Hodge Podge Post- Sorry!!

     Well, it has been too long!!  So, I'm going to try and shove a couple of months of teaching into one blog post!!   I am telling myself that I will do better- it's kinda like the laundry at my house- I try but it usually just piles up ( real life people)!!  However, we have been working really hard in Kindergarten this year and I truly have a great bunch of kids.  I am going to cram some pics in here and really, really, try to post as we finish our units of study.  I really just can't believe we are in November- time flies when you are having fun!!  Get ready for a long post because there is lots of catching up to do!!

 The first few pics are during our Color Words Unit. The students made this cute Bubble Gum Project and wrote the color word at the bottom:  I can blow a _______ bubble!  They added the color word that matched their balloon.  We also tried to blow bubble and graphed the results!   

 I try really hard to do an art project every Friday over the letter we are studying that week!  This happened to be from the letter O- we glued Cheerios to make capital and lowercase O's!  

Grandparent's Day!  I only posted a few pics here.  Kindergarten does a big Grandparent's Day Program.  They sing Nursery Rhymes for the Grandparents, present them with a craft, and have a little snack.

Here are 3 great pics from that program!!

More color word fun!  Water coloring color words and practicing writing color words with sidewalk chalk!

 Apples!!  We did tons of activities for our Apple Unit.  However, I'm only posting a few pics.  We read some great books: Apple Farmer Annie, How To Make Apple Pie and See The World, The Apple Pie Tree.  We measured and recorded the size of apples, made AB patterns with apples, painted our own apple trees, tasted and graphed our favorite apples, made Johnny Appleseed, and made homemade applesauce in our room!!  We've been busy in Kindergarten!!

Teddy Bear Picnic

          Our Teddy Bear Picnic was a hit!!  The kids had a great time and so did all the mom and dads!!  It's so nice to have such great parent involvement :)!  My kiddos also worked very hard this week ( and last) learning all about bears, color words, ABAB patterns, sorting, and beginning ABC's! Hope you enjoy the pics from this week and last! Sorry I didn't get last weeks pics  posted- for some reason I've been exhausted ;)!

Great reads from this week: Jamberry (love the rhyming and it ties into color words so well, Little Bear, Brown Bear, Corduroy ( we charted character, setting, problem, and solution)

 Every afternoon my kiddos would put their bears in their cubbies and every morning the bears would be somewhere else!! It was such a mystery!!

 So, Friday morning our bears totally disappeared.  So, we had to Go On A Bear Hunt!!  The students had to act out the story as they hunted and asked each teacher on our hall: Have you seen our bears?  Here is Ms. Lynsey answering our bear question! It was too much fun!

 After much searching we found them in the nurses station!  Below all of kindergarten with their precious bears.

Family fun photos of our Teddy Bear Picnic!!

 Here are our bears we made from paper plates and Styrofoam cups.  It was messy but fun.  Also, our ABAB patterns.  Below is our finished display!

Here are some items from last week.  Our sticker names!

Color sorting with Brown Bear!!

Learning our color words!

 Enjoying our red snack for the day..strawberries!!  What little cuties!

Finger painting fun with yellow and green!!  

      

A Sweet First Week!!

     Well, its been a Sweet First Week of School!!  I have to say my new bunch of kids are the best!  I do have a packed house this year- 21 little monkeys!!  We did our county phase in this week and today everyone came.  We had a great 1st day as a whole class but I'm one tired teacher! LOL!  I'm not sure why the beginning of school is so exhausting ( it couldn't have anything to do with 2 months off) : ) !!  
     The kiddos in room 204 worked hard this week.  We started the year off right with The Wheels on The Bus- Pete The Cat. ( Thanks Pinterest)  It went great with Deanna Jump's Activity - The Wheels on The Bus.
      Today it was all about Miss Nelson.  I love this book because  it's such a  fun way to teach little ones " how not to behave".  We followed it up with a super cute project - Miss Viola Swamp ( you can pick it up on TPT by Juile Lee)!!  Have a great weekend!  I would love to say this teacher is going to rest up this weekend- but no such luck! My sweet little Hannah turns 4 this weekend!

 Our cute little school bus project!!

 I totally forgot about our Kissing Hands! What mom doesn't love this!

Working hard on Viola Swamp! I must thank Ms. JoAnna and Ms. Shannon who gave us some help on our project!!

OK...these two little cuties would not smile!! However, they both did GREAT WORK!! 

Our FINISHED PROJECT!!  So proud of my class!!

  Miss Nelson anchor chart!  They loved comparing our class to the kids in the story!

Our School Bus Project....All Done!!

First day watercolors!

 Making new friends! I love the fact that boys could not wait to get out the doll house!!

 What a cute little girl pair! They both have lots of personality! 

 Sleepy Head!!

But not everyone was sleepy!!!
It was great first week!!

Kindergarten Supply List

     Well, it's that time of year again....school time! It's been a great summer but now back to work! I'm hoping to have some classroom pics posted tomorrow! I was just wanting to post a supply list for WGS kindergarten. This is a Kindergarten list( so it doesn't matter which classroom you are in the list is the same! Also, we still don't have class roles yet- come out Monday night at 6:00 pm to find out which room you are in!

Supply list

• 1backpack
• 1 plastic crayon box
• 1 kindermat for napping
• 4 boxes of 24 count crayons
• 10 glue sticks
• 1 bottle Elmer's glue
• 1 pair Fiskar brand scissors
• 1 box 8 count markers
• 2 - 8 count sets of water colors ( not liquid paint)
• 1 pack of plain pencils
• 1 pack of construction paper
• 1 box of Kleenex
• 1 box of baby wipes 
• Girls- 1 can of Lysol 
• Boys- 1 container Lysol disinfecting wipes
• Complete change of clothes in a gallon sized ziplock bag with students name on it

Wish list 

White card stock 

Germ x

Small prizes for prize box

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