What Do You See On Your Way To School?

An interactive Writing Activity.

I love to read "And to Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street" to the class the first week or two after returning to school. This year I have created a simple interactive writing activity to go with the book. 

Discuss some of the ways the students get to school and what they see along the way. You can direct the discussion toward several topics such as safety or real characters versus fantasy characters.  

The instructions offer many ways to use the patterns from Kindergarten on up. This activity can be used to teach and practice new vocabulary, descriptive writing, parts of speech, and alliteration in a fun and easy way. It can then be taken home to show parents and caregivers what the students have learned.

The patterns and instructions are available at the Wendy's Bookworks store at Teachers Pay Teachers.  CLICK HERE to download now.

Learning Letters the Fun Way with Alphabet Art

For years teachers and parents have been telling me how much they love Alphabet Art!  Whether the kids are turning an uppercase P into Pig or a lowercase d into dinosaur, they remember the letter and the sound association. Cutting out the letters enhances the muscle memory for writing that letter as well as small motor practice.

Alphabet letters are so versatile!  They can be used for letter recognition/sound association games, learning sequential order, and putting together letters to make words. 

  Here are a few more ways to use the letters in Alphabet Art:

 1. Make tactile letters with cotton balls or Mardi Gras beads 

2. Lace the letters 

3. F is for finger painting 

4. Print practice is more fun when you do it with crayon resist

5. C makes a great picture collage 

Get more great ideas by watching our VIDEO:

  Alphabet Art will be on sale August 17th - 20th 

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Back to School!

Just a Reminder about our Back to School Night Desktop Diorama.

It's Fun, Easy, Informative, Impressive AND FREE!!

This easy-to-make diorama base can be used all year long for any subject!

The free download is available on Teachers Pay Teachers and Teacher's Notebook.

Click Here to download from TPT.

Click here to download from Teacher's Notebook.