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Friday, March 8, 2024

What Do The Other Kids Do While I'm Teaching a Small Group?

 I See This Question All The Time. Here is the Answer:

While I'm teaching a small group of students, the other children are working on their "Table Work*" at their tables. (*Meaningful work they can do Independently.)

Here are some examples:

MONDAY: 
Alpha Chants- Students trace ONLY the letter we are focusing on that day (or week) with a fine-tip marking pen. Then, they glue it to the 6" pocket created by folding a 12"X18" piece of construction paper into a 12"X12" square and stapling the 6" flap at the sides. 
CLICK HERE for the chants.
We use the pocket to make an Alphabet book
that holds all of our other work about this letter. 

TUESDAY:
Pocket-Lockets- We create a pocket watch or a locket with a hidden high frequency word inside. 
This set comes with Dolch Words and blanks to create your own Pocket-Lockets! 

The 1st time we did this, ALL of the girls wanted to make the locket & ALL of the boys wanted to make the pocket watch, but after that 1st time, they chose a differently every time!


WEDNESDAY:
One of the activities from this "All About Numbers" Math Set- (It also comes in 2 smaller sets of #s 1-5 and #s 6-10.) 
THURSDAY:
ALPHABET PICTURE CARDS & PHONICS PAGES- This set comes with 3 pictures for each sound, but I also put additional pictures from old workbooks or magazines on their tables. Students draw & label 3 pictures. Younger students can cut and paste the graphics included in the set. 
We put the entire page into the pocket we made on Monday. 
CLICK HERE for the set.




FRIDAY:
Rime Time: (Yes, "rime" instead of "rhyme" because we are working on Onset Rimes.) Student create a spinning word wheel with onset rimes by changing the first letter of each word to create a new word. 



CLICK HERE for the set

These were my "go to" Table Activities, 
but you can substitute 
any independent activity you like. 
You can find more independent activities 
on my TpT Store

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Friday, March 1, 2024

Did March Come in Like a Lion???

Roar Through Assessments Quickly & Easily With THE TESTABLE MOMENT:

You have heard about "The Teachable Moment," but what about "The Testable Moment?"

1. Quickly assess your students on their progress to make sure they are on target.

How??? 

"Chuck" your testing into small, quick sessions. That's the Testable Moment! Here is how:

     ~In small groups, while students are illustrating what they will be writing about, test each student on a just 3 or 4 sight words. (I used ESGI.)

Here I am with a group of 5 testing each child on the next 3 sight words that come up on their individual sight word assessment.
  ~While your students are browsing books in the library, grab your iPad or laptop & click on "untested students" in ESGI and test a student or 2, or 3.
 
  

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

How Do You Explain LEAP YEAR to Kindergarten Students?

Plus, Leap into ESGI This Year & Win!

The best way to simply explain why we get an extra day every four years is this:

~It takes approximately 365.25 days for Earth to orbit the Sun.      
  That's called a solar year. 
~We usually round the days in a calendar year to 365. 
~To make up for the missing partial day, we add one day to our 
  calendar about every four years. ~And That is called a leap  
  year!

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I won because ESGI made me glow in my classroom by helping me to target the specific skills each child needed. 

How?

~I used the "flashcards" as "skill cards" and I put each child's skill cards into zipper bags to create RTI kits to take home or to use in class with an adult or a cross-age tutor. 

Here is a sample of the skill cards that reflect the incorrect skills for this child. We cut them apart, put them into zipper sandwich bags, & we chose 1 skill card to work on with an adult or tutor. 





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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Are You Celebrating The Lunar New Year This Month? GLOW with this FREEBIE & ESGI Offer.

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It's time to "GLOW" with these adorable lanterns!
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~I used the "flashcards" as "skill cards" and I put each child's skill cards into zipper bags to create RTI kits to take home or to use in class with an adult or a cross-age tutor. 

Here is a sample of the skill cards that reflect the incorrect skills for this child. We cut them apart, put them into zipper sandwich bags, & we chose 1 skill card to work on with an adult or tutor. 





And that's how you can GLOW with ESGI!


Sunday, February 11, 2024

It's Super Bowl Sunday, so Let's GLOW! + a FREEBIE!

 EVERYONE GETS A FREEBIE!

I'm giving EVERYONE a Super Super Bowl/Valentine Freebie today and ESGI is giving you one tomorrow Feb. 12!


Why? Because super teachers deserve something super exciting on Super Bowl Sunday and because ESGI wants to help make you GLOW!


ESGI made me glow in my classroom by helping me to target the specific skills each child needed. 

How?

~I used the "flashcards" as "skill cards" and I put each child's skill cards into zipper bags to create RTI kits to take home or to use in class with an adult or a cross-age tutor. 

Here is a sample of the skill cards that reflect the incorrect skills for this child. We cut them apart, put them into zipper sandwich bags, & we chose 1 skill card to work on with an adult or tutor. 






Here is today's Freebie:

Let's Subitize with Valentine Hearts! I made these with fonts and graphic from DJ Inkers. You can find them HERE.

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Remember to come back tomorrow 

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you will get 

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& 1 lucky registrant will win an iPad 

& 5 will receive a $100 Amazon Gift Card!

You must sign up between 2/12 & 3/15 

and you must use the code KFUN

HERE

(Or use the QR code below.

Either way, you will be entered to win.)

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Saturday, January 6, 2024

Lunar New Year is Feb. 10, 2024!

Get Your FREE Lantern Template Here:

Here is an easy lantern that your student can make for a variety of events such as:
 Lunar New Year (use red and gold paper) 
 The first day of Autumn (use fall colors)
 Winter Holidays (use blue, green, & red)

They are simple to make too:


I created a FREE template that you can download 
so your students will know exactly where to fold and where to cut. 
You can find the template by clicking HERE
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