Keyboard o-Rama!!

Here is my first summer project- file folder laptops! 

I found the idea on Pintrest, but I tweeked it a little bit.  Kids practice typing words (name, sight words, labeled objects, etc.) Then they must write them. 
I'm going to laminate them so they can use a dry-erase marker.  Perfect word work center!

I am not putting this on TeachersPayTeachers because it's not really my idea.  Plus the keyboard picture came straight off a Google Image search.  It was extremely easy to make though!

Half way through summer!

Well, today I realized that the beginning of school is right around the corner.  It goes by quick, am I right?

It is about that time in the summer where I start to get bored.  I mean, you can only watch Friday Night Lights re-runs and baseball for so long during the day! :)

I've made a Pintrest board of all the stuff I want to work on during this last month of my summer.  I can't wait to share!!!

Awards Day!!

My awards day has come and gone... a month ago actually. 

However, I wanted to share the awards certificates that I created. 

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The Rth!!!

We've been studying all about Earth! 
I did this activity over a couple of days...
The first day we watercolored coffee filters blue and green to resemble the Earth. 
After they dried, we glued them on black paper and wrote about them!!

But first, we had to research! 

*Quick funny story... I asked the class "where would I go on the internet if I needed to find out some information about something?"  Before any of them could yell out the most common answer, "GOOGLE!!!" I had one little boy yell out "Facebook, Ms. Holly!" haha.  I guess I have a future Facebook lurker on my hands with that one!

So, we googled facts about the Earth and looked at pictures on the Smart Board.  I told them that they MUST write 3 sentences and that I was not helping them spell any words this time, not even Earth! So we practiced sounding out the words I knew a lot of them would use: Earth, moon, planet, water, etc. I was so excited and pleased with how they turned out! Even my strugglers managed to write things that resemebled sentences!!  I was more excited about them phonetically spelling all of the words!  I've had a very hard time getting them to spell inventively here lately!  Here are pictures of two of my favorites!  Don't ya just love how they spelled Earth?? :)

Sight Word Roll

This is a perfect word work activity! My kids LOVE it! 

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Ladybug Spot Counting!

This is an activity I created to use as a math center activity when I teach number words at the beginning of the year.  You could modify it any way you'd like.  It alligns with Math Common Core K.CC.3  but you could also use it to teach counting sets.

I laminated each ladybug page and made sets of clothespins with each number word written on both sides!

Student Steps:

       The student will count each spot on the ladybug and write the numeral in the corner of the box with a dry erase marker.  (ex. 3, 5, etc.)

      The student will then match each ladybug to the corresponding number word by clipping the clothespins to the side.

·       Erase and swap with a friend!

There are 5 ladybug pages in the pack and an explanation page with ideas and tips for the activity. 

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This is what it looks like once the kids start using it!

If I were an astronaut...

Creative Writing
We have been talking about Earth in my class.  This week I plan to talk a little bit about outer space and places beyond Earth.  All the kids love to talk about aliens and astronauts so I made this writing activity.  My kids are used to writing on a tablet so this might be better suited for higher grades, but here it is! It's FREE!!

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We shall see how it goes... heehee