Items filtered by date: December 2012

Teaching Children, Colors My World With Love

The easy reaader, My Penguin Color booklet is  terrific for your penguin theme and a fun way to review colors and color words.

Students read the simple sentences, trace, write and color the color words. They can also color the penguin and the featured object.

There's plenty of room for students to draw the featured noun in the sentence, or write that word as well.

To nail even more standards, have student circle the beginning word capital letter, as well as the ending punctuation.

When everyone has completed their booklet, read it aloud as a whole group, so you can cover concepts of print.

While doing so, remind them that there are spaces between words and that they are reading from left to right and top down.

I've also included a cute certificate of praise.

Click on the link to view/download My Penguin Color booklet.

In keeping with the color theme, I also wrote My Winter Colors booklet, which helps review Common Core State Standards: RF.K1a, RF.k1c, RF.K3c

It follows the same format as the penguin booklet does.  The sentences feature winter things that are a specific color, such as white snowflakes.

The last page offers a writing prompt.  Students write what their favorite winter color is and then name something that color and draw a picture of it.

Both of these booklets make nice activities for your winter Daily 5 work.

Click on the link to view/download My Winter Color booklet.

Thank you for visiting today. I hope your winter is filled with happy and colorful moments.

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Do you have a color word activity you can share with us? I'd enjoy hearing from you. diane@teachwithme.com or post a comment here.

"Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going." Jim Rohn

1 Student + 1 Fun Activity = Learning!

I’ve been busy designing all sorts of easy readers that incorporate a variety of standards so you get more bang for your time buck.

I also like to overlap math with language arts so that I can cover even more standards with one activity.

I try to design my booklets so that they have a consistent format.

That way even when it’s a new month with a new theme, the format is the same.

Students feel empowered and their self-esteem is built, because once they have done that first booklet, little or no directions have to be explained for students to get right down to business.

I think this is one of the reasons for the popularity of the 1-2-3 Count With Me series.

Click on the link to view all 25 booklets thus far.

I’m working on 123 Count Valentines With Me this week, and just finished 123 Count Groundhogs With Me. 

Click on the link to view/download it.

My Y5’s never got tired of doing them.

A new series I plan on doing once a month, ‘til all of the months are covered, is the +1 Addition Booklets.

I just completed January’s +1 Snowman Addition Booklet,

as well as the Plus 1 Valentine Addition Booklet  for February.

Click on the links to view/download them.

The booklets help review Common Core State Math Standards: K.CC.3, K.CC.4a, K.CC.4b, K.CC.4c, K.CC.5, K.OA.1, K.OA.5, K.G.1

The easy readers help your students learn the concept of +1 more addition as well as spatial directions.

Students trace and write the numbers and number word and then follow the spatial directions of where to glue that many snowflakes or Valentine hearts. 

They also circle the number in its proper sequence.

All booklets in this series will include a graphing extension and certificate of praise.

Be sure and check back for a kite or shamrock one for March, a butterfly one for April, and one with a frog theme for May!

Thanks for visiting today.  Feel free to PIN anything you think may be of help to others.

“Choices in life: give up, give in, or give it all you’ve got!” -Unknown

10 pages. Common Core State Standards: RF.K.1a, RF.K.1c, RF.K3c, L.K.2b, L.1.2b, RF.1.1a, K.CC.2, K.CC.3, K.CC.4a, K.CC.4b, K.CC.4c This booklet is a great way to reinforce counting, numbers and number words.

The Silly Shaped Penguins Family Has GROWN!

Do you remember the Silly Shaped Penguins I packet I made a while back?

It features 2D shaped penguin craftivities + an easy reader with a surprise ending, where the last penguin is in the shape of a child’s shoe, thus making the booklet a special keepsake.

It has been THE most popular download in January and has been pinned a zillion times.

Many requests have come in for an additional page with penguin patterns for the newer shapes: pentagon, hexagon and octagon, that have since become standards for some teachers.

Well, you asked for them, you got them.  Here is the Silly Shaped Penguins 2 packet.

It contains the patterns for the pentagon penguin as well as the hexagon and octagon penguins.

I’ve also included these as an additional page in the booklet.

If you don’t teach those shapes, simply don’t add that page, or you could “raise the bar” and challenge students to learn some new ones!

Click on the link to view/download Silly Shaped Penguins 2.

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“Write it on your heart, that every day is the best day in the year.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

4 pages. Many requests prompted the designing of a pentagon penguin as well as a hexagon and octagon one, so you asked for it; you got it!  I've since updated this packet to include the other 2D silly shaped penguins.