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How Do You Feel Emotions Feelings Activity

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This quick and fun activity helps the children build their feelings vocabulary! Great for morning meeting, this activity gives your students a chance to check in emotionally. Place the cards in a pocket chart and give students a mini popsicle stick

Subjects:

Vocabulary, School Counseling, Back to School

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

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Activities

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FREE Transition Songs for Lining Up

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Transition Songs for Lining Up - 14 easy to sing songs for lining up! Great classroom management tool! A fun song naturally cuts down on chatter and negative line behavior. It's hard to talk when you're busy singing! I hope these songs make your

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Back to School

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

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Activities, Songs, Printables

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Dinosaur Word Wall Cards

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here are the word wall cards I use for my Dinosaur theme. I glue them to a poster board, decorate it with dinosaur stickers and laminate it for durability. My students then use it to help them with their writing! This is especially good for my ELL

Subjects:

Science, Writing

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Word Walls

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Turkey Disguise Homework Project

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Turkey Disguise Homework Project: This is the letter I send home for our November Turkey in Disguise Homework Project. My students and their families always come up with such creative ideas! I hope your students enjoy it as much as mine always do!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Other (Arts), Thanksgiving

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Homework

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Back To School Raccoon Rhyming Game

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Back To School Raccoon Rhymes: a fun matching activity for phonological awareness! Students match the rhyming pictures and then complete a cut & paste worksheet! These cards can be used in small group or as an independent center. These cards are

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Back to School

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

CCSS:

RF.K.2, RF.K.2a

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St. Patrick's Day Activities Leprechaun Visit and Traps

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

St. Patrick's Day Leprechaun Visit: Here's a how-to guide for pulling off a magical leprechaun visit to your classroom! With 3 writing prompts, a parent letter for a leprechaun trap, scavenger hunt clues and lots of tips for creating "magic" in the

Subjects:

Creative Writing, St. Patrick's Day

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Homework

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FREE Spring Bunny Color By Sum Activity

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a fun little freebie for Spring or Easter (no religious symbols are present)! Your students can practice their addition facts and then get some fine motor practice coloring the picture according to the code! I've included two versions - one

Subjects:

Math, Arithmetic, Easter

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Centers

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FREE School Supply Labels

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Need help organizing your classroom? These labels print 30 to a page (Avery 5160 Template) and are a perfect way to label drawers so that all of your supplies are easily found!You May Also Like:• How Do We Go Home? Emergent Reader, Song, Graph &

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For All Subjects

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

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Printables

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Spring Insects CCVC Word Game

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This is a fun game to play with your students to reinforce reading those CCVC words! Playing this whole group game gives your students fun extra practice with reading words with beginning consonant blends. There are 32 cards in the game so there are

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Spring

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Games

CCSS:

RF.K.3, RF.K.3a, RF.K.4, RF.1.3, RF.1.4

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Little Miss Muffet Emergent Reader Nursery Rhyme

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This sample is from my Nursery Rhyme Literacy Pack. It includes all of the activities for the Little Miss Muffet nursery rhyme! Learning nursery rhymes is easy and engaging with these activities - great for shared reading, or a poetry unit too!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Poetry

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Printables, Literature Circles, Centers

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Digraphs Read & Write the Room Activity

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This is a Fox themed literacy game to encourage fluency with initial digraphs! This Read the Room activity will have your students practicing reading and writing digraphs words in a fun way! This goes great with the "What Does The Fox Say"

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Spelling

Grades:

1^st

Types:

Activities, Flash Cards, Centers

CCSS:

RF.1.3a

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Procedures For The First Days Of School

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a jumping off point for you to use when thinking of your classroom procedures. Clear and specific procedures are a major component of effective classroom management. I've included 9 different procedures that I use in my classroom. This is a

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Back to School

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

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PowerPoint Presentations, Handouts

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FREE Songs to Use for Lining Up

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Rhyming Songs and Chants for Lining Up: 14 brightly colored rhyming sngs for transitions! Use these songs for lining up your class, and getting them quiet and ready for the hall! I've compiled these rhymes to use during transitions to help studnets

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Back to School

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Songs, Printables

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Supply Labels for Back To School Night

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Back To School Supply Labels: These labels are for your Back To School night and/or the first day of school when parents are bringing in their student's school supplies. If you put these 20 labels on bins, parents can sort the supplies into the

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Back to School, For All Subjects

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Printables, Classroom Forms, For Parents

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Read and Write the Room with ou/ow Dipthongs

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a fun freebie for your students to practice reading and writing ou/ow words. Corresponds to the spelling words for "Tippy-toe Chick, Go!" and "Mole and the Baby Bird" from Scott Foresman's 1st grade Reading Street series. Related Products•

Subjects:

Reading, Spelling, Spring

Grades:

1^st

Types:

Activities, Flash Cards, Centers

CCSS:

RF.1.3g

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Basic Addition Read & Write the Room

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a fun Read & Write the Room Math activity that corresponds to Common Core 1.OA.6. Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. AND K.OA.5. Fluently add and subtract within 5. Come by my blog,

Subjects:

Math, Basic Operations, Back to School

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Centers

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FREE Groundhog Day Class Graph and Response Sheet

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a fun class graph activity centered around predicting what the groundhog will say on February 2nd! Talk about whether the groundhog will see his shadow or not, and then have students place their prediction on the graph!Includes:full color

Subjects:

Math, Winter

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities

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Groundhog Day Roll And Cover Addition and Subtraction Game

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Groundhog Day Addition and Subtraction games for math centers! Celebrating the Groundhog Day? Your students will love learning addition and subtraction with these groundhog themed game boards - perfect for math centers! All you need are dice and

Subjects:

Math, Arithmetic, Basic Operations

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

CCSS:

K.OA.A.5, 1.OA.C.6

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FREE Love Splat Craftivity

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

Here's a fun craftivity to go along with the book "Love Splat" by Rob Scotton. It is perfect for Valentine's Day! You can incorporate some writing too by having your students write on Splat's heart. My students are going to be writing their own 4

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Arts & Music, Valentine's Day

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities

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Gingerbread Man Graphing Activity

By Herding Kats in Kindergarten

This is a free math center activity. Students spin and graph the gingerbread cookie images and then fill out a matching recording sheet. Its a fun way to get students practicing graphing! If you enjoy this freebie please follow my store and visit

Subjects:

Math, Graphing, Winter

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

FREE

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I've taught Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st grade in a Title I school for several years. I create my materials to suit the needs of my students - to challenge my high achievers and support those that need more practice in a skill. I also create for my early childhood colleagues - to fill needs in their classrooms!

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Hands on learning and exploration through play!

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won 1st place in the Playmobil Teachers Grant Program for 2011. (go to this site to see my winning lesson: http://store.playmobilusa.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-US-Site/en_US/Link-Page?cid=GEWINNER_TEACHERS_GRANT_2011)

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Bachelor's in Early Childhood Education Master's in Literacy

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