100th Day!!!!

The 100th day of school is fast approaching for most. I found this great idea on Pinterest! (Yeah, I know... go figure) ;) This is a modification of a photo-frame for the first day of school. It can be made for any grade level and any special day of the year. 50th day would be great too. Enjoy!

Phonics Freebie

Found a great freebie from PositivelyLearning blog. 24 pages of short vowel word families. Click here to download your copy. Enjoy!

Conferencing

I have lots of forms and reminders to help with conferencing... call logs, documentation logs, etc. But, I've found a really cute K-2 conference pack from Ketchen's Kindergarten. Click Here to get a free download. Enjoy!

Center Time

That is probably one of the best things to hear in elementary school! My center time was introduced slowly and revolved around the skills that we were working on at that time. I used a poster with four colored dots. The dots corresponded to dots placed on an alligator’s belly next to each center. I had center teams, which meant four to six students were on the same color dot. I had four center per dot, so that kids could spread out. I rotated the dots every day, or every-other day, depending on how much time we had for centers. Bunny Bucks was a special center that any color dot team could do to help learn their sight words and phonics. I had centers such as listening, writing, reading, magnets (which math and word work could be done along with other things), math (time, numbers, etc.), creative art, free play, felt board stories, science (lots of interactive things like the bean tub, in which I hid something new every week!), puppet theatre, building blocks and puzzles. I constantly updated the centers to reflect, not only a skill they needed to master, but also skills they already had so that they could build on them. –Mrs. C J

Enjoy!

 

 

Word Wands!

These are awesome little pointers, wands and great word work tools. Kindergarteners can use them to practice sight words, as well as, spot them in books, around the room, etc. Click HERE to go to Twist, Twirl, Teach blog and see the original post from Lindsay Domenico. Enjoy!

Digraph Freebie

Here is a great freebie from Heidi Raki at Teachers Pay Teachers. Click HERE to download a copy.

You can also visit her website at http://www.rakisradresources.com/ too. She has LOTS of freebies that are useful for K-2, ELL, ESL, and ELA. Enjoy!