The Expanded Core Curriculum for Students Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ECC-DHH) is an amazing resource that addresses the unique needs of students with hearing loss and spans across the ages 3-21. These data charts take the skills from the ECC-DHH and organizes the rubric by proficiency level to monitor student progress over shorter periods of time. It also reduces the number of pages, and time, that the user needs to flip through in order to evaluate one proficiency level. These data charts are able to follow a student throughout their academic career as they master each proficiency level. Excel functions are also included to help monitor student progress in each proficiency level and in the content areas within a proficiency level. Data Charts Include: Early (Preschool) Emerging (Lower Elementary) Intermediate (Upper Elementary and Middle School) Advanced (High School and Transition) Communication ASL Skill Development & Interpreter Use Family Education These data charts are an Excel document and protected to prevent accidental changes or unintentional deleting of cells. Please watch the video for an demonstration of the material. Remember to Follow Me to stay updated on my latest products! Follow me on Instagram: @DHHontheGo Email me: [email protected]
Start off your student’s high school Spanish language studies with the award-winning curriculum, Breaking the Spanish Barrier Level One Beginner full-year course. The Level One Beginner Test Program packet provides 12 chapter tests and test answers for lessons in the Level One Beginner Student Edition worktext (sold separately). These comprehensive assessments help to ensure your student grasps each lesson's core concepts. Reproducible for classroom use. Unbound. Grades 9 – 12.
This 214 page CORE AREA resource provides parents, teachers, and HOMESCHOOLING families with hundreds of progressive questions and answers that align with 3rd Grade learning targets and content standards in Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, and Science. LANGUAGE ARTS: Many of these ELA questions encompass spelling, phonics, readings, literary genres, and essential grammar facts. Specific 3rd questions include (but not limited to): consonants (hard and soft); vowels (long and short); alphabetizing; prefixes and suffixes; compound words; synonyms and antonyms; homonyms; homophones; parts of a story; parts of speech; contractions; idioms; singular and plural; present and past tense; comparatives and superlatives; similes and metaphors; declaratives and interrogatives; abbreviations; possession; types of text; and SIGHT words. SOCIAL STUDIES: Many of the social studies questions encompass geography, history, peoples, regions, and cultures. Specific 3rd questions include (but not limited to): continents; mountains and deserts; islands; states and capitals; rivers, lakes, oceans, and canals; peninsulas and straits; ancient civilizations; fortresses and temples; Greece and Italy; empires; Native Americans; Canada; Scandinavia; Early EXPLORERS; religion; and cultural diversity. CIVICS: The focus of this chapter is to prompt children to think about all levels of government, the role of the citizen, and the importance of becoming contributing members of the community, the state, and the nation. SCIENCE: The science questions encompass a wide array of scientific topics including astronomy, biology, chemistry, Earth science, ecology, geology, physics, weather, climate, and zoology. Specific 3rd questions include (but not limited to): matter and energy; force and motion; light and sound; simple tools; rocks; Earth; ecosystems and Biomes; mountains and volcanoes; plants and animals; animal classification; producers and consumers; organisms; weather and atmosphere; human body; scientific instruments; solar system; seasons; and scientific inventors. These learning standards can easily be applied to the outside world. Exploration and experimentation are highly encouraged! MATH: These questions encompass math skills, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, operations, fractions, time, and money. Specific 3rd questions include (but not limited to): place value; patterns; addition and subtraction; greater than, less than, or equal to; rounding; Roman numerals; ordinals; multiplication and division; math properties; products and quotients; square roots; integers; variables; fractions; decimals and percentages; graphs; money and currencies; measurement; geometric shapes; area and perimeter; line segments; 3D shapes; and simple word problems. Allowing for paper and pencil computation, and actually looking at the math questions is encouraged if need be! Why Ask Me Smarter? Because it is kid-engaging in that the BRAIN cannot resist a question! Because it is a simplified and stream-lined format in interpreting an elementary school curriculum and prescribed learning targets! Because learning is optimized through progressive questioning and spaced retention! Because many of the questions reflect "I CAN" statements per grade level. It is a simple but important questioning resource that serves to empower children with essential knowledge, making knowledge FUN-da-men-tal!
Recommended for: Early Years (PreK-K), Primary Years (K-3rd) A Year-Long Charlotte Mason and Waldorf-Inspired Seasonal Nature Study for Elementary Treehouse Nature Study is a seasonal nature study curriculum designed with family-style learning in mind. It is a gentle guide meant to invite various ages to connect with each other and the world around them through living books, nature notebooking, hands-on projects, and beauty subjects such as poetry, picture study, and folk songs. From preschool through upper middle school, it appeals to every age and is easily used with multiple ages at the same time. It would be a great fit for your preschool or kindergartener’s core curriculum or your whole family’s home education Morning Time and Nature Study. It also provides supplemental work for your children’s language arts through poetry memorization, recitation, copywork, and notebooking.
This product contains the specific expectations for the Ontario Grade 4, Grade 5, and Grade 6 Core French curriculum. The text is in English. The specific expectations are the same for each grade - except for minute details in the "Intercultural Understanding" sections. Differences lie in the suggested teaching strategies and prompts in the curriculum document. - includes learning skills (from Growing Success) - specific expectations by section - four strands (reading, writing, speaking, listening) * each on its own page Read my blog post about how I use this resource at http://misslaidlaw.blogspot.ca/2015/10/ive-always-had-hard-time-with.html! Each page has a section at the bottom for anecdotal/written comments and a colour-coded key for stars and next steps (for example, colour the "stars" bullets in green and the "next steps" in orange). This can be used as: ongoing feedback from teacher to student, peer and self-assessments by students, to accompany progress reports and report cards, and/or to assist with report card comments and grading. Do you teach INTERMEDIATE Core French? * Intermediate Core French Checklist Do you teach French Immersion? * Primary French Immersion (Language) Curriculum Checklist * Junior French Immersion (Language) Curriculum Checklist Remember to leave feedback to earn TPT points - which can be cashed in and used toward future purchases! Related products: Curriculum Expectations - Checklists, Reports, Assessment, Feedback, and Observations Ontario Full Day Early Learning Kindergarten Curriculum Checklist Ontario Grade 7 Health and Physical Education Checklist
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Math is one thing that I can rely on. Math is math, and regardless of what the common core constituents might say, it doesn't change. That means you can use the same math curriculum for years and years, or purchase older curriculum (aka inexpensive), and still be certain that your kids are getting a solid math education. Here is what we've used for K-12 so far, told from a realistic, practical, let's-get-'er done-perspective. Cuz that's how I roll. :-) Note: This post is a little outdated now, as the years have gone by and I've chosen different options for my
I work really hard to listen and observe the kids to see what they are interested in. I like to use their interests to guide the curriculum. I have found that when the curriculum stems from their interests, they naturally use the literacy, math, and 21st century skills needed as they explore and investigate. From the beginning of this year, the kids had been showing an interest in bird nests. Every time we went out on the playground, they were making nests. They also started gathering every stick we could find in order to build a more sturdy nest in our classroom since the one on the playground disappeared every day. Since we were still building a learning community in our room, I observed and put this on the back burner to revisit later, hoping the interest would hold. It did!! I put out an invitation to look closer and see what they noticed about the nests before we started building one. I also put out an invitation to create nests in our clay area. I predicted that maybe our nest inquiry would lead into an interest in birds so I also set out an invitation to learn more about birds to see what would happen. A few kids were interested and enjoyed it and learned from it, but not a majority of the kids. Birds would not be a large scale inquiry. I decided to stick with nests and see where it would take us. As we started a See/Think/Wonder Chart about nests, a picture of a bald eagle on its nest was noticed on our promethium board. All of a sudden, all of their questions and wonders were centered around these Bald Eagles. You could feel their excitement as we discussed and wondered about these amazing birds of prey! I asked if they wanted to explore these eagles further and they were very excited about the prospect! We watched many videos and live cams showing us eagles. The kids never tired of watching these! Based on their wonders, we created four expert teams. The Nest Experts (for those who were originally into the nest making), The Eagle Experts, The Eagle Family Experts, and The Eagle Prey Experts. I put out paints and clay in our Art Studio Area that would inspire them to use art to show what they notice about eagles. I loved how many tried to show that they noticed the curved beak of the eagle! The Eagle Experts learned that an eagle can get up to 43 inches high and have a 7 1/2 foot wing span! They measured out the width and height of the eagle and I drew it out for them. These birds can be massive! They were amazed at how big they were! They enjoyed seeing how much bigger the eagles wing spans were compared to them! They then looked closer at the feather colors and used ripped paper to create the long feathers of the wings and short feathers on its belly. They learned that they have curved beaks and sharp talons to hunt their prey with and learned the terms predator/prey and what they mean. The nest experts used the sticks we had been collecting and started out by throwing the sticks everywhere on a little branch I provided for them. They soon realized this wasn't going to work as all the sticks started falling off. I loved listening to them talk about it and problem solve. I heard terms and phrased such as "team" and "We won't give up!" They asked to look up a picture on my iPad. I had them look closely at an eagle nest to see what they noticed. They noticed the sticks went around the outside in a circle-like way and there was grass in the middle to make it soft. They then watched a video on the computer of an eagle making a nest. They noticed that she tried many places to put that one stick before she decided on where it would stay. When they went back to the nest, they were very careful on their placement of sticks! It was very hard and I still had to wire some pieces together to keep it from falling apart. This team learned how amazing it is that birds can make such strong nests with just two feet and a beak! They came to the conclusion that humans are not as good as birds when it comes to making a good sturdy nest, but we did our best and it turned out great, though fragile! They created a "Stop! Do not touch" sign. The Eagle Family Experts wanted to show what a typical eagle family looked like. They learned that the mom eagle is bigger than the dad eagle and that the mom have one to three eggs at a time. Both help keep the eggs warm and take care of/feed the babies. Two friends chose white clay to make an egg. One put a crack in it as though it were getting ready to hatch. After studying the colors on the birds, they used paper tubes to create the eagle family. They made sure the mother was bigger and that her and the father were brown with white heads and yellow beaks. The babies were fluffy gray with black beaks. They prey team used the computer and researched the type of animals that Eagles hunted and decided to use clay to show some examples. We created a web map in our room to organize our wonders and what we learned. Here are the finished displays to show what we had learned during our inquiry! The kids labeled and added the facts that we learned around our large eagle. It was amazing to see where the students took this! It was entirely based on their interests and changed with them! It took a little while to develop into a large scale inquiry. Not all of their interests go that far, and that is okay. This easily could have been a small scale nest inquiry done by a small group! I just had to listen to them, pay attention, and be willing to set out opportunities for them to explore further based on what I observed! So far, I have noticed two other very heavy interests shared by the class as a majority. Superheroes, and creating sounds and rhythm in different ways. I have noticed these interests since the beginning of the year and those interests continue to be strong, so while many other small scale inquiries may be going on, after the holidays, we may start one of these! I can't wait to see where the kids will take those interests! Here are some other things going on in our room! In math we are learning about making numbers up to ten in different ways to develop their number sense. They are also working hard to be able to write their numbers to 20. Some are even trying to get to 100! It took this friend 3 white boards to get to 80! Her goal is 100! A lot is going on literacy as kids are getting very excited about how much they have learned to read and write! In writing all of the kids are working on different writing skills from drawing a story to letter/sound correspondence to spaces and punctuation! In reading we are focusing on learning as many sight words as we can and noticing blends in words. In our science area, the kids have expressed a new interest in potions. I set up their first potion experiment for them. This station will continue through the holidays. In engineering, the blocks have been largely ignored in favor of K'nex! After reading the book "The Most Magnificent Thing," the kids have enjoyed creating their own magnificent things and showing the class what they do and how they work! Lots of creative and critical thinking are going on here! Stay tuned to see what will happen next in our classroom! You can never tell what it will be!
Your high school student’s Spanish language studies can finish strong with the award-winning curriculum, Breaking the Spanish Barrier Level Three Advanced full-year course. The Level Three Advanced Test Program packet provides 12 chapter tests and test answers for lessons in the Level Three Advanced Student Edition worktext (sold separately). These comprehensive assessments help to ensure your student grasps each lesson's core concepts. Reproducible for classroom use. Unbound. Grades 10 – 12.
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Recommended for: Early Years (PreK-K), Primary Years (K-3rd) A Year-Long Charlotte Mason and Waldorf-Inspired Seasonal Nature Study for Elementary Treehouse Nature Study is a seasonal nature study curriculum designed with family-style learning in mind. It is a gentle guide meant to invite various ages to connect with each other and the world around them through living books, nature notebooking, hands-on projects, and beauty subjects such as poetry, picture study, and folk songs. From preschool through upper middle school, it appeals to every age and is easily used with multiple ages at the same time. It would be a great fit for your preschool or kindergartener’s core curriculum or your whole family’s home education Morning Time and Nature Study. It also provides supplemental work for your children’s language arts through poetry memorization, recitation, copywork, and notebooking.
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In recent years, students have been expected to synthesize what they read at a deeper level than when I started teaching (long, long ago…). When readers synthesize information, they bring together facts from multiple sources to create an overall understanding of the material. Readers blend their background knowledge, new information from the reading, and facts […]
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Central Message Exit Tickets Here is a resource aligned with the Core Knowledge Skills Strand Curriculum! Included in this resource are central message exit tickets to go along with CKLA's Skill Stand: Unit 3: Fables for first grade. Central message is a hard skill for students! This resource offers multiple choice options for students to recognize and select for each story in the Unit 3 reader. **************************************************************************************************************** Want more CKLA resources? Check out these: CKLA Remediation Comprehension Questions:First Grade: Unit 1 CKLA Domain 3 (Knowledge Stand) Central Message Exit Tickets
For every teacher it's different, but you know who they are for you--the students who are \"hard to teach.\" Maybe they're reading far below grade level. Maybe they're English learners. Maybe they have diagnosed learning disabilities or behavioral issues. Maybe they're underachieving for reasons that are unknown. They have been overlooked or underserved or frustrated, and they're not learning as they should. Until now. Until you. How to Reach the Hard to Teach presents a thoughtful and practical approach to achieving breakthrough success with linguistically and culturally diverse students who struggle in school. Combining elements of the SIOP(R) Model and the FIT Teaching(R) approach, authors Jana Echevarr a, Nancy Frey, and Douglas Fisher take stock of what we know about excellent instruction and distill it into five guiding principles: Set high expectations. Provide access to the core curriculum. Use assessment to inform instruction. Attend to language development--both English and academic. Create a supportive classroom climate. You'll learn specific practices associated with each principle and see how real-life teachers are employing these practices in their classrooms so that all students have the opportunity to learn and receive optimal support for that learning. Every teacher has had the experience of seeing a \"hard to teach\" student in a new light and realizing all he or she might achieve. This book is about shining that light of possibility on the students who challenge us most, interrogating our beliefs, and taking action to ensure they receive the best instruction we have to offer. Author: Jana Echevarría, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher Publisher: ASCD Published: 08/26/2016 Pages: 178 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.50lbs Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d ISBN: 9781416622383
I've been working hard this week to get my long range plans done and I think I finally settled on a plan I am happy with. Moving to a new grade with a new group of teachers is going to be a challenge in that I'm not sure everyone will be on the same page with me. I have made certain changes to their LRP's from last year based on what I think these students need to be ready for 3rd grade next year {since that's where I coming from}. Regardless, I think I have to do what is best for my students! I created two formats. The first is a glance at the whole year month by month. This is something that I think will be great to send home with parents at the beginning of the year so they know what they can expect. The second format is mostly for me and my own planning purposes. I've updated and changed the format of the latter one a bit to better suit my needs. These long range plans reflect the 2nd grade Common Core standards for Math and ELA, but 2nd grade South Carolina standards for Science and Social Studies. You can download your own copy HERE and edit them however you would like. You will need the fonts KG Always a Good Time, KG Miss Kindergarten, and KG One More Night to view the file correctly. I recommend having these fonts installed before you download and open the file since it is editable. If you do not know how to download and install new fonts, please click HERE for a simple tutorial form the Kayla Aimee Writes Blog! I hope you find these useful! Happy Planning!
While making time can be a challenge, this post shows how integrated social studies language arts science and math can help you fit it all in.
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A Monday afternoon, working with one of my second graders, helping him fill in a blank hundreds grid. Suddenly it hit me. What if... ...using different colored pencils, players alternate capturing squares on a hundreds grid... ...while trying to get 4 squares in a row, column, or diagonal. It would work just like tic-tac-toe. Each tic-tac-toe is worth a point, and you can keep track with tallies. Play until the board is filled up. Theresa and I played a practice round: Initially we tried 3 in a row, but things got very confusing and we decided that 4 in a row was better. We also tried a game where a square could be used in multiple tic-tac-toes, but didn't like that either. We also decided that the 0 and 100 would not count towards any player's tic-tac-toe. And then it was time to take newly christened Number Grid Tic-Tac-Toe for a test drive. (Apologies if someone holds the patent on this!) Jane's class was first, and we decided to get crazy and use a grid that went from 1 to 120. It took only about 5 minutes playing a demo game with a volunteer under the document camera and they were ready to rumble. "Hmmm. Where should I go?" "I think I can figure this out in my head." Playing it safe. Using a number grid to help is so SMP 5. A barn-burner. You can see here that 34 was used twice, as was 46. Over the next several weeks I tried it out with 3 more second grade classes and 1 third grade class. I asked each to write down their reflections and reactions on the back of their game boards. Here's a sample: I liked this game because it was fun to figure out where the numbers go. I like this game because you need strategy. I loved it so much but hard. So hard!!! I think the game helps because to put the right number in the right place you have to count by numbers and learn to do that in the game. I liked it because I outsmarted (my opponent) when he tried to outsmart me. I like this game because you have to think hard. The kids came up with some awesome suggestions for modifying the game, including: If someone gets stuck, the other player gets a point. If you get three in a row you get half a point. Add a few numbers scattered around the board. (Love it! This child wants it differentiated!) If you get five in a row you get 2 points. Jane's class experimented with a 3 player game: They found that 3 in a row was better with 3 players. Maggie's class tried something a little more difficult: "What goes here?" Many possibilities... If it's green's turn, where should he go? Why? Defend your answer. I'm happy to report that the game is wildly popular; for some reason it hits that elusive kid sweet spot. I suspect it's because the cognitive demand is just right. (I like this game because you have to think hard. Unspoken: But not too hard?) And because the kids already know how to play tic-tac-toe, they can expend their mental energy on strategy and on figuring out which number goes in what square without worrying about a bunch of rules. The teachers love it too because it's easy to explain and takes almost no effort to prepare. So grab a blank grid and some colored pencils and have some fun!
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About the Book Offering an amazing hands-on experience that makes math fun, this interactive book explains such key curriculum subjects as shapes, patterns, telling time, lines of symmetry, addition, subtraction, and measurement through more than 50 elements. Full color. Book Synopsis Covering the essential math concepts learned in the first years of school, Amazing Visual Math brings a whole new dimension to learning. Amazing Visual Math is an interactive hands-on experience that makes math fun. Key curriculum subjects including shapes, patterns, telling time, lines of symmetry, addition, subtraction, measurement and more are explained through over 50 interactive elements throughout the book including pop-ups, flaps, and pull the tab elements, making an otherwise tedious subject entertaining. Ideal for developing manual dexterity skills and sharpening visual learning skills, Amazing Visual Math is a hands-on experience kids won't want to put down. Supports the Common Core State Standards. Review Quotes "If your child has a hard time grasping math concepts I would recommend picking up a copy." - SheScribes.com "[A] unique way of teaching key curriculum subjects, including shapes, patterns, telling time, lines of symmetry, addition, subtraction, measurement and more." - TheMomBuzz.com About the Author DK was founded in London in 1974 and is now the world's leading illustrated reference publisher and part of Penguin Random House, formed on July 1, 2013. DK publishes highly visual, photographic nonfiction for adults and children. DK produces content for consumers in over 87 countries and in 62 languages, with offices in Delhi, London, Melbourne, Munich, New York, and Toronto. DK's aim is to inform, enrich, and entertain readers of all ages, and everything DK publishes, whether print or digital, embodies the unique DK design approach. DK brings unrivalled clarity to a wide range of topics with a unique combination of words and pictures, put together to spectacular effect. We have a reputation for innovation in design for both print and digital products. Our adult range spans travel, including the award-winning DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, history, science, nature, sport, gardening, cookery, and parenting. DK's extensive children's list showcases a fantastic store of information for children, toddlers, and babies. DK covers everything from animals and the human body, to homework help and craft activities, together with an impressive list of licensing titles, including the bestselling LEGO(R) books. DK acts as the parent company for Alpha Books, publisher of the Idiot's Guides series and Prima Games, video gaming publishers.
Play into Kindergarten Readiness is a step-by-step, thoughtful, and wholesome curriculum for 3 to 5 year olds. In 20-minutes of play a day, you will cover all core skills, including: literacy, math, fine and gross motor skills, social-emotional wellness, and more. The activities included with your coursebook are: Planned for you day-by-day Play-based with minimal prep Developmentally appropriate Teacher created and approved Plus, you will receive beautiful vocabulary cards and other printables to extend the learning and create a cozy, welcoming learning space.
I do this activity after we read, "Teamwork Isn't My Thing, And I Don't Like To Share" by Julia Cook with classes that have a hard time working together or getting along when they are in pairs or small groups.
JUST PRINT & EDUCATE! This listing is for aninstant downloadable BALANCED PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM for May, with 89 items included! What makes it balanced? Most preschool bundles include only one form of learning; either letters or numbers or a theme like transportation. This listing is completely different from those. When you purchase this listing, you will download a complete MONTH'S WORTH of activities. The activities are balanced with fine motor handwriting skills, conceptual concepts like counting and math, and fun craft activities like a Shark Fin Hat or an adorable Llama craft. Buy this one listing instead of piecing together several to get a well rounded curriculum. EVERYTHING IS INCLUDED to do all the activities and crafts, costing you only the one time purchase price. I have included both a color and black and white version of each project so that you can choose which way you want the project to go. Print as many copies as you need, giving you a complete month of early childhood curriculum that you can use for as many kiddos you have, year after year without ever having to purchase the crafts and worksheets again. Why buy a book you can only use once? Teaching is hard and Early Childhood Educators (daycare/preschool) are expected to prepare kids to start school at a much higher level than in previous years. My curriculum is Core Knowledge based, which is a belief of learning through a system of building blocks, growing upon the previous acquired knowledge. For example, before you can learn addition, you need to know how to count forwards. Before you can read, you need to know the phonetic sounds of each letter. My month of curriculum accomplishes this. But don't worry! I have included tips and detailed instructions to do each activity so even if you have a limited amount of experience with teaching toddlers and preschoolers, you can easily do these activities. And the activities are fun! Kids love opportunities to cut and glue and color. They love accomplishing new skills, which in turn, builds confidence and a love for learning. This curriculum gives them exposure to not just one form of learning either. It takes into account kiddos all learn differently, giving them lots of different ways to comprehend the concepts. The best thing about this curriculum set is that it will work for kids as early as one,up thru kindergarten. For example, included are 3 different types of handwriting sheets, for whichever level your child is at. Obviously, a one-year-old is still developing his/her fine motor skills. The best way to do this? Give them lots of opportunities to color. What's more fun than a toddler with a marker?? Nothing. Do they care that they are coloring a sheet with a letter on it? Of course not. It's the small exposures that help your child grow and learn at a natural pace, making learning fun. As his/hers fine motor develops, you can move on to the next level of worksheets where helpful starter dots make it easy to learn the correct formation of letters. Once the muscle memory of the formation begins to take shape, your child can move on to the pre K version they will be able to do all on their own. And that is just one example of the quality and structure you receive with this listing. This listing also includes a planning calendar for the month. If you are uncertain how best to structure your day, please visit my Daily Schedule listing below. Usually, we do one structured activity in the morning and one in the afternoon, balancing out the day while still allowing for lots of unstructured playtime (and outside time! )Fridays are fun at my school, so Friday afternoons are designated Movie Days and Show & Tell. Think of it as a reward after a long week - for everybody. My kiddos really look forward to Friday's and I've included it on your calendar as a reminder that life is not all work and no play :) You will also receive 2 modifiable monthly newsletters/calendars (a color version, as well as black and white) that you can use to communicate with the families in your care about all the cool things you are doing with their kiddos. Parents love these! If you home school or are a parent using this curriculum with your own kiddos, it's a great reward chart for your child to keep track of the days, activities and the fun things they will be learning all month long. I use this very same curriculum in my own daycare and all of my kiddos continue into elementary school ready and excited to learn. Kids are in care sometimes 8-10 hours a day. It is our joy and responsibility to make sure we are giving them the best start to their education career by establishing their love for learning at a time in their life they are most impressionable. 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EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH OF MAY (89 items!): *10 PDF ALPHABET LETTER CRAFTS: IJ is for Insect Juggling - Color and B&W KL is for Lion King - Color & B&W MN is for Monkey Ninja - Color & B&W OP is for Orange Plants - Color & B&W QR is for Queen's Riddles - Color & B&W *15 PDF HANDWRITING ALPHABET WORKSHEETS (all three levels - Beginner thru Kindergarten): IJ, KL, MN, OP, QR *5 PDF HANDWRITING NUMBER WORKSHEETS: 9 & 10, 11 & 12, 13 & 14, 15 & 16, 17 & 18 *10 PDF COLORS & SHAPES CRAFTS: Green: Frog Handprint - Color & B&W Heart: Kangaroo craft - Color & B&W Heart: Orca Whale - Color & B&W Square: Bird - Color & B&W Square: Whale coloring - Color & B&W *10 PDFALPHABET CRAFT & WORKSHEETS: IJ thru QR Finger Trace Worksheets IJ thru QR Letter Poems *29 PDF THEMED/HOLIDAY CRAFT ACTIVITIES: Birds - Mommy Bird book -B&W Birds - Robin Eggs - Color & B&W Big Bird craft - Color & B&W Flying Bird - Color & B&W Nutrition - Eat A Rainbow - Color & B&W Nutrition - Happy or Sad Teeth - Color & B&W Nutrition - Hand Washing coloring sheet - Color & B&W Mother's Day Gifts - Card & Present - Color & B&W Llama Llama craft - Color & B&W Plants - Cactus Craft - Color & B&W Plants - Tulip Handprints - Color & B&W Plants - What Do Plants Need? - Color & B&W Ocean - Shark Fin Hat - Color & B&W Ocean - Jellyfish craft - Color & B&W Ocean - Rainbow Fish - Color & B&W *3 PDF CONCEPTUAL WORKSHEETS: Counting Different Left or Right *7 WORD MODIFIABLE MONTHLY TOOLS FILES: May Calendar - Color and B&W May Icons Blank Planning Calendar (you can use this to plan out your month from the projects provided) May Planned Calendar (a written calendar of all the projects provided) Water Fun Notice - Intro into Summer Program __________________________ * Instant Download * Hi-res, word file, royalty free images included * Each file is 8.5x11 inches, printable on regular size paper __________________________ ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 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Central Message Exit Tickets Here is a resource aligned with the Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum! Included in this resource are central message exit tickets to go along with Domain 3: Different Lands, Similar Stories for first grade. Central message is a hard skill for students! This resource offers multiple-choice options for students to recognize and select for each story in the Domain 3 Read Alouds. In the curriculum, one of the comprehension questions asked each day for the later lessons, questions the central message. This is a quick resource you can use for evidence of this skill! **************************************************************************************************************** Want more CKLA resources? Check these out: Remediation Story Questions for Unit 1: CKLA Remediation Comprehension Questions: First Grade: Unit 1 Unit 3: Fables Central Message Exit Tickets Unit 3: Fables (Skills Strand) Central Message Exit Tickets
Are you a CKLA Amplify teacher? I am a 2nd grade CKLA teacher and was having a hard time keeping students engaged in the Skills Strand. So I created these Supplemental PowerPoints to keep students engaged and to make sure they were getting the main idea from each lesson. This resource goes with the ...
I spent soooo long prepping materials for my The Hate U Give unit, that I almost don't know what to do with myself now that I'm actually teaching it!
Describe the connections between historical events is a Common Core Standard that is hard to teach! Here is how I taught this standard with the events leading up to the first Thanksgiving. Through this unit, students asked and answered questions, we made a timeline, we read great books, AND we figured out the connection between historical events.
