Kinder Chick

This is a letter to parents explaining the 100th Day project. Specific instructions: 1. Collect 100 items that can stick on a poster (not too heavy!) 2. Glue items on a poster. Can make a creative design, such as the number “100” or another design of some sort. 3. Have child write his/her name on poster. 4. Bring poster to school!

This is a letter to send home telling families to send in pieces of environmental print. I collected all of the pieces and created a bulletin board for my writing center.

This is the handbook I give to families in the beginning of the year. It explains procedures and gives parents information about my kindergarten classroom.

This is the weekly lesson plan template (Excel Spreadsheet) I fill in each week. The cells can be sized to fit your needs, and columns and rows can be added or deleted. It is a simple template to fill in, especially if your administrator requires a copy of your lesson plans each week. I use the miscellaneous column for standards and homework assignments.

This is a rubric for emergent writers to help remind them to include capital letters, finger spaces, the date, punctuation, a good illustration, and at least two good sentences in their daily journal entry. Rubric includes words and pictures.

"I did not make smart choices today. I had to miss recess as a consequence of my behavior. This is what I did to get my card flipped to red: (space for student to draw picture/write a sentence) Tomorrow I will try to make smart choices. This is what I will do instead: (space for picture/sentence)."

This is a word document of winter words that I use in my word binder at my writing center. My students love to be able to use the word binder during center time as well as journal time. The binder is often floating around the room because they love it!

This is a set of assessments that would be perfect for progress monitoring. It correlates with the common core standards and includes activities such as identifying numbers, printing numerals, counting objects, determining greater and less, solving addition and subtraction problems, and story problems. The assessment instructions are printed on each assessment page.

This is the letter I send to parents to let them know when their child will be the "Star Student." There is one activity for each day of the week to make it a special week for the star student.

After my students fill up the marble jar for having whole-class good behavior, they earn a reward from this BINGO board. I am going to have a student choose a number from 1-4, and another student choose B, I, N, G, or O. The square chosen indicates the class reward.

The first day can be pretty chaotic, especially if parents are bringing in supplies. I place these signs in separate areas of my classroom so parents know where to place supplies. It really helps with the organization, and lets parents know what to label/not to label with their child's name.

This is a homework assignment I created when I taught 7th grade science. It requires students to find several types of simple machines throughout their home and answer questions about them.

This is the cover I use for my student journals. I change journals every two months instead of every month because it saves time because I have to make less journals. I fold a large piece of construction paper, glue this on the cover and insert paper to create a book.

This is the weekly behavior chart that my students color in each day. The color corresponds with the color their behavior card was on for the day. The report goes home at the end of each week to let parents know about their child's behavior for the week.

This is an activity I created for my students to have them sort letters and numbers. It was a good introduction to using scissors and glue for my kindergarten students, as well as a good beginning sorting activity.

Based on Debbie Diller's Literacy Work Stations, these cards are designed for a pocket chart to manage work stations. There are 17 different cards, plus a few blank cards to add your own. They can be used with different types of pocket charts and REALLY help with center management.