Beginning Sounds (December)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...at least at everyone else's house. I haven't found the time to get out my Christmas decorations yet. How about you?

I can't believe we only have three weeks until Christmas Break! I think I get more excited than the students at this time of the year.

We will have taught every letter of the alphabet before Christmas break ends. Hopefully you have taught most of them too, so here's some practice for beginning letter sounds and a great deal too. Students get so excited when they start seeing pictures of Santa, Christmas trees, and gifts. This simple beginning sounds pack allows students to enjoy Christmas as well as show their knowledge of beginning sounds. The following photos show 2 of the 4 included pages.

Beginning Sounds (December)

 

The teacher should name each picture so that the students are familiar with the pictures. The product description names each picture if you are unsure of any of them.

 

To add more skills and to include different levels of activities, students can label the pictures after cutting and gluing the letter for the beginning sound. You can see in the pictures below that some students did label their pictures. I love seeing how they sound out their words. Then students can color the Christmas pictures. Also, for those students who are ready, they can write a sentence for each picture on the back of their paper, using good writing skills, of course. I get so excited when I can read everything a student has written without them having to read their writing to me. They get excited too when I can read it. They always say, "How do you know what that said?" I always reply with, "Well, you did such a super job stretching and sounds out your words that I could read it." That makes them so proud of their work.

 

Take a look at one of these four sheets in action showing the different activities they can do with it (cutting and gluing beginning sounds, labeling pictures, coloring, and writing sentences). The students had a blast with these Christmas pictures, and I hope your students do, too! ENJOY!

 

 

They really seemed to enjoy coloring these Christmas pictures after cutting and gluing the beginning sounds.

I love how these two students labeled each picture.

 

 

The pictures below show two students who went the extra mile to write a sentence on the back of their paper for each picture shown. My students know that they are not to just sit and do nothing. I always tell them that there is always more they can add.  

1. I got a hat. 2 My reindeer is brown. 3. Santa is big. 4. The elf is here. 5. My star is yellow. 6. My candle is black.

1. I can put on the hat. 2. The reindeer can go fast. 3 Santa Claus gives me something. 4. I see the star in the sky. 5. I light up my candle. 5 Elves make toys.

 

 

I hope your students enjoy this beginning sounds activity for December.

This Beginning Sounds (December) is available for 

ONLY $1.00 for 3 days!

Tuesday, December 2nd (on Tuesday, December 2nd, get an additional 10% off when using promo code TPTCYBER)

Wednesday, December 3rd &

Thursday, December 4th

 

You can click on any of the photos above to access it or click HERE! 

 

I hope your students ENJOY this Beginning Sounds (December) pack. 

 

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Cultural Arts Day - Jerome Roams From Home (Patricia Maness -Children's Author/Illustrator)

Our students had a BLAST at Cultural Arts Day today. We were blessed to meet a great children's author/illustrator, Patricia Maness, from Alabama as she shared her book "Jerome Roams From Home!" This is such a cute story with lots of rhyming and simple but oh, so very cute illustrations. Check out her Facebook page and give her a "LIKE" to see where Jerome will roam next.

 

You can find her book on AMAZON!

 

"Jerome loves to travel. Jerome is not your typical RV. Driving over mountains and through valleys and fields of beautiful sunflowers seeking adventure and making new friends along the way" (Amazon).

 

Check out Jerome today!

Numbers 0-20 Hide and Seek

I hope all of you got your school year off to a great start. We have just recently completed the first quarter of the year. Time is flying! With the arrival of second quarter, we are teaching numbers, and I'm sure you are too. To help keep you going, here's a deal just for you! 

Numbers 0-20 Hide and Seek

This number packet includes a page for each number 0-20. Here's a few of the pages below.

Students are given directions to color the number a particular color. Students are to make it a game of "hide and seek" as they look to find (tag) the directed number on each page. The numbers on each page are randomly placed for finding and coloring. 

To add more skills and to include different levels of activities, students can flip to the back side of their paper and write numbers 0-20 independently.

Here's a couple of the sheets in action.

I hope your students enjoy this game of "hide and seek" as they learn to recognize numbers 0-20.

This Numbers 0-20 Hide and Seek activity is available for 

ONLY $1.00 for 3 days!

Friday, October 24th

Saturday, October 25th &

Sunday, October 26th

You can click on any of the photos above to access it or click HERE! 

I hope your students ENJOY this Numbers 0-20 Hide and Seek activity. 

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Fall Read and Write

Hi everyone! It's Sherry from 

Dr. Clements' Kindergarten. 

Woo! Hoo! I am loving this somewhat cooler weather we are having. With the recent arrival of fall comes a special offer just for you! 

Fall Read and Write

In this three page Fall Read and Write, students will read the one page fall story and color the pictures.

Then students have to correctly complete the sentence to match the story. There are two pages with five sentences about the story on each page. Each sentence has a missing word. At the end of each sentence, there are two words for students to choose from to find the missing word that correctly tells about the story. Students will circle the word that correctly completes the sentence to match the story on the first page, and then write the correct word in the blank.

This is a great comprehension check for guided reading, a mini lesson, a literacy center, or homework. It is also a great way to introduce close reading. 

This Fall Read and Write activity is available for 

ONLY $1.00 for 3 days!

Wednesday, September 24th

Thursday, September 25th &

Friday, September 26th

You can click on any of the photos above to access it or click HERE! 

I hope your students ENJOY this Fall Read and Write activity. 

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Pocket Chart Activities (Color Word Sentences)

Hello everyone! I don't know about you, but literacy centers are an important part of my daily routine in my kindergarten classroom. Items you put in your literacy center can cover such a wide range of skills throughout the year. Literacy centers usually include items that the students consider "fun," and they really don't even consider it work which is a great "win" for the teacher. Students are having fun and learning at the same time.

I was hoping to get this teaching resource up and going in my classroom and take photos of it in action before I posted it, but with all of this beginning of the year testing, I didn't get that accomplished. Hopefully you can imagine it in use.

This Pocket Chart Activity for Color Word Sentences is great for a literacy center or for students who finish their work early during the BACK TO SCHOOL season. These sentences focus on color words (red, green, brown, blue, purple, yellow, orange, black, and white) and the sight words "the" and "is." 

Creating or unscrambling each sentence helps the students focus on looking for the capital letter for the first word in the sentence and looking for the ending punctuation mark for the last word. The words that go together to make a complete sentence all have the same picture on the card. Also, each sentence has the words written in matching colors so that students can sort the cards by color/picture and then put the sentence in the correct order by finding the capital letter and ending punctuation mark.

               

 

              

  

                    

    

After the students correctly unscramble each sentence, they can write the complete sentence on the recording sheet provided. This provides evidence for the teacher showing what sentences the students unscramble in the center making the students accountable for their work. A recording sheet is included for each of the nine sentences.

To use, I would print each page on cardstock, laminate for durability, cut apart, and put the cards in a Ziploc bag and put in a literacy center with a pocket chart for students to unscramble. 

***If you do not have a pocket chart, the sentences can still be used simply by having students place the words or the floor or table.

You can click on any of the photos above to access it or click HERE! 

I hope your students ENJOY this pocket chart activity. 

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BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY: Morning Work Through the Year - Kindergarten (January - December)!

I can't believe summer is over and it's time for back to school or at least it is for me. I know some of you do not return until September (lucky you), but many of us are on our way back. I'm definitely going to miss setting my own schedule each day and sleeping in, but it's back to the real world on Monday! 

I thought I would have a GIVEAWAY to help get your school year started. My Morning Work Through the Year includes 20 days of morning work for the months January - December! 

Each day includes language arts and math skills. Having morning work at each student's desk when they enter helps keep them busy while learning and giving you (the teacher) a chance to get the day started by getting each student settled in, checking bookbags, taking up notes and lunch money, and any other daily routine tasks required of you.

Most of the sheets in the morning work use the same instructions so that after students get the feel of what to do, it will become automatic, and they will become independent in completing their morning work. Good luck as you enter and I hope you find this morning work useful!

I do have one Sample Freebie of my Morning Work, but it is for the month of May (end of year skills). If you would like to download it, look for the link below the Rafflecopter.

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