Monster Unit Posted to TpT

My Monster Unit is finally finished!  Hope you check it out!!  

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1000 Followers=TpT Sale!

Woohoo!  I'm so excited...I have reached 1000 followers!  I can't believe it!  To celebrate, I'm having a sale at my TpT store. I've never done this before so I hope it works!  You can get my Chicka Chicka and Brown Bear units for 20% off until midnight tomorrow night!
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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

Pink Day, Cute Clipart, & a Freebie!

Hi Friends!  Today was Pink Day...My favorite color day because my favorite color is PINK!  We did a fun activity that I wanted to share with you guys.  

We graphed who could blow a bubble....I had three sweeties that could...

This is what their paper looked like if they could blow a bubble...(it's tissue paper with cotton inside)

This is what their paper looked like if their bubble popped!....It's just flat tissue paper.

We all wrote the word PINK since it was the color of the day!

This is the hall display of our cute little "bubble blowin' kids"...

My first idea was to have balloons for their bubbles, but I couldn't find any small enough...So I used tissue paper.

You have to check out Kirsten's clipart on Etsy if you make things for your classroom!  Here are some previews of her fall clipart!  Adorable!

Finally, my sister made the cutest silent e poster...she found the poem on Pinterest and made it into a poster she can use in her classroom!!  Grab it if you want....

P.S. Comments that you grabbed it make my heart smile!

Silent e Poem-1

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!

Green Day

I love green day....full of all kinds of fun!

We made our "green monsters" after reading Go Away Big Green Monster!

We sorted M&M's...

The best part....mixed blue and yellow food coloring...painted our frog with a marshmallow, then...ATE it!  

Yum!  

 They loved how it turned their mouth green!