Hip, Hip Hooray For 100 Days!!

Hooray for the 100th day! Today was packed with 100th day fun! We wrote to 100, tallied to 100, painted 100 dots, and cut and pasted 100 cookies to a jar- these great ideas came from my favorite TPT lady Julie Lee!! Students also showed their projects- 100 things for 100 days! We finished the day up with cupcakes, Emily's 100 Days Video by Rosemary Wells, and cute little treat I put together for the kiddos ( thanks to Pinterest)!!! The last picture is from my daughter's Pre-K class and just too cute not to share! So happy my daughter has such a great teacher!! Enjoy the pics and just think only 80 days left ;)

Kindergarten is snow fun!

Just a few pics to finish up our snowman unit! My great parents sent in bags of marshmallows for our snowman project! The kiddos loved it! I gave them a sentence starter: A snowman is... Students finished the sentences and we made our marshmallow snowmen! I'm pretty sure their favorite part was the yummy snack that followed;)!
We finished up with some Word family study and syllable fun- we used party blowers to blow out( instead of clapping out) our syllables! It was lots of fun! Both of these great ideas came from Julie Lee's blog( teacher friends check her out on TPT)!
On a math note- it's all about decomposing numbers! We are gearing up for adding with our domino parking lot game! Add the numbers on the dominos and park them in place! First group done at the table wins!

Snowman Fun

We had "snow" much fun in Kindergarten this week integrating snowmen into our Reading Unit! The kids had a blast; however, Mother Nature could have been more accommodating by at least delivering winter weather ;) !! We are actually going to finish this unit up next week but I'm holding to my resolution and posting a few pics from the week! A great big THANKS to all my parents for sending in marshmallows for our art project!
**** Side Note- I can't seem to figure out how to comment on my photos with my blogger app!! So, any advice is appreciated!! Onto the pics!!
First two pics are our writing project! It turned out great- they filled in the missing words describing how to build a snowman!! I got this great idea from Deanna Jump- but tweaked it a bit!!
Next, are some great reads from our unit! I used Deanna Jump's pocket chart to start out with and then some of my favorite reads! I absolutely love the book "Snowmen At Night"! Followed with a little snowman poetry- we highlighted the sight words from the poem! I'm not sure why highlighters are so fun but the kids were dying to use them ;)!
Last, a few ideas from Julie Lee ( I love her units on TPT)!! A little snowman beginning sounds and some intro adding and subtracting games with snowman!! You'll have to wait until next week to spy our marshmallow project!!

Happy New Year

Well, I said I would be a better blogger at the end of October but then I totally missed blogging in November ad December!! What's a a teacher/mom/wife to do? My teaching resolution is to do better!! Lol! Maybe my new iPad will help me out! So, here's to starting out the new year.. One little picture from our New Years writing project! We are back in full swing this week and its been a great so far.. If I stick to my new year goal- I should have pics of our snowman unit up this weekend:)

Batty About Bats

I love bats!!  They are amazing creatures and what better time to study bats- the month of October ( even though this post is November..oops)!  We had a great bat study in our classroom.  Starting off with the reading of Stellaluna.  I just love the book and I always do the Reading Rainbow Series that goes with it.  The rest of the unit is based around non-fiction readers.  The kids love it of because of the graphic pictures ( I just love here all the ugh, gross, wow, comments I get from the students)!!  Here is a look at our Bat Projects from our unit of study!!

These pictures are the projects.  Students cut out and paste bat pictures to a poster board.  They label the top Bats and they do a show and tell with their projects.  They have to tell the class 2 facts they learned about bats and who helped them with their project!  Kids are sooo funny..most said that they did it all by themselves- no help from anyone!!  LOL!

I have some pretty cute kiddos this year!!  Just check out these little sweeties!!

Our Writing Project!!  I was so proud of my students!!  Students sponge painted the top half with orange paint and glued bat cut outs onto their writing.  Then they wrote: Bats are black. They fly at night.  We have really been working on handwriting and they did great!!

 This is just an up-close look at the top of the writing project.

     This was the display in the hall.  The top are Hand print Bats that I did with each student!  Tons of fun from this Science Unit!!