Fall Action Verbs Game

It was a rainy, windy, hurrican-y day in Northern Maine, so I snuggled up on the sofa in my pajamas and made a fall action verb game for our literacy stations on Thursday. I'm super excited for my students to play it!

Find it on TPT by clicking HERE.

Back to School

Over the last few days, I have been looking for excuses to stay inside, in the nice air conditioned house, doing as little as possible. In an effort to feel a little less guilty, I've been working on turning things I've used in my classroom over the years, to products that other teachers can benefit from. One of the projects I finished up today was the microwave popcorn wrapper that I have handed out at both Meet the Teacher Night as well as Parent-Teacher Conferences (not in the same year of course!) If you are interested in purchasing a customized digital file for this, send me an email at kristinerayna@hotmail.com

Another project I'm ready to customize is name bookmarks that can be colored. They are so much fun, especially the first day of school! They can be customized with your students' names in any of the following fonts. Feel free to email me for a quote at kristinerayna@hotmail.com

And last, but not least, I have the popular googly eyes ring for either the first day of school or a open house/meet the teacher event. These can also be customized with your name, so reach out if you'd like me to work with you on these or other projects. kristinerayna@hotmail.com

Money Using Rubber Stamps

So, it's only been about 6 years since I made a blog entry, and I'm now teaching third grade, and not PreK. I'm not sure why I decided to post today, but here I am. Maybe I'll get better about making posts, and maybe I won't. Only time will tell. Haha! 

Today in summer school we were working with money, and I pulled out my coin rubber stamps. You would have thought we told them they had won the lottery! It was a super easy activity to do. I found a digital grocery flier online and modified the prices a bit. They picked four items, cut them out, glued them on the left side of the mat, and then used the stamps to show the amount of money for the item (today they just drew rectangles for the whole dollar amounts). This would be easy to do for making change, too. If I had remembered to grab a sales flier or two from the grocery store, it would have been a lot easier. SOOOOO if you teach math, or want an activity to do with your kids this summer, this is super easy to do AND easy to differentiate! You don't even need the recording mat, just give them blank paper and let them have a go!

I definitely need to buy a couple more sets of coin stamps from Amazon to use in math stations next year, though! One set did not quite cut it. I'd also like to add some tail ones 

Here are the links if you are interested in getting them on Amazon (I do not receive anything if you do order them, I'm just sharing for your convenience. It benefits me in no way.)

Rubber Stamps: Coins (Heads)

Rubber Stamps: Coins (Tails)

R12 TransformED July 2017 Conference - Dramatic Play: Purposeful Play

Collaboration from Region 12's TransformED Conference that I presented at on July 26, 2017.  Each group brainstormed ways they could incorporate standards into a dramatic play station.  There were some really great ideas!

Reindeer Food

One of the things we did this week was make reindeer food.  This is so simply.  They just mixed oats and glitter in a bag and added a label.  We were able to incorporate math skills by having students measure their ingredients out.  For the label, I just searched for "Reindeer Food" on TeachersPayTeachers and found several options.

 

 

 

 

Santa's Workshop

Our dramatic play for the next two weeks is Santa's Workshop.  We put lots of wrapping paper, ribbons, bows, gift bags, tissue paper, etc. in the center.  The kids have had a blast wrapping and delivery presents!  I can't tell you how many wooden blocks I've received as presents in the last two weeks!  Haha

 

 

 

 

 

December Odds and Ends

This is such an easy center to set up.  I have different pages hung on the board.  Below each set of words is a basket with all the magnetic letters they need to complete each word on the list.  Once they complete one set, they can move on to the next set. Easy peasy.

 

 

We love reading to our fifth grade buddies!  This month we read a Christmas book with the phrase "can you see".  They read for about 20 minutes and then we played on the playground with our buddies!  It was a great end to our day!