Alphabet Mats

It's been quite a while since I've written a blog post and I actually have a very good reason for that, haha!  Baby number two is well on his way!  Between morning sickness, chasing my toddler, and starting a new school year with a batch of new first graders, life has been crazy!  I'm super excited to share this new product though because I feel it is a powerful tool to help your cute kiddos get a better grasp on their knowledge of the alphabet!

These alphabet mats are available in both colored and black/white, ink-friendly versions.  You can print them out, laminate them if you like, and use them in so many different ways.  Here are a few ideas!

Use mini-erasers (the best ones come from the Target dollar spot!) to help students fill in the letters.  You could also laminate the pages and use a dry erase marker for repeated practice.

Break out the play dough and let students have a blast creating the letters or even making the objects pictured on the side of each mat!

Print out a black/white copy and let students use markers, stickers, etc. to decorate the mat, having so much fun while they add to their alphabet knowledge!

Honestly, the sky is the limit on fun manipulatives you can have children use!  I love these sparkly pom-poms!

Click HERE or on the image below to be taken to my Teachers Pay Teachers shop and grab this packet of alphabet mats for yourself!

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Halloween Number Handwriting {FREEBIE!}

Hey friends! I've noticed this interesting trend in my life. As my pregnant belly gets bigger my blogging gets more and more sparse. I'm doing my best, but, you know, what can you do? This precious little baby likes to sap mom's energy!

I'm excited today to share a fun little Halloween freebie that I hope can be useful to you. My kiddos always seem to need a little nudge or a bit of TLC when it comes to number formation.  We often overlook number formation what with the glaring light of correct letter formation in our faces, but both are important.  We want our students to be able to clearly convey the numerals that represent quantities.

SO, in an attempt to snatch some motivation out of the Halloween buzz running rampant in my school, I created this handwriting packet.  The pages run from 0-10 and include modeled formation, opportunities for independent practice, and images that convey quantity.

Click HERE or on any of the images to snag it for free!  

Happy Halloween!

  

   

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Hurray for Handwriting!

Heya!  I'm excited to announce a new packet today that's all to do with handwriting! Hurray!

I love handwriting and I love trying to come up with ways to motivate my students to have neat handwriting.  For one thing, when you can actually read what the little ones are trying to write it makes life a whole lot better, and for another, parents and those second grade teachers sure do love it when the first graders learn good handwriting practices!

This packet has lots of resources to teach good handwriting, practice good handwriting, and maintain that good handwriting!  We start with letter formation guides and oral prompts for all letters, capital and lowercase, and numbers 0-9. 

I plan to put these pages in page protectors so I can write on them with dry-erase marker, throw them all in a binder, and then use them to show letter formation.  I'm not allowing myself to go back into my classroom yet (2 more weeks!) or I would show you this.  I guess you'll just have to wait, but I'm sure you get the idea.  After I teach a letter I like to practice examples and non-examples on this.

Next up we have all of the resources you need to make a student handwriting book with practice pages of 2 kinds for each letter.

It is one thing to teach good handwriting from the beginning, and it is another thing to maintain it and keep the little darlings motivated to keep it!  

Enter...The Handwriting Fairy!  

Oh my goodness, my friend the Handwriting Fairy has worked her magic in my class so many times and my kids are always ecstatically excited about it.  All I do is I leave one of these little reward notes out on a desk of a deserving student with a little treat and dash of glitter.  

This instantly improves the handwriting of the entire class!  See, magic!  I've also included a few Handwriting Fairy motivation posters so the kids know what our magical friend is looking for. Here are a few of them...

                       

So there you have it! 135 pages of handwriting joy!  Grab it here or click on the picture below. It will be on sale throughout the rest of this week!  Happy Teaching!

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Hurray for Handwriting!

Heya!  I'm excited to announce a new packet today that's all to do with handwriting! Hurray!

I love handwriting and I love trying to come up with ways to motivate my students to have neat handwriting.  For one thing, when you can actually read what the little ones are trying to write it makes life a whole lot better, and for another, parents and those second grade teachers sure do love it when the first graders learn good handwriting practices!

This packet has lots of resources to teach good handwriting, practice good handwriting, and maintain that good handwriting!  We start with letter formation guides and oral prompts for all letters, capital and lowercase, and numbers 0-9. 

I plan to put these pages in page protectors so I can write on them with dry-erase marker, throw them all in a binder, and then use them to show letter formation.  I'm not allowing myself to go back into my classroom yet (2 more weeks!) or I would show you this.  I guess you'll just have to wait, but I'm sure you get the idea.  After I teach a letter I like to practice examples and non-examples on this.

Next up we have all of the resources you need to make a student handwriting book with practice pages of 2 kinds for each letter.

It is one thing to teach good handwriting from the beginning, and it is another thing to maintain it and keep the little darlings motivated to keep it!  

Enter...The Handwriting Fairy!  

Oh my goodness, my friend the Handwriting Fairy has worked her magic in my class so many times and my kids are always ecstatically excited about it.  All I do is I leave one of these little reward notes out on a desk of a deserving student with a little treat and dash of glitter.  

This instantly improves the handwriting of the entire class!  See, magic!  I've also included a few Handwriting Fairy motivation posters so the kids know what our magical friend is looking for. Here are a few of them...

                       

So there you have it! 135 pages of handwriting joy!  Grab it here or click on the picture below. It will be on sale throughout the rest of this week!  Happy Teaching!

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