Author, Nicole Hernandez is a primary school teacher with 30 years teaching experience. Nicole completed a B. Ed (Bachelor of Education) majoring in Language Arts and graduated with a Masters degree in Literacy Instruction. Her passion for visual learning is woven into her style through the use of colour and kid-friendly graphics. She always looks for creative ways to make learning both fun and engaging.
Author, Nicole Hernandez is a primary school teacher with 30 years teaching experience. Nicole completed a B. Ed (Bachelor of Education) majoring in Language Arts and graduated with a Masters degree in Literacy Instruction. Her passion for visual learning is woven into her style through the use of colour and kid-friendly graphics. She always looks for creative ways to make learning both fun and engaging.
It's A New Year Mini Book For Serious Kids **Revised for New Year 2018** This mini book helps kids to understand the meaning of resolutions and how important it is to make one. Your kids will enjoy coloring activities as they explore different aspects of resolution making. Although the poem may be difficult for some kids to read, its flow and rhyme makes it a great piece for guided reading activities.
Nicole
A Teacher's Idea
Community Helpers: People in Our Community Chit Chat Cards-For Social Studies 'n Writing Activities: This resources contains picture cards with vocabulary that can be used for both Social Studies and Writing activities. They are great for stimulating ideas and focusing students on community-based themes.
The set contains 12 pages each containing 6 cards. That is a total of 72 cards. There is also 1 blank page for any additional pictures you may want to include.
(C) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
Martin Luther King Day: Dove Facts About Dr Martin Luther King Jr. With 5 PostersThis is a set of fact cards that paints a picture of the life of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. There are also a writing and a coloring activity for your students. Included in this resource is also a set of 5 posters entitled ' We Are Living A Dream'. These posters are student friendly and of course eye catching!
(C) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
Spring Writing: A Springboard of Writing Ideas for Young Writers:
This is a set of 7 Spring-themed writing activities for your budding writers .
There are 4 graphic organizers and some suggested words and phrases for each writing theme.: The set contains the following:-
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
The 5 Ws + H
Story Plan- Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution
Story Plan- Beginning, Middle, End
Story Writing Sheet-First Draft
Story Writing Sheet-Publishing- Lined Sheets
8 Story picture prompts with suggested words and phrases to use
Prompt 1 - Sally Catches Butterflies
Prompt 2 - Sue and The Little Bird
Prompt 3 - Brad and The Caterpillar
Prompt 4 - Liam in The Butterfly Patch
Prompt 5 - Lillian Flies The Kite
Prompt 6 – Isabella and Her Umbrella
Prompt 7- Jacob and Isabella
Prompt 8 - Cameron Loves Spring
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(c) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
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Loop Games: Collective Nouns: Collective Perspective! I Have...Who Has...? {Animal Collective Nouns}: Get yourself in order with this fabulous Back To School activity for teaching collective nouns.This is a fun activity for kids to practice collective nouns. In the traditional "I Have..? Who Has..?" style, this game spells hours and hours of fun! It can be played with a select number of students or the entire class can participate. Just print on cardstock, laminate and cut cards.
This game activity contains:
76 collective noun ANIMAL cards
1 blank template for your customization
Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
This is an excellent resource that is useful for covering the topic family tree with your students. There are apple cards depicting multicultural families that your students can have fun with while learning the basic and modern structure of a family. The apple tree mat can be used to build the family unit on and can be placed in a folder in plastic sleeves or laminated for longevity.
The multicultural apple family cards include - African-American, Caucasian (Brunette, Blonde, Red), Latino and Asian. Simply print the cards, laminate and cut the cards apart. Your students will build families with any combination of cards as they wish. The parent and big teen cards can be used to represent other members of the modern family.
Also included are vocabulary cards with a header depicting family words that are bordered in blue, red and black to sort according to gender: male, female and gender neutral words. A colored and black ‘n white “My Family Tree” worksheet is included for students to complete about their own family as well. The multicultural family unit is available as a blank version, for your children to colour in and the apple tree mat is included as a low ink alternative.
How can your students get meaning from nonfiction texts? This can be done by checking for THIEVES. THIEVES is an active prereading strategy that allows students to skim and scan then summarise the information from informational texts before they actually begin reading the text. The acronym is explained as: “T” for title, “H” for headings, “I” for introduction, “E” for every first sentence, “V” for visuals and vocabulary, “E” for end of chapter questions, and “S” for summary. Your students can use this strategy to preview textbooks and other informational texts when they do not have an opportunity to read the entire selection. Although this is very useful remind your students that making time for the full reading of a text is the better way to go!
This is a mini book that serves as a template for any animal research for young researchers, kindergarten to grade 2. I included pages with headings and lines along with a blank page for drawings. The following headings are included:
*are/can/have pages ………………..5-7
*Picture/Drawing …………………... 8
*Physical Characteristics ……………9
*Locomotion/ Movement ……………10
* Unusual Features …………………11
* Behavior …………………………..12
*Habitat ……………………………. 13-16
*Living Habits ………………………. 17
* Diet …………………………….....18
* Life Cycle (lined page and graphic organizer)…19-20
*Food Web (lined and blank page)..21-22
* Special Facts …………………..23
*Adaptations (lined and blank page) ..24-25
* Enemies …………………………26
* Defence/Offence ……………….27
* Glossary …………………………28
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This mini book template is formatted as 2 mini books per print. I also included both a colored and a black and white cover pages. The pages are not numbered so that you create your own set. To create this mini book simply select the pages that you want included then print. Guide your students into completing each page that you included. At the end of this exercise you can staple all the pages together to form multiple mini books for each animal that you choose. In the end your students will have a keepsake as well as a great little mini book that they created themselves.
Fry Words: Dare you students to read like these daring dinosaurs. Daring Dinosaurs is the first in a set of printables created for sight word focus.This set includes sight word resources for work with the first 100 words:
My Daring Dinosaurs Sight Words Booklet (The First 100 Fry words) with three (3) cover options
100 Word Cards (with four blank cards)
81 Instant Phrase Cards (with seven blank cards)
Two Certificates (for Sight Word and Phrase reading achievement)
Two sets of Reward Badges (for Sight Word and Phrase reading achievement)
The words and phrase cards can be used in literacy or word work centers. The sight word booklet can be given to students for either independent work at school or for home practice either in word recognition or spelling activities.
Stay tuned for more of Daring Dinosaurs!
The Real Easter Story is a two-in-one mini book (you get two copies per page) created with images that should appeal to young children. The sentences are simple, however, the vocabulary may pose a challenge to some. Therefore I would recommend that some assistance be given to students. This product comes in black and white only to facilitate easy printing and of course to allow students to color the pages themselves. The pages are set for double sided printing. I also included both a colored and a black and white version of the mini-book cover page for you.
Enjoy!
Nicole
Syllable Clip Cards
Meet the Syllabication Team, the kids who know all about finding how many beats in words- Sill, Abbi, Kay and Shawn. This set is a colorful set of handy cards that your kids will have lots of fun clipping and clapping to the rhythm or beat. This syllabication activity is made simple by the expert beat matchers- Sill, Abbi, Kay and Shawn. These four darlings would help your kiddos remember the meaning of the word syllabication plus they also help them find the number of beats in words. The cards are versatile in as they can be used with students later on when they are ready to break (syllabicate) written text.
This set of clip and clap cards contain 108 bright and colorful illustrations (18 full pages) that makes it easy for those students who may have difficulties with reading the words.
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Illustrated Synonym Word Cards: This is a kid-appealing candy themed set of synonym cards for introducing synonyms to your kiddos. There are pairs of synonyms depicted by the same picture so that they will get familiar with the concept. They can match cards or use as a visual to brainstorm other words that mean the same as the picture given.The cards can also be used to spark their writing.
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For a bright candy colored theme version of this set check Candy Themed Illustrated Synonym Word Cards
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There are a total of 64 illustrated synonym word cards which depict the following:
middle – center
laugh – giggle
idea – thought
end – finish
drop – fall
like – enjoy
happy – joyful
large – big
make – create
bad – naughty
good – perfect
jump – leap
kid – child
hard – difficult
choose – select
neat – tidy
nice – kind
loud – noisy
gift – present
pretty – beautiful
push – shove
quiet – silent
tired – sleepy
sniff – smell
sad – unhappy
smelly – stinky
talk – say
trash – garbage
look – watch
tiny – small
write – record
slim – thin
