This guide of helpful tips for kindergarten screening will help you gather important information about your students' readiness skills.
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Assessment can be difficult for both teachers and students, depending on how it’s done. Here’s a super simple little trick for assessment that I call Hop Across the Pond. It can be used for a lot of different things, but I use it mostly for assessment of students’ sight word knowledge. I used to ask […]
It's the beginning of the year, and you have a whole new class that is sitting in front of you. You don't know them besides the information you got on the student information card. You know the first few weeks are getting to know them. Both personally and academically. You also know the first few
Check your students’ level of understanding through student goals and self assessment.
These assessment forms for Pre-K can be used to record children's progress as you work with them during learning activities or observing them through
In order to get ahead of the game, I decided to redesign our fall and spring checklists for Pre-K. Our old format led parents to believe we just filled in the information ourselves and didn't ask the students the information. So this time I chose to include the words "I can." Hopefully that will let them know that their child identified the information. If you would like a copy, click here. Spring Checklist Fall Checklist We use work sampling online to assess our students. If you are not familiar with this format, it has 54 standards that have to be evaluated on students over a 18 week period. I always find myself stressed at the end looking for documentation for these checklist items. We do all of the things more than once but each student cannot have the same documentation for the same area. It has to be child specific. So in order to keep me on top of things I took the standards and broke them down for the beginning of the year. I am hoping this will help me gather data on all students through pictures, work samples, or matrices in that month. Of course, I will gather documentation on these more than once but this will help me make sure I have at least one form of documentation by rating time.
Assessment is a word that many educators have come to dislike, but we all know that assessment drives instruction. It is important to know where your learners are at in order to teach them effectively. My beginning literacy skills assessment is great way to see what your young learners know. Alphabet knowledge and phonological and phonemic awareness
This assessment includes basic social skills, conversational skills and game playing skills. My class is starting up a new social skills group this year and this assessment has been created in order to determine our starting point and begin planning individual lessons. As the group progresses this will be revised and modified to incorporate more skills and fine tune what is in here. If you notice anything you would like to see added please let me know! [email protected] Fonts By: KG Fonts https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kimberly-Geswein-Fonts
Are you looking for a Grade 1 Science unit that includes engaging experiments, hands-on science activities and assessments that are aligned with the Ontario Science Curriculum? This 60 page resource includes activities that will excite and encourage your students to dig deeper into the topics of Objects, Materials & Everyday Structures. Click here for a preview.
It is the first week of kindergarten! What do I teach? I get this question all the time! I am so excited to put together this page together for you. I’m sharing our favorite first week of kindergarten read aloud stories and the free coordinating printables I made to go with them. Plus I will s
Can I just say I have one of the most creative colleagues ever!! You guys remember Jayme right? She made the cute farm games at the begi...
I'm super excited to be a part of an awesome product swap linky and GIVEAWAY!, brought to you by a bunch of very talented Aussie bloggers that I am very lucky to call friends! At the bottom of this post you'll find a link up featuring everyone who participated in the swap... do yourself a favour and make sure to read all the product reviews because I know you will find a few that you must have for your classroom. :) To make it even better, enter the giveaway for your chance to win ALL of the products that we have swapped! I was very, very lucky to have been paired up with the amazingly talented Mel who is the creative mind behind From the Pond as well as Graphics from the Pond... honestly, she is a one stop shop for classroom resources or graphics to create your own. I literally felt stressed choosing a product from her store, there were so many great ones that I didn't know what to choose! I finally decided on her Sentence Maker pack! This product immediately appealed to me for a number of reasons: 1. I teach Prep (Kindergarten), and the confidence my kidlets have with writing can sometimes be very low. This pack lets them experience success every time! 2. By using either the cut & paste, copy or write versions of each worksheet you can scaffold children towards independent writing. No more throwing them in the deep end! 3. Each sentence reinforces sight word recognition... bonus! 4. Same task, 3 ways = easy differentiation! 5. As soon as I saw the pages in this pack I knew they would be perfect for my Writing Corner. A few of my kidlets are desperate to spend time there independently working on some writing, but they just don't have the skills necessary to successfully write a sentence (or more) by themselves. As soon as Mel sent me this pack I printed a bunch of the pages and popped them in my Writing Corner... instant hit = happy teacher! Because this was a new format for my kidlets, I introduced it in Literacy small groups. Each 'team' completed the task based on their own ability levels. Some cut and glued, some traced, some copied! I only had to explain the task once, which was a bonus. :) We worked on the 'I see a mouse' sentence, because that fit perfectly with the sight words we learned this week! I love that there's a bit of cutting practise involved in this task... my kidlets this year need it! Assembling sentences is very serious business! Holding your breath and wearing funny glasses while tracing sentences is not necessary, but does make it more fun. :) And yes, we are working on this poppet's pencil grip. I am so glad that I got a chance to use this product in my classroom, because now I'm not sure how I ever went without it! Keep an eye on Mel's store because a little birdie tells me that there's plans for a few Sentence Maker packs with different themes - but I bet I snap them up before you do!! Because Aussies are such kind and caring folk, we thought it might be nice to share with you a freebie or two that you could use in your classroom. I'm going to share 2, one from me and one from my product swap buddy! If you've read any of my previous posts, you'll know that I am a huge fan of sensory play experiences for kidlets. I put together a collection of my favourite recipes for easy and fun sensory play in the classroom. Perfect to give to parent helpers to make at home, or for your own easy reference. Simply print and pop in a display folder! Click here to grab it for free! Match Me! is a freebie that I use in my classroom all the time! Mel provides ideas in the product pages... but most recently I used the cards as an awesome whole class activity. I shuffled the numeral, dot and word cards and handed them out to my kidlets. They then had to silently organise themselves in to groups of 3 according to the number they had. Of course, as I was handing the cards out I made sure that each child had a card they could decode. This task was perfect for a group of cherubs who struggle with a) keeping quiet and b) being problem solvers. :) OK, now time for the giveaway!! For a chance to win Mel's Sentence Maker pack, leave a comment on this post! I'll choose a random winner. Easy peasy. Even easier - for a chance to win ALL of the packs featured inn this linky, enter the Rafflecopter below. :) a Rafflecopter giveaway Not sure about you, but I'm off to check out all of the other bloggers who have linked up to share about some awesome products. I hope you find lots that you can use in your classroom! :) Lauren An InLinkz Link-up
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Hey all! I’m so excited to finally be blogging about something that has made my life so much easier over the past year and a half–using exit tickets! Sound a little heavy for kindergarten? Some people think so. Let me be the first to say that as much as I enjoy meaningful data, I also believe that giving students too many lengthy formative assessments can rob us of valuable instructional time. I want to share how I gather information that is USEFUL, and how I do it QUICKLY. Exit tickets
Yesterday we went up to Oklahoma City so my daughter could receive a Poetry Award (she won 1st place in the 2015 Oklahoma Lore Youth Poetry Contest for 10th grade). Afterwards we decided to stop at the zoo for an hour. Last time we were there, Sullivan was all about the animals. In fact, he spent 20 minutes jabbering to the gorillas. In a dramatic turn of events, he went into hysterics when we entered the ape building this time. He started screaming "No monkey!" No monkey!" when the orangutan got close to the window. So...we headed for the gift store. After placating him with a new giraffe rubber duck (he has a rubber duck obsession, at last count he had 50+, all unique and much loved, they are his go-to distraction and as toys go, relatively cheap!) I got to peruse the books and found this gem, 10 Little Hermit Crabs, for our upcoming Ocean Theme: It's a super cute counting book with a happy ending (all 10 hermit crabs show back up on the last page!) We've been finishing up our Spring theme in class - although our butterfly and chicken eggs arrived late this year so we'll be doing our Life Cycle unit in conjunction with Ocean and Farm instead of during the Spring theme as planned. One of our favorite Spring activities was our Pattern Worms. These are super simple and a great quick patterning assessment! I cut pipe cleaners in 1/2 and then twisted one end to form a loop. I had both clear and opaque pony beads, so the kids could choose whatever colors they wanted. Once the beads were in place, I made a small loop at the opposite end and hit it with the glue gun to ensure the beads stayed on.When the wiggle eyes were attached, the kids were thrilled with our "worms" and loved playing with them! The best thing is that everyone can be successful - whether they're still working on AB patterns or have moved on to more complicated patterns (I had a sweetie do an ABCDEFG pattern correctly!) each child was able to create a pattern worm. And, its great fine motor practice to get those slippery beads onto the pipe cleaner! Our Sand & Water Table also got a fun Spring theme activity! I took chenille chickens and baby chick (both from Hobby Lobby's Easter aisle) and added mini eggs (also Easter) and mini birds' nests (from over by the artificial flowers and birds). Then I added some plain white paper litter (from PetSmart - it's meant for small animal cages, but its dye free & dust free so its great for the sensory table!) and some lima beans. The lima beans had upper case letters, lower case letters and the #s 0-20 on them. After the kids had fun playing with the chicks, invariably they wanted something to do with the lima beans! We did everything from sorting them by upper/lower case, sorting by letter/number, finding specific letters, spelling out names etc. This was a super quick bin to put together and the kids had a lot of fun with it. They did wish I had created a sorting mat for them like I did for St. Patrick's Day, so that's on my to-do list for next time I change the materials!
Here is a assessment for graphing. This assessment requires students to complete their own graph and data table. It also requires them to analyze a graph by answering questions using the graph. This assessment features 3 pages, however depending on the needs or instruction you may not need/want t...
We started a new Science unit on Trees! Ms. Arboe had us help her make a KWL Chart. We started our KWL chart by listing things we already...
Introducing addition in Kindergarten using differentiated activities and worksheets.
KINDERGARTEN MATH - UNIT 1 I am thrilled to be sharing this huge Counting and Cardinality Unit with you! This is the math unit we start the year with in kindergarten. The kids love all of the hands-on activities we get to do, and I love how easy it is to keep them engaged.
This assessment pack focuses on basic skills students will learn during Pre-K and Kindergarten. This resource is PERFECT for informally assessing a student’s knowledge at the beginning, middle and end of each year. You can use this during conferences as well as showing progress throughout the school year. Please download the preview to see all that is included. Directions: Print on cardstock and laminate for durability or slip into page protectors! --Students can use a dry-erase marker to circle and write the correct answers. -- Rubric is included (multiple options for assessing throughout the year) Skills Assessed Student Name (writing first and last name) Writing Capital Letters Writing Lowercase Letters Identifying Capital Letters Identifying Lowercase Letters Identifying Letter Sounds A-Z Identifying Beginning Sounds A-Z Reading CVC Words (for short a, e, i, o and u. in color & b/w Identifying CVC Word Families (for –at, -en, ip, ot, and un both in color & b/w) Identifying Rhyming Words (in color & b/w) Story Telling (students tell a story about the given picture. In color & b/w) Sequencing (includes three short passages in color & b/w) Listening Comprehension (includes two stories with 3 questions each in color & b/w) Identifying Colors Identifying 2D Shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, star, heart, octagon, pentagon) Identifying 3D Shapes (sphere, cube, cone, cylinder, rectangular prism, pyramid) Patterns (AB, ABB, ABC, AAB, AABB) Counting 0-10 Identifying Numbers 0-10 Identifying Numbers 0-20 Writing Numbers 0-10 Writing Numbers 0-20 Assessment Trackers (for student records) Questions before you purchase? Ask away in the Q&A! If you notice any errors, please email me before leaving negative feedback. My email address is located on the credits page. Thank you so much! ************************************************************************************************************** Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. Ta-Da! You will now receive email updates about my store. *************************************************************************************************************
These fun and free Subitizing Math Clip Cards for Pre-K & Kindergarten will help your students build subitizing skills and number sense!
Kindergarten is TOUGH, in all capital letters. If you're a new Kindergarten Teacher, brace yourself. If you're a returning Kindergarten Teacher, give yourself a hug and buy yourself something nice, you deserve it for re-entering the jungle by choice. I LOVE Kindergarten, and have dedicated the last four years of my life to mastering the art of Teaching the Little People. <3 With that being said, I've decided to let go of my deep passion for solely teaching Kindergarten and leave it for an even deeper love... teaching READING. An opportunity came open in my building to switch to 2nd Grade READING teacher. I am now readying a new room and new curriculum, but will never lose my love for creating resources for my first love, Kindergarten. So, I'm here to share something with you all that made my life in Kindergarten MUCH easier. It never gets EASY, teaching Kindergarten, but things can always be easier. :) Assessing student knowledge of Letter & Sound Identification is time-consuming and stressful at times, so I created this resource to ease some of the trouble. This FREE Letter & Sound Assessment Binder resource will help you assess students, track their growth and compare their overall performance in a neat and organized fashion. To get started, you'll need: My printed resource. Find it here on TpT. Please follow my store and leave feedback so I can continue to provide this as a FREE resource. A big BINDER Enough tab dividers for your class. Assemble Your Binder 1.) Place your cover in the front. If you're like me, this helps your O.C.D. problem of needing everything to be beautifully labeled. If you're a normal person, you can save yourself some ink and skip this step. 2. Place your whole-group monitoring sheet in the front of the binder. Fill in your student names. I have created space to accommodate 30 students. If you have more than that, Lord bless your soul. :D I like to keep mine sheet-protected because I use it quite often. This saves unnecessary wear and tear. 3.) Place Student-Progress Monitoring sheet at the beginning of each tab divider. You will date and record student performance each time you give the assessment. This gives you a quick over-view of each individual student and the specific number of capital letter/sound and lower-case letter/sound they have mastered. I like to have this view (rather than only a percentage) so I can discuss this info quickly with parents during conferences. This also gives me an insight as to whether the student has a better understanding of letter names or sounds. During my experience, many students catch on to the sounds of letters more quickly than the name. 4.) Make plenty of copies of the Student Assessment and Student Assessment Results sheets and store in the binder pockets. Now, you're READ Y to assess! Assessment Procedure When assessment time comes, grab your binder from the shelf and start tracking student performance. I would pull the Student Assessment Sheet from the front pocket and a results sheet from the back. In the beginning of the year, students will need your assistance in tracking the letters. Use a pen, pointer, colored-chip or any other tool to help them visit each letter. As they identify their letters/sounds, record the information on the results page. I like to use an X to signify that they do not recognize the letter/sound. This seems like a lot in the beginning of the school year, but as time passes, they will learn more and the X's will become fewer. At that time, you'll want to focus more on the letters missed and will be able to spot them more quickly. Store your dated assessment results behind the Student Progress-Monitoring page in your binder. This way, if you want to see specific letters/sounds missed, you can turn to the correct assessment and see quickly which were missed. As you can see here, on August 27th, little Jessica missed every Capital Letter name except for 3 (Q, J and V). She missed ALL Capital Letter Sounds. She went on to recognize 2 Lower-Case Letter names (j and x) and identified 1 lower-case sound (letter j). After assessing that individual student, record their performance on the student progress-monitoring sheet. After calculating the percentage correct, record this info on the Whole-group monitoring sheet. This sounds like a lot of work, but in the end, you'll be glad you did. You'll have a perfectly documented story of how that child performed throughout the school year. As you can see, little Jessica had 100% mastery by January. If you didn't have this information, you might forget how little she knew in the beginning. Don't you love seeing student growth?!?! I also use a highlighter to mark students who have reached 100% mastery. This motivates me to work hard until each student has had their name highlighted. I would have demonstrated that here, but I'm on SUMMER BREAK (wooohoooo!!) and apparently don't own a highlighter outside of school grounds. Yikes! I love free stuff, but I especially love USEFUL free stuff. If you find this to be useful, let me know! If you see need for improving this product, let me know that too. If you need ideas of how to get these little people to be successful during this particular assessment, visit my most popular blog post, How to Increase Letter & Sound Fluency in Kindergarten. I've had oodles of positive feedback from really GREAT teachers. Be sure to check it out! :) Happy Kindergarten Assessment to you! I'll be in 2nd Grade this year, but I'll still keep all of you crazy Kindergarten people in my prayers as you take on a new group of angels. God bless you and yours!
I am so excited to have my new Operations and Algebraic Thinking Unit posted and ready to share with you. So far this year, my sweet kinders have learned so much in math. We have mastered 1:1 correspondence, reading and writing numerals to 20, counting to 100 by ones and tens, how to compose
Looking for end of year assessment tools for the 44 phonemes? Included are 18 consonant sounds, 5 short vowels, 6 long vowel sounds, 3 R controlled vowels, 7 digraph sounds, and 5 special sounds - diphthongs. Aligned with the Science of Reading, easily differentiated to meet the needs of all of your students. BONUS 4 Phoneme Activities, great for fine motor development when used with loose parts! These cards and activities offer a meaningful ways to practice and assess sounds, and can be used in a Guided Group, Literacy Centre or as a performance task for an assessment. The images are watercolour art - calming and not overstimulating! At a Glance: 18 consonant beginning sounds - picture cards, letter cards and assessment pages 5 short vowel beginning sounds - picture cards, letter cards and assessment page 6 long vowel sounds - picture cards, letter cards and assessment page 3 R Controlled Vowels - picture cards, letter cards and assessment page 7 Digraph Sounds - picture cards, letter cards and assessment page 5 Special Sounds, Diphthongs - picture cards, letter cards and assessment page Find the Consonants Activity Page Find the Vowels Activity Page This or That: R Controlled Vowel Sounds Activity Page This or That: 7 Digraph Sounds Activity Page Answer Pages included Watercolour art used for images - calming and not overstimulating! Suggested Ways to Use These Resources: Print and laminate cards (for durability), use as a diagnostic, formative, or summative assessment Match pictures to beginning letter cards - game, literacy centre or assessment Print recording sheets for each students, and keep them close during guided instruction, or while observing playful learning - literacy center or assessment Pages 25 - 28 options: Print out sheets for students to write on OR... Laminate sheets, students can use whiteboard markers, or loose parts Did you know you can earn TpT Credits to earn FREE products by leaving a review! I'd love to hear how you used this in your classroom :) Make sure to Follow Me (small star at the top of my Store Page OR use this link https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Sellers-Im-Following/Add/You-Me-And-Kindie ) to find out when new products are listed! Have a suggestion? I'm always learning and would love to hear your ideas! You can contact me on Instagram @youmeandkindie or email at [email protected] Thanks for stopping by!
Included in this pack are four different number recognition assessments: -Numbers 0-5 -Number 0-10 -Numbers 11-20 -Numbers 1-20 There is a student sheet and a teacher recording sheet for each assessment. These can be used to inform future instruction, as progress monitoring for RtI, or as formative assessment. Want to save money? Get the Letter & Number Recognition Assessment Bundle HERE ***************************************************************************** If you like this, you may also like: -Ten Frame Practice Worksheets and Games -Counting & One-to-One Correspondence Activities {A Growing Bundle} -Addition Task Cards-One Digit {With or Without QR Codes} ***************************************************************************** Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. You will now receive email updates about this store. ☺ ***************************************************************************** Connect With Me: Special Little Learners Facebook Special Little Learners Blog If you have questions about this or any other product, email me at [email protected]
BC's renewed curriculum is based on 6 Core Competencies. The book The Six Cedars connects these competencies to local animals. Free posters and student self assessments.
KINDERGARTEN MATH UNIT 2 - GEOMETRY I am thrilled to be sharing my kindergarten Geometry Unit with you! The kids love all of the hands-on activities we get to do, and I love how easy it is to keep them engaged. I am sharing so many freebies with you right here on this blog
I always used to stress about assessments, I wanted to have the PERFECT assessment and data so I was prepared for report cards and conferences.
