Check out this fun art project for the fall that even the littlest learners can complete: Tissue paper Leaves Art. You Will Need Here are the items you will need for this project: Food sorting tray (I got mine at the dollar store.)Tissue paper squaresGlue bottlePencilLeave outline on white construction paper with thick lines. Table Set Up Here is how to set up this art project for … [Read more...]
Get Ready for Apple Week
This week is one of the best weeks of the entire school year. This week we get to celebrate Johnny Appleseed Day and integrate apples in our classroom. Let's break down TONS of teaching ideas and activities to help you to Get Ready for Apple Week. Teaching Using Biographies Johnny Appleseed Day is September 26th. What a fun way to use the idea of a biography in the classroom. I love to use … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Patch Activities
Fall is an amazing time of year when we celebrate the changing seasons as we gather for tons of family activities like hay rides, pumpkin patches, and fall festivals. I love to incorporate the theme of fall into my classroom. Why? Anything that brings novelty and excitement becomes an easy in for educational fun. Adding a pumpkin, haystack, and scarecrow just makes almost any skill … [Read more...]
Thanksgiving Fun in Kindergarten
Of course I love to use literature to meet more educational needs and ideas. Here is the FUN book, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie. We use this sheet and crayons to complete a listening and following direction activity. I love to record the directions and set the audio file on a CD so this station is independent. It makes my students follow directions the first time and move on. This … [Read more...]
Center Saturday
Hi guys! How is your fall going? I am LOVING the GA fall weather ALMOST as much as the kids are. LAST week, we covered the Letter Ii, which is part of this bundle. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat, check out this bundle. Nocturnal Animals, and we are working to make teen numbers using tens and ones. Yellow Table Our yellow table was all about using these Bat themed ten frames … [Read more...]
Center Saturday
Hey guys! Are you ready to talk about centers this week? Math centers to be exact! {I am still getting use to math centers only but my students are LOVING it.} This week we focused our learning around our theme of Nuts and Squirrels, the letter Hh, which part of this bundle. And practice tons of math skills we are working on. We are working hard on number words and ordering … [Read more...]
Lovely Leaves Art Leaves
I love using art to tie together science concepts and other skills we are working on. One of the art projects we do each fall involves using these leaf rubbing plates. We talk about how each leaf can tell us the type of tree. Of course all my little ones enjoy hunting and discovering leaves. We usually find several kinds of trees and their leaves, but it is SO fun to show my little ones … [Read more...]
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat
Take a look at my newest activities I am prepping for the upcoming week. We are using a sure fire hit... There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat We are sequencing the story using these cards and a sequencing sheet. That you can grab FOR FREE! We also played the class favorite reading comprehension game... We also use the word wall and writing prompts to make writing … [Read more...]
Center Saturday
Welcome to October. I love this month's learning themes of fall, pumpkins, nocturnal animal, and perhaps scary fun. {We are allowed to do Halloween themes at school! WOO HOO!} This week we learned about the letter Hh, word look, sorting and the number 8, and Columbus Day. My centers are color correlated so look at the colored border and read the description of it … [Read more...]
In 1492…
Columbus sailed right into your classroom with a pack that is ready to use and is so much FUN for your students to learn through... Yeah... it is happening. I worked on updating and extending my Columbus Day Hooray Unit. {In fact, hubs says he is tired of seeing this pack on my computer! He hasn't seen my office yet, but Columbus EXPLODED in there too!} Here is what the pack looks … [Read more...]
Write Me Three Fall Pack with a FREEBIE
I am working away on the to-do list you guys have given me this summer. This item is something I have been looking forward to for a while because my students and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. I finished the newest Write Me Three pack! This one is perfect for the fall these you teach. It has themed word walls for back to school, lunch room, recess, bats, spiders, nocturnal animals, community … [Read more...]
A is for Apple
{Updated this post on 9/16/14} I am preparing as many fall activities for my class now. Here is what I am going to be doing the 4th week of school while learning about the letter Aa. (We use the Orton Gillingham Recipe for Reading letter order.) First, I just finished this simple Aa Activities letter pack. {I updated this pack on 9/16/14 so re-download it to get all the NEW stuff!} This … [Read more...]