Back to School Galore is a great pack that let's your new KINDER kiddos celebrate the beginning of school in a FUN yet meaningful way! All activities in the pack are standards based and work on beginning skills in reading, writing, math, plus great activities to build your class community! Be sure and download the PREVIEW to see TONS more pictures of the printables included! The Back To School Flap Book Keepsake is also sold separately! If you purchase this BACK TO SCHOOL GALORE pack, please DO NOT purchase the flap book pack as well! We also have a Back to School Galore: First Graders pack available as well! Here's what you'll find in THIS Back To School Pack: Activity Tips and Directions PHOTO BOOTH Photo Booth Props Instructions EMERGENT READERS School Tools School Workers School Places Getting to School All About ME! What a WEEK! GETTING TO KNOW ME All About ME! Graphic Organizers (4 to choose from) PICTURE IT! My Class PICTURE IT! My School PICTURE IT! Blank for Free Choice “What’s in a Name” printable “A Look at Names” printable (comparing names with classmates) My Teacher ROCKS! Graphic Organizers “Find a Friend” Scavenger Hunt “Roll a Friend” Interview “I Made New Friends” printable WRITING and FLAP BOOK PROJECT “Time for Kindergarten!” mini flap book “Kindergarten ROCKS!” flap book project “What’s for Lunch” writing “Time for School” writing (transportation) “I Spy Something...” writing (colors) “The Playground ROCKS!” writing “Let’s Read” writing (favorite story) “I Can Trace Letters” writing MATH “I See… in My Class” (# sets writing) “I Spy Shapes…” “I Can Trace Numbers and Shapes” writing School Supply Graphing Be sure and check out our other GREAT Back To School goodies! COMPLETE Common Core Kindergarten Math Bundle Interactive Sight Word Flap Books, Readers, and More! Pre-Primer Bundle Back To School Lessons and Activities Mega Pack for Kinders Thanks so much for looking! Page and Cristy Kindergarten Squared
1-2-3 Come Do A Social Studies Icebreaker With Me! "My Home" is a quick and easy "craftivity" perfect for those studying about neighborhoods or families, or use as a sweet icebreaker for the first week of school, as it's a wonderful way to get to know your new students. You can also do this for an easy activity that parents can work on with their child during your Open House. Completed projects make a wonderful back to school bulletin board. If you send a "welcome to school" summer letter out, you could also include the house pattern in that, or send it home the first day of school. Children take home, complete and bring back the next day to share with their new classmates. What an interesting and fun way for them to learn about each other, which also gives them practice sharing in front of the class. So your kiddos get to know a bit about their teacher, make sure to do one for yourself to use as an example. Here's What To Do: Students write their family's last name at the top, write the number of members in their family and then draw a picture of them. Inform children to label their drawing to tell who is represented. Let them know that they can include pets as well. Children glue a photgraph of themselves in the window. For the door, students complete the writing prompt "My favoirte room is..." and then explain why. Some schools still have "knows their address" as a standard, so I've included a window for that as well. Children color their house the appropriate color and cut it out. After students share their homes, make a classroom "neighborhood" as a bulletin board. Click on the link to view/download the My Home back to school icebreaker activity. Thanks for visiting. Feel free to PIN away! My "Pin It" button is at the top. I hope you can stop by tomorrow for another home-sweet-home "craftvity" entitled H is for House. "If you don't risk, you can't grow. If you don't grow, you can't become the best you, you can be!" -Unknown
It's hard to say goodbye at the end of the year, but this letter will help. Grab your copy today!
In past years I have usually done a two day lesson on Mondrian. We paint large black lines across our body and then paint i...
Hello Friends! Oh my... It has been a LONG time since I have posted here! I guess I have been busy, but I can't think what I have been doing that has taken up so much of my time. It's amazing how each day can drift along and then all of sudden, you realize how much time has passed and you didn't even notice! One of my favorite units to teach is "Healthy Me." Little kids are always so interested in how their body works and although, I don't go into HUGE detail, we do have some lively discussions during this unit. We also discuss healthy habits such as hand washing, exercise, and sleeping. At the conclusion of this unit, all the healthy me pages are stapled inside a cute cover. This is a fun way for my kiddos to have a discussion about healthy habits with their families! If you are interested in my HEALTHY ME unit, click the image below.... Here is freebie for you to hang next to your sink to remind your kiddos to wash the germs away! Until next time! Blessings,
Don't we all want kids to say, "I am wonderful"? In this post, I share a great back to school or anytime idea based on this wonderful song.
Explorando Los Sentidos La enseñanza de los cinco sentidos es importante en los grados primarios para el desarrollo sensorial de los estudiantes. Para enseñar los sentidos es importante el uso de actividades concretas. Se deben implementar actividades relacionadas al juego para que sean mas atractivas para ellos. Se debe diseñar actividades para: descubrir los sentidos diferenciar las funciones de cada órgano que usa los sentidos actividades para comparar los sentidos actividades ludicas Comparto algunas ideas recuperadas de la web Algunos enlaces de vídeos apropiado
Help kindergarteners compare length & use appropriate vocabulary with this FREE "Shorter and Longer" activity. Great hands on practice for comparing length.
I have an idea for you for back to school plus I have joined together again this month to giveaway 3 TpT gift cards for $50 each! (Whoa! How fun is that?!) There are so many creative and clever ideas out there to give the kiddos for back to school! One of my favorites is to give them a little jitter glitter. Have you heard the story First Grade Jitters? So fun! If you are not a first grade teachers, no worries...check out this book, First Day Jitters! I found this poem on pinterest and added it to a card. The kids read the poem and put it under their pillow the night before the first day of school. I am lucky enough meet my students a couple of days before, so it works out perfectly. Jitter Glitter is pretty quick and easy! You can choose any kind of glitter, any color card stock...can't go wrong. First, I print mine out on yellow card stock. Then, I fold it in half length wise (so it opens like a card.) Last, I cut it in half so I have two cards. Finally, I pour a little glitter inside a small plastic bag and staple it inside. And there you have it...a cute little gift for your students to calm their first day jitters. Click HERE to download it for free. Got some colorful craft feathers? Maybe you'd rather send a "so tickled to meet you letter" instead! Find that for sale in my store! Click HERE. Before you go, please enter to win one of 3 TpT $50 gift cards from iteach K-2 Collaborative. Enter our rafflecopter by following one or more teachers. a Rafflecopter giveaway I hope you have a terrific school year!! There are so MANY wonderful back to school ideas, just click the links below read about even more. An InLinkz Link-up SaveSave
End of the Year Keepsakes, Rhymes and projects. Handprint poems for the end of year transition. Excellence in education via RainbowsWithinReach
Don't we all want kids to say, "I am wonderful"? In this post, I share a great back to school or anytime idea based on this wonderful song.
How many more days until summer? These fun countdown to summer activities for the end of the year will keep students engaged and learning until the last day
The Kindergarten artists and PreKinders also created some artwork inspired by Mondrian. The PreKinders glued down black lines creating squares and rectangles they then colored some of their shapes …
A collection of art projects and activities for children ages 5 & 6
Knowing word families is an important skill to master in the early grades. Here is an engaging and interactive way to practice word families with a container you may have in your house! Crocodile, crocodile, down by the lake… have you ever seen the pin for this cute little guy on Pinterest from Growing […]
Our Kindergarten teachers approached me with a request for an art project for the back cover of their memory books. The kids have filled out pages in their memory books all year and they wanted a colorful back cover. I found a fun and easy way to make fingerprint art on the Frogs Snails and Puppy Dog Tails blog. Then, we used a great end of year poem by Helen H. Moore. We started by dripping water in pans of … Read more... →
Looking for meaningful end of the year student gifts? These inexpensive students gifts are meaningful, cheap, and has a summer reading project.
Need some graduation songs for a preschool or kindergarten celebration? These songs are perfect for little ones to sing on the big day!
Summer is finally here, and it’s time to celebrate with FUN, hands-on SUMMER activities your little learners will go bonkers for! Take the learning outside or get messy inside and...
This project was done almost at the end of our second quarter. Oh how they have improved since the beginning of the year! We viewed m...
FREE 🎓 End of the Year Keepsake Boxes and Poems for Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten and First Grade
I finished our math unit on Patterns. I created some pattern problems and an assessment sheet to use to help with report card grading. I read the problem aloud and let the kids decide if they need help they could stay on the rug or get up and work independently. I have some sample of children work, and the download is below. On this sheet, if they thought something was too difficult they could make an H and circle it. I had a lot of students put H's in different spots. They could make a pattern if writing it was too difficult. Pattern Assessment I love doing word problems and think it is always interesting to see how a student solves a problem. The flower problem was easy to do but many students needed to double- check their answer. The group immediately started saying what color they thought it was, which made other kids go back and double check. Flower Pattern Problem The Line Up Problem was the hardest. I was surprised at how many students wanted to try to solve it. They wanted to make a very detailed picture of people, which we talked about finding the quickest way to record. The Lineup
5 Easy weather science experiments for preschoolers and toddlers! Simple hands on learning activities to help your child learn about rain, tornadoes, rainbows, and more!
Hi Friends, For all my Catholic/Christian School friends, you know that Ash Wednesday is this Wednesday and we begin the long season of Lent. I used to dread teaching Lent to my kiddos because the material that I could find was above their understanding. There is some really good Catholic/Christian material in the world, but just not enough for little kids. My kinders are excited to receive ashes on Ash Wednesday, but also a little apprehensive. So, I created this little activity that we do every year in preparation of what is to come. You can find this Ash Wednesday freebie on a Google doc that you can find HERE. (Please note that many school districts block outside sites. If this is true of your school, please download from home. If you receive a request for me to "allow access", that is probably what your school district does. The settings for this freebie are set for unlimited access to anyone.) I also do a Lenten book with my students. It is based on the letters in the word LENT. If you would like the entire LENT packet, you can find it at my TPT store by clicking the link below. I also revised my "The Passion of Jesus" resource. In this packet, children create a half-sized booklet of the events that led to the resurrection of Jesus; all written in terms that little ones can understand. I do not provide any scriptural reference in my religious packets because of all the varied versions of the Bible. My resources are a SUPPLEMENT to your present religion curriculum. You can find "The Passion of Jesus" packet in my TPT store by clicking the image below. So, now my friends.... Enjoy those sweets because Lent will be here soon! Until next time! Blessings,
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Raise your hand if you do some fun stuff with environmental print during the year? Why not combine environmental print and alphabet fun! Here are a couple of fun ideas I found via Pinterest. It is from a flickr photo stream. {HERE} is the original source. {Source} I LOVE this display! I tried to do it last year, but it was a bit of a flop! I couldn’t get my parents to send in any labels! (Tips?!) I think it’s a fantastic time filler while you are waiting at the door. I whipped up a sheet that your kiddos can do during free choice time or center time to SPY letters. My friend and co-worker came up with this awesome idea for the kiddos to use when they are “spying” letters. All you need to do is die-cut some O’s, attach a little handle to it, and run it through the laminator. Trim around the outside, but leave the film in the middle of the O. Brilliant!! I cut this one on my Silhouette Cameo – I am going to make them in all sorts of colors and make a BIG one for whole group I Spy games! Fun! WARNING: Don’t buy these Berry Burst Ice Cream Oreos---they are DANGEROUSLY good! How do you use environmental print in your classroom?
FREE 🎓 End of the Year Keepsake Boxes and Poems for Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten and First Grade
Easy prep activities for the end of the school year. Great end of the school year ideas.
Along with all my other usual Valentine's activities I do this time of year.. I like to do a mini unit on magnets! Here are a few aweso...
Getting close to the end of the year? Here are several fun end of the year student gifts that you can put together for your students!
An expressive, easy and impressive penguin art project, these adorable penguins are quite easy to complete in two, 40 minute sessions using basic art
Recently I was asked for end of the year student gift ideas. I went back through my files and found the templates for the student gifts / end of the year celebration favors that I have given out over the years. I decided to put them all in one blog post to share with you and […]
