Literacy Center activities I will begin introducing in September.

Poetry Journals  are a great way to teach letters,

  sounds, words and poems to kindergarten and first graders.

I introduce Write the Room early on to give my kiddos

 a chance to move around during Center time!

 Self Portraits are always fun to start the first week 

of kindergarten and first grade. Have your kiddos draw a picture once a month throughout the school year.

 We start introducing sight words right away this one is from my

Froggys-Fantastic-Sight-Word-Activity-Pack-

 More sight word fun with word searches 

and a simple easy to read sentence also from my

Froggys-Fantastic-Sight-Word-Activity-Pack

Stamp and Write!

         

This  is my new "How To" Writing Frame Packet! Perfect for Literacy centers when you teach your "How to's" during Writer's Workshop!

I Teach K Make and Take Handouts!

This year at I Teach K  everyone had fun creating their own 

Pocket Full of Zoo Fun! Now you can too! 

(Just click on the orange words)

I had such an AMAZING time meeting so many creative teachers!

I even got to meet a fun group of teachers from Nigeria!

These little guys are peanut monkeys. 

Kids use a Sharpie to draw the face, ears and bellies!

For more sample photos look at my It's a Zoo Out There Post

Back to School Give Away!

Back to School Give Away!

I am so excited Shelly Sitz from Smiling and Shining in First Grade invited me to join in a Back to School Give Away!

Enter Here!

I'm raffling off my Eric Carle Literacy Center Pack! 

11 of Eric Carle's best titles with "Craftivities"

Please like my Kinderbykim TPT page using this link on 

Smiling and Shining in Second Grade

Below are a few of the samples covered in my pack!

Quiet Cricket!

The Mixed Up Chameleon 

Is a Kangaroo a Mother too?

Check out all these other Amazing Blogger Give Aways  too!

Smiling and Shining in Second Grade!

Fabulous Friends, Fantastic Bloggers and Favorite Memories from I Teach K and TPT Las Vegas 2015

Here are some of my pictures from my fantastic time

 presenting at I Teach K Las Vegas! 

 I was also able attend lots of sessions and go to the TPT conference. My head is still swimming with excitement!

I was so happy to get to see my amazing friends Kim, Shari, Elizabeth and Deedee and I was thrilled to get to meet Victoria Saied from 2 SuperTeachers

One of the highlights was being able to hug Nikki the amazing artist of Melonheadz. I got to wear the ever so famous "Tutu Apron" by Sandi Welch of Kinder Gardening. I met some new Southern California friends named the Malibu Mutts! I am always thrilled to see my friend Crystal from Kreativeinkinder!

I went to an dynamic TPT session put on by these 

"Super Women" Rachelle, Hope and Michelle! 

I had the pleasure of meeting Karen from Mrs Stamps blogspot at our "net working" session! So many creative bloggers! I always enjoy giving a big shout out to Lisa and Linda from Kinderlit. Shari and I met a very talented teacher Autumn from Primary Techie you have got to check out her stuff AMAZING!

I have many more pictures to share of my week I'm so inspired!

Next up my "Make and Take" photos and handouts! 

So check in later this week.

It's Over, It's Done, But Wasn't Kindergarten Fun?

 I'm showing this picture first because it sums up the last day of Kindergarten! Autographed bucket-heads!

This is the tag that is flipped over in the picture.

We spent part of the morning autographing buckets!

I also made photo/ autograph books for each child with pictures 

from the school year. So Fun!

We played Beach Blanket Sight Word Bingo with 

"Smarties" for markers and had ice cream sundaes. Yum!

What's a last day of kinder with out a little water fun?

We did water races, water balloon toss 

and a from the knees down water balloon fight!

A dear friend grandmother of Violet and amazing retired Kindergarten teacher Pam Peters made these darling t-shirts with my Kiddos to wear on the last day!

Happy Summer Friends!

Next Stop I TEACH K LAS VEGAS! Come and see me July 6th!

It's A Zoo Out There!

We are finishing up the year with our Zoo Unit !
I'm taking lots of these activities I Teach K Las Vegas!!
 I hope to see you there!

Last week we had a great time visiting the Santa Ana Zoo!

We learned lots of great Lion Facts to go in our 

"All About Lions Booklet!"

We used a Glossary, Thinking Maps and Graphic Organizers to have lots of interesting facts to write about! I was so proud of my kiddos with how much they could write at this time of the year.

These darling Zookeepers were used for

 book covers and paper dolls.

We also used our thinking maps to write about giraffes. 

Did you know giraffes sleep standing up?

Under the Deep Blue Sea!

We all live in a yellow Submarine!

Many of these Ideas can be found in Kinderbykim's Oceans of Fun

Scuba Diver, Scuba Diver What Do You See?

Hand-print  Quilt Glyph!

 Blue water: you like the pool to swim in 

Sand: you like the ocean to swim in

Beads on octopus: is your age

Sequins on fish: you are a girl 

Glitter on fish: you area boy

Our TK made Paper Plate Killer Whales! 

They have writing o the back.

More deep sea adventure coming soon !

May Quilt and Mother's Day Craft!

Just put my May Quilt up! I't makes me feel like Spring!!

I saw this cute butterfly and poem from Franklyspeakingblogspot and had to make it. Our picture frames below went inside! I also have a dear friend's granddaughter in my class and she came and made these sweet little clay bunnies for each one to give their Mommies!

Below is our darling mouse for our Jazzy Math Journal!

Happy Mother's Day weekend! 

Pinwheels and Pets!

Last week I brought out this fun activity that uses pinwheels to practice sight words! Children blow the pinwheel read the word on the top and record it on their "Which way did  your word blow sheet!" (P.S. my little model is a cutie pie!)

Next they use those words to write a story a story on about a frog!

You can find this fun activity in my

 Froggy's Fantastic Sight Word Pack in my TPT store.

Monday we will be doing a unit on Pets.

 Here are a few of my literacy centers for next week.

My Kiddos will complete a "How To" on taking care of a fish and write all about pets in a mini book shaped like a bone. They will make a "puppy pouch" with my parent volunteers to put their dog bone in side! We will label a dog and make a little doggy/ poem to be used as a puppet or a book cover!

They will complete their Sight Word Rock and Roll 

for the week with the "et" family. They use wooden cubes to put onset and rimes together for "et".

I'll post more later this week! 

I'm off to a Sock -Hop with my little ballerina!

Spring Hats!

"Hang on to your hat wherever you are or the wild wind will blow it far!" I posted earlier this week my cuties below in their spring hats! Here is what the bulletin board looks like.

 Too Cute!

This TP roll bee idea I found on Pinterest a few weeks ago. For our "Bug Week" last week I added  a little writing assignment to go inside. My Kiddos made these during literacy centers. 

The yellow paper and black stripes were stapled on for them. 

The rest they did themselves.

These cute lions and snake are from my "Pocket Full of Zoo Fun" make and take! Come see me in Las Vegas for more Zootastic Ideas" 

I Teach K Las Vegas!

One final thank you to all the wonderful teachers who made my two days in New Hampshire so amazing!

Come See Me at the New England PreK-3 Conference!

If your attending my "Take Me to the Zoo" Make and Take be sure to bring scissors, glue  and a mini stapler. I have some darling zoo activities planned that I think you will LOVE! 

Also be sure to check the link on SDE for your handouts.

 I keep adding more goodies for you!

We going to have a great time in my bookmaking session!

 And I'm busy working on Jazzing up your Journal time with lots of  activities to get your kiddos excited to write!

These are just a few of the topics I'll be presenting.

 Looking forward to seeing you all in about a week!