My Plain Jane Pumpkin Math Pack is Now Available on TPT

"Plain Jane" refers to the minimal use of overly busy clipart, fonts, and other graphics: sometimes ~simple~ really is best!

If you're looking for a NON-Halloween themed pumpkin math pack, go take a look at my TPT Store:

Check Out TPT's Cyber-Sale Nov. 27 & 28

Confession:

I fill my Teachers Pay Teachers cart as I digest my Thanksgiving meal.

And then I w-a-i-t... until Cyber Monday!

This year's TPT Sale will be November 27 and 28, and I'm including all of my shop's items at 20% off of their regular prices, including my newest products:

December Write the Room Pack (with Christmas images)

You can print your preferred picture cards, cut apart and laminate.  Display the cards at a table OR hang them throughout the classroom, since students LOVE to search for pictures with their recording page on a clipboard! Both color and black-and-white cards are included in this pack.

and my Hanukkah Write the Room Pack:

Two copies of the recording sheets will print from pages 7 and 8 to help your copy quota. Page 9 includes all of the pictures in this pack.

A bonus color-by-number page is included at the end of the packs for a center activity or fine motor sample.

Happy Cyber-Shopping!

~Michaele~

ELA Alphabet MEGA PACK in My TPT Store

I'm so excited!

My first ELA Alphabet MEGA PACK of journal activities is now available on Teachers Pay Teachers!

 

In it, you'll find:

• 26 circle, trace, and write ½ pages
• 26 draw a line to the letter ½ pages
• 26 uppercase/lowercase cut and glue patterning ½ pages
• 26 ABC order cut and glue ½ pages
• 26 Missing letters ½ pages

    

  

Each slide will print two ½ pages, that can be glued into composition notebooks. One page, two students! 

These pages and activities are appropriate for early learners, differentiated instruction, re-teaching, English language learners, fine motor development, and intervention practice. You can enlarge pages for very young students or children with fine motor needs.  For the uppercase/lowercase patterning and ABC order pages, students are cued to what letter comes next as they follow along the bubbled letter line below each set of boxes.

Don't forget to check out my other ELA and Math products at Teachers Pay Teachers, and have fun prepping your back-to-school materials!

Spring has SPRUNG Bunny Craft

My pattern for this adorable spring bunny with accordion legs is available in my TPT Store!



Click here for the pattern, or scroll through my TPT store's widget near my blog banner.

The pieces for this cute medium sized bunny can be printed onto construction paper, cut apart and assembled by your students OR you can cut out construction paper using the measurements provided for more of an assembly-only activity. Cutting instructions include cutting off corners to make edge rounder/curved and cutting oval, circle, or triangle shapes from a simple square, which you can easily model to students.

I've included measurements for a LARGE bunny as well (or you can enlarge the printable template as large as you'd like)- it's almost as tall as a kindergartner!

Construction paper color combos I used with my students include:

white bunny, tan details, pink nose, black marker/crayon eyes
black bunny, light blue details, pink nose, white crayon eyes
tan bunny, pink details, pink nose, black marker/crayon eyes

I imagine solid colored bunnies with patterned scrapbook paper would also look darling!




Let me know if you decide to make these cute bunnies- I'd love to see them!

~Michaele~

P.S. It seems my egg shaped bunny ALWAYS gets pinned each spring- remember this one?

Toothbrushes and T-Rex Friends

February is Dental Health Month!

My Super Star kindergartners love to learn the proper way to brush and floss, and are excited to learn that dentists and healthy foods also help them to maintain their bright, beautiful smiles.  To help us remember healthy teeth habits, we made oversized toothbrushes and added the words "dentist, brush, floss" and "snacks" to our writing page:





I created a PDF available on TPT for this activity! Included in the PDF are a list of needed materials, directions, and printable text pages that include the following options: preprinted sentence,  preprinted sentence with traceable words, and preprinted sentence with blank writing line pages so you can choose exactly which activity will integrate well into your dental health lessons.  The Oversized Toothbrush Craft will be available for $1 this month (2016)! Click on the photos below to be taken to my Teachers Pay Teachers store:

My Stars also completed a fun T-Rex tooth subtraction activity this week, counting out ten sharp teeth, and then subtracting some from their dinosaur's mouth.  They expressed the loss of teeth in a math equation too:

Now our hallway bulletin boards are full of T-Rex friends and toothbrushes!

Take care of those chompers!