tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50337227183602647252024-03-03T00:17:21.895-08:00Kindergarten with SusieUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033722718360264725.post-73145088483235341462018-02-13T11:29:00.001-08:002018-02-13T11:29:45.256-08:00Abraham Lincoln<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Andy Pro"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;">Recently, I found the time to create an Abraham Lincoln craft and little book for my kids. I am so excited to share it with you! This item is similar to my Washington Unit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Over the past 3 decades, my 100th Day of School celebration has morphed into a well organized and fabulous time for my kids! I’m excited to share how to orchestrate this day with YOU!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">My class has 30 students, so I ask six parents to help with the day. Obviously, if you have less students, you will need less adult help. If I don’t have enough parents then I ask 6th grade students to help with the day. The success and ease of this day depends on having TEAMS that stay together for the ENTIRE celebration. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I create 6 teams with 5 students. I have 6 activities for the day but you can have less or more to fit your schedule.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The children always stay at the same table with the same parent helper. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">Important note: The teacher does not have a team. I am always FREE to take pictures or help with any issues.</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Each TEAM completes activity one, then waits until I give the signal to begin activity two. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">By not having rotations, I can control the allotted time for each activity by observing the teams.</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> If an activity is taking too long, I tell the parent helper to speed up the team, or if the activity is going too fast, I help the parent helper to slow down the team.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I also lay colored butcher paper on each table according to the team’s color. If a child should complete a task early, she/he may draw a picture on the butcher paper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">There are lots of wonderful 100th Day of School books to choose from, but my all time favorite is: </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(243, 51, 99); color: #f33363; font-family: HelloHandprint; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Mr. Wolf’s Pancakes</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: HelloHandprint; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">, by Jan Fearnley. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">My NEW monthly HOMEWORK packets for EMERGENT READERS in </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;">kindergarten</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> and </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;">First Grade</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> encourage reading! My newest packet, for AUGUST and SEPTEMBER, </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; letter-spacing: -0.8px;">emphasizes </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;">Letter & Sound recognition, as well as beginning sight words.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; letter-spacing: -0.8px;">August covers letters A-M and September covers N-Z. There are 3 pages that correspond to each letter. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.8px;">It may seem obvious, but Kindergarten and First Grade students need to </span><span style="letter-spacing: -1.2px;">READ to be READERS! </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.8px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Homework that encourages reading is PRICELESS. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; letter-spacing: -0.8px;">The content on each page provides </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">NOVELTY</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; letter-spacing: -0.8px;"> and encourages </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">THINKING, READING & </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;">VOCABULARY GROWTH</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">!</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; letter-spacing: -0.8px;"> At the top of each paper is a place for a parent’s signature. These pages are also perfect for </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">MORNING WORK or CENTERS.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; letter-spacing: -0.8px;"> Your students complete the pages in class and take them home to </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">READ</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; letter-spacing: -0.8px;">! Mom and dad send them back with a signature.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Andy Pro';">This activity is the newest game to accompany my ABC program. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Andy Pro'; text-decoration: underline;">The SAME pictures are utilized in All my ABC products, and this newest product continues the tradition.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Andy Pro';"> Many teachers provide a variety of ABC pictures to teach the sounds to their children during the first months of school. I believe that by providing my students with only ONE picture per letter in the first few weeks of school, it accelerates the learning of letters/sounds. In a few weeks, after concepts have been grasped, multiple pictures are introduced.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">My kids love to play this game because they are familiar with the pictures and of course they walk around to find their match! I have lots of different versions of “Find Your Match”, but this one is their favorite! </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The first day of school will be here soon, and it conjures up mixed emotions for many of us! On one hand we dread the thought of the early mornings, the late afternoons, the exhaustion, and the stress of getting everything ready on time. On the other end of the spectrum, we feel the excitement, the thrill of the first day, and our first peek at our new student’s names.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">There are 30 children in my kindergarten classes on most years, and yet this hour goes incredibly smooth considering there are usually 70 or more individuals in the room that morning. Each parent is given a clip board with this Letter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">At the end of the day, the children proudly wear their Raccoon Hats and Badges as they are greeted by family! The First Day of School is exhausting but always a great success!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As an easy classroom activity that can be sent home that day, I created the mini book, “Planet Earth.” You can download it for FREE at my TPT store. After our discussion, every child “FOLDS” the Earth Day Book, colors it, reads it to three friends, and takes it home to share with family. I’ve included a color version of the Little Book as well as the black & white version. I’ve also included the FOLDING DIRECTIONS. The folding may seem tricky at first, but my kindergarten kids have </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">been learning it for years. However, if you want a no hassle activity, you may want to fold the books the night before. I hope you enjoy this activity! Will you let me know?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve always wanted to send home assignments that encourage communication between the family and the child. My desire is to REQUIRE (in a non-threatening way) that the parent actually work with his/her child! Is this too much to ask?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">February’s HOMEWORK packet is my favorite of them all! </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;">My students read & copy words and sentences, as well as sequence and write numbers. At the top of each paper is a place for a parent’s signature and a box to write the number of times the child reads the words and sentences. The pictures are fairly large and “simple,” making them easy and fun to color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The content/format of each paper varies to provide NOVELTY and encourage THINKING! February is filled with the Presidents, Groundhogs, and Valentine’s Day. To give you a glimpse of the format, I'd like to share these 7 sample pages with you. You can download them free at my Kindergarten with Susie store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">After a few classroom maps, my students grasp the concept, and begin creating their own maps! They’ve shared Brace Maps of a penguin, duck, flower, and </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">one of my all time favorites, an </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">ice cream fudge sundae!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As teachers we encourage our students to create a finished product that is ready for display or to share with parents and other teachers. “Look”, we might exclaim proudly, “Susie made an adorable map of an apple!” Susie copied the example in detail and produced a map that looks very much like the sample.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">However, the child that created a brace map of a watermelon might not have included all of the parts, and may have run out of time and never completely finished. Does it mean that this child learned MORE than the other child? It DEPENDS on the level of engagement for each child. In other words: <span style="font-family: HelloWordsmith; line-height: normal;">Whose brain was growing today?</span> The finished product is NOT always the determining factor as to the validity of the task.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;">“Better late than never!”</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;">Perhaps this may be my new mantra for 2016! It seems that no matter how hard I try, I just can’t seem to complete all my projects when expected!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">However, there is some GOOD news! January’s homework may be late for the 2016 year, but it’s 12.5 months EARLY for 2017! How’s that for being optimistic!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It is because of this quest, that I’m excited to share my NEW JANUARY HOMEWORK! My students read & copy words and sentences, as well as sequence and write numbers. At the top of each paper is a place for a parent’s signature and a box to write the number of times the child reads the words and sentences. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is my favorite part!</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;"> The pictures are “simple,” making them easy and fun to color. I feel so sorry for children that are asked to color teeny tiny pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Life brings us many blessings and joys, as well as trials and tears. The last few months have been challenging and I am thrilled to be back blogging, creating, and sharing! I’m wishing us all a FABULOUS 2016!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Let’s talk about SNOW! There seems to be no PERFECT amount of snow in the eyes of young children and their teachers! For Southern California teachers, the majority of our little ones have only experienced snow in movies and books. Anytime that it rains or hails is an EXCITING DAY! It ACTUALLY did snow ONCE, our entire school went out and played in it! WHAT A MEMORY! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Don’t think that I don’t understand the other side of the snow debate, after all I was born in Maine! As a little girl I remember taking so long to put on my coat, mittens, boots, and hat, that recess was over before I finished preparing to go outside!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Whatever circumstances you find yourself in TODAY, snow is still fascinating for young children to explore. And what better way to investigate snow than with a unit on the WATER CYCLE! My kids love learning about evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. We study the water cycle for 2-3 weeks and culminate our unit by building an ice castle!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> After sending home a NOTE to parents, the children bring ICE to school in all different shapes, colors, and sizes! We build our castle as soon as possible, so we can OBSERVE it EVAPORATING throughout the day and keep a log of the progress! When the next rain falls, we KNOW that a few of those rain drops include the water from our CASTLE! Thus, we’ve witnessed the complete WATER CYCLE! </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033722718360264725.post-4185939562881837362015-11-18T06:05:00.000-08:002015-11-18T06:05:47.011-08:00Turkey Trouble Freebie<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Andy Pro'; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Fall is my absolute FAVORITE season! I love teaching young children as they observe the seasonal changes and look with eager anticipation to the holidays. Fall has become the season to give heartfelt THANKS, cherish time with friends and family, and for many… EAT TURKEY!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m sure that everyone is aware of Wendi Silvano’s book, “Turkey Trouble”… right? If not, order it today! Children of all ages love this story of a turkey’s attempt to disguise himself so as to NOT be Thanksgiving dinner. As my little ones like to say, “Mrs. Kane, this book is hilarious!” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In the spirit of the season, I wanted to share with you a follow-up activity to the book. The children disguise their own turkeys and write clues so that their classmates must use critical thinking skills to guess the disguises. It is a fabulous activity and it makes an adorable Bulletin Board too. The directions and the patterns are free at my TPT store.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 14px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Last year, I shared a Thanksgiving Day Card that I have sent home to parents for many years. There is NOT a single parent that didn’t LOVE receiving this card from their precious little one. It is treasured for many years to come. I wanted to share it with you again this year. You may read about it on my blog: A Season of Thanks. The freebie may be downloaded from my TPT store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I want to share my LOVE of children and teaching with other educators. If I make a difference for even one teacher, I will have succeeded. Wishing you all a wonderful Fall Season!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Do you feel that you spend too much time attempting to find just the right homework for your young students? I do! Each month I seek to find the BEST homework to send home and it’s not an easy task! I want the work to be meaningful as well as review the class lessons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve found a variety of homework papers that focus on phonic skills or letter recognition, but my Daily ABC Program teaches these skills explicitly in class already. I want my students to actually practice READING at home under the supervision of an adult. I’d also like a little printing, coloring, and number practice to be included as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Last month, I created October Homework for Early Readers and it was very successful. Students practiced reading and printed words and sentences. That’s not to say that every page was perfect! For some students the reading was slightly too easy, and for others it was a bit too difficult. However, each page is intended to be completed with the help of an adult. Parents are asked to read to the children, listen to the children reading, and encourage BEST work. Some pages include discussions on various topics, such as nocturnal animals, and other pages have "FUN FACTS" for parent and child to read and discuss together. There is a place for a parent signature on every page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Obviously, that’s a rhetorical question! Children with supportive parents that work nightly on reading and math skills obviously boost reading and math progress… and that’s wonderful! We WANT parents to assist with literacy and math development for their children. But what about the students that do NOT receive support? What can we do to level the playing field and give every child the needed support that they deserve?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">After sending home the homework and looking at the results, I may surmise that ten to twenty percent of my kids are not being supervised as they do their homework. With 30 kids, this means I need to provide extra guidance to three to six students. Phew! Three to six students seems more reasonable than thirty! I may group these students just to give them an extra start on the homework during school time or I may even have them complete all the homework in class. Of course, it depends on the child and the home situation.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;">October’s homework covered an array of topics: bats, owls, pumpkins, fall colors, and more. November’s homework touches on Thanksgiving, the Mayflower, Pilgrims, Indians, Veteran’s Day, scarecrows, hibernation, and nocturnal animals. You can take a peek at the entire set in my preview at: </span><a href="https://goo.gl/fIoeUP" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">https://goo.gl/fIoeUP</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A-hoy Teachers! Hopefully everyone is enjoying a great Columbus Day celebration with a day off from our little ones!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Yesterday, my mailbox was flooded with ads from every place I’ve ever shopped! It seems that Columbus Day is a great day to buy anything from a new car to new shoes because of the “SALES!” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So I thought that I would join in the tradition and place everything in my store 20% off for today only.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I also posted a Columbus Day Little Book Freebie as a “Thank you” to everyone for supporting my efforts the last two years. It’s been a learning “journey” for me …. I guess I can relate in some ways to Columbus!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As a teacher, I love Columbus Day but NOT because Columbus sailed the ocean blue! No, for a far better reason, we have Monday off! Yay! </span><a href="https://goo.gl/kI3xyw">https://goo.gl/kI3xyw</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Little Book contains a limited amount of informational text intentionally! I believe that if we try to “stuff” too much information into our little one’s brains, nothing actually sticks! So, I’ve included the basic achievements of Christopher Columbus and his importance in history. There is a B&W version too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Children “sail” their ships East to West, beginning in Spain, across the Atlantic Ocean to an island in the Bahamas. As they move their ships they count to 71 to mimic the number of days needed for Columbus to reach the West. My kids have always loved making this project!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This is the perfect unit for TK or kindergarten, and I added a few more pages with writing prompts for use in first grade too! You can check it out at at <a href="https://goo.gl/kI3xyw">https://goo.gl/kI3xyw</a>. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;">Most importantly, have a FABULOUS Christopher Columbus day OFF!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">There is no denying that teaching activities and strategies change every year, but there are a few OLD favorites that NEVER change, even after 40 years! On the first day of school for close to four decades, I have taught my class the rhyme: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">“Williby Wallaby Woo, an elephant sat on you! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> We pass a small elephant around our circle and “CHANGE” each child’s name by replacing the first letter with a W: Susie becomes Wusie & Justin becomes Wustin. The kids love it and it’s a great way to learn names beginning on the first day of school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Bibbity Bobbity Boo is exactly the same tune and idea! Just pass around a CREEPY SPIDER or TOUCH EACH CHILD’S HEAD WITH A MAGIC WAND instead of an elephant! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">My kids love it even more than Williby Wallaby Woo!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Probably because of the rubbery spider!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve created a Bibbity Bobbity Little Book to accompany the rhyme and a Bibbity Bobbity Pocket Chart activity too! For the Little Book, the children read the text, print words, and select or color pictures of classmates to include in their book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Once all the Bibbity Bobbity Names have been printed in the books, everyone READS! This is a great book to use a “magic wand” in lieu of a “reading wand” to track the text. For individual reading, provide “plastic or edible pointy fingers” to track the text. Kids love to track text using these pointy fingers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Bibbity Bobbity Boo provides your students the opportunity to practice phoneme substitution in a fun way! I introduce this concept using my pocket chart. <u>My pocket chart has always been one of my most effective teaching tools! </u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Bibbity Bobbity words are printed on large rectangles that are ready to cut out and laminate! All you need to do is place them in your pocket chart and begin! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;">At the beginning of every month, I struggle to find homework that seems appropriate for all my kids. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;">I want it to be meaningful as well as review the class lessons. I’ve found a variety of homework papers that focus on phonic skills or letter recognition, but I want my students to actually practice READING at home. Plus, I’d like a little printing, coloring, and number practice to be included as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It is because of this quest, that I’m excited to share my NEW OCTOBER HOMEWORK PACKET with you! My students read/print words and sentences, as well as sequence and write numbers. At the top of each paper is a place for a parent’s signature and a box to write the number of times the child reads the words and sentences. The pictures are fairly large and “simple,” making them easy and fun to color. So many worksheets have teeny tiny pictures that young children rarely enjoy coloring!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m also searching for variety. I want the homework to vary in some way, yet still contain the same skills. I’ve included pages about fall, pumpkins, bats, owls, Christopher Columbus, and Halloween. There are 20 pages of READY to SEND HOME homework!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m hoping that these printables will boost your students reading abilities and make YOUR teaching life a little easier. I’d like to give away 3 packets of my October Homework to the first 3 teachers that leave me a comment and their email address. I’d love to know what you think!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">In my last post, I mentioned that I LOVE brace maps and showed an example of my APPLE BRACE MAP. I hope you had a chance to make one with your kids! This month, it’s easy to guess that we will be making a PUMPKIN BRACE MAP and in November we will be making a (drum roll, please) a </span><u style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">variation</span></u><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"> of a SCARECROW BRACE MAP! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Fall is here! It’s arrival brings a world of new activities that will engage our little ones! One of my favorite projects, although I must admit that I have several favorites, is the introduction of Brace Maps!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A brace map illustrates visually to our young learners the concept of part to whole and whole to part. This concept is important for all future learning and fun to teach too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Apples provide the perfect introduction to a brace map because the components of an apple are easy to observe. For young children, concrete examples work best and “REAL” apples are easy to bring into the classroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">You may want to begin your discussion by HIDING the apple, giving clues, and then revealing the apple for the kids to view. This tends to generate excitement for the lesson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Discuss the parts of the apple that are observable before cutting: skin, stem, leaf. Record the answers, and then cut the apple to reveal the parts inside: flesh, seeds, and core. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">You may want to draw a huge apple on red paper and label the parts of an apple with your class. There are also lots of books for young children that show the parts of an apple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">For the follow-up activity the next day, we review the concepts that were introduced and make individual brace maps … but in whole group! We begin by cutting out an apple shape, stem, and leaf. I use “directed drawing” in lieu of patterns or dittos. My kids draw the parts using a black crayon and then color and cut. Next, I illustrate how to make the skin, flesh, and core. We will glue the seeds on later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Depending on the time allotted for this activity, the children either put all their parts in their crayon boxes until tomorrow, or glue them on the 12” by 18” black paper. We would cut out the words and glue them next to our parts. Lastly, we glue the “real” apple seeds on the core. As this is our first brace map, I draw the bracket with a white crayon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As our study of apples continues through the month, we will refer to our apple brace map often. Finally, as a closing activity and an informal assessment, each child will create their own apple brace map to take home and share with the family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Today is September 11, 2015. It was fourteen years ago today that America was attacked and our innocence was shattered. The land of the free and the home of the brave was forever changed by the malevolent behavior of a group of individuals displaying depraved indifference for human life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As adults, we were rocked by the violence and the loss of life that occurred on this horrific day. The disbelief that this violent attack could have occurred on our soil was profound. Families and friends rallied together in disbelief as the reality of the attacks came to fruition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Children were exposed in varying degrees, depending on their ages and situations, to the enormity of the attacks. Did our children comprehend the atrocity of the attack? Did they verbally share what they were feeling or thinking with an adult?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Adults often write to solidify their knowledge of an event or subject, as well as to clarify their feelings and thoughts. Children write for the same reasons. They want to share something that is personal and of interest to them. As an educator of young children for more than three decades, my goal is to provide my students with the tools to be independent writers. I want to know what my littles ones are thinking, learning, and feeling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Through the years, the five year olds in my class have stunned me with their abundant and insightful writing. Tales of frogs, butterflies, gingerbread boys, dogs, cats, owls, scarecrows, rainbows, and so much more have graced my desk and filled my heart with joy as I read their precious words. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">More often than you would imagine, a child will share a piece of writing with me that leaves me speechless, as I realize the magnitude of the words on the paper. Such was the writing that Justin shared with me on a beautiful blue-sky day in September.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Re-writing his words for you to read would diminish the meaning of his work. You need to view his work, and see each letter that he independently sought to hear and then to print successfully to communicate his thoughts to the reader. His work is not profound, but it is personal and telling. At the tender age of five, his words illuminate his disbelief that a nefarious act of this magnitude was possible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Justin’s writing communicates an event that is deeply troubling to him. As his teacher, I take great pride in teaching him the skills necessary to share his thoughts in written form. Perhaps more importantly, I acknowledge that he is capable of sharing his ideas on paper and provide him the time and freedom to try. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Consider the difference in Justin’s writing had I provided him with a “prompt.” Would asking him to share his favorite animal or what he did on summer vacation inspire him to write? It may provide analysis of his writing skills, but it would not allow him to write authentically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Children will write for the same reasons as adults if given the opportunity to do so. The children in my classroom are writers without limits. Our mantra is: If we think it, we can say it. It we can say it, we can write it.” Learning to write opens a new form of communication for a young child. Just as he learned to speak with practice and praise from his parents, so will his writing rocket with support and guidance from his teachers. Providing him opportunities to take risks, and spread his wings, may determine how far he will soar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Ahhh .. February in Kindergarten! It is a heavenly month to behold! The children are seamlessly moving from activity to activity, much of the chatter is meaningful and context based, and there is a flurry of writing and reading everywhere in the room! Is it a miracle? Is it luck? Could it possibly be my teaching? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">At this moment in time, I’m not sure the reason is as important as the outcome: My room is filled with young readers and writers excited to come to school each day to learn new concepts, and interact with their peers. I venture to say that it is my favorite month of school!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">To celebrate the joy that February brings, I created a little friendship book that I thought you would enjoy sharing with your students too. It’s called Friends Are Special. The kids love this book because I xerox their small school pictures for everyone to use!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Each child will need a B&W or color copy of their school picture, plus copies of 3 more friend’s photos. I’ve learned through experience NOT to allow the children to choose the 3 friends. Feelings always get hurt! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This book can be completed in small group, reading centers, or whole group. I actually prefer to do it in whole group as I enjoy seeing and hearing the conversations between the children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Once the books are copied and stapled together, and you have made copies of the school pictures, you are ready to go. As I pass out each book, I also give each child his/her own school picture. The child glues the picture on the last page of the book. The children begin to color the front page, and I pass out three friend’s pictures to each child. The children glue one picture to each page in the book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Ask the friend to help choose the words from the word bank that best describes him/her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The kids love making these books. I always provide extra copies of the books and pictures. I place them in the writing center after we have completed the activity as a group. It is the favorite writing center of the entire year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Enjoy the month of February with your precious little ones! It you decide to give “Friends Are Special” a try, would you please leave me a comment on my TPT store? Your comments are my only way of knowing if my ideas are helpful to you and your students. Happy Teaching and Happy February!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As teachers of young children have you ever wondered why February has so many special days considering it is the shortest month of the year! I’m not complaining, but there’s even two holidays in the month of love! All together February 2015 will have only eighteen school days but at least four “special” days: Groundhog’s Day, 100th Day of School ( for some ) Lincoln’s and Washington’s birthdays, and Valentine’s Day! Whew! No wonder it’s my favorite month! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Each month, my kindergarten kids make a “cute” calendar to display at home. Last month the calendar was a mug of hot chocolate with real marshmallows. This month it’s a Teddy Bear holding a huge heart. With each calendar, I send a note to the parents asking them to help with basic standards, such as reciting the days in a week, months in the year, and recognizing numbers to 30, 40, and beyond. These are important skills to practice, but what I enjoy more is the feedback that I receive from the parents:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">“My child loves bringing home the calendar each month! We have a special place that we hang it and cross off the date each day. When the end of the month gets closer, we start predicting what next month’s calendar will be! “</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Another parent mentioned that she saves the calendars from year to year and uses them for decorations. If I’ve taught siblings in the family, then there are two calendars side by side!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">We all know that young children love making predictions. It gives them a sense of empowerment and challenges them to make connections between events, facts, or stories. If the prediction happens to be correct, their sense of accomplishment is heightened.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If you watch a young child making a prediction, it’s as if you can actually ‘see’ the gears in his brain engaging! Predictions encourage children to ‘think about’ and analyze stories or situations. It is a powerful tool that activates new synaptic connections at any age. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">All teachers encourage children to make predictions and back up their opinions. You will often hear a teacher in a primary classroom asking, “Why”, countless times in a day to check for understanding and analysis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As educators, we know that the human brain “turns on” when it feels challenged but “turns off” when it feels threatened. Good teachers attempt to create activities and lessons that stimulate the human brain without shutting it down. Often times there is a fine line between the two that teachers struggle to determine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">One of my favorite writing samples from the last 3 decades is from a Sunday school teacher: She asked her class to write a few sentences explaining why we celebrate Easter. One little boy wrote: “This is why we celebrate Easter because Jesus came up from his grave and if he sees his shadow he will go back in!” Do you see ‘why’ it is so important to ask “WHY?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Groundhog Day offers the primary teacher opportunities to engage their students in predictions, surveys, research, and graphing, just to name a few. My kids love to predict if Punxsutawney Phil will see his shadow on February 2. I’ve included a FREEBIE for you to create a classroom graph showing your kid’s predictions as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I also have a Groundhog Day product in my TPT store with poems and pictures that you might enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As I live in SO CA and we need RAIN, I hope Phil WILL see his shadow and we can have 6 more weeks of winter! I’m sure that’s NOT the desired outcome for teachers in other states!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Over the past 3 decades, I’ve created, modified, and recreated my 100th Day of School activities. As I grew older.. I meant to say .. wiser, my 100th Day of School Celebration evolved into a well organized and exciting time for my fabulous kids!</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">There is one caveat however! I ask six parent helpers to help with the celebration, or if I don’t have enough parents than I ask 6th grade students to help with the day. (They love to help!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> 1. 100TH DAY COLLECTIONS </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">2. 100TH DAY MUNCH </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The children always stay at the same table with the same parent helper. Important note: The teacher (me) does not have a team. I am always FREE to take pictures or help with any issues. I love it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Each TEAM completes activity one, then waits until I give the signal to begin activity two. By not having rotations, I can control the allotted time for each activity by observing the teams. If an activity is taking too long, I tell the parent helper to speed up the team, or if the activity is going too fast, I help the parent helper to slow down the team. When all the students have finished an activity, we take a 2 minute break and sing and dance, “The 100th Day of School” song, and then begin the next activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">There are lots of wonderful 100th Day of School books to choose from, but my all time favorite is: <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(243, 51, 99); color: #f33363; font-family: HelloHandprint;">Mr. Wolf’s Pancakes</span><span style="font-family: HelloHandprint;">, by Jan Fearnley. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;">I’m sure my activities and stories are similar to the same ones that you implement in your classroom. If you are </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;">interested in viewing more of the activities in my 100th Day of School Celebration Unit, you may go to my TPT store: Kindergarten with Susie.The 100th Day of School is one of my favorite units and one that my kids remember fondly too!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">‘Tis the night before the first day of 2015, and I find myself wondering, “What happened to the month of December?” I remember running around each day attempting to be “ready”, but never achieving my goal! If anyone has a better way to prepare for the joyful holiday season, please share. I could use some advice!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">With the holidays behind me, it’s time to think about getting back to kindergarten, kids, and winter ideas! As I teach in southern California, many of my kids have never played, touched, or even seen <span style="color: blue;">REAL</span> snow ... until TODAY! Yes, it’s true! There was a small dusting of snow last night and we woke up to see white roofs! You can’t imagine the excitement that this rare act of nature sparks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The kids can’t wait to go outside and attempt to make a snowball with the smallest amount of snow you can imagine ... just to throw it and announce, “Look at my snowball!” Giggles and laughter follows, and eventually cold fingers and toes too! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Our snow doesn’t last long, but it’s enough to signal “hot chocolate and marshmallow time.” I grew up in Maine, and the thought of hot chocolate and marshmallows brings warm memories back to me of times playing in the snow with family and friends. This memory inspired my January Take-Home Calendar: A mug of hot chocolate!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;">Last year, the children loved making the calendar while eating a few mini marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate as a class! It was a memorable way to celebrate the new year together!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: x-large;">You can find the calendar patterns and directions at my TPT store: Kindergarten with Susie. For the first 24 hours of every posting my products are 50% off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m looking forward to a bright and healthy new year filled with new friends and adventures! Thank you for sharing with me and keeping my spirits high with your encouragement.</span></div>
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