"Trollin" In to a New School Year!!

I don't know about you, but my kids love trolls!  So, I thought how cute it would be to make a troll craft for the beginning of school!  This can be used when teaching colors or just back to school.  

Here's a few ideas:

Create a graph of your student's favorite color.  Pre-cut strips in several colors.  Let students choose a strip according to their favorite color and glue to the graph.  This is a sample graph.  Use a larger piece of chart paper for a larger group of students.  I mean, how adorable is that? 

We love to wear hats in my classroom.  Let students make troll hair for their favorite color.  :)

So cute, right?

 To make the hair stand up glue a strip to the top of the hair.

 For the girl, I used a twist tie to gather the hair and, of course, I added a cute bow!  

 Here's a sample chart for recording things that kids are excited about school.

 Everything in this post is included in the pack!  All patterns and words for charts and graphs.  

More Brown Bear Fun and Lots of Pictures!

Oh my goodness y'all...this week was so much fun!  (and a little exhausting!)  My kinder kiddos are really starting to get in to our routine and finally settling in...

In the midst of continuing rules and procedures, we hit centers hard this week learning how to play our "roll and dot" games, "spinner games", and how to use bingo dotters.

I think our favorite game was the "Brown Bear Bowling" center...You can find this game in my Brown Bear Unit at TpT

Notice the mat...this made it easy for my kids to set up the pins once they knock them down...Hint...make the circles large enough so that if one pin falls over it won't knock them ALL over or else they will get "6" or "10" every time depending on how many pins you use.

Spin & Graph Brown Bear Colors

We practiced our sight words using this reader...I used this to teach my students how to use the word wall to find color words....they did so good!  Of course, we read it too!

My student teacher read Elmer for Rainbow Day today and they made a big patchwork Elmer...we used this activity to name the shape and color.

This was our first pocket chart center

We celebrated Rainbow Day by Reading the poem Rainbow Hair and then we made our own "Rainbow Hair" to wear!!  They LOVED it!

 Close-up of the Rainbow Hair...

We used Interactive Writing to fill in the color words on the Rainbow Hair poem

 We practiced pre-writing strokes using Rainbow Writing

 Our last few Brown Bear projects for our texture book...

Torn paper rainbows...this is one of my favorite projects to do at the beginning of each year.  

These go home in their K portfolios in May!

Every year on black day we read Miss Nelson is Missing by James Marshall...if you have never read it...It's a Must!  We made a Miss Viola Swamp.

 Then, we compared Miss Nelson's naughty class to Mrs. Lee's kind class...

Whew!  Busy, busy!  

But hey, it's a long weekend!  

Roll Tide!

You can find many of the Brown Bear Activities shown above at my TpT store...if you want to know specifics...please ask!

Color Mixing

For one fun activity this week we learned about mixing primary colors to create secondary colors.  We began by reading the book White Rabbit's Color Book.  It was about a curious white rabbit who wonders what will happen when she jumps into different color paint buckets.  She learns that red and yellow make orange, red and blue make purple, and blue and yellow make green.  At the end, she jumps into red, yellow, and blue and turns brown.  She decides she likes herself as brown.  Next, we mixed our own paint colors to create those secondary colors.