I have been teaching for over 20 years and have loved every single minute of it- really! I currently teach kindergarten and have found my niche. I love the excitement that the kinders bring to school each day. I strive to keep that excitement alive and create an environment where kids to want to come to school each day.
Use these for so many things! They are the perfect start to a Self-Portrait. Use them to illustrate a character in a story. They can be used to draw historical figures or community figures. You will find that they can be used in all subject areas and at all times throughout the year.
There is one plain template and 12 with fancy borders. This will be one of your favorite purchases!
If you are looking for some fun exercises for the 100th day of school then this is for you! I have made colorful task cards that you can print and laminate. Place the cards around the room, give the kids the check off sheet, and watch them exercise their way to 100!
And best of all... this is FREE!
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This file is packed full of useful songs and chants that will make your school day run more smoothly. It covers many different daily routines and each one comes with a poster to hang in your room or put in your SubTub.
You will get:
"Neat and Tidy" chant with 2 Posters.
"Just a dot, not a lot" glue Poem with 2 Posters and a glue Practice Worksheet.
"Name on your paper" Chant with Poster.
"The first thing on your paper" Song with 2 Posters.
"Clean up" Song with 2 Posters.
"Line up" Songs
Help your kids learn the names of the letters and practice their sounds with this fun and quick game. Use it in small groups for a fast review/practice activity. It can be used with English Language Learners to help them master the sounds and letters in the English Language. Picture clues help them connect the letter to the sound.
Try this for free and then come back for more fun I Have, Who Has games as your kids need to work on decoding, long vowels, sight words, and even math skills!
Looking for fun book reports? These book reports are easy for kids to fill out and cover a variety of Common Core Standards for Kindergarten and First Grade. They are good for both fiction and non-fiction books as well as author studies.
This is a fun math center where kids get practice with place value. They match up cards for numbers 10-20. The cards work on Number and Operations in Base Ten.
This math center is perfectly aligned for Kindergarten and First Grade, but it will make an excellent review for Second Grade as well.
Common Core Standards
K.NBT.A.1 Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones.
1.NBT.B.2 Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of te
Looking for a fun way to incorporate STEM into your curriculum? Here is an easy and fun way to get your kids thinking. Challenge them to design foil boats that will float and then see which design holds the most pennies. After they have found the best design, challenge them to make a boat that can sail across the water carrying 10 pennies. Now they have to think of a way to design and attach a sail to their foil boats.
This is great for Engineering and Design as well as Force and Motion con
Catch those pesky Gingerbread Men with this adorable WANTED POSTER.
You will get the WANTED POSTER, a MATH GRAPH, DIRECTIONS for making adorable GINGERBREAD MEN COOKIES, and a list of BOOKS about Gingerbread Cookies.
Give students practice with Base 10. They add the numbers on the frog cards and if it equals 10 then they keep the card. If not, the frog goes in the BOG. Lots of fun adding to 10!
Covers the Common Core Math Standard
K.OA.4
Easy prep. Just laminate and cut apart!
Can be played by 2-4 students or put in a math center for individual practice.
Make an adorable flower using the kids own handprints for the leaves and the roots. The number of family members decides the number of petals on their flower allowing for a fun math glyph activity. You can also extend this by graphing the colors of the flowers they chose to make. There is a science page where students identify the missing plant parts and draw them in. This will be a perfect addition to your plant unit! Please check out the other great items in my store. Thanks for download
Give your kids some hands-on science experience with this fun experiment. Kids will turn a "Moon Rock" from a liquid to a solid and record their observations as they conduct the experiment.
Directions are included to make the "Moon Rocks" along with a simple recording sheet that is appropriate for primary grades.
Looking for an engaging activity to get your little ones recognizing and naming letters and sounds? This activity turns flashcards into a fun game. Simply print, laminate and cut apart- and you are ready to go! Have the kids say the letter name or the sound, depending on what skill they need to work on. They love racing to fill in their alphabet sheet. Perfect for small group intervention. Aligns with the Science of Reading and Orton-Gillingham.
Keep your teaching materials neatly organized with these cute binder labels. Choose from different sizes ranging from 1inch, 2 inch, or larger. Mix and match sizes or keep them all uniform.
Simple print the sizes you need on card stock, slip them into your binder and then organize all your stuff for the month in sheet protectors inside the binders. Stay organized and find what you need quickly. This has been a HUGE timesaver for me!
This was made as a KinderIrick fan follower appreciation
Put this fun worksheet at a center with a magnifying glass. The students use the magnifying glass to hunt for the hidden sight words. They get practice reading and writing the words. Fun!
Practice number fluency and addition facts to five with this fun game. Make it a math center. Kids play in partners.
Just print out the game and you are ready to go!
This is an engaging and fun activity to help your kids learn and practice math facts to 5.
Here's a cute and easy way to help children easily identify how many kids can participate in a center or an activity.
Just print as many copies as you need, laminate for durability, cut out and attach to your center.
These labels help foster independence and cooperation. Bickering is avoided when children see that the activity is only meant for one person and someone is already engaged in the task. Cooperation and inclusion is encouraged when kids see that they will need a partner or a sma
Easy prep! Just print, laminate then cut apart and the math center is ready. Kids work on counting to ten, putting the numbers in order, and recognizing how many objects go with each number. Lots of learning in such a simple activity! They love this puzzle!
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Practice sight words in this fun center. Kids use a spatula to flip eggs. They read the word, find the match, then right the word. It's great practice and the kids love it!
Students have fun gathering and analyzing data. They will learn fun facts about each other as they ask and answer the survey question. This activity has really brought my class closer as a community of learners and friends. Students roam the room with a clipboard and the survey. They poll 11 classmates and tally the data. Then they organize the data into a bar graph. Finally they will draw conclusions about the results comparing the survey results to their own preference. These surveys ma
This is a fun, self-checking math center where kids read simple clues arranging the pumpkins in order from 1st through 5th. These logic puzzles foster critical thinking and problem solving skills. These Logic Puzzles are a class favorite.
Prep it once and you'll have it for years.
K - 1st
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Experience
I have been teaching for over 20 years and have loved every single minute of it- really! I currently teach kindergarten and have found my niche. I love the excitement that the kinders bring to school each day. I strive to keep that excitement alive and create an environment where kids to want to come to school each day.
Teaching style
Kindergarten by nature is very hands-on. We learn by doing, exploring, and investigating. I teach in themes where I can tie in all of the subject areas in a cohesive manner.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Teacher of the Year
My own education history
BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara
Double Majoring in Psychology and Sociology.
Teaching Credential from the University of California, San Diego
K-8 Multiple Subjects.
Additional biographical information
I'm a corgi fanatic. We have owned 5 pembroke welsh corgis in the last 20 years. At one point we had three but we found that 2 is the perfect number. We love to watch them herd each other around the house and yard and are always entertained by their silly antics.
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