ABC and 1-2-3 Come Learn With The Turkeys and Me!
Are you looking for an interesting way to review Common Core State Standard: RI.K1d?
Why not try these Alphabet Turkey Cards and play some games?
The 20-page packet includes the upper and lowercase letters together as seen in the picture on the left + separate uppercase letters and separate lowercase letters, so you can play a variety of games like Memory Match games as well as "I Have; Who Has?"
I’ve also included a blank set of turkeys to program however you want + a 3- page list of tips of what else to do with the cards.
Click on the link to view/download the Alphabet Turkey Cards.
After I finished the alphabet template, it was easy enough to make a numbered one too, so I designed some Turkey Counting Cards.
The 20-page math packet includes numbered turkeys to 30 + skip counting turkeys for 2's, 3's, 5's and 10's.
I've also included covers, so students can make Itty Bitty Turkey Counting Booklets.
There's a blank set of turkeys + 2-pages of tips of what else you can do with the cards including games you can play.
Simply laminate the sheets and then cut the turkey cards into whatever shape you desire.
Click on the link to view/download Turkey Counting Cards.
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Setting Sail For America. It All Adds Up!
Are you looking for an easy and fun way to review simple addition facts?
You’ve come to the right place. I found that if I made a game of things, my Y5’s got into the lesson a lot more.
Dice games are simple and don’t take a lot of time. They are perfect for easy addition practice.
Your students will have fun reinforcing their addition skills, as they roll the dice and compete against their classmates, to see who can make equations that equal the sums on the Mayflower picture.
Students can play with a partner or in groups of 3 or 4.
When a child rolls a 2 and a 3 they add the two dice together to get a sum of 5. One of the bottom sails is labeled with that sum, so they color it.
If you want, you can have your students write the equations on the back of their paper.
Set a timer for a designated amount of time. The first child to color their entire picture, or the one with the most sums colored when the timer rings, is the winner.
If you want the game to be a bit more difficult, you can inform students that they must roll sums of 8, 9, 10 and 11 twice.
The first time they roll that sum, they will color the clothes of the pilgrims; the second time they will color the pilgrims’ hair and body parts.
Click on the link to view/download the Mayflower Addition game.
I hope you and your students enjoy sailing through addition this way.
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Teaching Shapes With a Pilgrim's Hat Buckle!
Yesterday I posted a booklet with a turkey theme that reviewed shapes. (Scroll down for that article.) I had requests for more Thanksgiving-themed ideas, as many mentioned they are difficult to find.
Keeping with the shape idea, here's a booklet that has a pilgrim theme.
When I was looking at the pilgrim hat, I thought the buckle was a perfect vehicle to change into the various shapes, thus My Pilgrim's Hat Shape Booklet was born.
I begin the booklet with a rhyming introduction, so you can cover that standard as well.
Students trace the buckles and shape words, as well as the letters that the shapes begin with.
There's also enough room if you want your students to write the letter, shape word, and then try their hand at drawing the shape.
When students have completed their booklet, ask them which buckles they liked the best. You can also show them some pictures of real pilgrims wearing hats from that period and ask them what the shape of the real buckles were.
This booklet makes a nice independent activity for your reading block time, or "word work" if you do Daily 5.
I've placed two pages on one master page, for easy printing and to conserve paper.
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Help Your Students Strut Their Stuff With This Turkey Booklet
If you're looking for something for your Daily 5 "word work" or a reading block activity, with a turkey/Thanksgiving theme, I think you and your students will enjoy The Shape My Turkey's In.
Students trace the shape and the shape word and help Gobble, the turkey, disguise himself with a variety of shapes, so he doesn't end up on the table for Thanksgiving dinner!
There's 2 on a page for easy printing.
Rhyming text, makes this a fun read aloud and allows you to reinforce a Common Core Standard.
When everyone has completed thier booklet, read it aloud as a whole group to review concepts of print.
You may want to pause before the second rhyming word to have children fill it in.
I hope your students have fun gobbling up knowledge this month.
Click on the link to view/download The Shape My Turkey's In rhyming booklet.
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There’s No Place Like Home, Unless It’s Your Classroom.
I always called my classroom my home away from home.
I really endeavored to have my classroom look warm and friendly and decorated it to the hilt with soft –mood lighting, comfy bean bags and crates stuffed with toys, manipulatives and things that would excite and entice children to want to read and learn.
My students were my extra “kids.” We truly were a family and worked as a team; and as the acronym stated, Together Everyone Achieved More.
I thought a poster listing our wonderful qualities would make a nice addition to our decorations.
I saw a list of “We do…” quite a few places on Pinterest. A little bit different twist in each place, with no one really knowing who to give initial credit to, so if this is your original idea, let me know so I can give a shout out to your creativity.
I loved the concept and just had to make up my own list, with a few tried and true items that fit our classroom too.
This is my version with a fun font and lots of color. You can use mine, or challenge your students to add more, or come up with an entirely different one to post in your classroom.
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