Halloween Math Spinner

Are you looking for some early childhood math ideas to spruce up your math centers? These preschool and elementary math spinners are perfect for fall! Kids learn early counting skills and number recognition with numbers 1-10. This 14 page  packet includes matching recording sheets for each spinner. Laminate them and use with dry erase markers or print individual recording sheets to use a class math lesson.

3 Preschool & 3 Elementary Spinners are Included- Halloween Theme, Pumpkin Theme, and a Monster Themed Spinner & Recording Sheet sets. We recommend printing the spinners on white cardstock and laminating for longer durability. This packet is a PDF file, be sure that you have an application compatible in order to open this file.

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Early Childhood Religion Studies

Ever since Jeff Foxworthy graced us with his presence on the hit TV Show “Are you smarter than a fifth grader,” and now on “American Bible Challenge”….. I found a way to incorporate this “game show” technique into my classroom. Although, with early childhood, it may seem a little too difficult, but YOU can introduce a knowledge of the bible into your daily routine. After we do pledge, we say the Lord’s prayer! Some of the student are still learning it, but hopefully by the end of the year the children will be able to recite it by themselves. I introduced the Lord’s Prayer in a pocket chart with photos correlating to the words, it definitely helps my visual learners.

Throughout the day, we incorporate bible knowledge, such as: praying before our meals, reciting a weekly bible verse or reviewing simple biblical stories like Adam & Eve, Jonah and the whale, Daniel in the lion’s den, and Joseph’s colorful dream coat!

I have created a kid version of the game show to help review our bible knowledge. I open the PDF on my screen and read the question out loud. I also use flannel board pieces to review certain stories within the game. The kids LOVE it and are always eager to answer first. (We are still working on raising hands to answer questions in turn)

You can use each of these packets during chapel discussions, on a white board, or print out and place in page protectors for a 3 ring binder with a dry erase markers!

American Bible Challenge Level One: This mini trivia packet includes 11 questions covering people of the bible, books of the bible, and acts of Jesus throughout the bible. American Bible Challenge Level Two: This mini trivia packet includes 17 questions covering more people of the bible, locations in the bible, and acts of Jesus. Works well with the Level One packet.

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Our 2014-2015 Academic Themes

As we kick off our new school year, my goal this year is to STAY ORGANIZED throughout. I have always had OCD tendencies which is a great quality to have a teacher, but as the year goes on. . . I tend to lack my organization skills as my schedule gets busier. My 2014 teaching goal is to post each and every lesson plan & activities, then reflect on which activities and management tools actually worked out correctly and which ones need to be tweaked. I find tons of great tools to use on sites like Pinterest & Teachers Pay Teachers, but in reality. . . some of the items I have purchased don’t work with my style of teaching.

To begin our new academic year, I have posted my classrooms Academic Themes and concentration areas we will focus on in the coming months. As I add the themed lesson plans, a link will about for each date. You can click on the date and it will take you to the post for that theme, which will include: the lesson plan, activities I used and the links to download or purchase, photos of how I used them in the classroom, and a reflection on the products and reactions of my students.

August Aug. 18-22: Welcome to School Aug. 25-29: All About Me Concentration: Letter A, Circle, Red	January Jan. 5-9: Arctic Animals Jan. 12-16: Presidents of the United States Jan. 19-23: Zoo Animals Jan. 26-30: Outer Space Concentration: Letters P-R, Diamond, Purple
September Sep. 1-5: Storybook Rhymes Sep. 8-12: My Five Senses Sep. 15-19: Dinosaurs Sep. 22-26: Johnny Appleseed Harvest Sep. 29-3: Farm Animals Concentration: Letters B-F, Rectangle, Orange	February Feb. 2-6: Dental Health Awareness Feb. 9-13: Valentine’s Day Feb. 16-20: Robots Feb. 23-27: Rainforest Animals Concentration: Letters S-V, Heart, Pink
October Oct. 6-10: Fire Safety Oct. 13-17: Transportation Oct. 20-24 Community Leaders Oct. 27-31: Halloween Concentration: Letters G-J, Square, Yellow	March Mar. 2-6: Dr. Seuss Mar. 9-13: Western Mar. 16-20: St. Patrick’s Day Mar. 23-27: Pirates & Mermaids Mar. 30-3: Easter/Spring Concentration: Letters W-Z, Star, Brown
November Nov. 3-7: Sports Nov. 10-14: Lords & Ladies (Medieval) Nov. 17-21: Native Americans & Pilgrims Nov. 24-28: Thanksgiving Concentration: Letters K-M, Oval, Green	April Apr. 6-10: Bugs & Insects Apr. 13-17: Gardening/Picnic Apr. 20-24: Earth Day/Recycling Apr. 27-1: Circus Concentration: Review of Letters A-P, Octagon, Black & Gray
December Dec. 1-5: Health & Nutrition Dec. 8-12: Tools Dec. 15-19: Nativity Dec. 22-26: Christmas Around the World Dec. 29-2: New Years   Concentration: Letters N-O, Triangle, Blue	May May. 4-8: Mother’s Day May. 11-15: Forest Animals & Camping May. 18-22: Ocean Animals May 25-29: Graduation Concentration: Review of Letter Q-Z, Shapes & Colors

 

Good Luck to all the teachers this year, I hope you have a great one!

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1st Grade Math Bundle Pack

This packet includes over 100 pages of math addition & subtraction worksheets to use with first graders. This packet covers activities that are aligned with Common Core Math Content areas below:

1.0.A.A.1: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition and subtraction

Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing with unknowns in all positions, e.g. by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

1.0.A.A.2: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition & subtraction

Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g. by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

1.0.A.D.8: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition & subtraction

Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers

Answer Key for all questions included in the bundle pack.

Each packet is sold separately as well.

1st Grade Math Addition Pack

1st Grade Math Subtraction Pack

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1st Grade Math Subtraction Pack

This packet includes over 50 pages of math subtraction worksheets to use with first graders. This packet covers activities that are aligned with Common Core Math Content areas below:

1.0.A.A.1: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition and subtraction

Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing with unknowns in all positions, e.g. by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

1.0.A.A.2: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition & subtraction

Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g. by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

1.0.A.D.8: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition & subtraction

Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers.

Be sure to check out our 1st Grade Math Addition Pack HERE

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1st Grade Math Addition Pack

This packet includes over 50 pages of math addition worksheets to use with first graders. This packet covers activities that are aligned with Common Core Math Content areas below:

1.0.A.A.1: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition and subtraction

Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing with unknowns in all positions, e.g. by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

1.0.A.A.2: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition & subtraction

Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g. by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

1.0.A.D.8: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition & subtraction

Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers.

The 1st Grade Math Addition Pack from Cottage to Classroom includes: adding zero, adding one, adding two, adding three, adding four, adding five, adding six, adding seven, adding eight, adding nine, problem solving pages, number sentences, addition with dice, number line sentences, and picture addition.

Answer Key in included in this packet for easy grading

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Learning Report Cards: Beach Edition

As many teachers begin their summer break, we begin the process of building our portfolio of teaching products. Many of our teachers LOVE the learning report cards that we currently have available, so we created a summer beach theme to use all year long. This packet includes learning report cards to use in the classroom on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. The report can include an assessment review for letters, numbers, colors, shapes, themes, and an “I also learned,” category. There is a blank space for teacher contact information as well. Each report style ( 3 to choose from) covers August to July and the year date is not include in order for teachers to be able to use them over and over.

You can find this new report pack by clicking the button below and purchasing it on TPT.

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Summer Fun: Monster Edition

School has officially ended and we have kicked off our summer program! We are starting off the week with some silly monster madness with our Roll & Write Math packet. This pack is wonderful for early childhood educators, preschool teachers, and early elementary teachers. Our monster edition pack includes 18 roll and write worksheets that cover the Dolch sight words for early learners. The activity helps children visually see the sight word and number. There is a color version and a black and white versionSight Words included in this set: a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, five, for, four, funny, go, green, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, orange, play, purple, red, run, said, see, six, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you, and zoo.

You can purchase this packet on TPT only. . .so get yours now!

Our monster theme week would not be complete without some early literacy activities. To make sure the students in the summer program stay on track, we have created a cut, paste, and trace activity to build up sight word recognition throughout the summer in our Sight Word Sentences: Monster Edition packet.

Our monster edition pack includes 16 sentences that cover all of the Dolch sight words for early learners. The activity helps children visually see the complete sentence, allows them to trace and write the sight word along with cutting and pasting the words into the sentence.

Sight words included in this set: a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, and you.

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EOY Awards 2014 Edition

With one week of school left teachers are scrambling to get papers graded, final exams ready, and end of the year awards printed! To help in the end of the year chaos, we have come up with a modern simply design for end of the year awards. This pack included 30 awards in 3 different designs that can be used for students from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade.

Design #1
Perfect Attendance (Boy version)
Perfect Attendance (Girl version)

Design #2
Little Reader Award
Little Mister Award
Little Superman Award
Little Miss Diva Award
Little Buddies Award
Little Chef Award
Little Artist Award
Little Smiles
Most Athletic Award
Most Shy Award
Overall Excellence Award
Friendship Award
Best Smile Award
Best Laugh Award
School Spirit Award
Biggest Heart Award
Best Buddies Award
Computer Whiz Award
Most Caring Award

Design #3
Excellence in Geography
Excellence in Art Education
Excellence in Science
Excellence in History
Excellence in Physical Education
Excellence in Reading
Excellence in Language Arts
Excellence in Mathematics
Excellence in Writing
Excellence in Music

Check out last year’s edition by clicking on the image below. This set is still for sale at our TPT store. . . .get it before it’s retired!

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Early Learning Math Concept Packs

As summer starts with backyard barbeques, ice cream cones, and long days spent at the beach. . .summer camp is in full swing! I think the hardest thing about summer for teachers is the dreaded thought of coming back in August and having a class full of students who completely forget everything they learned the previous year over the long two month break of summer. Half of our year is spent reviewing past concepts and reminding students to build on what they already know. So, in order to keep my kids brushed up on their math skills, we have created a few basic early learning math concepts packets to use for early childhood.

These packets introduce basic math skills such as number recognition, number formation, measurement knowledge, and counting skills.

Each packet includes: 1 Themed Graph (class participation), number clothespin cards covering numbers 1-12, counting mats covering numbers 1-10, pom-pom counting mats covering numbers 1-10, number tracing 1-20, addition and subtraction mats, and a measurements mat with recording sheet.

2.77 MB/ 26 Pages PDF (Acrobat) Document File
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Subjects: Math, Measurement

Grade Levels: PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

 

1.71 MB/ 26 Pages PDF (Acrobat) Document File
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Subjects: Math, Measurement, Numbers

Grade Levels: PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

This packet also includes a BONUS Color by Number Sheet

2.3 MB/ 28 Pages PDF (Acrobat) Document File
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Subjects: Math, Measurement

Grade Levels: PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

All these packets can be found at our Teachers Pay Teacher store HERE

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Mother’s Day Superlatives

As the countdown continues on our school calendar, it seems each week is filled with sometime of holiday or activity leading up to the BIG summer break! In two weeks we get to celebrate some amazing people---MOMS. I have to admit, my room moms this year have been wonderful and I can only hope that I am blessed next year with the same hard working parents. In honor of some amazing women, our class created some pretty amazing sayings for our mother’s day awards, along with some homemade cookbooks and banana bread! Hopefully my mother’s will enjoy their child’s enthusiasm in the kitchen as much as I need here at school.

The pack includes two different styles for the awards and 11 different awards including: most improved mom, most creative mom, most huggable mom, most caring mom, most hands on mom, superwoman, biggest heart, best smile, kid at heart, funniest mom, and goofiest mom. These files are only hosted on TPT, so get yours now!

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Easter Writing and Dictation Paper Pack

It’s finally April and everyone in school is getting ready for Spring time crafts, gardening, and lots fun activities like Easter egg hunts and egg dying. Our classroom is filled with pastel paintings, “chicken” feathers, and all things plastic grass. As we start to wrap up our themed lesson plans, Easter and Spring are two of my favorites to teach. I love the bright colors, fresh smells, and the excitement of a school egg hunt.

However, we still must continue the grind of everyday writing and dictation pieces. On that note, I have created a fun set of writing and dictation printable papers to spruce up our spring writing prompts and Easter theme week. This printables includes 15 pages of written dictation sheets and lined paper with a Spring theme of Easter bunnies. Jazz up your dictation piece and display your student writing prompts in a creative way. These papers are also good for early learners and pre-writing. These files are hosted on TPT

And. . . just for my “peeps” you can download our FREE Easter Book Marks from TPT by clicking the button below! They are great for class parties and treasure box gifts. Enjoy!

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