well so you can add your own questions and choices!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Again if you want to see more or re-download it to get the updated file if you already own it, you can do so here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Graphing-for-Kindergarten-Independent-Graphing-for-Emergent-Readers-2310141">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Graphing-for-Kindergarten-Independent-Graphing-for-Emergent-Readers-2310141</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h4>3. HANUKKAH ACTIVITIES</h4><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji3g4y9B2Y8npcLWCwn9G2cqb4Fi-IQeW2xSQrbQnQDwgt2gUVo3N_uBoeBWo7IE-ZrPNMvqgBiWZrkmpRHLg9q55fdLQupdZ3YAI4_8eEJVQUQXMoSUq3LKalZLooqDEpgrg37TbCR3e_PfIo95TpwNpJfzQpopXrSOiYNyY81a-TRrTfjZiJqWMHBqP4/s1265/Slide4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji3g4y9B2Y8npcLWCwn9G2cqb4Fi-IQeW2xSQrbQnQDwgt2gUVo3N_uBoeBWo7IE-ZrPNMvqgBiWZrkmpRHLg9q55fdLQupdZ3YAI4_8eEJVQUQXMoSUq3LKalZLooqDEpgrg37TbCR3e_PfIo95TpwNpJfzQpopXrSOiYNyY81a-TRrTfjZiJqWMHBqP4/w640-h640/Slide4.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You all loved the Diwali pack so much so I am hoping to do a whole new series of cultural celebrations/holidays! This month I was able to create Hanukkah and Kwanzaa!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqDDZYs3IKCyuZ0eqAtFONskCy9zMT_SIlj_VrzX4iPhVnSmfx3fTgYvOnsc3zNGHkxIAAS_MB2KVtRH06GwNZ2KCKBWUivqhGJ-2-4CNj9crOeoPpgTib_WUDVrHKqKQQUzIFPZcboIfFK44LhGtYsGKPm-IgBxhCMX0oN-OFQCAhKd7vdpYaN8NSesNU/s1265/Slide5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqDDZYs3IKCyuZ0eqAtFONskCy9zMT_SIlj_VrzX4iPhVnSmfx3fTgYvOnsc3zNGHkxIAAS_MB2KVtRH06GwNZ2KCKBWUivqhGJ-2-4CNj9crOeoPpgTib_WUDVrHKqKQQUzIFPZcboIfFK44LhGtYsGKPm-IgBxhCMX0oN-OFQCAhKd7vdpYaN8NSesNU/w640-h640/Slide5.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can see more of what's included in the product description on TPT here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Hanukkah-Activities-Lessons-Centres-10559902">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Hanukkah-Activities-Lessons-Centres-10559902</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h4><br /></h4><h4>4. KWANZAA ACTIVITIES</h4><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimnktFecFhH6e9ntrYjOUGmM3wm0ubRcPhRwGIbBPoi8v8J0EMN8Dokx_HTf727HTKFyhxbKyPuCe5Y0to463O545pVDtWhyphenhyphenUAjbkhgx0E5gdOta6XRAQGDhPtoDzAjolDKBGuiLb5zji40oibi-IBoH4yAo0KGyVSlUTjHQ3ue7vIV3pS1j4v0S-1udIL/s1265/Slide6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimnktFecFhH6e9ntrYjOUGmM3wm0ubRcPhRwGIbBPoi8v8J0EMN8Dokx_HTf727HTKFyhxbKyPuCe5Y0to463O545pVDtWhyphenhyphenUAjbkhgx0E5gdOta6XRAQGDhPtoDzAjolDKBGuiLb5zji40oibi-IBoH4yAo0KGyVSlUTjHQ3ue7vIV3pS1j4v0S-1udIL/w640-h640/Slide6.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And here are some photos from the new Kindergarten Kwanzaa Activities pack!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCvpaX_LPbfi9RkhPVvIUSjhXk_q3LyZb9ph-RQ4TsoDjKOC16tolwG8gmcCNsrx7j0pSox2755pIBk4p74np4R9jzTSeXESSuTVfIQDkLVTgNOZNQpytes2dDrFrcZYsrpKOngqK91xZZ6B_QjJ0BWsFT5LshIABfupWCV6QJDXpzReYiz2DQVm9MDVtV/s1265/Slide7.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCvpaX_LPbfi9RkhPVvIUSjhXk_q3LyZb9ph-RQ4TsoDjKOC16tolwG8gmcCNsrx7j0pSox2755pIBk4p74np4R9jzTSeXESSuTVfIQDkLVTgNOZNQpytes2dDrFrcZYsrpKOngqK91xZZ6B_QjJ0BWsFT5LshIABfupWCV6QJDXpzReYiz2DQVm9MDVtV/w640-h640/Slide7.png" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Again, if you would like more info, you can see the product description and the preview for this resource here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Kwanzaa-Activities-Lessons-Centres-10606789">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Kwanzaa-Activities-Lessons-Centres-10606789</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: center;">5. FREE SANTA LETTER TEMPLATES</h4></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I made these for my kids to fill out and send to Santa this last week and when I shared on stories (on Instagram) over 200 people said they wanted a copy too! So here it is :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I made my own because I wanted a simple letter that:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">1. Didn't have them checking off if they were nice or naughty</div><div style="text-align: center;">2. Made them think about something nice they have done this year/recently</div><div style="text-align: center;">3. Had them write a few things they wanted, but knowing they will only get one of these things (helpful hack for parents so if they say a puppy we will have a back up plan lol)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif_BDFSIfqsAf7x99qGrPdiJY3-CsLlciZynCjnjxDsmGuzzAOJLJ984sxSkISAy9WgSxE2BImqEsKeXLq1FtnJxyJbwTp8SxZtPMTOE51u6bdHSC8jrsiICKDZO-dRFEIUgfrC4dCygcHO3ouFSC4V_-8n__seGRx7DDU2IUyg6foFxZjDCInqSF-SHBH/s1265/Slide8.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif_BDFSIfqsAf7x99qGrPdiJY3-CsLlciZynCjnjxDsmGuzzAOJLJ984sxSkISAy9WgSxE2BImqEsKeXLq1FtnJxyJbwTp8SxZtPMTOE51u6bdHSC8jrsiICKDZO-dRFEIUgfrC4dCygcHO3ouFSC4V_-8n__seGRx7DDU2IUyg6foFxZjDCInqSF-SHBH/w640-h640/Slide8.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I couldn't decide so I added all 3 types of stamps I had, gingerbread man, candy cane and reindeer!</div><div style="text-align: center;">My oldest chose gingerbread man and my youngest chose candy cane :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTw53LYWsUA-nGMHHMceCQAyAxeAdtoAqToTnqa9VbL9NUCKeRQecIh2KihYcO8XpilvYhm7Nv0SVJe9Vsfcag5EYspPpLkA8vvyUTdvSDaOsCXlAXBlebfuW4UY1vj5PQpkHkngcIu7ju8jFQ5TOjc8Gnq_hAWaMbB15yGt6zu3slECSgCYzkIHDUzosC/s1265/Slide9.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTw53LYWsUA-nGMHHMceCQAyAxeAdtoAqToTnqa9VbL9NUCKeRQecIh2KihYcO8XpilvYhm7Nv0SVJe9Vsfcag5EYspPpLkA8vvyUTdvSDaOsCXlAXBlebfuW4UY1vj5PQpkHkngcIu7ju8jFQ5TOjc8Gnq_hAWaMbB15yGt6zu3slECSgCYzkIHDUzosC/w640-h640/Slide9.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You can grab this Santa letter template for free here: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K4vZnljMeTxjGxzDAZ2WQjqI18nDlPnW/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K4vZnljMeTxjGxzDAZ2WQjqI18nDlPnW/view?usp=sharing</a> or by clicking on the image below! I hope you enjoy these if you use it :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K4vZnljMeTxjGxzDAZ2WQjqI18nDlPnW/view?usp=sharing" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="543" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBeIVyom3HW9-cguLPiI4PUkIE0xKeKjNfRvozzUHYTN92n_Bh5NZADBPDdyokeKs7skHU5-Utx_RmeQm2ayTBB8-KBAjIMriebVFq8HD9UcFeo60FtDeM9vWDkHAki-QbZwA8ZkJpmwKAkqjwU1np_0IQQeJIjey1N9Kkio71a58E_8Ryyg1G3ZIhfing/s320/downloadfreebie.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">6. TEACHER CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEA + CARD FREEBIE</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I made these to go with the gift cards I was giving T's teachers (I always loved gift cards the most as gifts as classroom teacher so that's what I always give to my kid's teachers) and some of you asked if I could share the printable so here it is!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMM1U9TsPXbPx_Uc5HkmaX3YVQNPlBtpmavXjIHi8WVuGfE4NoibUYRPuWw2XngWHlyeu_hiDtWNUVDq9Pkd3_JGrd3_gIUofkNeOdK89HJIpzdbFfP6TrYorUYdaKfTNK9MMQhs0wgQJVYc3dlxujCpOsa6bVdyM3lYOFXu66-BKe5EqnJ1TvNWFpoIv/s1265/Slide10.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMM1U9TsPXbPx_Uc5HkmaX3YVQNPlBtpmavXjIHi8WVuGfE4NoibUYRPuWw2XngWHlyeu_hiDtWNUVDq9Pkd3_JGrd3_gIUofkNeOdK89HJIpzdbFfP6TrYorUYdaKfTNK9MMQhs0wgQJVYc3dlxujCpOsa6bVdyM3lYOFXu66-BKe5EqnJ1TvNWFpoIv/w640-h640/Slide10.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love including the kids and hearing what they say (I would enjoy this so I hope his teachers do to!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can grab this freebie here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WQGyTH46Lg6Krpw4Dyp0-NBxmGq1rxKN/view?usp=sharing or by clicking on the image below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WQGyTH46Lg6Krpw4Dyp0-NBxmGq1rxKN/view?usp=sharing" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="543" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_kr-nTjrr1Wdwj19leNqV3SMOQUHuBMV6y7hjAaAEkL53STD1RIwz9T9-2b5Wp4oWosxkoZiX3SFFbx1jCAuQbjxMSaLTAO02eaCm7psWJqTcV6bgATsJiB0tEl57hsxOW5CVS6Tebr50NckfiI3O8LZBNTkRVEVWL3DfKpr6LCfupb2XvJ2fy2jwFuuJ/s320/downloadfreebie.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">That's it for now! I hope you enjoy the freebies!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Yukari</div></div>Yukarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682488311720997666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1352539880410883104.post-25041189012519452852023-10-16T10:46:00.007-04:002023-11-01T14:27:37.876-04:00Recap: October 2023<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Hi friends! I was playing catch up with the September post, so here is my October recap post! I'll add things to this post if I share anything else new on Instagram/TPT before the end of October, but I wanted to make sure I posted this before then since the freebie in this post is a Halloween one😉</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1. PRE-WRITING LINES & SHAPES PRACTICE SHEETS</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">So I've shared in the past how my oldest is not a fan of pencil work and printing doesn't come easily to him. I was doing some research on teaching children how to print letters and learned that kids need to master 8 pre-writing lines and shapes before they can form letters! And children learn to write these pre-writing lines in a developmental progression.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">So I created these pre-writing practice sheets to help my son practice mastering pre-writing lines/shapes and I hope they can help the kiddos in your class too!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-WE5YZbVqcUVfe2_RbvxsIpsUhzEHwg208nDDUvus6raKfW_38N8cLKpLmHgeNc9-LL0Oq1h7_7hQoIfUc_DWJi74w8XSuDJ1LoTOhyImFCzjcwILOxoBcfrKcD53Ekph3sXu3_3y-ITzo-n-nfjOGheOvmqLq6UPzdxzjotptNjr5_M9FG20u1_RcVkA/s1265/Slide2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-WE5YZbVqcUVfe2_RbvxsIpsUhzEHwg208nDDUvus6raKfW_38N8cLKpLmHgeNc9-LL0Oq1h7_7hQoIfUc_DWJi74w8XSuDJ1LoTOhyImFCzjcwILOxoBcfrKcD53Ekph3sXu3_3y-ITzo-n-nfjOGheOvmqLq6UPzdxzjotptNjr5_M9FG20u1_RcVkA/w640-h640/Slide2.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;">The lines/shapes included are horizontal lines, vertical lines, circles, crosses, squares, diagonal lines, x shapes and triangles.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_KZsug3A5TuN6t59sC2WMndCEsuXpXLt79EeM1WIkVrKcI9pq-I9s03dFf2_kcj48e0SVechD5Du8kW_nMRiqOkycjTdrsuXz3RBTRh_oGpap3EDlG_oOuDsgIoTvqDk67N-GMr5OG7wg0hnc9b4Rb-ThbrZdfg-fURG_qb-W3sLo-_5_fKSyKvRPhM8V/w640-h640/Slide4.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6JG0StGn4D_EDCxZ1ld76GHLdBO1xAA8rc_fU-DuiTSHScMgWgFVPmTnQphZbTGwT-sLxbFojUc2Es1Nf_l7Y2Mp9GM7PZ55yudhdCk56uHciGR8mY0uDs6xZ55g7UpiE34BH69H7Vhyzmm9Y-YSZy9fUkdt83IuWjkEsMRklMniBwVFS7pOl8Jzwo0Qf/s1265/Slide3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6JG0StGn4D_EDCxZ1ld76GHLdBO1xAA8rc_fU-DuiTSHScMgWgFVPmTnQphZbTGwT-sLxbFojUc2Es1Nf_l7Y2Mp9GM7PZ55yudhdCk56uHciGR8mY0uDs6xZ55g7UpiE34BH69H7Vhyzmm9Y-YSZy9fUkdt83IuWjkEsMRklMniBwVFS7pOl8Jzwo0Qf/w640-h640/Slide3.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If you are interested in grabbing these for your students, you can find them here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pre-Writing-Lines-Shapes-Practice-Sheets-10283303">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pre-Writing-Lines-Shapes-Practice-Sheets-10283303</a> or by clicking on the image below:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pre-Writing-Lines-Shapes-Practice-Sheets-10283303" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPFMgT5dCmJXz-1Tjl8jlqtk0z3bYUIBAyKK-1z2VVYUJ2siRUHNqXFwUjJef9gUu3dWDeLpnO4EtC3OMRE-OtnR3E7jjrhabjjzGuxIG249Rpn5hzTDmAGvkNI26ntsH0PIuPPoFitxTb6-rye7fA1Zi_-vVYfw-UyjcTG4pd9-jtj0kjj__6cWfIL-Io/s320/Slide1.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">2. DIWALI ACTIVITY PACK</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This has been highly requested year after year and I FINALLY found time to finish it! I love how it turned out so I hope you do too, and I hope this makes teaching about Diwali and incorporating them into your centres easy :)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzUx-AVKhVNHr6stJxKgsw6o-UxekPuycZ2PrwF7pesaOi73YfLGzCfMyxoukNg02WlpRLBoVzxKrHTknBIP8XRtFkUgMbjStfxQEpIvqZXGzO7o9dvhNwzTNqXrctuVueNp-BjbLzmwVAK9HMtOX93pL7iElYGjTQf-Ogg6lCVLrwOVyn0aLhIUHaWajp/s1265/Slide7.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzUx-AVKhVNHr6stJxKgsw6o-UxekPuycZ2PrwF7pesaOi73YfLGzCfMyxoukNg02WlpRLBoVzxKrHTknBIP8XRtFkUgMbjStfxQEpIvqZXGzO7o9dvhNwzTNqXrctuVueNp-BjbLzmwVAK9HMtOX93pL7iElYGjTQf-Ogg6lCVLrwOVyn0aLhIUHaWajp/w640-h640/Slide7.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjoTytYBKkeA4-LQn1eBPZT4KZgv4-5RN5nq8XwvoZF2bPmOxJKUJvQUwXF88m3r4v6KW5Uh8gpzSzmQgxRbf9IIBNAcee5pPxi3UxlRl-pd70kPYJelk7Xt58QXi9nuZ_5DIuZzwVI9oQPU6rIsKtIUJBcwmhBQueMT9j5saebHZTEz_ASD6NOk51IA9/s1265/Slide8.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjoTytYBKkeA4-LQn1eBPZT4KZgv4-5RN5nq8XwvoZF2bPmOxJKUJvQUwXF88m3r4v6KW5Uh8gpzSzmQgxRbf9IIBNAcee5pPxi3UxlRl-pd70kPYJelk7Xt58QXi9nuZ_5DIuZzwVI9oQPU6rIsKtIUJBcwmhBQueMT9j5saebHZTEz_ASD6NOk51IA9/w640-h640/Slide8.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can see more photos from this activity pack at the bottom of this Diwali post: <a href="http://www.apinchofkinder.com/2019/11/diwali-in-kindergarten.html">http://www.apinchofkinder.com/2019/11/diwali-in-kindergarten.html</a> or you can grab the pack on TPT here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Diwali-Activities-Lessons-Centres-10321372">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Diwali-Activities-Lessons-Centres-10321372</a> or by clicking on the image below:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Diwali-Activities-Lessons-Centres-10321372" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI1UNMlPcI9I-pQtUeHQ3UZQxil18zkrAEAERSFOMB6x65vDJQnwoMk0npVzlin7QDjOeG3vnG3FZe_GjIkC2NPKxcBpXBI5mctgyH4rhOD_nhFvkNkP-cbdz4jPTufZuOdrwNlxYfBgkkF86vrvetyKiCLmQgrTegkCfsJIWmktQSCH874bF1kkZMj9Ac/s320/Slide1.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">3. { UPDATE ALERT! } SYMMETRY UNIT</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Next up on my math unit updates is symmetry! I love all of the new, hands on centres I was able to add to this one.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Symmetry-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-3099291" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNWtJljseuOXiOtoLXn5tfnuzpTR4Hf2oyA3u_30v_QIEHi16315eRL8jHm1P5lQTtdWS399sZ2UX2ooNuS46J42Rexv6fSdyzOdBZIHUEd-RiA4oavN02_chYUDwhtUqxY4WBVY7bA9OLj_otH2wYmFZvLb0DldKpG1pSn0onYTNbc9EvztwCixpphpEs/w640-h640/Slide9.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Symmetry-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-3099291" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH7ZTazL8cwe_-FNgbBofqWQqzt3BLw6L7j7-ywVejQLHgMDR7PJp6jFgv1EN9_X-a8DIhnP88WgPZQwv28sYKWBX0rvqIbUr2BRP9nTUFSAxEqEx7qoimhFGxxjLcfQxmcipyyKVFSTI32rkcMOEYb2JlIsNQOS2ianAu3NkMGDiiAElfEA4p8ORSP7Zi/w640-h640/Slide10.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can see a couple of the activities in the photos above or check out the preview on TPT to see more of what's included!</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can grab this unit here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Symmetry-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-3099291">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Symmetry-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-3099291</a> or by clicking on the image below:</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Symmetry-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-3099291" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4jN05t9DmmEA3S9yahKl9K5LfTqzTfZKtf6QPKigPf4EyS16i5WGwxoRArX4i3KJdcD-lVR542Dh43lPInDQN4zcfEG604tFHI0GdDYIxKnqaiBnJOpoQlVc6kkXsHjXeWWaLYu90BsCi5fAj7zbprKw7xwa4mt3KCcZWUoaQ5EWzPktx7zugah_fJ_mb/s320/Slide9.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">4. <span style="font-family: inherit;">{ UPDATE ALERT! } NUMBER LINES UNIT</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another unit that got an update is the Number Lines unit! This was mostly an aesthetics update (updated clip art + fonts) but I also added a road version of the race to 10 game!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2M94DOg8YR8OwO7r962rQ2sZOPOQFN0e748JGW_9L8J3ZHJAvxBPg2ZXZZ5QfQFsGFLptHb8E-LDi8lZLzNWVdnV3Dk9msPow4sMrxkE_k73acdrtEUF0Ik07h-_keqePHx6Jtf34_2sDmPN62GJB2w1ALq7ofNd7Q6YHN2jXbHNcIl-OY9Lj24KZJf9S/s1265/Slide11.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2M94DOg8YR8OwO7r962rQ2sZOPOQFN0e748JGW_9L8J3ZHJAvxBPg2ZXZZ5QfQFsGFLptHb8E-LDi8lZLzNWVdnV3Dk9msPow4sMrxkE_k73acdrtEUF0Ik07h-_keqePHx6Jtf34_2sDmPN62GJB2w1ALq7ofNd7Q6YHN2jXbHNcIl-OY9Lj24KZJf9S/w640-h640/Slide11.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can see more in the preview here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Lines-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-2395376">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Lines-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-2395376</a> or by clicking on the image below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Lines-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-2395376" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIoSQH57c6OcKtlDWNJPzbAEI3fslEX9-9it_bKSX_166rEyPNVp5ZOakhMkvkbQq-SwtRlAlKuZBWrHdTnbYGSEnUUs6tM5y7YDl_lJjMgLB4X3QK652jibPMhBEuJHRMIZvs6jBJsQZaPZxO2aV7J-ouzmRb1_ee50fxGriB1iKfaihGa82KU2tlwpVI/s320/Slide11.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5. NEW RESOURCE - AMERICAN COINS</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This has been requested for years and I finally got to it this month, the American version of my popular Canadian Coins unit! You can check out my "Teaching Money in FDK" blog post here: <a href="http://www.apinchofkinder.com/2015/05/teaching-money-in-fdk.html">http://www.apinchofkinder.com/2015/05/teaching-money-in-fdk.html</a> to see how I use the Canadian version of these printables!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's also a few pages from the preview so you can see some of what is included:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG9c-sZMjCATT7Te7pU4dCkrkaQo8zl7Vh57UH5CC0V6pNk6U3qrZ5P1nZDb2k6Zlt3GNQzW755IvRNNxHjpHtJp4CMbsG3Ija2CHC_CDk1rcn7rE3fot-S8S2vMVuc65eyyLatVJdruYSYjRX0VKr56CQwtat9VQTQl9eqoKItoKVmHSL_yoNmLl6fCm0/s1265/Slide1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="949" data-original-width="1265" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG9c-sZMjCATT7Te7pU4dCkrkaQo8zl7Vh57UH5CC0V6pNk6U3qrZ5P1nZDb2k6Zlt3GNQzW755IvRNNxHjpHtJp4CMbsG3Ija2CHC_CDk1rcn7rE3fot-S8S2vMVuc65eyyLatVJdruYSYjRX0VKr56CQwtat9VQTQl9eqoKItoKVmHSL_yoNmLl6fCm0/w640-h480/Slide1.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNv0YUaSRejlE6puOI6dByvPAWfaEhqeiHSjVvU3t1sDdwyFFjBPFUjGa2oSudbEL72SWmIOw9nmFPjuV3kGXlz670QogfjsnpWh1nanzshp7Hrd77d8nD0tJtHLemGdMuUT7xtpU6QjJAonnaXz77qbB2g-c7cPT-F3ovVkOKAJwh4Amp7yQK46y-UfTy/s1265/Slide2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="949" data-original-width="1265" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNv0YUaSRejlE6puOI6dByvPAWfaEhqeiHSjVvU3t1sDdwyFFjBPFUjGa2oSudbEL72SWmIOw9nmFPjuV3kGXlz670QogfjsnpWh1nanzshp7Hrd77d8nD0tJtHLemGdMuUT7xtpU6QjJAonnaXz77qbB2g-c7cPT-F3ovVkOKAJwh4Amp7yQK46y-UfTy/w640-h480/Slide2.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can grab this on TPT/wish list it for later here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Coins-for-Kindergarten-Centres-Printables-More-10363624">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Coins-for-Kindergarten-Centres-Printables-More-10363624</a> or by clicking on the image below:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Coins-for-Kindergarten-Centres-Printables-More-10363624" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLn2KKpzsdi7Q7AxY2VZeGCB5VAS0ftxzPldKWCB6hyphenhyphencjAIwmLmk4u34IUch2r4tyzrJMfXWtdzCbuE0QyVEcgXxpmvJHosfCYqM81T1JA1fKcTcJZThv2pty6qxSM4jrx9VXOWUaALtID8rw7CsOHWE36OZfCUlJWB0-0ZC3rrSHexWWuk0ceGr8ZNqlT/s320/Slide20.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">6. WELCHES "HALLOWEEN MIX" SORT & COUNT FREEBIE</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Both of my kiddos are obsessed with Welches fruit snacks, so when I saw this Halloween edition, I knew I had to grab them! I made up a sorting mat for my oldest to sort on. You can have students record the number for each directly in the circle, or if they need some help you can provide them with the tracing strips to trace, cut and glue!</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM5aC6Jss9AkPDUFpV-VRDquCwRsrcjxBe3VDkLL_5bHIN7bejtz6zC9x6OzQZX4gBRG55FgP-kadQCKGeqr9xLF8xbnBD4tij-dUSB4aGzn5fn8DywICNHTGak2y_PWE7b9azeQ_9gmvTm4UAI7PGiYgYM4R5BHkWilrDvM8qz3WDpfEVdbrMz5KUU5Xd/s1265/Slide9.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM5aC6Jss9AkPDUFpV-VRDquCwRsrcjxBe3VDkLL_5bHIN7bejtz6zC9x6OzQZX4gBRG55FgP-kadQCKGeqr9xLF8xbnBD4tij-dUSB4aGzn5fn8DywICNHTGak2y_PWE7b9azeQ_9gmvTm4UAI7PGiYgYM4R5BHkWilrDvM8qz3WDpfEVdbrMz5KUU5Xd/w640-h640/Slide9.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I know not all schools allow food (especially things with gelatin) but if you are able to have it in your class it would be a fun Halloween week activity!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My oldest loved this activity but he actually got 4 witches, 1 haunted house, 1 jack-o'-lantern, 1 bat and no ghosts so the tracing strip I made above didn't have all of the numbers he needed. So I made and included a second tracing strip option (0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4) and I also included a page with all the same number on each strip (students can just cut off what they need from each strip). Please choose and use whichever one fits best for your class!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Click here: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q1-Y5zHonJr7csnsfc3P8tf3gbSc8Kys/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q1-Y5zHonJr7csnsfc3P8tf3gbSc8Kys/view?usp=sharing</a> or on the button below to grab this freebie!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q1-Y5zHonJr7csnsfc3P8tf3gbSc8Kys/view?usp=sharing" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="545" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgomkTaP7z_t755v-jTUaH3nrFsWBH8NNDsev_7AZXAXWE3PvEIR_XvE95gyHyeyBDAW0WZLSu3mCWMzpVcEUL3EQrDNaooZGufL9mtUdvWmeDO6PF3bFa6I26k9PgkK3gAxgeINxxYOmvzXOnrfuugxdNGPWst_j9Nf8EAkSzIciisuNcNlqEutD2RVaXS/s320/freebie.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I hope you enjoy the freebie!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>7. CO-CREATED WINTER DRESSING CHART</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I realized I never shared what I did for teaching winter dressing routines the last time I was in the classroom, so I decided to finally share this month!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Here in Southern Ontario, we get snow pants weather as early as November and lasts it sometimes lasts until March!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I know how helpful it is when we teach out littles to get dressed as independently as possible, so I've tried a few different things over the years and this is what has stuck!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">First, I introduce "The Winter Dressing Song". I project this page:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYtrXDl5n_B6i4HZHvtMIGbMoKo2G9M3FJ08oytk9tG6CmG7hHFy0xzIQVAX1krHMVdxpR90PSBu7tuCaf2NNkJCmJB_tOxCsIDe2NUXq891x3sbjB042-qbK5Y7RguKrh2ByQ4Q9o0NIYs7aShsfYmoSn1L3Y0Lx_Ofx7STlcFl-cSlbhdxdHQeDoCx0d/s1265/Slide3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="949" data-original-width="1265" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYtrXDl5n_B6i4HZHvtMIGbMoKo2G9M3FJ08oytk9tG6CmG7hHFy0xzIQVAX1krHMVdxpR90PSBu7tuCaf2NNkJCmJB_tOxCsIDe2NUXq891x3sbjB042-qbK5Y7RguKrh2ByQ4Q9o0NIYs7aShsfYmoSn1L3Y0Lx_Ofx7STlcFl-cSlbhdxdHQeDoCx0d/w640-h480/Slide3.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">on the projector and we sing it together as I point to the pictures. I included two version (scarf then hat or hat then scarf). Scarf then hat works better if most of your students have tube scarves! </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Please use the one that works best for your class!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Next, we co-create our reference chart by having students gather their outdoor gear (I just choose names out of a hat and the chosen student can bring their snow pants, boots etc. to the carpet). We take a photo of each piece of clothing and I add them to the editable file and print them out (I included my sample in the file as an example, but it really is best to use your own student's gear! It adds so much student voice to your walls, the students remember it more if they make it with you and they love seeing their clothing in the chart :)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNbqOs53AKbJ1H6675jn_Sq7h8nIqwXXlBWEZUVXHh5e-i-5Lk-tNwwDa36nshkMRXvZJDttvobkiWkXgF_NCerGVrPs_Ex5_vaA6xTsZBx0JHG5uaZTA5siFuOkgt7usBFeJ4ziQZnue3wb41DBjoqqZzG-wuv2Emb8fsNUlBcDCgyS4uUWlKd3tQ1XG_/s1265/Slide13.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNbqOs53AKbJ1H6675jn_Sq7h8nIqwXXlBWEZUVXHh5e-i-5Lk-tNwwDa36nshkMRXvZJDttvobkiWkXgF_NCerGVrPs_Ex5_vaA6xTsZBx0JHG5uaZTA5siFuOkgt7usBFeJ4ziQZnue3wb41DBjoqqZzG-wuv2Emb8fsNUlBcDCgyS4uUWlKd3tQ1XG_/w640-h640/Slide13.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I also get a few of my fine motor experts to help me with the title for the chart (or you can use one of the tracing options included OR you can jusst print out the pre-made one!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Once all of the pieces are made/printed and ready, we gather in the cubby area and put the chart up somewhere high so that every (or at least mot) students can see it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This has helped tremendously with the "What do I do first?" question, as we can refer the mto the chart. I also created a cut and paste song that the students can do as a centre or small group activity and then take home to encourage winter dressing practice at home as well!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I hope you enjoy this resource and that it helps make the pesky snow pants season a little bit easier! You can grab the file to make your own here: </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Editable-Co-Created-Winter-Dressing-Chart-Song-10392088">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Editable-Co-Created-Winter-Dressing-Chart-Song-10392088</a> or by clicking on the image below:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Editable-Co-Created-Winter-Dressing-Chart-Song-10392088" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhns245879FC09G8nt1Ku7Zje5v38lfrxOGKJ7-yKUfxWOtx9lgdjVYFQ5H0XVv0UUx-P9D0rrfLanTmoTAtSzXzZwXREd-On_aJ66jhDFN4zf9zFPBdx_gEEE2l_RgHr8CtejKW6JUE89MXF869yk4W-kbWboTJ5F_K5DysS6eBoCCaC_xE1Vt6zR12gqo/s320/Slide1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">That's it from me for October! I hope you found something that will help make your life a little bit easier :)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Yukari</span></div><p></p>Yukarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682488311720997666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1352539880410883104.post-7445339469333583872023-10-13T10:19:00.003-04:002023-10-13T10:24:14.633-04:00Recap: August/September 2023<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hi friends! I'm going to try to do a monthly recap of new things I'm sharing over on Instagram and TPT, since I know links can be hard to keep track of over on Instagram. So here are some things I shared in August/September!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>1. FIRST WEEK FORMS + INITIAL ASSESSMENTS</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This has been requested many times in the past, so this summer I put together my first week forms to share! It includes dismissal forms, student information forms and also a page with links to other freebies that I have offered in the past for the first week, including the editable Meet the Educators letter!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzwuwOTJQFzryN7BgV5Rts31GqUpeE5Rkeg73ltgVMeM_OfsnMNFM-oF_XjBwTL1FrqncEvpIKjsUZAKRRZ1SimVJN231dNpX2p9e7aeInuMI40jEfKQVQfA7yDu4GVKTFK8XM7mLtyBbPByZBiwRK3BGPYKwr_t1CH7lIw4g_PROG7YqedgSPHUHL9XNT/s1265/Slide2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzwuwOTJQFzryN7BgV5Rts31GqUpeE5Rkeg73ltgVMeM_OfsnMNFM-oF_XjBwTL1FrqncEvpIKjsUZAKRRZ1SimVJN231dNpX2p9e7aeInuMI40jEfKQVQfA7yDu4GVKTFK8XM7mLtyBbPByZBiwRK3BGPYKwr_t1CH7lIw4g_PROG7YqedgSPHUHL9XNT/w640-h640/Slide2.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I also included my initial assessments so it's easy peasy to start assessing whenever you have a minute!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TuktAQrsVgKvmdxktukRcF5Xx0BgRRoIVZYvzhf64KexECEcdnwqNWLqmNpww_WFBlLHmGGh66EaW2tf8noXNVMWXZOM5VynBYURfR0VtJYRf902RbS0X5ui6nsjQIbnc12HiNUP85fk0rFLmR8WXcRsaEqXf5ykrZROqycp_95yQARNq8OBvSq2FTfY/s1265/Slide1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TuktAQrsVgKvmdxktukRcF5Xx0BgRRoIVZYvzhf64KexECEcdnwqNWLqmNpww_WFBlLHmGGh66EaW2tf8noXNVMWXZOM5VynBYURfR0VtJYRf902RbS0X5ui6nsjQIbnc12HiNUP85fk0rFLmR8WXcRsaEqXf5ykrZROqycp_95yQARNq8OBvSq2FTfY/w640-h640/Slide1.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You can find these forms here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Forms-Assessments-for-Kindergarten-9938181" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Forms-Assessments-for-Kindergarten-9938181</a> or by clicking on the image below:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Forms-Assessments-for-Kindergarten-9938181" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VOFH2sGNG6Wx_ftq4tY02jpg-hFmaK0mGOlS5rPvhR0gQGaZrCBaAdmEeGxrxYKOwNgPPVEOYcCoL-1jn_5CW-S1az4HfO9jqSzs9iRpiGIHiUMMLrKwhWLdr2Kg48WUgJRYWvdxr1l87wfanHLQgu8YqaWJkHH7I6ZV6FfJ0G6apZOvogD2HKcwzzm_/s320/Slide2.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You can also find it in my Back to School Bundle. You can find that bundle here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Back-to-School-Bundle-9909773" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Back-to-School-Bundle-9909773</a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>2. ALL ABOUT ME POSTERS</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Another resource that was highly requested was an "All About Me" activity for the beginning of the year, so I created these this summer! I think it would be so cute as a bulletin board for "Meet the Teacher/Open House" and then made into a class book once you are ready to take it down :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikVJ8p3ck3baKSngcz4DzsBMmLqBCs9IKxsrF5y1h3d9CxTnQA4J_-UcTUBY-vmeO8SP2dXu-XO0hpGYQs2NgWugbQZXhYWOwENhKt5Du5i0MY25_ggMZlCorDrM62hzLJbKmAkYhVn8PdrCvTfQXivm5oxVcckiuWlfnb0V994qt_HfiWhXBOQowo_ybw/s1265/Slide3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikVJ8p3ck3baKSngcz4DzsBMmLqBCs9IKxsrF5y1h3d9CxTnQA4J_-UcTUBY-vmeO8SP2dXu-XO0hpGYQs2NgWugbQZXhYWOwENhKt5Du5i0MY25_ggMZlCorDrM62hzLJbKmAkYhVn8PdrCvTfQXivm5oxVcckiuWlfnb0V994qt_HfiWhXBOQowo_ybw/w640-h640/Slide3.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here's mine with what I think Kindergartener Yukari would have said 😆</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0o1xF3WGKOtH2Q5qZX0_b5J6hnUoD7yFirJxki4DmdYehJ9yO-uElUD8Hy-WaZFiM8X26xgZSd3OV0MLwKWabmzm2kod5iSiLWm6r-KksgdVj0ZIg1vyI4WUY-PJTUYdX-2X445f-F7vcjsvXrcMd93v6YQv-od7kHqHwLXWdzbgND_Ok9Jqkd-Kswl92/s1265/Slide4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0o1xF3WGKOtH2Q5qZX0_b5J6hnUoD7yFirJxki4DmdYehJ9yO-uElUD8Hy-WaZFiM8X26xgZSd3OV0MLwKWabmzm2kod5iSiLWm6r-KksgdVj0ZIg1vyI4WUY-PJTUYdX-2X445f-F7vcjsvXrcMd93v6YQv-od7kHqHwLXWdzbgND_Ok9Jqkd-Kswl92/w640-h640/Slide4.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you would like to grab this editable file, you can find it here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/All-About-Me-Editable-Bulletin-Board-Display-or-Class-Book-9909615" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/All-About-Me-Editable-Bulletin-Board-Display-or-Class-Book-9909615</a> or by clicking on the image below:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/All-About-Me-Editable-Bulletin-Board-Display-or-Class-Book-9909615" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoFwB9vIee9JIK6RCUAK-MeQngIEvL_JMkGmoy1b9sPRTQcroF50E6fC35UF6F7IG1mRw35iQrHMMpVobiC8Eas2GEUVzuBYmEHjKlv5e9Ex2JOAp7YKYcbeGlhAks9ksfPMqYhQfZg_6Nw0INDaRy1WUcboQcQ5o-2AXpJaFWXP9hyphenhyphene2bHNn-BymSVDJq/w320-h320/Slide1%202.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>3. BEGINNING SOUNDS TRACING LINES</b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4jSJzydSyDEWaZHq5CmuYWJxdLDlTctT7x5h_thTDAczrFofrLph03s4XziKzF7FrPar9Mo4BY6dDdbUGwiAhe5ZMw1aLNxu4rULK6YBKpWfBKjuoYGeWQWtoTDstPjNhFwsaWF1LK12lY0XU4bP1H7tFbprFq5Hmf93EX29IbLT_R_us0hBuQE5UqsCQ/s1265/Slide5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4jSJzydSyDEWaZHq5CmuYWJxdLDlTctT7x5h_thTDAczrFofrLph03s4XziKzF7FrPar9Mo4BY6dDdbUGwiAhe5ZMw1aLNxu4rULK6YBKpWfBKjuoYGeWQWtoTDstPjNhFwsaWF1LK12lY0XU4bP1H7tFbprFq5Hmf93EX29IbLT_R_us0hBuQE5UqsCQ/w640-h640/Slide5.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">My own little guy (just turned 5) is working hard to improve his pencil skills. He isn't a big fan of pencil work, but these were such a big hit! </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMV172b_NG5q6kXRqUIl1kSXXUwKkaCih3cjgoanBdh4aEmX8JAs9Eid0rA_xU7RtcHOb9tHRC4L9YTBTYS-zJLwsFOG3b4KTNYYkRg4z2iKMqJ6hKBsjIs1MUNPdndvuPOzL6kNFnNoznbUPxhX9e3vQPfKuUbKBrDSe11La3qsuGJO_qCcZdKYCflmpO/s1265/Slide6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMV172b_NG5q6kXRqUIl1kSXXUwKkaCih3cjgoanBdh4aEmX8JAs9Eid0rA_xU7RtcHOb9tHRC4L9YTBTYS-zJLwsFOG3b4KTNYYkRg4z2iKMqJ6hKBsjIs1MUNPdndvuPOzL6kNFnNoznbUPxhX9e3vQPfKuUbKBrDSe11La3qsuGJO_qCcZdKYCflmpO/w640-h640/Slide6.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Usually it's like pulling teeth having him sit down and practice any kind of pencil work so I was thrilled to see him enjoying these! He even asked for more when we were done!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0K9m7dNUbixmbBh3Zvor5Uu7LqBPFXRrDibKIr-qCxM2SKYTKZ3tUQc1NFaNK6AGHprUM8WtMv12_sECSXyuYk9bBFXzlDmCnhrvUVbljU7Hikkn0y1ps_EOuLdRnHI3JH7vve_JpSW8Y83-SxuFyIODgniTBDZFwtI16egrLWdJFOt8ON5Og9RCVVJO/s1265/Slide7.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0K9m7dNUbixmbBh3Zvor5Uu7LqBPFXRrDibKIr-qCxM2SKYTKZ3tUQc1NFaNK6AGHprUM8WtMv12_sECSXyuYk9bBFXzlDmCnhrvUVbljU7Hikkn0y1ps_EOuLdRnHI3JH7vve_JpSW8Y83-SxuFyIODgniTBDZFwtI16egrLWdJFOt8ON5Og9RCVVJO/w640-h640/Slide7.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you are interested in grabbing these, they are now available in my TPT store. You can find them here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pencil-Control-x-Literacy-Beginning-Sound-Tracing-Lines-10107009" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pencil-Control-x-Literacy-Beginning-Sound-Tracing-Lines-10107009</a> or by clicking on the image below:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pencil-Control-x-Literacy-Beginning-Sound-Tracing-Lines-10107009" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd4m1CFT4IQtByfeLOILMOXN5f0QggrTXwR2dfsrsAFVpuL3j5_zHB3FFoj-T-fAAeoNA-oJ3a02p63lbCO_uR5U-esYJC_4dKdh5zn1Tz7l9BD-0NlRbJR1bYoh4QoifkFvjeNUQZUAYp0nst3jXdy1aGslrTMXQHgl_Xe6kPpe88Kt8uY7t5Psfh0QXz/s320/Slide1.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>3. BEGINNING SOUND MAZES</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Two skills my son is currently working on is his pencil control and isolating and identifying beginning sounds in words, and he LOVES mazes, so I made up these for him to practice those two skills!</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcddxrszw_OHEL_3uMMFsFPQJ0MstbnH4kwWSSmtnfIyW80q3JWS_28Klj76nw-WMljNj-a7d0wn2JP4n3I1jbrnzESadEH0vfxJ6cRoanqHJGPz_zPbCDH7g-PpgCxjUXQtXlmp8vxKEQt7_nowS8_FdYxskj_GD2ldtgVJMXn8b5T7YW50Qlyfm2PByT/s1265/Slide8.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcddxrszw_OHEL_3uMMFsFPQJ0MstbnH4kwWSSmtnfIyW80q3JWS_28Klj76nw-WMljNj-a7d0wn2JP4n3I1jbrnzESadEH0vfxJ6cRoanqHJGPz_zPbCDH7g-PpgCxjUXQtXlmp8vxKEQt7_nowS8_FdYxskj_GD2ldtgVJMXn8b5T7YW50Qlyfm2PByT/w640-h640/Slide8.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It was a just right activity for him as most of the pages he could do independently and a few pages he needed help figuring out the initial sound.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you have kiddos who you think might enjoy this activity, you can find it in my TPT store here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pencil-Control-x-Literacy-Beginning-Sound-Mazes-10144759" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pencil-Control-x-Literacy-Beginning-Sound-Mazes-10144759</a> or by clicking on the image below:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pencil-Control-x-Literacy-Beginning-Sound-Mazes-10144759" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8M45-ddCEzMCzWwjFK_1X994Z54B9QwOlFmHHMDZrU4-CFWlO1x1LSi-UG9W_8Z9ZRDAHQlQLEJ7bwAePeXdlL1tFedQJjB5Bz4afGWeveSuGjdXRIjMFR3Xa1wcmrKQBRM8XwU7lrsQ2mUoIHK4XAORi729RJvg7WGM0g1ummxGBvCgGmfICSrppdrj/s320/Slide2%202.PNG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>4. { UPDATE ALERT! } MEASUREMENT UNIT</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Now that my oldest is back in school, I'm starting my math unit updates again! This past spring I decided to go back in and updated all of my math units, and so far Canadian Coins, Probability, Time, The Number Sense Centre Bundle, 2D Shapes, Sorting and Patterning were updated in the Spring/Early Summer.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And this month, Non-Standard Measurement was updated! Here's a look at some of the new/updated pages:</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Non-Standard-Measurement-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-2192857" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhai-VxlGeZBydzJVll8USgN8o75q39LsA_Wk-LPdU5o1lhRKMApSU0IdYvfdrwJ8hYK3Rgr9Q5cylwjgnoiLGDvVbqdDKj-dIqS5a-rFpSBRXNsomQaW0xxcXDHe4cQm6SFMnC9vACMmb9SaEvWyne_7zTTSnU5wisWB7o30f-pxk8CKWIE5qMN3D2U3jL/w640-h640/Slide9.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Non-Standard-Measurement-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-2192857" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4zC2aB7vfeCmCHjsyEULlbDRTgl8LfLNCvZM_a9gspqxpfPRyh13ZwYNvVYuWNUTykmId51asEy316HJj4APen3gEkuNxDssO5UsvgiPTyRcjFnjdJBYGU61EnCiXXNQEuAn-tdsq5G4H5enrE-O2SLUFM5iTODfsUd7lR6L2__fNeqXcEwsfZ98eCAT/w640-h640/Slide10.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you already own this measurement unit, you can get the updated version for free! Just click here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Non-Standard-Measurement-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-2192857" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Non-Standard-Measurement-for-Kindergarten-Hands-On-Centres-Printables-2192857</a> and re-download the file to get the updated version!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkyX1UK65cIWCL-gAedE2KommwN1o1pUC110glL9RKfw2K28k09MT08ig4OI2mHpI8pV4hs1BDlX1HiVCLa24FY5S7OeK_ThyQwUD_P0utktnyqvC1wYpFVSlmJYdvSWqsuU3zFstyDDYL5mayKTf33eSvhCauLh5VugxWFXo3aljOhyphenhyphen7UjYhXFrzbfLk/s1265/Slide8.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkyX1UK65cIWCL-gAedE2KommwN1o1pUC110glL9RKfw2K28k09MT08ig4OI2mHpI8pV4hs1BDlX1HiVCLa24FY5S7OeK_ThyQwUD_P0utktnyqvC1wYpFVSlmJYdvSWqsuU3zFstyDDYL5mayKTf33eSvhCauLh5VugxWFXo3aljOhyphenhyphen7UjYhXFrzbfLk/s320/Slide8.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>5. FIND & TRACE FREEBIE</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9gX32t7W11YKtAKB7NShqHryulm4aVfpjS34izio6tMdJrRWKDfhM9ilA0eK1DfJR0uLC8ichpwlDnXMcyL-rZ-vYenHbRTXhdFNzch7xMNXh5LGgaR6zReGfq6cLb53qdBYt7muiBdM1bllLOaNBYPVVBamU-cphTkRhgJEqFdYXNK0vzF94HMpmBCd/s1265/Slide11.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9gX32t7W11YKtAKB7NShqHryulm4aVfpjS34izio6tMdJrRWKDfhM9ilA0eK1DfJR0uLC8ichpwlDnXMcyL-rZ-vYenHbRTXhdFNzch7xMNXh5LGgaR6zReGfq6cLb53qdBYt7muiBdM1bllLOaNBYPVVBamU-cphTkRhgJEqFdYXNK0vzF94HMpmBCd/w640-h640/Slide11.png" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This is similar to the "<a href="http://www.apinchofkinder.com/2020/02/february-2020.html" target="_blank">Plate Detective</a>" freebie I've shared in the past but when I found these Star Wars plates, I knew I had to grab it and make an activity for my Star Wars obsessed son! I used a silver Sharpie to write the letters and invited him to find the letters and trace them on the recording sheet.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I purposely included only letters with horizontal and vertical lines, as I wanted him to be able to do this one as independently as possible and build his confidence.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you could use this freebie too, you can download it by clicking here: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F0cEJyelSrP0FSLcTQm85GoMi2UpE3PF/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F0cEJyelSrP0FSLcTQm85GoMi2UpE3PF/view?usp=sharing</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">or on the image below:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F0cEJyelSrP0FSLcTQm85GoMi2UpE3PF/view?usp=sharing" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="545" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCsgjzZIQIqtqBQywKGVVeHXSnyQ2JbjjPOO20CxHi4xQeJxFSw6NN_kObF5SNwbjgcmgrHkOqx0J1ZBKhxui4muVwg1LEQIfCdn1zXvYZtObZcJPYhE9YoQLj7o5eZ0wAKImQKKc_RkHVm-mxZAUeqPkZcYWztdY7AHLqPQt1Vf5Gy00kODib9tTzyQF4/s320/freebie.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Yukari</span></div>Yukarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682488311720997666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1352539880410883104.post-25199483673924598262023-06-27T11:44:00.018-04:002023-06-27T15:11:11.003-04:00Instagram Round-Up: January-June 2023<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>1. Updated New Year FREEBIES</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This year I updated my new year freebies! I updated the pages with new fonts/clip art and also added a new q-tip painting activity.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This one is the trace and build activity that is included:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_xTIKrS3ALExeixhyB9YcNHzqar3BxhABNZI-7bRgNuSGlzEANCzVngGORSNGHrisvy_8TlZenNwRwEnvecv3iMrTL2FQpccM-g_zNGL6X317QaHWP4U2MzLIgO1tQ3AF77_KROwvOvd8ZoRlmmrX_77064rNwb9bRku91jTjXX-7moZZvf80X9U9swhn/s1265/Slide1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_xTIKrS3ALExeixhyB9YcNHzqar3BxhABNZI-7bRgNuSGlzEANCzVngGORSNGHrisvy_8TlZenNwRwEnvecv3iMrTL2FQpccM-g_zNGL6X317QaHWP4U2MzLIgO1tQ3AF77_KROwvOvd8ZoRlmmrX_77064rNwb9bRku91jTjXX-7moZZvf80X9U9swhn/w640-h640/Slide1.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The current version has up to 2026 included!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8iDjmVfwuflwyX0uGKX8ZfaBkDkEuC1jNxt4mhUQ50_t6ZlTmkymQ9BSdmAyApgszyP5hcROtoYuuLGHb52_2E7QXqBEq8zOAscC0NXMzeetKfyvXbIXz-3K8a6nUjBEPFj2h0NQVRZ5Cf1dcLw9jZBoV2_IdILMrTMh-jXp-T8iBuinJ2SSwN7KjQrK/s1265/Slide2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8iDjmVfwuflwyX0uGKX8ZfaBkDkEuC1jNxt4mhUQ50_t6ZlTmkymQ9BSdmAyApgszyP5hcROtoYuuLGHb52_2E7QXqBEq8zOAscC0NXMzeetKfyvXbIXz-3K8a6nUjBEPFj2h0NQVRZ5Cf1dcLw9jZBoV2_IdILMrTMh-jXp-T8iBuinJ2SSwN7KjQrK/w640-h640/Slide2.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There is also a craft idea/writing template, a winter break reflection writing page and a q-tip painting page!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can find this FREE New Year's pack here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREEBIE-New-Year-Printables-4283806" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREEBIE-New-Year-Printables-4283806</a> or by clicking on the image below!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREEBIE-New-Year-Printables-4283806" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4QHMdBnaiODdifa7ZjbKnRkmogSrOsC6f2tF7SUYuI-k0TJR0Wk7-pJkpH-nqYSmQMMUioKqdchblGRgaLo5ZSUlvRKEQrJQJugXbZCH6BbFKNek7DlmQq6UUTBGkQDPQEbOEUlONKFA3ywUB3lY-yZCDhUKZF_l-tCancPDc38Tsk5hgf7evBYu87PJQ/s320/Slide1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I just remembered I also have a FREE New Year's themed google slides too so I'll link them here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Digital-Kindergarten-New-Years-Activities-Google-Slides-6391099" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Digital-Kindergarten-New-Years-Activities-Google-Slides-6391099</a> or you can click on the image below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Digital-Kindergarten-New-Years-Activities-Google-Slides-6391099" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG6bzLx49Y3Z7KAPwj5UAM3sFVCmarBhGvXRFuDKygd3aYHykN5iLCzANtUI9A2dghXOK5tWT62Q-he7h6P6WFzYIf7_eL88qHj0now_o71CB6S6klty9B695rbO4aY_EmtTc3N2hpFkecYk5KfHXhIcIilveHPa6qt5BJYR0i8LTrQpe9_o_sAHqac0kM/s320/Slide1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>2. CVC Mini Books: Trace, Read & Circle</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I made these CVC mini books to practice reading CVC words with my son, but a lot of you have told me you have been loving them in your classrooms as well :)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_t9kJZshwE_QKENOrie0x0GvV0h-aOWpINcr1htC4zvZK5VqQxDTgdL4fkjzJk4smb4jyBXWE_n1L3OomL_9zIYu0ILviYgBanr5E1W1llWlXJp6MIxxS-2WgQx-7xZ-aDqTE_FjYjiVtsgn4c6HvBAcRdJajoiIrVvENwkJDZtxqU19FlK5AnwBcnDFT/s1265/Slide3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_t9kJZshwE_QKENOrie0x0GvV0h-aOWpINcr1htC4zvZK5VqQxDTgdL4fkjzJk4smb4jyBXWE_n1L3OomL_9zIYu0ILviYgBanr5E1W1llWlXJp6MIxxS-2WgQx-7xZ-aDqTE_FjYjiVtsgn4c6HvBAcRdJajoiIrVvENwkJDZtxqU19FlK5AnwBcnDFT/w640-h640/Slide3.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There is an option for trace and circle and trace, write and circle for each word.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you are interested in grabbing these, they are available in my TPT shop here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Mini-Books-Trace-Read-Circle-9076702" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Mini-Books-Trace-Read-Circle-9076702</a> or by clicking the image below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Mini-Books-Trace-Read-Circle-9076702" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuqf-m9C6hoYWLf3TCjuMGUrBMXTogmw7k35IHcdteCLNjoSRXSsDlcmKUutOwSWZTVUsBijfFfCFHUChEWwD1auGxaKrJW1E0Ai8CqH9py1np-Qe88Kd3T-s90N7Ai34ApNdLcF-ZX5ACJG6s99iwIjUncfA-gFQKVZrh-hn4BrRhNSyrbSamhf1v6hnD/s320/Slide1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>3. CVC Encoding Freebie</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I originally had just two pages of short a words posted as a blog freebie (I made it for a warm up for one of my literacy small groups a few years ago) but I had so many requests to make a full set so I finally got to it this February! And since I was just starting my newsletter, I made it my sign up freebie.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvbNz8WKbsoPcQwRi9OY3EGoYzWM9MjEBZCNpc_LYfAgnRvK-i6I4SUFT_JKdigVNf5y4KQyzkRV4qY4ID955FLEmS-6lsRgFB-xRWFPhVS355AdQCdiuZXLN0QW1bhevFGGpdUBMurET-fCH0mfUEWcGJZd0aAQ1TbIqSa7pVZP2detWmRXY_S5JdvWcm/s1265/Slide4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvbNz8WKbsoPcQwRi9OY3EGoYzWM9MjEBZCNpc_LYfAgnRvK-i6I4SUFT_JKdigVNf5y4KQyzkRV4qY4ID955FLEmS-6lsRgFB-xRWFPhVS355AdQCdiuZXLN0QW1bhevFGGpdUBMurET-fCH0mfUEWcGJZd0aAQ1TbIqSa7pVZP2detWmRXY_S5JdvWcm/w640-h640/Slide4.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So if you're interested in grabbing this freebie, you can sign up here: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/9e6de6341425/subscribe-for-freebies" target="_blank">https://mailchi.mp/9e6de6341425/subscribe-for-freebies</a> and it should be sent to you within the hour! I also send a monthly newsletter with a newsletter exclusive freebie so I hope you enjoy those as well :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>4. CVC Build & Check</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's another CVC activity I made for my little guy! Both of my kids love magnetic letters so I wanted to capitalize on that interest. I printed these out and we practiced saying the word out loud, identifying the sounds we hear and building the word and then lifting the checkmark to check out answer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This version is the easier one as it gives students the letters they will need to build the words: </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwMrA43XDhSfogOtWcJmEAqTgV87UbMqkydsJGdHeYYkJvnq262c67Mw4v7sTZYy12tbAflYhqUqL9H7CnZnRT9yfGAhVa9pUs8yOjn9I1og_vFNA0EOcRTwmuPz1KWeInZXlIRbXYR_rzgUjd0K-HRp5GDl1vNYF7AUeP-ADZ99JhNzQJnIIdFgw11HRC/s1265/Slide5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwMrA43XDhSfogOtWcJmEAqTgV87UbMqkydsJGdHeYYkJvnq262c67Mw4v7sTZYy12tbAflYhqUqL9H7CnZnRT9yfGAhVa9pUs8yOjn9I1og_vFNA0EOcRTwmuPz1KWeInZXlIRbXYR_rzgUjd0K-HRp5GDl1vNYF7AUeP-ADZ99JhNzQJnIIdFgw11HRC/w640-h640/Slide5.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This version is harder since there are not clues but great for more advanced learners! Both can be done independently with the "Check It" feature. I put a small magnet on the back of the check marks and put the printables on baking sheets so the magnet will stick!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWPQJRbw9Of-uids5cU92deJT46J_t_rDy-gfdcGeFadnKfIkBbS0t5a4Cw3kz8lPCPxR_VeXwqarjdUk1pKl7Vcmv4J_LlF_eXaHzJGs2iEGvuRsTdafzIfW_ykbVeD_tZXou78z-ULegBI83swoCGbdFk09d8NiDXHsJgrM-7wTmsv31gQW5wfewaQ_Z/s1265/Slide6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWPQJRbw9Of-uids5cU92deJT46J_t_rDy-gfdcGeFadnKfIkBbS0t5a4Cw3kz8lPCPxR_VeXwqarjdUk1pKl7Vcmv4J_LlF_eXaHzJGs2iEGvuRsTdafzIfW_ykbVeD_tZXou78z-ULegBI83swoCGbdFk09d8NiDXHsJgrM-7wTmsv31gQW5wfewaQ_Z/w640-h640/Slide6.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can find this centre here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Build-Check-9143474">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Build-Check-9143474</a> or in my CVC bundle here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Bundle-8-Hands-On-CVC-Centres-3687252" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Bundle-8-Hands-On-CVC-Centres-3687252</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">or you can click on the images below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Build-Check-9143474" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyTKYnDwuKDp8dCZur2d8E7vZzNndXgON22PJWJpA7Ukx4x5q5YxUiyNxIznRyBKyOfpYoCWFWzN5JgknqJn6VbajJjDl1OyCrAU4nX8C3lLaEHkPhIY-lp1T6ML8XZ7zqgct7T5YUUfkDa9ypxaQkYD1tIeb_fXolkq76PTWPFAvWxtTPsm3jsmkluAQk/w320-h320/Slide11.png" width="320" /></a><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CVC-Bundle-8-Hands-On-CVC-Centres-3687252" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYbivmaa6LBf3pjarwvFJ7lzgAoMRTjTVvSu42wCDh0Nvno0nP_xPe0IEf6Piv8eOiy8tP2dkwenGVEfPwoVYF920TQPVdTwUuUPf6_ewbq7MBIsKcAQRojh5FQPCznKS4KENWa0IRyorKw0I9zCRYXRss9qRkVB6bFmBaQHZslXeAyVceXaWJ1AAOrqmN/w320-h320/Slide1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>5. My Number Formation Practice Mini Book</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's another activity I made up for my JK son! He still needs lots of practice with letter and number formation so we've been working on fine motor activities + doing some more explicit letter/number formation activities from time to time.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnmYBaqI8gUMbpOJj6CDrTA7_fAmtVrG9QSTKNFaztwkgVyOv6khmwQKfJxX7bdDngc2rhk1we8a481so5DXWNCeZoTjET1joGvZ99urepd7piu4-R7w0yFiYUDJBiTd5Y6y9K87SOtU6HG9-1DshvOKH3UZ2zjh8cIQMvl9d6jNlzNjpWSvHuRHrXx_A_/s1265/Slide7.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnmYBaqI8gUMbpOJj6CDrTA7_fAmtVrG9QSTKNFaztwkgVyOv6khmwQKfJxX7bdDngc2rhk1we8a481so5DXWNCeZoTjET1joGvZ99urepd7piu4-R7w0yFiYUDJBiTd5Y6y9K87SOtU6HG9-1DshvOKH3UZ2zjh8cIQMvl9d6jNlzNjpWSvHuRHrXx_A_/w640-h640/Slide7.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These can laminated and used as a dry erase centre or made into mini books. The formation clip art is great because the kids can easily follow along and learn how he number should be formed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can find these printables here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Centres-Number-Form-It-9424068" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Centres-Number-Form-It-9424068</a> or by clicking on the image below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Centres-Number-Form-It-9424068" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqskDtLZPeOlVUjJPmku6IDyQcilGsXGGBLAeB-gP1vWEK6U3tIbVjAp0fF332iN1UwfLgGKYSjfzfA1u98Yp1rNixvmv-PYZKYTLaFNhINFQDjUL1TVWSNVGKxV-DlIUugKaD3w9vNNEjyeOugybiP53fWx1-UXtDdUm4S7ISO2SjEy8sETSqhDpFIAdo/s320/Slide19.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>6. Letter Mazes</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's another activity I made for my son and this one was a HUGE hit. He loves mazes so I thought he would like it but I only printed out about 5 pages at first. He blew through those and asked for more (it is VERY rare for him to ask for more paper pencil activities). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6218qnchZlLcMK9xT4IvFN53yuxwzarSj4PGwCsIbWSoxVoY7fmV8JDrLVoc4nCJohNjjztHqIUyjLSiQ3n-VXg7dZF3A-BWSBREtgZUGxpPElInoX2rQKADuEYwvW8MsKzIJ2Ag6ygUWL-oVqWUiNZplETb-bbvSoKUjvR8LH213qapR_ONXgzedIfG0/s1265/Slide8.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6218qnchZlLcMK9xT4IvFN53yuxwzarSj4PGwCsIbWSoxVoY7fmV8JDrLVoc4nCJohNjjztHqIUyjLSiQ3n-VXg7dZF3A-BWSBREtgZUGxpPElInoX2rQKADuEYwvW8MsKzIJ2Ag6ygUWL-oVqWUiNZplETb-bbvSoKUjvR8LH213qapR_ONXgzedIfG0/w640-h640/Slide8.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Granted, he stopped doing the tracing portion after a while, but just putting pencil to paper and working on manuvering through a maze is great pencil practice!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can find these mazes here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Maze-It-Complete-Trace-9212936" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Maze-It-Complete-Trace-9212936</a> or by clicking on the image below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Maze-It-Complete-Trace-9212936" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0CLptN84m2D2Cguk3PL6NaovxEH-Lb4KZItGtexJs0pBPyb-oeIJePdWF5XvO8i4owuQg2Cg5BSyALyDXvHcwDoYignWFDPmyhv5d21tNTRjGP8VQiOsoDWd4IK0zwdQP2OZnsxFjHROkMj4XxCXKP7FgjZwI00L1GSxzLWB6wmpkIQLT397a_js1RxTH/s320/Slide7.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>7. Number Formation Write the Room</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Maybe I should of named this post letter and number formation ideas since that's what a lot of these are! lol My son loves searching for things so I thought he would enjoy this write the room.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdsRWXLZrCZSzD1gf_Nvi4cyCBleem_IS2f2rXupPTDEJ51YM6ploGENLEhyW_uQ4v_0UU8hmEpVcEs5o7LZRJVpaI-1KGoUanHy6Kh8p8YHMflJ6jrpB3REemFntYQjqq8ErN3Fw_SjLQA-0bJBbK6TsX-xYBb-OPQOCssZwYNhdE1YQAP9r0uxHHu_j/s1265/Slide9.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdsRWXLZrCZSzD1gf_Nvi4cyCBleem_IS2f2rXupPTDEJ51YM6ploGENLEhyW_uQ4v_0UU8hmEpVcEs5o7LZRJVpaI-1KGoUanHy6Kh8p8YHMflJ6jrpB3REemFntYQjqq8ErN3Fw_SjLQA-0bJBbK6TsX-xYBb-OPQOCssZwYNhdE1YQAP9r0uxHHu_j/w640-h640/Slide9.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">He loved this one and we did it several times! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNXipoaGmSafuCjediuzaOpl6cXJzFTQ1tFkND3Db5YpqiiTlPUrxiIpQkUvHllbc3Hb5ZgRXPpmY_1rIWbpXkP7z3TNVIe1TfVB3MSyaceEpvIOBu-HYnc1NksRjK2Mq0z00PWVUhXH-aAWv-uSAsK7fRrwo11Bpu9kL0AjTi4hYpGIhzrYcvBNotRplb/s1265/Slide10.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNXipoaGmSafuCjediuzaOpl6cXJzFTQ1tFkND3Db5YpqiiTlPUrxiIpQkUvHllbc3Hb5ZgRXPpmY_1rIWbpXkP7z3TNVIe1TfVB3MSyaceEpvIOBu-HYnc1NksRjK2Mq0z00PWVUhXH-aAWv-uSAsK7fRrwo11Bpu9kL0AjTi4hYpGIhzrYcvBNotRplb/w640-h640/Slide10.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We watched this "Writing Numbers" song on YouTube first to help us remember how to form the numbers while we did the write the room: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzKqCmjVXLI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzKqCmjVXLI</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can find this number write the room here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Centres-Number-Find-It-9424353" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Centres-Number-Find-It-9424353</a> or by clicking on the image below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Centres-Number-Find-It-9424353" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPvZjO8xrBHtRKHArk9T8tCZ-guU2Q0mi4Xwfz1JbdfEvo0n6syl7Hih4mqH4kHe5kiLI0x3wx-KURtgujr23y33KMVzIKzAswq6Pa-bqWxkPktXCy0Kiy1tUB1WuJxNB6z2IfykHh2urERKaTImCM5DEhetop0Y1qCPLjUref3234p6LVKlTfEv4I_PkS/s320/Slide18.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>8. Math Unit Updates!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you have been following along on Instgram, you might know that I commited to going through my math units and giving them all an updated look (and some new activities if I think of any good ones). From the end of March to mid June I was able to update all of these units:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u>Canadian Coins:</u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Canadian-Coins-for-Kindergarten-Centres-Printables-More-1839444">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Canadian-Coins-for-Kindergarten-Centres-Printables-More-1839444</a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Canadian-Coins-for-Kindergarten-Centres-Printables-More-1839444" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcBXIyKcGngin-BDKTi5J29MJuWxg7E6HsuAilmA69Ro1Lwu3BOtSM8rhNsgtB7isLKi4ebs3WQpDsrds4vFoEqcO3xgxPpm8DNa82l9vb3kentJd2wEgFwTM7iKeKDzajejG0lIyAouugppaGfc_YnhVkUb9qNrUsubEZSWa8ziGmbpLMoy2qiyAkMu_D/w640-h640/Slide11.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Canadian-Coins-for-Kindergarten-Centres-Printables-More-1839444" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhdHjMsHQqu5SMuMalzbBIG3n-XA7un5eBNFw3HUcscvVT7F_8qVRb8v3R9T1VJ50NA0NJOSo-VNNFV8kLvHNXf7uKeFfW1RTG2Ep_OdryWmjVX8BE-5s138u_j30Tg-vJslv2i-4nSxMaMCHt6Nkl9jvTm6ZM8gGolSArCk8dgNLjzoxm1ubDz83QPvNn/s320/Slide17.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u>Probability:</u></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><br /></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Probability-for-Kindergarten-Lessons-Centres-and-More-2542827" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Probability-for-Kindergarten-Lessons-Centres-and-More-2542827</a></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg9m-Zb4oC_q0za-4gOJD5Br7-cMFBXDARfBQTQcZPodyZ8vl07XZtsyQ-Y-SGfNNhpTl1yK7mnzROm1d8B3vsq23qEA09oOxUb4YqFzAraYUpbUQPXtH0-09dPJ9osQWg2q258HUhGWtbaGTenLDW18UVvGCY-uL6Bxx0UudCGXYvCMQzMusfF1sQrsq6/s320/Slide7.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And some of the centres in the Number Centres Bundle #1 has been updated as well!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Centres-Bundle-1-2707865">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Centres-Bundle-1-2707865</a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Centres-Bundle-1-2707865" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheGMW64y7Nr7bGrs4evUy1yuLkXlSrNsxUl5Najt2mRX3o_ws13VL9YCnnPOkFLzB3M4nXcfWN3fX5uf3f3lPN1QSF9JTI-j3-LlW80XI288D0vPGopyIfgwMkrqDz8pzYaIm564JXZXIcoYoVOTpsR-SsekWlt3kt4W_YFAD6wT0VtwLTrB8SzNvCWGIx/s320/Slide3.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And these Number Intervention Mini Books have been updated as well:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Intervention-Mini-Books-2714910">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Intervention-Mini-Books-2714910</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Intervention-Mini-Books-2714910" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzqC--YBBG-C3HNP944dQjfQDxYVbqqhq_8lx_8mX8awpqtp8K3miYehfPwOtggMnDl1-CGBNHVO-AJjs3Z3-cFAYvd4M5O-junZZLoQuuMlJx4EH8LvUW7utknCTZjNdh7_MeHaZho0oXEnp50qOJcaPZEsFyVan77DhGYs-bCN_7Fa89uFG3l78KXlir/w640-h640/Slide23.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Intervention-Mini-Books-2714910" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisjhtET_71a65mzSHKjxXbQRmMhMaO_Bt1WJWWh1047dgd-O_wF8IPdmyMd89z4zg-kGtqF_hm6OJwjx4vz7a0T-e5Z3ux5RZJy01F0kMSKvZ_5kzAAA3YBw9NuSHyHdyg8joaCQaEb9py9h4RaGD0IS-Ia7jjLvSM0ROhhjEkyK_cbRWlWx6DMYrReSNY/w640-h640/Slide24.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Intervention-Mini-Books-2714910" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM1uopP7gg_Ffcz0GGKkFTBNxHMeAHWYnxv8iMOfVyf3JfnPL1K2IkD_RdcQ2BHiVL4BomVpQzRC4y9zvixGqZFJr5bHo48TnsSfdnmlLgAe4i3hEoPeKF2rfWbEr2LjKvN8F2VtAXwd5StKirVb_PbgD1Csd70gNY8DxABwL5-9YIKsGdsWLMZiGd8PXI/s320/Slide1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you already owned any of these, just re-download the file to get the updated version! Since my oldest will be home starting Thursday, I don't know how much more I'll be able to work on this summer (I'm going to try to set some office hours at night but by the time I have both kids in bed I'm usually too exhausted to hop on the computer) but I'll keep you all up to date over on Instagram if I do get to any more updates!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>9. Beginning Sound Egg Hunt</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another skill I have been working on with my son is identifying the first sound in words. He loved it when I hid letters in Easter eggs last year (for that activity I just had him match the letters to an alphabet chart) so I made this beginning sound egg hunt for us to do together!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh91qwqUI_bMN0ORIDZLPVzWIISmL_WoAzeANi15Md8kT2PCo5wO6rcGK6iNuLGLe7ikPKQ859UCVzi48mLC91dP8lY1AWEcfWwgrzHD8mduhZHg5Urf9mwhZQYSUt3NqWm-7DTGiMhyPAlnfIAPYe8qJCHU0W1vuvPQLs_UP1NouOrctHKS5tKKQN5z8ne/s1265/Slide17.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh91qwqUI_bMN0ORIDZLPVzWIISmL_WoAzeANi15Md8kT2PCo5wO6rcGK6iNuLGLe7ikPKQ859UCVzi48mLC91dP8lY1AWEcfWwgrzHD8mduhZHg5Urf9mwhZQYSUt3NqWm-7DTGiMhyPAlnfIAPYe8qJCHU0W1vuvPQLs_UP1NouOrctHKS5tKKQN5z8ne/w640-h640/Slide17.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The printables shown are from my "Beginning Sounds Write & Wipe: Easter Words" pack. You can find it here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Beginning-Sounds-Write-Wipe-Book-Easter-Words-4444040" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Beginning-Sounds-Write-Wipe-Book-Easter-Words-4444040</a> or by clicking on the image below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Beginning-Sounds-Write-Wipe-Book-Easter-Words-4444040" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="1070" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvm3tulxdcAuEEo6jmE6OWotyOconRhfe5io0LZsBvYiMGWv7LP3JtYglDToLvaG0k8Bfr6f1nzHmP0DxTVg_eakUDUKXyr_0RH1x2Bsl2I1Jw_brGwjH0wsqw9_ZB8FoH5C1AohDo2u2ofyq0f72QAigdH7q7aKGBEX684AhsO81rfB-gWHaqKnoBD97A/s320/Slide1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>10. Carrot Hunt</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I saw @exploringandlearninginfdk making these "carrots" with orange letter beads and green pipe cleaners and they were so cute I had to copy her! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I made the letter carrots and then made up this activity for my son to practice letter formation with.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPqS4rsFl_UtVoAeXiSZYwGaUa3WATSo6nBPe7QPPUuGEPFNkXZ64HQ4NvBQQXnayG4R6AFez8uWb5T0m0RjbGIYUDzynGVAshXiyizp1VnudNarW7Fn7pIDgrQ50-MOke00bTNY7fI1knqN2na9Z7jbhe2uIdlK_3RxlN24zUA9boOTpKOLRg37nHVg_i/s1265/Slide18.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPqS4rsFl_UtVoAeXiSZYwGaUa3WATSo6nBPe7QPPUuGEPFNkXZ64HQ4NvBQQXnayG4R6AFez8uWb5T0m0RjbGIYUDzynGVAshXiyizp1VnudNarW7Fn7pIDgrQ50-MOke00bTNY7fI1knqN2na9Z7jbhe2uIdlK_3RxlN24zUA9boOTpKOLRg37nHVg_i/w640-h640/Slide18.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I had him pick a letter, find it on the printable and trace it. We used green and orange skinny markers to make it a bit more fun :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKIeWa1k0-G7A-KT68CrOjJmU0b01GPOeU8i9WzTXPHQTiW30SSD37QRjW_7uAVByaoF3QXRVf1JqspW9n509r3MkPBl566y7IsLEuFY-X3DlwImE6Y4C8z_CjQhhAl459KNcRH4PfHQISDTTBcxbOkKsnSrUhBUsKdUTm2JDo00W0262goXvEfzyuA6uw/s1265/Slide19.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKIeWa1k0-G7A-KT68CrOjJmU0b01GPOeU8i9WzTXPHQTiW30SSD37QRjW_7uAVByaoF3QXRVf1JqspW9n509r3MkPBl566y7IsLEuFY-X3DlwImE6Y4C8z_CjQhhAl459KNcRH4PfHQISDTTBcxbOkKsnSrUhBUsKdUTm2JDo00W0262goXvEfzyuA6uw/w640-h640/Slide19.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I added these printables (and printable carrots in case you don't have orange letter beads) to my "Kindergarten Spring Activities" pack! You can find it here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Spring-Activities-Literacy-Math-3721793">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Spring-Activities-Literacy-Math-3721793</a> or by clicking on the image below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Spring-Activities-Literacy-Math-3721793" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="1070" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYlhvfaDY7IpaI92ME6TX8W1xR5XWsQlgg9SvCcd_G_JIHDWD10d7u56y5O3BvqeFnufjgRqhaTOcjOWvKC6_sYNAz_xrE6kaNZZ3a-hYcNOCNxiIvl3zGGp1yEBG7Z_g-j01pxyQ_DsAcfEFvxs7oh_vxyYiv4N97xEtiYXqxgmHZ-_l09afOMa-tTY4R/s320/Slide1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>11. Smoothie Recipe Cards</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I made these for my son to play with. I wanted an activity with pom poms and tweezers to help with his fine motor development in a fun way, so I came up with this! I gave him some plastic cups, straws, pom poms, tweezer and the recipe cards and we took turns following the recipe and making each other smoothies!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjetD7AICPX2KUE5-bRBpimwQXzgd_X1gVkfn0_Peh8X6BMQDTWDslCTcK6fJ1uQ22i7DnSdl5L6XabP1xvXm_19iK-CeQAcfVqXk-6nJjb7gIyQhESZKtWNP4sJoB4QQhPZbqi8mnqkDYOODZUu3ie9GibOK6kugz5J75h3oADy5nF0xj9JrHQfXzrqAew/s1265/Slide20.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjetD7AICPX2KUE5-bRBpimwQXzgd_X1gVkfn0_Peh8X6BMQDTWDslCTcK6fJ1uQ22i7DnSdl5L6XabP1xvXm_19iK-CeQAcfVqXk-6nJjb7gIyQhESZKtWNP4sJoB4QQhPZbqi8mnqkDYOODZUu3ie9GibOK6kugz5J75h3oADy5nF0xj9JrHQfXzrqAew/w640-h640/Slide20.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He loved this activity and we played it a few times. This was originally a newsletter freebie but if you missed that newsletter, it has now been added to my "Kindergarten Summer Activities" pack on TPT! You can find that here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Summer-Activities-Literacy-Math-3823551" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Summer-Activities-Literacy-Math-3823551</a> or by clicking on the image below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Summer-Activities-Literacy-Math-3823551" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="1070" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnRQmi2x63mokHY8Pi48jkPc8UtA9a1U57xpiveEMPD9tAy6tldxxooUFQtszudGHWmnxywPGspOfUsfdR-s8VS7Iv_SvmbwefSYax8aDZRWdtjC9O1LMqoP4y3QmcGQn0POCryQWIozN6crr3wOF15SyV-a4WEf3ePU3gZm9_zb4AnVLG3dhMlPQxHcDv/s320/Slide1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>12. Thank you for an AMAZing year! (FREE printables)</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I always give gift cards for teacher gifts (because I always loved getting gift cards the most when I was in the classeroom) and I choose Amazon for the end of the year this year since they literally have everything! Craft supplies? Amazon. Books? Amazon. Treats for your treasure box? Amazon. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I made a few printables to attach them to so I thought I would share them! If you need a last minute idea, I hope you can use these! If your kids are already done for this year, I hope you can save it for next year :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h8SFsJPNDxx9MBJLKf9nrzdjmXQIYRNp/view?usp=sharing" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Sie8vHKf6AoMVoJdx6lehGii2uPzc0SRnS3urn6lXkdljjGlUQ7DtBq0LkGgq-fPFvimJDUketzqHsNE_DUzXUd-KwIq8h873ixTOyzNf-6iHSAOt8B0vKgbfNcSg7hnIEae90MGD518Km2Kh6YduTbOeo1AeMEh2F5csR9YSnPfxUBrBOzS7Yn3jWdD/w640-h640/Slide23.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I did a simple half page version with just "Thank you for an amazing year!" and a spot to put your child/family's name and the teacher's name.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then I also made a version where you can ask your kid's about their teachers and fill them in! I love getting stuff like this for Mother's Day myself, so I thought the teacher's might like it too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h8SFsJPNDxx9MBJLKf9nrzdjmXQIYRNp/view?usp=sharing" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBXjGbNtjPtL3pr6Ptm_PBxMQ7cDCEpJ41f0uyeu7w9oq5CJfSbS02vlncnggNKL0JPHlwoKuzG0p_zl9afq-LGdwLuLdt9iyssYoCKXcBKl77sXQfO7XbUfaq2qgbc2Z2D38nwCSQJewBJ903t40VCmdIEsinpLe1JAyZpCec68LE3SM8uBrunrEPFLJH/w640-h640/Slide21.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also made a variation of that one with a spot to draw a picture, if your kiddos like to draw! Mine doesn't so I will be attempting the one in the first photo tonight, and then if that's a bust (he isn't a big fan of answering too many questions so we'll play it by year) I'll just use the half page version.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There is a version with both favourite and favorite. Please use the one with the spelling that is correct for where you live!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also included a "You deserve a break!" tag that I was planning to use with Kit Kats but ended up not using. In case anyone can use it ;)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can grab these free printables by clicking here: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h8SFsJPNDxx9MBJLKf9nrzdjmXQIYRNp/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h8SFsJPNDxx9MBJLKf9nrzdjmXQIYRNp/view?usp=sharing</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you are starting your summer break this week, wishing you the very best and well deserved break!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">xo Yukari</div></div>Yukarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682488311720997666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1352539880410883104.post-76904995268502091572021-06-06T13:38:00.011-04:002021-06-06T13:46:05.598-04:00Instagram Round-Up: May to August 2020<p style="text-align: center;"> Hi friends!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">As many of you know, I had taken a break from sharing things on the blog when I found out I was pregnant with our second baby. Now that baby #2 is almost 5 months old, I am playing catch up and will share some of the new things that I posted to Instagram this past year, including a highly requested freebies :)</p><h4 style="text-align: center;">1. KINDER READ ALOUDS: MAY & JUNE</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OLTCa6iyrs0/YLziQLvWOOI/AAAAAAAAKgU/9zYqiLEdiyE9VhRPNLVdHO8sIAoBzlk8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1265/Slide1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OLTCa6iyrs0/YLziQLvWOOI/AAAAAAAAKgU/9zYqiLEdiyE9VhRPNLVdHO8sIAoBzlk8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Slide1.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was a project I started when I was on my first maternity leave and finally completed last May. I originally made a "year long" bundle with September to April and added May and June to that bundle, so if you bought the bundle when it first came out and missed the update, be sure to re-download and grab these 2 months!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KKxTMDbNy8Q/YLziQUNmxGI/AAAAAAAAKgc/Wp9LZ4V1_gwW40NC7_SurHdFl-aVZrqzACLcBGAsYHQ/s1265/Slide2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KKxTMDbNy8Q/YLziQUNmxGI/AAAAAAAAKgc/Wp9LZ4V1_gwW40NC7_SurHdFl-aVZrqzACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Slide2.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I originally created these as easy read aloud lessons, perfect for supply plans. They came in handy a bunch of times when I had to take unplanned days off when my son was sick and had to stay home from daycare when I first went back to work! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you are interested here are the links to May, June and the year long bundle!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">May: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/KINDER-READ-ALOUDS-MAY-5500926">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/KINDER-READ-ALOUDS-MAY-5500926</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">June: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/KINDER-READ-ALOUDS-JUNE-5531402">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/KINDER-READ-ALOUDS-JUNE-5531402</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Year Long Bundle: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/KINDER-READ-ALOUDS-THE-YEAR-LONG-BUNDLE-4654391">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/KINDER-READ-ALOUDS-THE-YEAR-LONG-BUNDLE-4654391</a></div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: center;">2. END OF THE YEAR POEM</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QJiA0PBkUwI/YLziQq1ttRI/AAAAAAAAKgg/RvghhNxnSWoWIPtPv_e-oQgtHNQIgHQFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1265/Slide3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QJiA0PBkUwI/YLziQq1ttRI/AAAAAAAAKgg/RvghhNxnSWoWIPtPv_e-oQgtHNQIgHQFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Slide3.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I combined a few different poems I found online and created this poem to put in the packages that the kid's picked up during the last week of school (we had a masked drive through drop off/pick up hour). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've had some requests to share the template, so I've added it to a fully editable version to this post! You can <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Rb633j5ZPN1suv5dcXkZx8C73ffj_B1/view?usp=sharing">click here</a> or on the download button below to grab this editable poem!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Rb633j5ZPN1suv5dcXkZx8C73ffj_B1/view?usp=sharing" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="545" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2FILREaMl3I/WarfaINt3hI/AAAAAAAAHxI/a8zhmZBos4AZUXEEKxTt91b793FWdW4KwCPcBGAYYCw/s320/freebie.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>3. SIGHT WORD POEMS</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qFx8evVHFSQ/YLziRFnFULI/AAAAAAAAKgk/pS12C1tVNIkSUoJrjfeoLRPY_I6B5PGywCLcBGAsYHQ/s1265/Slide4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qFx8evVHFSQ/YLziRFnFULI/AAAAAAAAKgk/pS12C1tVNIkSUoJrjfeoLRPY_I6B5PGywCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Slide4.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A huge project I finally completed last summer was my poetry book pack! I've been working on this for years and I finally was able to get it fully completed to share. These poems are a major part of our sight word program and I share exactly how I use it in the product (with a break down of what we do with the poem every day during Shared Reading time!).</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6p1rH_Cv99w/YLziRXCtAgI/AAAAAAAAKgo/HbPHuhKWewUypNfm8xX0Jjmhu5zEzdZ_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1265/Slide5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6p1rH_Cv99w/YLziRXCtAgI/AAAAAAAAKgo/HbPHuhKWewUypNfm8xX0Jjmhu5zEzdZ_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Slide5.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3eeliFzgoDU/YLziRfJsMAI/AAAAAAAAKgs/ccw1zOBbwrweN6kV86DdCeyaPGlLg7juwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1265/Slide6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3eeliFzgoDU/YLziRfJsMAI/AAAAAAAAKgs/ccw1zOBbwrweN6kV86DdCeyaPGlLg7juwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Slide6.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you are interested in learning more, you can <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fill-in-the-Blank-Sight-Word-Poems-for-Kindergarten-5914838">click here</a> or on the image below to learn more about my sight word poems!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fill-in-the-Blank-Sight-Word-Poems-for-Kindergarten-5914838" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="1687" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-03wDOOnMUM8/YL0FAsYYYWI/AAAAAAAAKhM/h1A75wrFAe44fD7cIcWR1ds9Zx0OQGTYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Slide1.png" /></a></div><br /><h4 style="text-align: center;">3. REAL PHOTO GEOBOARD LETTER & NUMBER CARDS</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kRE0ctJJ0ZI/YLziR7atZ2I/AAAAAAAAKgw/x_ipeY-Gq4UQeGKyn6PA1iTFye5iFBHXACLcBGAsYHQ/s1265/Slide7.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kRE0ctJJ0ZI/YLziR7atZ2I/AAAAAAAAKgw/x_ipeY-Gq4UQeGKyn6PA1iTFye5iFBHXACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Slide7.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love using geoboards with my class as a fun, hands on way to explore numbers and letters! The set I was using was getting really old and ratty and I had to reprint and laminate them anyways, so I redid the design as well!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cLunH2yBTdA/YLziSaomUJI/AAAAAAAAKg0/lnLsQqdTY_063Nk3bBgtT5qjrf473zbZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1265/Slide9.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cLunH2yBTdA/YLziSaomUJI/AAAAAAAAKg0/lnLsQqdTY_063Nk3bBgtT5qjrf473zbZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Slide9.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are perfect for the beginning of the year and then a great one to bring out through out the year as well! Here are the links if you are interested in these cards:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">GEOBOARD LETTER CARDS: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Real-Photo-Geoboard-Letter-Cards-5874068">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Real-Photo-Geoboard-Letter-Cards-5874068</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">GEOBOARD NUMBER CARDS: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Real-Photo-Geoboard-Number-Cards-1-19-5888904">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Real-Photo-Geoboard-Number-Cards-1-19-5888904</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also have the number cards in french here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FRENCH-Real-Photo-Geoboard-Number-Cards-1-19-5889003">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FRENCH-Real-Photo-Geoboard-Number-Cards-1-19-5889003</a></div><h4 style="text-align: center;">4. SNAP CUBE LETTER CARDS</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jx-Lnkg3U-M/YLziQYXD3CI/AAAAAAAAKgY/4XpJzWwMYTYaOzEvIPGlBazq-a6ANzXNACLcBGAsYHQ/s1265/Slide10.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jx-Lnkg3U-M/YLziQYXD3CI/AAAAAAAAKgY/4XpJzWwMYTYaOzEvIPGlBazq-a6ANzXNACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Slide10.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also made these snap cube letter cards last summer! Again, the set I was using was looking really old and I was going to reprint and laminate anyways so I gave the cards a refresh! This is another centre I always put out at the beginning of the year because it is so hands on and engaging and it's a great way to introduce snap cubes!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can find these snap cube letter cards if you are interested here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Real-Photo-Snap-Cube-Letter-Cards-5924221">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Real-Photo-Snap-Cube-Letter-Cards-5924221</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ok I'm going to stop there for now! I have a few more things I might add to this post and I'll also (hopefully) be recapping September 2020-June 2021 in the near future as well. Be sure to follow me on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/apinchofkinder/">Instagram</a> to stay up to date on new posts!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bye for now!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yukari</div>Yukarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04849000290547332559noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1352539880410883104.post-62199644422553758582020-08-03T14:40:00.009-04:002021-07-28T19:31:35.232-04:00My Top Ten "Go To" Resources<div style="text-align: center;">
Every year in August I get lots of questions asking which resources I recommend the most from my TeachersPayTeachers store. So I've compiled them in this blog post! Hope this is helpful to those who are browsing! You can click on the title above each image (e.g. #10: Fill in the Blank: Sight Word Poems for Kindergarten) to go to each resource in my store!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>UPDATED 07.28.21: I updated this list with one new resource and I added corresponding digital packs for virtual teachers!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7aUa5OyjeO4/YQHf1Q4m9EI/AAAAAAAABkA/LDoTwewdvzcjKEwEDMaIyRoGPqOIzuUTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1265/Slide4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7aUa5OyjeO4/YQHf1Q4m9EI/AAAAAAAABkA/LDoTwewdvzcjKEwEDMaIyRoGPqOIzuUTwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h640/Slide4.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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Here is a close up picture of one of the pages in the Thanksgiving book:</div>
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I wrote a whole blog post about how I use these over on Kinder Tribe years ago. If you are interested in reading it, click here: <a href="http://kindertribe.blogspot.com/2015/10/alphabet-small-group-intervention-tools.html">http://kindertribe.blogspot.com/2015/10/alphabet-small-group-intervention-tools.html</a></div>
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I shared my teacher binder in more detail in this blog post: <a href="http://www.apinchofkinder.com/2016/08/monday-made-it-august-15-2016.html">http://www.apinchofkinder.com/2016/08/monday-made-it-august-15-2016.html</a> if you are interested in taking a look!</div>
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There is also a BINDERS highlight on Instagram where you can see how I put together my binders!</div>
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Here is a photo of our October calendar & newsletter I made using the this resource!</div>
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I use these linking charts (included in Step by Step #1) from the first day of school!</div>
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Here are some photos of what the "I" booklet looks like:</div>
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Here's what the lesson plans look like (there are 8 lessons for 2D shapes, the first 5 are shown here).</div>
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You can see more pictures from this bundle by going to my "Math Ideas" page and clicking on the subjects that interest you! <a href="http://www.apinchofkinder.com/p/blog-page.html" target="_blank">Click here to visit my "Math Ideas" page.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><b>DIGITAL ALTERNATIVE:</b></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Digital-Math-for-Kindergarten-The-Year-Long-BUNDLE-Google-Slides-6902018">Digital Math for K - The YEAR LONG Bundle (Interactive Google Slides)</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XWA37eDaeIc/YQHkLLzBn0I/AAAAAAAABls/IMqmqLD-C90NRJiJoLsC4fMonDY3_2_ZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1265/Slide1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XWA37eDaeIc/YQHkLLzBn0I/AAAAAAAABls/IMqmqLD-C90NRJiJoLsC4fMonDY3_2_ZQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h640/Slide1.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Definitely my biggest labour of love during the 2020-2021 school year! I started creating these based on a request from my friend who was switched to virtual last minute and loved how they turned out. I will definitely be using these in class when I return (the lessons are no prep, just project on a screen or interactive whiteboard!) and you can use many of these activities whole group during a math lesson and then leave out a few as a centre if you have an interactive whiteboard!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had lots of feedback from virtual teachers this past year saying they were happy with these math units as well :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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Since it's summer I've been sharing activities I have been doing with my toddler over on my <a href="https://www.instagram.com/apinchofkinder/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. I'll be adding them here too so that it's easy to find out where I sourced my items and also to share any printables I make along the way!</div>
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<b>1. GREEN RICE + BUGS SENSORY BIN</b></div>
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My son (who I refer to as TK) LOVES sensory bins so I do my best to change them out every week. This one was a big hit with him! He loved looking at the bugs with the magnifying glass, transferring the rice and marching the ant along the edge of the bin as we sang "The Ants Go Marching"!</div>
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Magnifying Glass - Dollarama</div>
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Wooden Letters - Dollarama</div>
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Wooden Numbers - Michaels</div>
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Plastic Bugs - <a href="https://amzn.to/3hvZPbU" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3hvZPbU</a></div>
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Wooden Scoops - <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZUJcAF" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/30If4b4</a></div>
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<b>2. PASTING 2D SHAPES</b></div>
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Here is an activity I set up for TK to practice identifying shapes and colours and to practice his fine motor skills! I showed him how to spread the liquid glue on the shapes with the q-tip, flip it over and paste it on the paper. It was a bit challenging for him but it was great fine motor practice! We will definitely be trying this one again in a couple of months to see if we can improve on his pasting skills.</div>
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<b>3. CONSTRUCTION VEHICLES + KINETIC SAND SENSORY BIN</b></div>
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TK LOVES vehicles and has been especially into excavators recently (we have a lot of construction going on in our neighbourhood so we see them a lot on our walks) so I decided to set up a bin with construction vehicles and kinetic sand! I also added wooden and plastic scoops, plastic shot glasses and added the number 5 because there were 5 vehicles all together (one is missing from the photo).</div>
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He loved playing with the vehicles more than the sand but he enjoyed this bin nonetheless! He wasn't a big fan of the texture of kinetic sand at the beginning but he's became more receptive as the week went on.</div>
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Kinetic Sand: <a href="https://amzn.to/2WSjXNC">https://amzn.to/2WSjXNC</a></div>
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Wooden Scoop: <a href="https://amzn.to/30If4b4">https://amzn.to/30If4b4</a></div>
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<b>4. COLOUR MATCHING WITH DOT STICKERS</b></div>
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I saw this activity on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrSqimlKN7/" target="_blank">@busytoddler</a> and thought we'd give it a try to encourage matching by colour. I took a toilet paper roll (I would have used a paper towel roll but we didn't have any) and drew some coloured dots on it. Then I set it out with the dot stickers and invited TK to match the stickers to the dots on the paper towel roll.</div>
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We did this together and he did a pretty good job matching the sticker to the dots on the toilet paper roll. He didn't seem too interested in it though and then I remembered that I saw <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B0WZh4FBs_z/">@learning.for.littles</a> post that she did this activity but on plain paper so I quickly drew some dots on a blank piece of paper and that was so much more engaging for TK! We did this activity a few more times through out the week.</div>
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<b>5. CHICKEPEA FOAM + PLASTIC LETTERS</b></div>
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I've been wanting to try bubble foam with TK but have been nervous about trying it since he still puts sensory material in his mouth and near his eyes from time to time.. and then I read about chickpea foam (taste safe!) on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/play_at_home_mummy/">@play_at_home_mummy</a>'s Instagram page and thought this would be the perfect solution!</div>
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To make the chickpea foam you just add the liquid from 1 can of chickpeas and 1/8 tsp cream of tar tar into a blender and blend until the foam forms stiff peaks. That's it! Then just transfer it to your bin and add whatever you want. I added plastic letters a couple of bowls and some mini utensils for TK to scoop, transfer and make alphabet soup with!</div>
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This was a HUGE hit with TK. He played with it for almost an hour (mostly independently too!) I will definitely be giving this on another go when I use chickpeas next!</div>
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I saw this idea on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/educating.emery/">@educating.emery</a> and thought we would give it a try since I have dot markers already! I quickly made up some sheets with TK's favourite fruits and vegetables (banana, pumpkin and apple) to give this activity a try.</div>
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First we counted the empty dots together. Then hand over hand I showed him how to place the dot marker on the white dots a few times and encouraged him to put his dabs inside the white dots. This was great fine motor practice for him!</div>
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If you want to grab the printables I made for this activity you can download it by <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/17BJjXP_pDHmT9VvrDtG0amqVSVkL5QnZ/view?usp=sharing">clicking here</a> or on the image below!</div>
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That's it for now! I'll keep coming back to add activities when I can until we go back to school. To be the first to see the activities, make sure you are following me on Instagram!</div>
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Many of you have been asking if I could share what I am doing for distance learning so I'm finally sitting down to write a blog post about it!</div>
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At our school, our divisions were asked to works as a team and provide the same materials for each grade. So at my school, we have 8 educators collaborating each week.</div>
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We have set up a Google Site (not sharing the link to this, sorry!) with..</div>
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<b>HOME</b> - Which has a welcome note to our families and a link to our school technology website (recommending apps and websites by grade).</div>
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<b>WEEKLY ACTIVITIES</b> - Where we upload our weekly placemats every Sunday.</div>
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<b>READING</b> - Tips on reading with kids at home, including a reading strategies chart and a "Practicing Comprehension Questions at Home" handout.</div>
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<b>MATH</b> - A break down of each strand in parent friendly language and suggestions of activities they could do to practice these at home.</div>
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<b>WRITING</b> - A short summary on Kindergarten writing encouraging inventive spelling.</div>
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<b>SIGHT WORDS</b> - Some suggestions for practicing sight words and the Dolch pre-primer and primer sight word lists.</div>
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<b>MUSIC </b>- A link to our music teacher's website</div>
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<b>LIBRARY</b> - A link to our librarian's website.</div>
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<b>GYM</b> - A link to our gym teacher's website.</div>
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The only thing we change each week is we upload the new placemat and corresponding (optional) printables to the "WEEKLY ACTIVITIES" page. On Sunday nights we send out an email to the parents letting them know that the placemats are up.</div>
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The suggestion is that students and parents try as many activities as they want and send at least one picture to us by email. One of the educators will then respond to the email with some descriptive feedback.</div>
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I wasn't sure if this was going to be enough, but our parents have been giving us amazing feedback and have been very grateful for the ease of this format!</div>
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WEEKLY COLLABORATION</h2>
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To make choosing activities together each week as painless as possible, I made a Google Doc and shared it with the rest of the team. The Google Doc has a table for each section (e.g. Alphabet, Sight Words, Shared Reading etc.) and we go in and add ideas as we see them/think of them.</div>
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Then on Thursday nights we have been meeting on Google Meet and we choose activities for that week. We all look at the google doc before the meeting and have a few ideas in mind for each section so that the process goes as fast as possible!</div>
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After our Google Meet, I finalize the placemats and then upload them to our Google Site by Sunday afternoon so it is ready for everyone by Sunday night!<br />
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PLACEMAT FOR WEEK 1:</h2>
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- Yukari</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">_________________________________________________________________________________</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;">FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS </h2><h3 style="text-align: center;">(Added April 16, 2021):</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>1. Do you sell the poems in a package? I need more!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I don't a set exactly like the ones that are in these placemats, but I do have sight word poems in my store that are similar! You can find them here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fill-in-the-Blank-Sight-Word-Poems-for-Kindergarten-5914838">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fill-in-the-Blank-Sight-Word-Poems-for-Kindergarten-5914838</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IlCLICIisiw/YHn8FjweySI/AAAAAAAAKeM/Zu1QIlKmLno9lwg1X9cJfDmsnzw62-REACLcBGAsYHQ/s1687/Slide1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="1687" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IlCLICIisiw/YHn8FjweySI/AAAAAAAAKeM/Zu1QIlKmLno9lwg1X9cJfDmsnzw62-REACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Slide1.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>2. So these placemats are for asynchronous time. What do you do for synchronous time?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So the only time I was online (March 2020-June 2020) we didn't have the same requirements as now and we only did one Google Meet a week. I have been on a leave since, but have been creating Google Slides for teachers based on requests from current virtual teachers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Google Slides I get the most feedback on as being useful for synchronous time are my math slides! There are lesson slides, practice slides and centre slides included so you can do some during your synchronous math block and then assign some for asynchronous work too!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is a link to all of my math Google Slides if you are interested in taking a look: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/A-Pinch-Of-Kinder-Yukari-Naka/Category/DIGITAL-Math-485608">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/A-Pinch-Of-Kinder-Yukari-Naka/Category/DIGITAL-Math-485608</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've gotten the most positive feedback on these non-standard measurement slides:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UcGmJ8xFNBw/YHn9eGX1DOI/AAAAAAAAKeY/p3jlx7pDjWc_e1tKRRVBsmrmzQ80-nKtgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1687/Slide1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="1687" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UcGmJ8xFNBw/YHn9eGX1DOI/AAAAAAAAKeY/p3jlx7pDjWc_e1tKRRVBsmrmzQ80-nKtgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Slide1.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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Hi everyone! I had really great feedback when I posted "<a href="http://www.apinchofkinder.com/2020/03/my-favourite-literacy-videos-for.html" target="_blank">My Favourite Literacy Videos for Kindergarten</a>" in March so here is the follow up blog post, My Favourite Math Videos for Kindergarten!<br />
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I introduce each song at the beginning of a corresponding math lesson and then it goes into our "Math Songs" folder. After we have 2 songs in the folder, at the beginning of our math carpet time the special helper gets to choose a song for the class to listen to as part of our math warm-up!<br />
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Here are the songs, sorted by category and in the order we introduce them!</div>
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These "Singing Walrus" songs are always a hit. The animation is so cute and the kids love that this one starts slow and challenges them to count faster at the end. However, you do need to train them to actually try to follow along and not just shout out whatever they want as they can get reaaaally silly with this one but it's a fun one that the kids love!</div>
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This one is a nice calm one (which I love) but the kids also love it too! I think they like it because it goes up to super big numbers like 1 trillion.</div>
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This is a good one for learning number formation!</div>
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This is a fun one that the kids love! They love the part where the circle kisses the heart😂 This is a good one for shape identification and connecting shapes to real life objects!</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsR0h50BiFQ" target="_blank"><b>2. SHAPES BY PANCAKE MANOR</b></a></div>
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This is another fun one! I love that this one is a bit more interactive. The kids love the part where they draw the shapes in the air!</div>
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This is a nice calm song and it's perfect for when you introduce the concept of sides on a shape!</div>
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The kids love this one and it's perfect because hexagon is a hard one to learn!</div>
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This is a really short video but it's a good one for sorting because it talks about putting items into groups and it shows sorting the same set of objects three ways!<br />
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PATTERNING</h2>
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This is suppose to be an Easter song but they kids love it year round. This one also has a interactive guessing component to it which the kids love!</div>
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I've used this song for teaching 3D figures for as long as I can remember! It's a good one for reinforcing the names of the 3D figures and connecting them to real life objects!</div>
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I think I discovered this one in my second year of teaching.. and actually I have a little story to go with it. One year I had a really really tough class and the one thing they were obsessed with was this song. Christmas time rolled around and we tried a few different songs but we were having a hard time finding something that they liked (and that didn't escalate their behaviours during practices). Well my ECE and I decided that since they love this song so much, we'll just adapt it a little and make it our Christmas song! We just changed the "It looks like a ______" part to ornament for all of them, made ornaments and a tree and for each part one student hung a 3D shape figure shaped ornament on the tree😂No other class has been obsessed as that class but every year it's still a hit!</div>
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This one is another good one for 3D figure names and connecting them to real life objects! I like this one because it uses photographs of the objects!</div>
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ADDITION</h2>
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This one is a favourite every year! Perfect for introducing addition and story problems!</div>
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Another good for for introducing addition! This one just works on +1 facts.</div>
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SUBTRACTION</h2>
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CANADIAN COINS</h2>
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This one is an oldie but a goodie (I learned Canadian Coins listening to this song when I was in elementary school!) It's a good one to connect the symbols to the coins.</div>
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This one is a good song for identifying coins and their values! It even has adding coin values at the end to challenge your high achievers!</div>
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Those are my favourites! Feel free to leave your favourite in the comments so others (and myself) can check them out!</div>
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Hi guys! I started writing this post in March but then the school closures happened and I forgot that I had even started this post.. but I recently found it and thought I would still share it since it has a free freebies in the post!<br />
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<b>1. PIPE CLEANER RAINBOW STEM</b></div>
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I love this centre because it incorporates fine motor skills, STEM and counting! My kiddos always love hands-on centres and they saw me setting this up on Friday afternoon and wanted to play right away so I know this will be a hit next week! Thank you <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B9U1oX_hzuT/" target="_blank">@fdk_learnandplay</a> for this idea!</div>
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Clover tray, gold coins, black pots: Party City</div>
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Chalkboard: Michaels</div>
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We did this one the first week of March and the kids LOVED it. All we did was put some baking soda on a cookie sheet and filled 6 plastic shot glasses with vinegar and food colouring. We set it out with eye droppers and an invitation to make a rainbow, but really they could make any picture the wanted. This uses a lot of baking soda, so I sent out a message on Remind to our parents after the first day and we were donated 4 boxes! So thankful for our amazing and supportive parents!</div>
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The eye droppers are from Amazon. You can find them here: <a href="https://amzn.to/32YTShw">https://amzn.to/32YTShw</a></div>
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<b>3. ST. PATRICK'S DAY THEMED SENSORY BIN</b></div>
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This was our sensory bin for the first week of March. It's just water with green food colouring, gold glitter, shamrock confetti, gold coins, plastic shamrocks and green and gold flat marbles.</div>
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Great for exploring sink and float and capacity! They could also sort the items into pots or read the numbers/number sentences on the pots and put that many of an item into the pots too. Lots of math at a water table!</div>
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<b>4. WATER BOTTLE CAP SHAMROCK ART</b></div>
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For this activity, students are invited to create shamrocks with the top of a plastic bottle (the cap) by dipping it into green paint. Then they will add the stems with green paint with a paint brush. Finally they will be encouraged to record the number of shamrocks they painted!</div>
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Our kiddos love to paint so I think this activity will be popular! If you want to grab the recording sheet you see in the image above, you can <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/12u33T0r6m55JYibaLa8UjNOPMVu8coin/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below to grab it for FREE:</div>
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<b>5. ST. PATRICK'S DAY THEMED PLAY DOUGH TRAY</b></div>
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This was a simple play dough tray that we set out the first week of March! They loved this one but I think next time to encourage more story telling I'll add in some peg dolls and maybe some green popsicle sticks to encourage more building!</div>
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Pots: Party City</div>
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Plastic shamrocks: Dollarama (a few years ago)</div>
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I usually do this activity with unifix cubes but my new school does have them... so instead we used these rings I found at a dollar store and I made up a new recording sheet!</div>
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But it seemed a little tricky for them to draw their rings on the hands so I made the one below and set it out the next day:</div>
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This one was much easier and a bigger hit with the kids! Both versions have the writing portion with and with out the words in the free download so you can differentiate for your kiddos!</div>
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I found this activity in a new book I'm reading <a href="https://amzn.to/34h4VU8" target="_blank">"STEM Play: Integrating Inquiry into Learning Centers"</a> by Deirdre Englehart and Debby Mitchell.</div>
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If you are interested in checking the book out, here is a link: <a href="https://amzn.to/34h4VU8">https://amzn.to/34h4VU8</a></div>
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Anyways, you set out materials with one colour at a time and invite students to make something with that colour! I made an apple for red as an example since it was our first colour.</div>
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Before we set out the activity, I explained it and then we brainstormed as a class things that were red. I also told them I would leave a bin at the centre and when they are done they could place their work in the bin. They would get to share their work at the end of centre time and some of the pieces will go on our new colour posters!</div>
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We left this activity out for 2 days and after we shared ad decided on which pieces to add to our poster, I had a few students come and write the colour word and words to go with each picture.</div>
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At first we made it like this but when we put it up we found that it was hard to see the label words on red construction paper...</div>
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So when we did orange, we change the labels to black writing on white paper with a black border and that was MUCH clearer to see from far away! (We needed these to be as clear as possible since we are posting these pretty high in our classroom).<br />
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We fixed up the red poster to match the orange poster and we were working on yellow before March Break but now the project is put on hold until we can go back to school😢<br />
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That was our March until March Break!<br />
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Wishing you all health and safety!<br />
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- Yukari</div>
Yukarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04849000290547332559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1352539880410883104.post-16352181528086244892020-03-29T13:56:00.006-04:002020-03-29T15:51:08.086-04:00My Favourite Literacy Videos for Kindergarten<div style="text-align: center;">
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I've been meaning to write this blog post for a long time. I'm finally getting to it because I think now is the perfect time as I'm sure many parents are looking for easy ways to get some academics into their day during this COVID-19 school closure!</div>
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In my Kindergarten classroom we have a literacy carpet time and a math carpet time. At first I just introduce one song at a time at the beginning of literacy carpet time or I introduce it when I am doing a corresponding lesson (e.g. CVC song before I do a CVC word lesson). Then I add it to our "Literacy Songs" folder and the special helper of the day gets to choose a video at the beginning of literacy carpet time!</div>
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I have separated the songs into categories so it is easier to find songs you may be looking for. There are many songs out there to teach these concepts.. these are just my favourites!<br />
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ALPHABET SONGS</h2>
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDoGSKaRdyE" target="_blank">1. DO YOU KNOW YOUR ALPHABET?</a></b></div>
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This one is great simple one for learning the names of the letters!</div>
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDoGSKaRdyE" target="_blank">2. DO YOU KNOW THESE LETTER SOUNDS?</a></b></div>
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This one is a good one for learning letter sounds! I love this one because it is more interactive with the actions!</div>
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My kids really like this one this year! Since we usually learn the "Do You Know These Letter Sounds?" song first they often add actions themselves when we play this song!</div>
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This one is my new favourite! It has it all... a catchy tune, names the letter and the sound and has fun actions! The kids LOVE this one too!</div>
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This one is a little long for using as a warm up song but great as a brain break! It names each letter/sound and the kids can follow along by making the letter with their body and then doing the actions for each word with the girl on the screen! This one is a great one for kinaesthetic learners!</div>
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I use this one when I teach the reading strategy "Flippy Dolphin" to show students that vowels have 2 sounds!</div>
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This one is a great one for practicing sight words!</div>
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The tune is the same as the one above but this one has different words.</div>
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It's hard to come by good digraph songs. This Pevan & Sarah one are my favourite!</div>
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I like these songs by PB school because it is clear, short and easy for the kids to learn and sing along to!</div>
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I use this one when we introduce Super E or CVCe words. This one is a favourite every year!</div>
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Although Super E is my favourite song for teaching about CVCe words "The Magic E song" is also a good one!</div>
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I hope you find this list of my favourite literacy videos for Kindergarten helpful! Did I miss an amazing one you use in your Kindergarten classroom? Let me know in the comments so I can check it out!</div>
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What a whirlwind these past few weeks have been. I have been thinking long and hard about what would be the best way for me to support others during this pandemic. I started working on a home schooling package... but I couldn't find a way to make it comprehensive and play-based while also making it easy for parents to implement during this crisis.</div>
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My school board has not given us direction on what they would like us to do at the moment as they are gathering information from both teachers and parents to make whatever they roll out as equitable as possible.</div>
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So this is what I landed on. I know many parents are currently trying to provide some sort of academics during their day if they are home with their children. I have compiled all of my freebies that are print and go and require no manipulatives or can be done with things that you can likely find around the house.</div>
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I hope this helps you and if you know a parent who might benefit from these freebies I hope you share the link with them!</div>
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I have separated them into categories so they are easy to find!</div>
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Once you click on the links for each freebie, it will take you to google drive. It will look like this:</div>
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Click on the download button (where the yellow arrow is pointing) to download the file to your computer!</div>
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*A few of the printables are a free download but they are in my Teachers Pay Teachers store so you will need to make an account to access those files.</div>
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ALPHABET</h2>
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<b>1. FIND ALL THE LETTERS</b></div>
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I used paint and q-tips but if you don't have those on hand you can also just have your kids trace with a pencil, crayon, marker etc!</div>
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SIGHT WORDS/CVCe</h2>
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<b>1. SIGHT WORD BOOKLETS FOR "WILL" & "THIS"</b></div>
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<b>2. SIGHT WORD BOOKLET "LOVE"</b></div>
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Same format as the booklets above but here is one for the sight word "love"!</div>
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<b>2. "YOUR" MINI BOOK</b></div>
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<b>3. READ & ANSWER</b></div>
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<b>4. CVCe/Super E Mini Reader</b></div>
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We usually learn about Super E or CVCe words during March/April so this one would be a good phonics skill to practice, especially if you child is in SK!</div>
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First we usually watch this video to learn about CVCe words:</div>
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<b>5. EASTER THEMED FLIP & TRACE SHEETS</b></div>
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I used foam shapes from Dollar Tree but you can just cut out shapes out of construction paper and write the words on the back! Have your child flip an egg/bunny, say the sight word, find it on the page and trace it.</div>
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<b>1. ROLL TO THE TOP</b></div>
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This is a good one for practicing number formation! If you don't have a dice but have square tissue boxes, you can cover the sides with paper and write the dots on with marker to make your own dice!</div>
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<b>2. Q-TIP NUMBER FORMATION</b></div>
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I mentioned this in the alphabet version above but if you don't have paint and q-tips like it is shown in the photo, you can easily do this activity with any type of writing utensil such as pencil, crayon, marker etc!</div>
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<b>3. NUMBER & NUMBER WORD FLIP & TRACE</b></div>
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I got these foam cut outs at Dollar Tree but you can just cut shapes out of construction paper and write the number/number words on the back! Have your kids flip over a tulip or butterfly, say the number or number word, find it on the recording sheet and trace it.</div>
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<b>4. NUMBER TRACING/PRINTING</b></div>
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I laminated these to use with dry erase markers but you can just use them with pencil/crayon/markers etc!</div>
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<b>5. NUMBER PLAY DOUGH MATS</b></div>
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You can use these with play dough or there is a version with pictures and you can have your kiddos trace the number and colour the pictures!</div>
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Simple-Number-Play-Dough-Mats-3343829" target="_blank">You can grab these printables by clicking here.</a></div>
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I used sticker dots (they sell them at the Dollar Store!) but you could use any small sticker! Have your kids put the stickers on the dotted line and then trace the shape word. To bump it up you can talk about how many sides and vertices each shape has!</div>
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<b>1. MAKING PATTERN WITH BINGO DABBERS</b></div>
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This activity is shown with bingo dabbers but it can easily be done with stickers or stamps if that is what you have on hand!</div>
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<b>2. PATTERNING WITH STAMPS</b></div>
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Just add stickers! Have your child pick some stickers in each box, write the corresponding numbers and add them together to practice addition sentences!</div>
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<b>1. SUBTRACTION BOWLING</b></div>
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I used bowling pins from Micheals but you can just use half/quarter filled plastic water bottles and any type of medium sized ball instead! </div>
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<b>1. SCISSORS PRACTICE</b></div>
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Great practice especially if your kiddos are working on pre-writing skills! I have them printed on coloured construction paper but you can just print on plain white paper if that is all you have!</div>
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I want to finish this post with a few images I found and saved from social media in the past week. </div>
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Although we may feel pressure to "home school" and to try to keep our children doing academic activities every day, I think we all need the reminder that we are all doing the best we can and that is enough. More than anything keeping them feeling loved and safe during this scary and uncertain time will help them over anything. I hope these resources help if you are trying to "home school" but also please allow yourself to stop for the day if it is becoming a battle! </div>
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Wishing you health and sanity during this crazy time.</div>
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Here is what we've been up to in February!</div>
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<b>1. DON'T DROP THE ANIMALS!</b></div>
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The kiddos LOVED this game!! I got this idea from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B7kIKgrh6FX/" target="_blank">@rece_fdk_1994</a> on Instagram. You can see her original post by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B7kIKgrh6FX/" target="_blank">clicking here</a>.</div>
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I covered a container filled with water and put a piece of tissue paper on top and secured it with an elastic band. The students were instructed to place an animal on top, roll the dice and poke that many holes in the tissue paper with a toothpick. They repeat until their animal falls down!</div>
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They could also play with a partner and see who could keep their animal up the longest!</div>
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This was a great game for 1:1 correspondence and subitizing!</div>
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<b>2. SIGHT WORD SNOWBALL TOSS</b></div>
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I saw this idea originally on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/itskindie/" target="_blank">@itskindie</a>'s Instagram page and knew I wanted to try it. A couple weeks passed and I saw it again on someone else's Instagram page but she wasn't sharing her printable, so I made my own and took this picture.. and then finally remembered that <a href="https://www.instagram.com/itskindie/" target="_blank">@itskindie</a> shared a printable already!</div>
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So originally I didn't share the printable, but I talked to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B68yW_RBuKy/" target="_blank">@itskindie</a> and she said she didn't mind if I shared the printable so here it is! You can grab it for free by <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YVLJG8PRE-Huyh6SWBpyty2dHvOyWInp/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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Anyways, to play this game students are invited to take a "snowball" (cotton ball) and toss it in a cup. They read the cup they get it in and either colour the circle or write the word in the circle. They continue to toss and colour/write until their sheet is full!</div>
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I pulled my LLI (intervention reading group) kids to play this game with me and it was a fun way to learn/review sight words! I purposely picked words that my kiddos were struggling with in the PM Benchmark Level 1 and 2 books to give them more practice with them.</div>
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<b>3. FOLLOW THE RECIPE - HOT CHOCOLATE</b></div>
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The kids were invited to pick a recipe card and follow the recipe to make a cup of hot chocolate.</div>
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- dry red kidney beans for the cocoa</div>
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After a few days I also added blank recipe cards so the kids could write their own recipe and make each other's hot chocolate recipes! This was a hit too!</div>
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You can find these recipe cards in my "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Winter-Activities-Literacy-Math-3582424" target="_blank">Kindergarten Winter Activities</a>" pack. If you want to check it out, you can click here or on the image below!</div>
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<b>4. VALENTINE'S DAY BEGINNING SOUND DO-A-DOT</b></div>
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My kids love bingo daubbers so this is an easy no-prep activity that I put out for a lot of holidays! I finally brought out these new colours and the kids went crazy over them!</div>
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If you want to grab these they are in my "Kindergarten Valentines Activities" pack on TPT. There are also sheets for:</div>
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You can <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Valentines-Day-Activities-2390874" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below to check it out if you are interested!</div>
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<b>5. SIGHT WORD COOKIE PLAY DOUGH CENTRE</b></div>
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Here is a new centre I made up for Valentine's Day! Our kids love play dough this year (especially if it's more open ended) so I came up with this centre inspired by Fantastic Fun and Learning's Candy Heart Play Dough centre (you can see her post by <a href="https://www.fantasticfunandlearning.com/candy-heart-play-dough-sight-word-play.html" target="_blank">clicking here</a>).</div>
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Students are invited to pick a sight word cookie card. Make a heart out of play dough and then decorate it with the sight word using the letter beads!</div>
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You can grab the cards I used at this centre for free by <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cbQiDTWpvHc3jmZhPnaEipO6N7Y1LQQI/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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<b>6. WORD SEARCH VALENTINES</b></div>
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This year I wanted to come up with a valentine to give to our class that they didn't just look at and toss in the recycling bin.. so I came up with these. I'm hoping the parents will sit with the kiddos and do the word search with them. Just trying to encourage a little literacy at home over here ;D</div>
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Here's how it looks completed (on the right!)</div>
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If you would like to grab these valentines (they are editable so you can type in your name(s) at the bottom!) to use with your class, you can grab them for FREE by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Free-Editable-Word-Search-Valentines-5237081" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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<b>7. EXTRA VALENTINES</b></div>
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So this is just a friendly reminder but if you know there are kiddos in your class who might not bring Valentines (for whatever reason) to hand out, to have a few extra boxes on hand so you can have them fill them out in the morning and hand them out during your card exchange! I picked these up at Dollarama!</div>
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<b>8. HALLWAY BB FOR FEBRUARY</b></div>
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Here is our current bulletin board in the hallway! We put up our learning about cultural celebrations, holidays and special days from the last few weeks. There is a section for Pongal, Lunar/Chinese New Year and Groundhog Day!</div>
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If you would like to take a look at my learning goal (with expectation numbers from the Ontario Kindergarten Program) you can <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1faJas6WjES6ZK-riQbe73xB6deEvCPD0/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below to download it for free!</div>
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We used <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Groundhog-Book-197907" target="_blank">"The Groundhog Book" by Growing Kinders</a> to learn about Groundhog Day and did this craft <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Groundhog-Day-Easy-Art-Craft-and-Anchor-Chart-Free-Download-4336021" target="_blank">(Groundhog Day Easy Art Craft and Anchor Chart) by Teaching Special Thinkers</a>. Both are free from TPT!</div>
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My kiddos love this one every year. I save it for Valentine's Day so it's a special activity on the day of. We just fold the paper plates in half and cut around free hand to make the heart shape. I've used stamps in the past to decorate these too but stickers, paper hearts or just markers work too!</div>
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This one is a hit every year too and so easy. Just buy some conversation and challenge them to see how many they can stack! Great for fine motor and 1:1 correspondence!</div>
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This activity was inspired by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B8IAtqIBrIa/" target="_blank">@mrsmacskinders</a>! I cut out big hearts and put I love NAME because... for each student in the middle. Then we read "Words and Your Heart" by Kate Jane Neal and talked about how words can fill or hurt your heart. Then we talked about how kind words can fill our heart with so much joy and happiness. Then we introduced the activity. We talked about how we will fill out a few hearts a day and write down things we love about that friend.</div>
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Then we read "Happy Valentine's Day, Mouse!" by Laura Numeroff and listened to the reasons why Mouse loved each of this friends. Lastly, we started to fill out the hearts! Then we did 3 comments per child whole group and then left the hearts out at centre time for the kids to add more words and decorate.</div>
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Here's the finished heart for my teaching partner!</div>
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Next time we will start earlier in February and make it a whole month things so that it doesn't feel rushed! The kids loved this activity though and it was great to foster more kindness in our classroom!</div>
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<b>13. EASY PEASY VALENTINE BAGS</b></div>
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Last Valentine post! This year we made these super simple Valentine bags with foam stickers. After they were filled and they went off to gym I added these handles (inspired by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B8cwQOxHGuk/" target="_blank">@teachingwithheart</a>) and it made it so much easier to carry the bags at the end of the day!</div>
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<b>14. WHO LIVES IN YOUR HOUSE?</b></div>
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To celebrate Family Day, we first read "The Family Book" by Todd Parr. We stopped at a few spots and made connections between the families in the books and our own families. Then we drew a picture of the people who live in their house(s) and put them in house shaped popsicle stick frames! Next, we read "A Family Is a Family Is a Family" by Sara O'Leary and listened to the different characters in the story tell why their family is special. Lastly, the kids shared what makes their family special and I recorded their ideas on chart paper!</div>
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The chart and the houses are going up on our bulletin board soon. We will try to show you when it's done!</div>
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<b>15. HUNDREDS DAY ACTIVITIES</b></div>
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Here are some of the activities we did for the 100th day of school! We did most of these activities for the whole week during afternoon centres.</div>
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"The 100 Poem" was our shared reading for the week! We practiced changing the last word of each sentence as a group and then reading it as a group as well. Students were invited to make their own poems at centre time too.</div>
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We also did this "Roll & Race to 100!" activity. Students played in pairs and took turns rolling the dice and dabbing that many squares with a bingo dabber. First person to reach 100 wins!</div>
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My kids love anything with paint so "Paint to 100" was popular! I picked up a set of the <a href="https://amzn.to/3c29Ew8" target="_blank">Crayola glitter paint</a> (I have the regular colour ones and use them often) and they are soooo pretty! The kids loved using it!</div>
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One of my kids (who usually has a difficult time self-regulating at centre time) LOVED this one!! I had a "Trace to 100" option available too for kiddos who are still practicing their letter formation so that all students could attempt it!</div>
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The kiddos loved this one too! They were invited to predict how much of the jar will be filled with 100 drops of water, try it out and record the results. Then they were asked to circle if their actual amount was more or less than their prediction!<br />
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The "100 Second Challenges" were popular too! There were 3 challenges: </div>
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All of the centres above can be found in my "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Centres-for-the-100th-Day-of-School-5259023" target="_blank">Centres for the 100th Day</a>" pack. You can <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Centres-for-the-100th-Day-of-School-5259023" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below to check it out on TPT if you are interested!</div>
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<b>16. DOT STICKER SHAPES</b></div>
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I actually did this activity back in October but was so overwhelmed at the time I didn't have a chance to snap a pic! But the kids really enjoyed it and it was super popular so I finally took a picture so I could share it with you guys!</div>
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I just got the small colour coding sticker dots from Dollarama and set them out with these sheets. The students are invited to cover the lines of the shape with the stickers and then trace the shape word underneath.</div>
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I originally bought these plates to use with a math activity, but they were too big. Then I was driving home from school the other day and came up with this activity! Since there are lots of pictures and colours on the plates I thought it was perfect for hiding the letters and sight words. I wrote the letters and sight words with a thin tip permanent marker as small as I could. Then I'll just set them out with magnifying glasses and the recording sheets!</div>
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I made two versions. First couple of days I'm going to put them out with this one and have students find the letters/sight words, say the letter/sight word and highlight it. They are done when they find all of the letters and sight words!</div>
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This is a game we play every year after we learn about decomposing numbers but I re-made it because my original trays were looking reeeeally ratty. I used Paw Patrol and Frozen plates that I picked up from Walmart because I knew those would pique the interest of the kids and just hot glued them on to the aluminum roasting pan. Then I put a little sticker that said "out" for outside the plate and "in" on the plate.</div>
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Students were invited to grab a handful of cubes, count them out and then drop them in the tray and count how many were in the plate and out of the plate. Then record the decomposing sentence on their recording sheet!</div>
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You can find this recording sheet in my "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Decomposing-Numbers-for-Kindergarten-Hands-on-Centres-Printables-1686265" target="_blank">Decomposing Numbers for Kindergarten</a>" pack by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Decomposing-Numbers-for-Kindergarten-Hands-on-Centres-Printables-1686265" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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<b>19. PINK SHIRT DAY SHIRTS</b></div>
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When I worked at a high priority school (aka a school in a high poverty/welfare area) I quickly learned that these special days with specific coloured shirts could be a burden to families who couldn't afford to buy one and didn't already own a shirt in that colour. One of my grade partners said that she always has little shirts to colour and tape/pin on the kids who don't have the coloured shirts but want to participate available and ever since I have been setting this centre out on these special shirt days!</div>
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The kids are invited to colour the shirt and they bring it to an educator. We tape it on their shirt for them with the thick masking tape!</div>
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You can grab these shirts for FREE in my "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Free-Activities-for-Pink-Shirt-Day-2404116#show-price-update" target="_blank">Free Activities for Pink Shirt Day</a>" pack on TPT! <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Free-Activities-for-Pink-Shirt-Day-2404116#show-price-update" target="_blank">Click here</a> to download it!</div>
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<b>20. DESIGN A SHIRT FOR PINK SHIRT DAY</b></div>
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On Pink Shirt Day we also talked about the shirts we were wearing (many of the kids wore actual Pink Shirt Day shirts) and brainstormed other kindness and anti-bullying shirts we could design! Then the kids were invited to draw their shirts at centre time. You can see my example in the image above...</div>
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and here are some of their creations! I cut them out so that we were able to fit more shirts on our bulletin board!</div>
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We also read "The Invisible Boy" by Tracy Ludwig and "One" by Kathryn Otoshi and talked about what we learned about anti-bullying and choosing kindness from each book!</div>
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<b>21. DESIGN A PINK SHIRT WITH LOOSE PARTS</b></div>
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I got this idea from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B8-RGmTBGsF/" target="_blank">@keepingupwithkindies</a> on Instagram! It was a great paper free loose parts provocation for Pink Shirt Day! I had a few people request that I share this but unfortunately I didn't add enough design elements to the clip art so I am not able to share it (per Terms of Use of clip art artist) but hopefully you can use the idea! My kids enjoyed this activity and I think I will make it a staple for Pink Shirt Day from now on!</div>
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After putting up our Pink Shirt Day learning, we finally finished up our February bulletin board!</div>
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We have our learning about Valentine's Day, Black History Month, Family Day and Pink Shirt Day up on the board.</div>
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The kids learned about Garret Morgan, George Crumb and Katherine Johnson as part of their Black History Month learning and showcased their learning with pictures and words!</div>
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Our family popsicle houses went with our Family Day read alouds and oral responses that I recorded for them.</div>
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And we finished off the board with our Pink Shirt Day learning!</div>
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<b>23. BIRTHDAY CUPCAKE PLAY DOUGH</b></div>
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I've posted about this activity in the past but thought I'd take an updated picture and post about it again since it is soooo popular every year! All you need is play dough (a big batch preferably!), number candles, candles, silicone cupcake liners and some small loose parts (I often use beads or rhinestones). Throw them in a tray and invite kids to make birthday cupcakes! It naturally will have students identifying numbers, counting, creating sets that match etc!</div>
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This year I added some vanilla extract to my play dough but next year I think I'll offer chocolate play dough too at this centre!</div>
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<b>24. SOUND IT OUT</b></div>
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One area that is a big need in our classroom is identifying beginning and ending sounds. So I created these sheets for the kids to practice at centre time! I printed and laminated them and set them out with magnetic letters but you could also set them out with dry erase markers!</div>
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I had many requests to share these when I first showed a sneak peek on Instagram so I put them up in my TPT store! You can <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/SOUND-IT-OUT-Practicing-Beginning-and-Ending-Sounds--5273883" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below if you want to check it out:</div>
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<b>25. DECOMPOSING ON RINGS</b></div>
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We are working on decomposing numbers in math right now so I made up this new activity. I used to use unifix cubes for this activity but my new school doesn't have them.. and then I found these rings in the party section and thought the rings would work even better!</div>
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I hope you were able to grab some ideas to use in your classroom!</div>
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- Yukari</div>
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Happy New Year! Hope you all had a great holiday! Here is what we have been up to in our classroom this month!</div>
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<b>1. NEW YEAR'S EVE SENSORY BIN</b></div>
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Here is a simple sensory bin that you can put together with left over New Year's Eve goodies! The students enjoyed feeling and wearing the various items in the bin, talking about the items and lots of pretend/imaginative play! It was a simple bin but a hit! Everything in the bin (except for the black beans) was from Party City!</div>
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<b>2. NEW YEAR'S PLAY DOUGH</b></div>
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Here's another fun and open-ended centre New Year's themed centre! Open-ended play dough is a favourite for this group so I knew this would be a hit! They were encouraged to make "2020" or anything else that reminded them of New Year's Eve/Day using the loose parts & play dough!</div>
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<b>3. WINTER PATTERN BLOCKS</b></div>
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I wanted to put out a centre for 2D shapes that encouraged students to explore composing with shapes and decomposing shapes so I made and put out these "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Winter-Pattern-Block-Pictures-5121677?aref=8n22s54c" target="_blank">Winter Break Pattern Block Pictures</a>". The coloured mats were a hit but not too many friends tried the outlines. Someone said on Instagram that their class loved putting the pictures side by side and challenging themselves to fill the pictures in a different way than was shown in the coloured version so I'm going to try that next week!</div>
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You can find these pattern block mats by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Winter-Pattern-Block-Pictures-5121677?aref=8n22s54c" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below if you are interested in grabbing them!</div>
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I have a few friends who are always asking me for more writing tasks. These kids wouldn't need these pages for support but I wanted this centre to be something that most of my kids could attempt in their writing duo-tangs (shown above) if they wanted to so I made these new sentence helpers and popped them in a binder!</div>
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So far the kids have loved it and it gets them using their writing duo-tangs more! It also makes it really easy for me and my ECE to pull a guided writing group as well when we have extra time. I put these in my TPT store since so many of your were asking about them when I shared a sneak peek on Instagram! There are only four sentences right now but I hope you enjoy using it none the less!</div>
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You can find the sentence binder pages by clicking here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sentence-Binder-Sentence-Helpers-for-Beginning-Writers-5152613">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sentence-Binder-Sentence-Helpers-for-Beginning-Writers-5152613</a> or by clicking on the image below!</div>
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I had lots of questions about the paper in their writing duo-tangs as well. You can find those here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Step-by-Step-Kindergarten-Writing-Plans-1-2702186">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Step-by-Step-Kindergarten-Writing-Plans-1-2702186</a></div>
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I was so excited to introduce this centre so I'm sad I missed it (I was away all this week due to my son having a double ear infection and high fever) and just when we was starting to feel better I caught the same thing too😭</div>
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Anyways my ECE says that they loved it (my girls are obsessed with Frozen II so I thought they would) so I'm so glad since those peg dolls took a million hours to paint! But it's all worth it when the kids are so engaged in the centres!</div>
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I get asked this all the time when I post these word charts so I'm going to say it again, I don't share these word charts because printables with characters from Disney (and most big name companies) are trademarked and cannot be shared, whether it is a paid product or free. Sorry!</div>
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The students are invited to pick a sticker, stick it in the "Stick It" box and then write the letter in the "Write It" box! Super simple, but peeling foam stickers is a great way to work on fine motor skills and this activity works on letter identification and letter formation too! And my kiddos love activities with stickers so I thought these would be a hit! My ECE partner said they loved this activity too!</div>
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I wanted something new for salt trays so I made up these cards and mini wands to put out with them! The salt is mixed with a little bit of silver glitter and the wand is a table scatter I found at Michales glued on to a mini dowel I found at the dollar store.</div>
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I added these letter formation cards to my "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Winter-Activities-Literacy-Math-3582424" target="_blank">Kindergarten Winter Activities</a>" pack. If you already own it, you can re-download it for free by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Winter-Activities-Literacy-Math-3582424" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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We learned about Chinese/Lunar New Year this week and after watching a video about Chinese New Year, one of the kids asked if we could have a centre with red envelopes. My ECE and I didn't have any red envelopes on hand so we decided to make it a centre where the kids make their own red envelopes, fill it with "gold coins" (yellow construction paper cut in to circles) and gift it to their friends.</div>
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I rearranged my sight word list a little bit to target sight words that my kids are struggling with that are in the BAS level 1 and 2 books to give them more practice with them. "Love" is on of these words and when I went to print off the sight word booklet for next week, I realized I didn't have one for this sight word! So I made one.</div>
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Here are some things we have been up to in our classroom this month!</div>
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<b>1. CANDY CANE FINGERPRINT ORNAMENT</b></div>
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I was originally going to do fingerprint snowmen or reindeer but then I saw @creativekindergartenblogontpt post about her candy cane ornaments and these looked so much easier so we switched to these. I have to say though these need to be hand over hand for them to look nice (well at least with my class!). At first, I tried to just draw a candy cane outline and have the kids do it themselves and they look like mangled candy canes.. so I had my placement student sit with the rest of the kids and do it one at a time and hand over hand.</div>
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If you are interested in the wood slices I bought you can find them here: <a href="https://amzn.to/2LsP2BJ">https://amzn.to/2LsP2BJ</a></div>
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<b>2. CHRISTMAS TREE STEM</b></div>
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This is a simple centre but the kids LOVED it! Can you make a Christmas tree with green cups? Can you decorate it? </div>
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<b>3. KWANZAA CENTRES</b></div>
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My ECE partner has been teaching the kids about Kwanzaa and she has put these fun centres out so I got permission from her to share them here!</div>
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At this centre the students were invited to practice Kuumba (creativity), one of the 7 principles of Kwanzaa, by making a bracelet! We learned that making simple jewelry and gifting them is a Kwanzaa tradition so students were invited to make one for themselves or they could make one to give to a friend!</div>
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After we learned about Kwanzaa we also had Kwanzaa vocabulary booklets out for students to complete to reinforce the new words we learned.</div>
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The Kwanzaa booklet can be found here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/My-Book-of-Kwanzaa-Words-5084891">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/My-Book-of-Kwanzaa-Words-5084891</a></div>
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We also learned that the unity cup was a symbol of Kwanzaa and that unity means coming together. My ECE partner invited the student to decorate a "unity cup" with paper mache glue and tissue paper. The various colour "come together" to create a beautiful design on the cup! The kids really enjoyed this centre too!</div>
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If you need lesson and book ideas you can find my Kwanzaa lessons here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kinder-Read-Alouds-Hanukkah-Kwanzaa--4455955">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kinder-Read-Alouds-Hanukkah-Kwanzaa--4455955</a></div>
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<b>4. LETTER REINDEER PLAY DOUGH</b></div>
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This was our play dough centre for the second week of December! Can you make a reindeer? Can you make the letters on the antlers match (uppercase and lowercase)? The kids enjoyed making letters reindeers!</div>
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<b>5. ROLL & DECORATE A STOCKING</b></div>
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This is a centre I quickly whipped up because I wanted a 2D shape math centre that would also work on fine motor and counting skills. The kids LOVED this one! They are asked to roll the dice and draw the shape they roll 10 times to decorate their stocking. Then they could colour the stocking at the end. I had one boy tell me "Mrs. Sloane I counted my shapes at the end and had 12 so I erased 2 to make sure I only had 10 just like you said", which made me so happy! Lots of great conversations were happening at this centre!</div>
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I added this one to my "Kindergarten Christmas Activities" pack! If you already own it, re-download it to get the new pages for free! Here is the link: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/A-Pinch-Of-Kinder-Yukari-Naka/Category/SEASONAL-Christmas-276923">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/A-Pinch-Of-Kinder-Yukari-Naka/Category/SEASONAL-Christmas-276923</a> or you can click on the image below!</div>
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Here is what we have been up to in November!</div>
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I originally made these to use as a dry erase book but have been using them as mini sensory bins instead! This week I put letter beads in a small bin with split peas and had the students find the letters and place them in the correct spot.</div>
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I also put a few paper booklets out so students could make a booklet after to take home if they wanted to.</div>
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You can find these printables by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Beginning-Sounds-Write-Wipe-Book-Fall-Words-4306716" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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I made poppies in 3 different sizes out of felt and hot glued a black button to the middle of each one. Then I cut out some doves from white felt as well. I added a sorting tray and 2 tins with a mini tong in each one. My hope was that they would sort the poppies by size, count the poppies and doves and use the tongs to strengthen their fine motor skills. Today was the first day they explored it but it was very popular!</div>
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I made this mini emergent reader for my kids because I have a handful of kids who LOVE making booklets. Students trace the bubble words and colour the pictures.</div>
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You can grab this Remembrance Day reader for free by <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OjFMsxHlFc8UYu8pxN-nXyI0kM0hMdxn/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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Last week I had the Halloween word chart out and the kids LOVED drawing and labeling pictures from it, so I quickly made up a Remembrance Day one to put out this week! The kids have been doing such a great job drawing and labeling pictures at this centre!</div>
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I've shared this idea before but here is this year's set up for the loose parts poppy centre! You can grab the FREE recording sheet by going to this blog post: </div>
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I was inspired by the photo @wonderfullinquiry posted last Remembrance Day for our wreath this year! Every year each class presents a wreath at our Remembrance Day assembly. For this wreath I had the students draw a poppy in black crayon and paint it with red and black paint pucks. You can see the set up for that part below:</div>
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Then I cut out the poppies and glued them onto our wreath. Next we read "The Peace Book" by Todd Parr and we brainstormed words that make us think of peace. Then I had a few students come and write the words for us on black construction paper during centre time. Finally I glued the words on and we were done! It was one of the easier wreaths I have ever done and I love how it turned out!</div>
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Here is a simple sensory bin (beautifully coloured rice made by my amazing ECE! She made it with the kids during one of our centre times!). After they made the rice she added the letter beads and the pipe cleaners and I added the wood slices with the sight words. We then invited them to read and build the sight words!<br />
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The letter beads can be found here: <a href="https://amzn.to/2XoB9tc">https://amzn.to/2XoB9tc</a><br />
The wood slices were bought at a local independent dollar store, but it looks like the same packaging as the craft supplies sold at Dollar Tree so you might be able to find them at Dollar Tree as well!<br />
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My ECE partner made this centre with numbers on the plates a couple of weeks ago and since they love it so much (we had it out for math centres every day for 2 weeks and it was still full almost every day) we decided to keep the centre but switch it up to shapes in the middle! I had these shape stickers in my shape bin so I just stuck them on to white paper plates!<br />
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Students are invited to toss a pom pom, say the shape on the plate their pom pom lands on and then try to draw and label the shapes. I had students use the shape words from our math wall (they are on magnetics so they can take it off the wall to the centre) to help them label the shapes.<br />
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They did an amazing job here! One of the girls even wrote how many sides and vertices the shape has!<br />
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The shape word wall cards can be found in <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/2D-Shapes-for-Kindergarten-Centres-Printables-and-More-1944095" target="_blank">my 2D shapes pack here</a> or by clicking on the image below:<br />
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<b>9. PJ MASKS WORDS</b><br />
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I've had a hard time finding invitations that would entice most of my boy to write but lately I've overheard them talking about how much they love PJ Masks so I made up this little PJ Masks words chart and it was a big hit! So many friends who usually don't visit the writing centre were here drawing pictures, labeling them and even telling and writing stories! Since this was such a big hit I asked them what other words they would like and they gave me a big list (including Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig) so I'll have to get working on that to keep them engaged!</div>
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<b>10. PATTERN HEADBANDS</b></div>
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<b>11. SIGHT WORDS ON TABLE CLOTH + LOOSE PARTS</b></div>
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This was another popular centre! I just wrote sight words on a clear table cloth with a Sharpie and set it out with some loose parts and letter rocks. The students did a great job building the words! </div>
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<b>12. SIGHT WORD TOWERS</b></div>
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I've been doing this activity for years but finally got around to updating my cards and adding a recording sheet. This centre is always a hit! The kids are invited to pick a card and then build a matching word tower. Then they can record their word tower on the recording sheet if they want.</div>
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I print the letters on full page mailing labels and stick them right on to the cups! These are the mailing labels I use: <a href="https://www.staples.ca/products/812261-en-staples-white-shipping-labels-for-inkjetlaser-printers-8-12-x-11-25pack">https://www.staples.ca/products/812261-en-staples-white-shipping-labels-for-inkjetlaser-printers-8-12-x-11-25pack</a></div>
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<b>13. MAKE A LETTER BOOKLET</b></div>
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<b>14. PIPE CLEANER + PAPER CUPS NUMBER SENSE CENTRE</b></div>
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I used these mats (the uppercase ones) at the beginning of the year so I thought I would pull these lowercase ones out for one of the weeks in November. The kids enjoyed these again!</div>
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You can find these mats by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Just-Add-Manipulatives-Pattern-Block-Letters-4763285" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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When I posted about the Diwali centres and activities we did in class, many of you asked me to share more. All of the credit for these lesson ideas and activities go to my amazing ECE partner (she prepped everything, except the the word booklet and the fill in the blank information sheets). We have a large Indian community at our school and Diwali is an important holiday for many of our kids. We hope this inspires you to try some Diwali activities with your class too!<br />
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On the first day she read "Let's Celebrate Diwali" by Anjali Joshi for students to learn some basic facts about the holiday.<br />
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Then she set out these Diwali themed centres:<br />
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<b>1. CARDAMOM PLAY DOUGH</b><br />
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We talked about how many sweets are eaten during Diwali and that cardamom is a spice that is used in some Diwali sweets.</div>
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Students were invited to create letters with foil in the play dough.</div>
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<b>2. PAPER PLATE DIYAS</b></div>
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Students were invited to create a design on the paper plate with paint and then colour a flame and glue it on to the plate to create their own diyas!</div>
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<b>3. RANGOLI CENTRES</b></div>
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We learned that Rangoli's are a traditional art form of India. First we coloured these Rangoli patterns with markers...</div>
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Then students were invited to make their own Rangolis on cork rounds with pattern blocks and flat marbles!</div>
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We searched up Rangolis on google images and put the iPad at the centre so students could look at them for inspiration. They LOVED making Rangolis!</div>
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Here are some of their beautiful creations!</div>
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I made up these Diwali booklets for the kids to work on as well.</div>
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You can find these Diwali booklets in my TPT store by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/My-Book-of-Diwali-Words-4971863" target="_blank">clicking here</a>.</div>
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She also showed them this Diwali video to learn more about Diwali: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ-VIbZSKIo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ-VIbZSKIo</a></div>
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On the last day we also filled in the blanks for the Diwali information sheets we were going to post on the bulletin board to explain what we learned/did. This was a good review for the kids! I had the students tell me the missing words and the beginning sounds and had them fill it in.</div>
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You can download the fill in the blank Diwali information pages </div>
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by <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/10qCxZfVMGZ38hz9j_6serYHj_0PHZEIl/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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I also had the kids write up little captions for each activity. We talked about how the other students looking at the bulletin board might not understand what is happening if we don't explain it and came up with the words we need together. I also took a picture of the 4 girls who celebrate Diwali and wrote on the index cards what each girl said about how they celebrate Diwali and put them up around the picture.</div>
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That's it! Thank you again to my amazing ECE partner for teaching our kids about Diwali. I personally learned so much! I hope this post is helpful if you are thinking about teaching about Diwali!</div>
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- Yukari</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">________________________________________________________________________________</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Added October 12, 2023:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hi friends! Just adding on to my original Diwali post since there are lots of good ideas here but I also wanted to share my new Diwali activity pack! This has been requested for years and I finally found the time this year to get it done! I had a few educators who celebrate Diwali look it over as well and it was well received so I hope you enjoy this little activity pack and it helps make incorporating Diwali lessons/activities in the classroom easier for you!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I included three Diwali lessons, one for a non-fiction book and two for the book "The Best Diwali Ever" by Sonali Shah. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>I also made this simple rangoli tracing and colouring page (there are 2 options for this one!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdgHTRr0hCc1_Ncug1JNzTHAlXHM9OwLJHcGTyxs5N0mK03sBPnLnSY9P2m0UGGRIvprjOiYFovTozNh5HW3SBbP8VXrrSwhG9XuCsmESaJdnCnBZPqd4jLeE3I7crD58hKuzLkqXkJkeeGmo_UrodHM3qjR_KhhX-eq5mLemxfoOyG_4T2UxSvpGzT2lr/s1265/Slide6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdgHTRr0hCc1_Ncug1JNzTHAlXHM9OwLJHcGTyxs5N0mK03sBPnLnSY9P2m0UGGRIvprjOiYFovTozNh5HW3SBbP8VXrrSwhG9XuCsmESaJdnCnBZPqd4jLeE3I7crD58hKuzLkqXkJkeeGmo_UrodHM3qjR_KhhX-eq5mLemxfoOyG_4T2UxSvpGzT2lr/w640-h640/Slide6.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>and bingo dabber (or circle sticker) letter formation pages:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKr3B72aCcOe5bXokzBnl28Om7cjp2OJDhkTnkqvaXzsRHa8Lf80KCkiZjTtDRlFdQRoI7S7OxC3AScbagzIHS2V_of3dgH0gWUGuNU6JdyRVJZ63yHTwABGc54tpvw7DClXdfFdX76taThc_GLppRakWLdAQSeI_ImGWTaLDDPjtNtlVGijx4kwh5NDGc/s1265/Slide7.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKr3B72aCcOe5bXokzBnl28Om7cjp2OJDhkTnkqvaXzsRHa8Lf80KCkiZjTtDRlFdQRoI7S7OxC3AScbagzIHS2V_of3dgH0gWUGuNU6JdyRVJZ63yHTwABGc54tpvw7DClXdfFdX76taThc_GLppRakWLdAQSeI_ImGWTaLDDPjtNtlVGijx4kwh5NDGc/w640-h640/Slide7.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>For math, I made clip cards to work on 1:1 correspondence and numeral recognition:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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You can find it on TPT here: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Diwali-Activities-Lessons-Centres-10321372">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Diwali-Activities-Lessons-Centres-10321372</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Diwali-Activities-Lessons-Centres-10321372" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="1265" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLLH-FsOY_S_na_1qVuOj_ViER9nnlD9iPy3smXmzAJsste9_8sHRwRLZYTfU8lzLbgMGH8UBWUA8G2cE0Gpd13EEqNAfJPsa3a4oT1nj9JpGp_7WBiQSJj1k8uFVrveS3bWiWH13i06jtinVAmijmXgKtavxp969sXvzEarIWwMdbYdQSkglmkiHEKuBJ/w400-h400/Slide1.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">- Yukari</div></div>
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Here are some of the things we have been up to this month!</div>
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<b>1. INVITATION TO CREATE - APPLES</b></div>
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One of my teaching partners told me about this easy invitation to create and I love it! I love how the kids need to look closely and problem solve as they build their apple. I also love seeing what else they come up with that is the same colours as an apple!</div>
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I'm planning to do this with pumpkins too later in October!</div>
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<b>2. MY LITTLE NUMBER BOOK</b></div>
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A couple weeks ago we did <a href="http://www.apinchofkinder.com/2015/10/teaching-2d-shapes-in-fdk-part-2.html" target="_blank">this</a> "Perfect Square" activity and I put hole punchers at the centre. Well our kids this year LOVE hole punchers and were basically fighting over getting to use them. So I made up this little centre! The kids flip through the pages, look at the number and punch that many holes with the hole puncher! Great for fine motor development too!</div>
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I just added the template for these to my TPT store. You can grab them by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/My-Little-Hole-Puncher-Number-Book-4909254" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or by clicking on the image below:</div>
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<b>3. ROAD NUMBERS</b></div>
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Here is another center my kids loved (last week).. road numbers!</div>
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Students are asked to trace the road numbers with the card and then cover all of the circles that show that number with flat marbles:</div>
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I also had this version where students covered all of the numerals that matched the number they traced.</div>
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These road numbers are now in my TPT store.</div>
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You can find them by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Road-Numbers-A-Hands-On-Number-Centre--4909337" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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<b>4. FALL COUNTING</b></div>
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I created my fall pack while I was on maternity leave so I'm finally getting to use them! I have a new obsession with watercolour clip art so I used some fall watercolour clip art for these play dough mats!</div>
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This one is great because it forces the kiddos to use their finger muscles to make tiny play dough balls! </div>
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You can grab these play dough mats in my "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Fall-Activities-Literacy-Math-3872742" target="_blank">Kindergarten Fall Activities</a>" pack by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Fall-Activities-Literacy-Math-3872742" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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<b>5. ROLL, SAY, FIND & TRACE</b></div>
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I wanted to put a twist on practicing letter formation, so I made up these "Roll, Say, Find & Trace" sheets for the kids to practice with. Like the title says, they need to roll the dice, say the letter, find it on the sheet and trace it. They can play on their own until all the letters are traced or they can play with a friend and see who can fill up their sheet first!</div>
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The kids really liked this one! I just added this one to my fall activities pack so if you already own it you can download it again to get the updated file. Here is the link to re-download it: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Fall-Activities-Literacy-Math-3872742">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Fall-Activities-Literacy-Math-3872742</a></div>
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I have a really social group this year and they love playing partner games, so I made up this one to practice number identification and subitizing! They can play on their own and keep rolling until they fill up their sheet or play with a partner and see who can fill up their sheet first.</div>
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This one has also been added to my "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Fall-Activities-Literacy-Math-3872742" target="_blank">Kindergarten Fall Activities</a>" pack. Re-download the file to get the updates if you already own it!</div>
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I got this idea from my friend <a href="https://www.instagram.com/creativekindergartenblogontpt/" target="_blank">@creativekindergartenblogontpt</a>! We did a similar activities with tulips and before I went on mat leave and the kids loved that so I'm hoping this group enjoys this activity too! We will be doing this activity this coming week, put I got it prepped on the PA Day!</div>
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<b>8. NUMBER TOWERS {FREEBIE}</b></div>
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I actually set this one out the first or second week of school but forgot to post about it! This is a simple number sense centre. The kids are invited to read the number and then stack that many blocks on that square. It works on number identification, 1:1 correspondence and fine motor skills! You can also set these out with unifix cubes or snap cubes too!</div>
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I use this to do list every week to keep track of what needs to be done every day! I try to fill it out the night before or in the morning and that way I can be more productive when prep time/after school rolls around! I know this format won't work for everyone but I thought I'd share just in case other people could use it too!</div>
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I got this idea from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B3KhyN0AePS/" target="_blank">@fdk_learnandplay</a> on Instagram and knew I had to try it. Can you sort the vehicles by where they travel? As I anticipated, the kids LOVED this invitation to sort! There is a bit of water in the "sea" tray and although it got a bit messy it made it that much more engaging! The kids loved sorting and playing with the plastic vehicles!</div>
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I already had these vehicle counters in my room, but many of you were asking where you can get them on Instagram so I looked it up. I'm pretty sure they are <a href="https://amzn.to/2oZqoAH" target="_blank">these</a> "Transport Counters" by edx education. <a href="https://amzn.to/2oZqoAH" target="_blank">Click here</a> to check them out on Amazon!</div>
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We made these I-Spy bags out of water, leaf sequins and leaf/acorn/pumpkin manipulatives (all from Dollarama I believe). I got the idea from <a href="http://_inquiring.minds_/">@_inquiring.minds_</a> on Instagram! The kids weren't too interested in writing anything, but they did love swishing the bags around and talking to their friends about what they see! And if they are playing calmly and happily I'm totally ok with that!</div>
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Since our "Roll, Say, Find & Trace" for letters was such a hit during literacy centres, I decided to make up some generic ones for numbers! I made these and numbers 7-12. We put these out as a centre this week, but we are also planning to use them in small groups for our kiddos who need more practice with identifying numbers to 10!</div>
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I added these to my "Number Roll It" pack (it's also in the Number Centres Endless Bundle and the Kindergarten Math Year Long Bundle!) so if you own it already, you can re-download the file to get the updates for free!</div>
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I got this awesome and easy idea from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B350WnPBxqd/" target="_blank">@exploringandlearninginfdk</a> on Instagram! I just drew some houses on the back of a piece of chart paper and wrote some numbers on the roof. Students were invited to identify the number and place that many items in the house. I left some numbers with no numbers so the students could build a number with the wooden blocks and make it. So far they are loving this centre so I'm planning to put it out for a couple of days next week as well.</div>
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<b>14. HALLOWEEN LOOSE PARTS + CHATTER PIX</b></div>
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I wanted to start using the iPads more interactively (not just for playing games on) so we started with this loose parts + ChatterPix centre! </div>
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The students are invited to make a Halloween picture and then snap a picture with ChatterPix and record an explanation of their picture. I got the idea for this set-up from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B3dsrvXBl3S/" target="_blank">@joysofkinder</a> and added the ChatterPix component. One of the educators sat here most of the week to help them learn to use the app. They are slowly getting the hang of it! They were using great positional language like inside, outside, on etc. when describing their pictures. A great centre for oral language!</div>
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<b>15. BATTY ABOUT KINDERGARTEN!</b></div>
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Our school had a Halloween door decorating contest so we put this up last minute! First, I choose 3 doors off of google images that I thought were doable. Then the class voted on their favourite. We then used the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Directed-Drawings-for-October-2772047" target="_blank">bat directed drawing from First Grade Blue Sky</a> to draw the bats and I had one of my neat printers write the title.</div>
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I cut and mounted everything on black and brown construction paper. When everything was ready to be put up 3 of my kids wanted to help, so I brought them outside and let them help.</div>
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At first I was telling them exactly where to put each one... but that was taking WAY too long so eventually I just started putting tape on them and letting them put it wherever they wanted. The uneven spacing on some of them was killing me inside (lol) but for the most part they did a good job! I fixed a few of the bats that were overlapping/upside down at the end.. and what you see above is the result! The older kids usually win these contests.. but we'll see when the results come out!</div>
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<b>1. ALPHABET STAMPING</b></div>
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I wanted a recording sheet for the kids to practice using alphabet stamps with so I quickly made these up and they were a big hit with our class! I was asked by many people to share the recording sheet so you can it is now uploaded on TPT as part of my "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Anytime-Alphabet-Stamping-Sheets-4953754" target="_blank">Anytime Alphabet Stamping Sheets</a>" pack! <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Anytime-Alphabet-Stamping-Sheets-4953754" target="_blank">Click here</a> or on the image below if you are interested in grabbing them:</div>
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Some people also asked about the stamps and the stamp pad so here are the links for those:</div>
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Uppercase alphabet stamps: <a href="https://amzn.to/2O0a5O7">https://amzn.to/2O0a5O7</a></div>
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Washable jumbo stamp pad: <a href="https://amzn.to/2O0o8Db">https://amzn.to/2O0o8Db</a></div>
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<b>2. LINKING CHAIN NUMBERS</b></div>
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Here is a simple math centre I put out for the students to explore linking chains! This centre invites students to read the number and link that many chains under it. It is a great centre for developing number identification, one to one correspondence and fine motor!</div>
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If you would like to grab these (and a number 8-14 strip) you can <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-W8H4zK110KhiLG8fXj_rbJVBPlpH0E/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">click here</a> or click on the image below to download them for free!</div>
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<b>3. FIND ALL THE LETTERS!</b></div>
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I've made and posted a similar sensory bin to this before, but I updated the recording sheet so I thought I'd post again. Students are invited to pick up a letter, find it on the recording sheet and dab it with a bingo daubber. The repeat until they find all 26 letters! The kids loved this one!</div>
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The base is black beans and I added wooden letters (Dollarama), magnifying glasses, pencils, an eraser, some bingo daubbers and a recording sheet.</div>
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You can grab the recording sheet by <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/19wp7eW9EwFrYp8phwI6pjfpsXiuvkDnw/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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<b>4. CAN YOU MAKE A LETTER WITH PLAY DOUGH?</b></div>
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Here is a simple literacy based play dough provocation we set out this week! Our kids LOVE play dough this year so they loved this one too! </div>
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<b>4. MEET THE TEACHER SCAVENGER HUNT</b></div>
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We had our Meet the Teacher on September 19 (my birthday! lol). I always put this scavenger hunt out. I love it because it encourages the students to take the lead and show the parents around our classroom and it gives them something to do while they wait to talk to us! </div>
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A lot of you asked for an editable version so it's now ready in my TPT store! You can <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/EDITABLE-Meet-the-TeacherEducators-Scavenger-Hunt-4882241" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below to grab it if you are interested!</div>
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<b>5. THANKS A LATTE FOR YOUR DONATION!</b></div>
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We have a reading table, a writing table, a math table and a communication table (reminder to sign up for Remind and a link to the classroom blog) and a donation table set up for Meet the Teacher! This year we typed up what we wanted on these little coffee cups and put the out with this sign. We already got a box of Kleenex yesterday and many parents took a coffee cup to donate! We are thankful for our generous parents!</div>
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If you would like to grab an editable version of this, you can find it by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanks-a-latte-Donation-Table-Printables-for-Meet-the-Teacher-Night-4882231" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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<b>6. SCISSORS PRACTICE</b></div>
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My kiddos love using scissors this year but they do need more practice.. so I thought I'd set up this simple cutting provocation for them to explore cutting different lines! They loved this! Our scissors experts challenged themselves with the spiral lines and my beginners were encouraged to start with the red strips.</div>
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You can grab the template to make these for free by <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VP8volNnF5iM2czVPloE80JyQQ4mvSrM/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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<b>7. ELECTRICAL TAPE LETTERS</b></div>
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I saw this idea on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B1y0ZHXB736/" target="_blank">@jadorekinder's Instagram account</a> and knew I had to try it! All you need is black electrical tape (I found some at Dollarama) and loose parts. Create letters with the tape, put out some loose parts and have the students make the letters! The kids LOVED this centre!</div>
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<b>8. FAMILY BULLETIN BOARD</b></div>
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This is our first bulletin board for the year! We read "A Family Is a Family Is a Family" by Sara O'Leary and talked about how all families are unique and special. Then I asked them to tell me something about their family.</div>
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As the students shared their answers I typed them up. I also sent a letter home asking each family to send a family photo that we could use for the bulletin board. As the photos came in, we shared the family photos with the class and then we put their photo and what they shared about their families on the bulletin board.</div>
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The students loved seeing pictures of each other's families!</div>
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<b>9. WALTER'S WONDERFUL WEB</b></div>
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We have bene learning about 2D shapes. We read the book "Walter's Wonderful Web" by Tim Hopgood and then we made our own wonderful shape webs!</div>
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I drew the middle shape for them in white crayon and drew their web. Then the students filled in their webs with shapes! We have shape word cards on the math tools board and the students did a great job using those to pick and draw their shapes!</div>
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We finally finished up our visual schedules! I take new pictures each year so the kids can see themselves and their classrooms in the pictures. We change it everyday during our morning meeting to reflect that day's schedule.</div>
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My kiddos need more practice with scissors skills so I put out this simple centre and they LOVED it! Not shown in this picture, but there are actually 12 shapes to choose from and this group especially LOVED the hearts! Some kids chose to make hearts for their friends and it was so cute!</div>
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I've shared these in the past before too, but if you would like to grab these shape cutting printables for FREE you can <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3tzzl4RFqOcYTNuWnZnNGtyN1k/view" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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<b>12. APPLE PIE COUNTING</b></div>
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My kiddos LOVED this apple pie counting centre! I made the pie crust from felt, bought some aluminum pie pans and set them out with some cinnamon sticks, red pom poms and white cotton balls.</div>
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The reciepe cards are by Playfully Primary. You can find them in her Fall Fine Motor pack by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fall-Fine-Motor-Pack-15-Hands-On-Activities-4875577" target="_blank">clicking here</a>.</div>
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This are the pages in our dry erase centre for this month. I love these because they are differentiated. It allows the kids who are working on letter formation to work on the large tracing letters and the kids who are starting to write sentences to trace and read the sentences! </div>
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You can grab these dry erase pages by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Print-It-2-Print-Read-Sentences-for-Emergent-Readers-2934441" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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Hope you had a great September!</div>
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- Yukari</div>
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We finally feel (some what) ready for Tuesday!</div>
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This year's classroom reveal is a lot less detailed. I'm coming back from mat leave for the first time, I have a new ECE partner and the classroom is new to both of us. So we've spent time lots of time moving things in, getting to know each other and the classroom and working with less time than I usually have. Old me would have gone in tomorrow just to take more picture so this blog post felt complete (and do more work too, because it's never done). But instead I'm keeping my son home from daycare and we're spending the day together! Plus this year the school isn't open on Friday (but I planned to not go in on Friday this year before I knew that).</div>
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This is our cubby area. The door to the Kindergarten pen is on the right and there are more cubbies on the other side.</div>
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I put my library books bin, mail bag bin (not shown here) and my read aloud bins on top of the cubbies. In the top cubbies I put my levelled readers. In the third row I have storage (the last 5 bins are outdoor toys). Then we have the hooks. Under that we have their bins labelled with their names. They put their extra clothes in here. Under that is where they put their shoes.</div>
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Here is a close up of the cubbies:</div>
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I got the bins at Dollarama a few years ago (I didn't see them here this year) and the chalk clips are from Amazon. You can find them by <a href="https://amzn.to/2L8tHxQ" target="_blank">clicking here</a>.</div>
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And a close up of the top of the cubbies.</div>
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I added these simple labels that I used for my read alouds in my label pack. <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Black-White-Editable-Classroom-Labels-3370028" target="_blank">You can find them here</a>.</div>
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The bins are ice bins from <a href="https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/sterilite-white-ice-cube-bin/6000187350131" target="_blank">Walmart</a>.</div>
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The levelled reader labels are actually chalk clips with wooden letters hot glued on. I bought the chalk labels on <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZC1NxU" target="_blank">Amazon (click here)</a> and the wooden letters at Dollarama.</div>
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The clear storage bins at the bottom are from Dollarama too.</div>
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The bathroom is beside the cabinet and then there is this wall which I'm going to use to display our writing! We will be doing a self-portrait and name writing during the first week and we will be posting it here.</div>
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I will get the kids to help me make the title and we will put up the learning goal once we do a lesson on writing and talk about it!</div>
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I had lots of questions about how I keep these up. I just used regular masking tape on the four corners of each sheet protector!</div>
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The drying rack, water fountain, recycling bins and sand table is underneath.</div>
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Here is our sand table for the first week. Nice and simple, just some sand, containers, shovels and funnels!</div>
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To the left of the drying rack is the door to the hallway and then beside the door is our other sensory bin. This week we filled it with pom poms, muffin trays, dice, tweezers and cookie cutter shapes. We are hoping this invites them to count, sort, strenghten their fine motor skills, explore capacity/area, name shapes etc!</div>
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Beside the sensory table is a low counter area so we put out a painting invitation here. The church group uses our room on Sundays so I didn't fill it with water or open the paint yet. I'll do that on Tuesday morning. To the left of this centre is the sink where kids can wash their hands.</div>
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Then we set up this small world centre. Students are invited to build a story, talk about it and draw/write about it if they want!</div>
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Next to the small world play centre I set up this invitation to create with LEGO.</div>
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I was asked on Instagram where the tray was from a lot. It is a Melissa and Doug tray that my son's cars came in.</div>
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Near the carpet I put our bookshelf and this will be the reading centre. I usually put 2 chairs here but with 27 kids (and counting!) we don't have enough extra chairs.. so we're going to just have them sit on the floor or carpet for now!</div>
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This is our dramatic play area. We set it up super simple for the first week to see how the students interact with the area.</div>
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We used the manipulative shelf to divide the carpet and the dramatic play area.</div>
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The white boxes on top are from IKEA and we use them as book boxes for independent reading/home reading.</div>
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Most of the labels for the manipulative are in my label pack. You can find them by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Black-White-Editable-Classroom-Labels-3370028" target="_blank">clicking here</a>. There is also an editable file so you can add your own pictures!</div>
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Right beside the manipulative shelf we have our word wall under the whiteboard. I love having it low and on velcro so it's accessible for the kids and they can come and take the word they need and bring it to where they are writing! It is empty right now because we will add words as we learn them.</div>
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You can find the word wall headers <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Real-Life-Photo-Word-Wall-Headers-Word-Wall-Cards-for-Over-300-Sight-Words-4688671" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Here are our table tops for the morning (literacy based centres).</div>
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<b>1. ALPHABET PLAY DOUGH</b></div>
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I put these alphabet play dough mats with letter cookie cutters, play dough and rolling pins.</div>
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You can find the play dough mats by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Make-It-ABC-Play-Dough-Loose-Parts-Mats-2732493" target="_blank">clicking here</a>.</div>
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We always keep this super simple the first week. We put out construction paper, glue, scissors, markers and stickers. They are invited to be creative and make whatever they want! Our focus is on using the materials gently and appropriately!</div>
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<b>3. WRITING CENTRE</b></div>
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On the other side I set up our writing centre. For the first week I just set out a linking chart, blank paper, pencils and erasers. Again the focus is on independence and using materials appropriately! They can draw, label and/or write whatever they want!</div>
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Just-the-Alphabet-Linking-Charts-From-Step-by-Step-Kindergarten-Writing-Plans-4751108" target="_blank">You can find the linking chart here.</a></div>
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<b>4. LITERACY BASED DRY ERASE CENTRE</b></div>
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For the first week I just put out 2 white boards and some uppercase and lowercase printing books with dry erase markers and erasers.</div>
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You can find the dry erase books by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Print-It-Simple-Wipe-Write-Printing-Books-2734583" target="_blank">clicking here</a>.</div>
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You can find the uppercase Magnatab here: <a href="https://amzn.to/2MJpyCg">https://amzn.to/2MJpyCg</a></div>
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and the lowercase Magnatab here: <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZB8DUk">https://amzn.to/2ZB8DUk</a></div>
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I forgot to take a picture of the alphabet puzzles and the alphabet construction but I picked simple alphabet puzzles (similar to the number ones below) for the first week!</div>
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I forgot to take a picture of this table but you can find Alphabet Construction on Amazon <a href="https://amzn.to/2Hz94IZ" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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On the carpet we are going to put out trains on one side and foam blocks on the other side.</div>
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And here are our afternoon (math based) table tops!</div>
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We put out these simple math puzzles for the first day. I got the puzzle on the left from Dollarama a few years ago and the puzzle on the right from Walmart (also a few years ago).</div>
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You can find the Magnatabs on Amazon <a href="https://amzn.to/2PnLF3h" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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I couldn't find my number printing books I usually set out for the first week so I quickly made up these last night.</div>
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You can grab these for free by <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1263GnSuu2n-k45MnwZSUKZueimnDYxY_/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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You can find these number matching strips <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Centres-Number-Match-It-2707975" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Again a super simple play dough set up for this week! </div>
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You can find these play dough cards for free by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Simple-Number-Play-Dough-Mats-3343829" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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The kids always love these too so I put number construction out.</div>
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You can find this number construction set here: <a href="https://amzn.to/349e00K">https://amzn.to/349e00K</a></div>
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Here the students are invited to make a number using these materials. If they make a pattern or a shape, that's ok too! Again I just want them to use the materials calmly and appropriately.</div>
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That's it! I didn't even get a picture of the whole class (I forgot) but I hope you enjoyed seeing some of our set up for the first day!</div>
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I've decided to try something different this year with the blog. I will make one blog post for the month and then add to it until the next month comes around. So anything new I post on Instagram for August will be added to this post until September rolls around and I'll make a new post for September if it works out well!</div>
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<b>1. CUBBY AREA ORGANIZATION:</b></div>
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This is how I label my cubbies every year. I like labeling the bins because then I just need to move their bins if I want to move their spot! The kids put their indoor shoes/outdoor shoes in the slot under their bins and put their extra clothes in the bin.</div>
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I usually buy the chalk clips at Dollarama but I didn't see them this year.. so I ordered these off Amazon.</div>
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You can find the chalk clips here: <a href="https://amzn.to/31XOBVW" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/31XOBVW</a></div>
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I use chalk marker on them. </div>
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You can find the chalk marker I use here: <a href="https://amzn.to/2NrJskM" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2NrJskM</a></div>
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<b>2. ALL ABOUT YOUR EDUCATORS!</b></div>
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Every year we send these "All About Your Educators!" letters to the families to introduce ourselves. I've had great feedback from parents the first year we did this, saying that knowing a bit about us helps them feel more comfortable with us so I've been doing it ever since!</div>
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I shared a sneak peek in my Instagram stories when I was making it and a lot of you asked if I would share the template so you can download the template by <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16V-TcsKcQG8S-rcRrj-d7gMp79AX9Zpq/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">clicking here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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3. BIRTHDAY CROWNS</div>
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I've always given out birthday crowns and pencils for the student's birthdays but I gave them a little face lift this year!</div>
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I love doing these because they are easy and cheap!</div>
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During the first carpet time of the day, I call the birthday boy/girl to come and sit on chair. I grab a crown (I prep them unstapled but the bands tapped on to the crown), write their name and measure their head and staple it to fit their head. Then they get to pick a pencil from the jar.</div>
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Then we sing happy birthday to them as a class and during centre time I give the birthday girl/boy my sticker bin and they get to choose the number of stickers that match their age and put it in the box on the band. You can see how it looks when it's finished below.</div>
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If you want to grab the templates for these crowns and pencil toppers, you can do so by <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Interactive-Birthday-Crown-Pencil-Topper-2231414" target="_blank">clicking here</a>!</div>
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Yukarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04849000290547332559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1352539880410883104.post-8382623711739751682019-07-16T15:01:00.003-04:002021-07-23T19:48:15.725-04:00A Peek Inside My Mail Bags<div style="text-align: center;">
Hi everyone! First of all I can't believe this is my first blog post in over a year! My mat leave flew by, but I'm looking forward to being back at work in August!</div>
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Speaking of being back at work, I recently posted to my Instagram stories about how I was starting to prepare my mail bags for this year.. and you guys had all the questions! So I'm going to answer most of them here and I have some free downloads for you as well!</div>
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We use these mail bags to send any important papers home (classroom notices, papers from the office etc.) We have our communication folders in there year round (more on that in a bit) and eventually our poetry books (which has our weekly shared reading poems) go in there every Friday as well. So it needs to be big enough to hold a file folder and a duotang.</div>
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In the past I used the Dollarama courier bags but this year I found the quality to be so bad.. most of the ones I saw in the store looked like they were already falling apart! But then I popped in to my local independent dollar store and found these clear poly zip folders that seemed much sturdier so I snatched them up! Dollarama has similar ones but again the quality seemed way worse.. so I'm hoping these hold up! I paid $1.75 each for them.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>UPDATE:</b> So I had originally grabbed 10 of these and then the owner of the dollar store said he could order me 20 more... well they didn't end up coming in in time for the September so I ended up going back to the Dollarama courier bags. The second time I looked they actually looked to be better quality again and they ended up holding up the entire year like usual! If you are looking for a cheaper alternative I know lots of teachers also use XL freezer bags instead too!</div>
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If you want my EDITABLE mail bag label shown above (it also comes in black & white and in a photo version) you can <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/EDITABLE-Mail-Bag-Labels-2-4696838" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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In the photo above you see the mail bag placed on top of a box. That's what we keep our mail bags in. Each student gets a hanging file and after I check for notes every morning their mail bags go in there. This makes it easy to store notices for students who are away!</div>
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I use <a href="https://www.staples.ca/products/734458-en-staples-plastic-file-tote-clear-34l" target="_blank">this</a> file box from Staples and <a href="https://www.staples.ca/products/20677-en-staples-coloured-hanging-file-folder-legal-size-8-12-x-14-black" target="_blank">these</a> hanging files (also from Staples). And I use <a href="https://www.staples.ca/products/357446-en-post-it-durable-filing-tabs-2-white-24pack" target="_blank">these tabs</a> and write their names so I can easily find their spot. I write them in attendance order, JK's then SK's. I also make a file for extra copies.</div>
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On the cover, we include our school name, school address, teachers name(s), classroom number, school phone number and what time to call by to report absences (this is ideally) and school hours.</div>
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I used fake information (except our names, those are real) just for confidentiality sake.. so no, I don't work at John Lennon Public School and don't call that number! 😝</div>
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On the left side in the inside we staple the classroom calendar/newsletter.</div>
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The back has that month's newsletter. I took a picture but afterwards a couple of you guys pointed out my typos and I didn't want to retake all the pictures.. so I removed that one but you can see what my newsletters look like in the picture below:</div>
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If you want my editable calendar & newsletter templates you can <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Editable-Calendars-Newsletters-September-2019-June-2020-4092098" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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And on the right side we staple the communication log.</div>
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On the back we include our important dates (holidays, PA days and information about our class schedule).</div>
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We glue the paper for the front and back on the file folder and laminate. Then we cut them out and staple on the calendar/newsletter and the communication log. When it's time to add a new calendar/newsletter or communication log, we just staple it on top! I always leave extra copies of the communication log in one of the hanging files in my mail bag box.</div>
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You can download an editable communication folder PowerPoint file for free!</div>
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If you want the file to format correctly and/or you want to use the same fonts as me, you will need to download <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/KG-Primary-Penmanship-Lined-Font-Personal-Use-549115" target="_blank">KG Primary Penmanship</a> (free for personal use), install them on your computer and then restart your computer before opening the file:</div>
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I hope that was helpful! I hope you are having an awesome summer!</div>
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Yukarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04849000290547332559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1352539880410883104.post-45055005078093041822018-06-13T12:21:00.003-04:002018-06-14T09:16:20.025-04:00Inquiry: Dinosaurs<div style="text-align: center;">
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Today I want to share with you our dinosaur inquiry from the past few months!</div>
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We originally had some dinosaur wonders on our February wonder chart, so we went back to those questions and I also invited students share more questions they had about dinosaurs.</div>
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Why did the dinosaurs go extinct?</div>
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How did dinosaurs go extinct?</div>
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Is it true that the dinosaurs died because it go too cold?</div>
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Back then, were the dinosaurs real or was it just a story?</div>
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What do dinosaurs eat?</div>
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Where did dinosaurs live?</div>
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Did dinosaurs live in caves?</div>
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Why do dinosaurs have tails?</div>
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Why did dinosaurs run?</div>
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What did dinosaurs sound like?</div>
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Why did dinosaurs make loud noises?</div>
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They weren't brainstormed in that order, but I grouped them like that so we could look at questions that were similar consecutively.</div>
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For our lessons, we first started by reading the book "<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/What-are-dinosaurs-Bobbie-Kalman/dp/077879539X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1528896913&sr=8-1" target="_blank">What are dinosaurs?</a>" by Bobbie Kalman. </div>
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In this book we learned that dinosaurs were real but lived long ago and that no dinosaurs are alive today. After we learned this information, I had the girl who originally asked the question "Back then, were the dinosaurs real or was it just a story?" come to the teacher table during centre time and record the sentence "Dinosaurs were real but they lived long ago. There are no dinosaurs alive today."</div>
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It's hard to see but it's the writing at the bottom left corner on the bulletin board!</div>
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Here are two centres I put out early on in our dinosaur inquiry. First, I bought this egg at Dollarama and posed the question "What do you think will hatch out of the egg?" and had students observe and write their predictions. They loved looking for changes, especially after seeing a few cracks develop!</div>
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After it hatched (it was a triceratops inside) we talked about how all dinosaurs hatch from eggs.</div>
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Another centre we set out early on was this dinosaur provocation. This centre lets the students freely explore different dinosaur items and also record their observations and questions about dinosaurs.</div>
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I bought the dinosaurs from Michaels. You can get the tracing/matching cards you see in the picture for FREE by <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c-rKb5B3je-0D-R46XMofvzAlHMzVWyC/view" target="_blank">clicking here</a> on the image below:</div>
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The next day, we continued to read the book "<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/What-are-dinosaurs-Bobbie-Kalman/dp/077879539X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1528896913&sr=8-1" target="_blank">What are dinosaurs?</a>" by Bobbie Kalman learned that dinosaurs eat plants and meat. We learned the words carnivore and herbivore.</div>
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After the lesson we prepped for our next lesson by making the titles "What do dinosaurs eat?", "plants" and "meat". Then I made 2 eggs and printed the herbivore and carnivore signs. I also printed the herbivore and carnivores that were in "What are dinosaurs?" and "<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/First-Facts-Dinosaurs-DK-Publishing/dp/0756693101/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1528897868&sr=1-4&keywords=first+facts+dinosaurs" target="_blank">First Facts: Dinosaurs</a>" by DK Publishing (that I planned to read the next day).</div>
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The next day, we put the chart pieces up on the whiteboard and read the pages about what dinosaurs eat in "<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/First-Facts-Dinosaurs-DK-Publishing/dp/0756693101/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1528897868&sr=1-4&keywords=first+facts+dinosaurs" target="_blank">First Facts: Dinosaurs</a>" by DK Publishing. As we read the book, we sorted the dinosaur cards on to the correct egg. We also went back to the "What are dinosaurs?" book and re-read the pages that had information on herbivores and carnivores ands sorted the corresponding dinosaurs on those pages as well on to the egg.</div>
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Here is the finished chart:</div>
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(this activity and the map activity below was inspired by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/playexplorelearn/" target="_blank">@playexplorelearn</a> on Instagram!)</div>
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The next morning, I set out this invitation to sort dinosaurs based on what they eat. I left out the two books we read to make our chart the previous day as a resource and our completed chart was also on the bulletin board for them to reference!</div>
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Next, we looked at the question "Why and how did dinosaurs go extinct?" First, we watched the video "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5rYtjqI6Hs" target="_blank">Where did the dinosaurs go?</a>" by Pink Fong on YouTube.</div>
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We watched the video twice and then the students recalled the steps to me about how the dinosaurs went extinct. I wrote each step on a different whiteboard. </div>
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Then at centre time, students volunteered to record the steps and draw a corresponding picture (if they wanted to) so that we could display the steps on our bulletin board.</div>
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Next we explored the question "Where did dinosaurs live?" We read pages from "Dino Encyclopedia" (I can't remember the author, sorry!) and "<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/You-Can-Paleontologist-Discovering-Dinosaurs/dp/1426327285/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1528898502&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=you+can+be+a+palentologist" target="_blank">You Can Be a Palentologist!</a>" by Scott D. Sampson to learn that dinosaurs only lived on land (those other creatures that flew or lived in the water were flying reptiles or ocean reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs! Who knew!) but they lived on every continent.</div>
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I drew up a big map on poster paper and told them that we will be painting it together and then adding dinosaur stickers to show our new learning.</div>
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First, students were invited to show their new learning about the world map by painting one. If they were able to paint the map correctly (green for land, blue for ocean) then they were invited to come and paint on the large collaborative map. We projected a large world map on the projector so that students could use that as a reference when painting.</div>
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Here is some of my girls adding to our collaborative map!</div>
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After we painted the map, we also made labels for the continents, the title and the writing piece to show our new learning. </div>
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The next day, we glued the continent labels as a class and also added the dinosaur stickers whole group.</div>
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And here is the completed map and corresponding title/writing:</div>
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I got the stickers we used for the collaborative map at Michaels. </div>
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The next day, I also let the students add mini dinosaur stickers to their original maps! I bought the mini stickers at Walmart.</div>
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I started with a limit of 10 but I realized not everyone made a map so increased the limit to 15.</div>
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These tiny stickers are great for fine motor development!</div>
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Here is a sample of a finished map!</div>
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I had some requests to share the printable for this activity so you can <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r_gKaQ-_82tT7-1EM7HsHjmmdWsg3vtc/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below to download it for free!</div>
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Next we investigated the question "What did dinosaurs sounds like?" We watched these two videos:</div>
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Then the girl who originally asked the question came to the teacher table at centre time and wrote her new learning to display on our bulletin board. It's hard to see but it's the top right writing piece in the picture below:</div>
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Another centre I put out was this story making centre! Students were invited to make a dinosaur story with play dough and loose parts and use ChatterPix to record it. They LOVED this activity!</div>
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On the last day, I wrote some of the remaining questions on chart paper (Did dinosaurs live in caves? Why do dinosaurs have tails? Why do dinosaurs run?) and we used google and our own inferencing to come up with the answers. I don't have a picture of this... sorry!</div>
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To consolidate our learning, we also made these non-fiction dinosaur books!</div>
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First we made our cover page and talked about titles, authors and illustrators.</div>
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Then we learned about table of contents and how it helps us find information in a non-fiction book.</div>
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We wrote our learning on each page, added a title and went back and added each new topic to our table of contents.</div>
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It took about a week to complete but it was worth the time! Next time I think I'll start with less pages in the book though, especially for our first book!</div>
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Here are some other books in case you are interested in looking!</div>
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They used our bulletin boards as a reference when thinking of facts to include in their books which made our bulletin board more interactive than usual which I loved!</div>
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If you are looking for these non-fiction book making printables, you can find them in my "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Inquiry-Writing-Templates-for-Kindergarten-3512001" target="_blank">Inquiry Writing Templates for Kindergarten</a>" pack on TPT. You can <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Inquiry-Writing-Templates-for-Kindergarten-3512001" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below to see what else is included!</div>
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We had some amazing questions come up during our dinosaur inquiry (see below). We recorded them but the kids were losing steam with this inquiry and our caterpillars arrived so we switched gears without exploring these questions. I just wanted to share that because it's ok to not explore every question! Don't beat yourself up if you can't find the time! We can only do what we have time for :)</div>
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That's it for our dinosaur inquiry! I hope this post gave you some ideas if your students have similar wonderings or are interested in dinosaurs too!</div>
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Hi friends! I'll be writing other blog posts still but this will be my last weekly round-up for a while.. since Friday was my last day of work! I'm officially on maternity leave!</div>
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Here is what we were up to my last week of work!</div>
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<b>1. COUNTING WATERMELON SEEDS</b></div>
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We are working on 1:1 correspondence and identifying numbers (most friends are working in the teens) so I made these counting mats! I put them out with play dough and magnet dots so that kids can choose the manipulative they wanted to count with.</div>
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I included the numbers 1-20 and a recording sheet for the kids to keep track of the numbers they made. They especially loved using the magnets to practice counting!</div>
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You can find these counting mats in my "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Summer-Activities-Literacy-Math-3823551" target="_blank">Kindergarten Summer Activities</a>" pack. You can <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Summer-Activities-Literacy-Math-3823551" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below if you are interested in grabbing this activity!</div>
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I introduced this surveys in the spring and the kids LOVED them. A lot of you guys said your kids liked them too and asked to have them included in the summer pack, so I happily obliged! The kids loved these as well and it's a great authentic way to practice asking questions, recording data using tally marks and comparing numbers.</div>
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Again, you can find these survey sheets in my "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Summer-Activities-Literacy-Math-3823551" target="_blank">Kindergarten Summer Activities</a>" pack!</div>
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This is what I set up for the dry erase centre this week! I put the summer words chart on an easel, put some whiteboards and dry erase markers out and invited the students to draw and label a picture or write a sentence with a summer word. My kids love whiteboards and this was a popular centre this week! I love that it is open-ended and has multiple entry points for the kids.</div>
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Again, you can find this summer words chart in my "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Summer-Activities-Literacy-Math-3823551" target="_blank">Kindergarten Summer Activities</a>" pack if you are interested!</div>
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<b>4. WATCH ME GROW WRITING PORTFOLIOS</b></div>
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For the last few years I've made these "Watch me grow!" writing portfolios to give out at the end of year learning celebration (where the parents come in and we do a short presentation on our learning from the year). Since I'm on mat leave, I put these together this week so they are ready to be handed out by the LTO teacher covering me at the year end celebration.</div>
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I absolutely love looking through these and seeing the progress the kids have made over the year. I hope the parents love looking through them too!</div>
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On June 1st, I take their picture and make their covers. I add a picture from September (I use the headshots I took on the first day of school for their name cards) and the picture I took on June 1st for the cover. Then I print them in colour (at home) and have the kids write their name on the line. I outline it with Sharpie to make it pop!</div>
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This girl has shown HUGE growth this year. This is how she wrote her name and draw herself at the beginning of the year. She was not yet writing any letters independently.</div>
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Look at her now! I know you can't see it because I had to blur her name out, but she is now able to write both her first and last name without her name card and look at how neat her drawing is!</div>
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Again this is her first guided writing piece. We were working hard on letter formation at the beginning of the year.</div>
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And look at her in May! She is now able to use the anchor chart to write some words independently, write some sight words using the word wall and sound out some beginning sounds on her own!</div>
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Along with the frame I shared <a href="http://www.apinchofkinder.com/2018/06/weekly-round-up-june-3.html" target="_blank">last week</a>, I gave my kids a book (I got all the books using Scholastic bonus bucks) and an activity book to go with it. Since they had it in the June flyer and it's one of my favourite books I choose "The Pout-Pout Fish" for this year's gift!</div>
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Here are the pages I made to go with the book. I wanted to focus on the different skills we have been working on in class (identifying characters, setting, text-to-self connection, opinion writing, inferencing etc!)</div>
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A lot of you asked if I would put this activity book on TPT so I got it up this morning! If you are interested in grabbing it, you can <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Pout-Pout-Fish-Activity-Book-3853719" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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I also always make these "Who Am I?" memory books! I've been doing it since my first year. It's a great way for me to remember all of my students from previous years and when I've had kids for 2 years, parents have told me the kids love reading it over the summer!</div>
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I binded my copy this year but for the kids I just ran it through the copier and had the copier staple it!</div>
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And here is my page from this year :)</div>
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If you want to make a memory book for your class too, you can grab the FREE templates to make this book from my TPT store! You can <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Memory-Book-A-Keepsake-for-the-End-of-the-Year-3234906" target="_blank">click here</a> or on the image below:</div>
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I'll be back soon with a blog about making those QR codes and one about our dinosaur inquiry!</div>
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