What I Have Been Up to....

Sorry, I haven't been on here in a while.  My son was struggling with reading so I spent a lot of time working with him over the past several months.  Here are some things that we have made this school year.

Christmas Cards

Snowman (We used ribbon for his scarf.)             We made cinnamon dough ornaments.

 We compared two books.

 

 

 

Our Lions and Lambs.  We used bubble wrap to paint our lambs that we cut out of grey construction paper.

We put green paper through the paper shredder to fill our sensory table for spring.

We made chicks and used yellow cotton balls to make them fluffy.

 

I hope everyone is having a great summer! 

December Planning and TPT Cyber Monday

I started planning out the month of December today.  There is so much that I want to do for the month.  My teammates are using the senses and the holidays as the themes for this month.  I want to add in Christmas Around the World and do their themes at the same time.  Who knows, they may want to do some of my stuff.  I'm new to my school this year if your wondering and I am loving kindergarten again.  Sometimes it seems we need to go on a little soul searching journey to figure out what we really want to do teach.  I tried out a few other grades and realized that I truly am a kindergarten teacher.

So for the month of December I am going to be teaching the following:

• Hanukkah
• Kwanzaa
• St. Lucia Day
• Las Posadas
• Christmas
• The Five Senses

I am going to be using my Gingerbread Math and Literacy Centers that you can get in my Teachers Pay Teachers or Teachers Notebook store.  Tomorrow I am throwing a sale in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.  Everything is 20% off plus the additional percentage offered by TPT.  The last day for my Teachers Notebook sale is tomorrow.

I will also be using my Christmas Fun Literacy and Math Activities.  This item is also located in my Teachers Pay Teachers and Teachers Notebook stores.  This packet has a great snowman glyph with a data collection tally sheet and a mini-book.  There is a fingerprint Christmas tree craft, a syllable sort step book, a letter writing form, an emergent reader written by me, and more.  I do want to say that the snowman glyph can be purchased separately.

 

I hope everyone had a great break!  Happy shopping on Cyber Monday!  I know my wishlist is full. ;)

 

Today has been really busy.  I felt like I was in the circus and I was the main clown. Lol  Anyway, my school has a great librarian who does a lot of crafts with the kids.  The kids made these cute little Indians Native Americans from rectangles.

I just had to hang them from our classroom clothesline.

During math, we made pattern necklaces with colored noodles and yarn.  FYI, to color noodles: place dry noodles in a Ziploc baggie with a little bit of alcohol and several drops of food coloring.  Shake the bag.  Let the noodles dry on wax paper in a pan or tray.

The little orange strip that you see is tape.  I used it to write the kids' names on their necklace.

We also added feathers to our headdresses today and we practiced songs and fingerplays for our little performance next week.

Well, I'm going to go work on a few things.  Check back later.  I hope to have a new FREEBIE! because everyone loves a good freebie.

Snowman Glyph

I just added this to my Teachers Pay Teachers store and my Teachers Notebook store.

This is the snowman glyph from my Christmas Fun Literacy and Math Activities packet. I have included a the directions to create the snowman glyph along with the patterns that are needed. You will get the glyph key that can be displayed along with the finished student products. There is also a glyph mini data booklet, a form to write about the data, and pictures of examples.

Christmas Fun Math and Literacy Activities

I have been working hard on a new item to add to my Teachers Pay Teachers store and Teachers Notebook.  Check it out.  Here is the item description.

This packet contains the follow activities:

*Fingerprint Christmas tree craft with an original poem rhyme written by me.
*Roll and Color number word and color word recognition sheet and cube.
*Santa letter writing form
*Snowman Glyph, tally mark data sheets, and data mini book.
*Syllable Sort Step Book directions with photos and patterns.
*Christmas word building activity, letter tiles, and recording sheet with teacher directions.
*Christmas theme emergent reader written by me.

All the patterns needed are included and I have included photos of the finished product along with directions.