Self Reflection Assessment

Hey everyone !

We are gearing up for Parent Teacher Conferences tomorrow and we wanted to share out a self reflection assessment that we use with our little ones!

This is a great way to get your little learners to self reflect.  This can be used multiple times a year to take a pulse of how your students are feeling. You can also use this self reflection assessment for Parent Teacher Conferences. It allows for the child's voice to be heard and cared for while discussing academic and social progress and needs.

The boxes allow them to draw and label a picture to answer the prompt or they can write a sentence too if they want as well.

You can find this as a FREE download on our TpT: Click Here :)

We really love using these self assessments and hearing what our little ones are thinking and feeling.
We hope you do too!

Enjoy! :)

S&C

Making Patterns

using unit cards and giant pattern blocks to create a "pattern train"

These are the giant magnetic blocks we're using:

Download FREE Pattern Block Unit Cards here!

Chrissa & Stefanie

Fair Snack

Kindergarten mathematicians compared their snack and tried making equal sets so the snack is FAIR!

"I have 3. I have less."
"I have 7. I have more."
"HOW CAN WE MAKE THE SNACK FAIR?"

The students tried several different strategies to make the snack equal. They worked so hard to make their math thinking clear on paper.

happy math!
C&S

Cutest Calendar Ever!

We decided to make our calendar a little fancier by adding our own pictures to the date cards! So much better than anything we could have bought or printed!

"What pictures could we draw for February?"

We watched some videos with months of the year songs and made a list of possible things we could draw: hearts, snowflakes, snowmen. We kept the list short.

Then each student got a white square, some with numbers penciled in so they could trace the correct number formation. They drew pictures and put it in the calendar pocket. (We forgot to make the 29 today, so someone will do it tomorrow.)

Tomorrow we'll also add the holidays, birthdays, and other special events for the month.

For March we'll try making a pattern with pictures.

Here are some of the months of year songs we downloaded from YouTube so they can be viewed at school since many sites are blocked.

How did we download the videos from YouTube?

*Go to the video you'd like to save and copy the URL.

*Go to www.keepvid.com. Paste the URL into the box and click Download.

*We like to save them to a flash drive or our Dropbox so we can view the videos on the school computer.

Have a great week!

Chrissa and Stefanie

Partner Reading Folders

Lego Have Some Fun

Chrissa just received 3 sets of Legos from DonorChoose. We're so excited to to make these for all of her classrooms!

Click on the links to download from other blogs! Please comment below with other resources you've found.

Lego Number Cards

Lego Pattern Cards

Lego Numbers and Counting

:)

Chrissa and Stefanie

Phonemic Awareness Songs

Here are just some of our favorite songs to develop phonemic awareness. We wish we knew who to give credit to!

*Just sing and have fun helping students focus on hearing and generating sounds, no need to put these on charts for them.

 Identifying Phonemes (change songs for first/last/middle sounds)

Tune: London Bridge is Falling Down

What’s the [first sound] that you hear,

that you hear, that you hear,

What’s the [first sound] that you hear,

that you hear in ___, ___, and ___ ? (show pictures or objects)

/ / is the [first sound] that we hear, that we hear, that we hear.

/ / is the [first sound] that we hear at the [beginning] of

___, ___, and ___.

Tune: Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Which sound comes first in these words:

five, fat and fish? (show pictures or objects)

/f/ is the first sound in these words:

five, fat and fish

With a /f/ /f/ here and /f/ /f/ there,

Here a /f/, there a /f/, everywhere a /f/ /f/

/f/ is the first sound in these words:

five, fat and fish

Tune: BINGO

There is a kid in our class whose name starts like this
/k/ /k/ /k/ /k/ /k/
/k/ /k/ /k/ /k/ /k/
/k/ /k/ /k/ /k/ /k/
And [his] name is Kyle
Kyle stand up, Kyle stand up, Kyle stand up and...

Jump, jump, jump!

Phoneme Blending

Tune: Frere Jacques

Put the sounds together.

Put the sounds together.

/c/ /a/ /t/

/c/ /a/ /t/

What’s the word we made?

What’s the word we made?

cat, cat, cat

Onset and Rime

(this is Chrissa's favorite...)

Tune: Do Your Ears Hang Low?

Can we sing this silly song?

Can we sing it all along?

Listen with your ear to the sounds you will hear.

I will say first sound and you will add the rime [/-ake/]

How many words can we make?

If I say /b/, you say ___.

If I say /c/, you say ___.

If I say /r/, you say ___.

If I say /f/, you say ___.

If I say /w/, you say ___.

If I say /sn/, you say ___.

etc.

Enjoy!
Chrissa & Stefanie