Happy Presidents' Day!
It's just around the corner and coming up fast, if the speed at which January blew by is any indication.
This patriotic heart "craftivity" makes a sweet valentine, as well as an easy writing prompt.
There are 5 writing prompt hearts for students to choose from, that they can glue to the back, including a comparison and contrast one.
Use the patriotic heart "craftivity" for fine motor-puzzle practice. Remind students that the star's stripes are in an ABAB pattern.
I've included a list of Lincoln & Washington quotations that can be used as writing prompts as well, and put on the two presidents' posters.
Post a different quote on the board through the month of February, &/or make an overheard of quotes and have students choose several to add to their blank posters.
They can comment on the back of what the quote means, what it means to them, or why it's their favorite.
I've included posters with quotes and ones without.
I've also added the President's real signatures to the posters. Lincoln's real "autograph" is extremely sought after.. At one auction it commanded a price of over $700,000!
After students have shared, collate their quote posters and make into a class book.
Punch holes in the tops of students' patriotic hearts and hang from the ceiling with fish line.
Click on the link to view/download the Presidents' Writing Prompt Posters
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"That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." -Lincoln
1 2 3 Countdown With Me!
This changeable monthly calendar wheel is a fun way to countdown to a special day.
I've designed both color as well as black & white templates.
Print them off for yourself, as one classroom countdown activity, or run off the black & white set and pass them out to your students. You can do a different one each month.
They'll enjoy coloring and collecting their wheels.
The wheel helps curb the zillions of questions students ask about "How many more days 'til:" vacation, holidays, parties, fieldtrips, tests, assignments, a special visitor etc.
These are the ones I've listed on the wheel, with plenty of room for you to write in other events such as assemblies, birthdays etc.
This is a great addition to your calendar board, and fun way to review the passing of time and counting down from a number.
If you don't want to change it each month, you can simply use the generic schoolhouse one I've designed, and keep it on/near your calendar board.
Click on the link to view/download the Calendar Countdown Wheels.
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"The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday." -Unknown
Here's The Scoop-A Valentine & Writing Prompt All Rolled Into One!
Recycle those old newspapers and you’ve got yourself a really cute Valentine or writing activity for February.
Make templates from file folders for your students to use to trace onto a page of the newspaper.
They cut out their scoop of ice cream, glue it to their cone (which they cut out) and then top it off with a cherry heart.
I’ve also provided a template for the “cherries” or you can give students large sparkly-heart stickers to add that finishing touch.
Run off the “flipped-up” messages and give students a choice of what they want to do/write about, OR you could have them make this a valentine AND writing prompt and do both, then staple the pages together.
I “hinged” the completed cone with a small square of Scotch tape stuck to the cherry and attached it to a sheet of scrapbook paper.
Stores have all sorts of packs on sale at this time of year. If not, print off a 40-50% off coupon from one of the major craft chain stores.
These make a cute bulletin board on a black background with paper lace for the framed border. OR…
Hang them in a row in the hallway, just high enough so that people can flip and read. Send them home on Valentine’s Day.
click on the link to view/download the "Here's The Scoop" Valentine-writing prompt.
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"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say "I used everything you game me." -Erma Bombeck
1 2 3 Count February Stuff With Me!
You asked for it, you got it!
The 123 Count With Me easy reader math booklets continue to be downloaded 100's of times a day!
Visitors have requested Valentines and Presidents, but I also whipped together one for Dental Hygiene Month, which was a big theme for my Y5's.
The packets range from 27-37 pages and help with Common Core State Standards: K.CC.4a, K.CC.4b,K.CC.4c, K.CC.3, K.CC.5, K.CC.7, RF.K.1a, RF.K.1c, RF.K3c, L.K.2b, L.1l2b, Rf.1.1a
You can practice a variety of skills and standards with these cute booklets.
They are a fun way for your students to learn or review, write, recognize and read numbers and number words.
These latest additions also have the end punctuation left off, so that students can add it, and you can cover yet another CCSS!
- Students read, trace and write the number and number word.
- They see a number of themed items in a sentence and say it.
- They spy the number in a sequence and circle it.
- They X-out that many boxes or use a bingo dot marker or stamp in the 10 frame. ( I encourage my students to make a color pattern.)
- They cut and glue the set/group to the matching numbered box.
- It only takes one time for students to need assistance and then they can work independently on their books.
- Do one a week or month, depending on your themes or needs of your students.
- They are great for Daily 5, something to do when they have finished their work,
- something to send home to do with parents,
- great for a sub folder or to send home with struggling students.
All Of The Packet includes:
- 30-60 number and word wall word flashcards, + number cards that count to 20.
- Covers for the flashcards to make Itty Bitty Books
- A + one more math skill sheet
- 1-5 graphing extensions &
- A certificate of praise.
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and/or 123 Count Dental Hygiene Stuff With Me.
There are 29 123 Count With Me booklets in the collection, starting with 123 Count Apples With Me.
If you'd like to view them all by simply scrolling down an alphabetical listing, click on the link.
As always, I welcome your feedback of what other booklets you'd like to see. Anyone want stamps or coins?
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"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying." -Michael Jordan
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1-2-3's, ABC's, and Shapes Via The Mail
Woo Hoo! This is my 500th blog article! Hope you enjoy it.
I love making up special alphabet, number and shape cards for each month.
I think it helps students stay interested and focussed if they come in the first of every month and see a seasonal change that brightens up your room and adds variety to the "same-old- same-old"...
My Y5's loved going to the post office to mail their Valentines. It was a fun way for me to cover that information, and just a few blocks walk from our school.
With that in mind, I wanted to dream up some cards involving envelopes. I thought letters of the alphabet and letters in an envelope was a cute idea, thus Letter Letters, Number Letters and Shape Letters were born.
Number Letters covers the Common Core State Standards: RF.K.3c, K.CC.4a, K.CC.4b, K.CC.4c, K.OA.5,K.CC.6 and is a fun way to review counting, number words, simple addition and subtraction as well as greater and less than.
It includes a blank set for you to program with whatever...+ math symbols: < > + - = so students can make equations and solve them.
I've also included 2-pages of tips of what to do with the cards, including games.
Click on the link to view/downloard Number Letters.
Letter Letters can be used as a border or laminate, cut them up into puzzles and use them to play games.
This packet includes a blank sheet for you to program with whatever...+ a cover so students can make an Itty Bitty Booklet, as well as 3-pages of tips of what to do with the cards.
Finally, Shape Letters is a delightful way to review these 11 2-D shapes: circle, oval, triangle, rectangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, heart, star and crescent.
The packet helps reinforce colors and color words as well. Remind students that these are two-dimensional shapes and lie in a plane or "flat."
Put them on the wall as a border, or run off a set for your students and have them write the shape word and then trace and color the shape.
You can also laminate them, cut them up and make them into puzzles. Students match the word to its shape.
Pass them out to students and give spatial directions: "Put your shape over, under, between, behind, beside, left-right, etc."
If you do the above, you'll be covering Common Core State Standards: K.G.1, K.G.2, K.G.3
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein
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