Freebie! & Animals in Winter Literacy Stations

Happy Friday Friends!  What a week!  We had our DIBELS testing this week and our hard work really paid off!  I'm so proud of my little kinder-kiddos...they did oh so good!  In the meantime, we did finished our Animals in Winter Unit.  I love hearing my kids say words like "dormant".  Isn't it fun?!  I'm always curious if they use those words at home and their parents look at them like, "What?"  I know when my little girl was 3 years old and said pointing at the moon, "Look it's a crescent!"...I was floored!  Whoa!  They just pick up on everything.  So, I'll quit rambling...take a peek at what we did to practice our literacy skills...go all the way to the bottom for the link to the SWEATER and JEAN MATH FREEBIE.

 reading words and distinguishing the difference in real and not real

Ending Sounds

Segmenting Words and Writing Them

Practicing Handwriting using lines....such a tough skill for 5's...

Counting and Writing Teen Numbers

Letter Discrimination...

I revised the Animals in Winter unit if you bought it previous to now...I changed some wording, added dots to the p,b,d,q, sort, added a set of pictures that was missing....anywho...go re-download if you need to.

Finally, click here to grab the Sweater Math Freebie (above) that I promised last week....I just found my originals to scan today!  I thought I lost them!  Whew!  Think about following my store while you are there!  Thanks!  

Let me know if you grab it!  :)

Christmas Fun

Whew!  What a busy, week!  I can only imagine next week, but hey... Santa's almost here...what should we expect?!  We did a lot of fun things this week...a lot of assessing...and more next week too!  Let's skip assessment and get right to the FUN stuff!  

Both of these games are in the Winter Games for Math and Literacy from Deanna Jump and myself...

Manipulating letters to build sight words...

Now that we are segmenting sounds in words, syllables was a little confusing...so we are practicing

These 3 plus 18 other math and literacy centers are included in my new Deck the Halls Christmas unit...

I've had the reindeer fact book from Mailbox in my folder for years and finally got around to making it the way I wanted to and actually doing it...turned out so cute!  I used the same words as that one, just changed the cover a bit...

If you like it, grab the freebie below!  :)  

Look at my goodies...reindeer buckets came from Target dollar section...they may have them this year; Santa bag in the middle came from Target dollar section this year...I have objects from the Lakeshore sound tubs in it for a game; Santa buckets...Dollar Tree last year...they may have them again, not sure.  

These are in our station next week so check back for pictures.

I love games that incorporate fine motor practice...we so need it!  :)  PLUS, it's fun!

These symmetrical ornaments make our classroom look adorable!  Since school is our home away from home, it has to look "a lot like Christmas" there too!  

I saw this on a website a few years ago...littlegiraffes.com

I give all the strips to my little friends and they must put them in order from shortest to tallest before gluing them on their paper.  I check each one first.  Such great math skill practice but in a fun way!  Last, we add snow with white paint and a q-tip.

Our TLC Santa's make our door look darling!

Our class Christmas tree...love all the "kid ornaments"...

we played a rhyming rudolph color word game...LOTS of times because they kept begging to...

Enjoy your freebie below...if you snatch it up, let me know what you think.

Reindeer Fact Book Pics

Try it Tuesday FREEBIE!!!

Hey y'all!!  I'm back with another Try it Tuesday for you!  I'm so loving using my new Write Your Heart Out Packs in my classroom this year that I wanted to give you a few samples to try out in your classroom!!

If you missed my post about how my Writing Center works with pictures of lots of writing activities Click Here or scroll down this page.  :)

I've uploaded your Try It Freebie in my store.  Just Click HERE to go grab it!!

If you download it, I'd love to hear your feedback!!

Space centers & a Pumpkin FREEBIE?

Okay, these are WAY overdue, but I wanted to post what was happenin' during our space week...this was before I got sick and never got around to posting it.  

We love our sound tubs from Lakeshore and use them all the time...do you have these?

They are the best for center games.

I used my DJ version since it was made, but a new version is in my unit

This too, is DJ, but a version of this is in the unit.

Both of these are highly requested so legal versions (non DJ Inkers) are included in my space unit.

Alright, so I had a request for the "Simple Symmetry" game posted back during my pumpkin week in the fall...it is ready now in my tpt store for FREE...Go grab it and get it ready for next year!

There's also another Long Vowel FREEbie too!

For some reason I don't have a picture of my pocket chart story called SHOO FLY!, but it's so cute and the kids love it.  It's in my store along with a take-home reader and retelling props too.

FINALLY, my twin sister has opened up a TPT Store...she's just getting started and has a couple of freebies already ready.  She's working on some great readers too!  IF you will go follow her store...leave me a comment and I'll give away to a random follower of her store my dino unit and my space unit.  This "On a Whim Giveaway" ends tomorrow around this time (6:00ish)!  Go now!

If you read all the way down to here...Thank You!  And, good luck with the giveaway!  

Twinsie Baby Bumps!

A Funny and A Freebie

Hello Friends and Happy Wednesday!  

I have to share a "funny" with you all.  My student teacher, Mrs. Wood, is sitting at the rug with our kids and I think one of the kids asks what time it is or something, and she says, "Time for Literacy."  Without hesitation of our little ones screams "Hey, I know what that is", (in the most country voice you will ever hear from a 5 year old)..."that's when somebody throws garbage on the ground and doesn't pick it up!"

Her reply?  "Yes, a "LITTERER" is someone who throws down trash without picking it up".  

OMGosh!!  Soooooooo funny those little ones!  How can you NOT love kindergarten?!?

I am throwing in a FREEBIE for all of you who do a "Teddy" unit with your kiddos.

P.S.  Let me know if you snag it...makes my heart smile!

Coming up...MONSTERS

Teddy Bear Exploration

Freebies, Gingerbread Update, AND my New Christmas Unit

Hi friends!
Don't forget to enter the Busy Bees giveaway...the winner gets Busy Bees Christmas Collection, my gingerbread unit, PLUS, my brand new Christmas Unit that I just finished tonight!  :)  Leave comments on the Busy Bees blog please.


Upon request, I added the entire alphabet sequence to my gingerbread unit...so if you purchased it, head on over to download the revised version if you want it.  That's the only change.  If you'd like to check it out it's HERE.


My December Intervention and Small Group Pack is also new.


Finally, I posted my new Christmas Unit if you'd like to check it out!




Here's the other gingerbread freebie I promised... Hope it works this time.  :)

Gingerbread House Word Hunt

Plus, another freebie...

December Sight Word Stamp

Thanks as always for visiting my blog!  I truly appreciate it!  Comments make me happy!

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!