Hello Friends,

THE DOLLAR DEAL EVENT IS HERE!!! The #RingIn2020 Dollar Deal event will take place ONLY on Tuesday, December 31, 2019 and Wednesday, January 1, 2020.  The two best sellers listed below will be marked down to ONE DOLLAR during these two days…so hurry up and grab them before they are back to regular price!

                     

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BUY ONE GET ONE FREE IS BACK!!! When you buy ONE product from any of my TpT stores, Star Kids or Star Kids by Naomi from January 2, 2020 through January 6, 2020, you may get ONE product for FREE (of equal or lesser value).  To claim your free product, please contact me at naomimunoztpt@gmail.com indicating the following:

1. Title (or link) and date of the product you purchased

2. Title (or link) of the product that you want for free (of equal or lesser value)

The more products you purchase, the more you save!

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PRODUCTS THAT ARE PERFECT FOR JANUARY

      

       

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Happy New Year!!!

~ Naomi ❤️

Dear Friends,

To help with the purchasing of New Year resources for your classroom, a team of amazing teachers and I have grouped together to gift ONE awesome, lucky teacher with a $200 TPT gift card!

Starts: Sunday 29th December 2019 12am

Ends: Sunday 5th January 2020 12am

ENTER HERE: http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/b4951b8575/?

REMEMBER: Each entry counts as ONE entry, the more links you complete, the higher your chances of winning!!

GOOD LUCK… and Happy New Year!!!

~ Naomi ❤️

The holiday season can be hectic in the classroom. There is SO MUCH to do and the time is very limited!  If your classroom is like mine, it is very diverse.   The majority of my students celebrate Christmas.  However, about half of my class celebrates other holidays.  Some celebrate Hanukkah while others celebrate Kwanzaa, Eid, Diwali, or the Chinese New Year.

I searched on Teachers Pay Teachers for the different holidays that I needed.  However, most of the resources that I found were related to Christmas Around the World and did not refer to the other holidays that I needed to make all of my students feel included.  Therefore, I decided to create this resource myself.  I named it “Holidays Around the World.”  It soon became one of my best sellers!  Although most of my students can read and write, I have a few students who are not able to yet (i.e., exceptional students, ESOL/ESL).  Therefore, I made my “Holidays Around the World” differentiated.

It includes a letter that I send home each year to ask parents what holidays they celebrate at home in order to include them in our curriculum.  This resource also includes directions and suggestions, as well as the following:

Choice 1 ~ Holidays Around the World Informational Booklet {five holidays in a single book}.  It is available on size (8.5”x11”), half page, and differentiated (Beginners, Intermediate, and Advanced.  This resource also includes fun ELA and math printables.

Choice 2 ~ Holidays Around the World Informational Booklets {one book per holiday}.  This option is also available on size 8.5”x11” and half-page for the holidays that follow: Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Eid, and Diwali.

I have recently translated it into Spanish.

 

You may obtain it in either English or Spanish, or as a bundle including both languages.

I also created a resource for everyone in our class to learn about the Chinese New Year.  It is available only in English at this time, but I will soon translated into Spanish.

So…if your classroom is like mine, these resource will make your life easier in order to include all of your students.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to post them below.

Thanks!

~ Naomi ❤️

 

I am thrilled to announce that starting today, July 15, 2019 up to the end of this month, July 31, 2019, when you purchase one product from my TpT store, you may get a second product (of the same price of less) for FREE! Once you purchase the  product from my store, please send me an email indicating what product from my TpT store you would like to receive…and I will send it your way.  When you email me, please include the name of the product you purchased, date purchased, and ID number.  The email address that I am using for this offer is naomimunoztpt@gmail.com.

Also, from today, 7/15/19 up to 7/31/19, when you purchase a resource from my TpT store, you will be entered in a raffle to win one TpT gift card for $10.00.  The winner will be announced on my blog, https://starkids.blog/ on August 3, 2019.

Happy Shopping!

~ Naomi 

 

UPDATE: Anamaria Anderson is the winner of the $10.00 TpT gift card.  Please email me to claim your prize.

Kindergarteners and first grade students need to be exposed to quality informational text.  Nonfiction writing exposes  students to real life reading and helps them develop their background knowledge.

When selecting informational texts, teachers need to take into account their student interests.  In my years of teaching, I have found that the majority of students are attracted to animals.  Therefore, when selecting nonfiction texts and/or creating materials for my students, I focus mainly on different types of animals.  Once students are interested in a specific nonfiction text and I have their attention, I can definitely teach the skills I have planned.

With this goal in mind, I created a series of nonfiction texts, which is called RESEARCH IT!  Each resource in this series features a different animal.   One of my objectives when creating this series was to have my students participate in shared research and writing projects (See CCSS.K.W.3.7).   Each resource in the series includes a non-editable PowerPoint presentation with photographs in color and information about the featured animal and a PDF file that includes the items below:

• Informational booklet in black and white, which my students use for conducting their research project {or for independent reading or guided reading}.
• Poster in B/W, which includes additional interesting facts about the featured animal
• Life cycle anchor charts {colored and B/W which include cut-n-paste activity with answer key}
• Worksheets for note-taking {2 choices}
• Graphic organizers as pre-writing/research activities {4 choices}
• Research template {2 choices: flip book with topper and Animal Research Book}

The series is available in both English and Spanish (separate or as a bundle).  Please click on the covers for additional information.

The last resource, Starfish, is in progress at this time, but will  be available at my TpT stores, Star Kids and Star Kids by Naomi soon.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to post them below.

Thanks!

~ Naomi ❤️

 

The giveaway starts on June 6^th.

Rules: Use the Rafflecopter to enter.  Giveaway ends 6/13/19 and is open worldwide.

Click on the image to enter…and good luck!

~ Naomi ❤️

The giveaway starts at Midnight on April 6^th.

Rules: Use the Rafflecopter to enter.  Giveaway ends 4/13/19 and is open worldwide.

Click on the image to enter…and good luck!

~ Naomi ❤️

 

Say hello to our new friend, Ted the Tedpole!

I love incorporating the Star Kids activities below with my Animal Groups Unit.  We are currently working on amphibians.

 

 

 

 

You may find this activity and others to teach amphibians by clicking on the links below:

Stay tuned for our upcoming work on insects!

~ Naomi ❤️

“Duck for President” by Doreen Cronin is one of my favorite books to read in my classroom.  In this text, Duck is not happy with the chores that Farmer Brown assigns to him, so he decides to hold an election to get a different job.  He does this a few times because he does not like the jobs he is elected to.  He also finds that being president is very hard.  I do not want to spoil the end, so read it for yourself.  It is a funny, wonderful book to read at any time of the year that.  You may find in your classroom library, Media Center, bookstore, or Public Library.

After reading the text and asking comprehension questions orally, I pass the worksheet below to sequence the events of the story.  Students color the events illustrated on the bottom of the worksheet.  Then, they have to cut them out and place them in the order that the events happened in the story.  Last, they paste the pictures in the correct order.

I have posted photos of this activity below:

 

  

You may find this activity and others in the resource listed below:

What activities do you do in your classroom with “Duck for President”?

~ Naomi ❤️

St. Patrick’s Day is tomorrow Sunday, March 17th.  We celebrated it this past week because we have Spring Break this coming week.  Yay!  We read various literature books on leprechauns and completed St. Patrick’s Day activities that integrate math, science, language arts, and art.  One of them was to create leprechaun traps to catch these mischievous creatures.   However, on our last day before the break, after we had made the traps, leprechauns visited our classroom when we stepped out and made a BIG mess!  Our hypothesis is that they entered though the roof.  You have to see for yourself.

What a mess they made in our classroom!

They even left a message and Skittles in our leprechaun traps!

It was a memorable day for the students…and the teacher!

~ Naomi ❤️