The Silly Shaped Penguins Family Has GROWN!
Do you remember the Silly Shaped Penguins I packet I made a while back?
It features 2D shaped penguin craftivities + an easy reader with a surprise ending, where the last penguin is in the shape of a child’s shoe, thus making the booklet a special keepsake.
It has been THE most popular download in January and has been pinned a zillion times.
Many requests have come in for an additional page with penguin patterns for the newer shapes: pentagon, hexagon and octagon, that have since become standards for some teachers.
Well, you asked for them, you got them. Here is the Silly Shaped Penguins 2 packet.
It contains the patterns for the pentagon penguin as well as the hexagon and octagon penguins.
I’ve also included these as an additional page in the booklet.
If you don’t teach those shapes, simply don’t add that page, or you could “raise the bar” and challenge students to learn some new ones!
Click on the link to view/download Silly Shaped Penguins 2.
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“Write it on your heart, that every day is the best day in the year.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
- penguin activities,
- FREE Common Core Lessons for kingergarten and first grade,
- 2D shape activities,
- hexagon shape activities,
- pentagon shape activities,
- octagon shape activities,
- shape book, Silly Shaped Penguins,
- FREE Common Core Math lessons for kindergarten and first grade,
- foot penguin, shoe penguin, shape booklet,
How Much Are Those Mittens In The Window?
Do you do activities with mittens? Are you studying money with your little ones?
I just combined the 2 themes to make the easy reader booklet: Mitten Money.
It reviews the penny, nickel, dime and quarter coins as well as all of the 2-D shapes including the newer pentagon, hexagon and octagon, that many now have as new standards.
Students read the simple repetitive sentences, that include Word Wall and Dolch words. They trace and write the shape words, and amount of money, and then trace the shape and draw it on the mittens.
Students also find the appropriate coins for the amount listed and then cut and glue the matching numbered picture to the square. 
I’ve printed 2 pages on one, for easy printing.
Click on the link to view/download the Mitten Money Easy Reader.
If you enjoyed this booklet and would like one to use in February, click on Money For My Valentines.
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Do you have a coin activity you could share with us? I’d enjoy hearing from you: diane@teachwithme.com or post a comment here.
“This is the New Year, the new you. You can pass through another year coasting on cruise control, or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make [this] the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high! Make it happen!” -Pablo
1-2-3 Count To 100 and Past With Me!
Just in time to help you with some math activities for 100 Day, is this 40-page alligator-themed math packet.
The packet will help you reinforce Common Core State Math Standards: K.CC.1, K.CC.2, K.CC.3, K.CC.4a, K.CC.4b, K.CC.4c, K.CC.5, K.CC.6, K.OA.1, K.OA.4, K.OA.5,1.OA.1, 1.OA.4, 1.OA.5, 1.OA.7, 1.NBT.1,1.NBT.3
This is a wonderful packet to help students review and practice a variety of the above standards in a fun way.
The packet includes:
- Greater and less than activities including alligator jaw manipulatives
- Traceable 100 grid
- Traceable 120 grid
- Counting activities to 100 and 120
- Skip counting activities by 2's, 3's, 5's and 10's
- Medium alligator number cards from 1-120
- Small number cards from 1-120
- "I Spy" activities from 1-120.
- 2 blank number grids to program with whatever you want like upper and lowercase letters or equations.
- 2 kinds of alligator manipulatives for addition, subtraction, counting, sorting and patterning. (48 on a page.)
- Math sign cards ( + -- = ) so students can make equations and solve problems
- Skill sheets
- + 6 different certificates of praise.
Click on the link to view/download Alligator Answers Math Packet. For more 100 Day activities, scroll down to view 6 more articles featuring 100 Day ideas.
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""Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 100 Day activities, FREE common core lessons for kindergarten,
- FREE common core lessons for 1st grade, common core math lessons for kindergarten,
- common core math lessons for 1st grade,
- greater and less than activities,
- traceable 100 grid,
- traceable 120 grid,
- skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's and 10's,
- greater and less than alligators,
- number cards to 120,
- I Spy a number activities,
- certificates of praise for math,
- addition activities,
- subtraction activities,
What Are You Doing For Martin Luther King Day?
If you plan on celebrating Martin Luther King Day with your students, you may want to take a peek at the 40-page MLK mini unit I’ve put together.
It includes several “craftivities” that are quick, easy and make lovely bulletin boards or hallway decorations.
The 1st is a stained glass window, where students can glue colored tiles in a pattern or simply keep it random.
I’ve included one of my favorite Langston Hughes poems on the back.
I chose a dove to top off this “dangler” because I feel that Martin Luther King's beliefs are synonymous with peace, which the dove is a symbol of.
My Y5’s enjoyed accordion folding paper, to make the 3-D wings, which was a great fine motor activity for them.
The MLK Letter Dangler, allows students an opportunity to express what their dream is, and is a nice review of those capital letters as well.
Click on the link to view/download the Martin Luther King mini unit.
Snowflakes are a huge theme for me in January, so I combined making a strip snowflake for a Martin Luther King activity.
If you cut strips in a variety of colors, your students will create a rainbow blizzard for you, that looks truly awesome on a bulletin board.
Use aluminum foil for the background for that extra bit of pizzazz and suspend cardboard or plastic snowflakes from the ceiling , so that they dangle just in front of the top of your b. board.
Click on the link to view/download the Martin Luther King snowflakes.
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“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you, shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” –Helen Keller
I really enjoy designing bookmarks.
The bookmark is a quick and easy way for students to review the uppercase letters of the alphabet.Thank you for visiting today. Feel free to PIN anything you think others might find useful. 
