Cafe for Emergent Readers

My children for summer school are well under their way of hard workers! Most days we have built our stamina up to 15 minutes!  We are only on day 11... that is amazing.  They ask every rotation how long they worked.  I am amazed to say the least- even in our sauna aka our classroom.

We aren't yet to the standard Cafe menu and are using the Emergent readers one.

I have created several helpful tools for assessment.  One I created was recognizing the difference between upper and lower case letters.

Another one that I created was between letters and words.

For one of my students, I did create one that had letters and numbers:

Get your very own copies here:
Upper VS Lower
Words VS Letters
Letters VS Numbers


OPTIONS:
For a true assessment print one of for each child, for a review, project on SmartBoard and use two colors.

Summer School

I am so excited to be teaching summer school this summer---- I get to teach children who just finished kindergarten.

We need to work on our shapes and colors so I created this game:

I used garage sale dots and drew colorful shapes and placed them on some wooden cubes.

To play the game, children roll the cube and say the color and the shape- then they can color in the correct shape in the correct color:

 Then to work on tally marks, I created this sheet- we will be using the same cubes as the above game.

The best news is that you can have your copies for FREE!!!!!!

Shape Roll

Homework Calendar- May

Here is May's Homework Calendar

Homework Calendar- April

Here is this months Homework Calendar.

There was a request to change parents to families, so this one has been changed :}

Shout Out Saturday's

So for a while now, I have talked about the other Mrs. R.  Yes there are two of us at the same school.

Yes we are related!


I won't tell you how many years she has been teaching, because she tells everyone she is 27 years old, every year!  lol

I will tell you she has taught in Virginia, Illinois, and Wisconsin.  She has taught everything from
pre-school through college.   She teaches district classes and has taught teachers to be better teachers.

When she comes  to observe my class and she gives me feedback, I know that it is honest and since she is still teaching, she knows what she is talking about.

Okay seriously we didn't plan this- this is really the only yellow shirt I own and then we both wear it on the same day?????  lol

Space Day 7

Today we had the students create the real constellations!  So after they realized that they got more than 4 stars like they did from me, they did this awesome work!!!

We got to read this book..... wait for it.... with 3-D glasses :}

 Books that I shared:

Earth Day and Recycle aka: Lorax

So in honor of the Lorax movie coming out {way excited!!!!!!!}

We talked all about the 3 R's, composting and preserving the environment.
We sang these songs:

 With the K-1 children we broke it down in two days. We began with:

We did directed drawing for those items.  I drew the jar (well we called it a vase-I thought that it would look too much like our can lol)   on day two we did reduce and compost!  The older kids just broke their page in quarters.

                                                                        {source}
I took this photo from on line, click on the source above to see my search.  I can't very well take a photo while we are using the app!  lol  :}  Anyways, now on to what we did.  We went around the room- we did this 4 times!  Each time they would say:

I would {recycle/reduce/reuse/compost} ____________________________. For their friends.  They laughed and laughed at me when I introduced it to them!