A Little Something For You!

                 I hope everyone is having a great week after a few days off! 
  Today my little stinkers "angels" were having a very challenging day... they were totally off the hook!   I wonder if my little friends were feeling the excitement of the upcoming holidays or if the colder weather froze their little brains.... hmmm  Anyway, I hope tomorrow will be a better day! 
and.... I was observed by my awesome principal!   I have the best principal in the world! 

Thank all of you for going over to my store at Teacher's Notebook.  I have 3 products over there.... and I am so appreciative for making my store a favorite....    I feel so special!   If you would like to see the products, just click here!

Also, I need to thank Dee at ..... Over the Moonbow for giving me the Sunshine award!   Thank you for thinking about me. I love all my blogging friends! You can read about the Sunshine award in an earlier post.

OK..... guess what?  I know a lot of us do Dibels and TRC, but at my school we also get to do Math Dibels.... yeap, you read that right!  We just started a couple of weeks ago.  That means more progress monitoring.... sigh.............  Do you feel like sometimes all we do is test?

Anyway, I made this little game to help with numbers before and after...... I plan on having the kinders place the number cards face down... then, they will pull a card and put it on the math mat.  They will write the numbers that come before and after that number.  After we practice in small group this little game will go in the math stations... and I pray it helps them with their dibels! 
Just click on the picture above to download.... and if you do download, please take a moment to leave a comment!  I love hearing from you....
Graphics from DJ Inkers!

A Little Bit of Math Practice

I hope everyone has had a great week.  I am so glad Friday is right around the corner!   Today a 5th grade teacher and I teamed up so that our kiddos can work together once a week.  We see it as a win-win situation where both classes will benefit educationally as well as socially!

My kinders need extra practice with writing their numerals 6-10.  This is a quick roll and write game that I plan on laminating.  I have a few blank foam dice where I will write the numerals on each face.  Since there are only 5 numerals... I think on the last face on the dice, I will draw a pumpkin.  If my kinder rolls the pumpkin, they will find a friend and orally count to them.  It will be a good time for me to assess their counting ability.  We have been working on counting to 100 through songs.  Just click on the pic to download! :)
I know patterning is not a common core goal, but my county is expecting us to teach patterning.  This is just a fast morning work activity I am going to use to see how my kinders are doing! You can download that activity here.
I use DJ Inkers clipart for both activities!

I have been thinking for a long time now about opening a TPT store.  I haven't done it because I enjoy making things and love sharing with you.  On the other hand there are many things I can't share because of the graphic artist's terms of use.  I would still keep as many things as I could free on here, but, provide you the opportunity to purchase my stuff you like.  I hope you will give me honest feedback.... I really value your input!

Do You like Candy Corn?

I do not like to eat candy corn!  It is toooo sweet for me!  However, when I saw these cuties, I changed my mind!  Don't you love them?   I also love when I can use the same things several different ways with my kinders..... work smarter not harder! 
I can use the candy corn as a memory match or I can use them on this pumpkin math mat and use real candy corn or candy pumpkins. 
 You can use dice like these and have the children roll, match the number or 10 frames and then count out candy corn. 
Graphics: DJ Inkers and Scrappin Doodles

I would love for you to visit Scrappin Doodles and look around for other cute graphics!  Just click on the button to the right of my blog.   You can use the code OCTOBER2011 for 15% off your order!   The pumpkin is  from  DJ Inkers!  Click here to go there!  

You can get the candy corn ten frames game by clicking on the picture above!  You can get the pumpkin math mat here.  If you download, please think about following me.. and leave a comment on how you will use them.  You have great ideas and I would love to hear them!  Happy Fall my bloggin' friends!

It's All For Fall!

I wanted to share a couple of things I have been working for fall for y'all. :)
I am trying to create things for my writing center.  My kinders have grown tired of the activities with play dough that I have had out the last couple of weeks.  So, I came up with a fall vocabulary book where the children stamp the words and illustrate them in this cute book.   In my writing center, I have fall vocabulary words with pictures so that they can use them to help with  stamping the words. 
In the next couple of weeks we will begin a spider theme. I made this spider roll, cover and write math station.  My kinders still need help with making numerals even though we have done this a bezillion trillion different ways! I'm hoping this will do the trick!  Any way, I hope you enjoy as much as I love sharing with you!   You can download the book here.  You can download the spider station here.  Graphics: Scrappin Doodles!