Last Saturday I had the privilege 

to speak at the 

North Dakota Kindergarten Conference 

in Grand Forks. The theme was 

"3 Cheers for Kindergarten"

The teachers were so much fun! 

I only wish we lived closer so we could plan together.

The photos are with my 3 new friends! Leslie and Traci    who invited me to ND and took me out to dinner to a really fun place called the Toasted Frog. We had "cheesy pickles," "sweet potato fries" and fish tacos. Yum! Their hospitality was amazing I feel so blessed to have been invited. The second photo is with Kathleen from Growing Kinder's she was so gracious to sell some of my products for me. I feel like I've known them forever. I just love spending time with fun, creative teachers :)

Growing Kinders

The tables at my sessions were set up with megaphones, pom-poms and 

alphabet cheer cards! 

I even got introduced by cheerleaders!

Adorable

Back to a busy week in Kinder! 

We made haunted house patterns in our 

math journals.

Jazzy Math Journal

We got "BOOed" by a Kinder class 

who left us a fun Halloween 

bucket full of goodies to count and sort. 

So we tip-toed to "Boo" another class, leave the bucket and hurry back to our class 

before they could see us!

Here is our graph after we tasted three kinds of tea 

(fruit punch) at Miss Spiders Tea party.

We analyzed all our information and we found out the The rose petal tea was most popular!

We learned some spider facts to 

put in our science journals.

After reading Miss Spider we made our 

own cute spiders and then wrote about Miss Spider.

The link below tells you how to make her!

 Look for the Miss Spider Link in PDF

Miss spider PDF

This week we have been "Going Batty" 

learning all kinds of fun bat facts 

and having a bat themed week.

Above is our batty rhymes to 

practice the "at" family.

This is a science journal page the

 children completed during literacy centers. 

They made the painted bat earlier in the week.

More literacy center fun!

Of course we had to make a yummy

 bat for cooking this week! 

***Many are asking about my cookbook. 

I'm working on it as fast as I can:)

Here are the latest additions to our 

ABC Art  books.

Frankenstein is one of my favorite pages.

Boo!

I'm off to bed...

I need to rest up for another great day in Kindergarten! Thank you for checking out my blog and sharing it with your friends!

Kim

Fall Fun and a Halloween Boo!

 

 

I have a new product available

on kinderbykim!

See it, Say it, Sound it out!

See it, Say it, Sound it out! Syllable and Word Stretching fun!

 

Last Friday we made yummy applesauce.

We added some whipped cream

and it tasted like apple pie!

 

Here are a few samples of the children's

scarecrows from my last blog.

 

We are talking about the "Farm" during the fall.

Here are our thinking maps of farm products. 

We will take a class field trip

in a few weeks to visit a local farm.

 

BOO!

Got to get those Halloween projects

up early the month goes by sooo fast.

 

 

 

 

This week is spider week!

Here is our drawing lesson.

 

We wear spider headbands to write the room!

Kinderbykim's Let's Write the Room!

 

 

Here is our mini "We Like" book!

It is inside a Halloween napkin

 

The children do the napkin book

by themselves during Literacy Centers.

 

Today we made this fun spider book.

The children made the paper doll with my wonderful parent volunteers yesterday. Then today we added the words and the spiders. 

 

 

The children could not wait to put the

spider on their MOMS!

 

 

We did this graph two weeks ago,

but I finally got it hung up today.

 I put it in my "to do" pile and it got barried! 

Kindergarten is a busy place!

A Little Fall and Halloween Fun!

 

 

 

Here is our October quilt.

The squares are 9x9.

The ghosts are their cute little hands.

The pumpkins are tear art no scissors.

 

 

This darling quilt was done in our

"Preppy K" class by my amazing friend

Tebby Harrington.

Yes the ghosts are their very own feet!

Too cute!

Our Pumpkin Glyphs

This fun idea came from

my dear friend Trisha Callela several years ago.

I just love the idea and we make them every year!

Circle eyes = You do not know

what you will be for Halloween

Square eyes =You do know

Triangle pointing up =You like to eat candy corn

pointing down= You do not.

Last they chose happy, scary or sad pumpkins.

Then we played "Read my glyph!"

(Yes we all tasted the candy corn)

 

 

Our Science Journal page for Fall.

During literacy centers a wonderful parent

 volunteeer pulled the children

outside to paint with them.

 

We are practicing our sight words with

our Scarecrow words activity.

The words went in an envelope

pocket on the back!

Draw and Write is one of my

independent center activities.

They came out so cute.

 I 'll take pictures and post

the children's work tomorrow.

My new table signs are up.

 It's been a busy week! More to come!

A "Flowery Butterfly" Birthday Party!

 

Yesterday we had a "Flowery Butterfly"

5th Birthday party for my daughter.

 She told me last Spring that this

was the theme she would like for her 5th birthday.

 It was so much fun decorating I thought I would share with you!

 

 

These darling butterfly wings

from dollar tree decorated our banister!

 

A butterfly entrance

 

Flower petals lead a path

to the front door

 

 

Even Mr. Bear got dressed up!

 

 

The table was so flowery and pink!

I even covered the juice boxes to match.

 

All the chairs had pink tulle

and flowers.

 

The birthday girl had a special chair.

Yummy pink and purple cupcakes

and a basket of butterfly wings

for each guest.

 

Its hard to see but I had beautiful

butterflies hanging with

fishing line from the upstairs railing.

Our gift bags!

They have peppermint sticks

woven through the tops.

 

We made flowery picture frames to put

 their party photo with our "special guest"

 in before they went home.

 

 

The girls also made flower wands!

 

Our special guest sang,

danced,did magic, face paintingand balloons with all the girls. She was AMAZING!! Then I took a picture of each of the girls with our Garden Fairy Meagan to take home in their frames. It was a wonderful day filled with good friends and smiles!

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