Pilgrims and Turkeys for Bulletin Boards

Simple large turkey pattern.

        These vintage outlines of a turkey and children dressed as Pilgrims may be used on your bulletin boards, walls or as window decorations. 

• Visit the Crayon Palace blog to find similar resources of Native Indigenous People and Pilgrims also here
  

Simple figures of pilgrim children.

Large Clock Face Pattern for Classroom Use

        A large clock face for teachers to print out and use with students in their classrooms. Comes with large and small hands to identify hours and minutes of the day on a traditional clock. Help young students practice reading time.

• Here is another printable clock face with solid black numbers...
• Small printable clock faces for doll crafts
  

Punch a hole in the middle of a clock face mounted on cardboard. Cut out hour and minute hands and punch holes on the ends. Insert a brad into all three holes and bend it at the back. Now students may use the clock to practice telling and writing time.

Halloween Window Decorations

Big cut-outs of a vintage jack-o-lantern, flying bat and black cat.

        I've restored these vintage, Halloween patterns for teachers to use in the decoration of their classroom windows, or on Bulletin Boards. If you need something festive for the walls in your room or in the school buildings halls, wherever these may be needed, educators are sure to need a few patterns to enlarge, cut from construction paper and apply to their room decor.

3 cut-outs of classic jack-o-lanterns for teachers plus Autumn leaves

Stringing Beads at The Early Learning Center

      Stringing beads will help your little one develop small motor skills. However, it could also teach him or her even more! Teach your children to also make patterns with the beads. The patterns can be about color, shape or size. By learning to mimic patterns and/or design their own, young children practice a very significant pre-literacy skill; words and sentences have shape, length, pattern and location too!
      Just left, you can see that one of my young students is learning to make patterns and also to follow directions. During her assignment, she was required to string the beads according to the instructions of the lead teacher. She had to listen carefully, concentrate on the order of colors and determine the size of each apple shaped bead in order to complete the assignment. This was a more advanced variation of the stringing project she was asked to perform last week. Every time she completes one stringing activity with confidence, she will be given a new slightly more difficult stringing assignment to accomplish. Step-by-step she will be taught increasingly more complex procedures and by the time she enters kindergarten, she will be ready to 'string' letters from the alphabet together in order to read and write sentences.

      If stringing beads is too difficult for your child, replace the string with pipe cleaners. The chenille stems are stiffer and therefore, easier to poke through beads. When teachers, parents or anyone really, makes concessions for the limited abilities of  students, teachers call this adaptation scaffolding. As this little girl grows and her motor skill develops, she will be able to string beads with a shoe string and eventually a needle and thread. 

• 6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use With Your Students
• 8 Strategies for Scaffolding Instruction
• The Purpose of Coloring Pages

"In this in-service suite teachers learn ways to help 

children when they struggle to learn a concept or 

complete an activity. More information is available

 at http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta..."