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Hello Friends,
This year has whizzed by...many of you are beginning your summers already.  We have a much longer school year this year, due to our teacher strike, but I'm thankful for extra time with my precious Kindergartners.  I've used the long Memorial Day weekend to crank out some new products and will include a FREEBIE for you at the end of this post.  Feel free to drop me a line with any questions you may have.  

On to the NEW PRINTABLES!

Let's Go Visiting

I had no idea that when I created my I WENT WALKING activity, last year, that it would be so popular in my Teacher's Pay Teachers Store.  I sell it constantly, so my new goal is to go back to some of the classic literature I'm sure many of you currently own, or have access to in your school libraries.  I'm passionate about exposing my students to quality literature and making sure that classics are not lost in the shuffle of always being cutting edge.  To me, there's something magical about exposing my students to literature I remember being read to me at their age. I decided to work with another Sue William's text, LET'S GO VISITING to create another literacy printable.

Much like I WENT WALKING, the text follows a predictable pattern, while still challenging readers with new academic vocabulary,  including color words. This packet comes with pocket chart materials: poem and real photos of farm animals and an emergent reader.

In a Small, Small Pond 

This text, by Denise Fleming,  is one of my favorites for developing phonemic awareness and giving students a chance to listen for rhymes, play with words and see fantastic action verbs. This packet includes a rhyming activity and an emergent reader.

 Click on the pictures at any time to take you directly to the link to purchase.

CLOSE READS

Close Reads are dear to my heart this year, as I have witnessed the power of my students developing academic vocabulary, drawing conclusions, making inferences/connections and engaging in other higher-levels of thinking.  

Why should you do Close Reads?

I have created TWO new Close Reads based on National Geographic Kids, Non-Fiction Texts.

BEES

This resource is based on this text by Laura Marsh, which you can purchase HERE.

These books are the perfect length and hold my student's interest. We end up reading them at least 6 times during the course of the week, so my students begin to read along with my by the end.  Here's a peek into this new packet...and there's a craft, too!

Are you still with me???  Yahoo!  

 Elephants

This packet is based on the Great Migrations: Elephants text by Laura Marsh.  Purchase it HERE.

Here's a glimpse into my ELEPHANTS CLOSE READ PACK.

You made it!  Now for that FREEBIE I told you about!  Enjoy! Don't forget to leave your comments below.  I'd love to hear from you and follow your blogs too.  

September Kindergarten Pocket Chart Chants and Activities

Isn’t teaching Kindergarten just magical?  I think so!  I LOVE to watch their little faces light up as they have success re-reading a familiar poem/chant.  I try to give them lots of opportunities for success and use fun pointers too!  There are real photos to enhance their reading process.  I use these poems during the first weeks of Kindergarten to set the tone for a love of reading and word work.  In this packet, you will find the following chants and word work/poetry journals:

•Goodnight (Use this poem by Linda Hoyt as a companion to GOODNIGHT MOON by Margaret Wise Brown)

•Rosie’s Walk (Use with the companion book Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchens.  I adore this book because it’s a great introduction to the use of prepositions in writing.

•Hattie’s Friends (Use with the companion book, Hattie and the Fox by Mem Fox).

•Our Clothes (This is an independent poem sung to the tune of Mary Wore Her Red Dress).  My students enjoy interacting with this text and re-building it in the Poetry Center.

•Kindergarten (This is another independent poem taken from Fontas and Pinnell’s work)  It’s a super cute poem that students can use to consider action verbs involved in Kindergarten.

Here's a peek at some of the wonderful poems included...

 Because I can't wait to start this new learning journey, I have a gift for you!  Follow this link to download a sample of this new pack!  If you love this FREEBIE, be sure to leave feedback and grab the whole packet HERE to use for the new school year!

Printables Party!

Hello All,

I hope that this post finds you all enjoying your much-deserved time off!  Yahooooo!  It took me a bit to de-program...slow down and just "be."  I have quilted, read a bunch of books (just for pleasure) and finished many projects and printables, including the ones listed below.  Be sure to check out all the great resources I will continue to add to my store over the summer, and follow here to grab more FREEBIES!

The first is a BUNDLE of Epic Proportions:

Nursery Rhymes Galore! 

What rhymes are included? Here's a list:

Hey Diddle Diddle

Three Blind Mice

Little Boy Blue

Queen of Hearts

Little Miss Muffet

Hickory Dickory Dock

It’s Raining, It’s Pouring

Humpty Dumpty

Jack and Jill

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Eensy Weensy Spider

Each rhyme has not only a poetry journal with clip art, Pocket Chart/Poster poems with pictures, and a flannel board set!

Wow!  I plan on doing a poem a week, that way my students will be exposed to it in several different ways.  To purchase this BUNDLE click HERE to be taken to my TPT store.

Here's a preview of the product too!

The next product I just made available is my close read about sea otters: OTTER! OTTER!

Check out the fun in store for you and your learners!  Close Reading, writing, poetry and a CRAFTIVITY!  (I think he turned our SUPER cute)  Here's a preview for you.

I love to collect materials for my learners, so here’s a treat for you on this HOT (113 degrees here in Eastern WA) June evening!  It's one of the writing pieces from my OTTER OTTER Close Reads!

Click here to download it.

Enjoy your summer and stay cool.

Blessings,

Prepositions and Opposites

Whew!  The year has flewn by!  It's hard to believe summer will be upon us before we know it!  I get sad when I think about saying goodbye to my sweet children, but I know that they are ready to fly.  After testing them this last week, I am once again, AMAZED at how much they change from the beginning of the year. WOW! Kindergarten really is a magical place.  This week, be sure to stop for a moment and tell yourself, "Well done."  I am like you- always wishing that there was more time...always thinking about what else I can/want to do for them, but I need to recognize all the things I HAVE done already.  What an honor it is to be a teacher...celebrate you.

Here's a peek at some new printables I just listed at my TPT store.  Click on the link to hop on over!

PURCHASE it HERE!

Here's a preview.....

PURCHASE it HERE!

Here's a preview.....

Have a fantastic week!  

Be Blessed,

  

Close Reads and a FREEBIE

Who doesn't love a Kevin Henkes book?  My Kindergartners can't get enough of them so..... I have begun the process of putting together a CLOSE READS Bundle of many of his books.  As these things take time, I wanted to give a taste of what is to come.  Be sure to sign up and follow this blog to be the first to know when this is hot off the press!
Here's a sneak preview.....

Click here to grab your Chrysanthemum Writing FREEBIE!

Be Blessed!

Making Shapes, Words and Opinions

We are continuing on this amazing journey of literacy and growth!  Kindergarten is the perfect place to see my students begin to blossom like the flowers in my garden.  Each one, beautiful, amazing and in need of an extra bit of something from this crazy teacher.  It's a reminder of how blessed I am to have a God that is bigger than what I face each day.  Here's a glimpse into our "garden" over the last few weeks.

Hope you all have a great week!
Be sure to check out these awesome, new, math printables available in my TPT Store!

Be Blessed,