Last Day Deal ALERT!

Hey Kinder Friends,

I had way too much fun on Thanksgiving and even more after with some great Black Friday deals! Happy to say I got all I needed with a few clicks of a button this year and nothing makes me more excited than that. No lines and no waiting just online shopping the way it should be...simple! But before you know it it will be time to head back into the classroom and gear up for some winter learning and fun. Sooo, I had to let you know that this super deal is ending today. Yes, like all great Black Friday deals it ends today. With all of these great instant downloads from the fabulous and fun Freeblielicious girls!



 

I added my The Mitten Unit which is sure to get you thinking about winter! And here is what it includes:



This download includes lots of print and go, ink friendly activities!
1 Colored Teacher Big Book My Mittens
1 Blackline Printable Student Reader My Mittens
1 Colored Teacher Big Book In the Mitten
1 Blackline Printable Student Reader In the Mitten
1 Blackline Printable Student Reader Our Mittens
2 Blackline Printable What is Missing? Upper and Lowercase Letters
11 Blackline Printable Rhyming Pairs for Center Activity
6 Blackline Printables Roll and Write the Word
3 Blackline Printables Upper and Lowercase Mitten match
1 Colored Science Teaching Poster Animals Have Needs
1 Colored Science Teaching Poster Animals Have Parts
4 Colored Animals Have Parts Puzzles
2 Blackline Printables My Animal Parts Science Notebook/Journal Covers
4 Blackline Printables Animal Parts Puzzles
4 Blackline Printables Animal Parts Labels
10 Blackline Printables Label It! Writing Pages
1 Blackline Printable The Mitten Story Sequence Center Activity-Ordinals
7 Blackline Printables 10 Frame Fun Numbers 1-20
4 Blackline Printable Pattern Recording Pages
2 Blackline Printables What is Missing Numbers
1 Blackline Printable Do You Wear Mittens or Gloves? Graph
3 Blackline Printables Count It and Graph It!
21 Blackline Printables for making Math Notebooks/Journals for Tally,Ten Frame and Total It Activities
2 Colored Printables for Roll the Dice for one die
2 Colored Printables for Roll the Dice for two dice
2 Blackline Printables for Roll the Dice for one die
2 Blackline Printables for Roll the Dice for two dice
***Just added printables for cvc words short a,e,i,o,u

This is just ONE of the products in the bundle!

Can you imagine this AND all of this?

•           Brr! Winter Activity Bundle from Creating and Teaching (PDF)
• Cold Weather Write The Room Fun (PDF)
• Elf Yourself Creativity by Mrs. Miner's Monkey Business (PDF)
• Fluency Fast - Fall Edition from Simply Kinder (PDF)
• Gingerbread Literacy Centers from Kinder Alphabet (PDF)
• holiday language Winter Holiday Language Activities For Little Learners from Teaching with Love & Laughter (PDF)
• Interactive Sight Word Readers Winter Mini-Bundle from Kinder Craze (PDF)
• January Early Finishers Tub from Kreative in Kinder (PDF)
• Making Connections Poster Set and Response Sheets from Live Love Laugh Everyday in Kindergarten (PDF)
• November Writing Prompts and Organizers from Fun in First Grade (PDF)
• penguin Let's Make a Penguin...or Three! Art, Glyph, Literacy, and Math Pack from First Grade Blue Skies (PDF)
• Polar Express Unit from Kinderglynn (zip file)
• Reading in a Winter Wonderland from Kindergarten Smiles (PDF)
• Reindeer Games {Craftivity & Printables} from A Cupcake for the Teacher (PDF)
• Rhyming Picture Cards with Printables from A Teeny Tiny Teacher(PDF)
• Santa's Helpers Literacy and Math Pack for Kinder from Kindergarten Lifestyle (PDF)
• Scarecrow Craft and Writing Templates from Miss Kindergarten (PDF)
• Snowflake Math Activities from A Special Kind of Class (PDF)
• The Mitten Print and Go Fun from Little Miss Kindergarten (PDF)
• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie from Sharing Kindergarten (PDF)
• Unit-10 CCSS Aligned Literacy Centers from Seusstastic Classroom (PDF)
• Winter Wonderland Language Arts and Math Unit from Apples and ABC's (PDF)
• Entire Package (zip file)
• FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE!

Let The Sales Begin!



Hey Science Friends,

Wanted to wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving break. It is nice to have some time to gather and gab with family and friends and take a break from the day to day rush of all things related to school. Honestly, I feel like I am free! I am the turkey that got away on Thanksgiving Day! I just might look like a turkey running around trying to get those last minute things accomplished so that I can enjoy the holiday season. I have already participated in Black Friday sales online and gobbled up some great savings for Christmas!

And as you know the early bird catches the worm! I finally know how that feels to be the early bird and it feels great to check just another thing off my ever expanding list! So if you are like me and want to get a jump on the shopping rush and catch that little worm I have a deal for you. This Friday I am having a sale in my Teachers pay Teachers store so that if you have a little extra time you can gobble up some savings to just to get you on your way to being prepped and perky and all ready for Monday morning. And just to let you know... Teachers pay Teachers will be having a sale on Monday and Tuesday of next week as well and I will join in that fun too! With the TpT code you can save up to 28%!

Happy Thanksgiving Science Friends!

Hey Kinder Friends,

Wanted to wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving break. It is nice to have some time to gather and gab with family and friends and take a break from the day to day rush of all things related to school. Honestly, I feel like I am free! I am the turkey that got away on Thanksgiving Day! I just might look like a turkey running around trying to get those last minute things accomplished so that I can enjoy the holiday season. I have already participated in Black Friday sales online and gobbled up some great savings for Christmas!

And as you know the early bird catches the worm! I finally know how that feels to be the early bird and it feels great to check just another thing off my ever expanding list! So if you are like me and want to get a jump on the shopping rush and catch that little worm I have a deal for you. This Friday I am having a sale in my Teachers pay Teachers store so that if you have a little extra time you can gobble up some savings to just to get you on your way to being prepped and perky and all ready for Monday morning. And just to let you know... Teachers pay Teachers will be having a sale on Monday and Tuesday of next week as well and I will join in that fun too! With the TpT code you can save up to 28%!

Happy Thanksgiving Kinder Friends!

Thanksgiving Time FREEBIE!

Hey Kinder Friends,

Well the Thanksgiving work is finally winding down and we still have part of next week to go! But we were happy to be able to stay inside today and have our Feast For 10! This was one of those rare times that I was actually able to participate and even listen from afar as the play based activity was taking place. As you can imagine our conversations were lively and it was interesting to see the different roles that the children tried out as they prepared for the feast. I almost wished that I had a checklist with me as the children were working because they covered a lot of the things that have been discussed in class from Language Arts to Math to Social Studies. It was a real joy to hear several retellings of Feast For 10, tons of how many, one more and two more and how different children celebrate at their own homes. Since we have incorporated more books into our home center, it has been interesting to see how they use them in this area. I asked why they were on the table and at their feast and the children told me that they needed them... Everyone that came to their feast just needed a book to read! I suppose they now know that reading is a part of our daily lives and reading has purpose... What teacher would not want that message to be loud and clear even in a home center?

One of my new favorites this year has been our I Am Thankful For... writing activity. We generated a simple list of the things we were thankful for and used the word and picture list to complete our feathers for our turkey headbands and a card we made for our families.

Like I said, this was super simple and it gave us a chance to talk about making lists as a writing choice and we were able to use this to help with making cards for our families. As we were talking and discussing Thanksgiving and our families the children continued to come up with things that they were thankful for and I will be excited to revise this list because we are getting better and a little more descriptive...

Our new list will include our new thinking after much discussion!

I Am Thankful For...

Warm coats when it rains.

Hot buttery cornbread.

Sleeping with my dog.

TV when it rains.

Teachers who help you learn.

Friends when you are sad.

And as I was driving home from school one day I thought about...time. Sometimes I think we are in such a hurry to teach it all that it is hard to allow for more...time. Time to let things simmer in our heads and time to rethink and revisit so that we get to a deeper understanding. During one of our last discussions I asked why many of us were thankful for trees. And with a little help of a sentence stem the list all of the sudden became a lot more interesting and descriptive.

I am thankful for ___ because ___.

I am thankful for trees because they give us apples.

I am thankful for trees because they give me shade.

Wow, what a difference time has made.

Considering we still go to school next week we have time to work on more writing with more detail. Sometimes, it just takes a little more, time. I will let you know how it goes!

And before our rainy day was over we had a chance to make a gift for our families. We made simple hand print turkeys. You would be surprised to know just how many descriptive words were used during this simple project. I heard squishy, wiggly, cold and wet to name a few! Maybe this follow up activity needs to be a shared writing activity and we could make a list of those words! Hmmm...

  

If you are in school next week and need a little Thanksgiving free fun just click on the images to get yours just to make your classroom Thanksgiving a Thanksgiving to remember...

To every teacher near and far...Happy Thanksgiving Kinder Friends!

The other printables come from the unit A Thanksgiving To Remember.

Thanksgiving Feast Freebie!

Hey Kinder Friends,

We have been having a little fun getting it all together for our Thanksgiving feast this coming week. It is one of my all time favorite events in Kindergarten. We have slowly been putting together our Thanksgiving Story Retelling Place Mats and I have to say that we all can retell this story like we have known it all along. Hand motions and all, we have it! And as we have been discussing family traditions and customs we have had a lot of fun in our home center. In fact, a hot mess of fun!

We are going to keep this image small...for obvious reasons! Seriously what is a Kinder teacher to do when looking at this at dismissal? I say pick your battles my friends. Just shut the door and walk away because it is too upsetting to look at. I shut the door and my eye twitched all the way home... Between here and there I had to make a plan and quick because the mere thought of looking at this again made me light headed.

So, casually the next day we started talking about family celebrations again. And we learned that most every family celebration includes some kind of food. And I pulled our home center into the center of the room and asked if this were our "home" would it be ready for any kind of celebration.

The children decided that it would be a good idea to spruce up our home center because it was not ready for...anything! But we have had some fun sorting and organizing and actually deciding what props we wanted in our home center.

It did not take long for us to get some momentum and the conversations were lively as we organized and made decisions on what to keep and toss. It was interesting to see the different roles that each person took on for this project. Who knew problem solving could be so much fun?

We still are working on gathering some props because we decided that we wanted to create a Feast for 10! We had to borrow a few items and I am gathering a few more but by Monday we begin creating a Feast for 10! I seriously can't wait.

As I was thinking about the next week I remembered that a few of the children were talking about the place mats we have been making for the feast. They wanted to use the mats in the home center when recreating a Feast for 10. I decided to make some smaller place mats so that the children could use them in the home center.

Just print these on colored cardstock and laminate and you have a quick and easy prop for your home center too! If you need a copy for your friends just click on the image above and grab your freebie!

For more information on our Thanksgiving fun just click on the image above to get more information! Happy Fall Y'all!

November Number Talks Picks!

Hey Kinder Friends,

Just had to share our favorite Number Talking book picks for November! These are super simple and pretty cheap to come by so they are on the top of the list for our Number Talking fun. I ordered them through Amazon because I wanted to be able to have extra copies for the class. Considering Number Talks are an ongoing routine in the classroom I am always on the hunt for anything and everything that will add to this routine to get us all excited about this part of our day.

First up is the One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims book. It is super simple. But what I love about it most is that it serves as double duty for me. We read it and discuss the three ways to read a book and discuss retelling the story through the pictures. This is a great book for that because on most of the pages the children can read each word on the page but on some they must use the pictures to retell that part. It also incorporates one of our sight words "little" so the children see it in print many times throughout the book. And we all love counting the number on each page just to make sure 10 really is 10... To incorporate this into Number Talks, we add tools such as the Rekenrek or Magnetic Ten Frames to represent the number we see. And we are getting pretty good by now because we see numbers in different ways which lends to a richer Number Talk. This week I heard a lot of talk about one more because sometimes it was hard to find that last one on the page which gave us a great opportunity to talk about counting and recounting.

After our Number Talking routine, I was able to use the book to discuss counting and recounting with the class by using the same book as a starting point. After looking at my monitoring notes I knew that there were still children that do not use an organized method for counting objects. This gave me an opportunity to connect some of the things that I heard in Number Talks and help me plan for instruction for small groups of students or the class as a whole. So, in a sense, our Number Talking routine serves as an assessment of what the children know because the focus is communicating mathematically during Number Talks and you have the opportunity to hear and record the thinking of the children. And the benefit of this routine also gives the other children the opportunity to hear and see the thinking or applied strategies of other children.

As we strut into the last week before Thanksgiving we will be reading and incorporating 10 Fat Turkeys into our Number Talks because you have to have a little fun, right?

And it just would not be complete if we didn't countdown to Thanksgiving too! Oh my word do we ever love a countdown! Seriously, don't ask twice because we "got" this countdown thing! I swear we could countdown from like a million to any important event. WAIT, let me go make an assessment checklist for that...got ya!



New Additions!



Hey Kinder Friends,

Just a quick note to let you know that my Roll And Cover It has now been updated on Teachers Pay Teachers and it now includes Roll And Color It of the same versions. Because you just never know when you might need a Roll And Color It instead. Who knows you might just want to send a few of these home with your kinder friends for a little Math Night fun at home. Or maybe use the Roll And Cover It for Math Night at school! What about Math Buddies too? It is super simple to prepare no matter if it is Roll And Color or Roll And Cover. It's still print and go just the way we like it! Add some super fun and inexpensive dice from Dollar Tree and you are all set! If you are lucky you might even find those large colored rubber dice at Dollar Tree to make this just tons of fun. Maybe print a few and put in your sub tub. Hey, if you are feeling real happy why not use markers? Any way you look at it, it's still math fun...on the run! So, all you need to do is just re download and get the update! If you need more information just click on the picture! 

Bring On The Turkey!

Hey Kinder Friends,

It's been so busy and it's been a lot of fun but I feel like I am on a turkey run! I am sure you can relate. It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is getting closer and quick! Just that little thought had me thinking about my Thanksgiving files and in earlier in October when I trotted on over to my handy little turkey files I realized it was...a hot mess!

I have always loved Thanksgiving in Kindergarten. I guess it started my first year when I made stone soup for the first time. And boy oh boy did that memory last a while considering the giant sized Crock Pot tipped over in my just out of college...Mustang. Which is why now I have a handy Crock Pot locker at school but that is another story in itself and for another day.

When I started to think about doing everything and getting everything I wanted to get done and also keeping to the curriculum, I decided to update my files and make things a little easier to accomplish it all. Because you know giving up anything was just not an option because after all this is my favorite time of year!

So with all of the fuss and all of the flutter we are gearing up for a jam packed November!

Because I wanted to do it and do it all...I just had to make this...A Thanksgiving To Remember...

So bring on the turkey headbands and Thanksgiving placemats too and look what all is included here for you!

Standards Addressed:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.2 With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.3 With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1a Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3a Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3c Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.4 Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.A.3 Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4b Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4c Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.

 TEKS Objectives:

Language Arts

K.2(B) identify syllables in spoken words.

K.2(H) isolate the initial sound in one-syllable spoken words.

K.4(B) ask and respond to questions about texts read aloud.

K.8(A) retell a main event from a story read aloud.

K.10(B) retell important facts in a text, heard or read.

K.11(A) follow pictorial directions (e.g., recipes, science experiments).

Reading/Comprehension

(B) ask and respond to questions about text.

(E) retell or act out important events in stories.

Science

K.10(B) identify parts of plants such as roots, stem, and leaves and parts of animals such as head, eyes, and limbs.

Social Studies

K.3(A) place events in chronological order.

Math

K.2(A)  count forward and backward to at least 20 with and without objects.

(B)  read, write, and represent whole numbers from 0 to at least 20 with and without objects or pictures.

(C)  count a set of objects up to at least 20 and demonstrate that the last number said tells the number of objects in the set regardless of their arrangement or order.

(D)  recognize instantly the quantity of a small group of objects in organized and random arrangements.

This 138 page Print & Go Download Includes:

Classroom photos and directions

4 Blackline turkey headband printables with and without writing prompts

6 Color and blackline printables for a class big book I Can Set The Table

1 Blackline printable What’s Missing number line

1 Blackline cut and paste I Can Label The Table Setting

26 Blackline printables for creating Story Retelling Thanksgiving Placemats

1 Color printable for Thanksgiving Story Retelling Cards

1 Blackline printable for Large Thanksgiving Story Retelling Cards

1 Blackline printable for Small Thanksgiving Story Retelling Cards

8 Color printables for The First Thanksgiving Big Book

6 Blackline printables for student sized The First Thanksgiving emergent reader-The Pilgrim…

6 Blackline printables for student sized The First Thanksgiving-Alternate version

7 Blackline and color printables (different versions) of Thanksgiving Story Retelling Bracelets

1 Colored printable recipe card directions for Thanksgiving Snacks

6 Colored printables for I Can See The Pumpkin Parts Big Book

6 Blackline printables for student sized I Can See The Pumpkin Parts emergent reader

3 Colored Syllable Sort printables

1 Blackline Thanksgiving Blessings writing prompt stationary printable

1 Blackline Thanksgiving card printable

3 Blackline printable number line What Is Missing pages

6 Blackline cut and paste I Can Label The-Pumpkin, Indian Girl, Indian Boy, Pilgrim Girl, Pilgrim Boy, Turkey

4 Blackline printables for Beginning Sound Matching

4 Blackline printables for How Many counting with a ten frame

3 Blackline printable Roll Cover 3 versions/levels

Please note...MANY of the printables are Print & Go but some do require a little teacher prep!

With all my files ready, print, run...

I'm ready for the real Thanksgiving fun!

Now there's time for soup, the vegetables and all...

It's going to be a memorable fall!

 So before I set my little turkey free this November.

I promise to give them A Thanksgiving To Remember... 

A Winter Bundle Deal AND Freebie!



Hey Kinder Friends,

Just can't believe that I am posting about a great Winter deal from my friends and yours from the sweet Freebielicious girls. I am kind of excited about this deal because this time of year it is all about getting the deals and getting them quick so we have a little more time to spend with friends and family. And that is what it is all about, right? You got it! With instant downloads on your computer it makes it super simple to get ready to print and go when the time is right! I love it and I know you will too! With 22 instant downloads you will be singing Christmas songs and not worried about a thing for what is to come after Winter break! With printables for literacy, math, science and social studies you will be sure to have it all covered! If you need more information just click on the educents bundle image and it will take you to more information!

I have added to this bundle my The Mitten Print and Go Fun!

This download includes lots of print and go, ink friendly activities!
1 Colored Teacher Big Book My Mittens
1 Blackline Printable Student Reader My Mittens
1 Colored Teacher Big Book In the Mitten
1 Blackline Printable Student Reader In the Mitten
1 Blackline Printable Student Reader Our Mittens
2 Blackline Printable What is Missing? Upper and Lowercase Letters
11 Blackline Printable Rhyming Pairs for Center Activity
6 Blackline Printables Roll and Write the Word
3 Blackline Printables Upper and Lowercase Mitten match
1 Colored Science Teaching Poster Animals Have Needs
1 Colored Science Teaching Poster Animals Have Parts
4 Colored Animals Have Parts Puzzles
2 Blackline Printables My Animal Parts Science Notebook/Journal Covers
4 Blackline Printables Animal Parts Puzzles
4 Blackline Printables Animal Parts Labels
10 Blackline Printables Label It! Writing Pages
1 Blackline Printable The Mitten Story Sequence Center Activity-Ordinals
7 Blackline Printables 10 Frame Fun Numbers 1-20
4 Blackline Printable Pattern Recording Pages
2 Blackline Printables What is Missing Numbers
1 Blackline Printable Do You Wear Mittens or Gloves? Graph
3 Blackline Printables Count It and Graph It!
21 Blackline Printables for making Math Notebooks/Journals for Tally,Ten Frame and Total It Activities
2 Colored Printables for Roll the Dice for one die
2 Colored Printables for Roll the Dice for two dice
2 Blackline Printables for Roll the Dice for one die
2 Blackline Printables for Roll the Dice for two dice
***Just added printables for cvc words short a,e,i,o,u

This is just ONE of the products in the bundle!

And for a little freebie from this unit just click on the image above and grab yours!

Wishing you the best...