Back To School Kissing Hand Activities

1-2-3 Come Do Some Kissing Hand-Themed Activities With Me

The Kissing Hand, by Audrey Penn, is one of my favorite back to school stories. Inspired by this sweet tale of a little raccoon going off to school, with a kiss from his mom, I designed the “Where’s the Raccoon?” packet.

It’s filled with games, activities, & an emergent reader, which will help students understand spatial directions: on, off, in, out, behind, between, beside, left, right, above, below, over & under.

kissing hand activities, spatial direction activities, back to school activities, first day of school stories, first day of school activities, book hospital basket, classroom management tips, spatial direction emergent reader, preposition poster, list of prepositions Why study these things? Being able to show shapes spatially, is part of the Common Core.

kissing hand activities, spatial direction activities, back to school activities, first day of school stories, first day of school activities, book hospital basket, classroom management tips, spatial direction emergent reader, preposition poster, list of prepositions Children are innundated with oral spatial directions every day; they come across them in print and need to follow them to clean up, put things away and basically function in life.

The importance of learning these words is a given.

kissing hand activities, spatial direction activities, back to school activities, first day of school stories, first day of school activities, book hospital basket, classroom management tips, spatial direction emergent reader, preposition poster, list of prepositions Thus the packet also includes posters, pocket chart cards, a full-color teacher's copy of both student activities, which are in color as well as black & white,

kissing hand activities, spatial direction activities, back to school activities, first day of school stories, first day of school activities, book hospital basket, classroom management tips, spatial direction emergent reader, preposition poster, list of prepositions There's also an alphabetical list of familiar prepositions that your students will come across in popular story books and emergent readers; (21 of them are on the Dolch word lists) plus tips, tricks, mini word cards, a song, and several worksheets.

Its raccoon theme, correlates nicely with The Kissing Hand. The activities can be done as a whole group or independent center activity, as well as used as an assessment tool.

Click on the link to pop on over to my TpT shop to check it out.

This packet matches 3 other raccoon-themed, Kissing Hand-inspired packets, that I'm currently finishing up, and will post sometime this week: A Literacy Packet, an ABC-123 Packet, plus a Shape Packet.

Today's featured FREEBIE is signage to make a "Book Hospital Basket".

When students are reading a book from your classroom library and discover that it needs some repair work to avoid further damage, have them fill out an Rx form of what's wrong with the book and how you can fix it.

They tuck the note on the page that needs repair, so that the end sticks out and then drop the book in the "hospital" basket.

These Rx notes are kept in an envelope that's taped to the basket.

Checking the basket and making repairs can be a student or room helper job. There are two on a page for easy printing, so why not make one for a fellow teacher or your librarian, as a "Hope you have a great year!" surprise.

Click on the link to grab this easy organizational FREEBIE today. Book Hospital Basket.

That's it for today. Thanks for visiting. It's been super muggy here, and even though it looks like rain, I don't see it in the forecast, so it's time to brave the humidity and water my flower garden. Wishing you a carefree day.