Hey, y'all! I'm Kimberly from Kimberly Geswein Fonts. I've been making fonts since 2006 and have dabbled in various worlds of graphic design since my college days (that's a long time ago!) My husband teaches 5th grade in Orlando, Florida and I previously taught high school. I was having lunch with Deanna (yes, total name dropping, but I am real life friends with the Queen of TpT) and we were chatting about font usage and I forced her to let me take over here at Mrs. Jump's Class and ... continue reading...
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Alphabets and Fonts Clearance
If you love cute fonts then you don't want to miss the clearance sale at Lettering Delights. Many alphabets and fonts are on sale for as low as 50 cents! My favorite alphabet is the one shown in the picture above. It is called Scribble Kids. You can get all my favorites in the bundle called, Top 10 Fonts and Alphabets of 2011. The entire bundle is only $8.00 Please use the pink button to the left of my blog post that Says 9 Free Fonts to purchase them. If you are unsure how to use them ... continue reading...
5 Math Games You Can Make From the Dollar Store
This week I had 13 of my sweet friends staying at my house for the Teachers Pay Teachers conference, and we had a blast!! Some of my friends went home on Friday morning so the rest of us decided to hit the Dollar Tree to see what we could find!! We decided to do our very first Facebook live video and share what we found. Many of you asked us to do a follow-up blog post so you could grab the pictures of our ideas, so we decided to do a blog hop. Be sure and visit all five blogs to see all 15 ... continue reading...
How to Start Teaching Writer’s Workshop in Kindergarten & First Grade
Do you struggle with how to get started? Writer's Workshop in kindergarten and first grade classrooms is one of the most powerful components. In Writing Workshop in kindergarten and first grade, students are encoding words that come from their thoughts and feelings, which is a much easier skill than decoding. Successful writers become successful readers! So, how do you get started? The answer is simple. Just jump right in!! I usually start at the beginning of the ... continue reading...
Kindergarten Math Lessons and Activities for the First 20 Days!
Kindergarten math lesson plans for teaching numbers to 5, 2D shapes, and 3D shapes. This resource provides detailed instruction for your first 4 weeks of math! Kindergarten Math: The First 20 Days The first few weeks of school are a hectic time for kindergarten teachers! You are making sure to cover all procedures and routines, all while beginning to teach the kindergarten math curriculum. Many teachers get started with academics right away in order to stay on track for the expected ... continue reading...
Fun & Engaging Kindergarten Alphabet Activities & Worksheets
Kindergarten alphabet activities and worksheets to develop letter identification and sounds. Hands-on and engaging tasks to get students excited about letters! Kindergarten Alphabet Activities It's that time of year again! Letter recognition ideas are on kindergarten teachers' minds! With a fresh set of kindergarten sweeties coming in, it's possible you have no idea where your students fall with knowing the letters of the alphabet. So, you begin getting prepared! It's time to find ... continue reading...
Labels: leveled reader labels A-L, recycling, library books and phonics phones
Here are the labels that some of you requested. (click on the picture to download them) These include the leveled reader labels A-L, the tinker toys, action figures, puzzles, etc: and the large labels for recycling, library books and phonics phones. These are all in one file. I am working on the large labels for my Math tubs and I will get them posted soon. Also, many of you have requested the pirate themed items that are in my room. I will work on compiling them into one document ... continue reading...
Organization Station…Rewind!
I've had my blog for awhile so I thought I'd go back and revisit some of my old posts that might be helpful to you! Don't cheat by exploring on your own. :) I'll be back tomorrow with another rewind! Organization Station! Click on these two links to visit my posts about organization and download my free labels. Sorry....I'm trying to move classrooms and get ready for I TEACH K! so I don't have time to make any custom labels. However, if you like the font it is called Scribble ... continue reading...
St. Patrick’s Day Activities & Crafts
St. Patrick's Day activities for kindergarten and first grade. Cute craft ideas and fun math and literacy lessons to help you celebrate. St. Patrick's Day Activities St. Patrick's Day is such a fun holiday to celebrate in the classroom! Maybe you have a leprechaun who visits and leaves his tiny footprints and glitter all around. Or, perhaps your students build traps to catch a leprechaun. The excitement of the holiday is sure to make an engaging day of learning. Check out some ideas from ... continue reading...
Insects Eric Carle style!
We read Eric Carle's series of insect books and then we made our own Eric Carle inspired insects. This is what we started with. The papers were made by painting with bubble wrap, sponges, circle paint brushes and those soft body wash thingies. (not the technical term...but shoot! I can't remember what they're called. You can buy them at the Dollar Tree and then come on a little rope. ) I LOVE how the kids know how to use squares, rectangles and their creativity ... continue reading...
What are the other kids doing? Literacy Centers POST TWO with Freebies!
click on the picture above to download the large icon Freebies. Each day this week I will share you with you some of the things we do in each center. The activities above will be included in Alphapalooza 2 which will be posted this week! Any flashcards that you have are perfect for matching games. These flashcards can be used for a variety of purposes in a variety of ways. Have them match ... continue reading...
Phoneme Segmentation! Make and Take Freebie and Book Talk Tuesday
Segmenting words is an important skill that we work on throughout the year. Kids need a variety of hands on ways to work on this skill in order to make it more concrete. We use a variety of manipulatives to work on phoneme segmentation. Building words with unifix cubes as we say each sound, stretching the words with a slinky, sliding a pony bead for each sound and using our stretchy the word stretcher (as seen above). To make the word stretchers you need the template (below) ... continue reading...
February Reading Fluency Activities for 1st and 2nd Grade
Focus on reading fluency in February. Differentiated fluency passages and activities that can be used in class or given for homework. Reading Fluency As educators, we know that reading fluency is important and should be a focus in our early elementary classrooms. It is a building block in literacy. The more our students automatically recognize words in reading, the better they comprehend the text that is being read. There are four components of reading fluency: accuracy, rate, ... continue reading...
FREE Spine Labels for Binders: Getting Organized!
This is a throwback post that I did awhile back about getting our Guiding Readers units organized. Since this post, I've had quite a few requests to make matching spine labels for the Writing and Math units. So HERE YOU GO! Sorry, it took me so long! We also have a Free Year-Long Curriculum Map for Kindergarten and First Grade. (Scroll to the bottom of this post to grab the map and spines) If you want to read the throw back post carry on! If not, Happy Organizing. ... continue reading...
Leonardo the Terrible Monster Reading Lesson Plans for K-1
Leonardo the Terrible Monster reading comprehension lesson plans with student response activities. Print and teach lessons to engage your students in reading! Leonardo the Terrible Monster This story by Mo Willems is one of my favorite stories to read, especially in October around Halloween. If you are not familiar with this book, it is about a monster named Leonardo. Leonardo is not a scary monster, no matter how hard he tries! He does some research and thinks he finds the perfect little ... continue reading...
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