Owl Chalkboard Clip Chart

I have so many things I want to post on here, but I keep running out of time!
I have been teaching summer school for students going into second grade this summer, and I am absolutely loving it! I have a lot of ideas and materials I will hopefully be posting soon. Hopefully...
My big news is that I was offered a job teaching kindergarten!!! I am so insanely excited. So hopefully I will start posting things I am doing to get ready. Of course I always say this and never actually do it. But I'll try!

Last night I stayed up until 3 am working on a new behavior clip chart. Oops! I just couldn't stop once I started. I saw an idea on TPT and thought about downloading it, but there were things I wanted to change, and it was not an editable file, so I decided to just make my own! (Thank you Primary Buzz for the idea!! You're great!) So this summer I have been using this behavior chart which I love, but I really want a black background/bright colors/owl theme in my class next year, so pirates didn't quite fit. This is what the pirate chart looks like in my summer school classroom.

This new owl chart will work the same way. Students start the day by moving their clips from "home" to "ready to learn." If I notice them doing something good, I ask them to move their clip up. If their behavior is a strugle, I ask them to move their clips down. Here is the link! It is free on scribd!

Sound/Letter Chart and Matching Game

Hello!

In my school district, every classroom has the same cards with a letter and a picture that corresponds with that sound. Students do a chant every day with these cards (example: apple, /a/, a. bear, /b/, b). I noticed that my lowest students could recite the entire chant, but when I asked them to name a letter or figure out what letter matches a sound, they were unable to do so. So I made a one page chart with all the letters and pictures on it. I figured they could keep these charts at their tables during writing time, and it would help them figure out what letters they are trying to write. I also made a matching game with the letters and pictures.

I put this up on my teacherspayteachers page! Check it out here!

Early Childhood Writing Prompt Packet

I've been testing out a new way to make printables, so I made a year-long writing prompt packet to use in early childhood classrooms! I put it up on my teachers-pay-teachers page here. I would love it if you checked it out! It has 42 writing prompts that range in difficulty from fill-in-the-blank responses to open ended responses. 

The themes represented in this packet are as follows:

1. First Day of School
2. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
3. Apples
4. Bugs
5. Fall
6. Pumpkins
7. Spiders
8. Scarecrows
9. Thanksgiving
10. Snow
11. Snow Day
12. Gingerbread Man
13. Snowmen at Night
14. Vacation Plans
15. New Year
16. Penguins
17. Hibernating Bears
18. 100th Day of School
19. Valentines Day
20. What does Love Mean?
21. Groundhog Day
22. Presidents
23. Dr. Seuss
24. St. Patrick's Day
25. Leprechauns
26. Spring
27. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
28. April Showers
29. Earth Day
30. Birds
31. End of the School Year
32. Summer
33. Weekend Plans
34. Past Weekend
35. Friends
36. Favorite Animal
37. I am special
38. Favorite Part of a Book
39. Beginning/Middle/End
40-42. Blank writing papers with borders

The packet is $3.00 on teacherspayteachers, but I will send it to the first three people who comment on this blog for free!

Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks

I've found the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks to be very difficult to quickly navigate. It has always frustrated me that I have to download each framework individually, and often the frameworks are broken up in the document by subject rather than grade level.

So I put all of the Massachusetts Kindergarten Curriculum Frameworks into one easy-to-use document! It is easier to print out, make notes on, and keep track of which frameworks you have hit and which you have not. You can even put check marks next to the ones that you think your class has mastered.

It put it on teacherspayteachers for free. Here it is!

(Preview Page)

Simon Says Math Game

I have to do some assessments before report cards, so I decided to make a fun way to figure some things out!

Setting Up

Hello there :)
I was thinking to myself the other day, "when I get my own classroom, I am going to be so overwhelmed trying to set it up that I will probably forget so many things." I am notorious for keeping tons of lists and sticky notes everywhere to remind myself to do things, so I decided I would get a jump start thinking about this. I wrote a little check list of at least some of the things I will need to do just to prep a new classroom, and sharing is caring, right? So here ya go!
Click here! :)

Happy Halloween!

In the spirit of Halloween, I made a little ABC activity students could do during workboard centers. Students will match spiders with lowercase letters on their backs to their webs with uppercase letters.
I included all of the letters, but I would only put a few out at a time.

You can download the pdf here to print and cut!

Enjoy!