I used this kind of system to encourage my young son (quite a few years ago 🙂  ) to come downstairs each morning dressed and ready for school.  He had a picture of icecream and earned a choice of icecream for the family’s dessert. Much better than resorting to nagging.
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A Great Beginner Resource
I stumbled on this great site for early learning – letters, sight words and numbers.
All you need is a good printer and this site!

Authentic Writing AssignmentÂ
Good old fashioned letter writing… I asked my students to send something inspirational to themselves or write a letter to their parents. They practiced writing an address then we walked to the mailbox and sent out the letters. This is what one student sent to his parents – I think he’s a genius 😄
Modified History
My student made the game from the Fur Traders book in the Robert Livesey History Series. These books are full of activities. Neat activities.
Also pictured is a Donna Ward book that keeps it simple and provides short reading passages with questions.
More Data Collecting
 These ideas were great for data collecting at Teachers Pay Teachers (free).
My students visited JK and SK and recorded their data.  Then they used the website Create a Graph from Kids Zone to play around with different graphs using the data.  It was great for getting across the different ways you can represent your information AND it was fun!

















