Fall Fun With Patterns and Color Words

  This week has been a full Fall theme with books, patterns, and color words.  I'm so proud of my kids ( almost everyone can now read the color words) !!  It's so exciting.  We read some great fall and color word books this week: Apple Harvest Countdown, Seasons, When Autumn Comes, Warthog Colors, and White Rabbit's Color Book.   We have also been wearing out Dr. Jean's Color Word Song and Jack Hartman's Season Song.  I did find a new site (Have fun Teaching) and my kids really loved the season song off of that site..thanks Ms. Julie for the tip!!!  They also have letter songs and lots of other great stuff..it does sound a bit disco sometimes but my kids just love music in general!!
     I was really hoping to upload some free stuff for you guys but once again Google Docs has defeated me!!!  Between school and my own little monkeys...I just can't find the time to master it!!  If anyone wants to give me a free lesson...I'd love one!! LOL!!  Maybe on fall break I'll get it figured out!!  Onto great pics from this week:)

Making our leaf patterns.  After gluing the students labeled them ABAB!!!

 Another project we did this week was finger painting!!!  I traced each student's hand and arm (up to their elbow) and they colored it brown for the tree.  Then they finger painted the leaves with red, orange, and yellow. Such fun.  We also did leaf rubbings..but I forgot to take pics!!

Hard at work!!

 Finished projects!!

 We wrote our color words this week.  Then each student could read the sentence. They were so proud!! Each reads.. "I see a ________ leaf ( they colored the pic of the leaf the same as the color word).

Our Harvest of Good Work!!

 Our Rainbow Hair for Color Words!!  They learned the poem.  Circled the color words in the poem and then on their page wrote four color words and decorated the boy/girl with the correct color hair!!

Fun on the Farm

Oops...I thought I posted this Sunday...but guess not!!! Last week the kids had a great time learning about the farm.  We had some great resources from our Pre-K teacher Ms. Lou!!!  We read some great books in class: P is for Pig, Farmer, Farmer What Do You Do,  Farm Counting, Rooster Can't Crow, Soybeans from A to Z.   We also had some great farm videos on eggs and milk- not to mention a Reading Rainbow Series on The Day Jimmie's Boa Ate The Wash.  We made our own farm books and the students helped to write them by writing sight words " the, can, like"  I made a farm math game to help us id our numbers 0-20, graphic organizers over cows and pigs, we made a great cow glyph ( thanks to Deanna Jump) and also made ice cream in bags on Friday( Deanna Jump also!!)  Wow!! we were super busy!!!  I'm hoping to download some free farm items for you soon!!!  I'm still in the learning process of blogging.

We started with graphic organizers and our cow glyphs!!

Next, we worked on farm books for our literacy center for the week!!!

The finished product!!

 Math center time with Ms. Emily!!  One group did a number match and the other group rolled a cube counted and then had to find the correct number.  I put this in a center later in the week and the kids loved it.  We also did a farm graph and spinner game..but I forgot pics of that one!!

Ice Cream making fun!!  We used a Science Experiment from Deanna Jump for Ice Cream in a bag.  It was really fun and yummy!!  The kids were running around everywhere trying to shake the mixture enough to make ice cream!!

 Thank you Ms. Missy!!  I don't think we would have gotten through this project without you!!!

These last two pics won't stay put!!!  This is from our literacy book and above is Ms. Emily at center time!!!

Grandparent's Day

Grandparent's Day was a huge success!!  Our school does so many great things to honor Grandparents.  Our day started with a student/grandparent breakfast..which had a great attendance.  Then, several classes at our school did programs for the grandparents.  Kindergarten did a Grandparent's Day Program at 1:00.  We did a nursery rhyme program!!  The kids sang "Humpty Dumpty and Jack Be Nimble"  by Jack Hartman...needless to say they were super cute.  They also recited several other rhymes for grandparents.  Here are some pics from our program..sorry some are dark..I so need to invest in a new camera!!!!

 Getting ready for the program!!

Waiting on the little monkeys:)

 Here we go!!

 Grandparents and their sweet little monkeys:)

Don't you love this face!!! He's in Ms. Jessica's class..and a little cutie pie!!!

Little Billie and Abby below!!

This is sweet...Tucker (in my room) and his cousin Nora (in Mr. Shehane's room) both with their grandpa!!!

Sweet Josie ( above) and Nancy Caroline (below)!!!

 Next, we have Taylor, Devin, and Madison!!!

Just some sweet little faces to end with!!  Happy Grandparent's Day!!!!