Bugs themed Reading Group Posters and Book Box Labels Keep your reading groups visible and organised for both yourself and your students by using these brightly coloured posters and labels in your classroom. Includes: 10 various insect themed groups - The Ladybugs, The Snails, The Bees, The Grasshoppers, The Flies, The Worms, The Ants, The Spiders, The Butterflies, The Caterpillars. (See preview) A4 sized colour posters - to display on your whiteboard or Bulletin Boards Square Book Box Labels - perfectly measured to fit the front of your Elizabeth Richards Book Boxes Editable student name tags - to fit both sets perfectly. To edit: You will need to have Microsoft Powerpoint installed on your computer. Choose any font you like (must be installed on your computer) and simply type in your text. The font I have used in my examples is AG Cash Me Ousside Check out my other Reading Group themes below: Cactus Reading Group Posters Tropical Fruits Reading Group Posters Jungle Animals Reading Group Posters Sea Creatures Reading Group Posters Australian Animals Reading Group Posters Colour Reading Group Posters *********************************************************************** All new products (excluding bundles) are 20% off for the first 48 hours so be sure to be following my social media sites below to take advantage of this! For more teaching ideas, freebies and resources click on the ★Follow Me★ on my stores homepage. *********************************************************************** Stay Connected! Be the first to see my latest resources and freebies! Click here to follow my store *********************************************************************** ADDITIONAL INFO This is a downloadable, digital file that you can access immediately after purchase. To open the files you will be required to have a PDF Reader such as Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer. To edit the files you will need to have access to Microsoft PowerPoint. You can access a free trial here. Please ensure your software is up to date to avoid compatibility issues. ‘Editable’ refers to the *text* within the file being customizable. Images and color palettes are not editable. Simply type into the text boxes provided or add in your own to edit. GOT A TECH ISSUE? If you are having difficulty downloading or opening Reading Groups, please ensure you unzip all folders and view each file before getting in touch. To do so: - right click on the zipped folder - and select ‘unzip’. Please check the Teachers Pay Teachers FAQ section if you are experiencing any other tech issues. Please contact [email protected] TERMS OF USE Purchase of this resource entitles the purchaser the right to reproduce pages in limited quantities for single classroom or home school use only. Duplication for a friend, another staff member, entire school or commercial purpose without purchase of an additional licence is strictly forbidden. Copying any part of this resource and placing it on the internet in any form (even a personal or classroom website/ school server) is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Copyright ©Chantelle Jacobs Miss Jacobs Little Learners Pty Ltd WWW.MISSJACOBSLITTLELEARNERS.COM Blog | Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram | Email
We are little entomologists in our classroom this week. We are working hard and having a blast studying insects! The kids are loving it! ...
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ree preschool bugs worksheets for kids! Each unique insect is featured alongside simple early reading facts for your preschool students to learn all about their amazing features. Pair these free bug printables with your insect activities, and preschool science lessons for simple hands-on learning. These are great for learning about insect life cycles at the preschool and kindergarten level.
Try a fun sound experiment for kids. Make an easy homemade buzzing bug noisemaker toy with your kids from simple household items.
I walked through Wal-Mart yesterday for a few things and was so excited to see the back-to-school supplies were out! Well, the part about school being back in session soon didn't get me excited. It was more the bin full of 25 cent glue sticks. I loaded up on glue sticks, rulers, pencil holders, pens, and pencil sharpeners. I had to get some pool noodles too because I saw Kelly's Throwback Thursday post about using pool noodles as tens and ones for place value. It's linky time again! Click the picture to visit the Ten Linky orginial post. This is a complete side note, but is anyone else having trouble with some of their boards disappearing? This has happened to me more than once. In the middle of creating this post, my science board disappeared. The number of my followers also changed (by about 20). So I made breakfast, did a little bit of laundry, went back to Pinterest and it still isn't there. What?? Some of the science pictures might not work, but you can click on the link below the picture that takes you to the source. Source: Life in First Grade One of our very first social studies units is tall tales. I always struggle to find things that fit into this category that are fun and age appropriate. Paul and his big blue ox, Babe, are always a favorite! Source: Fun 2B in First I had the hardest time finding things for John Henry. This is a free download and it fits the needs of my students perfectly. My students loved this visual aid! It's another freebie. This was one of the first things I made back in December. It's a big hit in my TPT. I hung them up in my room and my students were interested in seeing the different types of landforms. Goes along great with the landforms posters! Even better that it's part of a giveway today! Julie from First Grade Critter Cafe is hosting a giveaway in celebration of her blogging anniversary. If you've ever emailed back and forth with Julie you know how sweet and full of life she is! She also has some AMAZING art projects on her blog. Click the picture below to head straight to the giveaway. Continuing on with the pins... Source: First Grade Wow Great writing connection when you are studying about animals. "If I had animal teeth..." Source: Squished Ideas for Preschool Interactive way to learn the life cycle of an insect! Source: First Grade Wow Great activity to introduce living/nonliving! Except I would have to touch a real worm. Gag!! I have tons more science ideas, but that darn Pinterest isn't working! ***** Amber from School is a Happy Place has a great post about being a no reply blogger. Honestly, I didn't even realize I was when I first started blogging. Click on the picture (isn't it cute??) to visit her blog and make sure you are not a "no reply blogger!" Picture by Amber
This caterpillar word family activity was an excellent way for my son to practice sorting words to their word family. It's great for bug theme lesson plans!
Bugs Activities and Printables - so many fun crafts to keep kids busy this summer!
This blog post may contain affiliate links. Please see disclaimer for more information. Homeschooling gives you the ultimate freedom to chose and adapt what your children learn, how they learn it and when! This month we decided to follow the interests of my youngest son (4 years-old), and learn more about snails! We found some fantastic
Luv Bug is 34 months old! (and growing too fast!!) We are having so much fun with our winter theme and we have so many fun activites left! I wish I were more creative with trays. I love how some moms tie every tray to their theme. I did a few, but some are just random things for Luv Bug to do. We had 5 trays this week: I picked this puzzle up at the Dollar Store. Luv Bug saw it when I was setting up other trays and asked for it. I let her play with it, then threw it on a tray. She played with this quite a few times. One day, I asked if she would help me put them in order. She said, "you do it, Mama." I put out the first one then I acted like I couldn't find number 2. She ran over and stepped on it. Then I acted like I didn't know which number came next. I counted, "1,2,3...ummm 7". Luv Bug cracked up, said I was a silly Mama, then finished the puzzle. Then we had to walk along the puzzle:) I put out her polar bear game again. She still likes it but it didn't get as much play. I didn't get any pics of her playing with it this week. I think I bought these spools from Discount School Supply. I have been teaching myself to sew and plan on sewing being a part of our homeschool curriculum when she's older. She's never really taken to lacing trays but I set them out every once in awhile. I was surprised when she chose this first. She placed 2 or 3 beads onto the lace. Then, she decided they were a family and named all of them:) I took some of her winter table scatter (from Dollar Tree), out of her sensory bin to make patterns. First, she lined them up. Then made a pattern for me to finish. Then, she sorted them. So simple, yet she had alot of fun with this tray. At the beginning of the year, I purchased an Education Cubes membership. I love this and I'm finding more uses for them as Luv Bug gets older. There is set of blank cards you can print to make your own games. I labeled 6 cards with a different positional word (on, in, under, beside, behind, in front of) and placed them in the photo cubes (you need to buy these separately). These are the ones we have. We took turns rolling the dice, then placing our animal in the corresponding spot using the tupperware container. We've done this before and we always end up laughing, trying to find the silliest way to roll the cube. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I froze some water in a bowl, then set it out with some of Luv Bug's polar animals. She touched it, said it was too cold and didn't want anything to do with it. This was in a packet I printed from the TPT store. Luv Bug would place the lowercase snowflake onto the corresponding capital letter. She didn't get much further than this before deciding to move on to something else. The target age on the packet is pre-k, so we'll just hang onto these and try next year. This was another TPT purchase. Winter Bingo. Luv Bug really likes this. She would call out BINGO every time she had a match. Out of all our trays and activities, she played this the most. She grabbed it and started playing a matching game. I love it when she yells BINGO in her cute little voice. We always have a 'letter of the week'. Sometimes we use the letter as the theme, but on weeks when we are doing a different theme, I usually set out 1 or 2 activities for our letter. We love these do-a-dot letters from Confessions of a Homeschooler printables. She has one for each letter along with several other printables. She also offers a Letter of the Week curriculum that includes even more for a very reasonable price. I may purchase it when Luv Bug is a bit older. For now, I just choose 2 or 3 things for each letter. A tracing page from the Frosty Days TPT packet I mentioned above. This is a FREE download from TPT. It is the cutest little winter memory game. I couldn't get a good picture, but the animals are too cute. Still loving her sensory bin. I love her budding imagination. Here, her animals were in the Emergency Room after being burned by the fire. Sadly, this recently happened to a friend of ours, it was interesting that she incorporated this into her play. I can't remember where I first saw this idea, but one blogger had the idea of using the bottom of a 20 oz soda bottle to make snowflake prints. Luv Bug loved this, so I grabbed a few more things that I thought would make interesting prints. She used my potato masher, a pot scrubber that is only used for painting and a clear plastic snowflake from her sensory bin. Everything worked well except the snowflake. We'll probably be doing this again soon. More from the Frosty Days TPT packet. I found this alphabet assessment at Making Learning Fun. I'd show her a letter and she's stamp it with her Do a Dot Markers. Another printable from the Frosty Days TPT packet. I've seen this idea pinned quite a bit on pinterest, but I added a little twist. You make a snowman for each person using their name. Each letter is it's own snowball. I cut out the pieces the night before, enough for a Daddy, Mama, and 'Luv Bug' snowman. I used big circles for Daddy's, medium for Mama's and little circles for Luv Bug's. I also made a hat for each size and a scarf of bow tie. Then we read The Tallest Snowman by Marcie Aboff. (in this book, the children use different measuring tools to measure snow, snowman, trees...). Here are the pieces I made: I hid them around the room, then asked Luv Bug to find them and sort them into big, medium, and little piles. She knows how to spell our names so she didn't need much help gluing them in order. Then she found each snowman's accessories and drew on faces. I think they turned out too cute. After they dried we measured each one with Daddy's tape measure. (Luv Bug loves getting her hands on this and was so pleased when she was allowed to use it herself). After measuring them with the tape measure, we held them up to her growth chart. She had a great time doing this. I'm going to have to buy her her own tape measure. ------------------------------------------------------------------- We played alot this week. This week she initiated so many ideas. I just enjoy watching her so much. Luv Bug is really into cars. I think these may be her favorite toys. She lined them facing each other. Mega Blocks. Her building is getting much more elaborate. We played a little with the homemade playdough I mentioned in last weeks post, but she asked for her Cookie Monster play dough set. This was such a great buy. It usually keeps her engaged for about 30 minutes. This Fisher Price farm was given to Luv Bug from some dear friends. She's been getting this out quite a bit lately. This was too cute. poor Maggie was stuck up on the toy shelf. Love Bug grabbed this from her tool box and helped Maggie slide to safety. One rainy day, Luv Bug just needed to RUN. I set out these shapes I made and we played several games with them. Afterward, Luv Bug grabbed her instruments and asked to dance to her Elmocize video. Cute thank you cards Luv Bug made for some family who had given her gifts a few weeks ago. Lots and lots of puzzles. I wish I could figure out how to group similar photos together instead of giving people capal tunnel from having to scroll down. I'd love any suggestions. And of course, tons of reading. I think that I'm going to have to extend our winter theme by at least another week. We're both having such a good time and I keep finding more ideas on pinterest. The only thing that would make this theme better was a bit of snow (just enough to play in). It will probably come right after we finish our winter theme.
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Just wanted to pop in real quick and share a few things we've been up to this week! This week we're learning all about insects. Since...
One student reads out a sight word while other students "swat at" the sight word bugs on the activity mat. Make one for your students with a plastic white tablecloth or roll of white paper and make sight word recognition fun. This is also a great way to groom mini bug-swatters to take care of bugs IRL.
Ladybugs, spiders, and worms make for a fun learning experience for kids. Do you know what can make it even more fun and change things up from the same old, same old? How about trying
Learning about insect anatomy is turned into a memorable lesson when using LEGO bricks to build and label all the different parts that make up insects!
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We have all played and sang along to The Ants Go Marching at least once in our lives. But did you know where its tune and lyrics coe from? Click here to find the truth!
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Counting Ants is a fun, fine motor sensory game for preschoolers which focuses on building hand strength, counting and one-to-one correspondence.
Kids will have fun learning about worms with this FREE Worm Observation Book. Plus other fun I is for Inchworm letter of the week activities for young kids.
8 books about ants for kids. Both fiction and non-fiction books are reviewed.
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We were blown away by so many beautiful and inspiring STEM books — on everything from microbes to megafauna — published for kids in 2016. Here are our favorites.
