More Frosty Fun!

Another busy week is Mrs. Lee's room, but fun and learning is all over the place.  My little kiddos are really starting to read...I'm so proud!  I LOVE it when they sound out a word, read it, and look at me like, "Did you hear me just do that?"  Love it! We finished up our unit on snowmen and wintry weather...we read Snow Dance by Lezlie Evans and danced a little jig hoping we could bring *a few* snow flurries our way...I think I saw ONE on my way home and that's it.  It doesn't snow much here.  Check out a few more of our fun centers this week!  Most of them are in my Frosty Fun Unit Here...check it out!

The clothesline is always a hit amongst the little ones...plus it throws in great fine motor along with math and literacy...this is NOT in my unit, but I'm hoping to post it as a freebie soon as I find the "pants" that go with the sweater...

Middle Sounds practice

 Spin and count the teen number...

I couldn't resist posting this cute little photo opp. of the reading going on...do you have Whisper Phones?...so cool!

finding rhyming words that match the pics and recording them...

CVC word practice...

building sight words on our snowmen and writing them...

Practicing tallying to 10...we are *beginning* to get it...we need a couple more weeks to 10 I think...

ooops...this is *crazy*...spin, read, color, count, write, tally!  Whew!

Here's how we did the 10 Little Snowmen book...we painted ONE finger white and made fingerprint snowmen and let it dry...the next day we decorated and read  our book...

this little cutie is measuring her hand-painted snowman!

2 of our finished snowman projects

Snowflake Symmetry with pattern blocks...

Have you ever read the poem above...if you can see it...We made Rainbow Snowmen...and one of my smarties made a SnowCAT...too cute!

Too cute not to post pics...

Below...2 of my 18 adorable kiddos being "teacher" while I found something for a teacher friend!  

Love it!

Thanks for reading my blog and all the way to the bottom of this LONG post!

First one to mention my *crazy* mix-up gets my new Mitten Unit for FREE!

It's almost done...PLUS I snuck in a Hibernation, Adaptation, and Migration unit...coming up soon too so be checking back.  

YES, penguins are coming up too!

Frosty Fun!

What a week!  It was our first week back from Christmas Holidays, and it was super busy trying to get the kiddos back into our routine and get them prepared for winter DIBELS.  Yikes!  I do love this time of year though when the "Christmas Magic" happens and the students are so ready to learn.  This is the best teaching time for me!  Below are some pics of a few centers and activities we did this week.  

Don't you love when your students get comfy and just are into the center...even if they are taking up HALF the room!  We put the entire alphabet in order...they did SO good!

 Unscrambled sight words...this is in my Frosty Fun Winter Unit

We practiced ending sounds for this center...

identified middle sounds

 counted pennies...

You can find these center activities plus lots more in my Frosty Fun snowman unit and Deanna's and my winter pack

We always make these cute snowmen heads that wear a pattern on their scarf!  

I LOVE how they turned out!

We discussed things we do in the winter and wrote about it...

So cute!

Check out these snowmen from The Glyph Girls

Adorable!  

CVC snow family

Finally, found this rainbow in my side yard this afternoon.

It was much brighter, then I ran in to get my camera and it had faded some...

Reminded me of God's promise to us and that he NEVER fails and is always faithful!

It's a New Year!

So, today was my first day back with kids.  Hopefully almost over my sickness.  It was a great day with my kinders and we did some fun things.  Just a little funny for ya...today, we read All you Need to Build a Snowman, and one of the snowmen had on suspenders so I asked the kids if they had ever seen anyone wear suspenders or know what they were.  No one knew.  I told them that not a lot of people wear them today, but maybe a long time ago they did.  Quickly, B. says, "Yeah, back in the 90's."  I wanted to laugh my head off, but just smiled at her and said, "Yes, darling."  Don't you just love kids?!?  Here are a few pics of what we did.

placing the pipe (which we didn't know what it was...little miss B. said, "the hammer the judge uses"...what a hoot!)

This is what we found in our mystery bag and we had to figure out what is might be.  (it's hard to see on the rug, but it made a snowman)

We made giant snowman heads and put a pattern using snowflakes on their scarves.  The kids did so GREAT with their very own patterns.  We even had an ABCD pattern (which we have not discussed).  So smart!

Of course, they have to write, so they named their pattern.

I found this cute idea on littlegiraffes.com a few years ago and have done it ever since.  It's a great beginning to a new year.  Each student wrote about something they wanted to accomplish this year.  We had some great goals: learn to ride a bike, learn to swim. to beat ALL levels on Mario Kart, and to win a race.  They were all so good!

We made snowman soup (which we plan to label next week)

Idea from kidscount1234.com

Each child cut (on their own, no patterns) an ingredient for our soup.

Happy New Year!