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First Day of Kindergarten!!! These are my GO-TO slides, activities, and forms for the first day of school with my Kindergarten! I use the Background Information Form and Transportation Forms at our Back to School/Information Night. My students take home the Fill-in-the-blank Memory Book page after the first day of school. I collect the Memory Book page and their Self Portrait to give them at the end of the year!These are the slides that I use on my first day of Kindergarten. INCLUDED:-First Day

FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN SLIDES!!! These are the slides that I use on my first day of Kindergarten. Included:Non-Editable:-Welcome to Kindergarten -Ready Signal -Whole Body Listening -Lining Up Editable:-Ready Signal -Whole Body Listening -Morning Meeting -Morning Message -Lining Up -Back in the Room -Teacher Zone -Morning Jobs -Quiet Time -Clean Up You will need PowerPoint to edit and view! Most of the slides are ready for you to edit by adding pictures from your own classroom and to create

JANUARY/WINTER Kindergarten Math Guess Game is SNOW MUCH FUN!!! This is one of our FAVORITE games to play for practicing identifying numbers 0-31. To play, you will need a pocket chart to put the number cards in. Simply hide the bear cards behind a few of the number cards. Students take turns guessing numbers to see which cards are hiding the bears! This game is PERFECT for number identification when you have a few extra minutes. We change out the theme each month! INCLUDED: -6 Winter Bear Card

DECEMBER Kindergarten Math Guess Game is a HOLLY JOLLY time!!! This is one of our FAVORITE games to play for practicing identifying numbers 0-31. To play, you will need a pocket chart to put the number cards in. To play, hide the reindeer cards behind a few of the numbers. Students take turns guessing numbers to see which cards are hiding the reindeer! This game is PERFECT for number identification when you have a few extra minutes! We change out the theme each month. HO HO HOPE YOU LOVE IT!!! I

NOVEMBER Kindergarten Math Guess Game is a piece of PIE!!! This is a FAVORITE game in my classroom for practicing identifying numbers 0-31. To play, you will need a pocket chart to put the number cards in. At the beginning of the year, I start with numbers 0-10 and move towards 0-31. I hide the acorn card behind a few of the numbers. Students take turns guessing numbers to see which cards are hiding the acorn! This game is PERFECT for number identification when you have a few extra minutes! We c

OCTOBER SpOoOoKy Kindergarten Math Guess Game for Numbers 0-31!!! This is a FAVORITE game in my classroom! To play, you will need a pocket chart to put the number cards in. At the beginning of the year, I start with numbers 0-10, and then move towards 0-31. I hide the Frankstein cards behind a few of the numbers. Students take turns guessing numbers to see which cards are hiding Frankenstein! This game is PERFECT for number identification and practice! INCLUDED: -6 Frankenstein Cards: Color &

Our Class is a Family! This bulletin board idea and activity are based off of the book, "Our Class is a Family" by Shannon Olsen. In this area, I have each family bring in a picture of their family to display on the bulletin board using string and clothespins. Simply print, laminate, and cut the bulletin board letters to display in this area! After reading the story, students can work on one of the two activities pages. The first page has students (K-1) draw a picture of their classroom family

12 positive notes for your students!!! These PRINTABLE and EDITABLE notes are a fun and easy way to send positivity home to your students for all the great things they are doing in the classroom! This is a great way to build relationships and share what you love about each student. INCLUDED: -12 Positive Notes (Black and White):"You are the APPLE of my eye!" "You are faBOOlous!" "You are unbeLEAFable!" "Thanks for making class MERRY and BRIGHT!" "I'm SNOW glad you're in our class!" "You make cla

Sending home positive notes to students each month is one of my favorite things! I like to call these notes a special SUNSHINE DELIVERY! This is a great way to build relationships and share what you love about each student. INCLUDED: -1 Sunshine Delivery Note (Black and White) -1 Sunshine Delivery Note (Colored) The file that you will receive is a PowerPoint. Simply type into the box with cutie fonts OR print off the pages like normal and write your own message with your favorite teacher pens!

BACK TO SCHOOL Kindergarten Math Guess Game for Numbers 0-31!!! This is a FAVORITE game in my classroom! To play, you will need a pocket chart to put the number cards in. At the beginning of the year, I start with numbers 0-10, and then move towards 0-31. I hide the colored crayon cards behind a few of the numbers. Students take turns guessing numbers to see which cards are hiding the crayons! This game is PERFECT for number identification and practice! INCLUDED: -6 Crayon Cards: Color & Black

This product is a set of posters for the Kindergarten Common Core Language Standards. I put these posters up in our focus area as we cover the content and refer to them at the beginning and end of each lesson. It's a great way to show what learning is taking place in the classroom! Each page has an "I can" statement based off of every Common Core Language Standard for Kindergarten. INCLUDED: -17 pages of Kindergarten Common Core Language "I Can" statements I LOVE to see products in action! Tag m

This product is a set of posters for the Kindergarten Common Core English Language Arts Standards for Foundational Skills. I put these posters up in our focus area as we cover the content and refer to them at the beginning and end of each lesson. It's a great way to show what learning is taking place in the classroom! Each page has an "I can" statement based off of every Common Core English Language Arts Standard for the Kindergarten Foundational Skills area. INCLUDED: -17 pages of Kindergarten

This product is a set of "I Can" posters for the Common Core English Language Arts Kindergarten Standards including Literature and Informational Text. I put these "I Can" statement posters up in our focus area as we cover the content and refer to them and the beginning and end of each lesson. These are PERFECT for a target wall in your classroom!!! INCLUDED: -Common Core Language Arts Standards for Literature RL.K.1.-RL.K.10 -Common Core Language Arts Standards for Informational Texts RL.K.1-RL

Morning greetings with a socially distanced TWIST! These greetings are a FUN way to welcome each of your students into the classroom every day and build a classroom community. Included are 15 greeting choices. I print, laminate, and cut these out and glue them to a poster that hangs outside of my classroom entrance! A Bitmoji how-to guide is included in the resource to help you with making and inserting your Bitmoji Avatar into the greeting templates. *NO BITMOJIS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE.

This Special K FREEBIE goes along with my "Special K" product!!! INCLUDED: -"Special K of the Week" Sign (Color & Black and White) -"Special Firstie of the Week" Sign (Color & Black and White) -"Special K Journal" Cover (Color & Black and White) -"Special Firstie Journal" Cover (Color & Black and White) I hope you LOVE using this with your class!

Grab this FREEBIE for a number writing assessment for numbers 0-31! I use this with my Kindergarten students to assess their number writing from 0-31 each month of the year.

Keep your families connected with these editable calendar and newsletter templates!!! The Editable Monthly Calendars and Editable Classroom Newsletters Templates are printer friendly! In my classroom, we use the Editable Monthly Calendars as our monthly calendar that students create a seasonal craft with. I send home these calendars each month with information to share with my families, such as our "Special K" of the week, new sight words, birthdays, and important events. My classroom families L

These newsletters are an easy way to stay connected with your families with all the fun taking place in your classroom each week or every month! I love to use these classroom newsletters each week in my classroom to share what we are learning for that week, celebrate birthdays, and remind families about events coming up! With this product, you are able to print the colored version or print the black and white version on bright, colored paper! You are also able to send any of the newsletters d

Partner Cards BACK TO SCHOOL! Make pairing up with a partner fun and engaging by passing out partner cards to every student and having the students find their partner by searching for their matching card! Print the cards, laminate, cut them apart, and shuffle the cards to use whenever you want to pair up students! These cards were inspired from The Responsive Classroom book, "The Joyful Classroom" section about forming partnerships using "Matching Cards". INCLUDED: -30 Partner Cards -26 of t

Let's keep in touch S'MORE this summer!!! Send your students into summer vacation with a way to share what they are up to with you! INCLUDED:-Letter Information Page -Two Lined Writing Templates I hope you LOVE connecting with your student pen pals!