Fifty Nifty Days of Learning

50 nifty days of learning or 50 nifty days of school is cause for a celebration!

It happens about this time of year depending upon when you started.

I have two new products for this special occasion!

The first is a bookmark!

 

50th Day of School for 50 Days of Learning Bookmarks! Color & Blackline

While it is a paid product in my store for all four versions,

I am posting two on here free just for my blog followers!

Enjoy! 

I have also added a song for the 50 days too! 

50th Day of School Song for the 50 Days of Learning

What a fun activity for the 50th Day of Learning or 50 Days of School!

There is a song poster, the number 10 poster and the letter posters that spell FIFTY. Also included is a cover sheet and directions. Each poster is 8 1/2 by 11 inches.

It is a great way to learn some letters of the alphabet and practice memory skills!

Assembly: Print the song poster, the 10 poster five times (if using) and the letter posters on heavy paper and laminate. The 10 poster can be printed out five times and placed back to back with the letter posters. Then they can be flipped during the song from the letter to the number 10.

Activity: Show the song poster and teach the song. Introduce the letter cards to go with the song. Pass the cards out to 5 students and as the letter is sung, the card is held up. Repeat until every student has had a chance to participate.

To make the activity harder, sing the song with flipping a letter to 10 for each verse and do a motion and/or sound instead.

For example, they sing F I F T Y for the first verse. Then turn the letter F over for the second verse and have the children sing and show ten fingers for 10 for the letter F. They would sing 10, I F T Y. The third verse would be 10, 10, F T Y. Do this until all the letters are turned over and the last verse is 10, 10, 10, 10, 10! The 5 number 10 posters add up to 50 and 5 sets of ten fingers add up to 50 fingers!

Download Preview in my store (link above) to see the complete activity.

 

Happy 50 Days!

Fall Fun!

The days are getting cooler and the sun goes down much earlier now. It is the beginning of the glorious season of fall and although the leaves are just starting to turn, it is a great time of year to curl up with a good book and read to or with a child.

 Here are Free! "FALL INTO A GOOD BOOK!" Bookmarks

for Back To School, Fall and Autumn to help you keep your place!

Color and Grayscale

Plus they like to have their own bookmark too!

 

This is a creative product for September leaves using “stuff” and glue.

Autumn/Fall Tree

 It includes two blank tree templates to be completely decorated into an autumn or fall tree. The tree should not just be colored, it needs something on it! Younger children enjoy doing it together with an adult, especially telling about their tree!

 The tree can be covered with whatever, but it must hopefully stay attached when hung up. Plus it shouldn’t be so heavy that it won’t stay taped to a wall.

Suggestions for stuff as decorations: glitter, pompoms, tissue paper, felt, foam,
sprinkles, colored rice, family pictures, beads, sequins, shells, feathers, flowers,
nature materials, sand, fabric, papers, foil, string, recycling materials, lace,
whatever stuff you have around the house.

 

I have seen so many beautiful ideas and they look wonderful hanging all around! The children love sharing their creations too! 

Enjoy!

Fall Y'all

The wonderful season of fall has just begun!

The trees are just starting to turn colors and I so love the more comfortable temperatures!

 

Here is a freebie bookmark to celebrate called

"FALL INTO A GOOD BOOK!" Bookmarks for Back To School, Fall and Autumn.

 There are two pages of bookmarks, one page is in color and the other is grayshades. They can be used to motivate reading with the words "FALL Into A Good Book!" The clipart is appropriate for a wide range of groups.

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Simply go to your TeacherspayTeachers Store, then the My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase or free download you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product.

Thank you for your feedback.

 

Enjoy!

 



New Activity, Free Back To School Bookmarks, Papers, Papers and More Papers

I love creating educational activities and products for children!

 

Being a former scrapbooker and cardmaker, sometimes I can mix the two ideas.

I have many lovely reams and bundles of papers!

Papers in glorious solid colors, plus beautiful designs, prints and

delightful holiday patterns!

 

When I created my newest activity

Fall Pumpkins and Leaves Number Matching Color or Black & White

which is 50% off for 48 more hours,

I was thinking about all those different papers and decided to have some fun with them!

 This activity is a great way to practice number matching with a fall theme of pumpkins and leaves! Just laminate and use over and over every year!

 Introduce or review the concepts of number matching. This activity can be used, even if only a few number concepts have been introduced. Then add the other pieces as they are learned.

Great center or group activity too! Download Preview to see the complete activity.

 

The product can be printed in color

or black and white to save on ink!

I printed the black and white set on bright colored cardstock.

I also ran them on some printed design papers just for fun! 

I love the extra touch added to the activity!

Cute, cute, cute!

I found you need to be careful about the design or printed papers,

some children will be too distracted by the print, while others will learn to

focus on the activity and tune out the designs.

 

I have a new FREEBIE that I am sharing for Back To School.

Free Back to School Bookmarks.

Color, black and white or shades of gray to color.

Make every child feel special !

Enjoy!

 



Easter Is On The Way!

We have taken down the shamrocks and put up the Easter goodies!

Bunnies and eggs are popping up everywhere!

 

This adorable little bunny makes the cutest bookmark! I have it as a freebie product in my

Christine Maxwell Hand to Heart TeacherpayTeachers Store! 

 Free! "SPRING INTO READING" Bookmarks for Easter or Spring

 

If you download this or any other activity from my store, I would love feedback!

 

To do this go to TeacherspayTeachers and on the top right side is a dropdown menu, go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login first). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for any product.

I truly appreciate all your feedback!

 

Some hands-on learning activities that I like to do during this time are: 

Easter Bunny Geometric Shape Rabbit

 It is used to introduce or review the four shapes, circle, square, triangle, rectangle,
 plus practice fine motor skills, cutting, gluing, and body awareness.

It has a variety of different activites and colors and creating the whole body or just the head!

For the little learners, it is best to just start with the head activity!

Here is a Preview of this product.

 I have two great interactive songs!

  Easter Song And Posters E-G-G-I-E Was His Name-O

 

Easter/Spring Song And Posters B-U-N-N-Y Was His Name-O

 What fun activities for the spring or Easter season. Sing to the tune "Bingo."
 It is a great way for tiny humans to learn some letters of the alphabet!

There is a song poster, an action poster and letter posters that spell the word, included is a cover sheet and directions. Each poster is 8 1/2 by 11 inches.

Introduce the song using the song poster. Pass the letter cards out and have the students participate with the singing. To make the activity harder sing the song with subtracting a letter for each verse and do a motion or sound instead. Laminate and use year after year!

 

This activity can be used even by a single child by having them point at the posters and do the motions.

 



Teaching Time!

Time is such an important concept to teach children,

since we use it 24 hours a day and 7 days a week for our entire life!

 

I have a free puzzle activity sample that includes a puzzle page of

matching time on the hour.

FREE! Puzzle Match Sample Pack

 

Practicing with a clock is the very best way to introduce the concept of time.

I have a paper clock included in all of my time products. These can be glued to a paper plate with the hands attached with a brad to allow them to move around the face of the clock.

 

The first puzzles set is for the hour and half hour clock times.



 Time Puzzles 1 Show Hour and Half Hour Practice Clock Included

 

 The second puzzle set is for the quarter hour and three quarter hour clock times.

Time Puzzles 2 Show Quarter and Three Quarter Hour Clock Included

 

The third product is a bundle to the first two sets at a discount price.

 Time Puzzles Bundle

 

The last product is one of my favorites. It is teaching about the concept of time using a watch!

Watches for Time Practice

 

These can be cutout, the hands fastened with brads and use Velcro to fasten the wristband.

 

Child love having their own watch!

Still Makes Me Smile!

 

World Read Aloud Day!

"LitWorld was founded in 2007 after Executive Director, Pam Allyn, renowned literacy educator and author, visited Kibera, an area of extreme poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. There, she experienced the urgent desire children had to read, write and share their stories, the barriers that stood in their way, and the amazing power of literacy to remove barriers.

Inspired after her first visit to Kibera, Pam returned to New York and mobilized a group of friends and leaders to join her in building a new movement founded on the belief that literacy is a universal human right. They created a movement designed not only to further basic literacy, but to further productive literacy defined by dreams that can come true.

 They have grown World Read Aloud Day from a simple call to action to a program that rallies over 18 million people online and over 1 million people across 100 countries through community events. People eagerly await the arrival of World Read Aloud Day and celebrate their innovative ways of taking action. From a girl in Haiti marching down her street with a sign advocating for her right to read, to the boy in Iowa hearing his favorite author read to his class over video chat, to a mother in the Philippines proudly listening to her daughter read aloud for the first time: 

This is the LitWorld story."

  Register for World Read Aloud Day

Mother's Day Ideas!

Here is a fun Mother's Day Song!

 

I also have T-shirt templates in my store that make great Mother's Day Cards! 

They come in two sizes and I have the front and backs versions of each.

Tee-rrific T-shirt Template and Blank Template

Feedback Is Always A Nice Reminder Of Why I Create Products And Activities!

The compliments were on my Winter Build A Name or Word Snowman

Sweet Goodbyes!

I am sharing a creative idea to end the day for little learners. It is a fun way to say 

goodbye using dessert words!

Goodbye Rhymes or Sayings Dessert Cards

There are 20 card pages with two dessert goodbyes on each sheet for 40 sentences, 4 goodbye sentences without desserts, the title page and a page of directions.

Assembly: Print the pages out on the front side only. The thicker the paper, the more durable they will be, then laminate if desired.

Cards: There are 40 goodbye dessert cards with words and pictures. There are two dessert card sentences to each sheet. These can be cut apart into two separate cards or simply keep them together. The name of the dessert is on each card with a rhyming word for leaving, goodbye, etc. 

Activity: When introducing the activity at the beginning of the year show the children the cards and explain what each dessert is. Read the sentences and discuss the meanings of the different words.

You can also decide or decide together if a movement or motion is to go with each card. For example, “You stroll, jellyroll.” could be a strolling step as they go out the door. “Give a shake, cupcake.” could be a shaking hands motion while leaving. Part of the fun is making up and creating an action that goes with each dessert! 

As the little learners practice the different cards and sayings they will be able to read them, plus they become a learned memory. They will also be able to pick and choose which dessert they might decide to be as they lineup and leave each day, plus doing their own movement or motion out the door!

As the little learners practice the different cards and sayings they will be able to read them, plus they become a learned memory. They will also be able to pick and choose which dessert they might decide to be as they enter each day or lineup and doing their own movement or motion! 

What dessert do they feel like today!

You can use as many or as few sentences as you would like, plus switch them around from time to time!

Another fun idea to share the different desserts during the year, especially for little ones that have never had or heard of certain desserts! Truly a special activity to share!

Enjoy!

 

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Thanksgiving Ideas!

The turkeys are coming! The turkeys are coming!

Do you have leftover mini pumpkins from Halloween?

A project I like to do with little people is to make them into Thanksgiving turkeys!

You can use ice cream sticks, popsicle sticks or tongue depressors cut in half for the head and tail feathers. The sticks can be colored with crayons or makers.

 

The littlest learners will need help getting the sticks into the pumpkins after coloring. A knife maybe needed to cut slits into the pumpkin to make it easier to push in the sticks.

They look cute sitting on the Thanksgiving dinner table!

I also have a variety of Thanksgiving ideas and activities on my
Pinterest Thanksgiving Board.

This paid product in my store has a variety of different colors and fonts.

Thanksgiving Turkey Handprint Poem and Keepsake

I am posting a free page version of this activity here!
Enjoy!



Teaching With A Theme Jungle or Zoo Ideas

Many excited children are gearing up to go back to school!

Teachers; classroom, homeschool, preschool, daycare, afterschool, roadschool or worldschool have been busy getting ready. Many use themes to greet, meet and teach in their educational environment.

 

The Jungle or Zoo theme is a fun one to use and I have a few ideas to share! 

This first day activity makes a wonderful keepsake!

Jungle Picture Frame Attachments For First Day, 100th Day, & Last Day Of School

Be sure and click the Preview to see the activity.

There are pieces for the First Day of School (shown), 100th Day of School, and Last Day of School. The quickest way to use this activity to put Velcro on the empty picture frame corners and on the back of the picture attachments. Then just add or change them as needed.

Print the activity out on one side only. The heavier the paper, the more durable it will be. Laminate and cut the pieces out. Decide what size empty picture frame you are going to use. The 8” by 10”, 11” by 14” or 16” by 20” are great sizes for these attachments.

Have the student hold the empty frame with the pictures attached, centered in front of their face and smile! You take their picture!

 

I do have many other

Picture Frame Attachment Themes!

 

I have a

Back To School Jungle Welcome Banner!

This colorful Welcome Banner can be used for a variety of ways,

Back To School is just one!

It is 8 1/2 by 11 inches, with the top being 11 inches.

There are 8 posters: W, e, l, c, o, m, e, ! and the cover page.

 

The daily

Jungle and Wild Animals Calendar Pieces Make Monthly Patterns

This is a gorgeous set of calendar pieces with a jungle or wild animal theme. These date cards can be mixed and matched to make a different pattern for

each month of the school year!

 Again, these can be used to make a colorful, fun, and repeating pattern for each month! For example, start the year with a simple pattern like monkey, elephant, monkey, elephant, repeat. As the year progresses make the pattern more difficult like, turtle, turtle, zebra, giraffe, giraffe, repeat. The difficulty depends on the ability of your students.

Please note there is not a background chart to place these pieces on. They work in pocket charts, on bulletin boards, walls, or create your own chart out of jungle scrapbook or wrapping paper.

 

As a math bulletin board or center I have

10 Little Jungle Friends Songs, Number Flashcards and 10 Puppets

There are self-checking puzzle pieces 0-10. Match the number of jungle animals to the correct number or number word. Several puzzle pieces say Jungle Friends for extra fun.

The songs are sung to the tune of "One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians." A song cards are included. One cards goes from 1 to 10 and the other card from 10-1.

The 10 animal characters can be made into puppets with popsicle or paint sticks attached. Magnets can also be stuck to the back to allow them to be attached to a magnetic surface. Add and subtract the animals while singing the song verses.

Print, laminate, cut apart, and use year after year!

 

This shared activity is

Math Jungle or Wild Animal Theme Skip Counting Color or Blackline

The child will cut the pieces apart on the dotted vertical lines. They must then count or skip count to place the pieces down in the correct order. If the counting is correct the animal pictures will be correct. The pictures can be colored.

 Here are pages  of the activity you can download!

Great for practicing cutting skills!
 

My last product is a set of posters!
 Jungle Position Word Posters Left, Right, Front and Back

Front, Back, Left and Right are the 4 words written and demonstrated by the

position of the giraffe.

Whatever your theme is.......enjoy and make each day special!