P.I.G. (Poetry Is Great) BOOK

We have begun our P.I.G. BOOK ADVENTURES!  Each month the students will have the opportunity to read and sing poetry.  We add some of the selections to our P.I.G. Books for further study and review with tracking print, locating "popcorn" words, finding words that rhyme, illustrating, and writing.  Here is our first entry!

I CAN TRAIN!

Here's a little activity I do each year with my froggy friends.  I read, The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper.  We then discuss things that we can do and how we had to practice, practice, practice to master that particular skill.  There are so many new skills to be learned in Kindergarten so whenever a child is having difficulty with a new task, I tell my him to think of the little train in the story and say, "I Think I Can! I Think I Can!" as a reminder not to give up!  This usually gives my little froggy friends enough encouragement to keep on trying.

MONTHLY QUILT - August

Each month the students help create a quilt which hangs outside our classroom. Take a look at our August Quilt!

SCHOOL BUS FUN!

We started Scott Foresman Reading Street with The Little School Bus, by Carol Roth.  Here are few follow-up activities.

The Wheels on the Bus Pocket Chart Phonemic Activity

 Whoops... forgot to fold back the letters in the word "goes" so it would say "go."

We painted a yellow school bus using direction cards.

We made a Friends on the Bus Class Book

FRIENDS ON THE BUS CLASS BOOK

Reading Response to The Little School Bus by Carol Roth

THE LITTLE BUS READING RESPONSE - 



 

ON THE BUS ORDINAL NUMBERS

All About Me Glyph

 We wrote about our glyphs, too.

We made traffic lights and talked about positional words.

We ended the week cooking a Tasty Traffic Light.  Yum! Yum!

FROGGY FRIENDS BACK TO SCHOOL!

So this was our first week back and it was pretty busy, but I have a "frog"tastic class!  Our first day of school is always a half day ending with an Ice Cream Frozen Yogurt Social.  Yummy!  Some activities the students participated in were making a name tag and a place mat for lunch time (we eat in our classroom).  Since we are the Froggy Friends Class the students color a frog book page for our first class book, Froggy Friends.

 We also started on our August Monthly quilt by making a circle frog.

Here are a few pockets we read together for shared reading. 

We started buttering "popcorn" words, too!

We are remembering our jobs in the morning.  Here's the job chart!

 

 

We are learning about our daily responsibilities in the classroom.  We discussed what it means to be responsible and how to be a FABULOUS FROG.  Here's our Fabulous Frog sign and our 

DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES.

 

 

Here is the pocket chart that holds the individual student's responsibility cards.  If a student is having difficulties being responsible after I have reminded him, then the student will have to give me the appropriate responsibility card and accept the consequences of his actions.  The next day, first thing in the morning, the student and I will discuss what the problem was the previous day and how the student can solve the problem.  After our discussion, the student may return his/her card to the pocket chart for the new day. 

KINDERGARTEN IS A BLAST!

I host a camp each summer for our new Kindergarten students.  These students have the opportunity to meet new friends, get familiar with school, and brush-up on some school skills while having fun!  We sing, read stories and pocket charts, enjoy art projects and cooking projects, etc.  Here are a few pictures of some of the activities and the link to my TPT store if your are interested in purchasing this thematic unit that includes 23 math & literacy activities.

Arranging the planets on the magnetic board.

Counting marshmallows to cover all the stars on the board for Starry, Starry Night Game.

Mixing red and yellow to make orange to create a sun.

Playing Where's Zeenar the Alien?  The students guess a letter that Zeenar may be hiding behind.

A book page for the class book, A Trip to the Moon.  A great alliteration activity!

A student buttering a word from our pocket chart story, A Trip in Space.

Making a rocket trail pattern!

Buttering "popcorn" words in the student story of A Trip in Space.

Covering and counting stars in the Seeing Stars game.

Blowing bubbles for bubble print moons.

Bubble prints!

Earth blotto

The shape rocket made from the Spin a Rocket game.

Dot-to-Dot star

Almost completed space mobile.

You can purchase my OUT OF THIS WORLD Space Activities packet from my TPT store.

Out of This World Space Activities for Math and Literacy

SUPER SCIENCE JOURNAL

Some blogging friends have requested the Super Science Journal and experiments I used for my Super Science Camp.  I've just posted the Super Science Journal on my TPT store.  It includes 16 experiments with recording sheets and the directions for the experiments.

 

Super Science Journal and Experiments 

 For more sensational science experiments for young children be sure to check out Deanna Jump's Simple Science Volumes 1 & 2, Steve Spangler Science and Science Bob.