All About Me and Name Cheers

Have you ever read the book Clap your Hands by Lorinda Bryan Cauley?  So cute!  Here are pictures of my kiddos enjoying this book...my student teacher Ms. Wood read it to them.  They LOVED it!  Order it now!  This week we did our "All About Me" unit...we learned all about...well...us!  Below you will see pictures of our graphs.  We learned what graphs are and why they are important.  We did lots of fun activities to go with our unit!

We rainbow bingo dotted our names at the art center this week...Next week we will measure our names with links and cubes.

I got this idea from Mrs. Estes a few years ago....this one is always the class favorite...I think because it's different from the others, but it's fun to watch it "take shape" as we piece it together.

 Hair color graph...we use crinkle paper for the hair on this one...

boy or girl graph...girls have bows and boys have bow ties...don't you just love their hair??

We read Chrysanthemum and then graphed the letters in our name.  We analyzed our data...

We measured how tall we are using jumbo die-cut crayons then we recorded it on our paper using mini die-cut crayons.  I got this idea from Kim Jordano at our conference this summer.

We made TLC style girls and boys...I love the way each person has it's own little personality

We cheered the letters in our name...

 here we are cheering...

 I made it into a class book that will go in our reading loft

 We made shakers using crepe paper...it looked like this first then...

it looks like this when it's finished!

My Super Star Work board with "super star work" on it!!

Here is a Cheerleader Name Book Freebie for ya!

cheerleader names

Measuring Ourselves!

We finished up with one activity from last week's "All About Me" unit on Tuesday of this week.  We learned a little about measurement.  We measured our friends with yarn.  Then, we put it in a bag to take home with us.  At the end of kindergarten, we can see how much we have grown!  Don't throw away that yarn, boys and girls!