More Brown Bear Fun and Lots of Pictures!

Oh my goodness y'all...this week was so much fun!  (and a little exhausting!)  My kinder kiddos are really starting to get in to our routine and finally settling in...

In the midst of continuing rules and procedures, we hit centers hard this week learning how to play our "roll and dot" games, "spinner games", and how to use bingo dotters.

I think our favorite game was the "Brown Bear Bowling" center...You can find this game in my Brown Bear Unit at TpT

Notice the mat...this made it easy for my kids to set up the pins once they knock them down...Hint...make the circles large enough so that if one pin falls over it won't knock them ALL over or else they will get "6" or "10" every time depending on how many pins you use.

Spin & Graph Brown Bear Colors

We practiced our sight words using this reader...I used this to teach my students how to use the word wall to find color words....they did so good!  Of course, we read it too!

My student teacher read Elmer for Rainbow Day today and they made a big patchwork Elmer...we used this activity to name the shape and color.

This was our first pocket chart center

We celebrated Rainbow Day by Reading the poem Rainbow Hair and then we made our own "Rainbow Hair" to wear!!  They LOVED it!

 Close-up of the Rainbow Hair...

We used Interactive Writing to fill in the color words on the Rainbow Hair poem

 We practiced pre-writing strokes using Rainbow Writing

 Our last few Brown Bear projects for our texture book...

Torn paper rainbows...this is one of my favorite projects to do at the beginning of each year.  

These go home in their K portfolios in May!

Every year on black day we read Miss Nelson is Missing by James Marshall...if you have never read it...It's a Must!  We made a Miss Viola Swamp.

 Then, we compared Miss Nelson's naughty class to Mrs. Lee's kind class...

Whew!  Busy, busy!  

But hey, it's a long weekend!  

Roll Tide!

You can find many of the Brown Bear Activities shown above at my TpT store...if you want to know specifics...please ask!

First Week

What a GREAT first week of school!  Y'all, my kids are so sweet!  I love them already!  Here is a glimpse into what happens in our room the first few days of school.  We spent a lot of time learning rules and what it means to be a peacemaker.  We read David Goes to School, No, David, and David Gets in Trouble to introduce rules and peacemaking.  If you have never read The Peaceful Classroom by Naomi Drew, you should.  We made an anchor chart about Peacemakers and Peacebreakers....We decided that we all are peacemakers!  No one wanted to be "the peacebreaker".  I thought it would be fun to make David from our stories so we did!  Check him out below.  We also read Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? just as an introduction to painting and colors before we hit it hard for the next two weeks.
You can check out my Brown Bear Unit at my Teacherspayteachers store here.

Here we are learning how to paint correctly.

Here is our mural finished!

 We practied using little dots of glue...I have a Brown Bear version in my unit at tpt

We made character cards and practiced retelling the story with a friend.

Oh my, Y'all!  Look at all of this "stuff" from DonorsChoose!  It was like Christmas!  I was so excited...Thanks to all of you for supporting me!!  :)