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How To Create A Stellar All About Me Presentation For Back-To-School Night

July 16, 2021 teachersbrain Back to School, Distance Learning, Teacher's Pay Teachers, Teaching Tips

It’s that time of year again! Time to start preparing for your back-to-school night or “Meet The Teacher” night. If you are looking for an easy and super quick way to make an “About Me” presentation that will wow your new students and their parents, I have you covered!

As many of you know, I love Google Slides. They are so versatile and easy to use in-person or online for virtual learning! You can easily personalize them and add your own flair without paying an extra cent on supplies. This makes them perfect for teachers looking to save on classroom spending.

With all of that in mind, I created this All About Me Presentation Google Slides resource to make your back-to-school night experience easy and stunning.

This All About Me resource comes with 13 slides that you can easily edit and personalize with your unique personality. The fun and colorful theme will help you make a great first impression!

After back-to-school night is complete, you can still use these templates for your Star Student! Just switch out your information and add student info for a fun and unique way for students to feel special!

Check out the video tutorial for how to use these Google Slides!

If you are looking for an easy print-and-go resource? You can easily print these! This resource also comes with a black and white version.

If you love Google Slides as much as I do, check out my post here on how to use them to create a virtual calendar for your Calendar Time this year!

You can also check out my Virtual Calendar Google Slides Templates here.

Looking for more back-to-school ideas, check out these classroom decor tips!

Alphabet Worksheets for Kindergarten

July 1, 2021 teachersbrain Teacher's Pay Teachers

The old saying practice makes perfect holds true when learning how to id letters and sounds! Worksheets, crafts, and games during the day help students learn these basic skills without them realizing they are learning! These letter worksheets are the first of many to come this month. Each packet focuses on one letter of the week. Included are printables for centers, three crafts, and a spinning game inside each resource all focused on the upper and lowercase letter. You will never have to scramble again for an activity with letters with these printables when the bundle is complete. The units for letter A and B are complete. Buy them individually or grab, the growing bundle at a DEEPLY discounted price. Every time a new unit is complete, you can re-download the bundle purchased to get the new units for free.

Each unit has 16 or more worksheets with 3 crafts that can be used for:

centers
whole group instruction
small group instruction
homework

Students love to learn with hands-on crafts, games, and printables that are engaging!

Each week in kindergarten we would do a “deep dive” learning about one letter for the week. Students listened to sound songs, read books, made mini books, worked on a craft for the letter during centers and I would send home practice worksheets so they could get more reinforcement with families.

A is for Alien

A is for Alligator

You can get the whole GROWING BUNDLE for all 26 letters of the alphabet!

Everything You Need To Survive Teaching Kindergarten

June 18, 2021 teachersbrain kindergarten survival, Teacher's Pay Teachers, Teaching Tips

It’s time to start preparing for the next school year! If you are a kindergarten teacher and you are ready to get ahead of the game this year and stop the lesson plan scramble once and for all, I have you covered.

I created a bundle that has everything you could possibly need to survive teaching kindergarten! You’ll get engaging activities to do with your students for every subject.

Here are the subjects included in this kindergarten bundle:

Monthly Writing Themed Journals
Morning Work Journals
Kindergarten Math Centers
Science
Social Studies
Guided Reading

Reading Curriculum

Teach students to read with these activities, lesson plans, and assessments over phonics, phonemic awareness, comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. Your students will be confident in their reading by the end of the year.

Math Centers

Who doesn’t love math centers? In this resource you’ll get tons of math centers that cover counting, numbers, sorting and classifying, addition within 5, measurement and data, word problems, graphs and data, 2D and 3D shapes, teen numbers, comparing numbers, addition to 10, subtraction to 10, telling time, and money. Every kindergarten math topic is included at a center with task cards or worksheets to use with manipulatives.

Science Activities

Teach your students the wonders of science with these fun lesson plans, activities, and assessments! Topics covered include the scientific method, five senses, state of matter, energy, sound, and light, force and motion, push and pull, day and night, animal life science, plants, real vs. make-believe, weather, and sun, moon, and earth.

Social Studies

Teach students about American history, geography, community helpers, civics and government, money, and needs vs. wants with these lesson plans, activities, and assessments.

Kindergarten Writing Prompts

Get your students comfortable with writing with a full year’s worth of writing journals. You’ll get one journal for each month with writing prompts for each day. Never search for a grade-appropriate writing prompt again! As a bonus, you’ll also get my silly story starters!

Kindergarten Morning Work

Create a class routine and simplify your mornings with morning work activities. In this bundle, you will get morning work for each day of the school year. Activities included are letters, numbers, math, sight words, and more!

This bundle truly has everything you need. All that is left for you to do is teach. Your students will love these fun and engaging activities and they will be meeting standards with ease.

Check it out here!

Want more kindergarten tips? Check out my post on how to have a stellar first day of kindergarten here!

Memorial Day Activities For Elementary

May 7, 2021 teachersbrain education, Teaching Tips, Writing

While some students may just see Memorial Day as a day off from school, it is a great time to teach them about Memorial Day and why we celebrate it. It is important for them to know about those who gave their lives while serving our country.

Here are some ways you can teach elementary students about Memorial Day in your classroom.

Start by giving them the definition. It seems simple, but this is something that not a lot of students know or understand.
Read a book about the holiday. Don’t Forget, God Bless Our Troops by Jill Biden and Raul Colon is a great book written by the First Lady.
Write a letter to a hero. If your students have any friends or family members that served they can write a letter to them. For other students you can have them write a letter to hero you select for them. This is a great way to give students perspective and a chance to express their gratitude.
Discuss the difference between Veterans Day and Memorial Day. On Veterans Day we celebrate those still living who served our country, on Memorial Day we celebrate those we lost.

My Memorial Day Writing Activity is the perfect addition to your lesson!

Perfect for students in first through third grade, you’ll get a variety of writing activities.

Included with this resource, you’ll get

an informational sheet about the holiday
acrostic poems with self rating systems
Home of the Free Because of the Brave printable
Informational writing planning page
Informational writing page
Thank you, Hero Letter
Thank You Letter
Posters for students to fill out
Poster about informative writing
Transitional words and phrases list
Word wall words
Rubric

You’ll get everything you need to get your students engaged in learning about our American heroes.

Looking for more teaching activities for May? Check out Mother’s Day ideas here!