How do you use GLAD pictorials?

So this post is a little late for this year, but the idea is what counts :) Our grade level lends itself very well to using GLAD pictorials. I use them all the time! I just wish I could trace lightly enough so that my kids were actually tripped, but alas. The new thing for me is that last year I was introduced to having students create their own pictorials based on the teacher's. I tried it this year with the important historical figures we have been learning about and I was soooo impressed with the results! Mainly students copied my example, but they did such a good job and it really helped them review and choose the things they remembered to write in their pictorials. Here are a few examples, some unfinished, of Martin Luther King Jr. and Harriet Tubman.  We are in the process of putting them all together to form a book for each child. I'll let you know how they turn out. Aren't they so cute??!

Stamping sheet with T, C, N

After seeing the great stamping sheets that Fran over at Kindergarten Crayons created a whiiiiile back when we all bought those alphabet stamps from the Target Dollar Spot, I just had to create something for my kids to go stamping crazy, so here is my simple version. Students can choose to "play" this game once they complete their center activities, and of course they win a ticket if they complete both sides. On the front students simply stamp the name of each words. In this case it is words that begin with t, c, or n. Then on the back they must write a complete sentence with each of those words. Click here to get this free stamping recording sheet.



Initial Syllable Review Freebie!

My students are currently reviewing intial sounds in Spanish beginning with t, c, and n. I thought I would share one of the sorts that they have completed during centers. Just have students cut out the bottom portion and each picture, then glue under the correct intial syllable. It's great for Spanish language learners because they have to say the words and if they don't know it they have to ask some one else. Just click here to get the classifying t, c, n syllables sort. Hope it's useful!