Peanut Free/Nut Free Posters

As I was walking down the hallway at school yesterday, I noticed that everyone has their peanut free posters hanging up, and it's the same posters, year after year.  So, I put together some new peanut free signs, and this time added actual peanut pictures to them instead of just making them classroom themed.  I also made table labels, and a list of peanut free snacks to send home to parents.  You can get a copy through my TpT store or my Teachers Notebook store.

Phonics Cards - Vowels and Digraphs

A second-grade teacher at my school found a set of phonics cards that she thought would be great to hang on the wall behind the table where she pulls small groups, but the cards were only sold in the UK.  She scoured TpT for something similar and found nothing, so she told me about it, knowing that I'm always looking for new stuff to create. So, after days of searching for graphics that would fit each vowel and digraph, it's finally complete! And, now that TpT is allowing you to correlate your items to the Common Core standards, it's aligned with standards in K-2.  So, if you would like to check it out, you can visit my TpT store.
 

8/20/13 - Edit to add photos of the cards all laminated and hung on the wall!

CAFE Board

I put together a set of CAFE headers, with all of the strategies for my new classroom, which I have available on TpT. I've included the CAFE letters, the headers with their descriptions, and all of the strategies, some of which can be seen in the image below. Also included in the file, but not shown in the picture, are blank sheets where students can put their sticky notes to show which strategy they're working on. I was planning to use them, but I am doing daily five with the other third-grade teacher, and we are having all the students put their sticky notes on the board in her room. The signs that you can see on the bulletin board are available in my daily five download.

Daily 5 - Center Management

I needed a matching sign for my Daily 5 centers for a 6th choice - Work With Teacher, and of course I couldn't find anything... so, what was left to do but create my own new set!  So, here it is... my Daily 5 Center Management packet.  6 posters, small cards for students to keep track of their centers (see photo below), teacher check in sheets, and a sheet for conference an observation notes.  You can download the Daily 5 Center Management packet on my Teachers Notebook store.

Kindergarten Freebies

Here are a few little freebies from Kindergarten that I put up on my TpT store.  One is a Roll a Sight Word game, which makes a great word work center.  The other is my 100th Day Celebration Tickets, including instructions for how I used them, pictures of some of the activities, and printables, when applicable.  Enjoy!

      

Nut Free Sign - Take 2!

My friend who teaches Second Grade has an ocean themed room, and it didn't make much sense for her to have a nut-free owl sign hanging outside of her room.  So, since she has been putting up with all of my stress over the move to Third Grade, the least I could do was to make her a nut-free sign with an ocean theme!  I'm sure I owe her much more than a little sign, but it's a start! The sign is available for download on my TpT store.

Activity Bags

Even though I've turned this into a 3rd grade blog, I have a bunch of Kindergarten resources that I want to put up on my TpT site.  Over the last 5 years or so, I've been using Activity Bags in my Kindergarten classroom, and they have been well-liked by both students and parents.  There are 20 themed bags, which include instructions, books, hands-on materials, and resources from the classroom.  Children would take each bag home for up to a week, the most popular bags being the stuffed animal bags (Mirabelle's Bag and the Fuzzy Bear Bag).  The parents seemed to most appreciate the Fine Motor Skills Bag, especially if their child could not yet tie their shoes!  I store the bags on hooks behind my closets.

 Here is an example of the contents of one of the bags.  This is bag #4 - Rhyming and Word Families, which includes a wipe off word family house, Rhyming Radishes folder game, wooden letters and word family cards, word family postcards (Vistaprint), a word family journal (Michaels was always great for picking up the $1.00 journals, though the prices have gone up lately),  a pencil box with pencils and a pencil sharpener, 3 rhyming books for kids to read, feedback cards (so families can tell you what they liked/didn't like and if any pieces are broken or missing - also from Vistaprint), and the instruction sheet which goes into each bag.  Note that every item has a number label on it so that when random items come in days (or weeks, or even months) later, you can easily put it back in the right spot.

I have put together a resource with all of my activity bag instruction pages, instructions for creating the bags, parent letters, printables, bag tags, check off sheets for signing bags out to students, and some samples of Vistaprint creations that I used for the bags.  It is all editable since other people will likely not have the same books and resources that I used, but it will serve as a great starting point.  The following themed bags were used:

#1 - Counting Bag
#2 - Sorting and Graphing Bag
#3 - All About Me Bag
#4 - Rhyming and Word Families Bag
#5 - Measuring Bag
#6 - Time and Money Bag
#7 - Mystery Bag
#8 - Scientist of the Week Bag
#9 - Estimation Bag
#10 - Letter Sounds Bag
#11 - Alphabet Bag
#12 - Shapes and Colors Bag
#13 - Mirabelle's Bag
#14 - Nursery Rhymes Bag
#15 - Fine Motor Skills Bag
#16 - Sight Words Bag
#17 - Name Game Bag
#18 - Making Words Bag
#19 - Fuzzy Bear Bag
#20 - Numbers Bag

 

 

 To download the Activity Bags file, visit my Teachers pay Teachers store.