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One of the first projects or themes I find fun, simple and engaging is learning about Communities (2 weeks) and making a map as the culminating activity to end the unit. (For a total of 3 weeks on Community) This week, I started by reading the class a book on maps I got on Amazon. The book was chunked over a period of 2 days to ensure understanding. Maps - Kindergarten Unit After the story, the students were shown real maps that I had saved from going on little road trips. We sat in a circle and talked about what we noticed on them. I had a few kids share out about a time they used a map with their family. Real maps - San Diego, San Francisco I also had some maps from the San Diego Zoo and and some play maps for kids from a teacher supply store. We watched a video on maps and models from the United Streaming's website. Our district purchased user licenses for all teachers to access their videos on our Promethean Boards. I pulled out our old ELD song for communities from Rigby. The red car is on velcro and sticks to the different places in the community. So we fill in the sentence frames depending on where the car lands. On Tuesday, I read the last chunk of the Map book. Then, I pulled out our Writing Web for the power word "go." (The laminated web is from a district purchased program called Learning Headquarters). I taught the sight words "go" under my own structure however as a part of this writing unit in my TPT Store called Rebus Writing using Sight Words. The word "go" is week 5 of the 8 week unit. With a pointer I pointed to the word web and we orally filled out each sentence frame from the word bank. I allowed the kids to draw their own interpretation of a map on a half sheet of drawing paper as a pre-assessment to see where they are. Most kids drew standard pictures of places but some surprised me and had some streets and people walking in the map to different places. On Wednesday, I read them a book on map keys/legends. Map Keys and Legends I put up a class legend on the Promethean board that had four requirements. The sample legend was pre filled and colored and drawn and labeled. I asked the kids to draw a map on a full sized drawing page that had a: school, police station, neighborhood of homes, and a park. The symbol for each was a: building with flag next to it, building with a car next to it, triangles to symbolize a neighborhood, and a slide to symbolize the park. I set the kids to work and could see them looking up and referencing the sample key as they drew their maps. I noticed an improvement in their pictures from the day before. Once all the required components from the class key were on their maps I passed out markers and let them fill in the blanks and put more detail in the map. I cut out small legends that were identical to the one I had on the board and had kids glue it on the corner of their map. They were allowed to take it home. By Thursday, I brought out the colorful construction paper! The neat piles of color coded paper soon got a little messy! I had pre cut them into squares or rectangles. The first to go was blue because everyone was required to put a body of water on their map somewhere. It could be a river, lake, ocean or backyard pool. Also, the black strips I precut were the first to go because those were the streets and kids were allowed to use up to four. Building community maps 1 Building community maps 2 Children got right to work. They were so excited. Each map came out truly unique. As the kids were finished up I had them set up on the rug so the glue could dry and so kids who needed inspiration could come do a carousel walk around the rug and get ideas. Finished maps One of my late finishers added a church to her map even though we never discussed it. Cute! She made her map look like quadrants! She added sand to the beach and a church! The early finishers were doing literacy centers and reading books from the community tub. Building maps was a busy day. On Friday, I handed back their maps and a blank legend key. I asked them to make a legend for their map. Each was different. map key/ legend I had them glue the legends on the back of their maps. I made them a word bank so they could copy. However, some were ready for inventive spelling and didn't need to reference it. If this were done at the end of Kindergarten I would not even offer a word bank on the board. I would ask all kids to use inventive spelling to fill out their legend. If you'd like the free blackline master for the legend see the link at the bottom of this post. IF I HAD IT TO DO OVER AGAIN... I would not have them glue the legends on the back of the maps. I would display it next to the maps because once I mounted them all on the wall I realized they were hidden. LOL! Oh well. Next year I'll have learned my lesson. Wall of Maps! Almost done. Just need to add their name tag underneath each map. After reflection, I wouldn't have just had the kids draw on blank drawing paper. So I created these blackline masters as well. Enjoy! MAPS BLACKLINE MASTERS

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This wood bordered smart screen offers great custom features. Everything you seen on the screen allows rearrangement and changing in/out. If down the road you decide you want to make changes, I can absolutely help you through that as this is a very easy process. I am well versed in the tech field as I have been doing it for several years. The program was completed by me which is why I can help you very easily when it comes to these potential changes. The build in the picture is pine wood with just a clear coat glossy finish. The hooks in the picture on the wall are not part of the project but rather an example what you place with it. The build specifications are be endless. If you would like a different wood, finish, painted, stained, colored screws, etc. that can all be arranged. The build in the picture is done by using a 24 inch LED screen and a small computer placed inside the frame that runs the program responsible for the display you see. In the picture there are two cords that run down to the outlet, but plan for there to be only 1 cord. On the screen here you will see the weather on the top left which offers sunrise/sunset time, UV index, precipitation chance and inch total, temperature for your given city, and also divided hourly/daily. On the top right is a basic calendar and under is the calendar you can plugin to record events. I am using my google calendar to record events in this example. To reiterate, the initial plugin would be done for you and the events would update as you create them on your personal calendar. The symbols next to the events are also completely customizable. The bottom right is a sports ticker that updates everyday. Live scores will be updated as the game progress as well. The sports/teams displayed would be chosen by you. In the bottom middle there is a news ticker that can show which ever news feed you would like. In this example it rotates through the ESPN headlines of the day. When requesting an order, I will reach out to you to request any information needed to complete your custom/personal display. At the bare minimum, the details would be regarding the city for the weather, the sports/teams for the sports sections, news ticker, and the calendar you want to use for events.

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I did Boom Town again with the entire first grade, but this year we did it on the floor of the gym. It was so BIG. With 120 buildings and 120 houses, the kids had a ball. They got to take their shoes off and walk through their town. I purchased a huge lot of matchbox cars on ebay. I had a vehicle to match most of the kids' businesses. For the past two years we had done this on table tops. (Search blog for Boom Town). I had to cut out the kids in the above photo, so it is not the best shot of the event. After everything was over, I always try to reinvent the wheel. The teachers and I started coming up with the idea of each child having a poster board laminated mat the size of his desk. One side would be used for the 125th day of school tea party. The other side could already have the roads on it. The kids could push their desks together to connect their roads to make their town. But...the roads would have to be positioned just right to make a variety of layouts. I started unfolding napkins on my kitchen table (see car pile on left). Then, I began to like the size of each napkin. After covering empty smaller food boxes with my building patterns, I started thinking again. What if.... I just used the box pattern I made last year and printed the buildings right from the pattern onto cardstock??? I cut out poster board in 11" x 11" squares. I did this because printable cardstock comes in 8.5" x 11" sheets. When you print there is an empty border of 1/4" all around. So, I was pretty close. I used a black brush sharpie to fill in the empty space to make the roads exactly 11". Here are my nephews playing the 11" x 11" squares I made on green poster board for them. I laminated them with a roll of press on sheets that are not as sticky as contact paper and easy to use. I got the rolls at Office Depot. When I gave it to them the five year old said, "This is the BEST present ever." The 2.6 year old said, "Varoom. Varoom." I used up an entire black cartridge trying to tweak the roads to be small enough to fit the smaller town, but wide enough for the small cars to fit them. You may download my effort and print it out portrait. Stretch it to fit the 8.5 x 11" cardstock. As you can see from the photo above, I made a cross right in the middle of the square. That way, the t's form city squares. BUT...wait... on the back of the poster board squares are just single roads. The kids might want to have a long stretch of road going out to the country. Then I worked really hard to get a curved piece. This would also be glued to the back of one of the t road squares. I put the connection in the middle. A few of these placed together would give the kids more room in the suburbs. The advantage of making a bunch of these squares for your kids would be that they fit in a canvas tote bag. I am going to laminate my set for my nephews. Yes, I am spoiling them with their own set of cars to go with their town. I will probably make their set on green poster board and add graphic bushes and trees. If you want more patterns, go here Here is one of the buildings. You can print it landscaped stretched to full paper size on CARDSTOCK. The black bar is the roof. Fold along the horizontal edges of the roof. The vertical double lines are the side folding lines. Make four cuts from each edge along the roof bar edge to the double vertical lines to create the two tabs for the box. Then simply glue the two plain green boxes to the boxes with the bathroom doors. You have a building. IF YOU SUCCESSFULLY MADE THIS BOX, LEAVE A COMMENT. I WILL EMAIL YOU MORE TOWNS AS A REWARD. FOR FREE. YES, I SAID FREE. NO, I AM NOT KIDDING.

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