It's About Time, Teachers!: elementary resources

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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

A Poem for Veterans' Day

It's about time for Veterans' Day, teachers! That means it's about time for a poem. And, of course, some activities to go with it.

You could also challenge your students' detective skills. Since this poem is replete with polysyllabic words, ask them to find all the 3 syllable words, 4 syllable words, etc. Put this poem in a literacy center and direct your students to find and list all the homophones and their alternate spellings.

The poem and possibilities are found in my unit, Poetry Possibilities -- Fall.

Thank you, Veterans!

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Acorns Keep Falling on my Head!

Acorns keep falling on my head! Really! Our oak trees are dropping acorns like a rainstorm. Ouch! But, kind of like Newton and his apple, those pecks on the head inspired me to create some acorn centers.

One of the centers is Acorn Patterns. There are 2 sizes of acorns and each size points in 4 different directions. By providing that number of variables, it will be easy to differentiate instruction for my students. They can make a simple a-b-a-b pattern with sizes. Or, I can challenge my G/T students to create something far more complex. Because the acorns are uncolored, students can make even more complicated patterns by the way they color them.

You can grab a copy of my Acorn Pattern math center at Google Docs.

In addition to the math center, I made 3 literacy centers: Collecting Acorns (compound word match), Acorn Contractions, and Acorns & Leaves (long vowel sort). If you like the patterning center, and I hope you do, you can get the whole set on TpT.

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Sunday, June 2, 2013

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Pinteresting Boards for Kindergarten Teachers

Collaborative boards dedicated to teaching abound on Pinterest. A few months ago, there were scores of them. Now there are hundreds of them. Some have 1000s of followers. Others are just getting started. If you teach kindergarten, you should check out these collaborative boards:

Kindergarten Literacy
Kindergarten Math
Kindergarten Science and Social Studies/
Kindergarten Freebies
Kindergarten Holidays Crafts
Kindergarten Classroom Management
Math for Kindergarten
ELA Letters & Letter Sounds
ELA Sight Words & Word Families
ELA Letter/Word/Sentence and Syllables
ELA Punctuation and Grammar
ELA - Games
Kindergarten Teacher
Activities for Early Grades
100 is a Magic Number
Pre-K-K Teachers Pay Teachers
Keepin' with Kindergarten
Preschool/Kindergarten Science
Kindergarten Kreations
Kindergarten Kolleagues
Pre-K/K/1/2 Science Lessons And Activities
Lower Elementary Literacy
Lower Elementary Math
Lower Elementary Other
Lower Elementary Literacy
Early Literacy Activities and Ideas!
KindergartenKlub.com
Kindergarten materials under $3!
we teach: kindergarten
Primary grades wonderful picture books
free lessons
Learn to Read
Primary Reading and Math
Primary Materials from TPT
Kindergarten Lesson Plans
Kindergarten and First Classroom Ideas
Kindergarten and First Grade Common Core Standards
Kindergarten and First Grade Reading Resources
Kindergarten and First Grade Writing Resources
Kindergarten and First Grade Math
FREEBIES for Pre-K, Kindergarten and First Grade
Kindergarten and First Grade Spring Activities
KinderLand Collaborative
http://pinterest.com/misskinder/k-2-reading-writing-ideas/
Kindergarten Daily 5
*Primary* Must Have TpT Finds
KinderFun Collaborative
Pre-K and K Perfection
Kindercenter

This is certainly not a complete list. Is that even possible? Hopefully, you will find a few in this list that are new to you. If you have a favorite kindergarten collaborative board on Pinterest that isn't listed, please put the address in a comment. I'll happily add more to the list.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Even MORE Pinteresting Boards

It's about time, teachers, to update you on the explosion of collaborative boards on Pinterest. If you missed my 1st two lists, check them out here and here. The latest finds include:

Word Study Ideas
Straight Up Grammar
TpT Pin Exchange
Math for Sixth Grade
Consummate Common Core Lessons - Math
Pre-school Literacy
Essential Elementary Products
Pre-school Math
Pre-school Other (not math or literacy)
Upper Elementary Other
Upper Elementary Literacy
Upper Elementary Math
Lower Elementary Literacy
Lower Elementary Math
Lower Elementary Other
Kindergarten -- $5 & Under
1st Grade - $5 & Under
2nd Grade - $5 & Under
3rd Grade -- $5 & Under
4th Grade -- $5 & Under
5th Grade -- $5 & Under
6th Grade - $5 & Under
Social Skills Success for Primary & Elementary
Social Skills Success for Jr. High & High School
Fabulous Fall Finds
Halloween Math on TpT
Halloween Language Arts on TpT
TpT Creative Reading/Language Arts Products
Writing Ideas (K-6)
ELA - Letters and Letter Sounds
ELA - Sight Words, Word Families
ELA - K/1 TPT Freebies
ELA - Letter/Word/Sentence & Syllables
ELA - Sight Words, Word Families
Pre-K/K/1 Science Lessons and Activities

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Monday, September 10, 2012

More Pinteresting Boards for Teachers

It's about time, teachers, ... for an update on all the pinteresting collaborative boards for teachers.

Last week I posted a list of 57 collaborative boards that pertain to elementary teaching. After posting it, I was asked to list contact information for boards that did not give that info in the heading.

Here's what I found out about those boards that do not make the contact info readily available:

Click on the button "Edit Board." A list of contributors appears. For many of these boards, the creator is listed at the top. Clicking on the creator's name should lead you to contact info.
For all the other boards with missing contact info, I emailed the creators I could identify to ask permission to publish their contact info. Sadly, I did not get any permissions. The best I can suggest is that you go to the Seller's Forum on TpT. Look in the Selling Tips section, as that is where the vast majority of threads on collaborative boards can be found. There are threads on other portions, as well. Check the Everything Else section since I know there are threads there.

Just this past weekend, Jason @ Jason's Online Classroom started 44 new TpT collaborative boards. [Can we say, "over-achiever?"] Go to his pinterest account to check them out: http://pinterest.com/JasonsClass/

Of course, you can also find all of the boards I have listed on my pinterest account since I joined all of them! [Now you can definitely say, "over-achiever!"]

Almost simultaneous with my original blog post about these boards, Heather @ Creation Castle created a FREE TpT product that lists Collaborative Pinterest Boards. She has broken the boards down into categories and only included boards with contact info listed. Her product is dynamic; she'll be adding to the lists as she finds more boards.

It's time to pin, pin, pin!

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Pinteresting Boards

It's about time, teachers, ... to help each other find interesting boards on Pinterest (i.e. Pinteresting Boards). There are scores of collaborative boards on Pinterest that cater to elementary teachers and teaching. Here's a list of some of my favorites:

Some of these boards have thousands of followers; others are just getting started. What a treasure these boards are! You've just got to check them out!!