The Barefoot Teacher: interactive notebooks

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Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!
We're all about doodling lately. Are your kiddos into it, too? Doodling with regular pencils. Doodling with scented pencils. Doodling with scented crayons, and those Mr. Sketch gel crayons and markers of all kinds... Basically any type of writing utensil they can get their hands on, they're using it to doodle! 
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So I thought I'd meet them where they're at with their interest in doodling, and find a way to sneak some fun phonics practice into their doodle time. Which leads me to introduce Doodle-It Phonics! A doodling notebook that draws (haha, bad mom joke!) a kid's focus and attention to phonics while letting them exercise and explore their creative side at the same time.Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

Doodle-It can be used as individual worksheets, or it can also be glued into a composition or regular notebook to create an interactive book that students can flip through time and time again. It covers a wide range of phonics. It includes Alphabet, CVC & Rhyming, Digraphs, Blends, & Long Vowel practice.

There are two ways you can have your learners doodle... they can use guided doodling version, or they can jump right into it and try it on their own. The guided version helps them write words and shows a picture so that they can see a visual of the word and either doodle their own version of the object or doodle one like the picture. They can doodle the word as well! Instructions and examples are included in the download.
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

You decide how you want to use this resource. You can use the 180 pages here and there as you need them, or you can pick and choose what sounds you're currently working on and create a spiral or stapled notebook for students to hang on to. If you use a 3 prong folder, you can continue to add to it all throughout the year!

You'll notice that on the guided doodling version, students have the option to repeat the picture already shown, or they could also draw their own. At this age, some students don't know where to start when it comes to drawing, so I wanted to make sure that even reluctant drawers had a starting place...even if it meant just attempting to doodle the picture already shown. 
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

Another interactive Phonics notebook that I use with my kids is this Phonics Poetry Notebook that includes original poetry from my good friend from Let's Learn S'more
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

This Phonics Poetry Notebook gives kids a hands-on approach to learning and practicing their reading skills. There are four versions included for each focus. One version has students writing in the various vowels, diphthongs, blends, or digraphs. The other doesn't. And both of these come in either a less-ink, color-me option or a full color option.
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

Students cut these out on the solid line and glue them in a composition or spiral notebook, which allows them to continually review prior ones completed! Woohoo! 
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

Labels are an option that are also included to put on the cover. 
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

Here's what's covered in this book. Pick and choose what you need:
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

The Phonics Poetry Book is also available in a Poetry Books Big Bundle:
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

The bundle includes five different types of poetry books that you can mix and match or do separately. 
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

Well, that's a phonics overload for today. Thanks for letting me share these with you. I hope your littles love and enjoy them. I also hope they make your teaching life just a tad bit easier! 

-Til next time
       
Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

(Not familiar with the NGSS standards? Then take some time to read "Getting to Know the Next Generation Science Standards: Kindergarten" first.)

Today, we're going to take a look at resources that will help you meet the "Earth & Human Activity" standard....which I just simply call the "We Love Earth" unit. I'll show you all the different parts to my We Love Earth Interactive Notebook and a few other resources too.
I love celebrating Earth Day in Kindergarten with a variety of interactive activities that are geared just for them. Let me show you how to increase science engagement in your classroom, while having tons of fun at the same time! Did somebody say WORMS?!
Just like the other interactive notebooks we've already covered, this one too comes with a set of corresponding classroom posters to hang in your room. But for this We Love Earth unit, there are only 4 simple posters included:
The We Love Earth unit also comes with its own interactive notebook cover.
The cover pages for each core idea will help your students keep their notebook well organized.

And just like all of the other core ideas covered, here is the vocabulary reinforcer for We Love Earth:
The Pocket full of Vocab matches the poster set (shown above), and also has additional words such as  love, care, and celebrate.  Have students pull the cards out of the pocket and review the meanings of the terms or how they apply to the topic of loving our Earth. They can quiz themselves, quiz a neighbor, and even write short definitions on the back to help them remember.

The Worm Challenge for this unit challenge students to consider what can be done with food that is waste. Rotten vegetables, scraps, uneaten leftovers...how can they help our Earth?

If you're up to it, a classroom compost would be an awesome addition to your discussions. 
Not sure where to get started? 
A Few Short Cuts will take you step by step to get you going. It's easier than you think...


...and the kids will LOVE digging up some worms! If you don't have an area at school that they can worm-search, then have them look around at home for some. They can put them in a clean 20 oz. bottle, or some other container with a secure lid, and bring them in. 

The next two pages of the interactive notebook encourage your littles to get up close and personal with caring for the Earth.
What can THEY do to make a difference? Have them come up with some ideas, and then write & draw them out. Then challenge them to keep track of ways that they put the 3 R's into practice.

Humans aren't the only living things that impact the Earth...animals and plants do too. In fact, they impact us as well! 'Living on Earth' gives you an opportunity to talk about how animals change their environment. The example given, is the groundhog, who digs holes in the ground to make his home. An example of how the Earth impacts us is when tree roots break the sidewalks we've created.

The next three pages shown in the above picture give students a chance to brainstorm and illustrate different objects in their day to day lives that they can reduce, reuse, and recycle. 

As I've mentioned in each of the different interactive notebook post, I've noticed that kids LOVE to prove how smart they are. So I created this page that not only reinforces your class discussions during this unit, but also give the kids a chance to feel smart, review with their friends, and practice what they've learned.
Students simply pull out one of the many questions and either answer the questions or do what it says.

If your looking for a great 3R's song for your students to listen to or learn, Chelsea Woolhouse has put together a great video with Jack Johnson's 3Rs song:

If you're looking for additional activities to use during your Earth unit, I have a few more to show you, that are not part of the interactive notebook.

 Here is a Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension resource that includes various reading passages with corresponding comprehension question sheets.
I love celebrating Earth Day in Kindergarten with a variety of interactive activities that are geared just for them. Let me show you how to increase science engagement in your classroom, while having tons of fun at the same time! Did somebody say WORMS?!
You can help your little sweethearts develop a confidence in their reading skills while having fun at the same time! The kid-friendly font that is used in these passages makes reading the text even easier. 
I love celebrating Earth Day in Kindergarten with a variety of interactive activities that are geared just for them. Let me show you how to increase science engagement in your classroom, while having tons of fun at the same time! Did somebody say WORMS?!
It's a perfect pack to send home for parents who are asking what they can do at home to help their little readers. All of the passages included have between a .1-1.0 reading comprehension level based on the Flesch-Kincaid reading comprehension level formula.

These FREE Earth-Themed Pathway Mazes are fun for early finishers or indoor recess.
I love celebrating Earth Day in Kindergarten with a variety of interactive activities that are geared just for them. Let me show you how to increase science engagement in your classroom, while having tons of fun at the same time! Did somebody say WORMS?!
These block-free mazes ensure that all students are able to successfully complete them! For more advanced mazers, have them draw in their own blocks...maybe some litter to clutter the path.

Learn about different types of biomes with this Our Earth Biomes Emergent Reader.
I love celebrating Earth Day in Kindergarten with a variety of interactive activities that are geared just for them. Let me show you how to increase science engagement in your classroom, while having tons of fun at the same time! Did somebody say WORMS?!
This "Our Earth" reader practices reading the sight word "our" while teaching your littles about the various types of biomes in our wonderful world. Each page has the repetitive pattern: "Our Earth has..." and covers deserts, oceans, forests, prairies, mountains, ponds, and more! 

Well, that's it for Earth & Human Activity. Next, we'll cover some helpful resources that will help you cover the Engineering Design standards.

-Til next time


I love celebrating Earth Day in Kindergarten with a variety of interactive activities that are geared just for them. Let me show you how to increase science engagement in your classroom, while having tons of fun at the same time! Did somebody say WORMS?!

Today, we're going to take a look at resources that will help you meet the "Earth's Systems" standard....which I just simply call the "Weather Patterns" unit. 

(Not familiar with the NGSS standards? Then take some time to read "Getting to Know the Next Generation Science Standards: Kindergarten" first.)

I'll show you all the different parts to my Weather Patterns Interactive Notebook and a few other resources too.
Are you teaching a weather unit? These interactive activities are a perfect addition to the rest of your spring lesson plans, ideas, and crafts. Whether for Preschool, Kindergarten, or First Grade, kids will love the interactive pages of this science notebook!
Each science interactive notebook set, including this one, comes with a set of corresponding classroom posters to hang around your room. But for this Weather Patterns unit, there are actually three different sets of posters that I've included. The first set includes basic types of weather:
The next set includes more severe types of weather:
And the third set includes tools that are used to predict weather:

The Weather Patterns unit also comes with its own interactive notebook cover.
The cover pages for each core idea will help your students keep their notebook well organized.

And just like all of the other core ideas covered, here is the vocabulary reinforcer for weather:
The Pocket full of Vocab matches the poster set (shown above). Have students pull the cards out of the pocket and review the meanings of the terms. They can quiz themselves, quiz a neighbor, and even write short definitions on the back to help them remember.

You'll also want to spend some time talking about meteorologists and the tools that are used to predict weather. Talk about how we use weather tools to help us prepare for the weather that is coming.
On the meteorologist page, have students flip up the flaps and write information they learn about meteorologists. Then have them color in the pictures of tools that meteorologist use for reporting and predicting weather. 

There is a great app to use with this unit called Kid Weather. It reiterates 
My favorite thing about this app? It was CREATED by a six year old kid (with the help of his dad)!  It's a great way to spend just a few minutes every day going over the weather predictions for the next day, plotting/graphing them out, and preparing for how we should dress for the weather.

Have your littles record the weather for ten days and see if they notice any patterns that will help them make weather predictions. 
Have them poll the class, tally up the results, and graph the predictions made by classmates.

Here are a few more pages that are included:
Use a pencil and paperclip to spin n' tell more about each of the pictures shown in the circle. What season is it? What is the weather like during that season? Also, keep track of how the temperature changes throughout each day by coloring in the thermometers as you record morning, noon, and night (or afternoon...before students go home).

As I've mentioned in each of the different interactive notebook post, I've noticed that kids LOVE to prove how smart they are. So I created this page that not only reinforces your class discussions during the Weather Patterns unit, but also give the kids a chance to feel smart, review their friends, and practice what they've learned.
Students simply pull out one of the many questions and either answer the questions or do what it says.

If you're looking for additional activities to use during your weather unit, this Weather Write-the-Room Set might be perfect for your class.
Are you teaching a weather unit? These interactive activities are a perfect addition to the rest of your spring lesson plans, ideas, and crafts. Whether for Preschool, Kindergarten, or First Grade, kids will love the interactive pages of this science notebook!
Hang up these posters and let your students wander around the room finding them. When they find one, they look for the corresponding picture on their printout, and then write down the words they see.

Next up, we'll talk about Earth & Human Activity...

-Til next time

Are you teaching a weather unit? These interactive activities are a perfect addition to the rest of your spring lesson plans, ideas, and crafts. Whether for Preschool, Kindergarten, or First Grade, kids will love the interactive pages of this science notebook!



(Not familiar with the NGSS standards? Then take some time to read "Getting to Know the Next Generation Science Standards: Kindergarten" first.)

Today, I'm going to focus on the "From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes" standard....which I just simply call my "Living Things" unit. I'll show you all the different parts to my Living Things Interactive Notebook.
You've found them! The best interactive activities to go along with your Living Things science unit. This interactive notebook goes with the Kindergarten NGSS but can also be used with Preschool or First Grade students as well.
This standard can really cover a lot. I mean, you could go into a whole unit on plants, and then another on different life cycles. You could cover different kinds of habitats...there's just so much that you could dive into. So you'll have to pick and choose what works best for you. As far as the interactive notebook goes, it might be something that you just pick pages from as you cover the units you're teaching.

Each science interactive notebook set, including this one, comes with a set of corresponding classroom posters to hang around your room. The vocabulary I chose for the Living Things unit are the seven characteristics of living things:

Each idea covered also comes with its own interactive notebook cover.
The cover pages for each core idea will help your students keep their notebook well organized.

Here is the vocabulary reinforcer:
The Pocket full of Vocab matches the poster set (shown above). Have students pull the cards out of the pocket and review the meanings of the terms. They can quiz themselves, quiz a neighbor, and even write short definitions on the back to help them remember.

After you've talked about the seven characteristics of living things, you can have students look at the pictures below and determine which are living and which are non-living.
Most of your kids are going to know the obvious animal pictures, but many might not realize that plants are alive!

Next, you're going to reinforce your lessons on what living things need in order to survive:

Students will flip open each flap and jot down what that specific picture needs to survive. This is a great opportunity to again bring up the similarities and differences in the needs of living things. The pumpkin needs dirt...but the jellyfish doesn't. The pig does, though! 

What about the habitats of living things? How do different living things get their nutrients to grow? 
Use a pencil and paperclip to spin and tell about where the different animals live. Cut, paste, and glue the correct form of nutrients on the "Where is My Food?" activity page, and practice your illustrating skills under the flaps on the "Where do I Live?" page! 

As I mentioned in a different interactive notebook post, I've noticed that kids LOVE to prove how smart they are. So I created this page that not only reinforces your class discussions throughout the various Living Things units you cover, but also give the kids a chance to feel smart, review their friends, and practice what they've learned.
Students simply pull out one of the many questions and either answer the questions or do what it says.

You've found them! The best interactive activities to go along with your Living Things science unit. This interactive notebook goes with the Kindergarten NGSS but can also be used with Preschool or First Grade students as well.

There are so many fun directions you can go with this standard. Use the interactive notebook to reinforce everything you talk about in the classroom. It will serve as a great "memory book"...a reminder, as they flip through each page, of what activities they did and what conversations you guys had on the topic.

-Til next time

(Not familiar with the NGSS standards? Then take some time to read "Getting to Know the Next Generation Science Standards: Kindergarten" first.)

Today, I'm going to focus on the Energy Interactive Notebook.

Each science interactive notebook set, including this one, comes with a set of corresponding classroom posters to hang around your room. Here are the posters that come with the Energy set:
Each idea covered also comes with its own interactive notebook cover.

The cover pages for each concept will help your students keep their notebook well organized.

And just like the first standard we covered, the next page is the vocabulary reinforcer:
This Pocket full of Vocab matches the poster set (shown above). Have students pull the cards out of the pocket and review the meanings of the terms. They can quiz themselves, quiz a neighbor, and even write short definitions on the back to help them remember. 

This graphic organizer page will help your students remember all the things you talked about during class discussion time.
You could also project this page on your smart board and fill it out together as a class before students do it on their own.

After you take your students outside to experiment with shadow making, you can bring them back in to complete this activity page.
The boy in the picture is getting too warm on the beach. Your students will need to draw something that will reduce the warmth of the sun on his body. Some ideas might be a beach umbrella, a sun hut, or some type of tarp lean-to.

This is a great unit to bring up astronomers in! Who are they? What do they study? What do they use?
Lift these flaps and write some information down about them. 

As I mentioned in a different interactive notebook post, I've noticed that kids LOVE to prove how smart they are. So I created this page that not only reinforces your class discussions on Energy and the Sun, but also give the kids a chance to feel smart, review their friends, and practice what they've learned.
Students simply pull out one of the many questions and either answer the questions or do what it says.

An ice cube investigation is included too!
Here's what kids will be investigating:
Can you slow down the melting of an ice cube?
You'll need to make up some ice cubes ahead of time.
Have your students predict the outcome and write it in under the flap. Then they can survey and tally up the predictions of their classmates. Have them graph out the results.
Place an icecube on a tray or paper plate and set it somewhere in the room on or on the window sill. Time how long it takes that ice cube to melt. Draw and record the results. Then have students create two different types of structures that could reduce the warmth of the sun on the ice cube. Place ice cubes under them and time how long they take to melt. This will be something you'll want to do and then come back to from time to time. Maybe you do one of your center rotations and then come check on the cubes. And you can totally be flexible with the time it took. If your kids were out to recess when the cube melted, just create an estimated time for your kids. They won't know the difference! ;)

This 'Our Sun Warms' Emergent Reader is a great way to bring up initial discussions with your Kinders on the sun.
Each page gives facts and information about the sun and what it does to the Earth and living things on the Earth. 

Well, that wraps up the "Our Sun Warms" portion of the NGSS. Writing about the warm sun makes me wish it were summer time right now! Next up on our NGSS list will be "Earth's Systems"...which I call my Weather Patterns unit. 

-Til next time,
         

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