Hey y'all! Can you believe that it is almost November? I don't know where the time goes but the older I get the quicker it flies! It seems like just a few weeks ago everyone was busying themselves with getting their room ready for the first day of school. We've had a BUSY fall. We welcomed two new boys into our family. My daughter Taylor married her high school sweetheart, Nick on Sept. 28th and then my sweet little grandson, Carson was born on October 14th. He is so adorable and his big ... continue reading...
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
School is out for the Summer! Woot! Woot! I am really looking forward to not having to set the alarm for awhile. :) I have several conferences to get ready for (HINT: Big giveaway coming soon! Vegas anyone?) but I also plan to spend a little bit of time floating in the pool and playing with these little sweeties. Anywhoo.... Here's how we spent our last week of school. We had lots of fun reading different versions of The Three Billy Goats Gruff Here are our ... continue reading...
Kindergarten Math Centers: Practicing Numbers to 30
Are you looking for engaging activities to help your students improve their number sense skills? Kindergarten math centers are a great way to add number practice to your daily routine. In this post, I’m going to share some of my favorite center activities that make number practice hands-on and engaging for your students! Using Centers for Number Practice Helping our students strengthen their number sense skills can take a lot of repetition. They need to practice skills like counting ... continue reading...
Oceans and Pirates and Fun, OH, MY!
Good News...... After next Wednesday I only have two more days of school left! Bad News....First, I have to survive until then. :) SERIOUSLY! What makes the last two weeks of school so tough. The kids start acting all kinds of crazy and us teachers are just plain TIRED!!! I think that this is God's way of helping us send those little ones off without it crippling us with sadness. Think about it.... we've spent 180 days with these little people. They've hugged us 1,000 times, told us they ... continue reading...
RAWR! Dinosaur Dig Day! Dinosaur Unit
My Dinosaur unit has been posted to TPT... Click on the T-Rex picture above to view my dino unit on Teachers pay teachers. We made Paleontologists using our pictures. The book inside tells about what we did during our Dinosaur Dig Day. Sorry... It's hard to see how adorable these are since I had to blur out the faces. Our shirts that we made for our Dinosaur Dig Day. On our Dinosaur Dig day the kids got to see ... continue reading...
Back to School Ideas: Sentence Building | Literacy Center for K-1
Check out these engaging back to school ideas to teach your students about sentences and their parts. This color-coded resource is perfect for K-1 literacy centers. Sentence Building Activity Writing a complete sentence can be a tricky task in kindergarten and first grade! This build a sentence activity is a great resource to add to your literacy centers. It provides students with support in developing complete sentences, making this activity one of my essential back to school ... continue reading...
Wild Thing You Make My Heart Sing!
I love the book, Where the Wild Things Are and we had a lot of fun with this book last week. You can view my unit on TPT by clicking HERE We made our very own Max and wrote about what we do when we feel wild. I love how they all turned out so differently! This is the writing chart we did before we made our Max's. This chart makes a great shared reading piece for the rest of the week. Students love going back to it time and time again. We have a class full of ... continue reading...
America Unit Part One
I love how cute the bald eagles turned out! This is a picture of our Chit-Chit message. These messages are how I teach and review phonics, reading and language skills. There is no better way to teach letter sounds and sound chunks than in the context of authentic reading and writing. We read a sentence just as it is written and then use our schema and other context clues to help us figure out what would make sense in the sentence. Once we think we have it figured ... continue reading...
Walruses, Literacy Centers and Guided Reading, oh, my!
We made these adorable walruses from my Arctic Animals unit today. I love how they all turned out so unique. Our penguins are still fishing on our bulletin board so the herd of walruses won't be hung up until next week when we use them to decorate our polar bears and walruses venn diagram. I will post a pic next week when they are all hanging. So, I've had some questions about how I do Literacy Centers.This is a picture of my Literacy Center board. The pirates on ... continue reading...
Pirate Fun! Ahoy Mateys!
Oh, my word y'all we get out of school in two weeks and the kids are CRAZY ready! I am trying my best to keep them engaged in learning and not pull my hair out. :) We started our pirate unit last week and I was amazed at the change in behavior. They LOVED this unit and their behavior was AWESOME! This has by far been my favorite unit! The kids have been so excited about reading and writing stories about Pirate adventures. There are so many great children's books to read with this ... continue reading...
Aliens Love Underpants!
We love the book, Aliens Love Underpants! We made aliens and wrote about what we would do if an alien came to visit. The kids had some cute answers. This is a song I wrote. We put it together in the pocket chart and at literacy centers they put the poem in order and drew an illustration to go with it. This is one of our math journal prompts. Alien Bubble Map A mixed up sentence using some of the words from ... continue reading...
How I Became a Pirate: Activities for Kindergarten
Kindergarteners love to talk about pirates, especially when the discussion is based on a fun story! One of my favorite pirate read alouds for kindergarten is How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long. This engaging story inspires so much meaningful comprehension practice for kindergarten students! In this post, I’m going to share some of my favorite How I Became a Pirate activities to use in a kindergarten classroom. The Benefits of Read-Alouds in Kindergarten Read alouds aren’t just a fun ... continue reading...
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