Opening a New Store

I decided to open a new store in Teacher's Notebook as well as Teacher's Pay Teachers. Now you have a choice as to where you would like to shop. It will take some time as I load products into both stores. My plan is to sell the same products at both stores. It is a very busy time of the year as the school year winds down, however this summer I plan on putting together many new high quality learning activities and lessons. I can't wait to get started. I have loads of ideas floating through my mind that I would love to share. If you are interested in knowing about upcoming sales, be sure to become a follower.

Teacher Appreciation Day

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Teachers work so incredibly hard throughout the year. Please take some time off and do something special for yourself. Take a moment to recognize all the accomplishments and growth your students have made this year.

I am having my biggest sale since opening my new store. In honor of Teacher Appreciation Day, my entire store will be having a 20% off sale. What makes this deal even sweeter is the fact that TPT will be taking an additional 10% off the sale price. This adds up to a 28% savings. If you have something on your wish list, now is the perfect opportunity to jump in on some big savings.

HAPPY TEACHER APPRECIATION DAY!

Mother's Day Necklace and Booklet

                             

Celebrate Mother's Day by having your students create this adorable booklet and necklace. Students will be able to give it to someone who is special in their lives for Mother's Day. They may fill out their responses on kid lined paper in the booklet to answer prompts. Students will enjoy creating a necklace to give to someone they love. This product is ESPECIALLY good for classes in which some students come from non-traditional families or who have a special woman in their lives who is not their mother.  If you are a mother or care for a child, I want to wish you a Happy Mother's Day! 

 http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Mothers-Day-Booklet-Cute-Necklace

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Counting Sounds in Words

The ability to break up a word into individual sounds can be challenging at first for many kindergarteners.  Example: Tell me all the sounds you hear in the word tag. The student should respond by saying each individual sound or phoneme /t/- /a/-/g/  This skill is very important as students begin to learn to write using inventive spelling. Many school systems use DIBELS, and there is a phonemic segmentation section students are asked to do in the Winter and Spring. I have developed this fun activity to help students count phonemes as they say words slowly and listen for sounds. Students will begin to notice that not all words have the same amount of letters as there are sounds. An example of this would be the word egg. It has three letters but only two sounds. This activity is great to do during RTI or Literacy Center Time. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Circus-Peanuts-Count-the-Phonemes-or-Sounds-in-Words

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I Can Write a Sentence.

Kindergarteners can write sentences.

     My students are exposed to sentence writing at the beginning of the year. Students quickly learn through lots of modeling  how sentences are written. The children do their best with inventive spelling, and their knowledge of the high frequency words introduced. As the school year progresses, students learn to write sentences using an uppercase letter, use finger spaces between words, use correct ending marks and use their very best handwriting. I display these "I can" posters in my classroom above their best work. You can find this product at my TPT store. You will receive the "I can" statements and writing paper with a check box list for students to self edit their work. This packet includes two different types of paper for differentiated instruction. The first paper is just one sided with a check box list for self editing. The second set of papers run off two sided for more advanced writers with the check box list on the back.
      By the spring, most of my students are proudly writing several sentences about a given topic. It is quite amazing to see the transformation the students make from the beginning of the year. Most students go from writing only a string of letters at their first attempts of writing a sentence at the beginning of the year to writing stories at the end of the year. When I show students their writing samples from the beginning of the year, they are in shock and can't believe that they used to write like that. 
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/I-can-statements-Write-a-sentence-and-writing-paper


http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/123kteach/i-can-statements-write-a-sentence

Bunny Hop Number Line

Students Enjoying the Bunny Hop Number Line Activity

My students loved hopping along on the bunny line as they solved addition and subtraction problems. Simply place the bunnies on the floor for students to hop to the right to solve addition problems or hop to the left to solve subtraction problems. This was a great gross motor activity to do prior to working at the tables to complete the worksheets. Students use the number lines on the sheets next to each simple addition and subtraction sentence to solve problems.  You can find this activity at my TPT store. You will receive four addition and four subtraction worksheets in this package, as well as two mixed operation worksheets. You will also receive bunny cards 0-20 for you to place on the floor. This activity was my best seller for the month of March.  I decided to also make a Frog Hop Number Line Addition and Subtraction to add to my store.  Kids really do become motivated anytime you can get them moving while learning something new.
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bunny-Hop-Number-Line-Addition-Subtraction

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Line-Addition-Subtraction-Frog-Hop-KOA2

Classroom Management

Stop Signs/Classroom Management  I use these cute little stop signs in my classroom and I love them. I like the idea of not having to use my words and keep on teaching while giving the students gentle reminders to stop what they are doing and make a better choice.  

     Stop what your doing, walk over to a child instead of yelling across the room. I found this on Pinterest. Best of all, you can print these out for free just by following the link above.