Items filtered by date: November 2012

Let's Go! Let's Get Out In That SNOW!

Yesterday I updated and posted the ordinal number winter poster packet to rave reviews. (Thanks!  So glad you liked it. I guess lots of teachers & parents were in the same boat. )  This sort of “What goes on next?” always helped my Y5’s and expedited things, so we could waddle out for recess before the bell rang to come back in!

I decided to follow that up by updating an emergent reader booklet on the same subject, that will help you review Common Core State Standards: RF.K1a, RF.K1c, RF.K3c, L.K2a, L.K2b

Like the poster, the booklet helps your students identify winter clothing words and the order clothes should be put on. Students correct the sentences by adding ending punctuation and a capital letter to the beginning word.

They trace and then write the ordinal number, as well as the article of clothing that is put on.

Students use pictures as clues to read the sentences, as they cut and glue other pictures to the matching numbered boxes.  This packet is great for your Daily 5 word work activities.

There are 58 words in the booklet, 30 of which are Dolch sight words. I've included 58 traceable word cards to practice with, as well as worksheets involving contractions also found in the booklet, plus some word work with compound words.

Since the booklet is all about getting ready to go out to play in snowy winter weather, I thought it would be fun to see how many compound words starting with the word snow, I could come up with. 

Can you think up more than my 15?  I’d love hearing from you!  I still don’t understand why snow pants is not a compound word! Anyone have an answer to that?  diane@teachwithme.com or post a comment here.

The packet also includes:

• 58 traceable word cards + covers to make Itty Bitty Booklets.
• 8 matching picture cards (Great for playing Memory Match or "I Have; Who Has?" games.)
• A graphing extension
• + 4 skill sheets, which include: Match the word from the story to the picture.
• An alphabetizing worksheet
• A compound word worksheet. (Trace and write 15 new words that begin with snow.) and
• A contraction worksheet +
• A certificate of praise when students can read the booklet independently.

Click on the link to view/download the Let’s Go! Let’s Play In The Snow Easy Reader Booklet Be sure to scroll down for yesterday's article "This Is How We Get Ready" if you missed it, and grab the matching FREEBIES.

Thanks for visiting. My feet have hit the floor running today, as my Christmas decorations need to be taken down and packed away, along with a myriad of other things.   Anyone else hate that job? 

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19 pages. Common Core State Standards: RF.K1a, RF.K1c, RF.K3c, L.K2a, L.K2b This booklet will help your students identify winter clothing words and the order clothes should be put on to get ready to go outside.

 A Gift Of Learning

Are you looking for some quick and easy projects for your students to make that can be a bulletin board or hallway decoration, yet are still teaching report card standards?

You’ve come to the right place! These craftivities also provide great fine motor skill practice too.

A wonderful keepsake art project, that makes a great puppet manipulative, so that you can whole group assess spatial directions, and body part identification is the reindeer lunch bag puppet.

It’s terrific for interactive play during a reading of many December stories featuring reindeer characters too.

Afterwards, line students up, have them slip on their puppets and count them.

You can also do The Reindeer Pokey, sing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, and even have children put their reindeer up, down, behind their back, over their head, between their legs etc. so that you can assess spatial directions.

Plus it's a great way to get the wiggles out at the same time. While you're at it, have children identify colors in English and Spanish and review the shapes on the bag.

Call out a body part and have students  touch their reindeer to their nose, shoulder, wrist, ankle, thigh, shin etc as a means of whole group assessing that standard.

So you can review ordinal numbers, have the 4^th reindeer in line take 2 steps forward, have the 1^st reindeer take 2 steps back etc.

Click on the link to view/download the Reindeer Lunch Bag Puppet.

A fun way to review some basic shapes as well as that more difficult 3-D cylinder shape, is with this adorable Santa windsock.

Santa’s hand print beard, makes this an adorable keepsake!

Click on the link to view/download the Cylinder Handprint Santa.

Another shape that we study is the oval. Making a Christmas mouse and then tucking a candy cane in a slit for a tail is great fun.  A pom pom nose reviews the sphere shape as well.

Your little ones can easily whip these together after a mouse-related December story.

Click on the link to view/download the Candy Cane Mouse.

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1+1=1 Compound Word!

Are you working on compound words with your students? This is a comprehensive list of 2,718 compound words for PK-12th grade. 

Choose ones appropriate for your grade-level. I spent hours compiling this alphabetical list of compound words for you to choose from.

This is the 3rd updated list. I've added 40 more compound words. (The 2nd up-date had 22 additional compound words + corrections.)

In this 19-page packet there’s also a compound word anchor definition chart, compound word of the day poster, and a compound word header poster of Compound words we've spied! so that your students can make up their own list of words when they discover them while reading.

Build students' vocabularies and have them learn a new compound word each day as you count up to 100 Day!

I've provided a cover for a compound word booklet.  Choose a compound word from my list, or have students select a compound word that they'd like to learn.

Have them write it in their compound word booklet, break down the two words, and define them. What a fun way to increase their vocabulary skills.

Working on compound words is a great activity for Daily 5 "word work" too.

Click on the link to view/download the 2,718 compound word list.

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