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Click on the picture for a copy of this poem. It can be printed
on sentence strips and put in a pocket chart for shared reading.
Children can work on learning numbers 1 -10. A larger copy of
the poem can also be hung by the door and recited before going
down the hall.
Number words can be worked on later by replacing the numerals with the actual words. |
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Shauna Rademaker used crayon resist for this name/art activity. Children's names were written with white crayon on pieces of paper and children discovered their names when they applied water color. |
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Melissa Soucy gives her students opportunities to practice writing their names by providing dry erase markers and laminated papers with the children's names printed on them . |
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Melissa also gives children cut-up copies of their names to put together . |
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Nursery rhymes are an important part of kindergarten. Click on the picture to the left for lots of nursery rhyme activities to teach rhyming. This site also has pages that can be copied with the nursery rhymes that can be used for shared reading and also be put in individual poem books. |
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Kerry Astle, Dee Egeland, and Angela Shull at Big Sky use a chart to help children see how many kids are having hot lunch and how many are having cold. The children write their names daily and add it to the chart. |
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Go to the link below for a guide on how to teach the pledge of
allegiance.
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Click on the picture for a link to a take-home book.
From Carl's Corner Go about half way down the page and click where it says "School Days"
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Below are links to pictures to go with the song "The Wheels on the Bus" The pictures can be cut out, laminated, and used with a felt board or magnetic board. Make two copies of the bus and cut out the wheels and the door. The pictures can later be labeled by using interactive writing These are large files and might take a moment to load.
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Susan Mettler uses the "Birthday Song" as a shared reading to teach names and directionality. |
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After using the Birthday Song
as a shared reading, give children copies of the poem and have them
write their names in the blanks (see the picture
to the left.) Put the pages into a book that everyone can
read or into individual poetry binders.
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Click on the link below for activities to go with the book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear. Brown Bear, Brown Bear Lesson Plans and activities For pictures to use for puppets for the book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? ( by Bill Martin/Eric Carle) click below and look at the bottom of the page. |
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The poem to the left can be used to teach colors and traffic safety. The stoplight can be made out of felt to make it more interactive. |
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Kalcy Schafer had children cut circles and add them to a rectangle and practice printing color words to extend the poem, "Red on Top." |
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For Back-to-School night, Tegan Leffler's students made pictures of themselves on paper plates and put them on chairs to welcome their parents to their new classroom. |
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Labeling safety signs and helping children understand what the signs are for can be a great interactive writing topic.
From Angie Paris |
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The book to the left, Grandma Rides
in the Parade, is about the excitement of preparing for the Crow
Fair. Click on the picture to download a copy of the book that can
be printed.
Click on this link to get background information and pictures of the Crow Fair. |
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Click on the picture to the left for an ABC's of Environmental Print Book. |
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Environmental Print Poem This poem from Roxana Blackwell's class can be used to teach the word, "like" or "I" and can be put in a center after it is used as a shared reading for many days. Environmental print or children's names can be used.
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Click here for the alphabet papers to use for this center from Melissa Soucy's room |
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