Introduce your child to reading and writing with our Verbal Skills Workbooks. Through fun activities such as tracing and color-by-letter, our workbooks gradually introduce new concepts. The eye-catching illustrations and captivating content reinforce lessons and help children stay motivated, encouraging them to be lifelong readers and writers. This follow-up workbook to My Book of Simple Sentences aims to help children understand slightly more complicated sentences. By slowly introducing adjectives and showing children how to use them, this book aims to make children comfortable with such sentences as \"The happy fish swims.\"
Time to ditch the morning work and start social time! My students are much happier now that they have an opportunity to socialize and do fun morning tub activities.
Make your own braille alphabet tubs using print/braille blocks and tactile items from around your home.
It’s gooey , it’s gross and it’s green! It’s a swamp and this sensory play idea was a huge hit with both my 5 year old and my toddler. It was surprisingly easy to make and a great way to spend some chill time outside. Sensory play is so much more than squishing things it’s […]
We would all like to think we would never miss a day teaching our kiddos and I wish that were the case too! But there are always things each year that prevent us from being in the classroom, whether that is professional development, attending conferences, doctor appointments, staying home because we are sick or being at home with sick kiddos. I don't know about you, but since I usually didn't plan to be gone, I didn't have a great set of sub plans prepared. Then last year that changed. In October I missed over a week of school due to pneumonia. I felt so bad that I wasn't prepared well for a sub. I e-mailed our PE teacher and told her what videos I had that could be left for each grade, but I didn't have a great set of sub plans so that kids could really continue having meaningful music classes even in my absence: That February as my state music conference was approaching and I knew I would be out of school yet again, I decided to put together a set of sub plans that I could use again and again and that I wouldn't have to worry about preparing each time. I don't know about you, but when I am gone, there is not a certified music sub. Most of the subs I get are not comfortable singing with the kids, so I had to make sure that anything I planned were things they could be successful with. So here's a peek at what I came up with: An editable binder that includes: - Your daily schedule (a different page for each day) - Drills/Emergencies - Technology Available (and room to explain how to use it all) - Where to find Materials Needed (pencils, boards to write on, crayons, instruments, etc.) - Singing Games for Substitutes - list by grade level the singing games that your students know well enough to play with a student leader. - Student leaders - a place to list student leaders in each class who could lead singing games, rhythm games, etc. if the sub is not musically inclined. - Editable Seating Chart - A list of procedures, where to find things, drills, and pages to fill out how each grade/class did: - Printable forms for the sub to fill out what they did, any helpful students, and any behavior issues. - Singing games and directions for those games along with a CD of me singing those songs. Many of those could be used with multiple grade levels. - A list of student leaders for each class. These students might be in charge of leading a singing game or starting an "I have, who has rhythm game". - 5 different mini lessons that go along with children's literature for the music room. My kiddos did this one for the book "When You Wish Upon a Star" this week when I was teaching a workshop at our Learning Center. Find a FREE mini lesson for another book here. I love leaving these kinds of lessons for my students, especially when they have a CD to accompany the book, so the sub doesn't have to stress about singing the book. This is also a great time to introduce some composer books! - Games that they can play without any sub help (just a student leader) such as Post Office, I have, Who Has, Telephone Rhythm Games, and some of my rhythm races games. Now, when I need to be gone for whatever reason, I don't have to stress out because I already have a plan in place. With these singing games, children's literature lessons, and rhythm games, my I can always have something ready and when I need a sub in an emergency and I am not able to get sub plans ready the day before, a sub can look through everything and pick and choose which activities they feel comfortable with. It has been such a life saver. So I encourage you, put in a little time up front to create a sub tub. If want something that is already done for you and you just have to add your specific info, check out my sub tubs (with games and without games). Need a few freebies to fill your sub tub with? Check out my free children's literature mini lesson, as well as these other freebies that are great for subs: High/Low Ready, Set, Print worksheet samples (if your students are practicing high/low) Low Sol Ready, Set, Print worksheet samples (if your students are practicing low sol) Candy Corn Rhythm Races: dotted quarter eighth patterns Freeze Dance Freebie
Soapmakers often get asked about the use of lye in their soap. The fact is that lye is indeed used to make soap. While in many minds, “lye soap” brings up images of grandmas and washboa…
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These STEM cards activity task cards are a great way to incorporate STEM into the classroom. Students will love the challenge of building all sorts of shapes.
Time to ditch the morning work and start social time! My students are much happier now that they have an opportunity to socialize and do fun morning tub activities.
Welcome! "Attitude" original Collage Art Doll by inkspired http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/ Today we will be exploring Nursery Rhymes, specifically Rub-A-Dub-Dub Three Men in a Tub! I haven't done a nursery rhyme in a while, and they are such fun! from the book "Rub A Dub" as told by Kin Eagler, illustrated by Rob Gilbert The oldest versions that have been found (printed) have a different wording. See what you think! nursery books. Hey! rub-a-dub, ho! rub-a-dub, three maids in a tub, And who do you think were there? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker, And all of them gone to the fair. This version was printed in Massachusetts around 1825. The origins of this earliest version seem to be from a sideshow attraction at local fairs. The sideshow featured three maids in a tub who were presumably unclothed. It's possible that this rhyme made fun of the men who enjoyed visiting them! The Muppets' version! The first recorded version is in a Christmas Box published in London in 1798. By around 1830 the reference to maids was being removed from the versions printed in In 1842 James Orchard Halliwell collected this version: Rub a dub dub, Three men in a tub, And who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker, The candlestick maker. Turn them out, knaves all three. by Graham McKean Here is yet ANOTHER version, that is currently used today: Rub-a-dub-dub, Three men in a tub, And how do you think they got there? The butcher, the baker, The candlestick-maker, They all jumped out of a rotten potato, 'Twas enough to make a man stare. flickriver.com This nursery rhyme has been used by many different ad agencies to advertise, whether it is a product or a political theme or a change of view: Christian version, by the Christian Mother Goose, http://www.marjorieainsboroughdecker.com/ Can't you just imagine John Cleese as the Baker? :0) Who do you think the two other men should be? Let me know! Sometimes I think I am only writing to myself. You can easily leave a message on the blogspot to let me know someone is out there. embroidery design http://www.d-zignsinc.com/ Here's a fun version we might all enjoy learning: http://www.anorak-magazine.co.uk/ Here is a lovely vintage embroidery piece from 1952 - sheet music from http://www.freehandmusic.com/ http://www.nursery-rhymes.org/ That one is so silly, as 3 grown and dressed men are in the same tub! I do like the rubber ducky on the floor... Here is another funny one: Men in a tub by Roberta Baird at http://www.picturedashbook.com/ Of course, those men are actually in a teacup. It's fun to imagine what the waves would do however! Clever painting. vintage illustration, c.1907 Are you familiar with William Wegman? It all started with his dog, Fannie. She seemed to like having her picture taken. It has definitely snowballed since then! His photos now decorate entire books - I have "Cinderdogfella" that's not quite right, but if you look up 'William Wegman' you will find lists of his wonderful and whimsical books. Here is his version of 3 dogs men in a tub: by William Wegman and his dogs Here's a jolly tub of three: I found this happy illustration at http://www.bundanadia.blogspot.com/ I believe she is Indian? Someone tell me! These three fellows look like they better start bailing water, and throwing overboard anything extra! from http://www.rankopedia.com/ Those three look a little shifty, don't you agree? a wonderful egg I found at http://www.garland-holmes.com/ This next to last image is from the fantastic Scott Gustafson. His work is just wonderful! Please go to his website and see more of his paintings: http://www.scottgustafson.com/ Well, I think it is time to leave these three men to their fate. My last illustration is by Sundara Fawn: http://www.fineartamerica.com/ It's been totally fun for me to do a nursery rhyme again! No, I haven't forgotten the Meaning of Flowers, and the Flowers of the Month for August. I have been researching the Gladiolus, one of 2 flowers of the month for August. See you tomorrow! (I've been previewing pictures from Santa Fe - oooh I love my new camera!) Gladiolus Garden http://www.wellpromo.com/ inkspired http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/ [email protected] http://www.inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com/
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BATHS ARE THE BEST! The years I spent living in dorms I was much more upset about my lack of bathtub than about my inability to have pets, or my inability to make out with my boyfriend in peace, or my inability to afford anything. All I wanted most of the time was a nice bath. Happily, I've never NOT had a tub since leaving school -- and the tub I have now is very, very deep. But that doesn't mean I can't fantasize about the best part of my home; I like the cut of these tubs' jib.
A closer look shows that baths and bathing were actually quite common in the Middle Ages, but in a different way than one might expect.
No olvidéis que este domingo día 21 de julio de 2013 tenemos quedada lanera con "Les Liantes de la Troka", esta vez nos encontraremos en el PA&XOCOLATA de Sant Quirze del Vallès de 11h a 13h. Kedadas labores grupo Sabadell - St. Quirze
In 1945, the Incan ruins were still pristine and peaceful, not yet threatened by throngs of eager tourists.
How do you handle your early finishers? Over the years I’ve used TONS of different things – from brain bins to free time menus to B.A.T. Books {which I’m currently using!} If you’re looking for a no-pre activity for students to keep in his/her desk, grab this Free Time Fun menu! It’s simple to use! […]
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Believe it or not, we have finished Right Start Level A, and are starting in on Level B now. This little activity was in one of the first lessons of Level B as sort of a review for children moving from A to B. Little Bean had no problem completing this activity, and in fact it quite intrigued him, so I thought I'd post about it here. To do this activity you need: exactly 55 tally sticks (wooden craft sticks) and basic number cards 1 through 10. The child is to lay out the tally sticks to represent the numbers on the cards. If laid out correctly, the child will use all the tally sticks. Little Bean kept saying that there was no way he'd use such a large pile of sticks to complete the activity. It wasn't until he got to setting up nine and ten that he finally realized that indeed he would use all the sticks.
