CLASSROOM : Transportation Die Cut Accents
Written: Aug 10, 2012
a Very Helpful Review
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Pros:THUMBS UP FROM OSAGE COUNTY FIRST GRADE
The Bottom Line: These Die Cut Accents include a high flying jet, a cruise ship, boys bicycle, bus, RED sports car and a bullet train.
Note: as with most of the items I review in this category the items are not toys, games, game pieces, game boards, game devices, or cards to use in game apparatus, nor are they office materials per se, rather these are classroom type materials created by educational publishers and intended for use with Early Childhood, primary and older age students in a classroom or home school environment.
This product is a packet of paper die cut accents having a child pleasing theme
Creative Teaching Press™ Transportation Designer Cut Outs measuring approximately 10 inches include a series of vehicles excellent for reinforcement of math common core measurement standards as well as for helping Little Learners understand just what a vehicle is. These Die Cut Accents include a high flying jet, a cruise ship, boys bicycle, bus, RED sports car and a bullet train.
Whenever I can find accents on sale I try to buy several of the same set to provide more opportunities for Osage County First Grade Little Mathematicians to use interesting, child pleasing and motivating materials during Little Partner work periods following the Instructional portion of the lesson.
Educating for and understanding concepts of Measurement is begun early in the educational career of students.
I find these well made, durable, and colorful Die Cuts fit well into our Measurement and Data Common Core Domain as presented by the NGA, National Governors Association, requires that First Grade Little Mathematicians will learn to “Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units, Order three objects by length; compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object, Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter object (the length unit) end to end; understand that the length measurement of an object is the number of same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps”.
Osage County First Grade Little Partner Mathematicians especially enjoy measuring their table top, the rug where we sit, the length of the classroom and the bench placed against the wall in the hallway where we enter the elementary building as well as the length of the passageway down the center of building when the iterating length units are colorful ships, trains and airplanes.
I like that I can rely upon this publisher to offer well made paper products generated using carefully chosen raw materials selected to conform to governmental industry standards regarding functional suitability for classroom usage, safety for use in situations where young children can be expected to be present and durability for usage longevity. Papers are lignin and acid free, inks are colorful, non toxic and child pleasing.
Once the concept is understood regarding how to place these large size measurement devices, perhaps a group of bicycles, or several cruise ships laid end to end, with no overlapping or gaps; Little Mathematicians easily move to measuring using smaller items, erasers, pencils, calendar cards and finally to rulers, yard sticks, and even Husband’s measuring wheel with ease.
Happy to recommend Creative Teaching Press™ Transportation Designer Cut Outs.
NOTE: I find Creative Teaching Press Items available online from a wide diversity of websites as well as on the shelves of walk in brick and mortar shops catering to the classroom, education and home school market.
I like to buy school classroom supplies during summer when educational supply shops are trying to free space on shelves for new publisher offerings, and many items are available at reduced price on the -discount - shelf.
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From the Creative Teaching Press site: Creative Teaching Press (CTP) is a family-owned and teacher-managed supplemental educational publisher for grades PreK-8.
CTP is a recognized leader in the industry and offers a wide variety of learning décor and research-based, teacher-tested products that deliver standards-driven content including: phonics, reading, writing, math, science, and social studies. CTP celebrates more than four decades of providing parents and teachers with high-quality, easy-to-use solutions.
In 1965, Luella Connelly was a classroom teacher looking for products that would pick up where textbooks left off. After 17 years in the classroom, she knew that students often needed something beyond textbooks to reinforce skills in a creative and comfortable way.
Connelly created "Recipes for Creative Writing," a box of 4" x 6" cards full of writing ideas. What started as a simple idea to help students learn, turned into a company that Luella and her husband, Pat, ran until their retirement in 1998.
The company's big break came in 1977 with the introduction of its innovative Scratch ‘n Sniff reward stickers. Market response to these stickers was phenomenal, with teachers and students all over the world buying and collecting them!
Since the Scratch ‘n Sniff phenomenon, CTP has been at the forefront of the educational market. CTP expanded offerings to cover educational needs for grades PreK-8. Its editors, product developers, and authors all have classroom teaching experience and regularly visit classrooms and attend workshops and conventions to ensure that CTP's products are what teachers want and need!
Jim Connelly, Luella and Pat's son, has held multiple titles and responsibilities since joining the company in 1982. He was named president in 1994. In his tenure with CTP, the company has quadrupled its sales and expanded its international market presence.
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