My 2nd Product Swap

Happy Saturday Everyone!

I am very excited to have had the opportunity to join Jessica Stanford's 2nd Product Swap.  I love seeing other bloggers products.

This time I have been paired with Deborah at The Paper Maid.  She has wonderful items for the primary level (not just kindergarten) and many freebies.  Make sure you take time to visit her blog.




The product that I am reviewing is her Beginning Sounds and Writing Book.  It has cute illustrations that are black line so that the students can color them in (that is always important to me because my students don't like to color in pictures that have gray parts of them because they were actually in color to begin with).  I found that there were many uses for it in the classroom.
First of all, I have a group of students who need extra practice with identifying beginning sounds.  So I made copies of some of the pages in the book to work on with this small group together.  The students enjoyed looking at the pictures and they were very easy for them to identify.  Since there are only 3 letters for them to pick from that the picture might begin with, it made it easier for my students who are struggling with this skill to be successful.

There is also a space for the students to write the letter.  This gave them extra printing practice, which is always a good thing.

I also printed off the pages, glued them to construction paper and laminated them.  These pages I placed at a center for the students to write on with a dry erase marker.  This provided extra practice with beginning sounds for all of my students.  The students loved using the dry erase markers.  You could also place the pages in page protectors and let the students write on them with the dry erase markers.

Thank you Deborah for being my partner in the Product Swap and for letting me review an item that was so useful in my classroom.

Don't forget to stop by Jessica's blog to see the other wonderful items in the product swap.

Click here to go to Jessica's blog.

Thank you for taking the time to visit today.

A Product Swap

Jessica at Mrs. Stanford's Class had an awesome idea.  She paired up teachers based on what grade they taught, how long they had been blogging and how many items were in their TpT store.  Then, each teacher (in the pair) chose an item from the other teacher's TpT store, made the item and wrote a review about the item.


I was paired with Danielle at Krazee 4 Kindergarten.  (You should visit her blog.  She has lots of awesome ideas.)

After much thought (who doesn't love shopping for free on TpT) I chose her Kindergarten Basic Mini Writing Office.  It has wonderful resources for my kinders to use while they are writing. (included are: an alphabet chart, a list of things to write about, a writing checklist, a list of color words, a list of number words, and many labels for the front of the mini office)  I will have to go over the resources at the beginning of the year so they will understand how use them.  But, I hope that the folder will help my students while they are writing, so there will be fewer questions.

Here is what the folder looks like when you follow the directions that Danielle has in the packet:

I usually have my students use a 2-pocket folder for writing.  So I thought I would try placing the mini office items on a 2-pocket folder.  

Here is what it looks like:

The Front

The Middle

The Back

I wasn't able to fit in the list of sight words when I placed everything on the 2-pocket folder but that didn't bother me because my students usually use the word wall when spelling sight words.

I have to say that I love this product.  First of all, had I tried to make it myself it would have taken me forever.  Danielle did a terrific job of illustrating everything, which is very important in kindergarten.  Also, the way all of the charts are on separate pages, you can individualize the folders for your classroom.

Thank you for visiting my blog.  Make sure you stop by Krazee 4 Kindergarten and Mrs. Stanford's Class today.