First Week Fun!

Look how we spent our first week of school!

We made patterned name tags and worked on our first journal page!

 

We did some shared reading using these pocket charts.

 We read several books about school buses and painted a school bus using step by step directions.

 Making friends and having fun!

Our first cooking project!  The students followed the directions up on the big screen to make a tasty traffic light.  Yummy!

We ended the week with GAME DAY!

We had a "frog"tastic week!

Poppin' Popcorn Words

I created  new POPCORN WORDS practice packets.  Each packet contains fun games and activities for 5 sight words.  List 1 practice packets are posted in my store.

 

Hoppy Learning!

FREEBIE FRIDAY and more!

I officially returned to school on Tuesday and had Parent Orientation that night!  What a looooong day it was, but I am excited about meeting my new froggy friends!  According to the parents I'm going to have a lively group this year.

Here are 2 freebies to start off your year!

We use the organizers from Really Good Stuff to help keep the students supplies organized and easy to find.  I created some labels for the organizer that you can download for FREE from my store.  

This cute idea is from Pinterest.  The Kindergarten teachers gave these out last year and it was such a hit that we are doing again this year!  The students will get this little happy on the first day of school.  You can download it for FREE from my store.

I also added 2 new products to my store.

New Look and New Stuff!

Hi! I'm back with a new design. I don't know what happened to my blog while I was away, but all my images are gone! If anyone can help me figure this out I sure would appreciate it. Anyway, I redesigned my blog and I think it came out pretty cute. It's simple and clean.

 I posted 2 new items in my Teachers Notebook Store!  
I start back on Tuesday and my new froggy friends arrive next week! 

THIS & THAT

Here's what we've been doing this past month!

We've been sequencing lots of stories.  Eric Carle stories work so great for this concept.

Every year I do this project with my class.  We discuss the life cycle of a plant and what a plant needs to grow.  The students write the steps to planting a seed and then follow their directions to plant their Hairy Heads.  After the seeds sprout and grow the students can cut its hair or style it.

The Gingerbread Man traveled to England.  We read and talked about royalty.  The students wrote proclamations which were read on KING & QUEEN DAY.

After learning about bugs and insects, the students used model magic dough to create a bug.  Each child wrote a bug report about their creation.

We observed the life cycle of painted lady butterflies. Here we are releasing them.  This butterfly didn't want to fly away!

Daisy the cow helped us learn about the milking process and why milk is healthy.

The Gingerbread Man is now in Brazil.  We are studying the plants and animals of the Amazon Rainforest.

After reading books about rainforest animals, the students create maps.

The maps help the students write facts about each animal.

Another sequential activity is writing recipes for our classroom cooking projects.  The children LOVED making and eating the ants.  Absolutely appetizing!!!!

SEUSS-Y FUN for EVERYONE

Take a look at our whimsical week of SEUSSICAL FUN!

 "MOOO"DAY MONDAY

MYSTERY PICTURE - The students listened very carefully to directions to draw The Cat in the Hat

We made Cat in the Hats and created rhymes

TRUFFULA TUESDAY

After reading The Lorax the students made truffula trees.  We used this video link to draw the Lorax and ate a Lorax, too!

We learned about sound words while reading Mr. Brown Can Moo

WACKY WEDNESDAY

 THINGS & GAMES THURSDAY

We played games with our thing partner!

 CAT IN THE HAT FRIDAY

Look at my little readers!

We wrote and followed a recipe to make PINK INK DRINK from One Fish, Two Fish

  WE HAD A SEUSS-Y WEEK OF FUN!!!

Hooray for the USA!

Look at all the patriotic fun we had this past week!

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The students followed picture directions to paint a bald eagle.  They used their listening skills to assemble the liberty bell.

I do this directed drawing every year and the end result is sooooo cute!

Did you know the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France?  We assembled these cuties after reading several stories about this US symbol.

We loved making the 3-D Washington Monuments!

This student is wearing her 3 cornered hat just like George Washington!

Here's a close-up of the notes tucked inside Abraham Lincoln's hat.  The kids just loved writing on sticky notes!

Aren't they adorable?!

HOORAY FOR THE USA!!!