Items filtered by date: February 2013

1-2-3 Listen and Follow Directions, and Make a Shamrock Glyph With Me!

A glyph is a quick and easy way to whole group assess listening and following directions. 

The photo shows a completed glyph by a girl.

Glyphs are also a fun way for students to collect and analyze data.

When everyone has completed their shamrock glyph, hang them up on a bulletin board, or hallway wall.

Using the data collection sheet, students choose a partner and interview them.

They ask as many questions as they need to figure out their partner's glyph. 

To make the game more exciting, encourage students to use as few questions as possible, to see who can solve the mystery with the fewest questions.

The packet includes 6 graphing extensions + a data collection sheet.

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"The man who does not read good books, has no advantage over a man who can not read good books." -Mark Twain

10 pages. Common Core State Standard: 1.MD.4 A glyph is a quick and easy way to whole group assess listening and following directions. It's also a fun way for students to collect and analyze data.

1-2-3 Come Be a Leprechaun and Make a Venn Diagram With Me!

Making a Venn diagram is an easy and fun way for students to practice the concept of comparison and contrast.

It's also a time-saving way you can learn more about your students, and make an adorable March bulletin board at the same time.

Students partner up and discuss their similarities and differences and then make their Venn Friend Diagram.

To help them think of similarities and differences, I've included a list of questions students can ask their partner.

To make the Venn Friends extra cute, have students color their leprechaun and add a photograph of their face.

Click on the link to view/download the Leprechaun Venn Friends packet.  I also made some Venn diagrams comparing the different holidays, including St. Patrick's Day.  Click on the link to grab this FREEBIE.

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"Be the light that helps others see." -Unknown

5 pages. Making a Venn diagram is an easy and fun way for students to practice the concept of comparison and contrast. Students partner up and discuss their similarities and differences and then make their Venn Friend Diagram.

1-2-3 Come Feel the Wind and Watch the Clouds With Me!

March is known as the windy month, so many of the books we read had to do with that theme. 

I wanted to have my students transition to a related activity after we read The Wind Blew, by Hutchins as well as It Looked Like Spilt Milk, so I designed these 2 easy readers. 

In The Wind Blew, students enjoy cutting and gluing the pictures to their matching pages.

This packet includes a graphing extension and 2 optional choices for the flag and balloon pages.

Click on the link to view/download The Wind Blew packet.

The second booklet, has to do with clouds; an interesting and fun science theme. 

Since clouds take on different shapes, I thought it would be fun to make them into 3D shapes.

Students trace & write the shape word and then glue the appropriate cloud to the page.

This packet includes 2 graphing extensions, and is a great activity to do after reading It Looked Like Spilt Milk, or Eric Carle's Little Cloud.

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"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it, nothing great was ever accomplished." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

1-2-3 Come Go Away With Me! 240 Ways To Travel

One of the themes that quite a few people have requested is transportation, although I have bus, train, and Seuss's, Oh The Places You'll Go activities on the site, working on specific activities for transportation was on my "To Do" list. 

I wanted to think up as many vehicles as I could, in order to compile an alphabetical list of them. 

After several hours of research, I came up with a list of 240 vehicles + 26 means of getting from here to there. 

When you're looking for vehicles that start with the letter Q, X, and Z you are bound to increase your vocabulary. 

Do you know what a palanquin, quinquireme, xebec or zebu are? I didn't;  I so enjoy increasing my vocabulary, and hope you and your students will too.

You can use the list to help build vocabulary (ask students to circle all of the means of transporation that they have used in one color, the modes they've never tried or heard of in another, and finally the modes of transportation they'd like to try in yet another color. )

Introduce a selection of words a day and have students write them in a vehicle dictionary.  Any words that they don't know, they should look up and then add the definition to their booklet.

You can also feature a daily vehicle word and then discuss it.

Click on the link to view/download the List of 240 Vehicles.

After I completed my list, I chose some favorites and designed a Vehicle Alphabet Anchor Chart Poster.

Hang it up in your room, or run off copies for your students. You can use it as an "I Spy A..." game to help increase letter as well as word recognition.

Click on the link to view/download the Vehicle Alphabet Anchor Chart Poster.

Once I had these things done, I made the easy reader Transporation Alphabet Booklet.

I used over 40 sight and Dolch words, added rhyming words, and incorporated lots of Common Core State Standards. 

With the help of picture clues, students read the simple  sentences, circle the capital letters, and add end punctuation.

Remind them that they are reading from left to right, top down, and that there are spaces between the words, and you've covered even more Standards.

Students also trace and write the mode of transportation word, cut and then glue the pictures to their matching numbered box in the booklet.

Also in this packet, is a Transporation Class Book.  It's a nice writing activity to go with Seuss's Oh The Places You'll Go story.

Click on the link to view/download the A to Z Easy Reader Transporation Booklet.

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"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children." -Charles Swindoll

1 page. An alphabetical anchor chart poster of various modes of transportation.

19 pages. Common Core State Standards: L.K.1a, L.K.2a, L.K.2b, RF.K.3a, RF.K.3c, RF.K.2a, RF.K.1d, L.1.2b, L.1.1a, RF.1.1a, An alphabetical way to learn about the various modes of transportation.

1-2-3 Go Places With Me!

This Seuss-hat bucket, provides 2 different March, writing prompt "craftivities," perfect go-alongs with Seuss's Oh The Places You'll Go book.

On the large bucket, students think of 5 places they want to go.  They write the place, followed by what they want to see there, or what they want to do there.

On the small bucket, students think of all of the things they'd like to do. 

This can be for the month, year, in 5, 10, 20 years, or a "bucket list" of all they want to do before they die.  They include this time commitment on their hat.

Students can color their large bucket to look like an upside-down Seuss hat, or color the stripes the color scheme of the story: pink, powder blue, purple, light green, orange and yellow.

Completed projects make sweet bulletin boards for March is Reading Month or Dr. Seuss. Click on the link to view/download My Bucket List Seuss Writing Prompt Craftivities

Seuss Hat Candy Bar Wrappers:

If you're looking for a Seuss treat to give you students, I designed 4 different, Seuss sayings, candy bar wrappers. 

You can print them in color or in black and white. They fit a Hershey candy bar.

I made them this size so that you could slip in any other smaller size candy bars, a stick of gum, lollipop, packet of M&M's/Skittles etc.

If you don't want to tuck in a treat, then use the printed half as a bookmark.

These make a sweet surprise left on your students' desks, or use as a reading incentive or reward for March is Reading Month.

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"To teach, is to learn twice over." -Joseph Joubert