Latest Pinterest faves

After obsessively pinning ideas for school, the house, my wardrobe and my hair over the school holidays I thought I might join in with Diving into Learning's monthly Pinterest Party and share some of my favourite things I came across.

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I like this idea for my Math groups and very easy to make up different mats for each theme.

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I am definitely planning to do this activity in a few weeks as part of our Minibeasts theme.

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I love this idea of cutting stickers in half and creating your own ladybug artworks.

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These are available for sale on etsy but I have felt and a sewing machine so I might just have to have a go at whipping up something similar for a post office themed home corner.

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Teacher Appreciation Sale

So I'm a bit late advertising this sale as it's halfway through it already but, over at TPT there's a lovely little sale going on.

I've got 20% off my products for the rest of today and tomorrow and for today only, TPT will throw in an extra 8% off on top if you use the code TAD13 at the checkout.

This means that you can get 28% off my two newest products that have just gone up this week! (As well as all my other products too of course.)

This Final Sounds Cut and Sort Booklet is just what you need in the Early Years to help consolidate your students learning.  And, bonus they get some extra cutting practice in as well.  The six pictures (there are two sets of pictures on each images page) are cut out and students have to work out what sound the word ends with, sorting it into the correct box in the booklet.

 So why don't you head on over and check out all the sales quick smart.  I just got myself some very awesome clipart packages from Little Red for a steal of a price, can't wait to put them to good use making more goodies for you all!

 

Five for Friday

1.  I've been in the classroom getting things ready for Monday, including spending a little bit of time procrastinating from filing by making these cute bottle top bugs for a memory game.  I got the idea here.  I used permanent marker and found it was scratching off the lids a bit so I coated the whole bug in PVA glue to seal it well.  Nothing quite like a cute free recycled classroom resource!

2.  I've been taking advantage of the extra time during school holidays to do a bit of baking.  Last week there was banana and oat bread, ANZAC biscuits and a pistachio plum cake and this week saw these delicious pikelets (which I may have scoffed all of by myself seeing as no one else was home this week!)

3.  As mentioned in my previous post, I've got the first in my series of Cut and Sort booklets up in my TPT store.  It's all about Medial Sounds.  I'm currently working on the Beginning and Ending sounds booklets as well.  Click on the image to check it out!

4.  I've got my board all ready to hang up and my classroom is freshly set up after getting brand new lino flooring and all ready to go as soon as I walk in on Monday morning.  Love that feeling of organisation!

5. Lastly, and best of all is that after hunting and searching through what felt like every Two Dollar Shop and Red Dot I drove past for over a month, I finally found some plastic bugs.  So I bought them ALL!

Cut and Sort Series

It's been a while since I've posted - I've been so busy enjoying my school holidays that blogging has fallen by the wayside a bit. 

I've had a relaxing holiday mostly, a bit of shopping for the classroom (and for me), catching up with friends for brekkie and lunch and I've lounged around reading four books.  I even managed to spend a bit of time tidying out some cupboards in the kitchen and outside catching up on weeding the garden!  A pretty well rounded holiday I think.

Of course, I've also spent some time working on my new TPT products.  I'm in the process of putting together a series of booklets to use during my literacy sessions. The first one I've finished is the Medial Sounds Cut and Sort Booklet.

I've worked a bit backwards, obviously in my Kindy classroom I'll be starting off with beginning sounds and then moving on to ending sounds before going to medial ones but this is just the way it panned out.  I'm hoping to have the other two booklet packages up in the next few days, in time for the Teacher Appreciation sale on TPT!

I'll be using the beginning sounds booklet this term.  We'll be cutting out the pictures in our fine motor skills activity time first thing in the morning and then later on in the day we'll be doing the sorting and gluing activity during our literacy centres.

This activity will be a consolidating one as we will also be doing this activity with objects beforehand, sorting them into hoops or having Mr Monster chomp the objects beginning with a particular sound.


I'm curious, what sort of activities do you do with your students to help them hear the sounds within words?