Tutoring Tuesdays - November 7th, 2017

Happy November! I bet those of you up north are enjoying the colorful leaves. Here in FL leaves don't change colors. My oak trees don't even lose their leaves until February.

Last week, I worked with the 2nd grader on some grammar that she was having some difficulty with in school. I understand why as even when I taught for many years we had such little time to teach grammar that we had to fly through it.

We started working on identifying nouns in a sentence using my Nouns Task Cards. We put it with my ghost game board to make it more fun. Land on a ghost go back to start. The game board can be purchased with my Ghost Sight Word Race. There are 24 cards in all and includes a recording sheet and answer key. Some have one noun and others have multiple nouns.

Next we worked on identifying the proper nouns in a sentence and correcting them by capitalizing it using my Proper Nouns Task Cards. This one I put with my Frankenstein game board. If you land on Frankenstein go back to start. The game board can be purchased with my Frankenstein Sight Word Race. There are 24 cards in all and includes a recording sheet and answer key. I had her correct them on a white board rather than use the recording sheet.

We finished by working on picking the correctly spelled plural noun in parentheses using my Plural Nouns Task Cards. I let her pick a game board and she picked the Zombies game board. That can be purchased with my Zombies Comparing Numbers to 1,000 Task Cards. The Plural Nouns Task Cards comes with 24 cards and includes a recording sheet and answer key. I laminated these cards and had her circle the correct plural noun.

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Favorite Halloween Songs

Halloween will be here soon.  I know many of you have fall themed parties, have storybook parades, and learn about pumpkins, bats, spiders, etc.  You also have to keep the academics moving along.  Children often though need a brain break of some sort.  My favorite kind of brain break in the classroom has always been music.  Check out these great songs from The Learning Station.

Frame from Ashley Hughes, Clip Art from Whimsy Teaching Resources

"Monster Shuffle" is perfect to get your students wiggles out!


"Five Little Pumpkins" is a short animated song that the little ones will be sure to love!


"Stirring Our Brew" is a song that will stir your students imagination. I could see this song leading to a writing assignment where children write about what they would put in their brew.

Other favorites include:
10 Little Monsters a fun counting song to 10 and back to 1.
Pumpkins, Witches, and Ghosts, which is another fun counting song to 10.
Scary Song that has fun young children friendly graphics.  It's a fun song perfect for a party or to play on repeat as children come to your house trick or treating!

Which Halloween song is your favorite?

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Kindergarten Math Centers

I hope that you caught my freebies the past two days.  On Sunday, I shared my October Behavior Notes and Monday I shared a Bucket Filling/Bucket Dipping Freebie.

Today is a FLASH FREEBIE of my newest product Kindergarten Halloween Math Centers and Worksheets.  These focus on patterns, sorting, and ordering numbers.  If you decide to download it all that I ask is that you leave kind feedback and a rating.  I would also love it if you would follow my blog and store.  The freebie will be up from 7pm Eastern until 9pm Eastern.  After that it will be set back to the original price of just $2!  Click the picture to get the freebie!

These fit the following Common Core Standards: 

K.CC.3 Counting & Cardinality Know number names and the count sequence.

K.MD.3

Measurement & Data Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.

3. Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. (My product only focuses on sorting not counting)

 I am surprised that patterns are not in the Common Core for Kindergarten anyway else notice this?  I didn't see it listed under first grade or second grade either.  I wonder why this is?  Anyway, I know many of you teach it so I do have a center with worksheet on patterns in this packet.

Be sure to chek back tomorrow for another freebie or flash freebie.  Thanks for hoppin' by Hopkins' Hoppin' Happenings.  Keep on smiling!