November Resource Round Up

November is one of my favorite months of the year to teach! So many kid friendly, naturally engaging things to do! The cooler weather helps my mood too! I just want to do all of the fun fall things! Here's a little round up of quite a few activities and resources that I have created for this season! Hopefully you can find something to have some fun with your kids and save you some time! (All of the pictures are clickable links)

Our Thanksgiving Uncovered is a large resource with LOTs of activities! Close reading, many writing prompts, story of Thanksgiving retelling story sticks, games, centers and more! This is the perfect resource for teaching all about Thanksgiving.

Our Thankful Headband is fun and meaningful little craft for your kids to make for Thanksgiving! They draw what they are thankful for on the feathers, color and decorate the headband, then attach to make their thankful headband! I love how proud they are of their headbands, and what a great conversation piece to take home and get their families involved with taking an attitude of gratitude!

Included in this resource:

•Elements to create a thankful headband

•What I'm thankful for writing prompt (great for early finishers!)

Our Pattern Blocks Work & Play Kit for Kindergarten 

Perfect for using with:

• Instruction

• Literacy Centers

• Math Centers

• Math Stations

• Small Groups

• Sensory Play

• Self regulated work & play 

• Fine motor, busy box, or morning work activities

•Counting practice pages for follow-up, math stations, morning work, assessment

Included in this EASY TO PREP & EASY ON THE INK resource:

•10 Thanksgiving themed Pattern Block Work and Play Kit Cards

•10 Counting Practice Pages- one for each puzzle card

•Pattern Block Cards for playing as a card game OR for stuffing clear pocket stuff-able dice

•Spin It! Game Board for playing with a game spinner OR pencil & paper clip spinner

•“I CAN” statement card for displaying at center or station (2 options, whole sheet and half sizes included)

•Question prompts to engage little learners and promote inquiry and learning

Pattern Blocks Work & Play Kit THANKSGIVING
Work & Play Cards Letters Kit ( letters pictured above t u r k e y)
See more about Pattern Block Work & Play Kits here

I love to create invitations to play for little learners. It inspires curiosity, engagement and wonder to gather interesting items and place them in and inviting arrangement for littles to discover, play, work, and learn. I love how quiet and thoughtful they are at these stations. You can almost see their little wheels turning in their head. This little inspiration page has several resources, so the photo is not linked, but I'll add links to all of the resources below the picture. Products without links are coming soon! I just love this so much.

Work & Play Cards Letters Kit

Work & Play Cards Sizes & Positional Words

Pumpkin, Pumpkin Miles on the Tongue Emergent Reader

Fall Ten Frame Number Center

Natural Wonders Work & Play Posters

Close reading is a strategy to help kids engage closely with text. I love using close reading passages. I have written dozens of passages and created hundreds of activities to go with them. The language, vocabulary, stamina, comprehension and text feature skills they solidify from doing close reading are just amazing. When I write my passages I work hard to use interesting vocabulary, and engage little readers! These photos are from my Quarter 2 Close Reading Bundle, there are 6 passages and activities, this is from the Owls passage. They get so much out of annotating the passages! I include lots of tips and directions about this, but in short, you start slowly, doing it together, and they quickly get the hang of it and start finding words to annotate on their own! How cute is the annotation and pictorial representation for "parliament"? (All the heart eyes!!)

The   o w l   letters are from our Work and Play Cards Letters Kit.

Close Reading for Kindergarten & First Grade Quarter 3 Fall Bundle

Want to read more about Close Reading? Click here!  OR Here!

I love simple little math centers that I can add to my existing stations or add to a small group or

morning work tub. Our Turkeys to 10 Just Right Activities & Centers are so much fun! Simple to prep and easy for kids to play independently, with partners or in small groups. They're just right!

I hope this resource round up is helpful and gives you some ideas for fall!

xo,

Pam

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Happy Books = Happy Librarian!

Happy Books =  Happy Librarian! We all want our librarian to be happy right? 

& of course want our kids to take care of our books! You know the old saying... "If the librarian ain't happy, nobody's happy!" . . . .Well, something like that anyway! 

Librarians have a big job! I think so anyway... keeping it clean, inviting, up-to-date and ready for each person that walks in there is a huge responsibility! Not to mention all the stuff they know! Amazing!  Last year we began using Our Library RULES! book that I worked on last year. We needed a kid friendly way to teach the rules of the library & book care. Our librarian made a large, color printed out version for herself, and she printed copies for every kid in the school! She used the slideshow version for teaching, and the kids loved having their own little emergent reader to take home and share about the library! Mrs. B. used her version all through the year to refresh and remind students about book care and library behavior, and kiddos that came in new to the school got their own copy of Our Library RULES! upon visiting the library for the first time. Mrs. B also share with  me that some special students (wink, wink!) got an extra copy of the little book as a gentle reminder when library books came back a little too used if you know what I mean! If your library needs help spreading the good word of book care and library etiquette check out this resource! (Description below)

Product Description:

ONE SCHOOL SITE LICENSE included with purchase!
Use it for this year and all the years to come!

Get books in the hands of your kids on the first day of library!
"Our Library Rules!" is a positive, informative, fun, and student friendly text to build community and share school wide with students to teach about using the library, proper book care, and celebrate the fact that their library is the best! In fact, it rules!
It is perfect as a shared story! Copy enough for each student in the school to learn about and review library rules, proper book care as well as literacy promotion!
(The play on words “We need library rules so our library can rule!” teaches multiple meaning words too!
(CCSS ELA: Language Standard 4, Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.)
Our Library Rules is VERY EASY to copy and prepare! It can be single sided, OR copy double sided to save paper. Simply copy (on your copier choose the staple twice option on the left side), cut with paper cutter, and done! If you have a printing department at your district office they can make even quicker work of it when preparing for the whole school!
Our School Librarian copied the pages onto extra large construction paper, and spiral bound it to make herself a big book for instruction and review!

Included in this Resource:
•One School Library Site License
Zipped file includes:
•Student half page Our Library Rules (black and white) (EASY to Copy and Assemble!)
•Student half page Our Library Rules (color) (EASY to Copy and Assemble!)
•Quicktime Movie/Slideshow for whole group instruction and review

Our Library Rules is intended for purchase by a school administrator, individual teacher, or librarian with the intent of copying and sharing with each of the school’s teachers and students. In other words, the purchaser is granted a SITE LICENSE for ONE SCHOOL / ONE SCHOOL LIBRARY. Permission is given to share this resource within the walls of ONE school with ONE library, no additional license purchase is necessary. If you are interested in a district wide site license, please contact me for pricing.

Thanks for visiting Little Bird Kindergarten!

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