Pets Frogs Pizza Birthdays Patriotic Teddy Bears Plants Farm Winter/Penguins         Map Skills Counting Food Friends   Fall Weather & Rainbows Colors/Shapes Look at Me! Summer/Camping School Days Bees     Animals Sea Life Measurement   Dinosaurs   Spiders   Spring   Insects Space Families

 

The Flight of the Bumblebee Busy Bees Critter Stationery 3 Primary Paper   Critter Stationery 4 Primary Paper   Critter Stationery 5 Primary Paper

Circus

 

The Circus is in Town Pocket Chart Pictures Sentences   Clowning Around With Costumes Clowning Around Pocket Chart Pictures Sentences   Under the Big Top

 

Colors and Shapes This section will include: Attributes Colors Size Shape Texture Weight Describing Words Shapes (Beginning and Advanced) Mini Book Shapes All Around Mini Book Shapes All Around Big Book Laminate, bind and provide Wikki Stix for children to form shapes hidden in the pictures. More Shapes All Around Activity Sheet Shapes for Sorting This page contains category cards for six shapes. There are also pictures included that go with each shape and may be sorted in a pocket chart. Color Sorts This page contains category cards for eight colors There are also pictures included that go with each color and may be sorted in a pocket chart. Crayons Download and print these colorful crayons. Laminate them for durability and use as a reference on your bulletin board, in a pocket chart or for playing color matching games. Red Apple, Red Apple Brown Bear, Brown Bear Copy Change   Shapes (Cherry Carl)   Round goes the circle, round goes the bear. Round and around with colors everywhere. Four sides to a square, four sides to a door. Open it up and look for some more! Three sided triangle, three sided slide. Down go the bears for a slippery ride! Here's a sparkly diamond, shiny and bright. It twinkles like the stars that shine through the night. Is this an Easter Egg for two little bears? No, it's just an oval, but it's fun to share! Two sides short, and two sides long. This rectangle looks so tall and strong. Can you find a tiny bear to play with you? He's right behind the hexagon, Peek-a-Boo! An octagon has eight sides in all. Watch out little bear, now don't you fall! Pull the tab and there will be A cylinder for you to see. A cube is like your wooden blocks, And sometimes like a paper box.   "Shape Song" (Tune: Solomon Levi*) Author Unknown I know what is a rectangle. I'll tell you in a song. Two of its sides are short and two of them are long. Now I'll tell about a square; it has four sides the same. Turn it anyway you wish. That doesn't change its name! A tri-an-gle has three sharp points. The sides are straight, all three. Tri means three and so you see, that's what it has to be! A diamond is a straight line shape, the four sides are the same. The corners, though, are different; the rhombus is its name. A circle is the shape that's next, with no straight sides at all. It just goes round and round and round, and looks just like a ball. An ellipse is an oval shape. The ends of it are round. It might have been a circle once that got itself squashed down! I look around me everywhere and I see shapes galore. Cylinders and spheres and cubes, and oh so many more! Chorus: Oh, aren't you proud of me? Tra, la, la, la, la, la! I've learned a lot, you see. Tra, la, la, la, la, la!    (*You may recognize the "Solomon Levi" tune as "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall!")  Notes from Cherry: I have no idea who wrote the lyrics to this delightful song! I found this in my kindergarten files from the late sixties or early seventies (I know, some of you weren't even born then! Let's not go there!). I'm sorry to omit credit where credit is due. Hopefully, the author of this ditty will forgive me for sharing it here.

Counting

 

Two Plus Two is Four and More   Times Tables Practice Cards (Print on card stock, laminate and put on a ring) Dinosaur Dollars (Ones)   Dinosaur Dollars (Fives) Bear Bucks Five Dollar Bear Bucks Buffalo Bucks (Ones) Buffalo Bucks (Fives) Buffalo Bucks (Tens) Buffalo Bucks (Twenties) California Cash (Ones)   California Cash (Fives) California Cash (Tens) Cowboy Cash Shopping List #1 Shopping List #2 Shopping City Directions Shopping City Task Board Shopping City Center Sign Clock Shape Book   Working With Ordinal Numbers: Snowmen Five Little Snowmen: Counting Down (Early Reader) October Number Strips   November Number Strips December Number Strips #1 December Number Strips #2 January Number Strips February Number Strips #1 February Number Strips #2 April Number Strips May Number Strips Shapes Number Strips

 

Counting Mountain Moola   "Counting Along Song" (A lively tune for Kdg. - 1st grade) (Tune: "Lou, Lou, Skip to My Lou") Lucy Jensen Counting along the number line. Stick with me; you'll do just fine. Try it now, and you will see. It's as easy as can be! 1 and 2 and 3 and 4; Clap your hands and count some more. 5 and 6, 7, 8; Who do we appreciate? 9 and 10, 11, 12; You can do this by yourself. 13, 14, 15, 16; Don't stop now, the light is green! Counting along the number line. Stick with me; you'll do just fine. Go to the right for adding fun. Go to the left and take away one! 16, 15, 14, 13; Counting backwards, you are learning. 12, 11, 10 and 9; Stick with me, you'll do just fine. 8 and 7, 6 and 5; Keep this number jive alive. 4 and 3 and 2 and 1, Now we're through, the counting's done! Lucy's note: Make sure to have a number line from zero to sixteen available when you sing this song together. See sample below. 0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16   "Count by Tens" (Tune: "Clementine") Lucy Jensen Sing this song, and count along, and Follow me; you'll do just fine. Count by tens and stay together; Sing along the number line. Ten and twenty, thirty, forty,  Fifty, sixty; doing fine. Seventy, eighty, ninety, hundred; Sing along the number line. Sing this song, and count along, and Follow me; you'll do just fine. Try it backwards; stay together; Sing back down the number line. Hundred, ninety, eighty, seventy, Sixty, fifty; doing fine. Forty, thirty, twenty, ten; Sing back down the number line! "Multiples Melody" (Count by Twos) (Tune: "Lou, Lou, Skip to My Lou") Lucy Jensen Multiples are, if you should wonder, Counting by a certain number. Try it now and you will see. It's as easy as can be!  2 and 4 and 6 and 8; Who do we appreciate?! 10 and 12, 14, 16; Don't stop now, the light is green! 18, 20, 22, 24; Clap your hands and count some more. 26, 28, 30, 32; Stick together like super glue! Counting along the number line, Stick with me; you'll do just fine. Go to the right and add with the pack. Go to the left and you subtract! 32, 30, 28, 26; It's as easy as picking up sticks. 24, 22, 20, 18; Don't stop now, the light is green! 16, 14, 12, and 10; Take a breath and start again. 8 and 6 and 4 and 2; Take a bow 'cause now you're through! Lucy's note: Counting by two along the number line is the same as naming "multiples" of two.   "Multiples Melody" (Count by Threes) (Tune: "Lou, Lou, Skip to My Lou") Lucy Jensen Multiples are, if you should wonder, Counting by a certain number. Try it now and you will see. It's as easy as can be! 3 and 6 and 9 and 12; You can do this by yourself. 15, 18, 21, 24; Clap your hands and count some more. 27, 30, 33, 36; It's as easy as picking up sticks. 39, 42, 45, 48; Who do we appreciate?! Counting along the number line, Stick with me; you'll do just fine. Go to the right and add with the pack. Go to the left and you subtract! 48, 45, 42, 39;  Stick with me; you'll do just fine. 36, 33, 30, 27; Keep on trying and don't give in! 24, 21, 18, 15; Don't stop now, the light is green! 12 and 9 and 6 and 3; It's as easy as can be!  Lucy's note: Counting by threes is the same as naming "multiples" of three. "Multiples Melody" (Count by Six for 3rd and 4th graders) (Tune: "Lou, Lou, Skip to My Lou") Lucy Jensen Lucy's note: "When using a more difficult "count-by," like six, just shorten the song by 2 verses.) Multiples are, if you should wonder, Counting by a certain number. Try it now and you will see. It's as easy as can be. 6 and 12, 18, 24; Clap your hands and count some more. 30, 36, 42, 48; Who do we appreciate?! Counting along the number line. Stick with me; you'll do just fine. Go to the right and add with the pack, Go to the left and you subtract! 48, 42, 36, 30; Chicken Little and Turkey Lurkey! 24, 18, 12, and 6; It's as easy as picking up sticks!   Lucy's note: You can make up a jingle for any "count by." the students can make up new lines to follow the numbers, or you can stick to these: If the number counting line rhymes with:      2  - Stick together like super glue!      3 -  It's as easy as can be!      4 -  Clap your hands and count some more.      5 -  Keep this number jive alive!      6 -  It's as easy as picking up sticks!      7 -  Keep on trying and don't  give in.      8 -  Who do we appreciate?!      9 -  Stick with me; you'll do just fine.     10 -  Take a breath and start again.     12 -  You can do this by yourself.     20 -  Pepperoni pizza with cheese a-plenty.  teen  - Don't stop now, the light is green!

 

Digging Up Dinosaurs Compiled and Edited by Cherry Carl and Paula Burrows T-Rex Flap Book Sample Dinosaur Dollars (Ones) Dinosaur Dollars (Fives) Dinosaur Dollars (Tens) Dinosaur Dollars (Twenties)   The Dinosaur’s Picnic (Tune: The Teddy Bears Picnic      Lyrics:  Cherry Carl) If you go out in the swamp today You’re sure of a big surprise If you go out in the swamp today You’d better go in disguise! For every dino that ever there was Will gather there for certain, because Today’s the day the dinosaurs have their picnic!   Every dinosaur, that's been good Is sure of a treat today. There's lots of wonderful things to eat And wonderful games to play! Beneath the vines, where nobody sees They'll hide and seek as long as they please. Today's the day the dinosaurs have their picnic!    Summertime for dinosaurs, The little carnivores are having a lovely time today. Watch them romping on all fours, And see them picnic on their holiday. See them stomp and tromp about. They love to roar and shout. Nobody has any chores. At six o'clock their mommies and daddies Will take them home to bed Because they’re tired little dinosaurs.   If you go out in the swamp today, You'd better not go alone. It's lovely out in the swamp today, But safer to stay at home. For every dino that ever there was Will gather there for certain, because Today’s the day the dinosaurs have their picnic! (To hear the tune: http://12121.hostinguk.com/teddybear.htm)   Silly Saurus Music and Lyrics  by Cherry Carl Oh, I’m glad I’m not a dinosaur, ‘Cause all they do is growl and roar. They wave their tails and fume and fight And now and then they take a bite . . . Of other beastly, brainless guys And I don’t think that’s very wise, So let’s pretend that we can be Dinosaurs, just you and me.  Silly, silly, saurus, Mr. (student name)saurus, Though you growl and roarus, Be a dinosaurus!   It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Super Dino! (Tune: The Daring Young Men on the Flying Trapeze) Lyrics: Cherry Carl They fly through the air with the greatest of ease, These daring young dinos can go where they please, Sailing and soaring on a soft summer breeze That takes them way up to the tops of the trees. They take off and land with their powerful wings, Gliding and riding like magical things, Flying so high they make circles and rings, Ruling the sky like aerokings! A Walking Tank Cherry Carl Some dinosaurs are built like tanks. They'll charge a trachodon point blank. They wear a helmet on their heads, Their thorny tail is one to dread! If they give a mighty whack, I guarantee he won't come back! 'Cause if he does, those thorny spikes Will make him holler, "Yow!" and "Yikes!"     The King of All the Dinosaurs Cherry Carl Watch out for Tyrannosaurus Rex 'Cause he bites others on their necks! His teeth are as sharp as sharp can be To nibble on neck and nose and knee. His hind legs make him very tall But his tiny front legs are just too small To help him when he wants to eat. But there's nobody else who dares compete With the king of all the dinosaurs . . . He'll bite them all with a deadly roar!   Vicious  Vegetarians Cherry Carl Vegetarians are mighty vicious! Unless they always get their wishes For carrots, corn and cucumbers, too, These herbivores will growl at you! Peas, parsley, and baked potatoes, Turnips and tender green tomatoes Should follow a great big cabbage pie, But even that won't satisfy The need for food that grows up green. I hope you know just what I mean. 'Cause if you forget to fill their dishes With vegetables . . . look out, they're vicious!   Henry! Cherry Carl I had a little dinosaur and Henry was his name, Until I found that he was she, And now it's not the same! With all those baby dinosaurs a-running here and there, Don't you really think I'd better Call her Henrietta?!   Allosaurus Afternoon! Cherry Carl   Let's ask someone to come and play, Someone who'll change a boring day. Why don't we ask an Allosaurus? I'm very sure he wouldn't bore us! He has strong legs with heavy claws, And have you seen his wicked jaws? He's such a fierce, ferocious beast, Let's hope he's had his daily feast. And if we play with Allosaurus, We'd better hope he'll just ignore us! Dinomania! Cherry Carl   I've seen a wrestling match before, But not between two dinosaurs! I wonder who will win the fight . . . The one who roars with every bite? Or maybe the one who waves his tail Will make the other whine and wail. Who'll be the winner to stand before us? Big Johnodon or Hulkasaurus?

 

Earth Day        "Let It Start With You and Me" (Tune: "This Land is Your Land" W. Guthrie) Lucy Jensen Chorus:      This land is your land,      This land is my land,      From California to the New York island;      There's a solution to this pollution;      And it will start with you and me! Verse:      As I was driving down an L.A. highway,      I saw above me a smoggy skyway,      My eyes were burning, my stomach churning,      E.T., I know why you went home! (chorus)      Ground-level ozone was all around me,      Carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide,      My lungs were wheezing, my nose was sneezing,      E.T., I know why you went home! (chorus)  Lucy's note: This song is an attempt to combine a fun, sing-along type of song with lyrics that emphasize 3 serious facts about our air pollution:      1.  Solutions to the pollution must come from an awareness and action          of the people;     2.  Smog is an unhealthy condition; and     3.  Names of three specific chemicals (although they are not the only ones)         in smog as we know it.   "Earth Day" (Tune: "Mulberry Bush") Lucy Jensen      Every day is Earth Day here,      Every day of every year.      Take time out to think about      A way to get into gear!           Recycle the trash; bicycle to town!      Don't throw your litter all over the ground!      Stop wasting water and turn off the lights,      To keep up the Earth-saver fight!      Everybody must be prepared      In every way to do their share.      You must start to do your part      To make the message clear!      Carry your bag to the store when you shop.      Buy only things that you're needing a lot.      Check for the "circle of arrows" that say:      "You're saving the Earth-saver way!" Lucy's note: April 21st is Earth Day!   Journey to the Sea Cherry Carl Our journey to the sea begins on mountains high, Away above the hilltops where the forest meets the sky. It's when the snow has melted and flows into a stream, That the swiftly moving water becomes a river's dream. And all around are watching the creation of the source Of the many streams and rivers that are part of nature's force. The rabbit and the eagle are joined in harmony As they watch their melting mountain start its journey to the sea. The trickle of the stream will wander and explore As it quenches thirst for many from its ever growing shore. It never stops to listen as it gurgles on its way To its predetermined meeting with a far and distant bay. The rolling of this river seems to whisper of a rush, While those who are its neighbors are surrounded by a hush. This place in time is sacred, this setting so serene, But the tumbling of the current takes it to the next ravine. The quiet little river now becomes a waterfall, Roaring with the thunder of a crashing, rumbling wall, Churning up the waters of the now forgotten stream, The slowly melting snow seems to be a distant dream. The willows bend and wave as they reach to say good-bye To the waters that have passed with a shadow of a sigh. The rainbow overhead seems to beckon it to stay With the promise of serenity upon a lovely day. It's left behind the mountain top and those who call it home, While rushing past the waterfall, with all its froth and foam. But now it's been discovered by those who can enjoy A day upon the waters, a father and his boy. Children laugh and play as they splish and splash before Their now contented mother who is watching from the shore. The waters move more slowly as the river grows and grows, On its ever flowing journey that began with winter snows. Yes, our journey to the sea began so long ago, Through waterfall and forest we have watched the river flow. But now the trip is over and our dream of long ago Is just the passing memory of a bit of melting snow.

Fall

Things to Do In The Fall Mini Book by Cherry Carl Hedgehog, Hedgehog, What Do You See?  (Mini Book) This is a perfect book for reading aloud in autumn. The author, Denys Cazet, describes the ghost of disagreeable Mr. Wilkerson. He returns to his old home and he's very hungry! Find out why!   Autumn Leaves

 

Angels in Disguise Mini Book Cooking With Grandma (Mini book)   Angels in Disguise My Mother, My Friend   Scratch

Farm

 

Eat Your Veggies! (Mini Book) On The Farm (Mini Book) Scarecrow, Scarecrow, What Do You See?  (Mini Book)   Turkey Talk Farmer Grig’s Pig (Tune: Clementine) Cherry Carl Farmer Grig has a pig And she isn’t very big, But she likes to wear a wig And to dance a fancy jig. For her breakfast, there’s a swig, Of the slop that pigs all dig. For dessert she eats a fig, Then she’s ready for her gig!   Faded Photograph Cherry Carl I study your picture in my kitchen every day, Mourning your aging appearance, So weathered and gray. Your sagging frame leans into the prairie wind As you stand there alone, Like some long forgotten friend. You’re like a window to my childhood, With its secrets and sorrows Framed in wood. What is it about you that draws me to the farm? You’re just a building, But you’re filled with charm. Will you still be standing there to greet me when I come home?   Silly Goose Cherry Carl There's a long-necked silly on Grandma's farm! Better watch out - she'll sound the alarm, As she honks and she squawks and she makes such noise, And struts around with little poise. This bossy, bothersome, biddy old bird Has never said a single word But she flutters and flops while on the loose. She's nothing but a silly goose!   The Birth of Spring Cherry Carl Peaceful picnic, A cathedral of pines, Last of the rhubarb in a pie. Prairie whispers sing a song . . . "Spring is comin', won't be long." Pete and Dinah, Nibbling nubs of green, Promising pictures in the snow. Message of the melting ice, Winter's watery foe. Note from Cherry: My husband grew up on a working farm in North Dakota, ten miles from the closest town. He and his brother spent countless hours playing and working together in and around their enormous barn. We have a framed picture of it in our kitchen in southern California. This was written during the summer of 1996 after many evenings spent together in the kitchen. I was taking a three week writers workshop at the university and looking for writing material, not realizing what a wonderful storyteller I had in my own kitchen!  Here's another that I wrote after he related a story about the spring thaw when he was about 4 years old. His parents loaded a picnic into the fence wagon that was pulled by Pete and Dinah, the family's chore horses and headed for a picnic by the frozen creek. He says that it was the first time he felt real fear . . . the creek water was trying to escape its winter coat of ice and the ice began to break. They escaped, but learned the next day that the bridge over the creek had been washed away once again. The Farmer and the Turkeys Cherry Carl (Sung to the Tune: "Down by the Station") Down in the barnyard early in the morning, See the fattened turkeys all in a row, See the hungry farmer coming for his dinner, Gobble, gobble! Whoof, whoof! Off they go! Singing Game These are the directions for a singing game to go with The Farmer and the Turkeys. You can use it with or without puppets.   A Pig Sty Song Farmer, Farmer, What Do You See?       Adventure to the Farm Adventure to the Farm Homework   Adventure to the Farm Pocket Chart Pics  Sentences