FREE MISC. LESSON - "Build a Robot Game"

By Kathy Babineau
Grades K-4

Try this fun FREE Build a Robot Game!  Click HERE to access your free copy.  

To use this, print out all pages laminate (optional) and cut apart.  You will need dice to play this game, everything else is included!  This is fun to use on it's own or I like to use it in speech therapy groups to keep kids on task and motivated. 

Kids like the simple game format, and they can customize their own robots as they build them.  

If you like this, I have a large bundle of similar games including the following themes:

BUILD A SCARECROW GAME

BUILD A FLOWER GAME

BUILD A BUG GAME

BUILD A BEAR GAME

BUILD A LEPRECHAUN GAME

BUILD A BUNNY GAME

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Build a Bear Game

By Kathy Babineau
Grades K-4

Build a Bear Game

Easy activity that can be used with any small group as reinforcement or just for fun!

Fun to use as a game in small group speech/language therapy activities. After each student answers a question, or says their target sound correctly, he/she may roll the dice. The game can be used with any small group lesson. This set can also be used in independent center activities.

Set contains black and white mats, colorful bear parts (faces, bellies, arms and legs), directions, and a black and white dice poster showing players which pieces to pick up on their turns.

Super versatile and fun!

Kathy Babineau

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Build a Flower Game

By Kathy Babineau
Grades K-4

Build a Flower Game

Easy activity that can be used with any small group as reinforcement or just for fun!

Fun to use as a game in small group speech/language therapy activities. After each student answers a question, or says their target sound correctly, he/she may roll the dice. The game can be used with any small group lesson. This set can also be used in independent center activities.

Set contains black and white mats, colorful flower parts (stems, petals, centers and leaves), directions, and a black and white dice poster showing players which pieces to pick up on their turns.

Super versatile and fun!

Kathy Babineau

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Build a Bear Game

Fun ways to seize teachable moments this holiday season!

 

This is the season of abundance and gifts, with teachable moments everywhere we turn! From learning about how others celebrate the season, to having a true purpose for writing, discovering math concepts, and for those of us who teach in Catholic and Christian Schools, learning about the Nativity!

Learning about how others celebrate the season:

These photos were taken after kindergarten students read stories with their reading buddies about how different characters celebrate the holiday season. The buddies then found similarities and differences between their own holiday traditions!

 

The big buddies didn't know it at the time, but their little buddies had a surprise in store for them, because the holiday season is also a perfect time to show kids that...

We write for real purposes!

I have dedicated an entire blog post to this topic here, but will emphasize that I think we need to bring back the hand-written Christmas card tradition (or begin that tradition for other holidays). Do you remember the thrill of getting real mail? Writing a card, addressing it, putting the stamp on and mailing it? It meant something. Below are two free samples of Christmas cards with multiple levels of support for your earliest writers!

Math is everywhere during the holidays,

Here's a popular post and product about counting by two's with reindeer. I just added images to create toilet paper roll figures and / or crafts to the Big Christmas Bundle that make ideal manipulatives  acting out the 10 at the Sled Song / Storybook:

 

Santa stood at his sled and then he said "Come Dasher, come Dancer," so along came Dasher and Dancer, too! There were 2 at the sled and Santa said, "Come Prancer, come Vixen..."

Especially in patterns!

 

Ask kids to go on a pattern hunt throughout the classroom, through picture books or at home. Recreating and extending patterns using a variety of art mediums, on shaped paper, or with beads, cubes, building toys, etc. make exploring patterns so much fun!

Here are some fun and easy examples of how students duplicated some of the patterns they found!

Learning about the Nativity

Reading picture books are always a great way to introduce and review content and vocabulary with kids, and there are many wonderful stories about the First Christmas. Having themed costumes, toys, puppets handy are a great way to inspire dramatic play! Check out these amazing Nativity Education Ideas for Young Students on Pinterest!

 

The images used for these figures are a part of my Big Christmas Bundle. I laminated the color ones before taping them onto the rolls for durability, and the kids colored their own to take home! They really enjoy retelling the story of The First Christmas with these figures.

They also just can't believe it when they realize that these are the exact same characters from their very own readers! Little minds blown! lol

Happy holidays, everyone, and best wishes to you and your loved ones!
xo Ida Mae 
aka 

Related:

  

  

This fun cut-and-paste activity involves matching upper case Shepherds and lower case sheep! 

From Nativity: Read and Write and More!

5 ways to make sight-words memorable and fun - and Father's Day literacy links!

If you teach early readers and writers, you know as well as I do that the ability to remember sight words varies greatly among students. We know that it takes a variety of strategies to make sight words memorable for kids, and that the most successful strategies motivate them with large dose of F-U-N! Know what words are, that they are important, and LIKE them!

5 ways to make sight word learning memorable and fun:

1. BUILD A FOUNDATION: This is a job for all grown-ups in a child's life: ensure that kids know what words are, that they are important, and that they LIKE them. Better yet, find them USEFUL and sometimes HILARIOUS. Make sure kids see words in their environment, and see and hear adults using them in a positive way. In a nutshell, have fun conversations, encourage kids to speak for themselves, read stories together just for fun and praise efforts to develop oral or written language and reading, or pretending to read.
   
2. INTRODUCE and PRACTICE USING SIGHT WORDS IN CONTEXT: Words make sense and are more interesting when used in meaningful sentences, stories, and interesting facts. An engaged mind repeatedly exposed to the same little words = familiar words  



I did intend to make kids laugh with this reader (starring dads), but never expected the hysterics incited by this page, especially! 




3. WELL-PLACED and DESIGNED VISUALS:  Having an alphabetical, at-a-glance word wall for high-utility words is a must in a primary classroom. Students will wean themselves off it as it begins to take longer to find the word they need than to just visualize it from using it previously. Ideally, all students can clearly read the words from their desks, and similar words are in different colors (i.e. then, them, there) so that when a student finishes writing the word, it's the same word s/he started writing!
4. HANDS ON! Something magical happens when kids get to play with letters and words, and the possibilities are endless:
   • Of course, the magnetic letters!
   • When I taught Reading Recovery, I had salt tray in my room [I switched to sand or shaving cream in the winter because of dry skin!] Some of my colleagues used rice, flour, and small beans!
   • With clean paintbrushes, in good weather,paint on the walls of the school!
   • Sidewalk chalk never gets old (check with admin before creating a true Word Wall on the school wall - it doesn't always come off so easily)
   • Stamping or carving words into plasticene
   • Magnadoodles, mini white boards, chalkboards, or apps on tablets (more on this later!)
   • Lego / Duplo, blocks
   • sentence puzzles (familiar sentence, cut apart, with a model [if needed] to reassemble word by word - see image below)
   • word games - memory, sight-word bingo, sight-word Twister
5. FOOD! This, of course, comes with a disclaimer: I have never done this at school because of the risk of food allergies. My own kids loved this. My friends' kids, and the followers of my old blog did, too. This is one better left for home.  Here are some of the most popular foods used to make words from:
   • smarties and M&Ms
   • Cheerios
   • raisons and chocolate chips
   • goldfish crackers
   • celery and carrot sticks
   • cheese strings
   • bread / toast fingers

What activities do you use for sight-word fun in your classroom? I'd love to hear about them in the comments or on social media! Here are some more ideas on teaching early reading and writing.
Best wishes to all of you as you prepare for Father's Day and wrapping up the school year. I leave you with some no-prep printables, freebies and Father's Day links, until next time! 

Happy teaching!
Ida Mae 

A sample of pre-made sentence puzzles. Look for an upcoming post explaining them in greater detail!

Weaving Sculpture with holiday embellishments

Art Action - Laurie Carpenter

Grades 2-6

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weaving-Sculpture-Revised-with-simplified-options-and-holiday-embellishments-1124622

PROJECT OVERVIEW-PURPOSE: To provide the elementary student with a 2-dimensional basic weaving experience, followed by a " new twist " on this, when student experiments to creatively change the flat weaving into a paper sculpture.

OPTION #1: A detailed lesson plan requiring the student to use both art and math skills, as they create the entire project from scratch and on their own. (for the older student)

THEN IN OPTION #2: The lesson is simplified into an "easy-art" project using templates and patterns.

BOTH OPTIONS: Can be turned into a holiday project when seasonal embellishments are added. Students may use the templates provided, or create their own original ideas.

* A fun activity that does not require an art room... can be easily accomplished in the classroom or home school.

DOWNLOAD INCLUDES:
Lesson Plan for 3 projects
Printed student hand-out
Detailed step-by-step instructions and photos
Templates for simplified version
Motivational procedure
Bulletin Board ideas

Total Pages 12

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Math - "Proportional Relationship"

by Jenny Stafford
Grades 6th, 7th, 8th

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Included is an entire unit on proportional relationships. A complete list is given below:

7.RP.A.1
• Unit Rate Graphic Organizer $1.00
• 7.RP.A.1 Activity $2.00
• 7.RP.A.1 Worksheet $1.00
• Complex Fractions Worksheet $1.00
• Dividing Fractions Foldable $5.00

7.RP.A.2
• 7.RP.A.2 Worksheet $1.00
• 7.RP.A.2 Foldable $5.00
• Apple Activity $3.00
• Car Gas Activity $3.00
• Extra 7.RP.A.2 Worksheet $2.00
• Orange Activity $2.00
• Proportional Relationships Quiz $1.00

7.RP.A.3
• Discount Activity $1.00
• Discounts & Markup Activity $5.00
• Discounts & Sales Tax Activity $3.00
• Discounts Foldable $5.00
• Markup and Markdown Foldable $5.00
• Percent Increase and Decrease Worksheet $2.00
• Simple Interest Activity – Buying A Car $5.00
• Simple Interest Worksheet $2.00

Warm Ups (10) $5.00
• 7.RP.A.1
• 7.RP.A.2
• 7.RP.A.3
• Warm Up Template

Homework (7) $5.00
• 7.RP.A.1
• 7.RP.A.2
• 7.RP.A.3
• Homework Template

Exit Slips (10) $6.50
• 7.RP.A.1
• 7.RP.A.2
• 7.RP.A.3

Assessments 7.RP.A.1 – 7.RP.A.3 $6.50
• Pre-Test
• Post-Test
• 2 Vocabulary Quizzes

Total $78. Sale $45.

Total Pages: 100+

Answer Key: Included 

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End of Year Activity packet

 by Art Action - Laurie Carpenter

 Grades 1-5

 Art and language arts -integrated

 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/End-of-Year-Activities-Printables-Packet-1827259

  PROJECT OVERVIEW-PURPOSE: An Activity Packet of printables... Kids get to have fun at the end of the school year as they color, interact with each other, answer questions reflecting on their year and the Summer ahead. The packet will provide the elementary student with end of the year classroom activities that combine visual arts and language arts in a LanguageART lesson that teaches skills in both subject areas. This is done through challenging black and white printable coloring and work sheets.

Download includes:
Autograph pages for each grade level
10 printable worksheets
Lesson plan
Colored finished sample