FREE Pencil Tub Labels

I needed some tubs to help sort pencils in the classroom. I just had to make some with my new scrappy friends on them. If you would like to use them also, jump over to TeacherspayTeachers and grab them for FREE!

If you are teaching Kinder in Australia, you may be working on a "Me" unit of work, which will cover friendships and personal qualities. If you are in the US, you may be winding down for the year and celebrating a great year with your Kindergarten friends. Either way, our printable "Memory Book of School Friends" will make an exciting activity for your students to work on independently. 

Students make a cover for their book, and then pass their book around to friends in the class. Each friend fills out a page, so in a way the book becomes a 'friend file'! Your little ones will treasure this book as a record of their friends in Kindergarten and it is extra special as their friends have contributed to the book!

Here is one my daughter made last year.

You can find it HERE for just $1.75

Addition Snake and Add On

 

 

I had the privilege recently of visiting a school that had purchased many of our resources from eBay a few years ago to kick start their small-group number program. It was very cool to see the games being used in multiple classrooms. It also gave me some motivation to start 'reworking' some of our original collection. Fresh graphics for some and bonus pages, like worksheets and cover pages.

 

Addition Snake was one of our original eBay games. We gave it a fresh new look and added some pages. It is a great game to play when you are first teaching students to 'count-on' in addition. The totals can be no more than 10 (if you use a 6 sided die) and the students get the visual support of the dots on the die. They can say the number on the game board and 'count-on' the dots.

 

If you would like to take a peek, head over to TpT and find it HERE

 

 

Another great way to help encourage counting-on is to play a short game with your class. Use equipment from your 'Core Drawers' - a ten frame and a set of numeral cards. Pick any of the ten frame cards and display it for the students.

 

 

Now simply leave the ten frame number up (in this case, number 4) and then flash numeral cards randomly at your students. Call the number as you go. Students are then encouraged to repeat the number you have said and then 'count-on' using the ten frame as a reference. So in the above example, you would call 5, they would say "5, 6-7-8-9" and emphasize the nine.

 

 

This is a very simple, but powerful way to help students begin to process the counting-on strategy. You can squeeze it into the few minutes that you have between lessons or as an ignition activity prior to commencing your lesson.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!



Snap It Up!

 

What a week! It's been green. I have had a sick little man in my house and it has not been much fun at all. Green really. On all fronts. I managed to get some things done as I also had a sick hubby in the house, off work for a few days. Somehow I have managed to avoid the bug myself. Touch wood!

 

A few crocodile themed resources appeared this week - it all started with a doodle and some paper craft.. Well actually, it started because we only had green paper left in the craft cupboard. It matched my green week all round. My daughter LOVES to do paper craft, and when the 'what are we going to make today' question came... 'no more frogs we decided' - let's do something else green! A crocodile! Here they are hanging in her play room.

 

 

A paper craft file then ensued. This file can be used in your classroom to create similar crocodiles and even add a 'Summer Snaps' page to the bottom - your students can draw some things that they are planning for the summer break (whenever that may be for you). Just print the shapes and run them on green paper and your students will be ready to create a crocodile of their own!

 

 

I have made this fun crocodile game called 'Snap it Up' to 'print and play' and it is FREE for you to download and make. This was inspired by the crocodile doodle I drew early in the week.

 

Your students can learn the 'counting-on' strategy for addition with this one. Find it at TpT HERE

 

 

My daughter was bursting to come home and tell me about the 'doubles' she has been learning this week at school. So we invented a game together..

 

Snap the Crocodile!

 

You need

1. A dish of counters/chips

2. A plastic toy crocodile

3. Some blank 'twenty' frames

4. A standard six sided die

 

 

Place the crocodile on the dish and each player has a twenty frame game board.

 

Take turns to roll the die. When you have rolled, double your number and take the corresponding number of chips. Put them on your twenty frame (we just used two ten frames from my Core Drawers).

 

The first player to reach twenty can 'Snap the Crocodile' (grab the crocodile) and win the game!

 

 

I finished the week by heading to Officeworks and re-stocking on coloured paper. Hopefully I can find my more colourful creative mojo again!

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hopefully I will be back with more soon!

 

 



Bingo Books at Breakfast...Dinner...or Under the Desk at School

 

My daughter and I are loving our new 'Bingo Books'. I can get dinner cooked. She has something to 'do'!

 

 

 

Just print out the pages.

 

 

Collate them and staple them across the top.

 

Then cut down to make individual books!

 

 

Each book will have different pages, so a different winner each time!

 

 

I call out random numbers while I am making dinner preparations, and my daughter traces the number if she sees it on her page. If she 'wins' (she has not clued in yet that she always wins!!) she scores a Smartie! She wants to play over and over again!

 

 

Hop over to my Graphics Blog to enter a rafflecopter to win my latest set of Scrappy Kids!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Re-Workin and Showing Off My Purchases!

 

It is a little late, but welcome to "Re-Work It Wednesday"!

 

I revised our 'Frog Hop' games pack today. Here is the new cover:

 

And here is how it was before.

 

 

I popped new graphics in, used my fave Kimberly Geswin fonts and updated the worksheets. Frogs featured heavily in our earliest games, and a makeover was long overdue!

 

This game set features a set of game cards that can be used with 5 different game instruction sheets that we have included, to help your little ones learn all about numbers to ten! Counting, adding, comparing and patterns all feature in this set.

 

Have you re-worked something lately? I would love to check it out, link up below to showcase your improvements!

 

We are giving away a $100 gift voucher to lucky follower Janice M - please contact me Janice, so I can forward you the voucher. If you missed out on entering, fear not, I will have another giveaway soon!

 

Thank you to everyone that supported us in the recent TpT storewide Teacher Appreciation Sale - you guys rock!

 

I purchased some amazing resources - including these:

 

Simple Borders Set from Shanyn - love me some Simple Borders!

 

 

A Ladybug Packet from Lita - I think I would buy anything with a ladybug on the cover! And Lita's items NEVER disappoint!

 

The Queen of Kindergarten, and all round lovely lady - Cindy - has a fun robot math centers packet that I just HAD to have!

 

My Aussie friend Brooke made this adorable packet of sight word practice sheets! Love them!

 

And I think I quite possibly may have purchased this twice I love it so much! Math Scoops by Annie Moffatt! I cannot wait to use this one!

 

If you found some wonderful resources, link up with Blog Hoppin' to 'show us what you bought'!



 



 

 

 

 

 

 



I LOVE Sales!

 

By now you would have heard about the TpT site wide sale - with savings of up to 28% off!

 

I worked out why I love these events SO much.

 

It's the ultimate trifecta.

 

I love teachers! Especially soaking up as much of their genius as possible! Teachers are brilliant! I love hearing about how other teachers manage, organise and weave their craft. I love when they share the well used ideas they have developed over years and peel out the well-worn worksheets that have been loved in their classrooms for decades. Bring it on!  It's a shame as teachers, we don't get more time to learn from one another - enter TpT!

 

 

What can I say? THE 'happening hub' full of ideas, collaboration and networking.

 

 

Sales. I am also in love with you! At 28% off, not only will I be having fun shopping AND helping students to learn, but I will be SAVING lots of money. It's a no-brainer really.

 

 

Three of my big loves are coming together on the 7th and 8th of May. Everything in my 2 shops will be 20% off!

 

And if you enter the code TAD13 at checkout, you will receive an additional 10% off!  

 

 

You can find my

 

Teacher Resource Store HERE

 

and my

 

Graphics (Clipart) Store HERE

 

Please leave a link to your TpT store if you have one also, I would love to come and see your sale items!

 

 

 

 

 

 



Thank you! Thank you! 1000 Followers!

 

I reached 1000 blog followers this week and I am super excited - and thankful - and appreciative!

 

If you hop over to my Graphics Blog you will find a little post that explains how you can enter to win a $100 gift voucher for TpT!

 

With the site wide teacher appreciation sale happening very soon, this is the perfect time to win!

 

Don't forget to also hop on the Teacher Appreciation Extravaganza blog hop!