A Christmas Presents Game Freebie Revisited

 

Christmas Presents Game

This is one of my student's favorite games, right now you can find the tiny bows very cheaply! Have a wonderful Christmas break!

Turkey Tally Workstation

 

Thanksgiving Tally 

Response sheet

Here's a little Thanksgiving math workstation for this week!

                                                                 

Batty Addition 7 Freebie

Batty Addition Mats

Response Sheet

Last week I uploaded the Pumpkins 5 Game. This game will be played just like that game, using two color counters and the cards provided. Enjoy!

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat Write the Room

 There Was An Old Lady Write the Room

There was an Old Lady response sheet

Here's a write the room activity perfect for your bats unit or your fall celebrations!

Common Core Aligned: K.RL.10  
Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Pumpkins Five Game

Pumpkins 5 Game

Response Sheet

We have been working on adding and subtracting fluently to 5.  I designed this game for my math workstations. The game boards have five pumpkins and there's a set of several sets of cards from 0-5. I placed the cards in the jack-o-lantern box.You will also need a set of two color counters. Choose a card, place that number of red counters on the board. Then place the remainder of the counters yellow side up. Record them on the pumpkin response sheet and write the equation. 

Clip art comes from http://www.mycutegraphics.com

Common Core Aligned:
K.OA.5

Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from. 

5. Fluently add and subtract within 5.

A Great Big Pumpkin emergent reader

 

A Great Big Pumpkin emergent reader

Response sheet

I received a nice comment from a reader of my blog requesting that I make an emergent reader to go along with the video from my last post; here it is! Happy October!!

October Smartboard Calendar

October Calendar

September sped by so quickly! But, fortunately I remembered that October is almost here. So, here's the October calendar. I hope you'll enjoy using it.

Apples Write the Room

Apples Write the Room Cards

Response sheet

We are beginning our Apples Unit this week. My students love Write the Room! They want a new set every week. I hope you will find them useful.

New Shoes Emergent Reader and Response Sheet

New Shoes Emergent Reader

New Shoes Response Sheet

My last two posts have been about my guided reading approach in kindergarten. This is an example of guided reading emergent readers and response sheets. 

Guided Reading in Kindergarten

 

Guided Reading in Kindergarten

I have maintained a website Linda's Learning Links for the past 10 years. It will be closed down in September. Guided Reading in Kindergarten has been one of the most popular pages on my website. I've updated the page and turned it into an article. I spend the first month of school teaching the routines of guided reading. As students make progress and are assessed for reading levels, guided reading groups change. In future posts, I will share information sheets that I maintain for each student. I hope you will find the article helpful.

Pete's Colorful Shoes

Pete's Color Matching Game

Pete the Cat will take center stage in my classroom the first couple of weeks of school. So, I'll be posting beginning of the year literacy and math workstations in the next few weeks. (My school district year begins August 1st.) 

Kids on the Bus

Kids on the Bus Counting Cards

In honor of Pete's newest book, I made a math work station for the beginning of school. I hope your students will enjoy it!

Aligned to Common Core:

K.CC.5

Counting & Cardinality                                                                                                    Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.

 

 

Tops and Bottoms

Tops and Bottoms Literacy Activities

Here are some ideas for one of my favorite books. There's color pictures for retelling the story (I'm going to put the pieces in my Retelling Center) and a response sheet. I take a half sheet of light blue construction paper, have the students color half brown, color, cut out vegetables and paste in correct place on sheet. 

A Little Seed Emergent Reader

 

  A Little Seed Emergent Reader

Plant Life Cycle Response Sheet

Next week we'll be finishing up our Farm Unit focusing on plants. I created an informational guided reading text for my students. After reading the text, students will use the text to complete the life cycle response sheet.  I hope you'll enjoy using it.

Common Core Aligned:
K.RIT.1

With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Bunny Math Game

 If you are a long time reader of my blog, you know I can't resist regular trips to Dollar Tree, Target and WalMart. My sweet cousin, a fellow kindergarten teacher in Mississippi found the bunny trays at WalMart ($.97 each). I bought 5 and found some mini Easter erasers ($1.00) at Target. We are going to play the game with dice. Two erasers will be placed in each indention. To play the game, the students can only remove erasers from the indentions if they roll a 2, 4 or 6.

Springtime Fruit Snack Freebie

 

Springtime Fruit Snack Response Sheet

 At Christmas time, one of our fellow bloggers posted an activity using Target fruit snacks. I can't find it, but I found the latest fruit snacks from Target. I made a response sheet for them. The fruit snacks are available for a limited time.

Dr. Seuss Word Work Station Freebie

Word Work Station 1

Word Work Station 2

Today was the first day of our Dr. Seuss unit, the kiddos were quite busy with their math and literacy work stations. One of their favorite stations is the Word Work station. One of my word work stations is attached to the back of my chart stand. The cards are magnetic and they use magnetic letters to make the words. I have an extra word card so my more advanced students can alphabetize the words by first letter after making the words.

March Smartboard Calendar

March Calendar

Here's the March calendar in Smart Notebook. If you would like it in powerpoint, go to the sidebar and click on Contact Me and let me know. I will also be adding a couple of more Dr. Seuss activities this week.

Dr. Seuss on the Loose Giant Giveaway!!

 

 I have been busy preparing lots of materials for our Dr. Seuss unit next week. You can receive the following materials by becoming a follower and liking A Teacher's Touch on Facebook, making a comment and leaving your email address or letting me know you are a follower, liking A Teacher's Touch on Facebook and leaving a comment with your email address. Here's a list of the materials you will receive (all freebies!)

Dr. Seuss We Love You Guided Reading Book 

Dr. Seuss We Love You Guided Reading response sheet

Dr. Seuss Rhyming Literacy Center

Dr. Seuss Counting Activity and response sheet

Dr. Seuss Measuring and response sheet

Dr. Seuss Write the Room and response sheet

Dr. Seuss  Graph the Room and response sheet

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Great American Symbols Giveaway! (Everyone's A Winner!!)

 

I have been busy preparing lots of materials for our American Symbols unit next week. You can receive the following materials by becoming a follower and making a comment and leaving your email address or letting me know you are a follower and leaving a comment with your email address. Here's a list of the materials you will receive (all freebies!)

American Symbols Word Wall words

American Symbols Write the Room and Response Sheet

American Symbols Graph the Room and Response Sheet

Abe Lincoln guided reading book and response sheet

Abe Lincoln reader for big book or Smartboard

Statue of Liberty guided reading book and response sheet

 I hope to hear from you!!

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