Track Your Common Core Lessons

Need to track when you taught the common core domain and strands?  Here is a great website that has forms  you can download and use or if you are a Google Docs user you can save in Google Docs and edit them there.

Here's a brief summary from the website:
"you need to help you keep track of the standards taught in your classroom.  Use these to make sure you are addressing all that you need to teach throughout the course of the school year.   Keep track of when you have introduced, retaught and assessed each indicator."

Here's the link:
http://www.thecurriculumcorner.com/2012/08/18/common-core-checklists/

The website has other great information and resources, too. This one just was so great I had to share.

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Student Center Activities & CCSS

Great activities and information aligned to the Common Core Standards can be found at the http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/SCA_CCSS_index.shtm  link.   They have them by grade level and the student activities are not only fun, but aligned to the CCSS!   Check them out today!!

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Candy Experiments!! Wow!

Candy Experiments... what could be sweeter!!   All candy, all the time!

http://www.candyexperiments.com/

These are simple, great experiments for all ages to perform, write about them and then while you are working on them, then eat or taste some of the experiment sources (please watch to not eat the experiments AFTER!).

A great website for Speech and Language (SLA) skills.  There are several sites and some really great information and it's free, too!!

http://www.playingwithwords365.com/2012/03/12-sites-where-i-get-free-therapy-materials/


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Links for studying ABC's

ABC Links I Love My ABC's - from Kinderkorner ABC Activities - activities and theme links for each letter of the alphabet ABC Ideas - ideas (with photos) for each letter at Little Giraffes Alphabet Review - from Teachers.nett Printable Alphabet Worksheets - free from Beginning Reading Alphabet Coloring Book - free printables from Alphabet Soup Alphabet Coloring Pages - from Crafts for Kids Chicka Chicka Boom Boom ABC Bingo Cards- free printables from Mrs. Bottom's K Class Chicka Chicka Boom Boom - from A to Z Teacher Stuff Chicka Chicka Boom Boom - lesson from Webbing Into  Literacy Chicka Chicka Boom Boom - from Teaching is a Work of  Heart Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Printables - free from Making Learning Fun Multiple Alphabet Crafts for Each Letter - from the Best Kids Booksite Printable Alphabet Materials - from First School Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Printables - from DLTK Mini ABC Books - free printables from DLTK ABC Printables - from ABC Teach Letter and Rhyme a Day - inside Hubbard's Cupboard Nursery Rhyme Links Nursery Rhyme Rhyme Printables - from First School Words to Nursery Rhymes -inside Hubbard's Cupboard Kindergarten Rhyme Time - activities for a family night - inside Hubbard's Cupboard Nursery Rhyme Coloring Sheets - printables from Henderson Police Department Nursery Rhymes: Tales to Live By - What can we learn from our favorite nursery rhymes? Stories From Rainbows Edge - In depth questions for nursery rhymes, printable nursery rhyme puzzles, etc.

Online Reading Websites...

Some free Listen to Reading websites we use are:

Barnes & Noble Online Storytime
Read to Me
Storyline Online
RIF Reading Planet

These are great for rotation centers, for enrichment for K/1 or Special Needs students. They are easy to navigate and take little time from the teacher. 

I would recommend, however, that a "shortcut" for each link be created so the students can double click and go. 

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