Groundhog Day

We talked about predicting and what we thought the groundhog would see. Once they made their predictions they were able to make small groundhogs and place them on our graph. This is another pinterest find! People have great ideas and it is awesome they are so willing to share their ideas!!! 

Dental Health Month

I found great ideas on Pinterest for dental health month so here are some of my recreations. I have changed and added to some and used others I do not have the links I looked at but they are not my original ideas but they are fantastic ones! 

We graphed how many teach each student had lost.

I drew a tooth for a boy and a girl tooth and copied them on card stock. Then we used scrapbook paper for the clothes and bows. They wrote what they could do to keep their teeth healthy; which we talked about earlier in the week when we talked about what was healthy vs. unhealthy for our teeth.  

Valentines

For Valentines I used scrapbook paper and printed sayings on them using a business card template. One for my students and one for the teachers. 

I'm glad you fit 'write' in with our class

Thanks to a friend of mine I was able to order small personalized notepads, designed by her, for each of the teachers I work with. I then made a card that said I'm lucky to work with such a 'note'worthy team! Which I do work with such an awesome team of 9 kindergarten teachers and awesome support staff and fantastic principal!! 

The 100th Day of School

On the 100th day of school we had a few special activities that the kids really enjoyed doing as stations!

I placed M&Ms in a can and skittles in a can and the students wrote their names on a sticky note and guessed which one had 100.

Then they were able to see what they could make using 100 foam balls, they worked as a team at this station and there were a few interesting ideas that came from this. 

The students also were able to measure items around the room and find what was 100cm. They then went back to their math notebooks and either wrote a sentence or drew a picture to go along with what they found.

The last station was to find the numbers around the room. I created circles with numbers 1-100 on them and colored them 5 colors. The students then had a hundred's chart and colored the numbers as they found them around the room. 

 

Scarves!

This year for Christmas I made a few friends infinity scarves! The pictures are taken in my classroom but I did make them at home this was where I took the pictures the day I was giving them the scarves. I made them out of fabric from Walmart, all three of them were made from 1 yd. of fabric and the flowers I made out of fabric as well then sewed them on to the scarf. The colors are the school colors in which they work. The fabric is tied therefore it can be untied and worn as a normal scarf rather than an infinity scarf if wanted. 

 

 

Snowmen at Night!

Part of our course work includes a book a week where we go through and practice skills such as character, setting, beginning, middle, end, checking for understanding, retelling, comprehension, and knowing the job of the author and illustrator. This last week our book was Snowmen at Night and I decided to make a glyph to go along with our story to tie our book into math and handwriting by making them answer the question What do snowmen do at night? Here are some pictures showing how they turned out, what they show, and some of the ways the students answered the question. 

                        

                  

Word Family Tree

We have a spelling test each week and our spelling tests consist of words from the word family of that particular week. We discuss how if you can spell one word with that ending you can spell any word that uses that ending. It can also help you with reading because you can use those word endings as chunks that you already know the sound to and no longer have to sound out each individual sound. This is the word family tree I have made and displayed in the hall way. Each week I  Place the new word family on a leaf and add it to the tree! 

Parent Gifts

My students had a great time making gifts for their parents! I saw the original idea on Pinterest and then adapted it to what my students could do and what I had in my classroom. I found the blue ornaments at Walmart for $2.50 a pack and I needed three packages. They are snowmen using the students handprint in white paint. They then were able to use other paint colors to add details to their snowmen the following day once the white had had time to dry. 

After making ornaments the students wrote a message and signed cards that I had purchased at Walmart for .99 and I needed two packages. I also made santa beards and santa hat photo props and took their pictures in front of the tree and had these printed and placed inside each card. 

The kids made reindeer gift bags to put everything in also! Clothes pin antlers and scrapbook paper noses on brown paper lunch bags all which I had on hand.