Kindergarten I Can Hall

Older kids have hanging of the stars or diplomas this year since our theme is colleges. Kindergarteners aren't quite ready for AR although some will be soon...we decided they needed recognition too that everyone would be aware of. Sooooo we came up with the Kindergarten I Can Hall. It was a wonderful spin off of our Social Studies lesson where the kids proposed a celebration idea complete with food, music, guests, & games to our principal. Once all of the students have mastered these milestones we will propose our celebration idea to our principal.
Friday we recognized students who have learned to identify all 26 letters of the alphabet, upper & lower-case. We also recognized students who can tell what sound each letter makes. My classroom college is UT (Texas Longhorns) so my classes names will be hung around each sign on little orange longhorns. Mrs. Leverett's (other kinder teacher) college is WT so her students' names will be hung on brown buffaloes. The kids were sooooooooo excited when we did this! We called them one at a time & they came down the hall as everyone clapped. The pride on their faces was just priceless! Anyway....on to the best part---the pictures!

Interactive Word Wall

I needed a word wall with pictures and words to help my kids spell during writing. I found some of these little cards in my storage cabinet. I used a vis-a-vis marker to write the word on it & waaa laaaa. Some of the pictures are also printables from various sites. My awesome instructional coach helped me come up with some great ideas when we were discussing word walls. She reminded me that it needed to be something where the kids could take the words back to their seat if they needed to. This is the end result. I still need to tweak some things. This is not the permanent location- I will eventually relocate it to my white board & use magnets & have the things on a much lower level so they are easier to reach. I am also still working on what I want to use as dividers...I'm thinking maybe ribbon...Oops! Forgot to put my "x" word up. I found these printable alphabet letters here: http://www.education.com/slideshow/color-animal-alphabet/Color_Letter_A/. I copied them into word & tweaked them to make them larger. You can also click "download all". Keep in mind these are NOT sight words. I have a separate sight word wall. I will post pictures soon of its makeover! :)

Sorry for the blurriness!