Friday, October 24, 2014

I Should Have Been a Kindergarten Teacher



I think it's no secret how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE teaching preschool and kindergarten to my little ones.  Rylea and Dieter are such precious blessings to me and I've found a new love I never knew I had when we decided to homeschool!  I have not bought a curriculum to use with Rylea or Dieter this year, and I create almost all their worksheets and unit studies using my brain, PowerPoint and Google. :)  I opened a Teachers Pay Teachers store where I list all the stuff I make for the kiddos.  It's my prayer that it will help you as much as it has helped me!

Here's a look at the newest products I've made!  (Click on the pictures to go to the product in my store).

My best seller to date are my Primer and Pre-Primer Sight Word QR Code activities.  Rylea ADORES these worksheets.


You use a QR code reader on your smartphone or tablet to scan QR codes on a worksheet or on the mini posters.  The QR code reveals a sight word and the student records that word on their recording sheet.  This can be used as a write the room activity or as an individual assignment.  The little monsters are so cute!!  The pre-primer pack and the primer pack both include the entire Dolch sight word lists.

Rylea's completed worksheet for Set 1.
Another new addition to the shop are my new Sight Word Mania worksheets, and my Rainbow Writing Sight Words.



I made the rainbow writing sheets to satisfy Rylea's need for color and decoration.  She doodles on every worksheet she does.  She embellishes with hearts, dots, butterflies, ballerinas, and color.  She has such an amazing creative mind.



The Sight Word Mania sheets are born out of a need for something new for my girly with, again, lots of visual interest, and a bunch of different activities all bundled into one. She reads the word, traces the word, writes the word, spells the word, colors the word, and counts the number of syllables in the word.  Hopefully when she's done, she's got that word burned into her brain ;)


I have a FREE sample of these in my store here.  I hope you'll download it and leave me some feedback!  In fact, there's a bunch of freebies in the shop so go get them all! :)

I welcome suggestions and requests on new teaching products so feel free to shoot them at me!




Fall Fun and Photo Dump



I can't believe October is almost over!  We've been superbly busy around here.  Soccer season has finally come to a close.  I will miss watching Rylea and Dieter running around those fields with their teams!  What I won't miss is walking between two opposite fields with a 1 year old splitting time.  I'm definitely going to try harder to get them on the same team in the spring.  Now I get to hang up school papers with these cutie little magnets. :)


I signed up to bring soccer snack on the last day for Dieter's team.  I didn't want to go out and spend a bunch of money on stuff so I made some sugar cookies and icing and red sprinkles (we had all the ingredients on hand), made some cute little labels on the computer and stapled them to sandwich bags.


I still have the file I used for the labels, so if it will help anyone, I can share them here, just give me a shout. :)

In other news, school is going really well for my little guys.  Rylea is reading, and her fluency improves every day!  We're going over phonics rules now, and she's able to sound out most words we come across.  I can not express enough how thankful I am to be the one to be there when she has that light bulb reading moment.  She LOVES reading.  Math, on the other hand, is a struggle so I have to come up with creative ways to incorporate that into our day.  We're having so much fun learning and growing together.  

Rylea reading and copying the book "Go, Dog, Go!"

Dieter's handwriting has improved soooo much in the past 11 weeks of school.  He's taking his time now and really trying to please his Mommy Teacher.  He's a numbers guy.  All numbers, all the time.  He can do simple addition problems in his head, and he understands the concept of time yet he still confuses 's' with 'c' every.single.time.  I love to be able to see and know my kiddos strengths and weaknesses well.  

Dieter's handwriting sheet from 'Gg' week!
We're still learning a different Bible verse and story each week, and now, Daddy reads a Bible story to us on Sunday night and Mommy spends the rest of the week doing activities to go with that story.  I love that Daddy gets to still be the spiritual leader and authority over our family and this format is working really well.  We sorted the creation story this week.  You can find the free printable here, and you can find the Jesus Storybook Bible here.


We've also been doing a lot of art!  We decorated the house with construction paper bats during our bat unit.


We mixed and matched a skeleton, Frankenstein, and a scarecrow to make some funny monster decorations.





















We painted pumpkins!

So, as you can see, we've been keeping busy around here.  We're having a bunch of fun in this season of our lives and we're looking forward to the upcoming Holiday season!! :)
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