Back from a beautiful relaxing trip to Hawaii!

 My blog is getting a new look so please excuse the "messyness" while being updated! All my past blogs seemed to have moved all over the place and many links do not work yet so I need to see how to fix them but I'm getting there! I hope you like my new design thanks to  The Cutest Blog on the Block Custom Designs.

Here is my New Froggy's Fantastic Sight Word Activity Pack.

I shared these sight word activities in Chicago last March and now it's finally ready. Here is a sample of a some of my activities.

Pinwheel fun!

 Just write sight words on these mini pinwheels 

and blow it's so easy!

Next children write the words on their froggy sheet.

 They can even use their words to write sentences on the back.

Mirror reflection sight word fun. My kiddos loved this one. 

They hold up a mirror and read their words in the reflection.

Thanks for checking in! I hope your summer has been fantastic! 

I know many of you are heading back to school.

 I'm treasuring my few weeks left!

Aloha

Kim

Kim’s I Teach K and TPT Conference Photo Album of Fun!

I was so excited to meet Paul Edelman founder of TPT! I told Paul “I was just a little fish in his big pond” He said “Keep on swimming” which is exactly what I plan to do! I was equally happy to get to chat and take a photo with Amy Borrell Berner Head of Community & Editorial for TPT. And of course my dear friend and Dynamo Kim Adsit!  

SDE’s Blogger Bash was an exciting and CRAZY place! So many Bloggers you could barely move! I took the opportunity to get pictures with my friends Kathleen, Shelly, Crystal, Shari and my new friend Julie Brinkley a darling SDE presenter.

These dazzling girls Christy and Tammy from

Fluttering Through First Grade put on an amazing presentation at the TPT conference. I learned so much! Now I know how behind I am AHHH!

We did make time for yummy dinners at the Venetian with my friends Deanna, Kim, and Dee Dee. I love these talented girls so willing to share ideas, advice and put up with all my crazy questions!  Dee Dee you have the patience of a saint to put up with me!  Next year I promise to have all this blogging thing mastered! (I hope).

I also want to send big hugs to my dear friend Shari Sloane I always love hanging out with you!. I can’t wait to see you next week in Huntsville! I also got to spend time with Susie Haas Kane, Kathy Griffin and Faye and Kaye from SDE.

Thanks for letting me share the fun week with you!

A Summertime Sale and Make and Take from I Teach K July 2014

Enjoy 20 % off at my tpt store July 15- 17

I had so much fun at my first make and take at I Teach K! Here are the black-line masters from my session.
 There were so many creative teachers! Look at all their darling designs!
This was my  “I am Thankful” book housed in a paper bag.Pop Pop Pop ! can not stop! I’m so good at… I can not stop! I got the bags in a case form Smart and Final.
A paper plate book! see pictures of faces above. The food goes on the plate.What will I see at the zoo? Napkin book.

My Pet clothes pin mini book.

A paper doll mini book about when I grow up! I really enjoyed sharing the morning with you. I hope to see you again next year! Kim

I’m getting ready for my Make and Take for “I Teach K!”

Hi Friends! I’m really excited about my Bookmaking session at I Teach K this year. I haven’t done a make and take in a long time. I’m busy getting 100 plus packets together. There is no room left in my den! Now I have to figure out do I ship it all or buy another suitcase?

If you are attending all you need to pack is scissors, markers, glue, stapler and a hole punch. I’ll supply the rest!

Last Day of Kindergarten Summertime Fun!

Water Balloons… Check!

In fact 7 coolers of water balloons!

Beach Balls…Check!

Autograph/Photo Books …Check!

We signed our autograph books with our classroom friends and then walked to the other K rooms to get all our friends and teachers to sign.

We signed our friends beach balls!

We topped off the day with water relays, water balloon toss and water balloon fights! (Below the knee only). Then Ice cream sundaes yummy! Now I’m wiped out … but what a fun day. HIP HIP HOORAY SUMMER BEGINS TODAY!

Bubbles of Fun Freebie and Arrr Pirates!

Here is a fun and inexpensive end of year gift! I just finished tying ribbons on my bottles of bubbles! Click here for the gift tag. Then print on bright colors, fold them in half, put a hole in the corner and tie with curling ribbons!

We are finishing up the year with a fun Pirate unit. We made these little pirated for the cover of our books.

Pirate Pete is a great series of pirate stories to go along with our thinking maps!Friday we made pirate pancakes. The X marks the spot for your gold coin. YUMMY!

Happy Mother’s Day! May Quilt

 

Happy Mother’s Day to all my teacher friends! Everyone of you are not only a teacher but a “Mommy” to our Kinder’s all day!

I just finished our May quilt Friday afternoon. The pictures holding the flowers were also in a decorated frame for a Mother’s Day gift.

Enjoy your day!

New from Kinderbykim and a Sale too!

It’s Teacher appreciation time! TPT is throwing a sale May 6-7.  28% off my My TPT Store when you use the promo code TPTXO. After I make this post I’m off to look at my “wish list” and add items to my cart.  Don’t you just love to shop a sale?

My new Eric Carle Literacy Center Packet is ready just in time for the sale! I get so  many emails as to when this packet will be complete and I’m so excited to say it’s finally finished. Here are a few of the 11 activities in this pack!

Today I created these pages to use this week in honor of Mothers Day and put them in the packet too!

The Honey Bee and the Robber is always a favorite with its fun moveable parts! These are just a few of the projects includes in this pack. Each have been designed to be mostly independent activities for children to complete during literacy centers. Enjoy your Teacher Week I’m am so blessed to have so many wonderful teachers in my life! Kim

It’s Pet Week! Some Write the Room Fun and a Freebie!

We celebrated pets during our literacy centers. My kiddos had fun sewing our “pet pouch”. We put our writing  booklet about pet homes inside.

We took out all the words from our old pet mini book and had the children write sentences with questions. For example: Where is my cat? Do snakes hiss? Are you my turtle? On the last page they drew their favorite pet.

This darling Kitty cat is the cover to the booklet.

On Friday we made a new recipe Loli-Pups I did not have ant raisins or chocolate chips so we used left over M&M’s! They we “Woof-a-licious”.

We have made some changes to our Write the Room. My team and I changed it into a kind of scavenger hunt each month. Eight words are posted in different places around the room. Four are sight words and four are themed words.

After they have found all eight words and written them on their paper,  they flip the paper over and write sentences using those 8 words!

We always wear our themed headbands to write the room. I’m a little obsessed I think I have some for every month except November. I have yet to find some cute turkey headbands! Even the boys love the butterflies and flowers! I just love Kindergarten!!!

Bugs and Bunnies plus some Freebies!

For the past two weeks we learned about living things that come from eggs. For cooking we made these yummy grasshoppers!

Here is the recipe for both grasshoppers and banana butterflies!

I saw this darling butterfly on Pintrist and had to turn it into a recipe for our class cookbook!

Friday we went on a “Living things that come from eggs” hunt. (Plus a few jellybeans and chocolates!) All 125 kids wore their Spring Bunny hats. So much fun!

This darling quilt is from the TK class next door and the one below is from my class. The Children’s hands are the wings.

We added jewels for the bunny nose and the center of the flower on the nest so the quilt really sparkles. The bunny is their handprint. Happy Spring!