3 MILLION TEACHERS STRONG SALE

Teachers Pay Teachers has hit a milestone!  3 MILLION TEACHERS STRONG!  Teachers all across the nation are sharing their creative ideas and now you can join in on the fun!  In honor of teachers I am hosting a sale on my first 3 products.  Don't miss out on a great sale 2 days only, February 27th and 28th.

STEM Ice House Challenge

My second product is here!  This is my first STEM challenge that I am so excited to introduce.  STEM is integrating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in daily instruction.  I did this activity with my kinders last year and it was so exciting to see the learning happen naturally.  Students build an ice house that will prevent an ice cube from melting.  We complete the experiment together as a class.  Check out this blog post from last January!

Ice House STEM Challenge 2013

Now that I am beginning to make my own products on Teachers Pay Teachers, I spent my winter break creating this and I can't wait to use it with my kinders this month.  It includes a parent letter to send home, a writing page for students to write about their ice house, and a class graph to keep track of the BIG class experiment!  Check this out on Teachers Pay Teachers!

Ice House STEM Challenge 2014

I hope you like it and please let me know your thoughts and suggestions because I am learning every day.

Gingerbread Man Around The World

So excited to show you my kinders Gingerbread friends from around the world!  Take a peek!

My new product on Teachers Pay a Teachers called Gingerbread Man/Woman Around The World was a hit in my classroom.  My kiddos take their plain gingerbread friend home.  Pick a country anywhere in the world and make your gingerbread friend from that country by designing their clothing and researching how they celebrate the holidays!

From Ireland to Australia my kiddos brought in their gingerbread friends.  Each kiddo had the spotlight to share their friend and their writing!

We learned so much about how people all across the world celebrate the holidays.  Take a peek at my new unit!

Gingerbread Man/Woman Around The World

Hope you like it and make sure to leave a comment!

Take a peek at November!

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We were so busy in November making tepees and costumes for our friendship feast!  Take a look!

STEM Centers October

My goal for this teaching year is to bring STEM into my classroom through monthly thematic centers focused around our science topic.  For the month of October, my class was studying the bones in the body, perfect to teach during Halloween and skeletons. STEM is beginning to become a key concept in teaching integrating S-Science, T-Technology, E-Engineering, and M-Mathematics.  Take a peek how I integrated these teaching strands for my October centers.

I invited a parent to visit my class and introduce Mr. Bones to the students to take a closer look at the "Big Names" of bones in our body.  I told my kiddos that they were learning "Big Words!"

For math, my kiddos measured bones using unifix cubes.  I found skeletons at Michaels and took them apart.  Students measured each bone and then completed this Dem Bones Measuring sheet for fun!  

This was the favorite center to visit!  Using model magic, my kiddos built their own skeleton.  Engineering at its finest!  Excited to put together our next set of STEM centers for November.  

THE SECRET PASSWORD!

I am so excited to share with you my very first product for Teachers Pay Teachers!  It's a long time coming and I guess it's the fear that no one will like what you produce.  Well I am ready to share my kinder's favorite thing to do, "The Secret Password."  On my classroom door I have the secret password sign up.  The kindergarten sight word changes daily.  Before my kiddos enter the classroom they have to read the secret password first.  THEY LOVE DOING THIS!  Sometimes I can hear them talking outside before school starts wondering and discussing what they think will be the secret password for that day.  I even have them read it again after recess time.  It's easy, effective, and effortless.  So a BIG Thank You for still hanging around and I hope you enjoy my first FREEBIE!

Thanks for all the support!

!st Weeks of School

We are off to a great start in kindergarten.  I always like to begin the school year making our surfers.  Each kiddo gets a T-shirt of their choice.  They decorate their shirt any way they like and then I take a pic of them in our surf shack.  My kiddos love coming to school and seeing their cool picture!

Another way to start off the school year is reading a favorite book of mine, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.  We read the book and made these darling Chicka Chicka Boom Boom trees.  This lesson is from Deanna Jump's Back To School literacy unit.