September Monthly Idea Book Ready-to-Use Templates, Activities, Management Tools, and More - for Every Day of the Month (PreK-3)

145 Pages·2013·10.83 MB·English

by  Karen Sevaly

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New York • Toronto • London • Auckland • Sydney
Mexico City • New Delhi • Hong Kong • Buenos Aires
DeDication
This book is dedicated to the teachers and staff of the Jurupa Unified School
District. Their enthusiasm and earnest desire to motivate children has been a
great inspiration. I am most grateful for the encouragement of my husband,
Richard Sevaly, and our two sons, James and Robert.
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Scholastic inc. grants teachers permission to photocopy the reproducible pages from this book for classroom use.
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cover design by Maria Lilja
cover art by Jillian Phillips
interior design by Melinda Belter
illustrations by Karen Sevaly
iSBn 978-0-545-37933-5
text and illustrations © 2013 by Scholastic inc.
all rights reserved.
Printed in the U.S.a.
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Contents
IntroductIon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
What’s inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
How to Use this Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Meeting the Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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ready For school!
introduction and Suggested activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
reproducible Patterns
Get Prepared checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
“First Days” checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Door Hangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
transportation tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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Student Passes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
communication tags. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
code of conduct Mini-Poster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Back-to-School Picture Props. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
classroom critters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Helpers’ overalls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
owl Puppet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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Student Detective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Back-to-School Bingo Game Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Back-to-School Word Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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all about me
introduction and Suggested activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
reproducible Patterns
train engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
train car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
“Best-of” Balloons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
My “Me” Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
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let’s celebrate bIrthdays!
introduction and Suggested activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
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Birthday cake and candle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Birthday cupcake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Birthday Visor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Birthday card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Wishing Mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Birthday certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
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introduction and Suggested activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
reproducible Patterns
apple Mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Lift-the-Flap apple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
apple tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
apples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
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Mexican coat of arms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Map of Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Mexico Fact Finder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Spanish Word Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Magnificent Mexico! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Mexico Book cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
South-of-the-Border Stationery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Paper-Bag Piñata. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
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natIve north amerIcans
introduction and Suggested activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
reproducible Patterns
native americans Word Find. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
cultural Regions Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
native american Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
native american Puppets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
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Student of the Week certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
certificate of achievement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
introduction
IntroductIon
IntroductIon
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classroom activities. Happy teaching!
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