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Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Looking for Back to School activities?This Fly Swatter Game is a fun and fast paced way to practice letter ID, sounds, numbers, color words, and high frequency words! Over 450 flies to print and use. This is a game that will grow with students as they learn. You can use it all year long.
Looking for Back to School activities? Or just something to help you reinforce the basics?
 This Fly Swatter Game is a fun and fast paced way to practice letter ID, sounds, numbers, color words, and high frequency words! 

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You'll want to get some fun classroom fly swatters for this Fly Swatter game

And also choose which flies you want to use (letters, numbers, colors, sight words...) so that you can print them out, and even laminate them for added durability. Over 450 flies are available to print. 

You'll love to hear that this game can grow with students as they learn. That means you can use it all year long! And the flies are large in size so that all student can easily see them. 

To set this game up, tape or velcro dot the selected flies around the classroom or on the front board. Have your fly swatters nearby and ready. 

To play, call out a letter, sound, number, or sight word. Have students run up to swat the corresponding fly. It's a great way to informally assess where students are at and what they need to work a little more on. You can keep a notebook or post-its close by and jot down what you notice as students play. 
Students can play individually, helping each other review and learn. Or have them race against each other to see who swats the fly first. It's a fun and fast paced game. I guarantee your littles will cheer every time you pull it out to play.
To make sure these flies last a long time, I recommend to print them out on card stock and to laminate them. That way they won't get bent easily. I use my Scotch laminator and laminating pouches to make it quick and easy. 

Organize and store them in large Ziploc bags and put them in your file folder or drawer. 
Don't miss out on having the smartest, fastest fly-swatting students around!

Find it here: Fly Swatter Game

-Til next time
     
Looking for Back to School activities?This Fly Swatter Game is a fun and fast paced way to practice letter ID, sounds, numbers, color words, and high frequency words! Over 450 flies to print and use. This is a game that will grow with students as they learn. You can use it all year long.
Morning Work for Kindergarten Common Core
Today we're going to take a peek at the Common Curriculum Everyday set I like to use with Kinders. I'll show you how it's designed and what concepts it covers. Plus, I'm going to set you up with FOUR FREE DOWNLOADS that you'll love!

I first created Common Curriculum Everyday shortly after the Common Core standards came out. I needed something to use with my Kinders that included short little snippets of independent daily review that were designed around mastering the new-at-the-time LA & Math Common Core standards. I didn't want to have to dig around searching for and compiling random resources to use as review. Nor did I want to keep track of so many different resources. 
FREE SAMPLE DOWNLOADS! These daily math, literacy, and writing activity worksheets were made, with the Common Core standards in mind, to be independent practice review for Kindergarten students to do as morning work, homework, at a center, or however you would so choose. The repeat exposure to the standards allow students to master skills quickly. A perfect Back to School resource! #freeprintable #kindergarten #backtoschool #commoncore #math #morningwork
So I laid all the Common Core LA & Math standards out and made a plan, making sure to incorporate as many of the standards as I could (plus a few extra concepts as well). I spread it out over the span of 10 months, combining a few August weeks into the September pack since school around here usually begins the middle of August. 
The activity sheets that come in each months pack involve math, literacy, and handwriting skills. They were made (with the Common Core standards in mind) to be used as independent practice sheets for students to do as morning work, homework, at a center, or for use in any other way you might see fit. 

Common Curriculum Everyday provides repeat exposure to the Kindergarten LA & Math standards, allowing students to successfully master the standards. The skills and Common Core standards that are covered in each month are written out in each pack so that you can look over each month ahead of time. The handwriting skills grow with students, starting off with basic letter tracing, moving to writing words, and then moving again to writing sentences later on in the year. 

Each month includes 25 pages to print. The September pack includes an additional 10 pages to use for end of August. The entire 10-month set includes 260 pages to print.

The pages of every pack are set up in 5 different layouts (one for each week of the month) so that students can be guided by you on what to do the first day of each week and then be able to continue on their own for the remaining days. The layouts are similar, so many students will pick up on what to do after awhile without any guidance at all.

This next example pictures has a mistake...did you notice what she did wrong? These daily pages are a great way to do informal assessments as you're walking around the room! 
 

Here are FOUR FREE DOWNLOADS that will give you an opportunity to try these for yourself!

The first one comes from the September pack:
FREE SAMPLE DOWNLOADS! These daily math, literacy, and writing activity worksheets were made, with the Common Core standards in mind, to be independent practice review for Kindergarten students to do as morning work, homework, at a center, or however you would so choose. The repeat exposure to the standards allow students to master skills quickly. A perfect Back to School resource! #freeprintable #kindergarten #backtoschool #commoncore #math #morningwork
September FREE DOWNLOAD

The next one comes from the October pack:
FREE SAMPLE DOWNLOADS! These daily math, literacy, and writing activity worksheets were made, with the Common Core standards in mind, to be independent practice review for Kindergarten students to do as morning work, homework, at a center, or however you would so choose. The repeat exposure to the standards allow students to master skills quickly. A perfect Back to School resource! #freeprintable #kindergarten #backtoschool #commoncore #math #morningwork
I especially love this pack because students have to search for the spider each day on the page. You can have them circle it when they find it! Did you find it?

October FREE DOWNLOAD

This one is from the January pack. Just like October, this one also has a snowflake that students have to search for each day on every page:
FREE SAMPLE DOWNLOADS! These daily math, literacy, and writing activity worksheets were made, with the Common Core standards in mind, to be independent practice review for Kindergarten students to do as morning work, homework, at a center, or however you would so choose. The repeat exposure to the standards allow students to master skills quickly. A perfect Back to School resource! #freeprintable #kindergarten #backtoschool #commoncore #math #morningwork
January FREE DOWNLOAD

And the last one comes from the February pack:
FREE SAMPLE DOWNLOADS! These daily math, literacy, and writing activity worksheets were made, with the Common Core standards in mind, to be independent practice review for Kindergarten students to do as morning work, homework, at a center, or however you would so choose. The repeat exposure to the standards allow students to master skills quickly. A perfect Back to School resource! #freeprintable #kindergarten #backtoschool #commoncore #math #morningwork
February FREE DOWNLOAD

Monthly packs can be found at The Barefoot Teacher shop individually or...

...bundled together, which saves you a lot of $$$. 

I know you'll love these! 
Try the free samples out and see how quickly your students catch on!
FREE SAMPLE DOWNLOADS! These daily math, literacy, and writing activity worksheets were made, with the Common Core standards in mind, to be independent practice review for Kindergarten students to do as morning work, homework, at a center, or however you would so choose. The repeat exposure to the standards allow students to master skills quickly. A perfect Back to School resource! #freeprintable #kindergarten #backtoschool #commoncore #math #morningwork

-Til next time
     
Are you ready for some football? Practice phonics, math, reading, and more with these fun football activities for kids. A free printable is included! It's a perfect pack for the other football ideas, crafts, and games you have planned for your Preschool, Kindergarten, or First grade students! #superbowl #football #activities #activitiesforkids #phonics #math #sports #freeprintable
Are you ready for some football??!! 
To be honest, I'm really not a football fan (Ah! Did I really just admit that out loud?!), but I know a lot of littles that are.
Let me show you some of the things that are in my Football Activities pack and then I'll give you a link for a Football Freebie!
First I want to show you this Subtracting Footballs Emergent Reader.
Each page asks students to figure out how many footballs are left after a specific number of them are 'kicked' away. You can have your students cross out the kicked-away number of footballs, or you can have them use the included football manipulative pieces to figure out each book page's answer. 

Besides the reader, the Activity Pack also includes practice in beginning and end sounds, short vowels, color word recognition, measurement (shortest, tallest), syllables, number recognition, & rhyming words. 
Here are some more of the included printouts...
This Football Color-By-Number FREEBIE is also included in the pack. 
 Your littles are going to absolutely love this activity! 
You can download this Football Color-By-Number absolutely FREE!

Have fun!!!

-Til next time
      

I know Thanksgiving hasn't yet passed, but I wanted to get this out to you guys so that you will have a head start heading into December. I'm gonna keep it quick and to the point today.

I've bundled together every single one of my December resources. You read that correctly! Every. Single. One. Which means two things.... 1) You can have all the extra resources you need all in one download. 2) You can your precious hard-earned $$$ (and use it on a little something for yourself) by getting all of these together in one pack. 

So here's what I got for you.
I'm calling it the December Holidays MEGA Pack.
Looking for holiday activities? This December mega pack will go right along with the other crafts, games, and ideas you have planned for your preschool, kindergarten, or first grade kids. Includes math, phonics, literacy, and more! Includes gingerbread man, Christmas, Santa, nativity, polar express, and more! #christmas #polarexpress #gingerbread #gingerbreadman #winter #december #kindergarten #math #literacy #holidays
This MEGA pack comes with over 550 pages of printouts you can download and use with your littles this December. A variety of themes are included, such as Polar Express, Gingerbread Man, Nativity, Santa, Winter, Christmas Carols, & more. 
 There are all types of activities including emergent readers, Common Core aligned morning work, pocket chart pieces, high frequency word practice, pattern & number review, fun sheets, Color-By activities, vowel reinforcement, alphabet & handwriting practices, & so much more. 
You can find a very detailed description of all that's included HERE.  
Get it now so that you can spend some time browsing and deciding which activities you want to print after Thanksgiving. Make this December a stress-LESS one by staying ahead of the game. I promise, you'll be glad you did! 

Hang in there! And have a blessed Thanksgiving. 
-Til next time
     

Happy New Year! 
Let's get the New Year started with a FREEBIE!

These daily math, literacy, and writing activity sheets were made, with the common core standards in mind, to be independent practice sheets for students to do as morning work, homework, at a center, or for use in any other way you would see fit!
If you like it, you might be interested in the full pack, which includes enough pages for the entire month of January! Each week follows the same format so that students can work independently after the first day of instruction.

This resource is also available in a Common Curriculum Everyday Bundle.

Hoping 2016 brings amazing things your way!
-Til next time
         

Happy New Year!
Did you make a resolution? I did - My goal is to blog more often this year. In fact, I already have a ton of exciting things already in the works! 

Well, as it's almost time for school to start back, I wanted to share this New Years activity pack with you. 
It's packed full of tons of New Years fun!
Here's what's included:
-New Years Emergent Reader 
with Resolutions Writing Prompt
-2 Beginning Sound Activity Pages
-2 Short Vowels Activity Pages
-2 End Sounds Activity Pages
-County by 2s
-2 Rhyming Sounds Pages
-Measuring (Tallest)
-Color Words Activity
-Missing Numbers
-Syllable Practice
-3 Piece Cut/Paste Puzzles
-Tens Frames Practice
What's YOUR New Years resolution? I'd love to hear it!

-Til next time
       

Thanksgiving is almost here! This quick print pack of activities for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade kids is a perfect addition to the other ideas, crafts, and resources you have planned for your students. Practice math, phonics, & literacy. #thanksgiving #printables #activities #kindergarten #math #literacy #phonics #preschool #turkey #pilgrims
November is almost upon us! 
I know, I know...Halloween is still a few days away...
but I'm thinking ahead on your behalf 
(and maybe I could sense your 
Friday-Halloween Party-Full Moon 
anxiety from here).

I've put together some activities that
will have you relaxing (and recouping?) this weekend instead of fretting about the new week.

This November Quick Prints pack... 
Thanksgiving is almost here! This quick print pack of activities for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade kids is a perfect addition to the other ideas, crafts, and resources you have planned for your students. Practice math, phonics, & literacy. #thanksgiving #printables #activities #kindergarten #math #literacy #phonics #preschool #turkey #pilgrims
...has 45 print outs for you to use in centers, as morning work, homework or even for your sub tub. It includes a wide variety of activities including skip counting, measuring, rhyming, short vowel practice, patterns, ABC order, and so much more. 

Here are a few thumbnails from this pack: 


Another favorite for this month is the
It's packed with 25 Common Core aligned math and literacy practice. They are set up so that you can review/teach/go over the skills on Monday, and the students will then be able to work independently Tuesday-Friday. 

Here are a few thumbnails from this pack:



You can get BOTH of these sets combined in one large DOUBLE PACK for a discounted price.

Print these out this week...before the Halloween party...so that your mind can sigh come Friday afternoon, knowing that you have a wealth of activities for the kids to do come November. 

~Til next time


I've got something up my sleeve...
{wink}
Something just for you!

But to find out what the surprise is, you'll have to download this new, fun, FREE, Color-by-Number activity to use with your winter or Polar habitat theme. 
The surprise is revealed in the download!

As I always tell my kiddos, "Sneaky, sneaky, Mrs. Castle!
Gotta keep you on your toes!"


~Til next time

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