Educating the Whole Child in Kindergarten
(sorry for this less than fabulous pic) This week we learned all about nouns and adjectives. I was inspired by pictures I saw on pinterest but I tweaked them a little. I changed Nick Noun to Ned Noun because I have a Nick in my class and I wanted it to be different. I didn’t find anything about Adjectives so…
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Greetings friends! OMG, I am so tired and this week is draggggginggggg! I am sorry I haven’t uploaded pictures yet this week but they are coming. We are working on our Farm unit and it has been fun! I will upload my Farm Unit this weekend too. Here is a fun math game that my kids love to play in…
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Planning for fun October and Halloween? You should totally go by and check out VINTAGE TEACHER. She does a FREEBIE FRIDAY post every Friday and this past Friday she posted 13 Spooktacular freebie activity links. Totally worth looking!! Just click here. J
Greetings Friends! Happy Monday! I had such a fun weekend. What about you? Friday night a friend of mine and I took my daughter, niece, and one of their friends to Austin to eat at Cheesecake Factory (yum!) and then to a haunted house! EEK!! I am a totally baby but the girls had so much fun. Teenage girls screaming…
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Greetings blogging buddies! Have parent conferences coming up? Come by and listen to The Organized Classroom’s radio show tonight, where I am a guest panelist. I’ve never done a radio show before so this is a first and I have been so nervous. J It will air tonight at 8:00 p.m. central time and will be available anytime after that…
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First, a funny! LOL! I organize all of my centers in colored tubs or in buckets on my back counter or on a shelf (back right corner) that I got from the fabu IKEA. All baskets and tubs have a picture on it that corresponds with the center pocket chart. On the pocket chart, I also place colored dots on…
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I just started a new center schedule this past week. I am doing a ten day rotation with 20 centers…GASP, right?! Actually, I LOVE it. I am basically preparing for two weeks at a time but this way I keep my groups small (2 or 3 students). I still make sure they go to an art, library or buddy reading,…
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During calendar time, we always add straws to our tens/ones pocket chart, write numbers on a white board for the number of yesterday today and tomorrow, and then we add a sticky note. The numbers are color coded. I keep them in my “scissor suitcase” this year. It has come in handy! J This has worked out great as a…
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Last week, when learning about the season of FALL, students were to bring a bag of items they found while going on a “Nature Walk” at their home. I drew on white paper a tree top, tree trunk, clouds, grass, etc. and each table colored and cut out something for the mural. Then we glued it on. We all sat…
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