Writing Paper for Kindergarten

Writing paper for kindergarten should be fun...

...and cute, stylish, artistic, inspiring, rigorous and sometimes outrageously silly.

Most kindergarten writing paper out there--you know, the ones from the big-name companies--are plain.  Or worse: they're useless because the picture box is too small.

I finally put together a package of papers that makes me go, "Ahhh!"  

This is nice!  I want my room to look like an art museum, not a cafeteria.

My kids love great writing paper.  Their eyes light up.  They can't wait to write.  You can tell, they feel like royalty, like they've just been given the greatest gift in the world.

So I went overboard.  Vertical paper, horizontal paper, kindergarten themes like "My Favorite Color."   Here it is with a sample writing and drawing of a firetruck.

I made papers for every month of the year--seasons, holidays and special occasions.  More sample writing and two monsters:

One thing I didn't do is make lined paper with the dotted mid-line.  My kids don't like it and neither do I.  

What I DID add was everything a teacher might like:

7 pages of Writing Prompts, How to Differentiate, How to Jazz Up your Writing, How to Make a Booklet, Writing Tips for Gifted, RTI and ELL Students; and Suggestions for Use.

It's also 50% off for the next 48 hours!  A crazy-good bargain, so please take a look and see if it fits your needs: Writing Paper for Kindergarten.

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Wishing you all the best, and a beautiful bulletin board, too!  

Lunar New Year Fun for Kids

Lunar New Year fun for kids...
lives in their memories forever.

Want to see a Chinese Dancing Dragon fly?  Nothing beats the sound of a dragon tail fluttering as you dance with it--along with 25 kids and their dragons!

It takes all morning to create these dancing Chinese New Year Dragons--punctuated by little breaks to practice our dance moves to the pounding drums, clashing cymbals and high flute of Chinese parade music.

JUST ADD A PIPE CLEANER, 18" STRING, AND A FOLDED STRIP OF RED TISSUE PAPER--SUBSTITUTES WILL DO!

My early finishers can read and color their Chinese New Year One-page mini-book of traditions and the cycle of animals sheet. 

I've just added gorgeous Chinese New Year printables for kids to color and decorate, or write on (using creative prompts), as a Morning Work when they enter the room and get settled.

 

2008 Chinese New Year Song 
blends pop and traditional elements into a visual spectacular.  It's a great cultural backdrop for your own class parade.  Video footage includes a crowded Chinese New Year parade with giant dancing dragons, Chinese mountains, temples, lanterns, fans, cherry blossoms, waterfalls, and gardens.  A 3-girl pop group, The M-Girls, cheerfully sing in several Chinese styles and tempos.  They alternate wearing contemporary and traditional gear.   (9:49)

Chinese New Year Story Video For Kids
is a beautifully crafted shadow puppet story.  It tells the origin of the Chinese New Year cycle of twelve animals.  (2:43)
  

YouTube.com is a great source for videos.  Many schools block YouTube, so you’ll have to use software, a YouTube to MP4 converter.  This is best done at home.  Then you can bring the MP4 on a flash drive to view at school on your SMARTboard or computer.

At the end of the day I've asked my kids what they’d like to do with their dragons.  They said…
·         Dance all night
·         Do ballet
·         Eat it
·         Feed it
·         Watch it grow
·         Do magic
·         Put on a magic show
·         Sleep with it
·         March in a parade
·         Put it in a doll house
·         Ride a scooter with it
·         Destroy it (said with a cartoonish swagger)

 A dozen ways to celebrate the night of the new moon.  Gung Hay Fat Choy, everybody!

If you'd like a Chinese Dancing Dragon, and all the memories and joy that come with it, it's right here.

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