Freebie Fireworks!!

Have you been waiting anxiously for the virtual fireworks? Well, they are HERE! My Kinderland friends and I are hosting facebook freebie hop like no other and forty of us are participating for some spectacular fireworks FUN! You have to like our facebook though to grab the goodies. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. It doesn't matter where you start, you will end up catching them all. Just make sure you click LIKE on each page and then THIS PICTURE. It will be on top of the page.

That will take you to this picture. Click it to grab your freebie and to keep hopping. 

Now, for my freebie! I am so excited about this. Each year, about two weeks before school starts, my team meets at school and prints out the list of all incoming kindergarten students (that have registered so far). We divide up the names and start calling parents. We invite students to come up to school one afternoon for a prescreening. We call it the KEA (Kindergarten Early Assessment). We set up different tables in the cafeteria and each of us (along with the aides that are back on contract) takes a table and section to test. Students arrive during the set time (usually 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. so parents can come during their lunch) and they hop from table to table. Students are tested on letters, sounds, numbers, 1-1, etc. When we are finished with all the testing (and usually about 65% or more of the kids show up) we score the sheets and fill in any notes. This is a great way for us to get to know the students before they come to school for meet the teacher. Then, we take all of this information and build our classes. This really helps us build more balanced classrooms. We take in account of gender, race, birthday, and the KEA because we want very balanced classrooms.  It takes us a long time to ensure that our classes are truly built on the best interest of our students.

So, yesterday I created this early assessment for this year. You can always add to it if you want. J You will need number flash cards 1-20 (because I forgot to attach them, oopsie!). I hope you love the idea as much as I do. 

Please feel free to leave me a comment and get to hopping people. Have a safe and wonderful 4^th of July!  Start by liking my facebook page and grabbing my freebie. Click this pic to get going! :)