Somewhere Over The Rainbow!

We has so much fun on Friday celebrating St. Patrick's Day.  We did it with rainbow style!

These wonderful recording sheets can be found at Golden Gang Kindergarten

I also made these wonderful rainbow cupcakes that I found on Google images and they are all over Pinterest as well!  I opted not to do the blue layer like you see in this picture.  For a little bit more fun and excitement I used yellow sprinkles for the top and told my students that it was the gold at the end of the rainbow.  My students were so amazed when they peeled the paper and saw the rainbow colors on the wrapper!!   

Green Eggs and Ham

Our Green Eggs and Ham was a big hit - they even asked for more!!!!!!

Gotta say in this picture it looks kind of yucky!!

 

 

 

As we were making our green eggs and ham we were looking at a page of pictures to help us sequence the steps and then I had them cut out the pictures and glue them down in order!

Chubby Little Bunny Wall Story

Here is one of our winter wall stories:

Some of the pictures are hard to see - I choose 1 student a day to "illustrate" our interactive writing piece for the day

Love this illustration!

We are required to post "We can" statements for any work that we display for the hall way.  Since all of my work that I display is done thru interactive writing I posted this blanket statement that covers any type of work that I display in the hall.  Of course it is not just out there for display.  My students use our interactive writing pieces (wall stories) for read the room workstation!  Love it when I can use one lesson for more than one purpose!!!

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"

One Lovely Blog

A heartfelt thank you goes out to Kinder Kiddo for the wonderful "One Lovely Blog" award. Thank you so so much for the wonderful pick me up!

 Here are the rules for the award
 
1.  Thank the person who gave it to you and link back to them.
2.  Pass the award on to 15 other bloggers.
3.  Follow the person who sent it to you.

Here are my 15 nominations:

1. Mrs. Plant's Press
2. Golden Gang Kindergarten
3. Can Do Kinders
4. A Kindergarden in bloom
5. Fairy Dust Teaching
6. For The Love Of Kindergarten
7. Growing Kinders
8. Heather's Heart
9. Hoppy Kindergarten
10.Kindergarten Days
11.Kindergarten Katy
12.Kinderkids Fun
13.Little Warriors - A Kindergarten blog
14.Mrs. Albanese's Kindergarten Class
15.Mrs. Lee's Kindergarten

I have linked back to all of these wonderful blogs so that if you have not seen or visited these wonderful blogs they are just a click away. 

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.

Sorry for not posting in so long.  I have been sick, sick, sick!!!!  Terrible flu (high fever, body aches, etc.) and then the flu caused my shoulder to become inflamed and I have been to the Dr. twice, ER once and now I am in physical therapy --- all from the flu --- who new.  I promise pictures of our newest and latest wall stories and our adorable February bulletin board coming soon!!!  Glad to be back in the land of the living!

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!

How To Build A Christmas Tree Wall Story

Here is our Christmas Wall Story!

Gingerbread Man Wall Story

Here is our gingerbread wall story - we had a lot of fun writing and retelling The Gingerbread Man. 

Above the last picture that says "We ate him!"  I had a picture with snapshots of my kinders decorating and eating their gingerbread cookie.

Blog Help!!

Can anyone help!  I am unable to view my google reader.  It is completely blank and I have no idea what happened.  Also whenever I stop by other blogs I am unable to leave a comment.  The option is just not there!  I am going crazy here!!!!!!!!!!

Common Core

I was able to post the common core tab onto my blog.  If you have not visited the website that allows you to not only put the tab on your blog, but has many other exciting resources you should do so soon!  Here is the link to Mastery Connect

Wonderful New Blog

I wanted to let all of my followers know (and hopefully you can spread the word as well) that I have found a wonderful new blog that many are missing out on!!!.  Mrs. Plant's Press.  She is offering some great freebies and would love to have some more followers.  Stop on by her blog and link up as a new follower!

Winter Reading

When Christmas break is over - tomorrow :-(  I will begin my snow and snowman unit.  I always read the common snowmen books, the mitten, the hat, etc.  So I thought I would share with all of you two different books that maybe some of you might not know about.  The first is . . .

This is a wonderful book about what to do after Chrsitmas with your used up Christmas tree.  You can follow the reading with a craft of making bird feeders (pine cones rolled in peanut butter and seeds) for the kiddos to take home.

My next book which I will also read tomorrow is . . .

I follow the reading of this book with a math/craft idea to creat our bulletin board for out in the hall.  We make pattern block snowflakes and use interactive writing to make the title for our work!  I will post a picture tomorrow of the finished bulletin board.

Christmas Treats

For our classroom Christmas party we made these adorable bagel snowmen.  The cream cheese was a little hard to spread so next year we will try the whipped cream cheese.  The kiddos had a lot of fun making thier snowman!  We also had individual banana dessert cups and chocolate milk for our drink!

Classroom Tour

Just sharing a few ideas that I use for classroom organization and management.  These pictures were lost on my memory card in my camera, thus the reason for posting classroom tour pictures so late :-)

This is my classroom door and entry way.  We are required to post our focus for learning so that whoever enters our room will know what skills, standards, etc. we are working on. We are also required to post times for our reading, math and writer's workshop block times.  These are absolute and uninterrupted times!

We read our daily schedule everyday. Yellow for our morning (up to lunch) and blue for our afternoon.  It is amazing to see the students look at the schedule to see what is up next.  Heaven forbid if I forget to change it and I have the wrong special up for the day.  My students also read our daily schedule during read the room.

This is our writing wall

This is how I manage my helpers for the day.  I have one boy and one girl.  They are the "lucky ducks" for the day.  Line leaders, lunch count helpers, paper passers, etc.  They get to wear the lucky duck necklace for the day.  They all look forward to their day!

I have two of these cabinets, one for math tubs and one for abc tubs.  Although I like my cute little labels I made I am thinking of changing them to just have big numbers.  I have and am reading again (I don't think one every stops!) reading Debbie Diller's book Math Workstations.  I keep trying to improve my math and literacy workstation times!!!

My wonderful chart caddy!  We use these charts for reading during Literacy Workstation time