Happy Halloween!

Greetings,

We hope you are doing well this weekend.  We know a lot of children will be busy trick-or-treating this Monday.  Today we are sharing 5 new Halloween videos we just produced.

These videos are counting 1 - 10 videos with Halloween characters.  These tutorials assist your children in recognizing and hearing numbers with objects.  We are sure your children will enjoy these tutorials











We hope you enjoyed all these tutorials.  We hope you have a safe and happy Halloween!  Take care.

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Paying Tribute to Steve Jobs

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We hope you are doing well this week.  We want to pay tribute to the late Steve Jobs. He was truly one of our greatest innovators and creators, and his greatness will be missed. His legacy lives on with the Mac, IPod, IPhone and IPad, and his presentations on YouTube.



The video above was at 1 million views last Wednesday.  Just alone today, it hit 11 million views.  It also had 3,000 likes and has jumped to over 80,000. 

You can also download this video and the transcript of the commencement address.  Simply view the video on YouTube.

Have you ever noticed when he speaks or makes an apple announcemnt he does not look at his presentation screen.  He focuses his eyes on connecting with the audience.  If you want to know the secrets of his presentation, check out the article we published November 22, 2010: "What Are The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs"



We also want to share with you the new videos we published to assist your child to learn their basic colors.  They both have exercises or assessments to see if your child can identify the colors learned.  The names of the videos are We See Colors Everywhere. Part 1 and Part 2 are featured down below.





Here is part 2 of the video.  We think your children will enjoy these videos.



If the videos above are not working, click here.  We hope you enjoy these videos and we will see you next week with another exciting topic.  Take care.

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Learning How to Count Video Tutorials

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We hope you are doing well.  This week we are blogging about my new counting video tutorials that we have posted on YouTube.  If you look above, you will see a counting exercise you can review with your child.

Listed below is the Which Group Has More video in which we have grouped different shapes and objects. In the video I review how to count and identify which group has more.  This video is for your Pre-Kindergartener or your Kindergartener.



In the Counting Baby Pink Teddy Bears video watch the balancing baby pink bears balance on a ball while we practice counting to 10.  This video is for your child who is learning how to count to 10.



In the Counting with Happy Faces video watch moving happy smiley faces wink their eye at you while practice counting to 10. This video is also for your child who is learning how to count to 10.




If you were unable to play the four videos above, you can visit my web site at www.youtube.com/complabteacher   In the month of October we will be blogging about math tutorials for addition, subtraction, multiplication and more.  We will see you soon.  Take care!

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Great Student Centered Activities (Grades K - 1)

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I hope you are having a great day. Today I am sharing with you a great web site with free student centered activities for grades K – 5.  This one of the best web sites I have found with hundreds of great student centered activities that you can make.  You will want to save the books that I will be sharing with you.  Once you save them, then you can print them in color and cut them out to use in centers or a small group setting.

According to the Florida Center Reading for Research (FCRR), “The Student Center Activities were created over a three year period. Student Center Activities for Kindergarten and First Grade were published in 2005, Second and Third Grade were published in 2006, and Fourth and Fifth Grade were published in 2007. The activities are formatted in the following manner.”

This week I will be sharing with you the free resources for grades K – 1: These resources include games and activities that students can play in reading centers. If you look down below, you can download all the resources for free.

Kindergarten and First Grade Student Center Activities:

Kindergarten and First Grade Professional Development DVD (6 Parts)

Teacher Resource Guide

Part 1: Five Components of Reading, Frequently Asked Questions, Implementing and Managing Student Centers in the Classroom, Interpretation and Implementation of Activity Plans (50 page PDF)

Part 2: Crosswalks (Sorted By Activity Number and Subcomponent), Kindergarten and First Grade Benchmarks (28 page PDF)

Part 3: K-1 Glossary of Reading Terms, References (14 page PDF)

Book 1: Phonological Awareness and Phonics Student Center Activities Introduction & Contents (5 page PDF)

A. Phonological Awareness

Part 1: Rhyme & Alliteration (82 page PDF)

Part 2: Sentence Segmentation, Syllables & Onset Rhyme (54 page PDF)

Part 3: Phoneme Matching (56 page PDF)

Part 4: Phoneme Isolating & Phoneme Segmenting (55 page PDF)

Part 5: Phoneme Segmenting and Blending & Phoneme Manipulating (36 page PDF)

B. Phonics

Part 1: Letter Recognition (43 page PDF)

Part 2: Letter-Sound Correspondence (115 page PDF)

Part 3: Onset and Rime (43 page PDF)

Part 4: Encoding and Decoding (37 page PDF)

Part 5: High Frequency Words (71 page PDF)

Part 6: Variant Correspondences (59 page PDF)

Part 7: Syllable Patterns & Morpheme Structures (46 page PDF)

Book Two: Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension Introduction and Contents (6 page PDF)

A. Fluency

All Parts: Letter Recognition, Letter Sound Correspondence, High Frequency Words, Oral Reading (83 page PDF)

B. Vocabulary

All Parts: Word Identification/Words in Context, Words that Describe/Word Meaning, Word Categorization/Word Knowledge, Word Structure/Word Analysis (135 page PDF)

C. Comprehension

All Parts: Sentence Structure & Meaning, Monitoring for Meaning, Story Structure, Narrative Text Structure, Expository Text Structure, Text Analysis, Main Idea/Summarizing (79 page PDF)

To download all the resources and to view the DVD parts for FREE, click here.

Ok, next week I will be sharing with you the grades 2 - 3 reading resources.  I hope you have a great week.  Take care.

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What is BrainPOP Jr.?

Greetings,

Hope you are doing all well.  I know you have all been waiting for this topic.  So let's get started.  BrainPOP Jr. is a web site similar to BrainPOP, except it is related to grades K - 3. 

The exciting thing about BrainPOP Jr. is every week they are continuing to add more animated videos.  If you look at the picture above, this is what you will see when you go to http://www.brainpopjr.com/.  Simply click on the picture above, and it will take you to there.

BrainPOP Jr. also has free videos you can preview.  Each video is on average 4 - 8 minutes long. If you look at the picture below, this is what the interface looks like when you click on the free video Science Projects.  I have labeled the video controls underneath the video screen.  Click on the picture below, and it will take you to the video.

As you can see in the picture above they have games, activities, jokes, vocabulary word walls, quizzes, drawing activities, writing samples, and more.  They also have close captioning which means the words will appear on the screen as the video plays.  You can even print a personal notebook on the video you are playing. 

Here is a list of science units that BrainPOP Jr. has to offer.  Click on the picture below and it will take you to the particular page on the BrainPOP Jr. site.   If you scroll down on that page you will see a list of the videos for science.  When you get to the web site, scroll down and click on the pictures that have a FREE Tag in the upper left hand corner and you can play the video.

To subscribe to BrainPOP Jr. click here.  Hope you enjoyed the article on BrainPOP Jr.  Next week I will be sharing with you BrainPOP ESL.  We will see you next week.

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