Presidents Day!

Hey There Peeps!  Gearing up for a great week learning all about presidents in the past and present...

Here are a few fun things to do with the kiddos this week:


Word Work:

• Jen's Kinder Kids has a freebie building words activity here.
• Pocket Chart Sort activity here. 

Writing:

• Simply Kinder: President's day freebie writing here.
• Unit on educents here.

Reader:

• Teaching to the Core has a great post and reader to print about President's Day here.
• a great sight word reader on educents here.

Sites, Games, Apps:

• technology rocks has some great sites! click here.

Other News, Harry Kindergarten problems... :-(

• I was sad to see my video links stop working from Harry Kindergarten....  It was so upsetting to my kiddos too!  I had to find out, so if you are wondering as well, listen to his video here.  :-(

Peek at my week!  Love as always looking at Mrs. Wills lesson plans.  She has a great lesson shared on her website.   Check it out below:

 

And here is my take on it (yes very low key compared to Mrs. Wills....)

Enjoy!

I also have made a fun Color By Sight Word coloring sheet for President's Day!  

You can find it in my store! 

 

Math Centers = Love! + FREEBIE!!

We are having a great time with our new Loving Differentiated Math Stations Galore math centers from Marsha @ Differentiated Kindergarten!  She put a TON of work into it, and my kids just love it.  It is so easy to implement and work with the right tier groups to meet their needs...

The centers are self-correction addition/subtraction....

They are hands on....

and so much fun!


We also LOVE abcya.com and iPads!   Very exciting to have all this technology available to us!! :)

 

Here is a freebie sight word color sheet!  SO cute thanks to mycutegraphics.com!!!

It will be free until I log on tomorrow and change to a small fee... ENJOY friends!  Hope you have a fantastic week!

Also - fabulous Mrs. Wills has her peek at her week, and I would love to share mine!!

Peek at my week:

Throwback Thursday!

I am going old school today....  I love seeing pictures of friends from way back when for Throwback Thursday's, but how about a linky party for a great classroom style Throwback Thursday?!

Post an old school picture of you, or family....  or a old school throwback post about something you haven't seen in a while on your blog.

Here is my throwback photo:

My now husband and I the day we fell "in-love" back in 2005...  

to be young again :) 

still just as in love though!

And my throwback classroom post: 

   I loved using these file folders for making words.  I didn't have to fumble with magnetic letters, finding the letters, putting them away, making sure everyone had enough.. 


So what's your throwback Thursday you want to share?!  Link up here!  MY FIRST EVER LINKY PARTY!!  WHOO HOOO!!!!

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Five for Friday {1-23-14}

Five for Friday is a weekly teacher linky party where you post five random things from today or this past week and on your blog.

1.  this week ended second quarter (p.s. I was just writing third quarter and had to erase that, whoa brain slooow it down...) anywho 2nd quarter included TONS of testing.  Does anyone else have the crazy one on one kinder testing world in their classroom?  We use ESGI - which I LOVE here are a couple screen shots:

I can edit my own tests....make them to CCSS...etc.... I can also see pie charts, and untested students... it's a great way to test students and see result without shuffling through papers!

2.  With that - report cards, ugh so much do!  What do you report cards look like?  We have 4 quarters with 43 letter grades (NP, E, P, S).... AHHH!!!


3.  It is COLD.   Living in Wisconsin is normally cold, but this weather is just sad.  I feel like I am a bear in hibernation, I swear!


4.  Love reading Smedly's blog!! I seriously wish I could do half as much as he does, I do not know how he does it!!   

5.  I made this freebie for friends studying penguins!

# recognition, subtraction, and freebie!

Every time I see 2014, I am like, whaa?  Where did 2013 go!  SO FAST!  Still cannot believe this school year is half over already.... it's flown by!  But I also think I say that every year, don't you?

With that said, my kiddos loved this little activity of number recognition.  The best part is (shhh!) they didn't even know they were learning!   I gave each of them a mini post it note with a number 11-30 on it.  I told them I am no longer Mrs. Schultz, then I turned around, and presented.... Mrs. 24!  Yes!  The kiddos giggled so much, I knew they would looove this.  I gave them their numbered post-it notes, and told them to lean and tell their partners their numbers, after that stand up, and put your "name number tag" on.  Then we would walk around the room and met our NEW classmates.... 

"Hi Mrs. 14!" shaking hands with another student, "Hey Mr. 19!"  and then they would walk partner to partner meeting new friends....

Then I said FREEEEZE!!!  Students would freeze, switch the post its with the person they are closest to, and go around and meet their brand new friends again!  A quick, fun movement activity!    They asked me to play it 4 more times already!!





We studied penguins last week, in honor I made a color by sight word penguin! 

You can find it here!

Cute penguin subtraction game online: 

Have a great weekend!  I hope you are having better weather than here in Wisconsin, I am in winter sadness mode currently.   I miss summer.  Boo.

Our reindeer study!

We are learning all about reindeer!!  Being as we live in Wisconsin, we started Monday out with deer!

Monday

We started out with a KWL chart on deer.....  Love the comment "deer eat cookies"...   So cute!  I read these two stories:

   (Kiddos were amazed to hear that a deer looses it's antlers every year!)

Then we wrote about one new thing we learned about deer.

Tuesday

We went on National Geographic to learn about "caribou".  I love saying that name, doesn't is sound fancy!?

and tomorrow...

Wednesday

We will learn about Santa's helpers, the reindeer!

A fun filled day with...

 

finding rudolf

seeing reindeer live!

 

 a little Frozen trailer with a reindeer!!

 a reindeer at the zoo

 santa and reindeer!

and even a little bit of rudolf!

Here are some of my favorite bloggers reindeer posts too! 

 I hope you are having a great week!  Tomorrow is Wednesday, which means... hump day.....three days to go... half way there!!  We can Do it!!!!

All I want for christmas...

I love giving Christmas presents!  It's so exciting to share things that you want others to have...  MY favorite part of Christmas is just spending time with love ones...  It's the best!   As for my list here is what I love:

Love Favorite Family Recipes online website, so....

I use a backpack to haul my teacher laptop and other things home, and my current one is so ready to be replaced:

Batter booster for my iPhone!

 

I love better life bags, and would love another:

Love this one too:

  

My favorite comfy flat shoes:

So soft....

 

Link up with Hope & share your wants from Santa!