So, lately my kids have been making some really great observations about numbers. They’ve been noticing patterns in our hundreds chart and they’re pros at skip counting {by 5’s & 10’s, anyway ;)} I really want to start adding the concept of odd & even numbers to our calendar routine, but before I started with that, I really wanted my babies to understand WHY numbers are odd &/or even. I came across this little book in my math book stash the other day… I got to thinking that it would be pretty awesome for the kids to practice making even and odd numbers with…my personal favorite….FOOD! Shocker, I know ... Read More
Writing to Inform and Veteran’s Day
Now that my boys have made it through the first big sickness of the year, I finally feel like I can catch my breath. Whew…that was a ROUGH couple of weeks!! I really worked hard to make up for lost time with my {school} littles this week…and it was definitely a busy one!!! Since I missed the 50th day of school so I could stay at home to take care of my little sickie, I decided to treat my kids to some 50th day fun on Friday. We did a few activities from my 50th day of school packet and finished our day with some DElicious root beer floats. Can you say 3 servings for the teacher?! After enjoying our ... Read More
Catching Up & When The Leaf Blew In
I am home from school today…AGAIN…with a sick little man. And I’m missing the 50th day of school…SADSVILLE!!!!! My favorite day of the year!!!! While my kids are at school dressed in their cutie little poodle skirts and saddle shoes, they’ll be celebrating with root beer floats and 50th day fun TOMORROW. I can’t miss out on EVERYTHING ;) One thing is certain…I’m SO ready for my boys to be well again!!!! Between strep throat, ear infections, and breathing treatments…this momma is spent! Moving on… We celebrated “Character Dress Up Day” at school last week. I don’t know if I told y’all this before, ... Read More
The Littlest Pumpkin
Okay, so I meant to post this earlier this evening, but I’ve been glued to the TV watching the footage from Sandy’s path of destruction! To all my East Coast friends…I’m praying for you!!!! PLEASE be safe!!!!!!! ************************************************************************************************ Just wanted to quickly share a fun little activity we did after reading the book, The Littlest Pumpkin by R.A. Herman. This is one of my favorite seasonal stories! There is SO much you can do with it!!! This year, I decided to use this story to reinforce the concept of making text-to-self ... Read More
Taking Chicago By Storm
Let me just tell y’all…last weekend *might* have been the most fun I’ve had in a LONG while. I *finally* got to put voices to these sweet faces that I’ve been chit- chatting with for months now!! Cheryl from Primary Graffiti Abby from The Inspired Apple Rachelle from What the Teacher Wants Kim Adsit from The Kinder Gals Lindsey from the Teacher Wife Deedee from Mrs. Wills Kindergarten Kathleen from Growing Kinders Michelle from Fabulous in First Sarah from First Grader... At Last! Deanna from Mrs. Jump's Class Amy from Step Into Second Grade Hope from Second Grade Shenanigans Erica from Erica Bohrer's First Grade ... Read More
Going Batty
This week we’re goin’ batty in the classroom! In all fairness, we’re goin’ batty over spiders, too :) We started out the week reading fiction and non-fiction books about bats. After seeing a few illustrations and real pictures of bats, I was dying to know what my kids thought…do you think they’re cute?? or creepy?? I’ve seen one up close & in person and ohmiword…I hope I never see one again. My vote…CREEPY. Here’s what the kids thought… Can y’all believe that?! Most of my little sweeties thought they were cute!!!! We took this time to review the differences between picture ... Read More
I Know A Fruit That Grows on Trees
Have I mentioned that I have a serious obsession with apples?? I don’t know if you agree with me, but apples always taste better this time of year. I have a board FULL of apple{ish} recipes I pinned and I’m going to *try* to make {at least} half of them. I’ll also be shopping for a new {larger} wardrobe in the process ;) Even though we’re still rockin’ the 80-90 degree temps down here in the south, I’m definitely feeling the Fall weather in my heart ;) My absolute most FAVORITE apple has got to be the {ridiculously expensive} honey crisp. I could eat one every.single.day {if I didn’t think I’d go into ... Read More
Labeling the Teacher & Some Syllable Fun
Last year I saw the cutest labeling lesson from sweet Julie Lee. I had already introduced the concept when I saw it, so I tucked away the idea and knew I’d use it in the future. I pulled it out today and the kids had a BLAST! We’ve seen lots of labels in our guided readers, print, and around the classroom, so the kids are used to hearing the word. Today we actually put a little meaning behind it. I created this little chart with pre-labeled stickies. When I introduced it, I told the kids that we were going to have a special visitor that didn’t know ANYTHING about people, but he knew how to read. ... Read More
What We’ve Been Up To…
Okay, so what HAVEN’T we been up to?! We stay pretty busy in Kindergarten! So much so that I haven’t been very good about remembering to take any pictures! Boo for me! However, I haven’t forgotten how to write with lots of exclamations!!! ;) A few weeks ago, I saw a DARLING idea on Pencils, Glue, & Tying Shoes {don’tcha just LOVE that name?!?!?} for teaching the 5 senses. I absolutely LOVED her anchor chart, so I wanted to introduce our little unit of study with something pretty similar. Meet Five Senses Frank. It always cracks me up when the kids say they have a sense of “eyes” ... Read More
Christmas in September?!?!
I think y’all have heard me say it before, but just incase you haven’t, I LOVE Christmas. Sure, I love it for all the traditions & *fun stuff*, but I absolutely LOVE the true meaning behind it the most. While I LOVE our yearly visits from Santa, I want my boys to understand WHY we celebrate. One of our favorite Christmas traditions is waking up on Christmas morning and eating birthday cake for breakfast right after we sing “Happy Birthday!” to Jesus. A few years ago, we started my MOST favorite tradition…our nightly, family Christmas devotional. My boys LOVE it!!! Here’s how it works… A Meaningful ... Read More
