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!

Kindergarten Worries

At the beginning of the year I read Wemberly Worried to my Super Stars, and we talked about our own fears and concerns as we made new friends and learned how to work and play together in kindergarten.

Fast forward eight months: we revisited the story today, and students thought back to what it was like when we first met.  "Mrs. Sommerville?  What did YOU worry about when we came to your class?"

I worried about remembering everyones' name.  

For journal time, the Stars decided that today's writing prompt should be "I was worried..."

I LOVE journal time:

This Star was worried she'd have homework, l-o-t-s of homework in kindergarten.

This friend worried that 1) he wouldn't remember his new friends' names, 2) the teacher would eat students and 3) he'd have to eat gross food in the cafeteria.

One young lady was fearful about fashion...

... and this fella was concerned I'd have two heads:

As we close in on the end of the year, I can joke with him:  Honey, now you know I have four heads, not two!

"Yeah right Mrs. Sommerville.  I told my grandma you had five."

Ba-dum-dum-ching.  Nicely done. 

Old Teacher, New Tricks: Freebie!

Here's a link to a mini-reader that my Stars asked to create, using some of our sight words and some fun words we've learned for the month:

They reminded me that they always like to 1) color a page and 2) illustrate the ending of the story, so you'll notice those pages don't include color clip art.  The first page of shamrocks leaves room below each one so that students can write numbers 1, 2, and 3.


Here's a link for a quick re-teach page for students that can be used at a word-work center.  It would also be easy to make enough copies for every student, then cut the strips apart, and use them daily as a quick cut/glue/read activity in their literacy journals.

Let me know what you think as it's my first *try* at sharing on Google Docs.

:)

Michaele