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Throughout the first week of school, our focus during math is introducing 2D shapes. I made some fun posters to help my students remember the names and properties of each shape {and they referred to them all year long!} {clip art from Love Two Teach borders from Teaching in a Small Town} My class absolutely loved these! We learned each poem and talked about the characteristic of each shape. We even learned that Sandy Square has a booooyfriend ;) {Download the shape poems here and ignore the fact that I clearly need more ink ;) I copied 2 to a page so that they printed out smaller than a regular sheet of paper.} After we learned about each shape, I hung the posters up in our classroom for future reference. We also played this super fun shape game! After we met our new friends and talked all about the shapes, we sat in a big circle {applying what we learned about circles!}. Then I walked around with a bunch of shapes in a bag and had each student pull out one shape. They told their neighbor what shape they pulled out {to practice identifying and to help their neighbor if they weren't sure} and then we played the Shape Game! After everyone had a chance to stand up, we switched our shapes and played again. It was a lot of fun :) To see what else we did during the first week of school, visit my blog, Miss Kindergarten!
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This bulletin board from All About Children childcare center incorporates two of the best things about summer - ice cream and sunglasses! It's a sweet design, created using student crafts, that's sure to be a hit. Don't forget to grab the FREE template at the bottom of this post! Ice Cream Cone Craft To duplicate the original craft, simply cut ice cream scoop shapes from white art paper, invite students to use paint daubers to color the scoop, then attach the cutout to a triangle shape cut from light brown/tan construction paper. Easy peasy! Of course, there are other ways to go about the project; Create the scoop and cone shapes using an ice cream template or coloring page. The more detailed shapes will make the cones stand out more when arranged on the bulletin board. Instead of paint daubers, have students make puffy ice cream cones. All you need is shaving cream, glue, food coloring, and sprinkles! This, of course, would lend a more authentic ice cream look! Sunglasses Craft Download the sunglasses template below and have your students use them to create their own pair of sunglasses. There are four different shapes to add a bit of variation! Also, while you can simply have your students cut sunglasses from brightly colored card stock, we think it might be fun to try to provide a unique art experience. For example; Use Crayon transfer art to create a design on the glasses, then cover with muted watercolors for a wax resist effect. Complete the project in small groups and {safely!} paint with melted crayons! The results are sure to be stunning! Summer Is Sweet In Preschool! Background: White bulletin board paper. Title: "Summer Is Sweet In Preschool!" Border: Summer themed trimmer or complimentary color/patterned border. Decoration: Fill the board with your students' crafts!
Prepare yourself for back to school with these "all about me" fingerprints! Each student can showcase how unique and wonderful they are! Choose 1 of the 3 fingerprint templates. (loop, whorl, arch). Students write about themselves on the lines of the fingerprint. This is perfect for the first week of school. This can be used in English, Art, Science, or any other subject. Students can share their fingerprints to find out how awesome their peers are. Bonus: includes 8 writing prompts! UPDATE! There are now 2 digital options! 1) Google Slides - students add text over a fingerprint image 2) Google Slides - students add text next to a fingerprint *Students can choose the font style, size, and color! There is also a fun version of a Venn Diagram to discuss uniqueness with a partner! And as an extra BONUS, there's a link in the PDF for a FREE editable pixel art activity! Let's Stay Connected! Follow me on Teachers Pay Teachers Follow me on Pinterest Follow me on Instagram
Good morning! :) One of the most important things to me is how you arrange your classroom. I always think about a few things when considering how to arrange my classroom... -Can my students all see the SMARTboard from their desks without having to turn around? -Can my students access all of our classroom materials without having to move something? -Can my students scoot out their chair without bumping into a desk or another chair? -Can I move around the classroom with ease? (Without having to squeeze through desks?) -Can I see ALL of my students from my desk? -Can I see ALL of my students from the meeting table? Sometimes I have to arrange the room, and then tweak it a little to make sure all of the above questions are answered YES. I've had my desks arranged in many different ways during the years. However, my favorite arrangement was when I had tables. I would take tables any day over desks! Tables facilitate cooperative group work and give the students so much more work space. However, tables are not always available to you. So, in that case, I would arrange my desks like tables. When I taught specials classes and had mostly small groups of kids at one time (between 6-10 kids most of the day), I had my classroom set up with my meeting table in the middle. I liked it being in the center of the class. It was more like the central meeting place instead of stuck in a corner. This is what my room looked like: If you want to see some examples of my classroom seating arrangement, you can see one of my previous posts about how to set up your classroom. Here is a screenshot from a PDF file I found about classroom seating arrangements from Effective Room Arrangement by Carolyn Evertson, Ph.D. & Inge Poole, Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University. http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/case_studies/ICS-001.pdf I love several of these arrangements... especially the one in the middle on the right. Except I would probably face my student's desks towards the SMARTboard and not my desk. I don't teach from my desk, therefore I wouldn't want their desks to be pointing toward mine :). Check out the link to the PDF above for lots of great information (and bigger pictures). I also found this awesome site: Classroom Desk Arrangement. You can choose your class size, then it has several different arrangements you can choose from. It looks pretty cool... here is a screen shot of the welcome page: This Pinterest Board has a lot of great classroom ideas! :) http://pinterest.com/luv2teach/classroom-layout-and-design/. Scholastic also has a pretty cool Classroom Set-Up tool. It allows you to create your classroom layout and has all of the shapes already made. You just "draw" it on the screen... pretty cool! The only thing I don't like is that you can't turn any of the desks at an angle. I kind of do my own version of this each year by drawing my classroom on a Microsoft Word document. This way I can save it, re-arrange it and re-use it all year long. The last website I will tell you about is Classroom Architect. It is a pretty neat website. It lets you choose your room's dimensions, and then lets you drop and drag all of the furniture into the classroom. It is pretty easy to use and looks nice when finished. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like: Below is a link to a basic classroom seating chart that I created on PowerPoint. If you don't have PowerPoint but have a Google Account and access to Google Docs, you should be able to manipulate it there as well. Save the file, then re-arrange the desks and furniture by just clicking and dragging! :) Grab the green dot at the top of each item. This will allow you to rotate the item you've chosen. Delete items not needed and save your new template! :) UPDATE: 9/13/17 I've created more versions of the seating chart below that are still fully editable, and have put them on my Teachers Pay Teachers Site. Please click the link below for the FREE download! Link: FREE Seating Chart Well, I hope that these websites and information has helped give you some ideas on how to arrange your classroom! Be inspired & have a wonderful day! :) That's all she wrote, ------------------------------------- P.S. Did you know that I started my own company, Camp Partridge? ⛺️ Camp Partridge offers online camps for children and teens ages 10-16 who want to be digital creators and authors! ⛺️ Camp Partridge offers online courses for parents struggling with remote learning. ⛺️ Camp Partridge offers resources for your classroom! I would be honored if you would share Camp Partridge with people you know who need or would enjoy our camps and courses! 🧡
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Shapes are everywhere and we have just about worn them out. Over the past couple of years I've noticed a gaping whole in my 2D and 3D shape resources. I've needed some hands-on centers for our work with shapes. For whatever reason, I didn't have time to put anything together, until a few months ago. I started working on 2D and 3D shapes centers for my young learners. I wanted to be prepared when our geometry unit rolled around again. Here's a peek at some of the centers we enjoyed this year... One of the centers my students completed was a real world/shape match up. As you can see, student matched real world photos with 2D shapes. They wrote their findings on a recording sheet. They also had to find their own examples of shapes in the real world to illustrate and label. Students worked on naming the 2D shapes and matching up their properties. Most of the 2D shapes were super simple for my firsties. However, they certainly needed extra practice with trapezoid, rhombuses, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons. After a recent pattern activity, I knew some of my young learners needed additional opportunities to work with patterns. I put together two pattern centers (one with 2D shapes and one with 3D shapes). The pattern centers served as a great review for many of my students and an opportunity for some remediation for others. Of course we needed some anchor charts to reference. I love 2 Super Teachers colorful shape friends clip art. These clips were perfect for creating a simple anchor chart display. I also put together 3D shape mini anchor charts. I printed a set of these anchor charts and used them to label our class set of 3D shape models. I highly recommend getting a class set of 3D shape models. I bought my set at Oriental Trading several years ago. I paid about $20 (or so). They have been well worth the cost. It is extremely helpful to students to be able to put their hands on 3D shapes as they learn about these shapes and their properties. My students used these shape models with almost all of the 3D shape centers. They used them with the 3D naming and property matching center. They used the shape models with the stack, slide, or roll center. Students really liked testing if a shape could stack, slide, or roll. In addition to labeling our shape models with the mini anchor charts, I also printed a second copy for classroom display. (If you scroll to the bottom, you'll find a link to a FREE set of these charts.) All of these activities and many more are available at my Teachers Pay Teachers store in my Shape by Shape {Hands-On Activities with 2D and 3D Shapes} packet. Altogether there are eight centers with recording sheets, two sets of anchor charts, and a game of I Have/How Has? for 2D & 3D shapes. You can click on the picture below for more details. Besides all of our classroom work with shapes, we also read some great shape themed books. Here are just a few of my favorites... Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes by Stuart J. Murphy, Shapes That Roll by Karen Nagel, If You Were a Polygon by Marcie Aboff, Perfect Square by Michael, Circus Shapes by Stuart J. Murphy, Friendshape by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns, Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh, and If You Were a Quadrilateral by Molly Blaisdell. For me, there's nothing like books to hook students' attention and spark their desire to learn more. Finally, for a free copy of my 3D Shape Mini Anchor Charts. You can click on the picture below. If you teach 3D shapes, these colorful little posters make a great reference display and do not take up to much space. Click on the picture below for your FREE copy of these anchor charts. Thanks so much for stopping by! Best.
The Stockholm Sweater is knit from the top down in stockinette stitch with two strands of silk/mohair lace weight yarn held together. You begin by working the top of the back flat, after which stitches are picked up along the cast on edge for the shoulders. Each shoulder is knit separately and shaped using short rows, so they slope neatly. The front and back of the sweater are joined under the armholes, thereafter the body is knit in the round. For the sleeves, stitches are picked up along the armholes, and then knit in the round to the cuff on DPNs or a circular needle using Magic Loop. Finally stitches are picked up along the neck opening, and a ribbed collar is knit, folded over, and sewn down on the wrong side. The Stockholm Sweater requires no other finishing than sewing down the neckband. Please knit and wet block a gauge swatch before starting to find the right needle size that gives you the required gauge. Size guide The Stockholm Sweater is designed to have approx. 15 cm [6 inches] of positive ease, meaning it is designed to be 15 cm [6 inches] larger in circumference than your bust measurement. The sizes XS (S) M (L) XL (2XL) 3XL (4XL) 5XL are designed to fit a bust circumference of 80-85 (85-90) 90-95 (95-100) 100-110 (110-120) 120-130 (130-140) 140-150 cm [31½-33½ (33½-35½) 35½-37½ (37½-39½) 39½-43¼ (43¼-47¼) 47¼-51¼ (51¼-55) 55-59 inches]. The measurements for the finished garment can be found on the front page of the pattern. Before beginning your project, measure yourself to determine which size to knit. For example, if you measure 90 cm [35½ inches] around your bust (or around the widest part of your upper body) you should knit a size S. A size S sweater has a bust circumference of 105 cm [41¼ inches], which in the given example would give you 15 cm [6 inches] of positive ease. The model in the photos is wearing a size XS and has a bust circumference of 82 cm [32¼ inches] and is 164 cm [approx. 5 feet 4 inches] tall. Sizes: XS (S) M (L) XL (2XL) 3XL (4XL) 5XL Bust circumference: 101 (105) 110 (116) 126 (135) 145 (156) 166 cm [39¾ (41¼) 43¼ (45¾) 49½ (53¼) 57 (61½) 65¼ inches] Length: Measured at the centre back incl. rib neckband: 54 (56) 58 (62) 65 (68) 72 (73) 75 cm [21¼ (22) 22¾ (24½) 25½ (26¾) 28¼ (28¾) 29½ inches] Gauge: 21 sts x 31 rows = 10 x 10 cm [4 x 4 inches] in stockinette stitch on 4 mm [US6] needles Suggested needle size: 4 mm and 3.5 mm [US6 and 4] / 80 or 100 cm [32 or 40 inches] circular needles, 3 mm [US2.5] / 40 cm [16 inches] circular needles, 4 mm and 3.5 mm [US6 and 4] double pointed needles (DPNs) if not using the Magic Loop-technique for the sleeves Materials: 200 (225) 225 (250) 250 (275) 300 (325) 350 g Silk Mohair from Isager Yarn (25 g = 212 m) or Brushed Lace from Mohair By Canard (25 g = 210 m) or Tilia from Filcolana (25 g = 210 m) or Kid Seta from Gepard Garn (25 g = 210 m) or Tynn Silk Mohair from Sandnes Garn (25 g = 212 m). Note: Two strand of yarn are held together throughout. The given yardage amounts are the total yardage needed. Difficulty: ★ ★ ★ ★ (4 out of 5) See the classification of difficulty here. The dark brown Stockholm Sweater is knitted in Silk Mohair by Isager in color 34. The light brown Stockholm Sweater is knitted in Silk Mohair by Isager in color 63. The blue Stockholm Sweater is knitted in Silk Mohair by Isager in color 100.
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