Hi friends! Welcome to another Five for Friday where I share 5 things from my week! 1. I Like Myself Writing My teammate shared this activity with me and I knew we had to try it too! My kids loved looking at the mirror and drawing themselves. I set out the book "I Like Myself!" and and the prompt "What do you like about yourself?" to encourage discussion and writing :) I had a lot of questions on Instagram about the faces. My teammate says they are from Scholar's Choice! 2. Measurement Bulletin Board Last week we wrapped up measurement so we finally put up our learning on our outside bulletin board. To show our learning we put out comparing names writing, capacity writing... hot and cold t-charts and heavy and light t-charts. Some of the girls also decided one day to measure the length of the table using unifix cubes so I documented that as well. All of the printables you see on the bulletin board can be found here. 3. Tower Building We learned about 3D figures after measurement. One activity they enjoyed was this tower building activity! Students were encouraged to make a tower and record their tower. I also asked the students to tell me about their tower and documented what their knowledge of 3D figures. I also challenged some of them to find all of the different ways they could build the tower using the figures they were given! If you want to try this activity with your class, you can grab the sign and recording sheet by clicking here or on the image below: 4. Sight Word Play Dough Most of my kiddos this year have learned most of their letters and sounds already but they still love play dough so I wanted to make something a little more challenging than the alphabet play dough mats I had been setting out. So I made these: I like them because the kids who are still working on letters can still practice forming them and identifying them but the kids who are ready can start to practice making sight words! I also added the "read it" section at the bottom. I used pre-primer sight words and a picture cue so that it would be easily decodable by emergent readers. If you would like to grab these mats, you can find them in my TPT store. Click here or on the image below to check them out! 5. Literacy Assessment Binder So many of you have been asking about my literacy assessment binder after I shared my numeracy assessment binder. You can read that post if you are interested here. Truth be told, my literacy assessment binder is nearly not as comprehensive. But I thought I'd still share in case it is helpful to somebody. In my inside pocket I keep my Reading Progress Letters that I send home after I do running records (with the SK's and the JK's who are ready) to help parents understand their child's areas of need and what they can do at home to support them. Our board's expectation is a PM Benchmark level 6 at the end of Kindergarten, so that is stated on the sheet. You can grab the Reading Progress letter for free by clicking here or on the image below: The back of the reading sheet are the reading strategies. Often times I will write a reading strategy to practice on the front and then highlight the strategy on the back. You can find this sheet in my Reading Strategies pack on TPT here. The first thing I have in my binder is this clear binder pouch where I keep the letters/sight words my intervention kids are working on. I put 10 letters or sight words on their ring at a time and they practice them for a week. I check their rings once a week and if they have mastered the letter/word it gets a checkmark and I take it off the ring and replace it with a new word/letter from this pouch. The printables for the letter and sight word rings can be found in the packs below: The tabs I have in my literacy assessment binder are: - Whole Class Data I keep a whole class data sheet of: 1. Letter ID (Uppercase) 2. Letter ID (Lowercase) 3. Letter Sounds 4. Running Records This helps me see general progress and needs of the whole class. - Letter ID I assess all kids on their letter ID at the beginning of the year and reassess as needed throughout the year. I keep track of this using the sheet below (included in the alphabet ring pack above). - Oct - Concepts of Print - Nov - Hearing Sounds in Words - Dec - Word Test - Jan - Writing Vocal The four tests above are all taken from Mary Clay's Observation Survey. We submit this data to our admin each month. I keep the originals in each tab. - RR - Sept - RR - Oct - RR - Nov - RR - Dec - RR - Jan - RR - Feb - RR - Mar - RR - Apr - RR - May - RR - Jun Each month I do running records with the kids who are reading. They go into each tab by month. - Writing - Term 1 - Writing - Term 2 Although I am assessing during guided writing, through inquiry writing etc. I also make sure I pull out my writing rubric and assess at least one piece of writing at the end of term 1 and term 2. I staple the writing to the rubric and keep a copy in my assessment binder. My writing rubric can be found here. - Intervention Planning/Tracking I keep my tracking sheet for my sight words here so I can highlight them as they master the words on their sight word ring. These can be found in my sight word ring resource above. I try to highlight in a different colour each week so that I can see how much progress they are making week to week. I get a lot of questions about the printables I use in my literacy binder. I pulled them from various files originally, but I recently put them all in one place. You can find the bundle by clicking here or on the image below: That's it from me this week! Click on the image below to check out more Five for Friday blog posts! SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave SaveSave

We are currently doing a short study of the human body. We recently finished up our unit on the Brain and Nerves, and here are some of the activities we did and resources we used.

I’m so excited about this little project I get to share with you today! And just in time for Earth Day, too! It’s kind of hilarious because it has been a lonnnnng time coming. I started making these books with my students back in October and I JUST NOW sent the last one home. SHEESH. […]

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Do your students love Directed Drawing activities? Aly from Just a Primary Girl and Erica from The Enthusiastic Class mentioned through the week using pages from my packets to create books for their students. Aly uses them in her 'work on writing' stations and Erica is making a gift for her students for Christmas. I thought it might be nice to offer a generic cover for a 'drawing book' in case this is something you might like to do for your little learners. Here is the book I made for Sam yesterday. I added a 'My First Directed Drawing' packet to the series this week with my little man in mind and used the pages from this packet. It has 10 super simple pictures that students are often asked to draw. I just printed the 'Big Draw' pages from the 4 project alternatives within my packets, as I wanted to give Sam plenty of room to draw. I also placed them side by side when I collated the pages so he can use the prompt page directly next to the drawing page. I've included 2 alternative covers for you and students can spend some time coloring and decorating them as well as writing their name as the 'artist'. Find these covers as my gift to you, in Google Drive: Drawing Book Covers The covers will work with any of the directed drawing titles in my store! Thanks so much for stopping by, have a wonderful weekend! - Mel x

This week's bible story was about Hannah. For those who don't know, Hannah was Samuel's mother. Her story is a story of faithfulness and trust in God. In short, Hannah was one of two wives to Elkanah, and Peninnah was the other wife. Hannah did not have any children, while Peninnah did, and back then, how many children you had was a big deal. For many years, Hannah prayed to God about becoming pregnant. She actually prayed so hard that she could not eat, and another time, she prayed so hard the priest thought she was drunk...Hannah even made a promise to God that if He gave her a son, she would have her child serve God for all of his days. After all this time of praying, Hannah became pregnant, and later, she gave birth to Samuel. Once Samuel was old enough, Hannah indeed turned him over to serve God. Even though she was giving up her baby, something she prayed for years about to the point that she was sick over, she still praised God. She still praised him for being holy. You can read her whole prayer in 1 Samuel 2, and more about her conceiving Samuel in chapter 1. Originally, I had this craft in mind, but I could not find the printable for Hannah. My artistic abilities are not that extensive, so I settled with this. We made prayer books with things we can pray about. Super easy if you can't tell, and it sparked great conversation with the kids. On the inside, we had 4 pages with 3 of them being things that they can pray for. ' We put things like my family, my friends, and my church, and had them illustrate who/what they were praying for. To make the hands, I just traced a rough, slightly larger mitten shape of my hand and cut it out on 5 different colors to make it a little more appealing to the eye. For the words to the book, I uploaded the file here and you are more than welcome to use it in your book. Super easy, and a great discussion starter that can also serve as a reminder to both us and them to pray about everything. xox, lauren

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Some of the most common topics I see social workers and counselors teach is feeling identification and regulation. And it makes sense! Almost every student in need of counseling services could benefit ways to identify emotions in themselves or others, or learn ways to cope those feelings! As a result, I put together this activity ...

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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... →

This water color chameleon craft project is perfect to go along with the story, The Mixed-Up Chameleon. Such a fun and cute art project!

For some reason my students have a difficult time and often confuse state-country-continent. This little flip book helped out a ton, along with the book Me on the Map! Read on to my FREEBIE! If you are making these for a classroom of students I would just make patterns and let them trace each circle onto paper, rather than making copies for each child. First, we started off reading the book, Me on the Map. I also use this vocabulary to help my students! Now, onto the flip book! Here is an example of each page. Have fun and share a picture of how your flip books turned out in the comments!

Teach kids about blueprints and architecture with this fun dream house project. Print out blueprints and create and design a house. STEM project idea

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Today we're sharing with you three books to inspire children during the creation of self-portraits and tips on how to use each book. Click to learn more!

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Last week my firsties learned all about solid shapes. Well, some of the solid shapes: rectangular prism, cube, cylinder, sphere, and cone. For math homework, they had to find items at home that are examples of each solid shapes. On Friday students presented their findings in our shape museum. The students loved listening to each other during these little presentations. I loved watching them take a leadership role in class. After all of the showing and viewing was complete, students worked on their shape museum mini book by illustrating the items they shared on the correct shape page. You can have your own free copy of this mini book and a note to parents by clicking on the picture below. The clip art is from JW illustrations, Scrappin Doodles, and Pink Cat Studio. This activity is a great assessment tool. When your darlings are up telling about their items and and related shapes, you will totally know if they have it or not. The pictures below show a few of the items brought in this year. I loved the bullion cube. This activity is simple to execute and pretty fun. If you have any questions, please email me. Have a great week.

A planned week of preschool activities to play, learn and create for the theme of our community featuring the book All Are Welcome.

Explore various animal habitats with these activities, diorama crafts & project ideas for kids in preschool, kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade!

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Practice the letters from A to Z with this free printable alphabet book. Sit down with you child or your students and flip through the pages of this alphabet book, each page comes with letter

this page has a lot of free printable Back to School Coloring Pages for kids,parents and preschool teachers.

The new school year is right around the corner for a large chunk of the world’s students. While some pupils are excited to be back in the classroom with all of their friends (I know that my sisters can’t wait for September!), parents and teachers are naturally a bit anxious about Covid-19.

Colour Theory Ornaments inspired by Herve Tullet's 'Mix Here'.

Summer No Prep Preschool and Kindergarten 130 Page Worksheet Book 130 pages of Kindergarten and Preschool worksheets! I was going to wait a little before posting this but decided I would go ahead s…

On this page, you will find 60 free jack-o-lantern and pumpkin coloring pages that are all free to download and print! Whether you are looking for a spooky Halloween craft activity, a Thanksgiving-themed art project, or even some simple pumpkin templates, you will find these all below!

These fun and simple Crafts and Read Alouds for Kindergarten will give you a ton of ideas for how to extend story time to center time!

Hi! I’m here today to share with you a meaningful art project for your younger students. This would be good as as a “getting to know you” activity. The following examples were all made by kindergartners near the end of the year, but I would think this lesson would be suitable for kids through grades 2. Many art teachers have taught about the artist Faith Ringgold and had their students create paper quilts. I have a free printable for you … Read more... →