WELCOME NOTE

Back to school is just a few short weeks away for many of my friends, The beginning of the school year can be such a fun, but busy time.
 

Though it’s not a new beginning for me (My school academic year goes from April to March), I  thought of sharing, want I have in my pocket with you as timesaving Ideas.

                                              Welcome Kit

Here is a "Welcome Kit" that will win the hearts of children and parents!

• Cotton ball
• Hershey's kiss
• sticker
• rubber band
• penny
• tissue
• gold star
• toothpick
• band aid
• gold thread
• eraser
• Life Saver

Place the items listed above in a gift sack along with the note below:

"Welcome to your new classroom. Each item in this bag has a special meaning for you!"

• The cotton ball is to remind you that this room is full of kind words and warm feelings.
• The chocolate kiss is to remind you that I care about you.
• The sticker is to remind you that we will all need to stick together and help each other.
• The rubber band is to remind you to hug someone.
• The penny is to remind you that you are valuable and special.
• The tissue is to remind you to help dry someone's tears.
• The star is to remind you to shine and always try your best.
• The toothpick is to remind you to "pick out" the good qualities in your classmates and yourself!
• The bandage is to remind you to heal hurt feelings in your friends and yourself.
• The gold thread is to remind you that friendship ties our hearts together.
• The eraser is to remind you that everyone makes mistakes, and that is okay.
• The Life Saver is to remind you that you can come to me if you need someone to help you.

I can't take credit for this welcome kit ; This was the kit my niece got from her teacher.

Here's my welcome note, which I prepared .Put the note with a kit and send it to the parents the first day of school.

Click  here to download this welcome note

 

I hope you have a wonderful start of the

 new school year,

and may God bless you with a sensational class.

 

 

Wait for more Back to School freebies!!!!

 

 

 

 

DAYS OF THE WEEK

Days of the Week is an important lesson in which kids will be introduced to the names and sequence of the seven days of the week. There are many activities to teach this lesson.

 

I made these flashcards/word walls and the chart for my children.

 

 It will be easy to begin with the song about days of the week, while using these cards and the chart. Children simply need to hear the names and order of the days of the week over and over until they can recite these themselves. Then children will understand that there seven days in a week, and every day is important to us in day to day life.



 

 

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Kindergarten-Days of the week by Nilangi Vithanage

Kindergarten-Days of the week by Nilangi Vithanage

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2 LETTER SIGHT WORDS

Sight Words are some of the most frequently used words in the English language. Teaching Sight Words as early as possible is considered an important part of learning to read. These sight words will increase children’s confidence and fluency in their reading. There are many ways that help children to learn sight words.

First I broke them into groups having one letter, 2 letters, 3 letters, 4 letters and finally 5 letters or more.Each group has been given seperate color frame so that easy to remember them.
 

 2 LETTER SIGHT WORDS with yellow frame 
 

 

 

These can be used as flashcards or word walls.

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Kindergarten -2 letter beginner Sight Words by Nilangi Vithanage

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WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY

We are celebrating world environment day every year with different activities.

 

Coloring is the one of the activities, which we do to make them understand the important of this day

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Kindergarten Coloring -World Enviroment Day by Nilangi Vithanage

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FLOWERS COLORING

To teach that flowers are in different colors

 

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Flower's Coloring by Nilangi Vithanage


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RED COLOR SONG

  

Once red color was my color, under the color theme for display boards. I have selected this song and taught children to sing using different objects which song says. They learned it very fast and I couldn’t get them to stop singing it.

 

Displayboard on red color theme here


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Kindergarten Nursey Rhymes/Songs-Red Color song by Nilangi Vithanage

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WORKSHEET 3

 

 

In matching numbers worksheets children need to count the objects and then match the numbers with it. Match the numbers with the objects help the kids to practice counting. First read the number in mind and then count the objects to match with the correct one. Draw a line to match the number to the exact object. Kids can use color pencil to make the worksheet colorful.

NUMBERS 1-5

 

 

 

        

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                                Kindergarten Maths worksheets 3- Match the following by Nilangi Vithanage

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WORKSHEET 2

After completing counting and writing numbers 1-5 in the class following worksheets will be used for further practice

Directions: Count the pictures and write the number

 

 

 

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Kindergarten maths worksheet 1 -Count and Write by Nilangi Vithanage
Kindergarten maths worksheets 2-Count and Write by Nilangi Vithanage

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WORKSHEET 1

This MATHS WORKSHEET can be used for  the FRUIT LESSON to find what is the most popular fruit in the class?

Children will learn:-

*to count OR count and write(How many like apples?)

*to work as a group.(each child will get a chance to mark,which fruit she/he likes.Sheet will be more colorful by using diffrent colors )






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My Favourite Fruit by Nilangiv


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YUMMY ....YUMMY

                              

 

Learning about fruits is one of the interest lessons among the kids. Eat fruits to stay healthy is the idea behind this lesson.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students will:-

• identify the names of fruits
• learn which fruits grow on a tree, on a vine, or in the ground.
• describe each fruit by its physical attributes
• understand that  the fruits are the part of a healthy diet, supplying essential vitamins and minerals that all we need.

        We do many activities for a week to enhance the knowledge on this topic

• Select 10 common fruits                

 

 

                      

• Arrange samples of those fruits (Real, Plastic or cut outs of fruits) to introduce each fruit.

 
• Ask kids, the name of each food, discuss the physical attributes of each (color, shape, texture, taste, etc.), and discuss how each fruit grows (on a tree, on a vine, and in the ground)

LANGUAGE

· Let kids learn to recognize the fruit’s names using flash cards .These flash cards are mend to teach kids how the words are written and how the fruits look

MATHEMATICS

  

• Ask the Kids what their favourite fruit is. Create a chart that shows everyone’s favourite. Then count what the most favourite fruit is. Hang the chart on the wall.

SCIENCE

• Provide kids with different types of fruits. Some examples are Mango, watermelon, apple, and grapes, and ask to sort out them as one seed, few seeds or many seeds.

 

COLOURING

• Teach about colours of the fruits with colouring pages (Red Apples, Bananas are yellow in colour)

MUSIC

• Sing a song for each fruit. (Thanks for Rhyme4Kids, These songs are easy to sing)

CRAFTS

·         Fruit Print- Kids use fruits to create prints. They dip fruits into paint and stamp them onto paper in random or ordered patterns

·         Fruit paper collage

·         Fingerprint fruits

 

*       Kids wear hats decorated with plastic fruits
                         

                         
                 

                

EATING TOGETHER

FRUIT SALAD

• Kids can bring one favourite to make fruit salad 
• Encourage kids to smell, touch and describe the qualities of each one
• Teacher mixes all into a delicious fruit salad and kids got a taste of a variety of fruits

                                              
                                     OR

  

• Cut up fresh fruit slices for kids to have as a snack

 

       
• Kids learn that the importance of washing fruits before eating and care to be taken while cutting them

 

  *  Fruit market is other activity can do as a dramatic play

  

  *  A visit to the supermarket: Supermarkets carry a wide range of fruits as well as fruit products. The kids will realize that these fruit products can be in different forms: Fresh, frozen and dried and store in different manner. Purchase some fruit products and give a chance to taste them. The Kids will understand that there are several fruit products, all of which can contribute to making a healthy diet.

      * One of my colleagues made these fruit carvings, just for a display.

 

                

 

 

           (Thank you so much for lovely images in flickr and wikimedia commons, all credit goes to photographers)