This teacher resource book is adorable! It is in excellent condition, considering how long I have had it! It is actually like new! I used it in my kindergarten classroom, and my students just loved it! I was first introduced to Dr. Jean Feldman and her music during a Title I Reading Workshop. Her music is incredibly fun and educational! This item is clean and comes from a smoke free home. This teacher resource book has a copyright date of 2001. The author is Dr. Jean Feldman, and the publisher is Scholastic. This book includes 12 delightful, easy-to-learn songs that are set to favorite tunes and have sing-along mini-books that teach primary concepts and build early literacy. Topics include, shapes, letters, numbers, weather, colors, days of the week, time, opposites and more! Children will sing, learn, read, and have fun with the irresistible songs on tape! The book has reproducible mini-books with song lyrics and cute illustrations that match the text. Once children learn the songs, they can read along in their own mini-books. This great resource book also has lots of creative activities to extend learning and get kids ready for reading! Kids will have so much fun with the songs and the accompanying mini-books that they will want to read all the time! And, the mini-books will allow children to have reading success. Children love music, and when you put music and songs together with reading, you have a win-win situation! The reproducible mini-books provide the song lyrics along with delightful illustrations that support the text. The combination of songs and mini-books make reading fun for kids and helps put them on the road to reading success. This resource book includes a table of contents with the names of the reproducible mini-books and the skills they focus on. They are the following: The Shape Family (attributes and names of geometric shapes), Five Little Hot Dogs (counting backward, subtracting by 1), The Numeral Song (counting, writing numerals 1-10, Hickory, Dickory Dock (time, quotation marks), My Letter Book (the alphabet, letter-sound recognition), Color Word Farm (color words, farm animals), Teddy Bear (positional words), The Opposite Song (opposites, positional words), All You Lucky Children (days of the week, food words), Months of the Year (order of the months), What’s the Weather? (weather words), and Special Me! (personal attributes, self-esteem). The following are the familiar tunes to which the songs in this book are sung: I’m a Little Teapot, Three Little Fishies, Skip to My Lou, Short’nin Bread, Bingo, Turkey in the Straw, Ten Little Indians, Clementine, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, and Today Is Monday. This contents of this book can be integrated into any primary reading program and used in a number of ways. The songs and mini-books provide opportunities to teach a variety of reading skills, such as tracking a line of print, turning the page, using picture clues, identifying letters and high-frequency words, and sounding out words. The mini-books are designed for flexible use with individual children, partners, small groups, or the whole class. It is recommended that a song is introduced to children before they make their mini-book. In this way, children will become familiar with the song lyrics and will be more motivated to read the books. Children will love to share these songs and mini-books with their families. This resource book includes a sample letter to send to parents explaining the purpose of the mini-books and encouraging them to reinforce reading skills at home. At the beginning of the book is a section on Top 10 Reasons to Use The Book. There is also a section on How to Use The Book. Under this section are the following subsections and activities: Send-Home Mini-Books (Group Reading: Choral Reading, Shadow Reading, Take a Turn, and Magic Wand), Learning Centers (Big Books, Tag-Along Books, Book Puzzles, and Sing-Along Notebook), Using Pointers (Wiggly Eye, Magic Pointer, Plastic Fingernails, Finger Puppet, Seasonal Pointers, Stuffed Glove, and Magic Wand). Next, there is a section on How to Make the Mini-Books. And, last of all, there is a section on Directions and Activities. Under this section, all of the 12 song/mini-books are listed. Under each is a purpose, directions, and activities. As a former educator, I purchased many Scholastic and Dr. Jean materials for my classroom! They are high-quality items that children love! I would highly recommend them to both teachers and parents. This resource book would make a wonderful addition to a preschool, kindergarten, or 1st grade classroom! It would also be great to have in a household with young children! I am hoping to find it a good home.
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Vintage Ideal Magic Cards Initial & Final Consonants 20 Laminated 2-Sided Cards
I laminated the cards for durability! One corner of the box has been repaired with transparent tape. One side of one of the cards is darker than the others, and there are2 places on cards where there is a little bit of staining that occurred before I had a chance to laminate them.
Halloween Mother & Baby Spider Math Tens & Ones Game With 4 Web Mats & Large Die
This Halloween, educational math game is adorable! I laminated the boards for durability! I used this game, in my kindergarten classroom, during the month of October. My students absolutely loved it! This set is clean and comes from a smoke free home. This game is for 2-4 players. It can be used with preschool, kindergarten, or 1st grade children. The math skills reinforced in this game are counting to ten and counting by tens and adding on ones to come up with a 2-digit number. The game consists of 4 spider web mats that measure 8.5″ x 5.375″, 37 large black plastic spiders, 64 small black plastic spiders, and 1 orange or yellow large 1.5″ foam die. After laminating the spider web mats, I applied orange adhesive dots to them to designate areas on which to put the baby spiders. To set up this game, the large Mother spiders are placed on one side of the playing area. The small baby spiders are placed on another side. Each child gets a spider web mat. To play this game, children simply roll the die and take the number of small spiders designated by the number on the die. Play then continues to the next player. Once a player fills up his/her orange dots with 10 baby spiders, he/she trades them in for 1 big Mother spider and places it on the web. Then, players continue rolling the die, placing baby spiders on the orange dots, and trading them in for a Mother spider every time they have 10. The game may continue for as long as you wish. At the close of the game, scoring can be done in 2 different ways. For younger children, the player that has the most large Mother spiders, on their web mat, is the winner. If 2 players have an equal number of Mother spiders, then it comes down to the player with the most baby spiders to determine the winner. For older children, the winner is determined the same way, but players must count their Mother spiders by tens, add on their baby spiders by counting on by ones, and come up with a 2-digit number that represents their total. As the spider mats are laminated, children might also be asked to write down their 2-digit total on the web, with a dry erase marker, after all spiders have been removed. This game is nice, because it is multi-level, geared toward differentiated instruction, and can be used with a range of ages (preschoolers, kindergarteners, or 1st graders). Therefore, it can “grow” with children. As there are no written directions for this homemade game, you may want to copy and print this description if you purchase this item. This game would make an wonderful addition to a preschool, kindergarten, or 1st grade classroom! It would also be great to have in a household with young children! I am hoping to find it a good home.