Items filtered by date: December 2012

2 pages. A fun way to welcome in the New Year with your students, as you reinforce counting backwards from 10-0. I've also included a strip to countdown from 20-0.

5 pages. Common Core State Standards: RF.K1a, RF.k1c, RF.K3c A wintry fun way to reinforce colors and color words.

6 pages. Terrific for your penguin theme and a fun way to review colors and color words.

Come ABC With Me!

 

Boy do I have a terrific alphabet packet for you today!

It’s a whopping 90 pages long and took me a zillion hours to complete!

It was worth it though, because you can do so many things with it!

The packet is an outstanding way to help your students match letters and pictures to words and their sounds  and incorporates a variety of standards.

 

The packet includes:

 

• 439 picture cards with matching word cards.
• I've included CVC words, sight words + 65 Dolch nouns
• 6 different sets of uppercase letters + a lowercase set
• A blank set of picture cards so you can program your own
• A blank set of word cards so you can program your own
• 8 shape cards with matching word cards
• 11 number cards (0-10)
• ABC letter sorting mats so students can sort pictures and words and  put them under the matching letter.
• 34 category sorting mats so that students can sort pictures into appropriate categories. i.e big-little, vowels-consonants, farm animals-wild animals, winter, spring, summer and fall etc.
• A "My ABC Book" so students can make their own booklet. Includes cover + inside pages.
• A tip sheet of what sorts of things you can do with the cards, including games +
• A certificate of praise.

Many of these activities are great for your Daily 5 “Word Work.”

Click on the link to view/download the Alphabet Letter, Picture and Word packet.  I hope you enjoy it!

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“The bad news is that time flies, The good news is that you’re the pilot.” –Michael Altshuler

90 pages! Common Core State Standards: K.MD.3, K.G.2, RF.K1a,RF.K.1d, RF.K1c, RF.K3a, RF.K3c, L.K1a, L.1.1a Outstanding way to help your students match letters and pictures to words and their sounds.

A Winning Lesson With Word Art!

Verbs are something that can be a bit boring to teach, so liven up your lesson with Word Art!

I made these New Year word art pictures using a list of positive verbs and then turning them into a picture using Tagxedo.

Turn it into a reading and writing lesson by showing your students the posters and my alphabetical list of 88 positive verbs.

Read the words aloud and have students circle the ones that they want to promise and do in the New Year.

They need at least 1 for each letter of the alphabet.  Challenge students to make their own word art poster and list. This is a nice way to incorporate technology in your day.

Students can also make a New Year’s dictionary of their promise words.  I've included a cover, simply add lined paper.

For more skill building, I’ve included trace and write pages. 

Fill in and laminate a set and then cut them apart and store in an envelope, so students can arrange them in alphabetical order.

Make up 2 sets so students can play “Speed” against each other to see who can alphabetize the words the quickest.

Any of these activities make fun Daily 5 Word Work lessons. Encourage students to look up any words they don’t know and to use their new vocabulary.

Make a copy for your word wall.  Make sure you do your own to use as a sample.  If students do the word art activity, you have an awesome January bulletin board.

Have them mount their finished work on various colors of blue construction paper.  Arrange on a background of aluminum foil and sprinkle some paper snowflakes on the corners of each one.

At the end of the month or school year, ask students to re-visit their list.  Have they done all of the words they circled? Have they added anymore?

This evaluation can then become a writing prompt of why or why not, and how they can improve etc.

Click on the link to view/download the New Year Word Art activities packet.

Thank you for visiting today.  Feel free to PIN anything you think others may find helpful. I hope these New Year's ideas have helped and that you have the best New Year yet.

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." -Hal Borland