Items filtered by date: April 2013

1-2-3 Come Work With 10 Frames With Me!

My Ten Frame templates, 10 frame booklets and activities have been top downloads since I designed them, so I wanted to make a set of 10 frame cards that you could easily cut into puzzles, for a fun way to review a variety of Common Core lessons.

You can also use the bottom set of cards for assessments or a math center.  Simply print, laminate and have students fill them in with a dry erase marker. 

Run off copies and do a number a day.  Students keep their work and when all 20 number "worksheets" have been done, they collate them and have a nice review booklet to take home and share with their families.

The completed top cards can be used as flashcards, an anchor chart-border, and quite a few games. 

There's a 2-page tip list of what else you can do with the 10-frame cards, and I've also included a page of greater and less than cards, as well as "kaboom" bomb cards to play even more math games.

Click on the link to view/download the 10 Frame Puzzle Packet.

If you're looking for more 10 Frame Activities click on the link to zip on over to that section of my website.

You'll find 30+ ten frame 1-2-3 Count With Me booklets, a whopping 101-page Ten Frame Monthly Packet, lots of ten frame templates, and a super helpful set of number posters that include ten frames.

Simply scroll down to see everything that's offered and choose whatever helps you.

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"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." -Joseph Chilton Pierce

1-2-3 Come Appreciate A Teacher With Me!

During teacher appreciation week, I liked to give my grade level and other teacher friends a little something in their mailboxes to make them smile.

I designed this particular "I've Got Everything Done!" poster, with that idea in mind. 

Any teacher can certainly relate and hopefully chuckle.

Click on the link above, to view/download the poster.

I just want to say thank you to all of the teachers and teacher-parents who have visited my site. 

I appreciate the fact that you are on the Internet trying to find fun, yet standard-based lessons for your kiddo's, and I'm delighted you stopped here.

Thanks for all of the energy, enthusiasm, and effort you put into helping a child learn.

Happy Teacher Appreciation Day, Week, Month.

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I also have over 100 other classroom posters and anchor charts available.

Click on the link to zip on over to those FREEBIES.

"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas, as in escaping from the old ones." -John Maynard Keynes

1-2-3 Come Make A Mother's Day Card With Me

Mother's Day will soon be here.  I designed this sweet tweet writing prompt which makes an adorable card.

Here's how to make one: Run off templates on construction paper.

Cut yellow strips for the legs, the length of the construction paper. I made mine half the width of a ruler.

Make a template for the beaks from an old file folder. Trace and cut out 6 at a time. Set up the various pieces on a table.

Students come to the center and choose their bird color and other pieces. They return to their desk to cut out and assemble the pieces.

Students accordion fold the legs and glue them to the back of their bird.  They cut on the tail lines and fold a few “feathers” up, and glue the beak to the head, drawing a smile and nose dot.

Children fold the left edge of their wing and glue it to the center of their bird. The wing says: "My mom is special and that's something to tweet about!"

So they don’t write outside the wing, children can trace around the wing before they write I love you and sign their name under the wing.

To expedite things, pre-cut the Happy Mother’s Day hang-tags and punch a hole in them. I ran then off on white construction paper and then for more pop, glued them to pink construction paper. You could save the extra steps, and just run the tag off on different colors of construction paper.

Cut lengths of yarn, ribbon or jute to tie the tags to the birds.  Before hand, brainstorm with students why their moms are special.  List these on the board to help with spelling.

Students write why their mom is special on the back of the bird. I ran off an extra template for this so that it looks more finished, as it stands out and also covers the leg tops.

Print off your class composite. Cut students’ photographs in an oval, so that they can glue them to the head on the back of the bird.

When students have completed their prompt, tie their tab to the bird and finish with a bow.  If you have time, have students share their work with their classmates, by reading what they wrote.

Click on the link to view/download the Mother's Day Writing Prompt craftivity. Thanks for visiting today.  I hope your day is something to tweet about!

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." -Unknown

6 pages. A sweet tweet that makes a nice Mother's Day card.

1-2-3 Come Make Some "Fin-tastic" Treat Bags With Me!

If you're looking for a quick, easy and inexpensive little something to give your students the last day of school, I think you'll enjoy whipping these together.

You can buy Goldfish Crackers at Sam's or Costco for $9, and have more than enough to fill 20-30 Snack Baggies.

Simply run off the "I hope you have a 'fin-tastic' summer!" template on yellow or orange construction paper. Lime green, hot pink, turquoise and purple also look great.

Cut them out, add each child's name to the top and then sign the fish at the bottom. For a bit more pizzazz add a wiggle eye with a glue dot.

Fill the Snack Baggies and stick the fish to the top with a piece of tape, (I don't like using staples on snacks.) and you're done!

I've also included a sweet bookmark you can clip to the baggie as well.

This packet includes templates for a back-to-school fishy treat bag as well as a bookmark for the fall.

Click on the link to view/download the "Fin-tastic" Fishy Cracker Snack Bag and bookmark packet.

Do you have an end of the year gift you could share with us? I'd enjoy hearing from you: diane@teachwithme.com or simply post a comment or link here.

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"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -B.F. Skinner

1-2-3-Come Write With Me!

Are you looking for some quick, easy, and fun writing prompts for the end of the year, or perhaps a sweet bulletin board to end with a bang?

If so, I think you'll really enjoy this "Fin-tastic" End of the Year Writing Prompt packet.

Run off the large fish on a variety of colored construction paper.  Students choose one and cut it out. 

They can glue it to the top of a sheet of writing paper, or add more pizzazz by letting them choose a strip of colorful construction paper to write on.

Before hand, brainstorm with students why they think they will have a fantastic summer vacation. 

To help with spelling, make a list of things they are going to have fun doing and list them on the board.

For more "pow" have students add a wiggle eye and include their school photo on the fin.

Sprinkle their "fin-tastic" work on a bulletin board covered with blue paper.

To make it 3D add twirled creape paper "seaweed" in a variety of lengths and shades of green, to the bottom of the board.

Your caption can be: "We're Wishing You a Fin-tastic Summer!"

I think your students will also enjoy making the other fish and writing about why they had a "fin-tastic" school year. 

This prompt can also be brainstormed.  It's quite gratifying hearing all of the reasons why students enjoyed the year.

This "craftivity" can be hung back-to-back from the ceiling.

Finally, have students choose a partner to make a special card for. 

They write that child's name in the blank and then write why they think they have been a "fin-tastic" friend, classmate, student etc.

When they are done, they give it to their partner. Add a photo and wiggle eyes to make it even more special.

Click on the link to view/download the Fin-tastic Summer Writing Prompt Packet.

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Do you have an end of the year activity you enjoy doing with your kiddo's?  I'd love hearing from you! diane@teachwithme.com or simply leave a comment here.

"It is not the IQ, but the I Will, that is most important in education." -Unknown