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!  :)

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!

Winter Centers & Oldie but Goldie FREEBIE

I have these good intentions of making blog posts on Friday nights; however, that rarely happens.  Let's face it…life happens and things just don't always go according to plans, but I guess it's never too late show what was happening in my classroom last week.  :)  Here ya go!

All of these centers can either be found in my Frosty Fun Unit OR my Winter Literacy or Winter Math Centers.

We are working on ordering teen numbers

 Spinner Addition…they caught on so well

 Sweater Math…you can find this FREE HERE

I love this one because it really makes them think…I've had this center for a couple of years and they always love it!  Something different!

CVC word practice

A fun and different way to find rhyming words...

I always let me students paint and then decorate their own snowman with scrap paper.

Then, we measure them and write on the little recording sheet.  These are super cute hanging in our room!

 At writing center this week, I let them use stamps to create a CVC snowman and I love that their work is hanging from our ceiling.  :)

 We made these little cutie patooties!  I love the way they turned out.  

And, of course, we added a writing piece at the bottom.

 We read Snowmen at Night and wrote verbs in our writing.  You can find this super cute snowman HERE from First Grade Blue Skies.

 SO adorable!  Doesn't our hallway display look great!  :)