Celebrating Kimberly Ann's Blogiversary

How long have some of you lovely ladies & gents been blogging? Has it been a few years, a year, or even a few months? My pal Kimberly Ann over @ Live, Laugh, I LOVE Kindergarten has reached her year of blogging. To celebrate she is having a fabulous giveaway! Yippee... Congrats Kimberly Ann!!! Head over to enter for some pretty awesome goodies.

Just click on her image below :)

 

Well I hope all of y'all survived Halloween! I was exhausted after our kinder Halloween parade and our Halloween non-party. Technically we don't call it a Halloween party but the kiddos do get to hand out candy, Halloween goodies or whatever they bring to hand out. They just have to put it all in their backpacks. I was Minnie Mouse.

 

Speaking of backpacks.... Do you use the word backpack or bookbag?!??? I tend to use both... Just which ever word pops out of my mouth and my kiddos do not get that these 2 words mean the SAME THING! I swear they are constantly correcting me if I use the word "bookbag" or look at me confused when I ask them to go get their bookbag and pack up. LOL! I just think it's funny.

Now back to Halloween....

I had a parent drop off Haunted Gingerbread Houses for the kiddos to make after the Halloween Parade and boy oh boy did I under estimate the messiness of this!!! WOW is all I can say. But the kiddos did LOVE every bit of it.

As you can see, it got sticky! I don't know why I didn't think to put paper underneath for the icing. Let's just say I just now got the black dye from under my fingernails.

 

Oh and I bundled my Sight Word Readers.... So you can SAVE & purchase the pack now!

Just click on the image.

 

5 for Friday- Scarecrows, Apples, Dinos, Witches

Ahhhh! These past weeks have been CRAAA-ZY!!! Kudos to you lovely ladies & dudes that are able to blog every day. I feel absolutely terrible for not finding enough time to get on here more often but every extra minute I get is spent with my nose in my Canadian history class that I have to pass in order to get my permanent certification in Canada. UGH! It really stinks.... It's like pulling teeth to make myself read. I CAN NOT wait until this course is over, well if I can pass it that is. I pray that I can pass this course even if it is by a thin thread.

 

On the plus side I have lots of photos & freebies to share with y'all :)

We are working on patterns. I made these strips of cube patterns so that students can extend the pattern. Freebie--- cube pattern strips

We learned about the letter & short sound of Aa last week. We did an apple observation. The kiddos loved it! They predicted whether their apple would sink or float and then checked their prediction.

Download our Apple Observation Sheet

Check out the Apple Unit on TPT, TN, Tools for School or EdWorld Exchange

We measured our apples.

We recorded our observations.

Students read their Fall Sight Word Reader. Another FREEBIE

I saw a cute craft on Pintrest similar to this so I free handed a template for these fun scarecrows.

The kiddos enjoyed making these. This was our first "big kid" writing. Together we wrote the sentence- I see a scarecrow. Then students created their own sentence by telling me what they would like to write about their scarecrow. I wrote their sentence on a sticky note and they wrote it on the scarecrow writing sheet.

Next week the students will begin to use the letter sounds that they know to write words.

Here are our turkeys and corn crafts that students created for Canadian Thanksgiving.

Students created these name plates on poster boards using snips of construction paper about 3 weeks ago but I just got these up in the classroom. I know I know... bad teacher.

A few books we read for the letter Aa.

Our letter Aa cards for the kiddos to refer to through out the week.

Letter of the Week Picture Cards

Our Apple Graphing

Grab it for a buck here or find it in the Appl-i-cious Unit

After reading Johnny Appleseed we created Johnny Appleseed hats.

 

The Letter Dd & Dinosaur Unit

Students created their own patterns with these dino cards.

Freebie--- Dino Pattern Cards

Dino Pattern Sheet

We've learned the letters Pp, Uu, Oo, Mm, Xx, Aa & Dd so far.

Students write & read words that have the letters that we've learned so far.

The dino pattern sheet that you can grab above. :)

Students LOVED being Paleontologists and creating dino fossils using noodles.

Our paleontologist hat we made using construction paper.

Our witch writing... Another Pintrest find!

Students listed their witch brew ingredients.

 

These turned out cute!

Tonight our school had a Halloween dance which is a great way for the PTA to raise money. There were a good amount of other Minnie Mouses there too but I was the only one with a red one.

 

 

 

Halloween & Fall freebie

Fall is ever so present here in Alberta, Canada. All the trees are beautiful and bright reds, oranges and yellows. Unfortunately it is already getting too cold for me.

 

My kiddos are loving their Fall sight word reader which you can find in my previous post. I know they are going to enjoy their Halloween sight word reader as well. It is giving them the confidence of being independent readers.

Click on the image to grab your freebie.

 

Last week the kiddos enjoying learning about the letter Mm and all about a farm. They painted a corn stalk, painted a farm field and glued grain on to their farm, made butter for their biscuits and milked our class cow.

 

 

Students cut and pasted pictures with the sound of /x/ onto their scarecrow fall sort.

You can grab the /x/ fall sort here.