Farm Animal Counting

We are working on recognizing numerals.  Some of my friends are working on numbers to ten, while others are working on the tricky teens.  I made this center for both groups.  They will glue a barn on the left side of a sentence strip and then line the animals up in numerical order to go into the barn.  Enjoy!  The adorable graphics are from KPM Doodles.

Farm Animal Counting

Kindergarten Common Core

Here is a new Workbook with Math AND ELA activities for Kindergarten teachers.  There are flashcards, games, and paper and pencil activities for each Common Core Standard.  Find out more info at Kindergarten Common Core.  I looked through the sample images and I will be able to start using these activities right away with minimal prep! Woohoo!

Still More I Can Assessment Rings

Here are some alphabetic principle assessment rings!

I Can Assessment Rings

I can identify uppercase letters.

I can identify lowercase letters.

I can name the letter sounds.

More I Can Assessment Rings.

I made some more I can statements for the I Can Assessment Rings.

I can count to 100!

I can name the days of the week!

 I can name the months of the year!

I can count by 5s!

I can count by 10s!

Enjoy!

Vista Print Order

Woohoo!  My Vista Print order came!  I spent $50 for all of these goodies (shipping was free!).

Here's the breakdown!

For Madison's Teacher:

notecards

mouse pad

stamp

For Madison:

post-its

For Me:

an owl pen

postcards

Popcorn Word business cards

I know my popcorn word stickers. (return address labels)

Conference Cards (rack cards) with times on the back

poster for our computer area

small stickers

notecards

post-its

bumper sticker for my sub bin

magnet for the first day of school

lawn sign to put my door

new clip chart

And I got the order in less than a week and a half!

Do you use Vista Print for anything?

Anchor Charts

Well, the little one slept over her BFF and stayed most of the day to play, so I had fun drawing and coloring!  I started making some charts for the fall.

This is the predictable chart I will use the first week of school, so we can learn each other's names.

This is my favorite so far!  We'll use this predictable chart after our apple taste test.

Here's another predictable chart I will use probably the third week of school.  I couldn't do my sample sentence because I don't know what color shoes I will be wearing that day!

For our Community Helper Unit, I made two charts.  The first will be used to brainstorm a list of community helpers.  The second is for our predictable chart which will follow the pattern "A teacher helps us to learn."

Here is a tree map for our Bats unit. We'll fill this out together and then the students will give a sentence for our predictable chart. 

Once the predictable charts are finished (often taking two or three sheets of paper taped together), I add a border around the edge to unify the whole thing.  Once I have collected enough charts (one per child) and we are ready to retire them, I let students choose one to take home.  They love this!

Hopefully, I'll be back with more soon!

I Can Assessment Rings

A while back I pinned this great idea from Kinderpond.  I love how visual it is for the kids, and what a great keepsake it will be for the end of the year.  They will feel so accomplished.

We have been brainstorming how to display them.  Right now, we are thinking of making foam board display to hang on the wall in the hallway.  Once we have it figured out, we will post.

We thought it would be great to have these all in one place.   So we started making our own based on our district report card and the common core standards.  You can find what we've made so far here.

I Can Assessment Rings

I can name my colors.

 I can hold my pencil correctly.

I can use scissors correctly.

I can write my full name.

I can write my full name.

I can tie my shoes.

The grapics are from KPM Doodles and Digi Scrap Kits