Technology for the Classroom

Today I have a great BIG thanks to shout out! I am so appreciative to the COACH Foundation. Just Friday I learned Coach donated $500 to my classroom for additional technology! Here are the items I was able to select:

RM Epad

This slate and stylus is amazing and was made with the classroom and students in mind! To see how it works click on the picture and watch the video!

Hot Dots

We’ve all heard of Hot Dots! A fun educational way to support student learning without using pencil and paper! Thanks to Coach Foundation, my students will be having fun learning the alphabet, phonics, numbers, counting, and shapes!

Thanks COACH Foundation for supporting kids with generous donations!

Terena

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Kitchen Menus & Writing

My Kindergarteners love playing in the kitchen dramatic play center. And, although I believe it is appropriate for them to focus on playing together, sharing, and their language, it’s also important to make this station common core friendly.
It’s not often my students get to play in this station but when they do they are responsible for the following:
1.  Set the table for 2 (or 3, 4, 5, or 6 – depending upon the number we’re working on)
2.  Role play – Students choose what role they would like to play such as chef, dishwasher, customers, waiter/waitress, cashier, hostess.
3.  Share – Sharing is important so students know they need to take on a different role each time they are learning at this station.
4.  Organize – Students also know while they are playing and when they clean up where all the items are to be placed. I took pictures of the items in my play kitchen and then taped them to the areas where the items are to be placed.
5.  Menus – Last of all, students have menus to play with. You can download them today for FREE. The “customers” read the menu with the words printed on it. AND, the waiter/waitresses write on the menus with the missing beginning sounds or missing words. Just laminate and you’re ready to go!

Click on EACH picture below to get your FREE menus. 

Hope you enjoy these menus and especially your students too!

Terena

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There’s lots more FREE items to come! Thank you!

Teaching Numbers 1 to 5

With the new Common Core Math Standards, our Kindergarten class is now focusing on numbers one to five the first trimester. Here are a few anchor charts we made each week we studied a new number. We color coded them so all the concepts on each one are the same color. The students love them!

Going Batty!

This week we are continuing to work on bats that we began last week. Here are a few free items you may wish to download. Just click on EACH picture.

1.  Vocabulary cards with pictures. I placed Velcro on the circle map above with the matching Velcro on the vocabulary word. Students can now use this as a portable word wall or to sort and discuss.

2. Bats Are Sleeping Song

3. This Old Bat Song

I’ll be posting more tomorrow!

Terena

Pumpkin Freebies

Grab theses freebies today by clicking on the pictures below.

Beginning Sounds & Sequence of Lifecycle

Pumpkin Vocabulary

Hope you find these helpful.

Terena