K-3 Teacher Resources
K-3 Teacher Resources Newsletter
August 2009

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Tips & Updates Newsletter  No.  25

August  2009
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Contents....
*Welcome
*Teaching Ideas Winners
*Teaching Tip
*New Resources
*Free Resource for Newsletter Subscribers
*Resources Coming Soon

*Welcome..

Welcome to SEPTEMBER...AGAIN!!!!!

Another year is flying by. Happy Father's Day to all the Dads in Australia and Happy Back to School for our overseas Subscribers - we hope your new school year is off to a fabulous and exciting start....

A busy month once again - PLUS our family has moved house this month - and we all know what that is like !!!! Needless to say, I am a bit behind with this Newsletter but we are still way ahead with the resources (see new resources below)...

This month we have also made some suggested amendments - we added 'array' to our Math Words, changed 'homonyms' to 'homophones', and all our classroom theme labels are now up to date...

Our great friend and relief teacher extraordinaire Carmel Kuhr has also allowed as a glimpse of her great relief teaching tips and ideas in our Members Bonus Resources section - thanks Carmel.

Our NEW Photo Gallery of our resources 'In Action' is looking fabulous - thanks.  Don't forget - send in 4 useable photos of our resources 'in action' and have a year's membership on us....TAKE A LOOK...

Finally don't forget the best way to stay up to date with new additions to our site is to join our RSS mail - updates  via email whenever someone adds a new teaching idea or a new resource is added.

Enjoy.....

HERE'S TO SEPTEMBER !

CHARITY UPDATE - WE HAVE RAISED $273 SO FAR AND RISING - KEEP THOSE TEACHING IDEAS COMING - THANK YOU THAT IS GREAT!

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*Winners - Teaching Ideas Contributions..

It really is so very difficult to choose winners as you have all contributed so many wonderful ideas.   We just want to thank each one of you for your ideas - they have all been so helpful to so many Teachers......

Congratulations to the following winners this month....

Congratulations to Diana for ........

Sharing her Behaviour Management Stickers...

Congratulations to Louise for ...

Sharing how she manages her Work Stations...

You can now view past winners here...

***Please share your ideas - Read others and be in the running to have your Teaching Idea in our next Newsletter, as well as your next Year's Membership for Free.

This month's question...

September 2009

Please share how your school manages bullying - do you run a special bullying program? What strategies do you use? We look forward to your sharing...
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*Teaching Tip Time...

Some great sites we have discovered....

http://www.kididdles.com/

Kididdles is a fabulous site with loads of free songs and rhymes for early childhood - all those great classics and some modern ones as well.

You can listen to the music to remind you of the tune or use it as backup music at school.  The site also has downloads of matching music sheets and worksheets for most songs - many of these work in very well with our songs, poems and nursery rhyme printables.

You do need to sign up to be able to download the worksheets and music sheets but it all works smoothly.

You can even make up a folder of all the sheets.  This is also perfect for those teachers like me who like to think they can play a few simple chords on the guitar (big wink)  for the children - the music sheets are ideal.

Enlarge the song sheets and pop them into a class book or into your song box - terrific resource for children to practise their reading..

http://www.thekcrew.net/buzzbook.html

There are some terrific examples of Morning Storyboard or Morning Message ideas on this site.

I think morning messages are so full of learning and are so important to start the day.  The examples on this site makes them so much fun and involve so much learning in one small session.

Cheers to all
Donna

*New Resource Additions to Membership...

Alphabet Printables

**Lowercase Alphabet Handwriting Rhymes

**200 + CVC Word Families - words with and without pictures..

Classroom Themes Word Cards

**50 Reduce Reuse Recycle Words

Reading Activities

**42 Similes

**More Yes / No Reading Questions - Set 2

Songs, Poems and Nursery Rhyme Resources

**"I Hear Thunder" - Weather Poem

**"Reduce Recycle Reuse" - Rhyme

*Resources Coming Soon....Thanks for all your suggestions - we are doing our best to gradually work our way through...thanks for your patience

*Concept Book - Reduce Reuse Recycle
*Praise/Values/Virtues Words
*Around the House Words
*Toys Words
*Maths Ten Frame Cards

*Free Resource for Newsletter Subscribers....

The Gingerbread Man Sequencing Pictures

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You will need to access your emailed original to download these resources - Thanks

Enjoy and Thanks for subscribing to our Newsletter....

Till next time - Take Care..... Donna

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