Showing posts with label Kindergarten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kindergarten. Show all posts

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Winter/Holiday Activities for Grades K-2

Check out these awesome winter/holiday activities from my TpT store!


Here are some samples from this pack:

 








Enjoy!

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Printable Center Cards and Schedule Cards!

Check out my teacherspayteachers site to get these center cards and schedule cards!

Included is two of each:

Word Work
Listening
Library
Poetry
Computer
Writing
Independent Reading
Guided Reading
Games
Free Choice
Math
Science
Social Studies
Music
Art
Physical Education
Health
Conference
Puzzles
Blocks

Cut these out, laminate them, and enjoy them in your classroom!

Here is a sample:


Saturday, August 4, 2012

Go Fish for Sight Words! StoryTown Resource

Here is a wonderful game to practice sight words and high frequency words in the classroom and you'll barely have to explain the rules!  Print out these cards for Go Fish (2 of every word), paste them on construction paper, and laminate them and Voila! a perfect way to practice sight words. 

This game encourages students to have fun while practicing reading and memorizing these high frequency words, because they have to try to get as many pairs of words as they can from other players.

Visit my TeachersPayTeachers page to purchase the games for Kindergarten, First Grade, or Second Grade High Frequency Words...Or just take a look at it and create your own!

 StoryTown First Grade High Frequency word game...or just take a look at it and create your own!!


StoryTown Go Fish High Frequency Words Kindergarten

StoryTown Go Fish High Frequency Words First Grade

StoryTown Go Fish High Frequency Words Second Grade

Enjoy!

This is a sample of the first grade resource:



Monday, July 30, 2012

Apple Addition Game Freebie!

Here's a game I have used in math centers before in the beginning of the year (goes well with apple unit!).


Directions:
       1.     Two or more players can play
       2.      Each player will take turns rolling the die
       3.      When you roll, count the amount of spaces and solve the addition sentence at that apple
       4.      If you answer the addition sentence correctly, you can move to that space.  If you answer it incorrectly, stay at the space you are on.
       5.      The first person to reach the finish wins!
      (Provide manipulatives so they can check their answers if both partners are unsure!) 

      I've attached a picture of the game board for Apple Addition, but you can download it from my TeachersPayTeachers site here.

       Enjoy!

Freebie! Contraction Concentration Game

Here is a free printable for your classroom!  It's called Contraction Concentration and it's a concentration (aka memory) game for your classroom.  Print it out, cut up the cards, and have students play and practice their contraction skills!  You would need to match the contraction with the two words that make it up.  Example:  A pair would be: is not and isn't.

You can download it for free from my TeachersPayTeachers site here.

This is what it looks like!



Enjoy!

Friday, July 27, 2012

Awesome Read-Alouds w/ Video Online!

UPDATE: Just came across Barnes & Noble's Online Storytime which also has some free read aloud videos!  Check it out here --> Barnes & Noble Online Storytime

So I've come across some sites and YouTube videos that have read-aloud picture books with an accompanying video.  I've used these on the SmartBoard at times when we don't have enough time for a lesson, but do have enough time to fit in a story.  Sometimes it's good to switch it up with read-alouds, and some of these options have great videos (which allows all students to see the illustrations) to go along with the story.  They'll feel as though they are watching a movie or a show, when in fact, they are being a read a story!  I also found that this works well at times when the students are tired or riled up (for example: after a field trip or outside play) to get them back in "school mode."  Enjoy this list of videos and feel free to add your own in the comments!


 
Me and My Cat - By Satoshi Kitamura
Read by Elijah Wood
 Brave Irene - By William Steig
Read by Al Gore
To Be a Drum - By Evelyn Coleman
Read by James Earl Jones
Enemy Pie - By Derek Munson
Read by Camryn Manheim
Guji Guji - By Chih-Yuan Chen
Read by Robert Guillaume
 
Harry the Dirty Dog - By Gene Zion
Read by Betty White
 
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch - By Eileen Spinelli
Read by Hector Elizondo
Knots on a Counting Rope - By Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
Read by Bonnie Bartlett and William Daniels
The Night I Followed the Dog - By Nina Laden
Read by Amanda Bynes
No Mirrors in My Nana's House - By Ysaye M. Barnwell
Read by Tia and Tamara Mowry
When Pigasso Met Mootisse - By Nina Laden
Read by Eric Close
The Polar Express - By Chris Van Allsburg
Read by Lou Diamond Phillips
The Rainbow Fish - By Marcus Pfister
Read by Ernest Borgnine
Romeow & Drooliet - By Nina Laden
Read by Haylie Duff
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother - By Patricia Polacco
Read by Melissa Gilbert
Sebastian's Roller Skates - By Joan De Du Prats
Read by Caitlin Wachs
Sophie's Masterpiece - By Eileen Spinelli
Read by CCH Pounder
Stellaluna - By Janell Cannon
Read by Pamela Reed
A Bad Case of Stripes - By David Shannon
Read by Sean Astin
Thank you, Mr. Falker - By Patricia Polacco
Read by Jane Kaczmarek
White Socks Only - By Evelyn Coleman
Read by Amber Tamblyn
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge - By Mem Fox
Read by Bradley Whitford
Private I. Guana - By Nina Laden
Read by Esai Morales
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - By Eric Carle
We're Going on a Bear Hunt - By Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury
Owl Babies - By Martin Waddell
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny (Parts 1&2) - By Beatrix Potter 
Little Red Riding Hood by Oxbridge Baby
The Mixed Up Chameleon - By Eric Carle
The Tiny Seed - By Eric Carle
 
 
 
Enjoy the videos and please leave some comments with your own read aloud videos!

Monday, July 16, 2012

Great Math Educational Websites!

Here's a list of great educational math sites for children and students from grade levels Pre-K - Middle School.  Keep their math skills fresh during the summer using these fun interactive game sites!
IXL
IXL is a wonderful math resource for students and teachers alike.  It is separated by grade level, so there will be no confusion about whether the activities are age appropriate or not!

Smarty Games
Smart Games has a lot of fun interactive math games for children to play.  It also has puzzles, sudoku, and reading lessons.  The games focus on different math lessons like money, telling time, and other various math lessons.

My Savings Quest
My Savings Quest is a unique website that allows older chidren and students to create their own savings plan based on how much they make.  They create a character and pick a job and must budget their "money" to save up for something.  It is a great real life lesson!

Math Slice
Math Slice has tons of games and activities for a broad range of subjects.  Each topic is listed on the left, so it is easy to navigate and get the kinds of games and lessons that you want.

Math Playground
Math Playground allows you to practice skills with flashcards, manipulatives, and games.  A truly great resource!

Math Moves U
Math Moves U is a website created for middle grades.  It allows students to make their own character and travel through worlds where they see math applied in real life situations.  There is not a lot of direct computation, but it is a fun site to explore for older children.

Math is Fun
Math is Fun has math games and activities all organized by categories.  It goes from number practice to algebra, so it really is a broad range!

Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software is one of my favorite math websites.  It has so many games and activities that are neatly categorized.  The games are also very fun and the website is very up to date!

Johnnie's Math Page
Though the graphics are a little out of date, this site has a lot of great resources for different math topics.  It has numbers, geometry, probability, fractions, etc.

Cool Math Games
Cool Math has a lot of fun games at the bottom that are organized by strategy and skill.  It is great for elementary student practice!

A Plus Click
A+ Click has a lot of fun math activities separated by grade level from grade 1 through grade 12.  They are not explicit games, but there are a lot of questions that get a math brain to think!

FunBrain
FunBrain has a ton of resources for students, but their math arcade is one of their best!  It provides a lot of awesome games and resources that children will love.  Also make sure to check out their Math Baseball game!

Primary Games
Primary Games has a lot of games right there to choose from.  It is great for children who have a hard time navigating a complciated website, because the games are all right there with a brief explanation and a screenshot!

Sumdog
This is a site that must be registered for, but it is free and totally worth it!  Students will get to practice their math skills in a fun and interactive environment!

Fuel the Brain
Fuel the Brain is another site that has its math practices and games separated into categories.  Just choose the skill you want to work on and voila!  You will find a game you will love.

Hooda Math
Hooda Math is a unique site because it doesn't only have math games, but it has math tutorials, learning tools, and even some videos.  Great for math practice!

TES iboard
This site can be used as a great resource for games or as a great resource for the interactive whiteboard!  It has many different strategies that can be displayed for your whole class!

Soft Schools
Soft Schools Math has a ton of different math categories to choose from, and then it has categories within the categories!  This is a truly wonderful resource and will provide the perfect practice for whatever students are looking for!

Math Game Time
Math Game Time is a really great site for games for all grade levels (also categorized by grade level!).  Students will love to navigate this site and play the awesome games!

Kids Numbers
Kids Numbers is great for lower elementary students.  It has a lot of games and activities that help to promote number sense. 

Math Run
Math Run is a fun and easy way to practice basic math facts.

Math Live
Math Live is a unique website that is fun and interactive.  It is not exactly a game site, but it provides interactive lessons for the math concept of your choice.

Learn Your Tables
Learn Your Tables is a site that is very simplistic in its design and its approach.  It is a good site for practicing multiplication tables.

Cool Math Games for Kids: Kids Activity Blog
This blog has listed a ton of fun and free math games for kids!  Check out each of the games and their descriptions at this site.

Academic Skill Builders
Academic Skill Builders is an awesome site with great games to practice academic skills.  It is research-based and standards-aligned and has tons of categories to choose from!

Math TV
Math TV has a ton of instructional math videos separated by concept and topic.  It ranges from recognizing whole numbers to finding derivatives!

That's all for now.  Please let me know if you have any other great math sites for kids!

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Great Language Arts Educational Webistes!

Here's a list of great educational websites for games and lessons.  This is a wonderful resource for the summer to keep the kids busy and learning!

Starfall
Starfall is a great resource for young elementary children to help them with their letter sounds and beginning reading skills.

Seussville
Seussville has a ton of games, activities, videos, and books for children to explore.  It has fun graphics and has all of the familiar characters that children love!

Read Write Think
Students and children may need assistance with getting started with some of these activities (depending on age), but there are tons of activities sorted by grade level/literacy skill that are awesome.  They are interactive and effective.

Spelling City
This is a wonderful resource to practice spelling and vocabulary words.  You can insert your own list or use pre-made lists to practice!

Free Rice
This site has a very interesting premise: for every question that you answer correctly, 10 grains of rice are donated through the World Food Programme.  It's great vocabulary practice for an even greater cause!

Wordle
Wordle is a fun site that creates word maps and clouds out of the words that you insert.  A fun and creative way to get to know words.

Magnetic Poetry
Kids will have a blast creating their own poems by using the drag and drop function of Magnetic Poetry.  Words are provided and all you have to do is create a poetic masterpiece!

Storyline Online
Done by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, Storyline Online is a great way to keep children entertained.  Famous actors and actresses read well-known children's stories aloud as children can follow along.  This is not only great for an at-home activity, but it's also great to fill in some free time in the classroom!

PBS Kids
PBS Kids is a fun way for kids to interact with their favorite PBS characters with fun games and activities.  Between the Lions has great interactive games and stories for children who are learning to read!

ABCya
This is an excellent website for children! It is already split up into grade levels (K-5) and each level provides fun games, books, and aactivities that are age appropriate.

Cookie
Cookie is a great resource for both Language Arts and Math for grades Pre-K-2.  It has games, letter practice, word practice, stories, worksheets, and much more!

Scholastic
Scholastic provides many resources for parents and children alike.  It has a lot of games and a lot of fun stories to read through!  Also great for Clifford interactive story books!

Funschool Language Arts
The Language Arts section of Funschool allows children to play tons of games that cover spelling, vocabulary, reading, etc!

Sheppard Software
This site has tons of games separated into different subjects and categories.

Highlights Kids
This Highlights site has a lot of games, stories, and creative activities for young children and students to do!

FunBrain
FunBrain has tons of resources and games for children to explore from Language Arts to Math!

Jayzee Bear
Jayzee Bear is a bit outdated with its graphics, but it provides some fun practices games for ages 2-8.  

TVO Kids
This site has a lot of fun Flash games with a wide range of subjects for children ages 2-6.

Utah Education Network
Just choose your grade level and subject area and this site will direct you to plenty of sites to suit your needs!  Very good resource to find new educational sites.

Brain Pop Jr.
Brain Pop Jr. has a ton of resources from all across the curriculum.  It also helps to strengthen different reading and comprehension strategies!

Discovery Kids
Discovery Kids is an awesome website to integrate reading with science and exploration.  It has a lot of fun resources for children of all ages!

Sesame Street
Sesame Street has a lot of fun interactive games and stories for children to use and play with.  Obviously this is better suited for younger children, but it has great resources for up to early elementary aged children.

Sports Illustrated for Kids
This is an excellent resource for students who love sports!  Students can read articles about their favorite sports in a kid friendly format.

Kids.gov
This is a government sponsored site that has awesome resources for children and students of all ages. It also categorizes its content into subject areas!

Kids Click
Kids Click is a resource that provides other resources for certain subject areas.

Let me know if you have any other good Language Arts sites for kids!  Thanks!

Monday, July 2, 2012

SMART Board Programs for K - 2 Mathematics

Here are a ton of Math SMART Board and interactive white board programs, games, and applications that can be used in your class for grades K-2.  Enjoy!


Dreambox Kindergarten Numbers to 10 on a TenFrame
recognizing numbers and quantities on a tenframe

Dreambox Kindergarten Numbers to 10 on a Mathrack
recognizing numbers and quantities on a mathrack

Dreambox Kindergarten Numbers to 20 on a TenFrame
recognizing numbers and quantities up to 20 on a tenframe

Dreambox Kindergarten Numbers to 20 on a Mathrack
recognizing numbers and quantities up to 20 on a mathrack

Dreambox Kindergarten Matching Number Pairs for 8
finding numbers that add up to 8

Dreambox Kindergarten Matching Number Pairs for 9
finding numbers that add up to 9

Dreambox Kindergarten Matching Number Pairs for 10
finding numbers that add up to 10

Dreambox First Grade Numbers to 40 on a TenFrame
recognizing numbers and quantities up to 40 on a tenframe

Dreambox First Grade Numbers to 100 on a Mathrack
recognizingn numbers and quantities up to 100 on a mathrack

Dreambox First Grade Matching Number Pairs for 20
finding numbers that add up to 20

Dreambox First Grade Matching Number Pairs for 50
finding numbers that add up to 50

Dreambox First Grade Matching Number Pairs for 100
finding numbers that add up to 100

Dreambox Second Grade Building Expressions that Equal 20
understanding why certain numbers added together equal 20

Dreambox Second Grade Building Expressions that Equal 100
understanding why certain numbers added together equal 100

Dreambox Second Grade Matching Number Pairs for 200
finding numbers that add up to 200

Dreambox Second Grade Addition with Tens on the Number Line
students jump by 10s to break down addition problems into smaller steps

Harvey's Homepage: Number Sense
a great site for developing number sense by using the smartboard--greater than/less than, counting on addition, fraction help, counting

Harvey's Homepage: Measurement
a great site for measurement tools: telling time, counting money, using rulers, etc.

Calendar Math
not your average classroom calendar! --use this app for morning meeting or just in a math center for practice with important skills

Ghost Blasters 2: Sums
this game is a fun way to practice with a whole group or small group finding sums or finding numbers that equal a specific sum

Ghost Blasters 3: Two Digit Plus One Digit Numbers
a fun game to practice adding a two digit number plus a one digit number

Ghost Blasters 3: Two Digit Plus Two Digit Numbers
a fun game to practice adding 2 two digit numbers together

100+ Math SmartBoard Lessons!
visit this site for over 100 math smartboard lessons and games

Clockworks: Interactive Clock
interactive clock for smartboard

Coin Names: Penny Through Quarter
a multiple choice game to familiarize students with specific coins

Toon University's Discovering Coin Values
a fun and interactive way to show which coins equal what value and how they add up

Max's Math Adventure
tons of math "adventures" to go on!

Place Value Cards
discover place value with this visual aid

Shark Numbers
avoid the swimming sharks by picking the number that corresponds with the base ten blocks shown

Stop the Clock
match digital and analog clock times

Teaching Measurement
this tool aids with teaching length, mass, and capacity

Time
another program to assist with telling time

Johnnie's Math Page
tons of smartboard activities including counting, addition, subtraction, place values, decimals, operations, functions, division, etc.

Thinking Blocks
helps to model and solve math problems using online manipulatives and other cool and interactive tools

Math Popper Game
pop the balloons with the corresponding answer to the math problem presented! super fun game

100 Number Grid Game
help the parrot find his friends in various squares in the number grid

100 Snowballs
cute for 100 day activity--can also be used as an aid in addition or subtraction if it is teacher led

Counting Money
count money with coin manipulatives

Estimate and Measure with Chef Pierre
cute way of showing estimation using food

Transum Software
a few cute resources including a math starter of the day for each day

Money Measurement
cute guided interactive money game and program

Maths Frame Resources
tons of primary math resources to show on a smartboard

More or Less
practice with number sense--establishing which has the most or the least, or more or less

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
tons of virtual manipulatives to use on the smartboard

Toon University Math Games Grade 1
a lot of fun math games- grade 1

Toon University Math Games Grade 2
a lot of fun math games- grade 2

Gumball Math: Graphing, Addition, and Subtraction
use this fun tool to practice graphing, addition, and subtraction facts

That's all I have for now!  Please feel free to leave you own K-2 Math SMART Board apps in the comments!

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Kindergarten - First Grade iPad Apps

Here's a list I've compiled of some iPad and iPhone apps that are great for a Kindergarten or First Grade class or student!

 Kindergarten Addition
unique learning activities that give great visuals for children who are new to addition
Activity Blocks
a great app to build words, master spellings, and practice counting
Subtracting Sardines HD
a fun way to practice simple subtraction facts
Funny Alphabet - Interactive ABC Game
a fun way to get children to learn the basic sounds of letters
Small ABC
a lot of different activities/songs that help strengthen phonics/phonemic awareness
Kindergarten Flash Cards
many different flash cards going over letters, numbers, colors, sight words, etc.
Phonics with Letter Lilies
cute animations help to improve phonics with a range of ability level
Learn Sight Words
great app for learning sight words with flash cards
Word Magic
great app for recognizing sounds and letters within words
Pocket Charts! Beginning Letter Sound
Pocket Charts! Colors and Color Words
Pocket Charts! Counting 1-20
Pocket Charts! Long and Short Vowel Sounds
Pocket Charts! Rhyming Word Match
Pocket Charts! Shape Matching
Pocket Charts! Uppercase and Lowercase Letters
all of the Pocket Charts! apps are really great to provide visuals for these concepts!
Kindergarten Digital Workbooks - Space Board Rocket Series
18 fun workbooks that practice tons of different skills
Sight Words List
great way to practice sight words
StoryBuddy
a bit pricey, but a fun way to create interactive stories
Phonics Fun and Games
flashcards, memory games, guessing games, tracing practice all provide for a great phonics based approach
Trace Letters Lite
letter tracing practice
Alphabet Game
learn letters and sounds using fun pictures and games
DinoKids Math- Lite
practice with math in a fun dino inspired app!
Motion Math: Hungry Fish
fun underwater math practice with adorable animations!
Reading Pal
great way to practice weekly sight or spelling words because you can enter your own words!


That's all for now!  Please comment if you know of any other good apps.  Thanks for stopping by :)