Reader's and Writer's Workshop update!

Hi parents and teachers!!

Be in the lookout in the next week or two for a peak at our Gingerbread centers AND our "Around the World" Christmas fun! We will be eating, crafting, and learning our way though Asia, Africa, Mexico, and Germany!! SO EXCITED!

We finished our second unit of Writer's Workshop (from Deedee Wills and Deanna Jump) on Friday and I am THRILLED with all the progress the kiddos have made!! Check out two of their ADORABLE books!

We made a Christmas tree.

We went to bed.

We went downstairs.

We play in the snow.

School Day.

We had a bus evacuation.

We lined up.

Next we had snack after the bus evacuation.

I was sad that school was over.

So proud of how hard all of my students are working at their writing!


We also had some fun Friday celebrating the end of our second unit of Reader's Workshop (from Kim Adsit)! We worked really hard all week retelling the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, so we made yummy bear cookies!!

Happy December!!

A little bit of Thanksgiving, a little bit of Christmas! (and a FREEBIE!)

Hi Parents and fellow teachers!

We have been busy! We had a great time last week learning about Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims, and turkeys. We also has a super fun time at our Thanksgiving feast with Pre-K and Preschool, check out a few pictures below!!

I'm REALLY looking forward to all of the Christmas fun we will have this month!! Teachers, I have uploaded a Gingerbread themed center packet to my TPT store, 8 math and 8 literacy centers for just $5.00!! If you want a taste (haha) of the gingerbread fun, download my little freebie below :)

GINGERBREAD FUN!!
Happy teaching!!

Turkey Time!

Hi parents!

We have been having a BLAST working on our turkey centers! Some of the skills we have been working on are sight word recognition, number sequencing, graphing, beginning sounds, CVC words, and number word recognition. Check out some pictures below!

Turkey Fun...and a FREEBIE!

Hi Teachers!!

I have been so busy with Parent/Teacher conferences (which were WONDERFUL) that I have been slacking a little bit with my blogging.

I have been building my TpT store and filling it with lots of fun products!! I just posted TWO new turkey and Thanksgiving themed products. The first is a set of SIXTEEN math and literacy centers themed for November and Thanksgiving. The whole set is ONLY $4.50! The second product is a mini unit about turkeys. I cannot WAIT to start using the mini unit with my kiddos next week. The mini unit is on sale in my store for just $2.00!! Click the link on the right and zip right over :)

Here is one of the activities from my turkey mini unit as a freebie for you! It is a sight word game that can be used in a pocket chart. Click the link below for your download.


Turkey Sight Word Game!


More turkey and Thanksgiving ideas to come later this week! Gobble, Gobble!!

Odds and Ends

Hi parents! Hope you had a great weekend. I also hope you are enjoying the kids' Family Journals, I know I really enjoyed reading them last Monday!

I wanted to share two things with you during this post, the first being our calendar. Each day during calendar time we explore various math concepts. As the year progresses, the pages change and the skills become more difficult. Look for the calendar pages to come home in a bundle each month. Check out the picture below to see what our calendar wall looks like.

The 2nd part of this post is a request. I have been slowly building an environmental print wall in our room (picture below). Right now, the kiddos use magnifying glasses to find, and record, any letters they recognize. If you have any easily recognizable labels at home (Barbie or Lego for example) I would LOVE to add them to our wall! Thanks in advance for your help!

Teachers- you can pick up that "I Spy" sheet as a freebie from Growing Kinders :)

More Pumpkins!

Hi parents!

We are wrapping up our pumpkin centers Friday and trading them for bat centers! During our math centers we were working on number formation, one-to-one correspondence, number sequencing, graphing, color words, non standard measurement, and using 10 frames.

Teachers, all 12 Pretty Pumpkin Centers are available in my TPT store for only $3.50!

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!