1-2-3 Come Make A Shape Booklet With Me
The Dollar Shapes Up is a fun, quick and easy way to review Common Core State Standards: L.K.2a, L.K.2b, RF.K.3c, L.1.2b, RF.1.1a, K.G.2
Show students a real dollar bill and ask them, "What shape is inside the center of the dollar? Who is the president that is pictured here?"
Tell them that they are going to help shape the dollar up, because the booklet that they will be working on, is all messed up.
The booklet includeds the hexagon, pentagon and octagon shapes. If you don't cover those, simply leave those pages out.
Students trace and write the shape word, trace and draw the shape, circle the capital letters in the sentences and then add the end punctuation.
Children cut and glue the various shapes to their matching one in the booklet.
These shapes are all INSIDE the dollar. As an added activity, run through spatial directions by having students put a shape above, behind, beside, between, under etc. so that you are reviewing that Standard as well.
Click on the link to view/download The Dollar Shapes Up easy reader booklet.
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1-2-3's, ABC's, and Shapes Via The Mail
Woo Hoo! This is my 500th blog article! Hope you enjoy it.
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.
It includes a blank set for you to program with whatever...+ math symbols: < > + - = so students can make equations and solve them.
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.
Finally, Shape Letters is a delightful way to review these 11 2-D shapes: circle, oval, triangle, rectangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, heart, star and crescent.
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."
If you do the above, you'll be covering Common Core State Standards: K.G.1, K.G.2, K.G.3
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1-2-3 Come Do Some Groundhog Activities With Me
I can't quite wrap my head around the fact that today is February 1st. Is your life flying by you like mine? Groundhog Day falls on a Sunday this year, so I'm hopefully not too last-minute to help you find some things to add to your lessons on Monday.
Groundhog Day was one of my Y5's favorite units, so I have an assortment of FREEBIES on the shopping cart for you. Click on the link to view the groundhog offerings.
Since so many visitors have requested the pentagon, hexagon and octagon shapes, I’ve included them in all of the new shape books that I design, and am in the process of adding those pages to the oldies when time permits. I just finished revamping The Shape of My Shadow. It’s a complete re-do as I now have a dotted-trace-the-letter font!
I just wish I had time to re-do everything, as the quality is so much better now, but since I design 2-3 new things a day, write a blog and cram so much other "stuff" in, re-doing things is beyond being on the back burner.
One thing you can do to incorporate the new shapes when they aren’t in the older booklets, is to ask your students what shapes are missing, and have them design their own page(s).
To cover more standands with the easy readers, I now have students circle the capital letters and write in the end punctuation.
I also include at least one graphing activity, to hit a few more standards. This booklet has two.
To cover even more standards, when everyone has completed their booklet, read it aloud as a whole group, so you can review concepts of print, proper spacing, reading from left to right etc. Click on the link to view/download The Shapes Of My Shadow.
The ever-popular 10-frame counting booklets have also been up-dated. Click on the link to view/download the one for groundhogs. 1-2-3 Count Groundhogs With Me
The packet includes:
I Spy A Number is another groundhog math booklet. It's a great way to reinforce counting, numbers and number words. The last page provides some writing extensions. Students read the simple sentence and include end punctuation.
They trace the number and number words and then write them, as well as circle that number in the sequence, count that many objects and color them if they want to.
This Groundhog packet includes:
Finally, I revamped the easy reader: My Groundhog Day Booklet. Students trace and write the main idea word, circle the capital letters, add end punctuation and then cut and glue the picture to the matching numbered box in their booklet.
There are two pages to choose from to include in the "results" portion.
One is if Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, the other is if he did not. Students then write about how this prediction makes them feel.
Two graphing extensions are also included. Click on the link to view/download the Groundhog Day Easy Reader packet.
If you missed yesterdays' article, and are looking for a few more Groundhog Day activities, scroll down.
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