twitter
rss

Hello Friends!  I hope that this Tuesday is finding you well!  I'm excited because tonight I'm getting together with some former team members.  We all taught kindergarten together at a Title I school.  I love these ladies so much!  Although another member and I have moved to a different school, it is fun to get together and share not only our personal lives but stories from the classroom.  I love how teaching is just a big network of ideas and in sharing those great ideas we all become better educators for our students!

Anyway, today I upload a free Back-To-School reader to my TpT store.  It is very simple, only eight pages with simple black and white drawings.  I like the openness of the graphics with no shaded spaces, only outlines for the students.  There is nothing better to the average kindergarten kid than getting to color the pictures in a "book."  They take so much pride in creating a unique book, even if that means rainbow colored hair on the people or a hot pink school bus.  :-)  Under each drawing, I simply put a vocabulary word related to school items.  My goal was to create a fun, simple booklet that could be enjoyed by ALL learners in the first few days of school.  Did I mention it was free?  Oh yeah, it is FREE!!  Go download it today at Miss Amy's Schoolhouse!



     Hello!!! It is that time of year again!  The time I love to walk through Wal-Mart, and Target and see all the fresh new school supplies!  I've always loved buying school supplies, so I guess it is only fitting I became a teacher!  Yesterday I bought myself some NEON Ticonderoga pencils at Target!  They are so fun and only $2.00 for ten!  Miss Amy will have some very special teacher pencils this year!  (By the way, Ticonderoga pencils are the BEST out there.  They are more pricey, but I promise they are more durable than any other brand.  And I should know, after all I teach kindergarten.  They can be pretty destructive!)
    Anyway, also in exciting news, I've finally opened my very own Teacher Pay Teacher store.  I'm starting off small.  My first thing to offer this week is a series of Math activities that are perfect for individual work, whole group work, or even center activities, all around a Back-to-School theme!  It is great to fill in those days before curriculum starts (which we all know can be a headache to try to plan), as a supplement to curriculum, and especially for new teachers to begin to create center activities!  Here are some sample pictures of the activities:



Here is a list of the activities and the corresponding common core skills:
1.Time for Class:  Counting with numbers 1-4. K.CC.1a, K.CC.3a, K.CC.4a)
2.How Many Pencils: Counting and writing numbers 1-4. K.CC.1a, K.CC.3a, K.CC.4a, K.CC.4b)
3.Make a Group of Four: Practice counting to four and adding missing items to create four.  K.CC.4a., K.CC.$4.b-1
4.Count the Kids: Counting and Sorting into a groups practicing numbers 1-4. K.CC.3.a., K.CC.4a, K.CC.4.c
5.Write the Word and Number:  Writing the number and the word for numbers 1-4.
6.Math Vocabulary Anchor Chart cards over Ones and Tens. K.CC1.b
7.&Counting Ones:  Practice counting groups of Ones. K.CC.1.b
8.Making a Ten:  Using cut and paste to make a tens rod. K.CC.1.b
9.  Math Vocabulary Anchor Chart over the Word Above. K.G.1.c
10.Above the Bookcase:  Circling the things “above” in the classroom picture. K.G.1.c
11.Biggest to Smallest:  Sorting and placing items in order from biggest to smallest. K.MD.3.a
12.How Do You Go To School?: Graphing activity with the whole group to find out how the students go to school. K.MD.3.b.
13.All About Squares: Anchor Chart to show the basic attributes of a square. K.G.1.a, K.G.4.a
14.Find the Squares: Students will circle the items that are square shapes. K.G.1.a, K.G.1.b, K.G..2
15.Draw a Square: Students can draw their own object that is a square shape. K.G.1.a, K.G.1.b, K.G.5.a
Come and check out my TpT store at Miss Amy's Schoolhouse! I'm currently offering the whole math theme at a discounted price for August, and if you aren't ready to commit, I have a free sample available as well!  Happy Back-to School shopping!