Summer Project

Finicial Literacy, Dramatic Play

and Classroom Economy?

Through the help of Donor's Choose, pre-k pages,

and The Vanguard Firm; 

I am planning on incorporating a

classroom economy next year. 

Last year, I introduced the first part - dramatic play pizza shop. 

This year I plan to use a classroom economy based on

behavior and classroom jobs.  Students will be able to use

their earnings in the dramatic play stores instead of "buying" prizes.

Classroom Economy ideas from the Vanguard Firm (click HERE)

Classroom economy blogs (click HERE and HERE)

Printables for dramatic play stores (click HERE and HERE)

Grocery store printables and food (click HERE and HERE)

Some pics of pizza shop from last year:



March

Our school writes letters to students who are attending the prom.

My coworker (Mrs. Bartlett) came up with the card idea
 and I added the face.  I think they turned out 2 cute!

Calendar Markers from Bridges Math program:

Calendar Book from Aloha Kindergarten:

We made these last Friday despite

school dismissing early for bad weather:

Goldilocks Freebie

Freebie to use with SF Reading Street 4.4

Condensed Calendar Book

 

Our February Calendar:

(We use craft sticks to mark the end of a unit in our pattern)

New Calendar Book:

I haven't used a calendar book this year

because of time constraints in my schedule.

I am now using calendar pages from

Aloha Kindergarten.  They are more condensed.

(I tweaked it a little to fit my needs)

My student's have been working on toss the chips

and arrangements from SF Investigations this week. 

We added shark addition from HeidiSongs.  They loved it!

They used a plain piece of paper

for recording their answers.

Super Kids

We have been working for months on blending (sounding out)

CVC words.  I still had 2 kiddos that were having trouble.

All of my students knew their sounds but couldn't put the

sounds together.  On Friday's blending test all of my students finally

understood the concept.  We still have work to do as they did

not all score a 100 percent, but everyone knew how to blend and

not guess.  Major milestone!  I am so proud of my k kids.

Thanks to all who posted ideas on how to help teach blending!

Reading 911







Symptoms:

Despite knowing letter sounds, some students are still

struggling with putting the sounds together to blend words.

Prescription:

1.  Small group materials - Julie Van Alst's TpT store - click here.

2.  Ideas from HeidiSongs blog - click here.

3.  Blend ladders from Confessions of a Homeschooler - click here.

*Julie Van Alst also has parent kits available. 

They can be purchased from her website here.