February Morning Work (FREEBIE SAMPLE)

How many of you find your mornings to be hectic as students arrive? If you are like some classrooms, your students do not all arrive at the same time. When students do arrive, you have notes, folders, money, and so much more to collect and organize. Do your students get a little anxious and rowdy during this time? If so, why not give students something to work on that is meaningful? 

Try this February Morning Work Sample to see if it helps get you and your students settled into each day so you can get organized and leave the chaos behind. Language arts and math skills are both included daily in this set. 

You can get this FREEBIE SAMPLE to try HERE! 

If you like what you see and are interested, 

you can find the entire product HERE! 

I hope you and your students have some great, smooth mornings ahead! 

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Second Day of Kindergarten: Back to School Progress Through the Year!

Today we started on our "Back to School: Progress Through the Year" portfolio packets. It is always amazing to see the academic growth of kindergarten students throughout the year. Many students come into the classroom not knowing how to hold a pencil, much less knowing how to write a sentence with it, and then they leave at the end of their kindergarten year writing stories with a beginning, middle, and ending. That is so AMAZING to me and why I LOVE teaching kindergarten!

Today, we showed how we can write our name, color in the lines, draw a picture, and write a sentence about it. Take a look at two of our "works in progress." You can tell that we have a long way to go by looking at these samples, but I can't wait to see their progress in just a month or so, and then at the end of the school year. You can easily see the different beginning levels of students. 

If you would like to grab this Back to School Progress Through the Year pack, you can find it HERE! 

This “Back to School: Progress Through the Year” pack is great for showing student progress throughout the school year in many areas. It shows progress in coloring, name writing, drawing self, family, and house, writing ABC’s and numbers, and drawing a picture and writing about it (writing pages include plain lines and dotted lines). 
Each area (skill) has 3 pages for the first and last days of school and a page that can be dated for use as needed throughout the school year. Four cover pages are included to allow for a variety of grade range use including preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and second grades.
This is great to save and bind together at the end of the school year. It makes a great keepsake for parents. It is so much fun seeing and showing the students and parents the progress the students made in the different skills throughout the year.

I hope you ENJOY seeing the progress of your students throughout the year! I know your parents will treasure the end-of-the-year portfolios!

You may also like:

Writing Through the Year (Preschool, Kindergarten, First & Second Grades)

Morning Work Through the Year (January-December)
Emergent Reader Bundle A-Z (26 Books)
Reading Comprehension Bundle
Sight Word Bundle

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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 

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

Wednesday, December 3rd &

Thursday, December 4th

 

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

 

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