Off To A Great Start!

A great start to a great year! 

Welcome to all of my new kinders and parents.

You are now "o-fish-ally" a kindergartner!

Pete the Cat

We started the year off with the adorable Pete the Cat.  Here is a look at our cute bulletin board and Pete the Cat craft!

Welcome To School

Back to school and loving my new group of kinders.  We are moving along and coming together as a family.  I will be posting my classroom tour pictures soon!  Until then you can enjoy my welcome bulletin board.  I am very pleased with it, I think it turned out beautiful!

"Look Whoooooo's in Kindergarten"

Spring Is Here!

After reading many books on the signs of spring we used interactive writing to label our pictures for our bulletin board. Our robins are made from our hand prints and we also made "dandy" lions and daffodils!

Ladybug Math

I needed to review our science topic of ladybugs, review addition and put up a February bulletin board (the ladybugs are made out of mostly hearts) and voila I did it all with this one activity.  As we made our ladybugs we reviewed the parts of a ladybug, then during math time we added the spots and wrote an addition sentence to match our spots!!! The results was this adorable bulletin board.

Shamrocks and Rainbows

Our lovely March bulletin board.  We have had so much fun learning about spring weather, rainbows, shamrocks and leprechauns!

Here are a few pictures:

Here is a close up of the title for the bulletin board - we used interactive writing to make the title

"I found a baby dog"

"I found a pot of gold"

Februrary Fun

I know it is way past Valentine's Day, but hey when you are down and out with being sick you have to post when you can.  Here are pictures of our February bulletin board and decorations.  We used interactive writing for the bulletin board title.  A few of their writings were so adorable and sweet!

I love my dog.  Her name is Ellie.   Shes my best pal.

I love my mom because she reads me a book

I love my mom.  She's my best friend.

I love brownies.  My mom makes them special.

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

Just a few snapshots of our winter bulletin board. My students had a lot of fun making their pattern block snowflakes!

Christmas Decor

Just a few pictures of our bulletin board and our adorable hanging snowmen!  We did the snowmen a little at a time for morning work.

Little bit of Fall in the classroom

Just a few odds and ends pictures of how our classroom looked in the fall

This was done during interactive writing time.  It is our bulletin board right outside our classroom door.

My wonderful daughter painted the tree for me

We completed this fall poem during an interactive writing lesson as well.  This is our poem wall in our classroom.  It is used during read the room as well as our wall stories

Our cute little leaf men!  So Cute!

A Little Of This and A Little Of That

Hard to believe that the first nine weeks of school is already completed and I have hardly posted at all (I seem to always forget my camera)!  Here is just a few snippets of what we have  been doing.

Here is our apple tree graph.  I got this idea from Mrs. Jump's class (thanks!!)

 

This was our pumpkin glyph - turned out really cute!

Here is our data that we collected from our glyph

Just a few pictures of some of our stations that we have been doing:

Sorting "A" and "M" pictures

Roll count and color pumpkins 

I have several of these "roll count and color" activities that I use for a math tub.  Just about every theme you can think of and I would love to have these for a freebie for all of you. but every time I load them into my google docs they come out distorted - the squares don't show up and the pictures are not there either and the font that I use changes to another font.  Any ideas on how to fix that so that I can post all of my roll count and colors for all of you???

This was my small group math activity a few weeks ago.  I would show the group a number card and they were to "show" that number on their ten frame.  They would then check their neighbor to make sure that they had the correct amount of counters shown.  Then they were to write the number in the box and color that many counters in their ten frame on the paper.  This went really well!

This was an activity that I saw on someones blog ( I am so sorry I do not remember where I got it form, if it is yours send me a note and I will give you credit!!)  I changed it a little.  I added two more legs and then changed the numbers to be 2 thru 9.  They were to pull a number tile out of a bag.  Say the name of the number.  Find it on the spider's leg and cover it with a counter and then write it on the recording sheet.  When all the legs were covered we cleared the board and started over.  This was great practice for number identification and practicing writing the numbers.

Here is another roll count and color - this time it is SPIDERS!!!

I love to do pattern block pictures every week.  If I can't find one to match my theme then I create one.  I also have my students complete a graph with these pattern block pictures.  I will take a picture of it soon and post it!

Oh never mind!!!  Here it is - I have it printed on the back side of the pattern block picture.

This is a game that I  believe came from Shari Sloane's website.  I love this game and I am in the process of making one just like it for "one less"  I will take pictures of that and post it as soon as I get it done.