Items filtered by date: February 2012
It's Shamrock Time Game
Shamrock Bingo Dot Clock Game
Shamrock Clock
Spring Bookmarks
St. Patrick's Day Stuff
Counting Booklets Using A Ten Frame
123 Count With Me booklets are based on a ten frame. They are easy readers that cover a variety of math standards, at the same time incorporating reading and helping students practice fine motor skills, as they cut and glue the appropriate group/set to the matching numbered box.
Use these little booklets for Daily 5, a math center, independent activity when students have completed their regular work, easy plug in’s for substitutes, and great school-home connections.
For March I’ve designed 123 Count Shamrocks With Me, as well as 123 Count Kites With Me.
Make these booklets part of your monthly activities and empower your students. Once you have explained and modeled how to do the first booklet, your students get down to business, and can work independently on their booklets from then on.
This frees the teacher up to work 1-on-1 with other children.
Each booklet comes with more standard-based activities: a graphing extension, a +1 more skill sheet, traceable word and number cards and a certificate of praise.
Children enjoy using stickers, X’s, or a bingo dauber to fill in the appropriate boxes of the ten frame.
These also make great table top worksheets. Do one page a day and collect. When students have done all 10 pages staple their booklet together and read aloud as a whole group to reinforce concepts of print.
Your students will enjoy making, collecting and sharing all of the 123 Count With Me booklets with their families.
Click on the link to view/down load 123 Count Shamrocks With Me and 123 Count Kites With Me.
If you’d like to look at the rest of the 123 Count With Me collection, click on the link and scroll down.
There are some for each of the past months. I will be designing more for April and May when the collection will be complete.
If you don't see a counting booklet that fits your needs, or have a suggestion for a new one, feel free to contact me. diane@teachwithme.com I design new things every day especially based upon viewers requests.
Be sure and pop in tomorrow for more teaching tips.
Do you have one you'd like to share? I'd enjoy hearing from you! diane@teachwithme.com or feel free to leave a comment here, especially if you use an idea. Thanks in advance for your time.
123 Count Kites With Me
Kite Glyphs and Graphs
A Y5 report card standard is “Listens and Follows Directions.”
A teacher can certainly tell you in a heartbeat which students don’t listen and follow directions.
There are a zillion oral examples of that on a daily basis, but what if you have to prove it to a parent during conferences?
Showing them some incorrectly done worksheet examples doesn't always do the trick. Perhaps they are listening, but don’t understand the concept.
This was a huge reason why I decided to do a glyph each month.
I could whole-group assess in minutes, the children LOVED doing them, I had an instant seasonal bulletin board or decoration for the hall, students could analyze data and figure out which of their classmates did which glyphs AND I had lots of examples to show parents whether their child was indeed listening and following directions or not; plus I, as well as their classmates, learned more about the students each time we did one.
Here is a fun glyph for March. If you want students to analyze the data and figure out who did the glyph, simply fold the corner with their names on over.
Be sure and make your own personal sample. Students enjoy seeing their teacher's pictoral answers. For my age, I tell them to count the first 5 bows by 10's and then add the rest. The polka dot glyph is mine. The triangle glyph is a friend's child.
I’ve included 10 matching graphs so you can practice another standard and see how your students answered the questions as a whole group.
Click on the link to view/download Kite Glyphs and Graphs
Be sure and pop back tomorrow for more kite activities.
Aesop's Fables The Wind and the Sun
27 pages. Tell the Aesop's Fable of the Wind and the Sun with these story cards. A great addition to March is Reading Month. Also includes a graphing extension and "smile" with simile discussion activity.
Kite Glyph and Graphs
10 pages. Glyphs are a wonderful way to whole-group assess for listening and following direction skills. These make a nice bulletin board for March. Also includes 10 matching graphing extensions.
