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Every year, no matter what grade level I am teaching, I end the year with the students making a game they can play at school and then take it home to play with their family.   And every year it seems I am scrambling to put the materials together for the students.   I have found the younger students really need something concrete they can use.   I came up with these pre-made template.   I made templates without spinners, with different types of spinners and with places for cards.   I have all the templates in a binder in clear plastic protectors and I get the students to pick which template they want the day before we do the activity so I can have the templates ready for the kids.   I also have pre-made squares with various game standards such as “Miss a turn” and Go back 2 spaces” the kids can cut out and glue on the squares they want.   There are also blank squares they can print on to customize their game.   I also give the students a template ...

Here are my spacemen that I made to help the students ensure proper spacing between words when writing.  You will need Avery 8196 labels for spaceman. I printed the labels out, stuck them onto a tongue depressor and put clear tape over the label so it would last. The students use spaceman whenever they are writing.  Head over to my TpT store for the free download.  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spaceman Enjoy!

In the schools I have worked in, the lower grades pair up with an upper grade class and read once a week.   We call this book buddies.   A few years ago, my little grade 2’s were coming up to me and saying “My book buddy is fooling around.”   I felt really bad for my grade 2’s because they really looked up to the older students and really wanted to read with them.   So I started to think how I could focus the older students and make them feel like they were truly a part of the younger students learning and really have a type of student teacher role with their younger book buddy.   I came up with an idea of a duotang that would hold reading strategies that the older students could refer to when reading with the younger students and a recording sheet (Readers Talk About Books sheet) that focused the older students in helping the younger students.   Every week the older student would use the recording sheet for the first book the younger student was reading. ...

Last year we ventured into studying ladybugs and the kids loved it!!  We will be doing it again and I have revised my Ladybug Unit and added a few more activities and resources.  I bind all the pages and the kids work out of the booklet for the whole unit and at the end they can take the booklet home as a keepsake!!  I have uploaded it on my TpT store.  Check it out!!

Right now I am in the middle of going through the Atlantic Canada Curriculum Guide and Math Works and aligning the lessons together.  As I was going through the Geometry unit, an idea came to mind about making a resource that the kids could use and I could use as an assessment tool.  This is what I came up with.  It is available in my TeachersPayTeachers store. The kids love using them.

Hi everyone, I am venturing into blog land!!!  Please be patient...just like my title of my blog, I am learning as I go too.  I thought this would be a great place to start posting ideas, lessons and printables from my teaching.  Please be sure you check back for updates.  Thanks so much for stopping by. Kemble