Going Batty for Centers!

Hi Teacher Friends!!

I've been a HUGE fan of so many sellers or TpT for awhile but I hadn't ever put up any products. Well, over the summer the opportunity presented itself. My husband and I took a DREAM vacation to London and Ireland for two weeks, great time, but, I had some difficulty finding a summer job due to the vacation.

So, there I was, a few days back from Ireland BORED out of my mind and it hit me, I could be making products!! It was really a double bonus, I've been having a great time using the things I made AND I've been able to share them with other teachers :)

That being said, I wanted to let you know, I posted a 91 page center packet with 8 literacy and 8 math centers!! The centers are the PERFECT addition to any Kindergarten classroom this October.

Here's a sneak peak at the packet, Going Batty for Centers. If you like what you see, head over to my TpT store and check out the rest of the centers...for only $3.50!

Blasting Off With Reader's Workshop!

Hi parents!

I wanted to give you a sneak peak at something new I am trying this year, Reader's Workshop! In the past, I have often wrestled with the best way to teach reading because many of the kiddos are not able to read when school starts.

Then I found Blasting Off With Reader's Workshop and my world was changed forever! I know it sounds a bit dramatic, but its true. The first thing I did was to split phonics and word study from reading. We now have two, shorter, literacy blocks during the day, one for phonics and one for reading. The shorter blocks of time REALLY help the kids to maintain their attention :)

A typical day of Reader's Workshop runs as follows...we start with me teaching a mini lesson that will cover an essential reading skill for about 10 minutes. We are starting small, like studying the parts of a book and we will continue to grow from here! During the lesson I might be modeling a skill, the kids might be talking with their elbow partners, or we might work on an anchor chart as a whole class.

After the lesson the kiddos get to go practice the skill they talked about. They LOVE this part :). We worked very hard choosing books that were just right for them and have begun keeping our own libraries in ziplock baggies to use each day for reading. Our baggies get stored in our group's reading tub.

I am really looking forward to using this unit for the rest of the year and seeing the kids grow as readers. Check out a few pictures below!

*For my teacher followers, this is a unit by Kim Adsit that can be purchased by the month in her TpT store!*

Some Pumpkin Fun

Hi parents!

On Tuesday we will be starting a science unit about pumpkins. We will be using our senses to observe pumpkins, practicing estimation, exploring life cycles and more!

We started centers with a pumpkin theme this week, here's a sneak peak of a few of them. I also included s picture of the overhead center, one of our free choice/all done centers. Check back next week to see more centers, learn about Reader's workshop, and see some of our pumpkin science fun!

:) Mrs. Rogers

SO Sorry!

Hi parents!

Blogging has been off to a slow start for me this year. I had several photos of some recent science activities and centers on my phone and...that phone died! Bummer!

Cue my hubby to the rescue! He got me my very first IPhone! I'm pretty sure this thing will never cease to amaze me. Long story short...I can blog from my phone and here I am!

We have been super busy learning about the solar system for a couple weeks now. This week we are studying the moon and today we made the phases of the moon with Oreos, yum! The kiddos had fun and loved getting to eat some cookies :)

Mrs. Rogers

Hi Parents!!

This is my first post for the 2012-2013 school year, so exciting!  Whew!  We HAVE been busy and I will post some pictures this weekend showing some of the learning we have done about the sun and giving you a peak inside our centers, starting with our "Free Choice" centers.  Until then, I wanted to let you know that I will be sending book orders home on Friday.  This is a great opportunity to purchase books and at VERY reasonable price and earn free books for our classroom.  Happy reading!!

Wrapping Up the Year!

Hi Parents!

This year has been so wonderful!  VERY truthfully, I'm sad to let the kiddos go on to 1st grade :)  Here are some pictures of just a few things we have been doing the past few weeks.

We've made a HIUGE end of the year push to incorporate blends, tricky words families, and  silent e words into our writing.

Practicing identifying and finding numbers on a 100s chart.

This one is upside down but it is working on place value.

Super E Bingo!

Adding by counting up :)

Letter writing center.

Letter writing center 2.

Determining greater or less than using 10 frames.

One of our experiments from our Conservation Unit.

Our poster that we made to represent nonfiction elements.




Next week will be Beach Week.  I will do one more post for parents about Beach Week before school  is over!

Pointillism and Some Centers

Hi parents!  The school year is coming to a close, but we are still working hard!  There will be a few more posts before the end of the year, so keep checking back :)

Center from two weeks ago (sorting "e family" words)

Arranging letter tiles found in Easter eggs to make color and number words.

Filling in ten frames and deciding if numbers are greater or less than, out of sequence.

Reviewing coin values with our shake ball!

Addition center.

More number words in the pocket chart.

Reviewing tallies with Tally Monsters.

Putting sight words and CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words in order to make sentences.


In art, we were inspired by Georges Seurat to create pointillism paintings.

Thanks to all the moms for coming to the Tea Friday!  I had so much fun and I hope you did too!