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1-2-3 Come Tell Time With Me!

The mustache mania continues here at TeachWithMe.com

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This packet includes recording sheets, a mustache clock spinner + a telling time matching worksheet, which you can use as an assessment for time to the hour.

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"A good teacher has been defined as one who makes themselves progressively unnecessary." -Thomas J. Carruthers

1-2-3 Come Have Fun Becoming a Pirate and Writing With Me!

Since pirates continue to be an extremely popular theme, I've been working on a variety of activities this week.

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If your spring break has come and gone, you can make this booklet in May or June and have students write about what they are going to be doing over the summer. 

This class book is entitled: Arrrr You Ready For Summer Vacation?

I've included insert pages for both.  There's a girl pirate page, as well as one for the boys.

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When they are done, they illustrate their page.

Make the book even more of a keepsake by having students glue their school picture over the face of the pirate and then color it.

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Make sure you do a sample for yourself as well.

When you read the book to your class, have each student come up and read their own page.

Making a monthly class book is a wonderful way to show student progress and are great items to set out for Parent-Teacher conferences.

Click on the link to view/print the Arrrrr You Ready spring and summer writing prompt packet.

Thanks for visiting today.  Be sure and check back in a week to see what other pirate things I've designed, and if you're into "mustache mania" you'll love the mustache activities I'll be posting tomorrow!

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"Don't ignore the small things.  The kite flies because of its tail." -Hawaiian Proberb

1-2-3- Have Fun Writing About Goals With Me

Pot of Goals is a fun "craftivity" March writing prompt, that reinforces Common Core State Standards: L.K.2a, L.K.2b, RF.K.3d,  RF.K.1c, RF.1.1a, L.1.2b

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Students complete the "goal" coin sentences and add their reasons why.

Remind students to use appropriate capitalization, end punctuation and spacing, when they write their goals on the coins.

Lay out a selection of large construction paper, in the colors of the rainbow.  Only have enough paper so that all of it will be chosen, and you'll have a sampling of every color.

Students cut out their pot and coins, and glue them to the construction paper.

Hang the completed pots, in rainbow color order, on a large wall.  Your title can be: A Rainbow Of Wonderful Writing.

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Click on the link to view/download the March writing prompt: St. Patrick's Day Pot of Goals.

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"Learning is not a spectator sport, so let's play!" -Unknown

1-2-3 Come Tell Time With Me!

If you need a clock, telling time templates to make games and activities, or assessment worksheets for assessing analog and digital time, this is the packet for you.

Choose from a variety of digital and analog clocks to help you teach the Common Core State Standard:1.MD.3

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I've designed both large teacher clocks for demonstration purposes, as well as matching mini clocks for students to make and manipulate.

Run off and glue the clock templates to construction paper or a paper plate for durability.  Add paperclips or tag board hands for students to manipulate.

I've also included fraction clocks to show 5 after, quarter after, and half past, so that you can review this vocabulary and another Common Core Math Standard as well.

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Calling out a time and having students move the hands to make that time, and then holding up their clock, is a quick, easy and fun way to whole group assess.

There are a variety of blank as well as filled-in clocks so students have an opportunity to learn as they make their clock

I truly believe that "doing" leads to understanding.  Why give a child a pre-made plastic clock, when you can build their self-esteem, by having them make their own.

Writing in numbers on their clocks, will help reinforce time concepts as well.

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You can make these into games, by orally giving students a time for them to record on their answer sheet.

You can also hold up your clock and have students shoot up their hand to tell you what time it is, or use the assessments as an "I Spy!" the time activity.

Click on the link to view/download the clock templates.

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"The whole purpose of education is to turn my errors into windows." -Sidney J. Harris

1-2-3's, ABC's, and Shapes Via The Mail

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I love making up special alphabet, number and shape cards for each month.

I think it helps students stay interested and focussed if they come in the first of every month and see a seasonal change that brightens up your room and adds variety to the "same-old- same-old"...

My Y5's loved going to the post office to mail their Valentines.  It was a fun way for me to cover that information, and just a few blocks walk from our school.

With that in mind, I wanted to dream up some cards involving envelopes.  I thought letters of the alphabet and letters in an envelope was a cute idea, thus Letter Letters, Number Letters and Shape Letters were born.

Number Letters covers the Common Core State Standards: RF.K.3c, K.CC.4a, K.CC.4b, K.CC.4c, K.OA.5,K.CC.6 and is a fun way to review counting, number words, simple addition and subtraction as well as greater and less than.

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I've also included 2-pages of tips of what to do with the cards, including games.

Click on the link to view/downloard Number Letters.

Letter Letters  can be used as a border or laminate, cut them up into puzzles and use them to play games.

This packet includes a blank sheet for you to program with whatever...+ a cover so students can make an Itty Bitty Booklet, as well as 3-pages of tips of what to do with the cards.

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The packet helps reinforce colors and color words as well. Remind students that these are two-dimensional shapes and lie in a plane or "flat."

Put them on the wall as a border, or run off a set for your students and have them write the shape word and then trace and color the shape.

You can also laminate them, cut them up and make them into puzzles. Students match the word to its shape.

Pass them out to students and give spatial directions: "Put your shape over, under, between, behind, beside, left-right, etc."

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge.  Knowledge is limited.  Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein

Googlie-eyed Googol Monsters
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I thought it would make a fun, quick and easy 100-Day activity if students designed their own crazy looking Googol Monster, wrote the googol number on their body somewhere and then added googlie (wiggle) eyes.

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It’s chock full of wonderful activities for that "something different" for your 100-Day celebration, or simply helping your students learn to count to 100 and 120.

The packet includes:

  • Traceable count to 100 by 1's, 5's and 10's worksheets.
  • Traceable 100 grid.
  • Traceable 120 grid.
  • Blank 100 grid so students can fill in the numbers.
  • 100-Day bookmarks
  • Writing prompt worksheet. (Circle the capital letters and fill in the end punctuation.)
  • 2 Black & White Googol Monster sliders.
  • Counting slider strips from 1-100 and 1-120
  • Skip counting slider strips by 5's and 10's to 100.
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  • 4 "What's Missing?" number worksheets.
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  • 2 blank monster cards to program with whatever you want.
  • A Happy 100-Day card.
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  • Googol Monster "googlie-eyed" craftivity, includes
  • 12 example posters.
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  • Behavior poster +
  • A certificate of praise.

Click on the link to view/download the Googol Monsters activity packet.

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“The secret for success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” –Benjamin Disraeli

Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars, Look How Far That You Have Come!

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Surprisingly, the longer I taught, the less little ones I found who knew nursery rhymes by heart!

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I used to have an entire unit on nursery rhymes, but the school year zipped by so fast, that there was never enough time in May to get to everything I wanted to.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star can be plugged in anywhere during the year, as most teachers have a Star Student board, and as teachers, we are endeavoring to help those little ones, twinkle and shine their brightest.

This 12-page packet is a fun way to reinforce a variety of Common Core State Standards: L.K.2a, L.1.2b, RF.1.1a, RF.K3c, RF.K.2a, RF.K.1a, RF.K.1c, K.G.1

 

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  • The Twinkle Twinkle easy reader booklet. Students read the rhyme, trace and write the noun, color the star and color word the appropriate color.  The last page provides several writing prompts.
  • Skill sheet on similes
  • Skill sheet on spatial directions
  • Color word matching skill sheet
  • 3 rhyming skill sheets (sky and star)
  • Word cards to cut and put together to make the poem (Punctuation and capital letter 1st words included.) +
  • A certificate of praise.

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So that you are also covering more standards, point out spaces, capital letters, end punctuation etc.

Any of these items, make nice activities for your Daily 5 or word work.

Click on the link to view/download the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star activity packet.

Do you have a nursery rhyme idea you could share with us?  I’d enjoy hearing from you: diane@teachwithme.com or post a comment here.

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“May all of your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!” –Joey Adams

 

 

What Key Will Unlock The Secret Shaped Lock? What Will You Find When You Do?

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When I owned an old Victorian house and renovated it to be the Hastings House gift shop, one of my best sellers in the “Kids’ Collection” were little metal locks.

I always let my own children “shop” the catalogs with me, to see what they’d want.

They were a great gage as to what other children would want too.

I never would have ordered the locks, because I had no idea what a child would do with them.

They came with a set of 2 little keys.  Well, a zillion other kids liked those pretty-colored locks too; I used to order them by the gross every few months.

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It’s a fun way to review the various 2D shapes, including the pentagon, hexagon and octagon, as well as the Common Core State Standards: RF.K.3a, RF.K.1c, RF.K.3d, RF.K.3c, L.K.2a, L.K.2b, L.1.2b, RF.1.1a, K.G.2

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They trace and write the shape word, circle the capital letters and add the end punctuation, as well as cut and glue the key, to the matching numbered box in their booklet.

The last page offers some additional writing practice.

When everyone has completed their booklet, read it aloud as a whole group, to reinforce concepts of print, as well as reminding them that there are spaces between words, they read from left to right and from the top down.

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Do you have a shape lesson you could share with us?  I’d enjoy hearing from you: diane@teachwithme.com or post a comment here.

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“Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.” – Will Rogers

98, 99, Hooray! It's 100-Day!

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How about a poster?  Simply run them off and have students fill in their answers. Add a photograph for pizzazz and mount on construction paper. 

What an awesome 100-Day bulletin board these will make. Click on the link to view/download the 100-Day Writing Prompt Poster.

After I had designed the poster, my thoughts some how drifted to making a 100-Day quilt.  I decided to expand the above writing prompts and dreamed up this equally easy quilt-square template.

There are several different things you can do with this 100-Day quilt template. Run off the larger quilt square on a variety of colored construction paper.

Divide 100 by the number of students you have in your class to see how many quilt squares each person gets. 

If this is an odd number you can do the remaining ones, or ask the principal, secretary or another staff member, that the children know, to do 1 too. 

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Cut them apart, toss them in a container and have each child pick out X number of squares to complete.

In order to practice another Common Core State Standard, I purposely left off end punctuation.

 Remind students to add the end punctuation after they have filled in the blanks.

 It would be a good idea to review the period and exclamation point with them.

 When you show students your sample, be sure and explain that their answers can be funny, but that they should make sense.

For example, it’s obvious that you can’t fit 100 dinosaurs in a lunch box, but you wouldn’t even put 1 in a lunch box. They need to think of things that are appropriate, things that they normally would find in a room, locker, yard, etc. 

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 Students choose whatever colored squares they want to glue their writing prompt squares on.

 Assemble the quilt squares on the wall, bulletin board or pieces of tag board and display.

 Assembling the quilt squares is a nice way to practice a color pattern. Another thing you can do is have each student do the entire quilt-block template.

 It only took me 15 minutes to find all of the clip art and do the sample, so this is not a huge homework assignment.

 Parents can interview younger children, and fill in the blanks with their answers.

 You can have each child be responsible for their own background, to glue their answer quilt to, suggesting to parents in a note home, that they choose a large square sheet of fun-colored or patterned piece of scrapbook paper.

 To expedite things, you could also simply buy a nice variety of sheets and let your students choose one.  Along with their writing prompt quilt, give them each a !00 Day header strip for them to glue at the top of their quilt.

 Hole punch each side and string with yarn.  Add student photographs to make their quilts even more of a keepsake and add pizzazz to your display. 

Be sure and make a quilt yourself. So you have an example to share with your students.   If you don’t have the time, I’ve included my completed template for you to fill in and add a backing.  My final quilt is a little fancier.

I cut a 3rd size square template and chose 3 different patterns of scrapbook paper.   After you have glued all of the squares together, students glue them on a large sheet of colored construction paper of their choice. 

Top with the header caption and add a hanger.  You can also add photographs to these larger quilts too. Click on the link to view/download the 100-Day Quilt Poster Writing Prompt

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"Expecting a kid to learn only from a textbook, is like asking them to look at a travel brochure and calling it a vacation." -Unknown

1 Student + 1 Fun Activity = Learning!

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I also like to overlap math with language arts so that I can cover even more standards with one activity.

I try to design my booklets so that they have a consistent format.

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That way even when it’s a new month with a new theme, the format is the same.

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I think this is one of the reasons for the popularity of the 1-2-3 Count With Me series.

Click on the link to view all 25 booklets thus far.

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My Y5’s never got tired of doing them.

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I just completed January’s +1 Snowman Addition Booklet,

as well as the Plus 1 Valentine Addition Booklet  for February.

Click on the links to view/download them.

The booklets help review Common Core State Math Standards: K.CC.3, K.CC.4a, K.CC.4b, K.CC.4c, K.CC.5, K.OA.1, K.OA.5, K.G.1

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Students trace and write the numbers and number word and then follow the spatial directions of where to glue that many snowflakes or Valentine hearts. 

They also circle the number in its proper sequence.

All booklets in this series will include a graphing extension and certificate of praise.

Be sure and check back for a kite or shamrock one for March, a butterfly one for April, and one with a frog theme for May!

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