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New Teaching Packets for November!!!

November is a short teaching month but a busy one. My new product - November Activities is on my Teachers pay Teachers store right now! It's a packet of easy to use activities that cover the Super 6: the 6 major curriculum areas - Literacy, Writing, Math, Science, Social Studies, Arts & Crafts. Find it at www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/kt-education 

 

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While you're at it, check out another new product in my 5 in 5 Series - 5 Fall Leaf Activities in 5 Days.  See below  

 

  

 Announcing another new product in our 5 in 5 Series.  5 Fall Leaf Activities in 5 days. Order it at my Teachers pay Teachers store. It's the perfect product to get you and your students outside on a glorious Fall day!

www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/kt-education

  

 

Social Studies/Arts & Crafts: Communities

Create a neighborhood for your Community unit using two-by-fours, collage materials, sharpie pens and the always amazing Mod Podge!  Have Home Depot cut the two-by-fours into 10" 8" and 6" blocks.  Using a jigsaw cut the roof tops of each block in a triangular fashion - no need to do it perfectly, that just adds to the charm. I had a craft shop cut the roofs because I don't have a jigsaw so know that a poorly equipped home "shop" is no excuse to skip this project.  

 

Students sand the house shaped blocks (best to do this outside!) and then add coat of gesso to act as a primer.  Next students paint the primed blocks with acrylic craft paint - any color or colors are acceptable.  These painted house shapes now become the canvas for student creativity.

 

After the paint dries students rip, cut and place magazines pictures, interesting scrapbook paper shapes or leftover tissue paper on the painted houses using Mod Podge.

 

Details can be added with Sharpie markers.  You can draw right over the dried Mod Podge and it looks fantastic.  

 

 

 



Literacy: Box It Up - Identifying Beginning Sounds

  Practicing skills doesn't have to be pages and pages of worksheets.  Box It Up offers students the same practice identifying beginning sounds as the worksheets that come with your Literacy program - in a more engaging way!

  

To prepare this simple activity have students bring small objects or pictures of items that begin with the consonants that you are reinforcing. (Example: Mm- marble, marker, mitten, etc.) Place all the objects in the same container. Label empty boxes with different consonants. children take turns selecting an item/picture and placing it in the correct box. 

 



Halloween Memory Game

 

. . . . Happy Halloween. . . . 

Go to my store www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/kt-education and download and print this FREE, colorful and fun Halloween Memory Game.  Perfect for early finishers or center work!

Kindergarten Math - Common Core

From my Presentation at SDE (Staff Development for Educators) National I Teach K conference
July 11th - 14th  2013  Las Vegas Nevada

Kindergarten Math Common Core: Standard One - Counting and Cardinality

Know Number Names and the Count Sequence

 

 

 

 

 

  

  



Explore Galore! Observing Color in the Discovery Station

As promised, more posts from my presentations at SDE (Staff Development for Educators)
I Teach K national conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 11th - 14th.  This activity comes from the session I presented - Explore Galore: Setting Up a Science Discovery Station.

What does the teaching of Science bring to your curriculum? 

Color Bottles

Color Mixing

 

Save those empty plastic water bottles! Use the plastic bottles for this effective demonstration of primary color mixing resulting in secondary colors. Use food coloring to color the water in one bottle yellow, one red, and one blue. Students place the bottles of colored water on a sunny windowsill.  They move the bottles in front of each other to create secondary colors (green, purple and orange). Students then illustrate and write about their findings in Discovery Journals - a great way to connect Science and Literacy.  This activity is included (along with a recording sheet) in an exciting new unit - Color - at my Teachers pay Teachers store.  www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/kt-education

 

Color Spin

Changing Colors

 

Spin the circle and watch the colors mix and change. Draw circles on cardstock and divide into 3 equal parts. This activity, along with a blackline for color circles, is included in my new Teachers pay Teachers unit -Color - www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/kt-education  Have each child cut out the circle and heavily color one section red, one yellow and one blue. Help push a sharpened golf pencil (This size pencil works the best.) through the middle of the colored circle. Students spin it like a "top" and observe what happens. Always remember to connect Science to Literacy by having students draw and write about their findings in their Discovery Journals.

 

Make a Rainbow

Simple Experiment

 

This simple Science experiment projects a real rainbow image on the wall. Fill a shallow glass baking dish with water. Tilt a small mirror in the water and shine a flashlight in the center of the mirror. A rainbow will appear as if by magic.  Only you know it's not magic, it's just the reflected light. 
 

Color Sorting Small Station

 

Small Stations are independent learning stations designed for one or two students. They require very limited teacher/student directions and take up very little space. Perfect for early finishers and ideal for differentiating instruction.  All small stations are just $5.50 each.  To order go to www.kteducation.com and click on products.