Well I’m all moved in my temporary classroom! The walls are all bulletin board so I have a lot to get decorated. Right now it looks a little boring! I’ll only be here two and half months so I’m not going to go too crazy. This past week we learned about “Living things that come from eggs” Here are some of our Literacy center activities!

Egg Rhymes! Use a sharpie to write the rhyme on one half of the egg and right the onset on the other. I made 6 different eggs and the children write them in their “Chick likes to Rhyme” book! 

I put the these fun bunny hats out and they can wear them when they do activities at this table!

When children are finished with their activities at this table they can Write the Room

We sequenced a chicks little life and glued it on register tape. Next the children roll it up and put in a plastic egg. For fun I added a little yellow chick inside the eggs!

 

Spring is here thinking map! We brainstormed what happens in the spring then they used their thinking map to complete their napkin book. Spring thinking map freebie!

My kids could write anything they wanted about spring in their books they came out really cute!

It was and “eggy” week so we also wrote a little booklet about other animals that come from eggs.

To end out the week we made

yummy eggs in a nest! Check back soon I’m going to be giving out a freebie everyday this week!

Something New a Freebie and a Revision too!

I’m excited to announce another new packet! My 

ABC Art Book is finally available at my TPT store!

Here are some sample pages. I use these letter/art projects as one of my literacy centers every week. The activities are simple enough for kindergarteners to do independently. The book has 85 pages including 26 art activities one for each letter of the alphabet. All the patterns and descriptions of how to make them are included along with full color pictures of each activity.

Here is a fun Spring Literacy Center Activity!

Spring is here! Time for bunnies flowers and jellybeans! Last week my children drew this darling bunny and then wrote about him. I created these little word walls and their stories came out really cute!

Freebie Bunny Draw and Write

It has also been brought to my attention that their are two typos in my Jazzy Math Journal and one in My Months and Holidays Poetry Pack. I have corrected both and if you bought on TPT a new file was sent to you. If you bought from Kinderbykim a new file was also sent. If you bought a CD at a conference I had no way to contact you so I’m putting the corrections here with the links below. If you just want to see sample feel free to use the links too.

Crayon Poem Revision

Mitten Math Revision

Jazzy Math Sea Sort Revised

Thank you for telling your friends about the revisions posted here. I want everyone to have a perfect copy:)

Kinder Cafe Cookbook Is Here!

I’m so excited my Kinder Café Cookbook is now

 available for purchase in my TPT store!

Kinder Cafe Cookbook

My recipes include Chicka,Chicka

Boom,Boom Trees!

Friendship Fruit!

Rainbow Toast! Yummy!

Looking for Leprechauns! Have you seen any?

Tomorrow our sneaky little Leprechaun 

will begin to move in. He will start off by leaving his chair and hat. Then Tuesday his umbrella and rain coat. On Wednesday his stool and empty black pot!

We better try to catch him before he messes up our classroom!

We will try to lure him out with stories about leprechauns! Here is a simple word 

bank on a pot of gold.

Let's describe a Leprechaun! 

Now we will use our describing 

map and write a story!

These cuties hold clues on how to

 catch a leprechaun! We put some sparkly gold

 shred inside their tummies.

For Math we will make a giant

 leprechaun and add up his gold coins.

I went into my daughter's Sunday school classroom and the kindergartners had made some very dazzling Leprechaun traps! Check them out!

                  I hope you catch your Leprechaun in time!

A Little Dr. Seuss and a March quilt!

I will be doing this fun book with my class 

next week! It's from my friends at 

Kinderlit

Here is a cute  little "Cat in the Hat" hat. We will be having a pancake breakfast and wear our pajamas on Monday in honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday. The children will share their favorite Dr. Seuss book with their reading buddies.

My children will make this activity for Go Dog Go!

We will brainstorm places to go (beach, park, zoo etc.) and put the words in the pocket chart. 

Then they make their dog and car and 

write four places he can go!

Here is what our March quilt will look like. We finger painted the shamrocks last year. This year we may just sponge paint them. It's a little faster. I had a wonderful parent volunteer paint their hands today!

Zero the Hero Came to School on Valentine's Day!

Today we celebrated the 100th Day of School 

 with Zero the Hero!

All four  Kindergarten classes and our 

TK  (transitional K) class celebrated with 100 day themed math centers outside in the warm sun!

Here is a photo of our 100 day hats. The children write to 100 by 10's and then stamp on the ten strips with ten stamps on each one!

We made cool 100 shaped glasses!

Nothing beats trying to catch a 

ZERO with no hands!

(Yummy donuts)

We also strung 100 day necklaces with fruit loops in sets of 10 with fun paper numbers to string 

with them in sets of 10.

100 + hands make a fun rainbow! 

Oops! I forgot to take a picture 

of the finished project.

Here is our 100 dollar bill pouch to carry all our goodies in. Made from a paper lunch bag and a ribbon shoulder strap. We also made a cute Zero the Hero puppet it has a  song on the back.

We  stamped 100 stamps and counted out 100 pennies on 100's boards! Oh yes and my little friend in the corner has been to the face painting station and got a 100 painted on her cheek.

You can't celebrate Zero the Hero's visit with out a cape! By far one of the most popular stations.

*Not pictured here but two more fun centers were trying to blow 100 bubbles and a bean bag toss game. If you got your bean bag in the 100 bin you won a prize! (Actually everyone who played got a prize)

Here we are looking a  little 

dis-shoveled but it sure was fun!

After such a fun morning with 

Zero the Hero we came back 

and Celebrated Valentines day! 

Yes I am tired (LOL)

Kim's Open House Pictures from the Farm!

My Farm Open House was last 

Thursday evening. 

Here I am with one of my little farmers 

enjoying some farm fun!

Since the open house was so early this year, our cookbooks are not complete. The children got to do a cooking activity with their families.

 We made a "Moolicious" Cow!

I took pictures of my little chefs and stuck them in a pot of noodles for display. These fun pictures will go on the cover of their cookbooks 

at the end of the year.

Here is one of my farmers posing with

 his yummy cow.

These darling ducklings have some duckling 

facts inside their t.p. roll bodies.

Here are our tear paper ducks.

They are busy eating fish! 

It's a little subtraction activity.

This was our adding strawberry seeds book.

 The seeds were black beans.

In October we went on a farm field trip

 and all the children planted radish seeds. 

We made a radish journal and charted their growth.

These are some sample pages from 

the radish journal.

Another parent child activity was some "Farm Fun Measuring". The children measured farm animals on cards with unifix cubes and lima beans. Then they recorded their findings on a recording 

sheet to take home.

 More to come!