Mrs. Eby's Room

Skip Counting Fun

2012-02-11T06:50:00.000-08:00

We keep revisiting skip counting throughout the year. If your kids are like mine, some already have it and others are not there yet. These sets have a little something for everybody, I needed to have some extra supports for those still learning how to skip count and also wanted to challenge those who are ready for more. The kids really liked these so keep the lookout for more to come. Please feel free to grab yourself a copy.
:) Karen

You can download a copy here.

Have a great weekend! Karen :)

Roll and Color Sight Words

2012-01-28T06:26:00.000-08:00

Wow. It has been forever. Between my sweeties at school and my two little ones at home I have just not found the time to sit down and update my blog. I have been making lots of things for my classroom and thought I'd share a few new things that we have been doing.

Roll and Color Sight Words

roll and color sight words

We had been doing something similar with numbers in math and I thought, why not do this with our sight words. We tried it our last week and the kids really had fun - who doesn't like playing with dice! I have created a set that goes with the Rainbow Word groups that we use, which covers the pre primer dolch words. I have also included a blank template in the set that you can set up using words that would work for you. I don't know about you, but I spend a fortune in color ink and thought I could just do this in black and white. If your interested in a set in color that you could laminate and use in a center let me know - I can easily posts that as well.

Hope you your kids have fun. :) Karen

Scavenger Hunt

2011-08-14T18:22:00.000-07:00

We have Open House before school starts (school starts here Sept.6th) Each year I have the children do a scavenger hunt with their parents to help them get acquainted with the classroom. This year I've changed it up to go with a Pirate theme. Please feel free to grab yourself a copy. Scavenger Hunt Welcome note for scavenger HuntHave a great evening :) Karen

Word Searches for Sight Words

2011-08-13T17:43:00.000-07:00

I made word searches to go with my Rainbow Words that I use to teach the pre-primer dolch words. This is atemplate that you can use to make your own word searches.
The template can be grabbed here: Word Searches
I also have a completed set that goes with my Rainbow Word groups that you can download from my website here: rainbow word word searches (I tried to upload just a word doc to google docs but there were issues showing some of the fonts I used - sorry, I'm still new at this) but if your interested in the word doc you can download that from my website.
If you find something you can use it would be great if you could leave a comment or follow my blog? Hope you find something helpful :o) Karen

Letter Identification

2011-07-31T18:34:00.000-07:00

I have been working on some easy letter identification activities for my kids that come in not knowing their letters. This first set has very simple coloring and cut and match upper and lower case letter activities.

ABC color and cut activity set
Please feel free to click the above link to get this set.
I hope you can find this helpful.
Have a great evening.
Karen :)

Leader In Me

2011-07-29T17:48:00.000-07:00

We will be starting the Leader In Me process in my district next year. A part of this is to have Data Notebooks in which the children record personal and academic goals and to chart their progress toward these goals. These are a few pages I have created for our Kindergarten notebooks.

Please click on the links below to grab a copy of any of the pages if you can find them helpful (this is my first attempt at this so I hope the links work! :)
Number Assessment Letter Sounds Letter Identification

I would love to hear from anyone who's school is already involved in this great experience.

Karen :)

Back 2 School Bonanza Giveaway

2011-07-26T10:45:00.000-07:00

Wow - check this out:

The Back to School Bonanza is hosted on Erica Bohrer's First Grade site, it involves 12 different giveaways from 12 fantastic teachers! Check it out!

Back To School Bonanza

:) Karen

Fonts and Clip Art - oh my...

2011-07-21T11:49:00.000-07:00

I have a new addiction - and no, it is not the Target dollar spot (althogh that is also a problem for me.) I have been buying new clip art and alphabet font sets. I saw all these cute fonts and clip arts on various blogs and had to find it. There also some really great deals. Lettering Delights had some things for 50 cents and there were some really cute clip art sets at Scrappin Doddles on sale. Just wanted to share links to my favorites. If you have one let me know, I'm always on the lookout. :) Karen

Lettering Delights Scrappin Doodles

Thistlegirl Designs

Math Work Stations

2011-07-15T10:03:00.000-07:00

As I have begun to check out all of these amazing sites - I came across the following on Math Work Stations. She has amazing ideas and resources at Kindergarten Crayons - thanks Fran. Check out what she has for MWS Chapter 4. She also has many other terrific ideas - enjoy.

Birthday Freebies

2011-07-07T16:11:00.000-07:00

Donna, at Peace, Love and Learning is giving away an awesome and FREE :) Classroom Birthday Packet! Go visit her blog to learn how to get it!

2011-07-05T13:56:00.000-07:00

I have found so many amazing blogs over the last few weeks. It is awesome to see what other teachers are doing in their classrooms and so inspiring. I will continue to keep my website and continue with updates there - but thought this would be a great way to share the amazing blogs I find and also share what we are doing in our classroom. I will learning as I go -
:) Karen