Sweet Little Chick Student Gift

Thanks! I love it! :)

Past, Present, and Future

Past, present, & future is a hard concept to teach. Soooo I made "today" look like a PRESENT.

Then I used a special card to put behind our Easter party date that has stars on it. I explained that the future is something we have to look forward to usually because of something fun. So then we hit on alliteration and made it our "fun" future....On the blue arrow at the bottom that goes with "Tomorrow will be...." I put star stickers to match the star card. This really seemed to cement the idea.

Past is a little harder to explain...I may start coloring over the plastic pockets in red to show that red means past....We'll see! How do you teach past, present, & future????

Easter Party

Procedural directions for creating a popsicle stick picture frame. 

If I Were A Bunny...

Here are a few bunnies we made today. I will take a picture of all of them up on the wall soon. My phone & Ipad were not cooperating today! Both were DEAD! :( I found this adorable idea here: A Cupcake for the Teacher.
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First students wrote what they would do if they were a bunny on large paper & then were helped with spelling errors they were capable of fixing using Stretchy Snake or the Word Book. Then they transferred it to a lined sheet of handwriting paper with TINY lines! Good practice for them! Here is the FREE pdf if you would like to use it. If I Were A Bunny pdf

Then they glued their writing to a cute piece of colorful memo paper. Then they glued that to a sheet of pastel colored construction paper. 

Then step by step they drew faces on precut round faces- whiskers, mouth, & eyes & glued on a pink nose. Next, they glued on ears with the pink ovals.

Then they glued on front paws & back paws. Back paws had separate pink pads to glue on & they drew on pink toenails. 

Taaaa daaa! They turned out adorable!!!

Proud kids!

He worked hard today Mrs. Leverett!!! And he did a GREAT job!!

Testing = Changes = Last Minute Craft!

Quite unexpectedly, I had both kindergarten classes in my room for the entire morning so I pulled this crazy idea out of my hat that morning with little to no preparation. Here are our Easter "pattern" eggs. Although, you'll see I was the only one who actually created a pattern lol. It was just too much for their little minds that morning. They still turned out really cute & dressed up outside our doors. I found the chick & rabbit at a 2nd hand store for $10 for the pair! They are made out of wooden pickets & have a little bolt & tightening thingy (I can't recall the name of it at 11:30 at night!) so the arms kind of do a windmill motion. Anyway, they are adorable!