Sunday, October 27, 2013

Freebielicious Birthday Celebration!

 

Have you heard? Freebielicious turned ONE this month! This last year has been amazing and we are so happy with our Freebielicious family. This little blog has twenty-five amazing authors…teachers with hearts of gold! Our only goal is to be a blessing to primary teachers.

Welcome to our party! Everyone is invited. We are SO excited to host a birthday party like no other. Don’t worry, we won’t ask you to buy us a present (we do love chocolate though). Instead, we want to help tech up your classroom with a pretty sweet giveaway. Follow our blog, FB, and pinterest to enter to win. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. You can win a prize package valued at over $500, which includes an iPad mini! Sweet deal, right?!






Fill out the rafflecopter to enter. You have three chances to win. Follow Freebielicoius on Pinterest, Follow Freebielicious on Facebook, and Follow Freebielicious Blog by email. Enter to win by October 30, 2013 at midnight. Winner will be drawn on October 31st, 2013 and announced on Freebielicous. One entry per person and entries will be verified.

To enter the Rafflecopter you'll need to {click here} to go to Freebielicious! You'll find the Rafflecopter there!

SHARE:

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Pumpkin Color Sorting {FREEBIE}

2 posts in one weekend?! 2 new products in one weekend?! Say it isn't so! If it weren't for the 2 huge assignments I have due on Wednesday and the fact that I've been glued to the computer all weekend, this might not have happened. I've been using this as "breaks" while working! In the end I guess it's been a win, win! (...but that presentation isn't quite finished...)

I whipped this activity up last minute the end of last week when I was prepping for this week! Then I took the time to fancy it up and turn it into a freebie for you guys! What that means is, my set of the activity just has plain construction paper to sort the pumpkins on. Your set, has fancy little cards to print out! ;) 


I have one student who is still working on his colors so this will make great differentiated practice for him.


If you want to snag this freebie and prep it for the week just {click here}
SHARE:

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Two Weeks of Colorful Fun & An Assessment Pack!

I'd like to mention that we did colors the weeks of 9/23 and 9/30. I started this post on 10/7. It's been busy around here....

I feel as though my head has just gone under water and there are merely bubbles popping up as a sign of life. I was pretty proud of myself that I managed to take some pictures from our colors unit. We spent two weeks practicing and reviewing our colors. I started our week out by individually assessing each student on what colors they knew. I first ask them expressively, if they are unable to do name them all that way, then I do a receptive assessment. Again, if they are unable to do so receptively, then we move to matching. 

Communication is the largest area of need in my classroom so I like to give them that opportunity to receptively identify things. I will use this same process for shapes, numbers, and letters. If a child is unable to match items, then I know that is where we need to start before I expect them to expressively or receptively identify.

Here is the assessment sheet I record my data on. You can download a free copy by clicking the picture.


You can purchase the assessment sheet along with pages for the assessment- colors, numbers, shapes, capitals and lowercase for $1.25 by clicking the picture below.

You could easily use these assessment pages to create matching assessments for your students who need that. Just print 2 copies and cut one copy to make small cards. Laminate and use Velcro if you wish!


*Tip: I use a different color pen for any data collected on a different date & write that date at the top in the same color ink. Then I know which check marks go with which assessment date and I don't need to use multiple pages.

We then moved into some activities to practice our colors!

  
- Completing our interactive colors book. Students have to find the correct color of the item on the page in the book. I love doing this activity. It can be differentiated for students by placing out a different number of color choices, or presenting the pages out of rainbow order as well.

This activity can be found in my Let's Learn Colors Unit 


-This student is matching color words to correct number of crayons. For students who are targeting higher skills, students also count the number of crayons and write that number on the line preceding the color word.

My students aren't working on that skill yet so we just used it for color matching instead. For my students who know all of their colors this activity was appropriate. For my students who just acquired the skill or do not know all of their colors, we did not complete this activity.

This can also be found in my Let's Learn Colors Unit

The last 2 weeks we have done activities with apples. I was way too busy to snap any photos :( But I'm really looking forward to the next 2 weeks with pumpkins and hope to get more photos to share!
SHARE:
Design by Laugh Eat Learn // Theme by PipDig