Have you been trying to maximize the technology in your classroom? I certainly have. That's why I was so excited to find the Homer Learning app for my kindergartners! In this episode we get to talk to Michelle and Peggy of Homer Learning about the app and about the importance of listening and telling stories to the development of reading. You won't want to miss this one!

Michelle Lazarow is the Learning Theory Production Manager for HOMER, which means she bridges the gap between the HOMER Learning Team and Content Teams, while working on the production schedule for lessons and stories. Before starting at HOMER, Michelle taught preschool in New York City for many years, in both general ed classrooms as well working as an ABA therapist for children with Autism. She has a masters from Bank Street College of Education in Special and General Early Childhood Education, as well as a masters from New York University in Digital Media Design for Education. Michelle has always been fascinated with educational television and technology, and loves using her educational background to make HOMER the best educational product it can be. 

Peggy Kaye is the Cheif Curriculum Officer at Homer, which means she designed the Homer approach to teaching foundational reading skills to young children. She began her career as a classroom teacher, but for the last 30 years, she has been a private tutor working with children who have a wide range of learning challenges. In addition, she is the author of the "Games For" series of books, which includes Games for Reading and Games for Writing.  

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In this week's podcast we talk about the importance of part/whole mathematical relationships and some activities you can try with your students to help them develop this important concept.

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Want to work on Part/Whole Number relationships with your students? Here are some free activities for you!

Help your students grasp the concept of part/part whole relationships using puzzles.

A Free Game: Learning to Count on!

Inspired by our own December stress, we're podcasting today about ways that we as teachers can take care of ourselves. We hope that all of you take some time this holiday season to get some rest and reward yourselves for the amazing work that you do!

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Snowman Thematic Unit

The Snowman cross-curricular unit is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, science, independent practice, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. Your students will think learning is "snow fun!"

This complete Snowman Unit is filled with games and activities that your classroom or homeschool students will love, and will offer you numerous curriculum options that will tie academic learning to a snowman theme.

Table of Contents

Literacy Activities:

• Snowman Spill: Automaticy of Lowercase Letter Sounds

• Snowman Match-up: Matching Letters and Sounds

• Build a Snowman: Blending and Segmenting Words

• Snowman Melt: Reading High Frequency Words

• Snowman Melt: Identifying Alphabet letters

• Draw a Snowman: Reviewing Early Phonics and Phonological Skills

• My Favorite Things: Identifying Medial Sounds

• Beginning Sounds: Identifying and Writing Beginning Sounds

• A-Z: Fluently Connecting Dots From a-z.

• Writing the Alphabet A-Z and a-z: Practicing Alphabet Letter Formation

Math Activities:

• Snowball Fight: Comparing Numbers

• The Snowman's Buttons: Decomposing Numbers

• Snowman Sets: Joining Sets Using a 10 Frame Strategy

• Snowman Sums: Making a Sum of 10 Using an Unknown and a KnowN Addend With Visual Representation.

• Symmetry Snowman: Symmetry Activity

• Snowman Puzzles: Using Geometric Shapes to Construct a Snowman

• The Tallest Snowman: Measurement

• Snowman Number Hunt: Matching Quantity and Numerals

• Math Journal Prompt (Labels): Joining Sets

Guided Reading Books

• The Snowmen (Level B)

• The Snowmen (Level C)

Writing Prompts/Word Wall

• My Snowman

• How To Build a Snowman

• Snowman Word Wall

• Snowman Label-it (3 Levels)

Science

• The Melting Snowman: Observing States of Matter

• Science Journal Page: Why does the sun melt the snowman?

Art Projects

• Snowman Gallery Art Show

• Marshmallow Snowman

• Shape Snowman

• Painted Snowman Portfolio Sample

Songs

• Five Little Snowmen

• I'm a Little Snowman

• Drawing a Snowman

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Writing Center Resources for Winter

Are you looking for engaging writing activities that can be set up in your permanent writing, phonics, word work, literacy center, writing work station, or literacy centers by any name? You will be so excited about this time-saving easy to differentiate resource!

Simply set up your space, and change monthly or thematically to meet your needs. Click on the preview above to see the anchor cards included and idea for classroom set up. Find out more about setting up a writing center here.Contents Include:

• Can Have Are Labels & Worksheets

• Write a Story Task Card

• Write a Story Worksheets

• Label-It Task Card

• Label-It Student Worksheets

• Make a List Task Card

• Make a List Student Worksheet

• Make a List Word Wall

• Write The Room Task Card- Sight Words

• Write the Room Word Cards

• Write the Room Task Card- Alphabet

• Write the Room Word Cards

• Write the Room Worksheets

• Backwards Words Task Card

• Backwards Words Worksheets

• Backwards Word Word Cards

• QR Words/Letters Task Card

• QR Words/Letters Worksheets

• QR Sight Words

• QR Alphabet Letters

• Writing CVC Words

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Students will read more quickly and effectively when given appropriate strategies for reading and instructed how to match those strategies to each reading situation. There are many important strategies to learn. This set focuses on the strategies that will enhance student reading during Guided Reading experiences.

This set includes strategy cards that you can use in your classroom to remind students of the strategies as you learn them. Also included are posters that you can use to teach each strategy. Print the posters on large paper if possible and display them where the class can see them. If you are using them in a whole group lesson you can print smaller versions. Each poster is followed by a lesson plan that will help you teach each reading strategy.

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Happy New Year Thematic Unit is filled with Curriculum Essentials for Math, Literacy, and More: Featuring Clocks, Calendar and New Year's Fun

New Year unit is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, independent practice, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. 

Literacy Activities:

New Year Lotto: Matching Upper & Lowercase Letters

The Party Palace: Blending & Segmenting Words

Happy New Year: Naming Letter Sounds

New Year Raceway: Reading Sightwords Fluently

Math Activities:

New Year Clocks: Matching Time to The Hour

Moving Hands: Manipulating a Clock to Tell Time

New Year's Bear Party: Joining Groups of Objects

Happy Friday Dance: Constructing & Using a Calendar

Countdown: Counting Backwards From a Given Number 0-20

Independent Practice

New Year Balloons: Reading Color Words

What Time Is It? Reading Analog Clocks and Writing Times Digitally

Fix The Clock: Drawing Hands on an Analog Clock

Firework Number Match: Matching Numerals 11-20 to a 10+Number

January Calendar: Trace & Write Numerals

Party Time: Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters

Art Projects

Party Hat & Streamers

Cone New Year's Hat

Baby New Year/GrandFather Time Flip-it

Writing Prompts/Word Wall

Happy New Year

What Will Happen This Year?

Happy New Year Word Wall

Songs/Fingerplays

A New Year

Months of the Year Song

Days of the Week Song

Guided Reading Books

Happy New Year

Tick Tock

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Parents, do you need some strategies for reading with your child at home? Teachers, do you need some ideas to send home with students to maximize their reading time with their parents? In this podcast we will address some of the things that parents can do at home with their children during reading time to maximize their skills.

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Bear theme guided readers make learning to read fun and engaging! Kids LOVE these paper bear themed books!

Offering students a paper book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for the guided reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. Plus your kiddos will love them!

Six Books (appx. Leveled B-E) include:

My Teddy Bear

The Brown Bear

Little Bear and Friends

Bear Facts

Color Bears

The Three Bears

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Christmas Themed Guided Readers to Read and Color! 

Offering students a "paper" book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for the guided reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. Students love these delightful stories that are ready to read on their level. The clip art is delightful!

Contents

Merry Christmas

Presents From Santa

The North Pole

Run Gingerbread Man Run!

The Christmas Train

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Fall theme emergent readers make learning to read fun and engaging. Using real books is an easy way to apply science of reading and standards!

Offering students a paper book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for the guided reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. Kids LOVE these paper fall themed books!

This set includes:

1. Falling Leaves

2. The Autumn Leaves

3. Autumn

4. Colors of Fall

5. One Potato

6. Potato Song

*Please check out our Halloween Emergent Readers for more fall fun!

Do you have students who just don't seem to be "getting it"? Perhaps the problem is their working memory. Today we'll discuss activities and strategies you can use to build your student's working memory, giving them the ability to better store the information they are being taught.

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Kathy Tuchman Glass, a consultant and master teacher, is an accomplished author and former classroom teacher with more than twenty-five years of experience in education. She provides customized professional development services to K–12 educators with a focus on areas concerning curriculum and instruction. Among her many topics are differentiated instruction, standards work around English language arts, literacy, instructional strategies and teaching methods across content areas, assessments and rubrics, curriculum mapping, and backward planning for unit and lesson design.

Kathy is invested in increasing educators’ capacity to hone their craft and translate what she teaches to effective classroom practice. An author and dynamic, hands-on trainer, she provides professional development that educators can implement immediately to make a difference in students’ learning.

Kathy earned a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a master’s degree in education from San Francisco State University. Originally a Midwesterner, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and continues to hold a current teaching credential. You can learn more about Kathy by visiting her website.

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Kathy has graciously shared these great resources with us to help us get started planning our writing units!

You can also try out one of our many writing center quick kits!

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Nine great writing center activity based worksheets.

Your classroom or homeschool students will love to write using these engaging independent writing practice activities. Easy to set up, easy to use, impactful and engaging!

Activities Include: 

Label The Astronaut -- Anchor Chart

Label The Astronaut Worksheets

The Astronaut: Can, Has, Is -- Anchor Chart

The Astronaut: Can, Has, Is Student Worksheet

Write About Astronauts Worksheets (Can, Has, Is)

Label-It I Can -- Anchor Chart

Label-It Student Worksheets

Make a List I Can -- Anchor ChartChart

Make a List Student Worksheet

Out In Space Word Wall

Write a Story I Can -- Anchor Chart

Write a Story Prompt Worksheets

Write The Room -- Anchor Chart

Write The Room Worksheet

Write The Room Word Cards

Alien Words -- Anchor Chart

Alien (Mirror) Words

CVC Words Anchor Chart

CVC Picture Cards

CVC Worksheet

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Are you looking for some great writing activities, ready to print and go!

My students love these "Folk-Tale" based writing activities. Complete with "I Can- Task Cards."

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You will love this way to get kids writing!! You can use these as a permanent writing center, as worksheets, as literacy centers, or more... We offer this writing product in many themes!

Writing Activities Included in this set:

Can Have Are Labels & Worksheets
Write a Story Task Card
Write a Story Worksheets
Label-It Task Card
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Make a List Task Card
Make a List Student Worksheet
Make a List Word Wall
Write The Room Task Card- Sight Words
Write the Room Word Cards
Write the Room Task Card- Alphabet
Write the Room Word Cards
Write the Room Worksheets
Backwards Words Task Card
Backwards Words Worksheets
Backwards Word Word Cards
QR Words/Letters Task Card
QR Words/Letters Worksheets
QR Sight Words
QR Alphabet Letters

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Dr. Jean Feldman’s noteworthy educational career has spanned more than 40 years. She has served as a classroom teacher, instructor of adults, author, and consultant. She is a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the National Kindergarten Alliance, and the International Reading Association. Dr. Feldman’s list of degrees include a B.A. from the University of Georgia, a D.A.S.T. from Emory University, and both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia State University. Dr. Feldman inspires teachers across the country with her engaging songs and creative activities that help make teaching and learning FUN!

You can learn more about Dr. Jean by visiting her website, her blog, or her new "Happies" blog. She has so many great resources available there!

If you enjoy the podcast and can review us on iTunes that would be amazing of you! We really appreciate your reviews as they help us continue to make the podcast and help other teachers to find us. 

Kindergarten Kiosk is a proud member of the Education Podcast Network, a network of podcasts for educators by educators. Check out the other great podcasts!