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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

All About Me Book

As I talked about last week, we are getting ready to start our All About Me Unit this month.  Last week, I sent home a note to all my students asking their parents to fill out a current phone number and address that their child could learn.  When I tested all of my kids, only ONE knew his phone number and address (part of this could be because my kids didn't understand the questions, but still...we obviously need to work on this!) Back when I first started teaching, I used to teach my students their home phone number, but lately I have been thinking that knowing a parent's cell phone number might be more appropriate if a student is ever needing to get ahold of their parents (I mentioned this in the note as well for parents to consider when providing a phone number for their child to learn).  Once I got all the information back from the parents, I created these cute re-usable books for each student so we can work on learning their personal information every day!

Here is a sample cover (of me!)

This is the first page...students work on name, gender, hair color, and eye color.  The picture choices are stored on the bottom of the page (there are correct/incorrect answer choices available).  So the student has to find the correct answer and place it next to the correct statement.  For instance, they need to find their name and put it in the box next to the phrase "my name is."  To make this easier for some of my students, I will only include the correct answers at the bottom of the page.


This page is working on learning phone numbers.  The numbers are stored at the bottom and students need to put them in the correct order at the top of the page.  When we start out, I will write in all the numbers on the top of the page (with dry erase marker since the pages are laminated).  Students will start out matching the numbers.  Once they can do that, I will start erasing numbers from the end of the phone number to see if they can begin to memorize the order.



This is the address page.  Students have to put their house number and street on the top line, city/state on the middle line, and country on the bottom line.  Again, pictures needed to complete the page are located at the bottom (including some wrong answers).


This is the last page.  Students have to identify school, teacher, room number, and a friend.  Again, pictures needed to complete the page are at the bottom (I blurred out the names for privacy sake).


I'm super excited about these books and can't wait to use them with my kiddos this week. I did make some of my books easier by including more pictures and less words in the answer choices.  For instance, pictures of teachers/friends instead of names. I'll let you know how it goes! 


15 comments:

  1. I had the same discovery in my own classroom last year. I was surprised because when I was a kid we all had to know how address and phone number. It seems to be something that has slipped between the cracks over the years as standards have increased. I love your idea, and I think I'll do something similar soon!

    Lisa
    The Lower Elementary Cottage

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    1. I know. It is crazy how things change! And thanks for reading!

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    2. I think the introduction of cell phones and their contact lists have really contributed to this. Parents (and teachers) forget to teach phone numbers because we don't memorize as many any more.

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  2. So will the template for the "All About Me" books be posted onTPT anytime soon? I love it and have been needing to make something for phone number, address (etc.) practice, but thought I'd ask before I spend too much time on Boardmaker! Thanks- love it!!

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    1. I can definitely post them on TPT..I'll try to get to it this week! The only reason I haven't so far is because all the info is so individualized...but I guess I could leave blank boxes for people to write in their students' info. What do you think? Thanks for reading!

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    2. I think that would still be really helpful! If it could download in a way that we could edit that in especially. I'm no pro at Boardmaker yet so having these formatted pages with all blanks would be super helpful! Love all your stuff and ideas- using lots of them!

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  3. Thanks for the great idea!!! This is perfect for my kids!

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  4. Love! I work with special needs kids and this would be perfect!

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    1. Glad you like it! I just updated this post...this product is now available in my TPT Store as well! http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/All-About-Me-Interactive-Worksheets-to-Work-on-Personal-Information

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  5. Thanks Hailey! As a newbie kindergarten teacher and mom of first grade twins (who know their home phone number and address - but not our cell phones yet), this is fantastic! Found you via Pinterest - congratulations!

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  6. I love this idea and plan to use it with my ASD class this fall! Would you mind sharing the letter you send to parents about this? Thanks!!

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  7. YOU DID A GREAT JOB! THERE WAS CLEARLY A LOT OF WORK AND TIME INVESTED IN THIS PROJECT. I AM VERY GRAEFUL FOR YOUR HARD WORK.

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  8. Hi there! Autistic adult commenting in :)
    Thanks for doing this! What a great idea!
    Honestly , I love it :D
    Are you reading things aloud with them as they are doing this activity? When I was a kid, I could pick my telephone information by shape , but never knew the numbers. It took me 5 years to learn my current phone number without seeing it.
    So I guess, my thought would be , please make sure the kids are understanding the strings of information, not just putting things in the right spot by the right shape !
    Something else that might help with this is to draw a big cell phone on the class board and have them come up and ''press'' the numbers on the ''phone'' in the right order to make sure they've got it :)
    Mae
    ~asdeal.blogspot.ca

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    1. I totally agree with you....those are important points to keep in mind! I did use a variety of phones with the kiddos so they could practice there as well! We also worked on saying the numbers in order or (for non vocal students) pointing to each number in order while I said them out loud.

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