Target Finds

I went to Target to get a two things... and found SEUSS things!!!!!!!!!!

JACKPOT!!!!!

I am decorating my nursery in a book theme. I will be hanging the bags on the wall maybe. :}

Oh and I got more socks- in case you don't know, I love socks.  I don't own any plain white or plain black socks, only cool ones.  A few weeks ago I bought oh about 20 pair of Seuss socks so I really didn't need any more, but Seuss is my favorite author :}

 I got 3 packs of flashcards.

Cat in the Hat pencils

Lorax pencils

Seuss erasers

Seuss Silly Bands

Seuss awards- 2 kinds

Daily Routines

We do Daily 3 in our classroom.  

~Read to Self~ Listen to Reading~ Word Work~

Here are our TagReaders:

Here is what we do during Word Work. 

They trace the word of the day and then color.

After they color and trace- then they read to me.

I give stars above the words they can read to me.

I got these sheets from Jessica Meacham   jmeacham.com

Numbers and Math

I wrote the numbers 1-6 on my SmartBoard- how original I know :}

We rolled our giant dice and erased our number.

Our goal was to as quickly as possible identify the number of dots on the dice.

This could easily be done at home either using a dry erase board or 

a piece of paper and cross the number over.

For older children, use bigger numbers and two dice. :}

 Another math activity we did was play good ole dominoes!

This is good for 1:1 correspondence and matching. 

 It did take us a few tries to get it down, but it is a favorite in the room :}

Daily Cards

Each and every day we do several cards in the morning.

We have two alphabet cards and a 100's card.

I have two iPads, and found this awesome FREE 100's chart app.

It is called:  


Montessori Counting Board

By GrasshopperApps.com

Number Grids

My little froglets just finished kindergarten need to write numbers from 1-100.  I did a pre-test and we need a little help with that, so I created scaffolded number grids. 

We do this right after our calendar.  We have a binder that has our calendar in there along with math printables.  We complete one grid a day, and yes, I let them use their number grids when we do this part, not on their assessments.

There is a grid for:

1-10

1-20

1-30

1-40

1-50

1-60

1-70

1-80

1-90

1-100

For my froglets who need a little more assistance, 

I created these with tracing numbers.

Number Grids 1-100

Number Grids 1-100 with help

Number Grids Bundle

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