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These kindergarten thematic units are an engaging way to help your students practice important skills each month of the school year!
Monthly Self Portrait Journal for Preschool and Kindergarten with seasonal and nonseasonal versions and special day pages.
Hey all! I hope that you are enjoying your last few days of summer. I've had some questions lately from both new and veteran teachers alike about year-long pacing of curriculum. How can you make sure
ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,
Kindergarten homework made easy! Find a simple and effective way to do homework in kindergarten with these printable and editable homework calendars.
Make practicing counting, shapes, alphabet letters, what comes next, and more fun with these super cute, FREE Apple Worksheets for Preschoolers!
Track and watch students progress with name writing and drawing self portraits by doing them monthly! Each month students will draw their self portrait and write his/her name at the bottom. If you own the bundle Portfolio and Assessments BUNDLE, Just the Student Portfolios. or Just the Assessments for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten you already own this product so don’t buy it again! What’s included: WITH A BOX for the student to write his/her name • Self Portrait Journal Cover • Monthly self portrait pages with the month at the top • Self portrait page with NO month at the topWITH A DOTTED LINE • Self Portrait Journal Cover • Monthly self portrait pages with the month at the top • Self portrait page with NO month at the top Need Writinng Journals? Check out... • Journal Writing Tools for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten Click the ★green star★ at the top of my store to follow me to receive 50% off all new products for the first 24 hours a new product is posted! Visit my store Pocket of Preschool Let’s Connect! → My Website → Facebook → Pinterest → Instagram → Newsletter Terms of Use Pocket of Preschool™️. By purchasing and/or downloading this electronic file, you agree to the following terms. For personal use/single classroom use only. No part of this document may be distributed, posted on the internet, copied, edited, or resold. ALL contents of this document are under copyright protection including all content, text, fonts, and graphics, Thank you for respecting my hard word as well as the hard work of the artists whose work helped create this product. To purchase additional licenses select to purchased additional licenses at checkout or go to “my purchases”, select the item, and click “buy additional licenses”. Did you know there are TPT School Accounts? Tell your administrator and ask if your school will purchase this for your classroom.
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Learn about the benefits of monthly writing prompts for kids. This article gives examples for each month as well as a free writing calendar.
So we’ve decided what we want to teach . We’ve chosen our musical materials . Now it’s time to plug it all in. Today I’m sharing how I’ve planned the first month of Kindergarten.
Hey all! I hope that you are enjoying your last few days of summer. I've had some questions lately from both new and veteran teachers alike about year-long pacing of curriculum. How can you make sure
Grab our free, clickable Mega List of Themes and Skills for Pre-K & Kindergarten Lesson Plans to see what themes/skills I cover in my classroom all year!
Flowers, insects, and sunshine! Just in time for the month of May, and these Transitional Kindergarten May Worksheets! These printables have been a life saver for me! In the midst of distance learning, I have been sending these electronically to my parents to help my TK students continue their learning at home. You can also...
In today's article: Fun back to school color by number worksheets! Back to school time is right around the corner. If you want your kids to get excited about going back to school, try these
Finish off your classroom library with these adorable storybook character posters! (DIGITAL DOWNLOAD) All posters are digitally drawn from various popular storybooks! Preview of all images are shown in the pictures above. This listing contains 21 different posters! Poster Size: Each poster is 8.5x11 inches (this includes the black border and white edges). If interested in cutting the white border off, the poster is about 7.5 inches wide by 10 inches long (border to border). Printing Tips: I recommend printing the posters on 65 lbs. white cardstock, which can then be laminated to increase durability. Upon purchase, you will notice that there are 2 versions of the posters. One version is the original posters/colours, while the second version has a filter placed on each poster (slightly less vibrant). You can choose which version best suits your personal style/classroom! This file contains 23 different posters, including characters from the books: - The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers - The Smart Cookie by Jory John and Pete Oswald - Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus by Mo Willems - Not Your Typical Dragon by Dan Bar-el and Tim Bowers - Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister - The Cool Bean by Jory John and Pete Oswald - Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes - That's What Dinosaurs Do by Jory John and Pete Oswald - The Couch Potato by Jory John and Pete Oswald - If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond - The Bad Seed by Jory John and Pete Oswald - The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko - Elephant and Piggie Series by Mo Willems - Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri - The Good Egg by Jory John and Pete Oswald - I Am Human by Susan Verde and Peter H. Reynolds - The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle - The Cat In The Hat by Dr. Seuss - Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems - Charlotte's Web by E.B. White and Garth Williams - *Recent Addition Update: Wonder by R.J. Palacio - *Recent Addition Update: Pete The Cat by Eric Litwin and James Dean **For personal use only** ***I do not own these images*** If you have any questions or character requests, feel free to email me!
Hello, friends! My kindergarten is wrapping up a self-portrait lesson and it's one that I've never done before with them. I'm super happy with the result and I wanted to share with y'all. Mostly I wanted to share some of the tips and tricks and things I learned in hopes that it may help you, if you decide to go down this rainbow/self-portrait path. But first, let's chat about where this lesson falls in my kindergarten line of projects. We start the school year in kindergarten with Line Sculptures. From there, we moved on to Dot Painting. Following this, we painted Rainbows! Now, in the past, I completed this Line Unit before moving on but the last couple of years I've mixed it up a bit. I will bounce back to those lessons but for now, we are painting. We've also not finished our rainbows (by adding the sun and clouds) but that will happen this week. My favorite supply for painting with kindergarten are tempera cakes. This is a little what my set up looks like. I always serve up paint (or have the kids get their own paint) on trays. This helps us carry the supplies easier and contain the mess incase there are spills. If you know me and my paint set up, then you know that we normally use dog dishes for water and a sponge. But sometimes we are using them for other things so this is my back up set up: water pot (these are my favorite and you can find them here, they are NO SPILL!), sponge for 'drying' our brush (sponges are called Dirty Ole Sponge Bob and I get them from the Dollar Tree) and a tray to hold the sponges (old sushi dishes!). My tempera cakes are usually a mess. You can purchase tempera cakes in a set but they always end up getting crumbly or with a big hole in the middle. The tray the cakes come in is crap and a thing plastic. I noticed huge messes of paint left on tables a couple of years ago...which was from the thing plastic tray splitting and paint leaking out the bottom! So now I NEVER order the whole tray, just the refills like I do my pan watercolor paint. I love Prang's tempera cakes as well as Jack Richesons. I order all the colors in the rainbow. I use muffin tins and plastic condiment cups to create a palette for the kids. When we are painting our skin tone, the palette is changed to have only red, orange, yellow, white, brown and black. For painting rainbows, this is how I set up the palette. We spend a LOT of time listening to this song and this song as well as learning the ASL for all of the colors in the rainbow! Then we hit the ground running and paint our rainbows. Even in 30 minutes (the length of all my art classes), I always have early finishers! So early finishers are given another sheet of paper and told to paint a rainbow pattern. We wrap those up the following art class. Hot Tip: Cut 2" off the paper that you plan to frame that way it's ready to frame on traditional size construction paper! I plan to frame these self-portraits on black construction paper 12"X18". The following art class, we learn what a self-portrait is! This video REALLY helped and we loved it! After listening, dancing and singing with the song, I demonstrated drawing a large self-portrait as the kids directed me. I asked "what should I draw first? What shape should I use? How big should I draw?" Afterward, they were given paper and a permanent marker (I wished I would have had them use a regular black marker as the line would have been thicker). They did an amazing job! The following art class, we learned all about scissor safety! And how to carry and wear our scissors correctly. Below is a video on how I explain scissor safety to my students (if you cannot see this video, try viewing this blog post from your laptop): After cutting out, kindergarten glued their selfies to their rainbow backgrounds! This is definitely a project I'll be doing again!
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Does the first week of Kindergarten have you shaking in your boots? You are not alone! I've been at this for a little while now so you would think it would get easier with time but I am here to tell you it does not! I still get anxious right before school starts. What will they be like? Will I remember what to do at line up time? What if I don't set things up right and I mess up the whole rest of the year? (sounds dramatic but that is really what goes through my head!) I sat down as soon as school got out and wrote down my first week of lesson plans to put my mind at ease. It has really helped with my worry so far! I wrote down the first five days, plans and procedures I need to introduce, brain breaks, classroom community building activities, easy morning work to get started with and even got my welcome back gifts ready. My mind is officially at ease. I want to make sure I have a lot of fun and a LOT of books planned for the first week too. Here are a couple of fun crafts to go with the books I have planned. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. You can't skip this book the first week of school! Our focus will be all about names the first week (or more!). I put together all of my favorite books with some crafts to help teach all of those back to school procedures like cutting, gluing, and of course following directions. The Wheels on the Bus This one is fun for a little first sound fun. The students change the words to match the first sound in their name. A My Name is Alice by Jane Bayer Alphabet books are the best the first few weeks of school. A My Name is Alice Jane Bayer is the best! This is a fun activity to do after we read the book and they will make really cute self portraits to hang in the hallway the first week of school. Not only did I plan out the activities for these books but for lots of other favorites like Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes, Rosie Takes a Walk by Pat Hutchins, No David by David Shannon, and Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell. So now I don't have to feel guilty when I am floating in the pool this summer (just kidding, I never feel guilty doing that!) But honestly, I can relax knowing all I have to do is hit print when I get back to school. These plans can work for you too! Click here to see them in my store! Or if you are not ready to think about school yet pin this for later! P.S. Get a FREE ALPHABET ACTIVITY when you sign up for my newsletter HERE!
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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... →
Hey friends! I had roadmapping on my mind during vacation, and I came back and made an example of what a road map could look like for the Kindergarten common core math standards. Hop over to my blog to read more and grab your free copy. BTW, I'm working on 1st and 2nd and they'll be available soon! Math Coach's Corner
Get a free editable classroom newsletter template that you can use to send home monthly newsletters to parents! You will love the ease and flexibility of this fully editable PowerPoint newsletter template. Help strengthen the bond between home and the classroom with this communication tool!
Easy-to-use reading logs for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten class that are super cute and kid friendly!
35+ Pre-K and Preschool monthly themes to make learning fun. Engaging themes with hands-on activities your preschool or pre-k kids will love!
Montessori-inspired star and constellation unit with a roundup of resources and activities for multiple ages; perfect for classroom or homeschool!
O.K - the rest of the Behavior Logs are all done for the rest of the year! I hope you can use them!! :) Click on the picture below to...
60+ Must Make Kindergarten Anchor Charts for the classroom. Covers classroom management, literacy and math. Multiple ideas!
I know there are many homeschool families that hold off on any kind of formal math until the children are around 2nd or 3rd grade, instead using various math games and activities to lay a foundation. At first I considered going this route, but over the last few months something
My oldest son starts half day PreK in a few weeks. I made some activities for him to practice basic skills such as letters, shapes and numbers. I am so excited to share them with you! These activities are perfect for Preschool and Kindergarten. I love that they practice fine motor skills as well. Each activity can be printed and placed in a clear view pocket (such as the dry erase kind), or the activities can be laminated and then placed in a Math or Literacy center. Just add your favorite manipulatives. I chose to use pom poms. First up are Letter Cards. The cards come in 4 different printing options: -Full sheet color -Full sheet black and white -Half sheet color -Half sheet black and white Students practice building capital and lowercase letters. Next are the Shape Mats. Students practice building 2D shapes. The sheets come in color and black and white printing options. Next, is Color Word Practice The Find and Cover Alphabet Sheets and Find and Cover Number Sheets are designed to help practice letter and number identification. Find and Cover Teen Numbers The Find and Cover Numbers 0-10 is FREE to download in my store here. Lastly, I have made a few sets to practice sight words. All of these sheets can also be used as Print and Go activities. Just grab markers, crayons, colored pencils, bingo dabbers, etc and you have activities for morning work, small groups, sub tubs, fast finishers and more! If you haven't already grabbed the Number Freebie, just click the picture below! I hope you love these activities! Be sure to check these out it my money saving bundle here! Please be sure to note that when purchasing the bundle the items have been discounted by 50 percent!
