Kindergarten is a magical place where reality meets fantasy. Let me introduce you THE PERFECT JOURNAL where handwriting and imagination meets the simple to use technology of augmented reality. Friends, this is Journals Alive. Let me show you how I set up, implemented, and saw learning excitement and success with Journals Alive: Augments Reality Journals. Setting Up Journals Alive First, I got my … [Read more...]
If You Give a Dog a Donut Activities and Fun
The letter Dd is a great time to use the book If You Give a Dog a Donut. I know you will love all of these If You Give a Dog a Donut Activities and Fun ideas for the week. Tying learning into literacy and math skills is a great, solid teaching tip to cover multiple standards in an inventive and engaging way. Charting and Write the Room I love to use this chart (shown in the back) on my smart … [Read more...]
Roll’n Write Activities Bring Writing Alive
Writing isn't my favorite subject to teach so I am always looking for ways to make writing more fun for my little learners and myself. I want to engage my learners and make them enjoy writing. One way I will be teaching writing this year is my using Roll'n Write Activities. I love how they integrate nouns, verbs, and adjectives to create real or silly sentences but with a hands on … [Read more...]
US Symbols
One of my favorite themes to discuss US Symbols with my awesome little learners. It is such a fun unit to integrate across many subject areas. I teach this unit directly after I teach about Presidents since there is a direct tie in to each other. First, we start the week by discussing what symbols are in our everyday life. We talk about symbols that are meaningful to us like Target or McDonald's. … [Read more...]
If You Give a Mouse a Brownie Learning Fun
Laura Numeroff released a new book in her "If You Give a..." series called If You Give a Mouse a Brownie. It is a great addition to any library and it is sure to be a hit with little learners. As a teacher, I love to turn a well written and illustrated book into inspiration for learning activities to hook my learners. Learners can easily practicing their skills in fun ways. Let's check out my … [Read more...]
Now and Then Print & Play Pack
Let's take a deep breath from the craziness that is Halloween and start to mentally prepare ourselves for the month of November. We know the feast is coming, along with crafts galore and tons of great activities. One of the biggest units we cover is all about The First Thanksgiving and therefore Now and Then. I want you to check out this easy to use and fun to teach with... Now & Then Print … [Read more...]
Presidents’ Day Preparations
Tomorrow starts the week long study of US Presidents followed by a week long study of US Symbols. Our curriculum specifically states to learn about Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and who ever is our current president. How do I do this? I tackle one president a day for one week. One Monday we talk about the US's first president George Washington. We have a paid subscription to … [Read more...]
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog {with a Freebie}
Oh the weather outside is frightful... and I know it is still winter... {I live in GA and we might have a delayed start tomorrow because it is SOOOO COLD.} BUT I am already making some FUN plans in the spring using the NEWEST book from Lucille Colandro called... There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog. Check out this cute cute cute book! Here is the link to this book on … [Read more...]
More Thanksgiving FUN
I know Thanksgiving is almost here... but I have to share some of the learning activities my little wonderfuls have been working on. Today I have a writing activity, math game, and STEM project we worked on... all centered around Thanksgiving. Last week during Daily 5, we took these Pilgrim Job cards... and selected a job we would want to do if we were a pilgrim. Then we wrote … [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 … [Read more...]
Easy as {Eskimo} Pie
Happy Snow Day! It didn't actually snow here in GA, but man is it COLD. We had yesterday and today off of school, so I was able to spend a LOT of time with the girls and spend a little bit of time on my newest art project. Here is a look at this pack called Easy as {Eskimo} Pie. The center of the pack is the Eskimo Art Project. {I included directions and tracers to make this as … [Read more...]
Write Me Three Questions Answered
I had a sweet email from a blog reader asking me about the "Write Me Three" Units I put together. She asked me to "explain how to use" the Write Me Three sheets I make. Here are my kids completing their Write Me Three activity. I jumped on this chance because I simply LOVE these packs. This structure make sense to students, help create independent … [Read more...]
