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Here are few pictures (from different days) of our day! Enjoy!

Measuring with linking cubes in Science

 

Measuring using rulers and tape measures in Science

More measurement using linking cubes

Measuring using inchworms

Measuring using a tape measure to measure a ruler. Love these kids! :)

Sweet smiles!

 

Word Work---dotting letters with stamp markers- they love this!

The font is Janda Polka dot- I downloaded it from Dafont.com and then used it in word with word art to make it hollow. :) I also use this font for Pokey Penmanship---they use a thumbtack to poke holes in the letters to learn the shape of them.

Geoboard ABCs you can print the cards here: http://makinglearningfun.com/GeoboardLetterCards.html

Work on Writing

The opposite side of the chalkboard easel is a dry erase board. They are so smart- when practicing writing their ABCs they go back & forth & check each other. Excellent cooperative learning! :)

Work on Writing- Word Detectives- they use a clipboard w/ handwriting paper & wear their detective glasses & walk around the room writing words they see.

More Geoboard ABCs 

Listen to Reading-Leapfrog Tags- they love these. We only have 4 and they are ALWAYS in use!

Homework & Behavior notebooks we take home daily.

Each student's notebook has a title page. Boys are black & white zebra print. Girls are pink leopard print.

This is the note home explaing our behavior chart, classroom rules & expectations. Parents sign & return a separate copy. This one is kept in the notebook for future reference. Aside from a few tweaks, this came from KinderGals.

 

This is their weekly behavior chart. I simply circle the animal they ended up on each day. Parents are asked to initial it each day so that I KNOW they saw the animal their child ended the day on.

Each notebook alsos contains 3 study pages. The first is an alphabet chart & hundreds board.

Then, days of the week & months of the year.

Third, colors & shapes.

This year our school is implementing a Tuesday folder. Folders go home on Tuesdays with important papers to be returned & papers to keep at home. Parents are asked to sign the back of the folder & date it. Students who return Wednesday with a signed folder receive a token for our PBIS store. I think it is a great idea! :)

Here is what it looks like inside:

This is the kindergarten newsletter. Our school is also implementing a newsletter. Each Tuesday, grade newsletters go out in the folders. Here is our Kindergarten Longhorn newsletter. It was fun to make! Unfortunately, the printer would NOT cooperate with my borders!!! Any suggestions?

This is our handwriting journal. We do this each day after we learn a new letter in SFA. Students color uppercase letters blue & lowercase letters red. Then they trace & write. So much better than giving them a blank sheet of paper where they feel like there is no end in sight. I downloaded this from TPT here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Handwriting-Galore

It is free! Be sure to check out her Numbers Galore also! We use this for our number of the day DAILY in math. Such a lifesaver! :)

We bound these little books before school started. It is so awesome. I can put this under the document camera & the kids just go get them & get started!!! Love it!

More word work- each side contains letters of the alphabet- one side is lowercase, the other is uppercase. They are simply ordering the letters. :) But they love it because they are with someone else.

Word work- just sorting upper & lowercase letters into pockets. They love this one too! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 



Target

$1 Pocket Charts??? YES PLEASE!!! I have sooo many ideas for these. I was thrilled to see them in four colors! Yeah! I am revamping my hands on calendar this year. I learned about many manipulatives I could add to go along with my smartboard calendar at workshop our school hosted this summer. I think the kids will love it & will be so much more engaged. :)

I love flash cards! $1 Wipe Clean cards will be awesome for beginning of the year Work on Writing. :)

Crayons were 50 cents! Yes I know Walmart & other stores have them cheaper but this was where I was when I remembered I needed a lot of them for an upcoming project. Keep an eye out!

How cute are these $1 chair covers? I am considering using these on their chairs maybe for birthdays??? Idk.

More $1 wipe clean writing practice- letters & the one on the bottom is letters & numbers.

I LOVE these little $1 boxes! I think these will go great with attribute sorting. Check it out here: Attribute Sorting

$1.45 for two pairs of scissors! Yes!! It is amazing how little hands can break these! :)

$1 stickers! You can NEVER have too many stickers in kindergarten!

DOES ANYONE ELSE LOVE THE TARGET $ SPOT AS MUCH AS ME??? :)

Learning Our Friends' Names

Right around Christmas we got a new student & he looked so lost trying to learn names, I created this Work on Writing Center. It is a variation of write the room or word detective. The bottles have mini pictures of each student along with a recording sheet. I also posted name lists in various locations in the room so they would also have the option of getting up to look at the lists, the behavior chart, cubby labels, mailbox labels, etc...to find the correct spellings. This really helped our new student learn his classmates names & faces. :)

Word Detective

I had no idea how much the kids would love this center when I first introduced it. It is one of the many choices the kids have for Work on Writing for Daily 5. This was one of my earliest centers introduce & has withstood the test of time & the waning interest of kids. Just something about those glasses, clipboards, & being able to walk around the room! They simply look for a word beginning with each letter of the alphabet. I love looking back at these papers & seeing the words they brought into the classroom. One student wrote all the names of the trains from Thomas!!! AND HE HAD THEM SPELLED CORRECTLY!