The End of One Year...

... with these cute graduation certificates.  Click the image for the download.

You get a pre-school, pre-kindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten certificate AND you also get a blank one so you can fill in anything you want!

Your kindergarten students will love singing this graduation song to the tune of "It's A Small World"
and the pages make a great big book! Click the image for the download.

Students can add small school photos of their friends to their bus.
Click the image for your FREE template.

Just paint the top of the egg cartons, download and print the FREE bus template, and pass out the tiny school photos you get each year. A fun project to decorate the room for your graduation.

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Even if school ends before Father's Day, you can have your students make these and send them home so they can honor their dads or any significant man in their life.
Students write the first name of their dad, grandpa, or any other significant person in their lives.
You make 10-20 copies to create a stack of notes. Wrap with cellophane & twine. Always a hit!

And The Beginning of Another:

Get your P, H, D from Palma, Heidi, & Drew & join us for a one-day workshop in Northern CA on June 2 and get inspired to start your new school year on the right foot. This hands-on workshop includes lunch & breakfast snacks. Check out our agenda for the fun-filled day, and did I mention prizes? We have hundreds of dollars in prizes to give away! 

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The First Day of School:

This is my most popular product!Attach a cotton ball and it's ready for your parents on the 1st day of school.
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You will want to start your new school year with "All About Numbers 1-5":   CLICK HERE

Click the image above to see all of the templates, ideas, and activities for #s 1-5.

You can grad the 1st day note along with all of these products in this discounted bundle.
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Follow me on FaceBook, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, & Teachers Pay Teachers.
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10 FUN Ideas to End & Begin Your School Year All on SALE + a FREEBIE!

Close out 1 year & set up next year with this sale:

Now is the time to grab the products you want to make the end of this school year extra special and help you make next year's set-up a breeze.

Right now, you can grab these graduation certificates (for Pre-K, K, TK, or anything else your kids might be graduating from) while they are on SALE:

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And if you need a cute graduation song, just print this one and glue the pages to 9" X 12" construction paper for a big book to use as you teach your students this song to the tune of "It's A Small World". 

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You can download an instrumental version of the song from iTunes, but many teachers just use this song without any music at all because the tune is so recognizable. 

Perfect for the last page of their Memory Book: "When I Grow Up":

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Do you need a Father's Day gift idea? This one is so easy and virtually free. Students can make these for any significant person in their lives too!

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Did you know that June 14 is Flag Day? Your students can write about our flag with this flag writing template. Use it again next year while studying about national symbols, Veteran's Day, American presidents, or Memorial Day. After writing, you color in the blank lines with the sides of broken, red crayons and fill in the background of the illustration with blue. 

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End-of-the-year Gift to make with old, fat crayons: (This is a FREEBIE)

And here is a fun activity to try during the last week of school. Make one Rime Time flower each day!

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Get Ready for Next Year...

... with these FUN products:

I'm Ready For TK:

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Easy, Interactive Homework:

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Beginning of the Year Bundle: 

Includes so many products for 1 low price and it's also on SALE! 

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Have FUN Shopping during this Memorial Day SALE!

Out With The Old! In With The New! & a FREEBIE

The End of One Year...

... with these cute graduation certificates.  Click the image for the download.

You get a pre-school, pre-kindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten certificate AND you also get a blank one so you can fill in anything you want!

Your kindergarten students will love singing this graduation song to the tune of "It's A Small World"
and the pages make a great big book! Click the image for the download.

Students can add small school photos of their friends to their bus.
Click the image for your FREE template.

Just paint the top of the egg cartons, download and print the FREE bus template, and pass out the tiny school photos you get each year. A fun project to decorate the room for your graduation.

For Father's Day: Students write the first name of their dad, grandpa, or any other significant person in their lives.
You make 10-20 copies to create a stack of notes. Wrap with cellophane & twine. Always a hit!
Click the image for the download.

And The Beginning of Another:

This is my most popular product!Attach a cotton ball and it's ready for your parents on the 1st day of school.
Click the image for the download.

You still have a day to grab my "All About Numbers 1-5" at a 50% discount: CLICK HERE

Click the image above to set all of the templates, ideas, and activities for #s 1-5.

You can grad the 1st day note along with all of these products in this discounted bundle.
Click the image to grab this bundle.

Follow me on FaceBook, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, & Teachers Pay Teachers.
Click the image above and see where it takes you! :)

Beginning Of The Year Tips

Tips to make your teaching life easier:

Here are a few time-saving, "make my life easier" ideas that I like to do at the beginning of the year:

First, I take a photo of each child when they come in for pre-testing.  I hang up some fabric and use it as a background for the photos .  Then, when I attach their photos to the inside of their cubbies, they all coordinate with the bulletin board above it and the red checkered theme I have in my room.

Photo spot.

We will write about our favorite sandwiches on a sandwich
template and pin them on the plates.

Their photos, with the checkered background ,
will replace the old photos inside the cubbies.

I print the photos in all different sizes to use in different ways.

One way is to attach a 2" X 3" photo to card stock, laminate it, and add a sticky Velcro dot to the back.

Then, we use them to graph all kinds of things on a huge graph I made that has Velcro in each square.

Front of graphing card.

Back of graphing card.

1st Day Certificates:

Next, I printed up our 1st Day certificates:

This year, I had to change my master to "first day of TK".
Click the image to get the certificates for K.

1st Day Photo for the Memory Book:

 We took our "First Day In TK" photos!  I am hanging the frame on the bulletin board and placing the individual photos all around it for Back-To-School-Night!

That's all for now.  

See you all tomorrow for more "Beginning of the Year" ideas.

Check out my:
FaCeBoOk:  Click Here to see my Facebook. (Tons of FREE ideas.)
PiNtErEsT:  Click Here to see my Pinterest Boards.  (Oh, the ideas on these boards!)
TeAcHeRs PaY tEaChErS:  Click Here to see my TPT Store (Did you say, "15 freebies?!")

Find something new for this school year on sale:
My ENTIRE TPT STORE is on sale.

Palma :)

Today's FREEBIE & 1, 2, 3 Sale

A Colorful FREEBIE:

Children trace color words and match them to the rainbow strips.  This will brighten your room at the beginning of the year!  

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Our Common Core Counting & Cardinality Pack:

Our Counting & Cardinality Pack is on sale for 50% off today only.  

It includes numbers 0-20.

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Blackline masters for tracing
and matching sets.

                         

Counting, number formation, ten-frames, number lines,
 number bonds, and number order.  It's all here!

Number Memory Game:

You will use our Number Memory Game all year long to reinforce numbers:

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Number Bingo:

Number Bingo is one of our most popular products.  You can use this game all year long and the kids will LoVe it!

Click the image to go to the $1.00 download.

Have you checked out our Pinterest Boards?

Follow us on Pinterest for even more FUN!

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Sorry today's post was so late.  

I went to see the play "Once" last night :)

See you all tomorrow.

Palma :)

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1, 2, 3 Classroom Set-Up Part 1 of ??? "Before The Kids Arrive" (& a FREEBIE)

1, 2, 3 Classroom Set-Up Series:

This is part 1 in a series of awesome tips for setting up your classroom for the new year.  Each day I will post 3 tried and true "Classroom Set-Up" ideas that have evolved over the past 35 years (OMG, have I REALLY been teaching that long?) all here in one place just for you.  Come back each day to see more tips that will help you save time and help your new school year run smoothly.  

Tip 1:  Before The Kids Arrive:

I remove the laminated graphics and replace them with
seasonal graphics for more photos all year long!

I found this white frame at a flea market and I added the graphics for their First Day photo which will look great on the bulletin board for Back-to-School-Night AND it will go in their memory book too!

Tip 2:  A Note For The Parents:

This photo includes the comfort note and the laminated name tags for each student.
The color of the name tag tells them their color on the rainbow rug
and which colored table to sit at.  

I prepare a comfort note for the parents and I attach a cotton ball to each one.  Last year, I printed the note on colored hearts.  

You can grab one version of this note by clicking HERE.  

Click the image to grab this Giving Tree for FREE.

Tip 3:  The Giving Tree:

I print this "Giving Tree" and laminate it for use all year long.  I add apple Post-its (but the square Post-its work just fine) and I write on the tree and on the Post-it the item I need, how many I need, and when I need it.  Parents grab and apple and sign their name to the apple on the laminated tree.   Then I know who is bringing what and when.  

You can grab this Giving Tree FREE by clicking HERE.

Check out my:
FaCeBoOk:  Click Here to see my Facebook. (Tons of FREE ideas.)
PiNtErEsT:  Click Here to see my Pinterest Boards.  (Oh, the ideas on these boards!)
TeAcHeRs PaY tEaChErS:  Click Here to see my TPT Store (Did you say, "15 freebies?!")

See you all tomorrow with more tips.

Palma :)

Classroom Set Up 101 or My BEST 3 TIPS for the Beginning of the Year

I know, I know...

We just started summer vacation and I'm already thinking about setting up my classroom.  

Here are the first 3 things I plan to do to set up my classroom:

The room looks so bare and sad.  

Tip # 1:

I can't wait for them to clean the carpet and get rid of my rainbow rug so I can switch to using SitSpots instead.  These colored velcro shapes are amazing.  You can find them by clicking right HERE.  

These SitSpots mark the purple centers in my classroom.

These SitSpots mark the listening center as an orange center.

I have 6 hexagons (that new kindergarten Common Core shape) in each table color.  I plan to place a row of hexagons down in color rows.

Tip # 2:

The tables will also be color coded.  The red table will get red laminated construction paper placemats with the student's name plate taped to it.  These mats help to keep the glue off of the tables.  

Can you tell this is the "blue" table?

And this is the purple table.  The orange sign on the table tells the children
that they may go to an orange center today.

Each table will also have a popsicle tray for crayons.  3 large or 6 small crayons fit perfectly in each of the 8 (Hey, that's how many colors come in a box!) crayons.  The colored table tote will hold pencils, markers, glue sticks, and scissors with handles that match the table color.  

Kids get to practice their sorting skills every day as they put their crayons away. 

Tip # 3:

I picked up a white frame at a flea market last year, attached laminated graphics of crayons, scissors, a glue bottle, lined paper & pencil, and a sign that read:  "My First Day In T.K."  The kids looked so great holding this sign up around their little faces as I took a picture of each one of them.  

The frame worked perfectly at graduation too.

Hope these tips helped.  Stop by again and I'll post about setting up centers so you don't go crazy with messy centers.

See you all tomorrow.

Palma :)