Last of Community Helpers...

I am finally around to posting our community helpers math centers.  We did a fun survey and asked our friends what they wanted to be when they grow up.  They loved this activity...I think they liked carrying around the class list and crossing the names out after asking the question, which by the way, helped a lot.  I've done surveys before but never gave them a list to carry with them...duh.  Oh, and Tally the toppings was another fave...so fun.  They got in the floor and counted their little hearts out.    

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These little guys were super easy, super fast, and fun to make.  This activity can be found in my store...it is a collaborative project between Jamie Mayas and I.  Aren't they cute!

My unit time is crunched this year so a 15-20 minute activity is perfect!  :)

I will try to post some freebies at some point...Sorry I've been slacking here lately on the freebies.  

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Oh, and I have a post coming up to answer lots of e-mail questions...if you have one ask me, and I'll do my best to answer if I get the same question a lot.

Community Helpers Literacy Centers

I don't know how else to start this but, Oh. My. Goodness!  Our centers this week have been So. Much. Fun!  I was so excited to introduce them to my little kinder friends...I think these are the most fun centers we've done, and of course so much learning is happening all at the same time!  I'm posting our literacy centers tonight, and math centers will come later this week.  I will be posting my new Community Helpers unit tonight, but before you can even buy you can win it!  I will use random.org to pick 2 lucky friends to give this unit away to!  Contest ends tonight!  

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we loved the sight word reflection game last week, that we did it again...with a different theme

Okay, so they have to get a trash ball un-wad it (is that a word?) and read the word to see if it's "trash" or "treasure"...how much fun is that?

We are chefs flippin' cookies to read sight words...

I thought this would be too easy for my kiddos, but it was challenging for a few of them...they had to really pay attention to the way letters are formed and where they sit on the line...great practice!

Okay, so ready, set, comment!  Maybe you will follow my blog while you are here!  

Happy Valentine's Day!

Community Helpers and Career Day

Our student teacher Mrs. B. started her 10 days of teaching this week and she did fabulous with the kids.  I am so impressed.  The kids love her!  She taught us about community helpers this week.  To end the week our school celebrated our annual Career Day.  Here are pictures of her teaching, the kids learning, and us just having fun!  Okay, so there are a ton of pictures, but we just had so much fun this week I couldn't help myself.  Enjoy!

Being bakers, flipping cookies to read color words was so much fun!

We rolled the die to fill the mouth with teeth...marshmallows

Covering cavities because we don't want those.  We had to roll a die and a +/- cube to add or take away.  They loved this game.

We pretended to be mail workers by opening mail and reading number words then writing the number.

We rolled a coin die to buy pizza toppings for our pizza.

Mrs. B. has been teaching us how to tell time to the hour.  We played this fun game to practice reading clocks.

We are also working on "how many more" so we built towers then decided the answer.

Some of us in our cute little tool belts after learning about construction workers.

Still lovin' the roll a word game.

 Here we are opening more mail, but this time reading sight words.

In this game we practiced spelling CVC words.

 I found these cute cookies at Target and knew I could use them for something.  We flipped them to read sight words and at this station we had to write them.

Mrs. B. in guided reading groups.

Mrs. B. had the kiddos graph how many teeth they have lost.

Playing a blends game.  They are getting so good at blends!

Practicing telling time with foam clocks Mrs. B. found at a thrift store for CHEAP!

Reading The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins to practice fractions.

Here they are having to "share" their cookies because two friends rang the doorbell and came in to eat.

Yay!  We all have one!

Our cute fireman hats.

Mrs. B. made cupcakes for us so we could be chefs.  We decorated them with icing and lots of different toppings.

O.K. Aren't these chef hast ADORABLE!  I will be doing these every year!  So cute!

Yum!