Day and Night!

We have been learning about Day and Night in our classroom.

We decided to wrap up our learning by doing several activities in centers.

We watched a short movie and labeled a day and night diagram.  Even though I didn't get a picture of it in action, here's the recording sheet we used to go along with the "Day and Night" video we watched.






We also made a pattern of day and night and did some simple research on the differences between day and night.

Happy NewYear!!

Welcome to 2016!  We wrote "resolutions" for the new year and made these cute New Year people.  The idea came from A Cupcake for the Teacher!

Apple Day

 Apple Day!  We celebrated Johnny Appleseed's birthday with lots of apple activities including making applesauce, graphing our favorite apples and tasting apple foods!

Kindercamp!

So today was our first day of Kindercamp.  This is a week long glimpse into kindergarten for students enrolled to begin in August.  We learn about the computer lab, cafeteria, walking in the hall and our way around the school  We also learn some math and language arts.  Students come for three hours each day.  Today was our first day!  Here's my room ready to start!  

Some of the books we'll read this week. 

Bears and manipulatives.

Playdough and Letters!

A letter activity I made.

Pattern Blocks!

Letters and Counting!

Letter Jar Activity

I found a picture of this activity online somewhere, maybe Pinterest but could not find a printable so I made one.  I plan to print it and attach it to a plastic "jar" in my classroom and fill with letters.

Please feel free to download and use!

Whole Brain Teaching

I use some whole brain teaching strategies in our classroom.  I created these posters as the ones I saw online did not really fit to my teaching style or to our classroom.  Feel free to download and use in your room!  Let me know what you think!

Counting the Days Ten Frames

I saw something similar on a web posting.  It was part of a set that I didn't really want/need so I made my own.  Feel free to print and use for counting days in your classroom.  You can add stickers or draw circles in the boxes to count the days!   Click on the picture to go to my TpT store to download!