This free teacher planner is *jam packed* with helpful schedule and organization pages, sanity saving planning sheets and inspiring covers you’ll use all year long. Snag your set and then hop over and request your invite to our VIP teachers’ club, The Plato Pack, so you can get 24/7 access to THOUSANDS of playful, ready-to-use centers, teaching tools and trainings that will help you have LESS stress and MORE progress this year. Teacher Planner CoversInside the colorful lesson plan book, you’ll find eleven bright and bold covers. Pick a favorite, click the grey text box to type in your name, and print it out. Easy peasy. Organization PagesThe teacher planner also includes tons of sheets to keep you super organized from day one. And my favorite part is that the pages are editable! You’ll even get several different options of planning sheets so you can pick one that’s the best fit for your daily schedule – from four subjects all the way up to eight. Peek Inside the PlannerWant to check out the freebie before you download it? The teacher planner includes…. PLANNING PAGES Lesson plan pages for 4-8 subjects Monthly calendars STUDENT ORGANIZATION Assignment checklists Leveled reading lists Student notes Family communication log Student password lists CLASS ORGANIZATION Small groupings Parent volunteers Teacher passwords Meeting notes …. And so much more!To make it easy for you to put the teacher planner together, I included an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide for you. Once you’re finished printing, organize everything in a 3-ring binder or have it spiral bound at school or at a local office supply store like Staples or Office Depot. Voila! You’re ready for another awesome school year. Note: You’ll need to download the free font pack HERE to make the editable fields format correctly. See It in ActionGrab Your CopyLet’s get organized! Snag your set and then hop over and request your invite to our VIP teachers’ club, The Plato Pack, so you can get 24/7 access to THOUSANDS of playful, ready-to-use centers your students will beg to repeat PLUS exclusive bonuses and teaching tools you won’t find anywhere else. The post Free Teacher Planner appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/teacher-planner/
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One of the best ways to get kids ready for kindergarten is to read stories out loud together. That’s why I was excited to team up with one of my favorite printable designers, Carli at Dimple Prints, and share a list of 50 of our favorite children’s books to read before kindergarten. These titles include classics like Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?, plus newer books including Olivia (the most adorable pig on the planet!) Books to Read Before KindergartenChildren will LOVE these books and you will too. We promise! If you’re a parent, post the list on your fridge and order a handful of titles from the library every week. They make a great family bucket list. If you’re a teacher, print the checklist front to back and send it home to your students’ families. It’s a simple way to encourage reading! We hope you enjoy reading these books to read before kindergarten! Happy reading! Grab Your ChecklistReady to start reading?! Click the blue button below to download your list of 50 must-read books and then hop over and check out the 5 things every kindergartener needs to know on their first day of school. The post 50 Books to Read Before Kindergarten appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/books-to-read-before-kindergarten/ Just when kids have finally mastered letter sounds, along come tricky digraphs like CH-, TH- and SH- to trip them up again. These ten digraph activities make it fun to master the most common digraphs in words: CH, CK, KN, NG, PH, QU, SH, TH, and WH. Grab your set in our shop or on Teachers Pay Teachers! Digraph Activities: Peek InsideReady for some serious digraph fun?! These 10 hands-on activities make learning engaging for kids. The pack includes 10 colorful posters to use when you introduce digraphs or to post on the wall as a handy visual reminder for kids to refer to later. Kids complete three playful activity flap books. They practice identifying digraphs with 45 clip cards, and clip and sort pictures into the correct column. Children play Digraph Bingo with a class set of game boards. Students grab a card, say the word out loud and write it next to the matching number. That’s not all – there’s still more digraph activities! They also color by digraph, and they mark the correct spelling of each word. They blast into space and name digraph words along their journey. They zip along a monster path, And so much more. These digraph activities are a must for the classroom! Grab Your SetReady to play?! Download your set in our shop or on Teachers Pay Teachers! The post Digraph Activities appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/digraph-activities/ This ABC game is sure to be a hit with firemen fans. Just grab a pack of brightly colored index cards, a water sprayer and a fireman’s outfit {if you have one} and you’re ready to spray. The ABC game has become a must-play in our house and I hope it will be a favorite with your kids, too. Getting ReadyTo prep the ABC game, I stacked several of the cards on top of each other and used my scissors to shape flames. Then, I wrote one alphabet letter on each card. (I decided to use lowercase letters this time around but you could play the same game with uppercase letters instead.) I placed a roll of tape on the back of each letter and spread the flames out on our fence like this: ABC Game: Fireman SprayThen, it was time to invite my 3.5 year-old over to play our fun ABC game. C quickly pulled on our fireman outfit and filled his water shooter with water from our kiddie pool. He was ready and excited for his first challenge. Using a call-to-action kind of voice, I announced that the letter (r) was on fire. C needed to use his water shooter to put out the flames as quickly as possible. He hurriedly searched the cards to find the matching letter and then doused it. I called out several more letters for him to spray before we started working on some other ABC skills including:
Our ABC game was a huge hit with my son, and I hope your kids will enjoy playing it, too. More ABC FunContinue the fun with our print and play Alphabet Activity Pack! The post Fireman ABC Spray Game appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/abc-fireman-spray/ Wondering how to get your kids ready for kindergarten? Just print this list of 10 fun preschool activities, post it on your fridge and start getting ready for school (below). T he simple prep ideas are fun for kids and stress free for grown ups. Gotta’ love that combo! Get Ready for Kindergarten!The freebie is great for teachers who need an easy handout for families and parents who need a go-to list of fun ways to help their child prepare for their kindergarten year. Download your copy here. Find MoreWant to help your child with math, reading and fine motor work? Check out our Ultimate Preschool Activity Pack filled with fun, printable and educational activities. The post 10 Simple Ways to Get Ready for Kindergarten appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/get-ready-for-kindergarten/ Ready to add a little seasonal fun way to your literacy centers? This adorable CVC pumpkin patch activity is the perfect way for students to learn and practice short vowel sounds. Scroll below to grab your freebie and then make sure to hop over and snag our Pumpkin CVC Puzzles for even more fall fun! Getting ReadyPrepping the CVC activity was super simple! I printed the colorful pumpkin patch activity on white cardstock and then ran all the cards through the laminator to ensure durability. I wanted to be able to use the center year after year! Next, I cut out all the short vowel picture cards and placed them in a storage container. Viola! Prep was done. CVC Pumpkin Patch ActivitySince we were still working on short vowel sounds, I decided to introduce the activity with a small group. On a flat surface, I laid out all five short vowel pumpkin patch cards and placed the pumpkin picture cards in a pile to the side. Note: Depending on the level of your kids, you may only what to use one short vowel pumpkin patch card at a time. Together, we reviewed each short vowel sound by saying the vowel sound on each mat. Then, the first student picked up the pumpkin picture card with the hen on it. She read the word out loud: “Hen /h/ /e/ /n/.” I asked her what vowel sound the word had in it. She said “/e/”, pointed to the short e pumpkin patch and placed the hen card on it. Then, I had the entire group stretch out the word hen to listen for the /e/ sound and confirm that it belonged in the short e pumpkin patch. We went around the small group table repeating this process until all the picture cards were placed on the correct short vowel pumpkin patch cards. The kids loved practicing their short vowel sounds with this fun pumpkin patch CVC activity! Snag the FreebieScroll below to snag your freebie and then make sure to hop over and grab our Fall Sight Word Dash for even more reading fun! The post CVC Pumpkin Patch Activity appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/cvc-pumpkin-patch-activity/ I am just NUTS about this acorn roll & cover math game! Students will love racing to see if they can cover all of the acorns on their board first. Your young mathematicians will be having so much fun they won’t even know they are practicing counting, subitizing, and adding at the same time. Scroll below to grab your freebie and then hop over and grab our Acorn Alphabet Match for even more fall fun! Getting ReadyTo prepare the game, I printed the game board on white cardstock to give it extra durability. (You can print it in either color or, if you want to save ink, black and white.) Then, I grabbed two dice and a bucket of gems kids could use for counting. That’s it! We were math game ready! Acorn Roll & Cover Math GameTo begin, I demonstrated how a turn would go by rolling the two dice at the same time and then adding (or counting) the number rolled. Starting in a circle, the first student went. She rolled a 4 and a 1 and quickly determined that the sum was 5 by saying out loud “Four plus one equals five.” She searched the game board until she found the acorn with the number five on it and covered it with a gem. Then, it was time for the next child’s turn. He rolled a 4 and a 3. With a little bit of help, he decided the sum was 7 and said, ” Four and three makes seven.” He proudly found the number 7 acorn and covered it with a gem. The game was on! We continued playing until all the acorns on the board had been covered. This acorn math game was so simple and motivating! Grab Your DownloadReady for some acorn roll and cover?! Just click the button below to grab your FREE download and then hop over and snag some fall counting puzzles for even more math fun! The post Acorn Roll and Cover appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/acorn-roll-and-cover/ Science Technology Engineering and Math {STEM} activities are fun ways to teach kids how things work. This straw bridge activity takes just a few minutes to prep but will keep young engineers learning for hours. Who can build the strongest bridge? Find out! This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Building Straw BridgesTo give the kids a strong introduction to bridge design, we started our activity by reading Carol Johmann’s Bridges! together as a class. Then, we talked about five popular types of bridges: arch, beam, suspension, cable-stay and truss. As we reviewed the characteristics of each one, I drew a simple anchor chart kids could refer to when they were designing their bridges later. Then, I placed students into teams of three or four and gave each group a tray of supplies:
Their task was simple: build a bridge that was strong enough to hold a plastic cup filled with 100 pennies. They could cut the straws to any length, but their bridges had to sit at least one inch off the table. Some teams succeeded and some failed, but either way, it was impressive to watch their problem solving and teamwork. They loved observing what worked for other groups and then incorporating it into their own designs. Printable STEM ChallengesFill your STEM center with our HUGE collection of STEM challenge packs! Build famous landmarks with LEGOS, use toothpicks and playdough to make 2D and 3D shapes and so much more! The post STEM Straw Bridges appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/stem-project-straw-bridges/ Most students need plenty of practice learning sight words before they stick, but thankfully we can make all of that hard work fun for kids this fall with a playful apple sight word match! It’s a motivating, hands-on sight word game for kindergarten and first grade students. Whether you are introducing the sight words or wanting your students to review them, this resource will be perfect for you! Getting ReadyPrepping the apple sight word match was so easy! I just printed the resource on card stock and laminated it so that the cards could be reused time and time again. Next, I simply cut the pieces apart with a paper cutter and we were ready to go! Note: Apple Sight Word Match contains 42 different sight words for students to review. Each sight word is printed twice: once on an apple and once on a seed. Apple Sight Word MatchStudents started the activity by placing all of the pieces on a table. It didn’t matter whether they chose an apple or seed card first, but this student picked up an apple card with the sight word “blue” written on it. I always encourage my students to say the sight word out loud. This allows them some more exposure to the sight words, thus helping them retain it. Students then sorted through all of the puzzle pieces looking for the seed that had the matching sight word. Once the student found the correct pair, she placed it next to the apple card. This student found the “blue” card and matched the two together. She pushed the completed pair off to the side to clear her work space and the next player grabbed a new card. Students continued matching sight word pairs until every card had been claimed. Simple and fun! Grab Your SetReady for your free set?! Click the blue download button below to grab your puzzles now and then hop over and snag our Apple Race graphing game and Apple Addition Cards, too! The post Apple Sight Word Match appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/apple-sight-word-match/ Pumpkin spice, cinnamon apple and mulled cider – we love the scents of fall and just couldn’t get enough of this warm and cozy autumn-scented salt dough recipe. This dough takes a mere minutes to mix up and is the perfect, no-fail recipe for little chefs to make. Autumn-Scented Salt Dough RecipeTo prep, we first gathered our ingredients:
Making the Salt DoughThis recipe is fairly forgiving, so if you’re able to embrace the mess, it’s a great way for little ones to practice measuring, leveling and mixing. To make the dough my 3 year-old, Q, simply added the flour, salt, cinnamon and allspice to a large bowl and whisked until combined. For most of the spices, I had Q measure them so he could practice. For the cinnamon, he just wanted to shake it out and since it’s not a precise recipe that was a-ok. Once all the dry ingredient were added from the salt dough recipe, Q measured and mixed in the water. He then mixed the dough with a spoon as best as he could until it was just too hard. We dumped it on the already flour-covered table and kneaded it until well combined. The dough should be soft and pliable but not sticky. If it is, add a little flour at a time and knead it until it no longer sticks to the table. We then divided the dough into 4 sections, one for each fall color, and added the cloves and a touch more cinnamon to color the brown dough. We added ginger and yellow food color for the yellow dough, and just added the food color for the red and orange dough. It ended up taking quite a bit of red and orange food color to get a nice vibrant color. Baking the Salt DoughI had grand plans of making a cute spicy scented leaf garland for our mantle, but apparently my kiddos have a mind of their own. They both wanted to make cinnamon and ginger cookies to sell in their pretend bakery. Who was I to get in the way?! My 5 year-old rolled and cut out several dozen different shapes while my 3 year-old simply liked to pat the dough flat with his hands to make his leaves. The thicker the dough, the longer it takes to dry so keep this in mind when deciding what to make. I showed my daughter how to use a small straw from a juice box to punch a hole in the leaves in case she wanted to hang them (perhaps on a garland) after she was done playing bakery. Once all the leaves were cut and transferred to a baking sheet, we baked them at 140 degrees for a couple hours, turning them halfway through. No matter how tempted you are to speed up the drying process by raising the temperature, don’t do it. It will cause your dough to puff up and even bubble. The lower and slower you go, the more even they bake. Once dry, my daughter wanted to embellish her cookies with a bit of glue and glitter “sprinkles.”I have a feeling we won’t be making a garland anytime soon. The salt dough recipe was the perfect activity for a fall day! The Ultimate Fall Playdough RecipesAdd even more fun to your fall bucket list and whip up a batch of our super squishy, no fail fall playdough or try our sweet apple pie playdough recipe! The post Autumn Spiced Salt Dough Recipe appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/autumn-spiced-salt-dough/ |
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