Read To Me-- Awesome Websites

Read to Me is an engaging site where kids can listen to books told by celebrities. 

The celebrities are all Las Vegas performers and are pretty entertaining. Kids may recognize some of them but probably not all.

Printable PDFs of lesson plans are available as well as the author’s site, celebrity reader’s site and publisher site. Stories can be viewed full screen.

I watched a couple and they were very good, something I think students will enjoy. The Read to Me videos took a bit of time to load so I would suggest loading them before showing to students.

Notice in the screenshot above that they even have one in Spanish. Would be great if they added a few more like this. They also had a few for students who are hearing impaired, which uses American Sign Language.

Another great website that has high quality books online: We Give Books!

St. Patrick's Day & Slap Game

Wow, what a day! I had to leave school earlier because I was sick! Three kids were absent, sent one home before I left, and another left after I did. This sickness has got to GO AWAY!  I have been laying in bed all day long.  I am finally feeling a little better to be able to hold down food.  If you know me, I am the type of person that can not sit around without doing anything.  After feeling a little better, I pulled the laptop out and started working on St. Patrick's Day stuff (it will be here before you know it).  I put together a packet. This St. Patrick's Day Math, Reading, & Writing Packet includes:

Math Activity:

What makes 10? Students will match equations to the correct ten frames. (pg. 2-5)

Lucky Charms Sorting Sheet and Graphing Sheet (pg. 6-7)

Literacy:

CVC Words (-at, -an, -ug, -ig, -op, -og): Students will sort cards to the correct cvc family. (other games can be created with the cards) (pg. 8-15)

Writing:

Write the Room Paper (pg. 16)

Writing Paper with Topics (pg. 17-19)
How can you catch a leprechaun?
How could you get to the end of the rainbow?What would you do with a pot of gold?

St. Patrick's Day Math, Reading, & Writing Packet:

I also was looking through different blogs and I found this CUTE idea for students to review their High Frequency Words.  Thanks to Kindergarten and Mooneyisms for the idea.

The game is simple.  I put our vocabulary words on different colored sheets of tag board.  (That way if a word gets mixed up with another stack, it's easy to spot.)  Words cards lie on top of table face up.  I call out a word.  Person to find it first slaps their hand down on top of the card, then takes the card and puts it to the side in "their pile".  Person with the most words wins!

(Hint:  Don't call out the last word when there's just one card left on the table.  Otherwise it becomes a wrestling match.)

Cool Website

A Website I Love to use in my class is Sundance Pub Literactive  Sundance Literactive Readers feature fun online stories that develop key skills for young readers.  There are 50 titles that are organized into 5 carefully leveled  sets (A-E) that gradually increase in difficulty.  Watch pre-k, kindergarten, and first grader children's confidence soar as they follow along with the animated storybooks.  The also show students our to stretch out the words and tells them what the word is if they do not know it.

I found this really cool website Storyline Online It has books that are read aloud to students and shows the pictures of the book.  The books they have available to watch are:

A Bad Case of Stripes
Enemy Pie
Knots on a Counting Rope
The Night I Followed The Dog
Private I.Guana
Sebastian's Roller Skates
Stellaluna
To Be a Drum
Brave Irene
Guji  Guji
Me and My Cat
No Mirrors in My Nana's House
The Rainbow Fish
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch
Thanks you, Mr. Falker
White Socks Only
Dad, Are You The Tooth Fairy?
Harry The Dirty Dog
My Rotten Readheaded Older Brother
The Polar Express
Romeaw & Drooliet
Sophie's Masterpiece
When Pigasso Met Mootisse
Wilfrid Gordon Mcdonald Partridge