I have this amazing and super creative co-teacher in kindergarten. She get’s all the credit for this idea. I saw it hanging outside her door and had to copy.
Cutting and pasting requires a lot of front loading in kindergarten, especially this early in the school year. I demonstrated on the document camera how to cut 10 petals, glue and paste them on the black square. We discussed how each one would turn out different and that is what would make them all beautiful.
I warned them that I wouldn’t help them cut it, they had to do it themselves.
They did a really good job!
Use familiar nursery rhymes to integrate science, graphing, writing, and reading!
This mini unit has many uses for your little ones.
Here are a few sample pages.
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Working on new units for nursery rhymes!
Here are a few sample pages from the unit!
It will last about 1 to 2 weeks, but incorporates science, literacy, graphing, and writing activities for your kids.
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The first 2 days of school have been a whirlwind of activity!
The kids have been so great! I love the beginning of school. I’m exhausted, but so happy.
Making sure we get our kids home safely each day is always such a worry at first.
Things that had to be prepared to make sure this happened:
1. edit welcome letters and personal information forms
2. mail forms to parents before the first day
3. collect information, create name tags for each class with dismissal information, and pin tags to students on the first day
Wow, I am surprised actually that it only came to 3 things on the list… it was a good week of preparation!
We also have a crazy half day schedule these first 3 days of school, with 1/3 of our class staying for diagnostic testing and the rest going home at 1:00.
Organizing that schedule, notifying parents, labeling kids with proper dismissal information, preparing testing materials… Wasn’t sure it was humanly possible to get it all done. Fortunately, I work with a wonderful team of teachers. We all took a deep breath, rolled up our sleeves, and made it happen!
Now we have Back-2-School night on Monday! Yikes!
Just made this up for our math center next week.
Students will use math chips to find the different combinations of ten and record their answers.
During Daily math we’ll be using this package:
These pages include ways of making ten with ten frames, our fingers, chips, drawings, and more. It will hopefully give my kids the extra and repeated practice they need to master the concept!
Our Thanksgiving books are ready! Parents and family members are coming to celebrate reading on Wednesday. We’ll be ready to read our books to our families! They turned out so cute!
Here a just a few sample pages…
I love my family from here to Canada.
I am thankful for breakfast.
I am thankful for animals.
My family is good at loving.
My family is good at sleeping.
front cover of book
My family likes to read.
I am thankful for sharing.
My family likes to snuggle.
I always love their artwork. If you want to try this activity with your class or need other resources for the month of November, check out my thanksgiving pack for more…
Enjoy letter Bb week with your kids!
They will love bringing their bears to school, writing, measuring, and learning all about bears!
Have fun!
Over 90 pages of learning and fun for your class.
Explore with corn, learn about the first Thanksgiving, create a book for your families, and use the templates for meaningful writing activities. There are science, social studies, math, and writing activities for your students! Everything you need for the month of November.
Please enjoy and happy teaching!
New and Improved!
Aligned with Common Core
Numbers, counting, place value, adding, subtracting, more and less, letters, sounds, rhyme, segmenting, blending, syllables, sight words, handwriting, writing, calendar, reading, comprehension, and more!
Students and parents love the process of student led conferences. Parents see the skills their children have mastered and those skills to continue working on as their child takes them through each station.
It is a great way to show parents the skills we work on in kindergarten and ways to practice with their child at home.
Parents and children enjoy being part of the process!
Enjoy!
Kinderlove and Learning 