tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32266105509934105572024-02-18T23:01:18.156-08:00The Kindergarten TeacherLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-76641469915952095052014-05-25T06:31:00.002-07:002014-05-25T06:45:23.802-07:00Morning Glories!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I was inspired by Carolyn at <a href="http://ckisloski.blogspot.com/2014/04/five-for-friday-apil-26th.html" target="_blank">Kindergarten:Holding Hands and Sticking Together</a> to grow morning glories in our classroom. These flowers climb up your window (or the string you put up) and open each morning. Hers are awesome! I think she planted them very early (like in February). </div>
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Ours are almost to the top of the strings but so far, no flowers. We have four more weeks so I am hopeful. They have been lots of fun to watch grow! The vines twirl around the strings and seem to grow several inches every night. </div>
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We also planted carrot seeds and bean seeds. We observed the beans in baggies on the window before Spring Break but I planted the leftover seeds in dirt a week or two ago. They sprouted quickly and I put some strings for them in case they get big enough. The beans grow very quickly.</div>
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We made some awesome flower pictures. The kids made a circle using oil pastels, then added the petals, leaves, and a few vines. They used watercolors to paint however they liked, all the way to the outside of the paper. I love how they turned out!<br />
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<br />Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-83847209978374574692014-05-11T06:41:00.002-07:002014-05-11T06:41:55.948-07:00Teacher Appreciation and Mother's DayWe are so spoiled at our school! All week we are treated to gifts, chocolate, food, flowers, and love notes. It is a fun week!<br />
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First, the PTA decorated our school. I love it! I am hoping it will stay up through the end of the year (28 more days!).<br />
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The room mothers decorated each door (I forgot to get a picture of my door!) It was a great week!</div>
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We scrambled to get our Mother's Day presents finished, wrapped, and hopefully home safely. The kids grew marigolds in a cup (so we placed them in a ziplock bag to travel home, wrapped in tissue, and inside a decorated bag). They added cute butterfly tags, and a handprint/flower card. I have been assessing, assessing, assessing so we had to squeeze it all in. </div>
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We made some rainbow clouds. The children cut out their own clouds and added the tissue paper in rainbow order, then added some sparkly glitter (everything is better with glitter!).</div>
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The flowers were also made with tissue paper. I mixed up some water and glue and the kids painted it on the white background, stuck on the tissue paper, then added more glue water on the top to stick everything down. I love these!<br />
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We had high school students in to teach some extra art projects on Art Extravaganza. This year my kids got to find animals in their scribbles.<br />
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They made some darling caterpillars.<br />
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The kids had a great time! The high school students did a great job presenting and getting the kids to express their ideas in art.Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-8994859792381624192014-04-06T14:17:00.002-07:002014-04-06T14:17:10.656-07:00Happy Spring!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This week we got to fingerpaint! Yay! Most of my students told me they had never fingerpainted before. I am sad to hear it. The focus of preschool has now become more academic and many traditional art projects are disappearing in favor of worksheets. Sigh. I can't wait for that pendulum to swing back again! </div>
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Each student was given a sheet of fingerpaint paper and one color to cover their paper. Then they could make designs, swirls, pictures, or write their name in the paint. After everyone made a paper and they dried overnight, we tore them up! The kids got to make some pretty spring flowers to brighten our room.</div>
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We finally have some narcissus blooming in my yard! Spring is here! Only 48 more days of school. Because of the snow days, we will be in school until June 20th.Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-33952389431358672382014-03-16T08:00:00.001-07:002014-03-16T08:00:24.509-07:00St. Patrick's Day Art in Kindergarten<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Happy St. Patrick's Day! It looks like we may be celebrating a day late (more snow is expected tonight!). Luckily, we have been reading about leprechauns and rainbows all week. We have enjoyed making a variety of rainbow projects, too.</div>
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We made pots of gold at both the beginning and the end of the fingerprint rainbow! We used watercolor paints (I poured water on the bigger cakes of watercolor paints to make them moist) and they were able to make the rainbows all by themselves. I made a tracer for them to make the pots (I couldn't find any cardstock so I quickly used the middle of a paper plate. Ha!). Then lots of gold glitter and tada!</div>
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We also used the dotters to make a rainbow on half of a paper plate. This works great because the shape of the rainbow is there for them to follow. They all turned out great. My kids this year seemed to know a lot about rainbows already (from preschool?) so we had lots of fun.<br />
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So, I hope you have a lucky day! Enjoy trapping leprechauns and dancing a few jigs! We have one more rainbow project to make whenever we return to school (could be tomorrow. The weatherman has been wrong before, right?). Five day weeks seem very long now. Very. Long.<br />
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<br />Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-32462458313152200142014-03-06T20:32:00.002-08:002014-03-06T20:32:54.169-08:00Kindergarten Dental Health Art Activities We all know that Kindergarten is the place where many children will lose their first tooth. It is endlessly fascinating to them. They love to tell you when their tooth is lose and show you how it wiggles. Fun stuff.<br />
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February was Dental Health Month. We read plenty of fun tooth fairy books, talked about keeping our teeth healthy, and made some cute art projects.<br />
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The Tooth Fairy is a freebie from <a href="http://fallintofirst.com/">FallintoFirst.com</a>. I don't often do so many tracers but I think they turned out so sweet! And sparkly!<br />
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I drew this tooth out with a marker and then we copied it. I let the kids make rainbow teeth! hehe. I know it doesn't make sense but aren't they so happy?<br />
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Hope you had a fun Dental Health Month, too!Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-62525876917129461902014-03-06T20:17:00.001-08:002014-03-06T20:17:41.935-08:00Dr. Seuss Ideas for Kindergarten and a Freebie!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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March definitely came in like a lion!<br />
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Next week is Dr. Seuss's birthday! We will have fun activities all week. Um. Maybe. More snow is expected on Monday. But we shall persevere and get some fun activities in there somehow.<br />
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It is also the first week of the MSA testing in third through fifth grades for our school (and all of the schools in Maryland). So there will be plenty of kids wearing their pajamas backward and searching the sky for flakes. I am so done with winter. Bleah!<br />
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School wide, we have older kids come in and read Dr. Seuss books to another grade level. The fifth graders go all out and create Dr. Seuss games to play. We have daily Dr. Seuss trivia contests on the announcements. We encourage the kids and staff to dress as Dr. Seuss characters on March 3 (the day we get back to school if we are snowed out). And we read lots of Dr. Seuss books.<br />
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For our math tubs this week, we have a few fun ideas. <br />
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We will make a <u>One Fish, Two Fish</u> adding book. The kids get a quarter sheet book with five pages of copy paper stapled inside. They roll two dice. The first dice they will make with red fingerprints and the second will be the blue fish. They add tails and fins and eyes. They write the number sentence and solve it. And repeat. They are really cute.<br />
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We make necklaces that have addition problems on a <u>Cat in the Hat </u>hat. They solve the problems, color the hats, cut out the hats, fold them over and glue them on the yarn. This one can be hard for some of my kids so I help them with the cutting. We differentiate the math problems.<br />
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We play Roll a Rainbow hat. We made up simple directions. You can find the hat <a href="http://printables.atozteacherstuff.com/1934/hat-printables-for-dr-seuss-cat-in-the-hat-or-just-hats/" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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We also have some Dr. Seuss addition papers, a roll and color the hats game, and a <u>Green Eggs and Ham</u> game (made commercially) that I will get out if we need them.<br />
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For our art activities, we will make an elephant handprint from <u>Horton Hears a Who. </u> Here is a cute picture from <a href="http://catholicicing.com/pro-life-craft-for-kids/" target="_blank">catholicicing</a>. (We will not be making a political statement with ours. I just think it is cute!)<br />
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We make an adorable <u>Cat in the Hat</u>.<br />
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We will make Thing One and Thing Two out of popsicle sticks like these. I found them on pinterest and cannot find their owner. The link says google search. If they are yours, please let me know. Thanks.<br />
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We let the kids make a rhyming hat with the at word family, too. I think that's it. I have more March ideas on my <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/ljrieben/march-kindergarten-art-ideas/" target="_blank">March Kindergarten Art</a> pinterest page if you want to check it out.<br />
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We have had a crazy winter! So many snow days (we are hoping we will not have to make up the last two because the Governor declared a state of emergency!) that we will be in school for most of June. So, I am not sure we have had a full week of school this month until this week. Crazy, I tell you!</div>
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The kids learned a lot about penguins in January. After we made a penguin can, have, are chart, they each wrote a penguin fact book. We made some other cute penguin art similar to <a href="http://thekindergartenteacher.blogspot.com/2013/01/penguins-in-kindergarten.html" target="_blank">these</a>.<br />
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We are still working on our penguin ABC book (part of our required writing for our state). I keep telling my teammates that penguins continue to exist even when it is passed January!<br />
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We had our Valentine's Day party on February 12 and then stayed late for eight hours of conferences. I met with most of my parents. And we left as the first snowflakes covered the roads. We ended up with over a foot of snow and five days away from the classroom.<br />
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These adorable hearts were made by my teammate's class. Each child chose a name from a hat to write something kind about. <br />
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We have only two more days of February. I am so ready for Spring!!Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-77551461762456507842014-02-07T05:22:00.003-08:002014-02-07T05:22:45.771-08:00The Day It Rained Hearts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We did a cute and easy art activity yesterday for the book, The Day It Rained Hearts. </div>
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I precut the hearts from a colorful stack of tissue paper, mixed some glue and water, and provided the sponge paintbrushes. The kids chose the hearts, painted the whole paper with glue water, and added more glue water on top of the hearts (so they are really wet and will stick nicely). Then they painted some watercolors around the hearts. </div>
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Some of the hearts bled a little (which I think is a nice watery effect). All of the kids were really engaged and happy during this little art project: success!</div>
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<br />Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-66989877655451136742014-01-19T18:38:00.001-08:002014-01-19T18:38:11.046-08:00With My Own Two Hands for MLK Day.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mRjDBd6tBBY" width="420"></iframe><br />
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My teammate found a cute idea (on Pinterest, of course). I retyped it and gave credit to Ben Harper, who wrote the song. I love this song. We sang it a few times this week. We will keep singing it (I think it works for Earth Day, too).<br />
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We will mount these on a sheet of colored paper to send home. </div>
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And this is how we made snowmen looking at the snow falling.<br />
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This year we have had plenty of snow but apparently more may be coming. Stay warm!Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-53132215202125545242013-12-24T17:32:00.000-08:002013-12-24T17:32:10.569-08:00Fire Safety in Kindergarten<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Every October, we visit the fire station. The firefighters dress up in their fire suits and explain what each item is for. We get to see the fire engines and learn about the hoses and equipment. We see where the fire fighters sleep, eat, and wash their clothes. We enjoy walking through the ambulance and jumping out. It is cold and breezy in the fire station garage. Lovely field trip. I believe I have been over thirty times now (for many years, I had the joy of going twice in one day with the am and pm classes). </div>
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We get ready for the trip by reading lots of fiction and non-fiction books. We talk about what we already know (our schema) and what will see during our visit. We practice stop, drop, and roll. We talk about what we would do if there was a fire in our house. We talk about how the firefighters look and never to hide from them. </div>
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All very exciting. I think the kids love the element of danger and excitement. </div>
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In our community, we often see the firefighters shopping at the grocery store, with their fire truck sitting in the parking lot.</div>
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Today the kids made some fire engines, complete with ladders, hoses, sirens, lights and wheels. The cute little firefighters and song are the icing on the cake, aren't they?</div>
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Also, several of the kids told me that gold is their favorite color!</div>
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<br />Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-66181824714008078172013-12-23T15:13:00.001-08:002013-12-24T17:31:16.398-08:00Gingerbread Activities<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We spend most of December reading different versions of the Gingerbread Man. We make some gingerbread art projects, too, of course. This one is one of my very favorites every year. The kids draw a gingerbread man (or girl) with oil pastels and then fill in the cookie and background with liquid watercolor paints. They always turn out so fabulous!</div>
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Then we made some stuffed gingerbread men. My assistant cut out the shapes from paper grocery bags. Then the kids decorated them, stapled around the edges, stuffed them, and lastly added the red glitter.</div>
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And we made gingerbread house cards. The gingerbread men are stamped on. The kids drew and decorated the houses. One of our writing standards are for kids to write cards so this fit that perfectly.<br />
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We made gingerbread houses for our holiday party! Very fun! My kids were engrossed in making them for about an hour! Success!<br />
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We also made poinsettias, evergreen trees, and more poinsettias. It was a very busy month (only 13 school days because of two snow days). The kids were very excited the whole month! Wishing you a fun and relaxing break! And a Happy New Year!<br />
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Merry Christmas!<br />
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We made some cute jack-o-lanterns to decorate our room. I give the kids a sheet of black paper for the background, a small rectangle of brown for the stem, a little less than half a sheet of orange for the pumpkin and a quarter of a sheet of yellow to make the features of the face.</div>
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They write their name in white crayon, rub glue across the middle of the black paper and cut off the corners of the orange piece. Then they cut a slice, put it on the glue, cut the next slice, etc. Last, they create their own face and attach the stem.</div>
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They are very unique and really fun to look at!</div>
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We read Ten Apples Up On Top and made a class book. They each drew themselves and used a red, yellow, or green dotter to make the apples.<br />
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We made apple pictures. I skipped the apple prints. For some reason they never turn out for me and they get everything covered in paint (including me and the kids!). There are many more activities with apples but I never can get to everything! I am almost up to normal speed in math. We do a Drops in the Bucket paper or a math journal prompt, then we do one math tub center, then share. It takes us a little too long still but we are getting the hang of it. </div>
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Today was the 30th day of school! Amazing. In writing, we have been working in our morning journals for a few weeks. I am still having them <u>all</u> share- that will change soon. As they begin to write more it takes too long. I have some foam visors and I go around the room picking 6-7 people to share using the document camera/projector each day. Maybe next week. In reading, we are still practicing read to self all at the same time (although I am pulling very fast reading groups), then buddy reading all at the same time, then a whole group activity (one day might be a class book made in response to reading or today we made a Black Cat book all at the same time). It is kind of fun to do but I am almost ready to have them choose and work independently.</div>
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We made big paintings of apples on the apple tree with a fingerplay glued on to help them remember it.<br />
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They stamped their handprints for the leaves and used fingerprints for the apples.<br />
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And we made the four seasons of the apple tree.<br />
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I love their apple art!
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We talk about how it feels to have all those animals not be friends with the mouse. And how wonderful he feels when he finds a friend. We agree that we are all so lucky to have lots of friends to play with. We make a class book and the kids think of other animals to be friends with the mouse.<br />
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We also discuss how Eric Carle likes to illustrate his books: he paints paper and then cuts it out in the shape of the animals and glues it to the paper (collage). He then takes a picture and prints it to make the book (really I know the publisher does it but it is my simple version, okay?)<br />
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I like how we have Eric Carle books for almost every month of the year!<br />
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This year I am hoping to let the kids act out the book while we snap pictures with the ipad and then they can narrate the book and we'll save it. Haven't gotten to that quite yet. :)<br />
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I made a simple paper book to go with the <b><u>Where do Monsters Live?</u></b> book. The kids color and fill in the color words. Nice and easy!<br />
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We also read <b><u>Go Away Big Green Monster</u></b> and make these cute monsters. We used green paint with some gold glitter mixed in on the first day. I have them fold the paper in half and write their names. Then they glob on the green paint and close the paper on the fold. They smear it around with their hands and we open it up to see how it looks. The next day we decorate the faces. I model it but then try to let them do their own things. They cut out teeth, eyes, mouth, noses, and ears then use the purple glitter for the hair. I love how they come out!<br />
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Other fun monster activities:<br />
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We practiced our subtizing while making a <a href="http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/BigGreenMonsterRollandColor.htm" target="_blank">Monster face </a>in math.<br />
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We also sing a little song to go with the book. It goes to "She'll be Coming Round the Mountain" and it is very simple: Go away big green monster, go away. Go away big green monster, go away. (repeat, repeat, repeat). Silly and fun!<br />
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There is an ipad app, too, that I have used with my own grandchild but not at school yet (we need a dongle!).Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-56255503950260421672013-09-14T19:45:00.002-07:002013-09-14T19:45:15.813-07:00The Third Week of Kindergarten and a Freebie!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wow! We made it through three weeks! I have a wonderful class. The kind of class where I get compliments from the specials teachers when I pick them up. There are some challenges but they are all kind and helpful and eager to learn so I am a happy Kindergarten teacher (although very tired!).<br />
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I have some random pics for you of some of our activities this week. <br />
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The kids come in the room, put away their lunch and folder and backpack, then answer question of the day. Next, they choose a place to work(play). I set out something on each table: playdoh, books, coloring, math manips. It is a different mix each day. We are close to beginning morning journals (our normal morning activity for the rest of the year) so on Friday, I had them draw and start labeling with first letters. We clean up and have Morning Meeting (pledge, schedule, Morning Message, book). <br />
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They are getting to be great artists (I still have one friend drawing purple people but everyone else is on board). After we finish, we do a short math activity. One day we practiced writing numbers whole group on white boards. One day we matched numbers to ten frames. Yesterday they chose a number from 5-10 and completed the All About the Number activity (write it, draw it, etc). I made up a Freebie for you for a Roll it, Write it, Tally it, Draw it. I plan to use it next week, after I make a tally mark chart with the kids.<br />
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Then we go to recess and lunch.<br />
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After lunch, they wash up and have a quiet time to look at books on the carpet (our rest time). Then we do weather, calendar, days in school. I read them a book then they tiptoe to get their book boxes and we practice read to self (Daily Five). All of my students are building stamina (except two little cutie patooties. You know, the ones wearing the book on their heads.) During this time period, we are visited by different specialists: ESOL, Speech, OT. It's great. <br />
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Then we do some centers. This week, at one center, they made their name with dotters. They competed a September book. They did a Roll And Write sight word center (use blank cubes and write the sight words on them. The kids roll the word and write it. If they don't know the word, they ask a friend. I have letter cubes but this class is pretty far along and most of them came in knowing their letters). The last center was writing Rainbow names. I have their names on nametags for them, in case they want to write their last names, too. Fun!<br />
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Then we have a little recess break and snack. Then they go to Music or Art or PE or Tech. I collapse (and try to help my team with tech issues or meet.)<br />
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We pick them up from specials and we have an art project to demo. This week they made Chicka Boom Boom hats, Pete the Cat puppets, and Big Green Monsters. It takes a few days to go through all 20 kids.<br />
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I finally took pictures of my room this year. Like all of us, I spent the first few days moving the furniture back into place and trying to locate where I stored my magnets and word wall and many other mysteriously placed items! </div>
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We have been in school for four days. I am quite exhausted! I have very cute and nice kids: ten boys and ten girls. We are having lots of fun.</div>
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Here is my home away from home:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love the new Eric Carle numbers above the word wall.</td></tr>
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There you have it! Hope you are all just as happy and tired as I am! One more day to the three day weekend!Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-24555607508770112882013-07-02T16:41:00.000-07:002013-07-02T16:41:19.428-07:00Math Pins Party<br /><br />I am joining the Math pins Linky Party from Just Reed. I have so many ideas in my pinterest boards and it was fun revisiting some of them. I am linking the pictures back to their original blog posts, not my pinterest boards. If you want to see or follow my pinterest boards, there is a link on the sidebar (see you there!).<div>
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />1. This is an excellent anchor chart was made by Kathryn at Kindergarten, Kindergarten (a great blog but she only posts sporadically. I am hoping she starts up again.) We made a shorter version this year. I always love her phrasing.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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2. This is a fun number recognition activity from Mrs. Huff. I do the same activity with popsicle sticks and a hundreds chart. This shortened version may work in the first or second quarter.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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3. I love how organized Leslie is at Kindergarten Works. She makes a different math link page for each quarter. I so wanted to get this done this year but I let it slide. I am adding it to my list for this summer!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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4. My kindergarteners loved this activity this year! It is a great visual for ways to make 10.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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5. Heidi has some wonderful activities on her blog (and wonderful songs!). This one cracks me up!<br /> <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />6. I tried very hard to use our math journals for problem solving this year (much more than in years past). I like how this example has more than one way to solve the problem.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjebEt9PZKjH7Bra5qrhmBzwYAbvJAz0GTs6-5Axny0z237Qo9YBpDXw32qB8DOGFo2pJXgMQgkjFyCbk5JWCaUnlauCuBYPAXfuB22dpJqYUE2143aaMzUNV66O1OkPNbKeahrYG_okzY/s320/meow.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjebEt9PZKjH7Bra5qrhmBzwYAbvJAz0GTs6-5Axny0z237Qo9YBpDXw32qB8DOGFo2pJXgMQgkjFyCbk5JWCaUnlauCuBYPAXfuB22dpJqYUE2143aaMzUNV66O1OkPNbKeahrYG_okzY/s320/meow.png" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.littlemindsatwork.blogspot.com/2012/02/addition-story-problems.html">Little Minds at Work</a> <br /><br /><br />7. Isn't this great? Cheap, visual, nothing to lose. Love it!<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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8. We used our white boards and unit cubes this year. Great hands on! Some of my kids found it easier to do the math problem than use the cubes correctly (shows they know the algorithm but not the meaning). I will be doing this one again!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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9. This activity is a great example of hands on learning for math tubs. Easy to put together, engaging, easy to differentiate. Love it.<br />
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10. This is an example of a roll and dot game. Subitizing is a big goal for Kindergarteners and we play many, many dice games to help them recognize groups of dots easily and automatically. This happens to be one I made last summer. Click the link to go get a free copy!<br />
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Thanks to <a href="http://justreed-ashley.blogspot.com/2013/06/ten-pin-linky-party-math-pinspiration.html" target="_blank">Ashley at Just Reed</a> for having a great linky party! Go over and check out some more math ideas!</div>
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-86341068827447838152013-06-30T15:42:00.001-07:002013-06-30T15:42:08.891-07:00Books for Teaching Math<span style="font-size: large;">I am joining the linky party at <a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/frame?post=1222487587&group=0&frame_type=a&blog=4243115&link=aHR0cDovL2ZpcnN0Z3JhZGVhbmRmYWJ1bG91cy5ibG9nc3BvdC5jb20vMjAxMy8wNi9waWN0dXJlLWJvb2stbGlua3ktcGFydHktd2Vlay0yLW1hdGguaHRtbA&frame=1&click=0&user=0" target="_blank">First Grade and Marvelous</a>. Here are some books I use to teach math to Kindergarteners:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/015206091X/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=015206091X&linkCode=as2&tag=thekindergart-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=015206091X&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=thekindergart-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thekindergart-20&l=as2&o=1&a=015206091X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> Mouse Shapes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I love all of the books in this series by Ellen Stoll Walsh. This book is a great review of shapes for my kids at the beginning of the year. You can follow up the book by having the kids make shape pictures.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0152280510/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0152280510&linkCode=as2&tag=thekindergart-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0152280510&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=thekindergart-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thekindergart-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0152280510" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> Fish Eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This book is a very engaging counting book. You can also extend the idea by having the kids make little counting books and art work to match the book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061857793/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0061857793&linkCode=as2&tag=thekindergart-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0061857793&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=thekindergart-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thekindergart-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0061857793" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />Ten Black Dots</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We love this book! My kids make a class book using dots to make a new picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0152050256/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0152050256&linkCode=as2&tag=thekindergart-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0152050256&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=thekindergart-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thekindergart-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0152050256" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thekindergart-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0152050256" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thekindergart-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0152050256" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />Quack and Count</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Another counting book for the beginning of the year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">5. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0152163565/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0152163565&linkCode=as2&tag=thekindergart-20"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0152163565&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=thekindergart-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thekindergart-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0152163565" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> Counting Crocodiles</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My copy of this book shows how well loved it is! This is a story of a little monkey who wants to cross to another island and tricks the crocodiles on his way across. Lots of counting sets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love books! I have way too many! I have my picture books for math in special tubs so I can find them easily. I love starting math with a book to engage my young students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the second quilt that I made with the kids this year. One of our teaching assistants got married in October and she is expecting a baby in August. She won't be coming back after she has the baby and we will miss her. We have three days of school left and we are having a baby shower for her tomorrow morning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The kids all got to color a rectangle with fabric markers. I used their pictures as the outside border of one of the sides of the baby quilt. The teachers signed a rectangle, too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have been having lots of fun these last few days. Today the classes all rotated and we read a book about ocean creatures and then made an art project from the book. We made jellyfish, seahorses, octopi, Rainbow fish, and sharks! Very fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My kids actually fot to go to art today, too. When they came back in, I told them to put their smocks into their backpacks and they were so excited about it! Woohoo! We get to take our smocks home!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then we made some cute pictures based on the book, <u>In the Tall, Tall Grass. </u> The kids used bingo markers, glitter, and some tissue paper to make their creations. Love them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And as I cleaned out my filing cabinet, I found this gift we made 13 years ago for our parent volunteers. The little ruler is a magnet, just like the gifts we make now (want to see them? <a href="http://thekindergartenteacher.blogspot.com/2012/05/big-thank-you-for-our-volunteersfreebie.html" target="_blank">here is a link</a>.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next three days are early dismissal days. There is still so much to do!! I will really miss this class but I am ready for summer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have five more days to go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We don't do a graduation ceremony in Kindergarten. Our county prefers that only high school has a graduation ceremony. It keeps it special for the seniors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So we have an ice cream social near the end of the year with our parents. We sing songs, perform a little play, and show a slideshow. Then everybody eats ice cream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year, our program was yesterday (phew!). It is a fun day but we are always happy when it is over. It is a lot of pressure. You never know what they will do! And at our school, it feels like the paparazzi are there! I saw some parents recording with their ipads! I did feel a little sad that they didn't get to just watch. Eventually we will have one person film, I guess, and share it with everyone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We got to practice by showing our friends in the other classes our shows. It was fun and kind of funny to see how all of us are a little different in how we teach and sing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our slideshow this year was done with the tech teacher, Mrs. Scott. She used Pixie to have them photograph themselves, fill in a template of their favorite part of Kindergarten (recess and PE were big hits but a few kids said math or reading group!). The kids illustrated their sentence. When she sent me the files as jpegs (photos) I put them into powerpoint and had each child read theirs as I recorded it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our play was Pete the Cat. The kids recited all of the book with props and instruments. Perfect and easy! They did a great job!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We sang seven songs (some of them are really short). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Two songs we did with the ipod: One Small Voice (with sign language) by Jack Hartmann and Drive My Car by Laurie Berkner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Then I played the guitar as they sang four songs: Out in the Garden (sung to the tune of Down at the Station), The Rainbow Connection, The RolyPoly Caterpillar (sung to the Eensy Weensy Spider), and What a Beautiful World (with sign language). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The last song was The Kindergarten Class (sung to the Addam's Family). I had the kids all fold their arms and snap like the Addam's Family. All the parents laughed. The kids of course had no idea :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I gave my room mother/team mother a little quilt to thank her for everything she did for us this year. She was absolutely amazing! I try to make a quilt with the kids every year. This year I was out for some surgery and the families surprised me with a quilt made from the kids' t-shirts. It is really cute but I forgot to take a picture of it. It was behind us as we were singing so I know it was photographed about 200 times yesterday! oh well. If you want more info on the one we made, you can read about it on <a href="http://amomentofwhimsy.blogspot.com/2013/06/making-quilts-with-kids.html" target="_blank">my other blog</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The kids all added their fingerprints and then made little bugs or flowers out of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a toast to five more days! Summer here we come!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I am jealous of those of you who are already on vacation. We have 13 more days to go! Many of the days are special days (Field Day is Friday, the library is coming on Monday, the preschoolers visit on Tuesday, we go up and visit first grade on Thursday and we have our end of the year program on Friday.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Tomorrow is our Fun in the Sun Day. Does your school do this? Each grade takes one day and plans all kinds of outdoor activities. When I taught first grade, we did Camp Day, complete with t-shirts and letters from home. When I taught second grade, the kids were able to choose from all kinds of activities from singing to nail painting. I know third grade makes tie dye t-shirts with their kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Well, in Kindergarten, we have five teachers so we have five different activities. My kids will go from teacher to teacher while I stay in one place and have all the classes come to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">9:30-10:00 Playing in the water tables</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">10:00-10:30 Sidewalk chalk</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Here is the link to <a href="http://earlylearning.momtrusted.com/2013/05/foam-dough-shaving-cream-corn-starch/" target="_blank">Early Learning/Mom Trusted</a>. Go check out the pictures of the playdough. I tried it today and it is really soft.</span><br />
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I have a love/hate relationship with this time of year!</div>
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I love this time of year! The kids have so many skills, they know the rules and routines, they can work independently for a little longer, and we sing with my guitar. </div>
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The weather has not been very cooperative, though. We have had some really lovely Spring days but we have also had lots of cold and rainy days (indoor recess!).</div>
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I do not enjoy the stress of all the meetings.I am going to five IEP meetings for incoming preschoolers on Friday, we are meeting during planning today with our Reading Support Teacher, we meet on Thursday during planning as a team, we meet for artic as a team and I will have another (unscheduled as of yet) meeting to artic with first grade and preschool, I am leading a staff development next week..... The meetings feel endless!</div>
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I am trying to squeeze in some running records and a wee bit of teaching! This month we are learning about the pond. Here are some cute watercolor fish we made. Scroll down and see some super easy turtles. I didn't provide any patterns-the kids did all of the cutting by themselves.</div>
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We have 26 more days to go!</div>
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<br />Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827401608677447554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3226610550993410557.post-21335107492000336042013-05-02T17:13:00.001-07:002013-05-02T17:24:30.650-07:00Art Extravaganza!<br />
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Our Art Teachers rock! They planned a wonderful day of art for each grade level. I saw many different wonderful art projects all done in one day!</div>
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Our kids' favorite project was presented by two great high school art students. They read<u> A House for Hermit Crab</u> by Eric Carle to the kids, then showed them how to create a sponge dude! So cute! All the kids had a great time creating features and clothes for their little sponge guys! Some of them are super dudes! One friend at my table made Sponge Bob's Dad. Hehe! Lots of fun!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">High School art students presented the art project and story.</td></tr>
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If you are planning a beach theme for the end of May or beginning of June, these would be easy to make! My kids loved them!
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Linking up to the Kindergarten Works<br />
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