We just finished working on circles for our Shapes In Our World Packet

Now we are working on rectangles. I’ll post when they are done!

Today we celebrated the 20th day of school! Zero the Hero brought us whistles and we made this cute little bear out of the number 20. This fun idea came from my good friends at Kinderlit!

We added writing to our art!

Over the past 3 weeks we have completed these pages in our ABC Art Book. I complete the writing a little later when our fine motor is a bit better.

This idea has been around a long time from Dr. Jean. I have not made it for a few years. So I decided it would be fun to make it this year. My kids love to kiss their brains in the morning!  We read and kiss everyone’s name as I take attendance in the morning! We made this book during our “I Am Special Week.”

Everyone had such a good time stamping tons of kisses on their papers! Here are the patterns for the cover and class pages.

We Are Special!

This is a simple little glyph I do every year! The clothes tell if they are a boy or a girl. The crayon is their favorite color and the buttons tell their age.

Our names are special too! We read the book Alphabet Adventure by Audrey Wood. Then we made our own missing letter from our names.

Alphabet Mystery Frame

We made Yummy Friendship Fruit!

I like to cook every week with my Kiddos then we save all the recipes in a COOK BOOK to take home at the end of the year!

I have to say I felt pretty special I had a portrait off me made in pattern blocks!

I love the hair and the big smile!

Fun Beginning Of School Activities and a Freebie!

I have all my pictures developed so we are busy learning our Good Morning Song .The tune is to: Have you ever seen a Lassie. After we know all our friends faces we move onto name cards instead of photos.

Our first Circle map! We did this activity whole class. I had a bunch of pictures in a baggy ready for when they made the suggestion! The next day the children drew their own with me to take home!

During Math we did “Rainbow writing” on our names. Then we cut our names into separate letters. Next we put them back together on strip of construction and counted how many letters are in our names. The following day we graphed “How many letters in our name” on a floor graph. This weekend I glued them to this big poster. We emphasized you may have 5 letters in your name but it is only ONE word!

Tomorrow we begin our Jazzy Math Journals. We will  do an easy beginning beach sort!

5 Days Back in School!

I’m unpacked, unorganized and teaching on! I’m not ready to show off my new digs yet but it is getting better! I thought I would share a quick blog and show you a few things we have accomplished!

Yesterday we did our first mini book called Kindergarten. (freebie) It was introduced as a pocket chart story which we read and chanted! Now being that I am in a brand new classroom with all new technology this should have been an easy task. All the children had to do is write the  word “I” and color. Well my “eno board projector does not work so it has to be sent back to the manufacturer ( Lord only knows how long that will take!) It’s not that big of a deal because I have never had one but I am excited to learn. Only problem is I have document camera but no projector to show on the screen. So I modeled everything “old school”. We drew the letter “I” in the air, wrote on our friends backs, I drew giant “I’s” with the children on my dry erase board. (Oh did I mention we have one Xerox machine in the whole school and that’s broken too so I could not enlarge the text for the kids to see either) Lastly I completed my book writing “I’s” on the lines provided.  EASY RIGHT?  Well I was busy walking around the room telling all “To remember to write their “I’s” and if you notice in the pictures above some actually drew eyeballs and did not write any letter “I’s” . In fact 5 children's books only had eyeballs no letter “I”! This is a first… I just had to laugh!

I did get my September quilt up Friday afternoon.

I just love their first drawings of themselves!

I made a new word wall… yes it is up high! The good thing is you can see it all around the room. Oh yes and the word “I” is up we will definitely be reviewing!

We started earning RAINBOW FISH BOWLS right away!

I’m still working on my Calendar Wall (I’ll post pictures when it is done) but I did make a new addition in honor of the Common Core.. Zero the Hero is now counting with tens grids too.

I just picked up these cute pictures from Costco this afternoon. I took pictures of all my kiddos in  a beach hat and Hawaiian lei. They came out so cute. Did you know Costco now makes wallet size and they fit perfectly in the Lakeshore book box pocket.

Have a great day tomorrow!

Kim

The Big Move In! I Survived..Barely!

I’m sure you all have been in my shoes ! My school has been going through modernization. al of my teaching supplies have been in storage. School started this Wednesday…I got the keys Sunday and 25+ years of stuff all in boxes piled all over the room!

My daughter got stuck with me for hours. Thank goodness for DVD players. It’s amazing how many Barbie movies a 5 year old can watch!

I swear it got worse as the days went on! Where do I put all this stuff in my new (smaller.. less storage) beautiful room?

I proceeded to open over 200 boxes in two days!

My poor Chicka Boom Boom tree has seen better days! I did get all my stuff put away but not a lot of decorating just yet! I’ll put more pictures of first day this afternoon! Oh did I mention Back to School Night was Wednesday evening! I’m off to school to begin to organize all the stuff I shoved into those pretty cupboards!

I hope all your school years are off to a great start! Kim

 

 

Kindergarten Goodies Give Away!

Thank you for the cute picture from What the Teacher Wants

In Las Vegas I got to hang with my dear friends and meet lots of new ones too! I was thrilled to get to visit with such a talented group! I’m excited to be doing this fun giveaway with my amazing friends Kim Adsit and Deana Jump and my new friend  Deedee Wills who I got to meet in Las Vegas!  I fill honored to be in their company and share this fun give away! Thank you so much Deedee for helping me with this blog post!

So here is the fun give away we are hosting together!

You can win the following:

1. Kinderbykim's ABC Art Book

2. Alphapalooza By Deana Jump

3. All Sorts of Sorts By Deedee Wills

4. Pack It Learn It By Kim Adsit

It’s easy to enter just follow our blogs!

Kindergals

Mrs. Wills Kindergarten

Mrs. Jumps Class

and me!

Then go to  the RAFFLECOPTER

on Deedee's blog! 

EASY BREEZY!

Here are a few samples from My ABC Art Book 

One More Day for the TPT Sale!

Good Morning! I’m having fun shopping the BACK TO SCHOOL SALE are you? I’m going over to my school today to see how my classroom is coming along. Still can’t get in and I start back next week! Just a little stressful! So what better to do than shop..shop.. shop! I’ll start posting as soon as I can get in my new room! BIG Hugs to all who have already begun!

Thank you Amy Lemons for this darling graphic!

Back to School Sale 28% Off ! August 18-19

It’s Here the BIG back to school sale! Everything in my store will be 28% off on Sunday and Monday. Go ahead and start packing your cart now. Click here to get you to my  KINDERBYKIM  shop on TPT!

New Jersey Rocks! Summer Sight Word Projects to make! OH Yes and a few Freebies!

On Tuesday I was in NJ for their Kindergarten Conference! Wow! What wonderful hosts these teachers are. Everyone was warm, friendly and so enthusiastic! I want to send some BIG HUGS to Christina and Connie who took me to a lovely dinner, helped me set up and even brought glue to fix my broken sandal! Joanna volunteered to be may sales assistant THANK YOU!!!  I felt so welcomed, I wish you all a wonderful school year.

Secret Sight Words!

I have been promising to get this fun sight word activity available and now it finally is! This is one you can make now, laminate and save for when your K’s are Super Sight Word Savvy. Directions are included on this free download Kinderbykims Secret Sight Word Fun!

I’d love it if you would click follow me when you go to my store!

Bottle Sight Word Searches

Use water bottles and salt to create these fun sight word searches. You can even use glitter to make them sparkle! I type the words anywhere from 8-10 on cardstock and cut them out. Then I put them inside the bottles. Trader Joes has a perfect mini water bottle that saves storage space and works great! The ones shown here are regular size.

Be sure to glue on the lids so little hands don’t take them off to spill! I like adding ribbon or stickers to Jazz them up. Here is a Water Bottle Writing Paper for you to write the words you put inside the bottles on. The children twist and turn looking for the words on their paper. Then they can use highlighters or markers to circle the words when they find them. If you make them up now they will be all ready for back to school.

Sight Word Magnet Practice

Ok so this idea is not new. I have been using it for.years but my kiddos love it! Make your word families and sight words inside Altoid or any mint metal box!  I like to use this sheet for my children to practice making and writing their sight words. Tell all your friends to save their boxes for you.

Here is a great one for alphabetizing words. Just use a plastic table cloth, this one has the fabric on the back so it does not slip. Use a Sharpie to write the alphabet on the tablecloth. Then look in your cupboard for a package of die cut shapes. I put all my sight words on labels so I can print them when I need them. Just stick your words on and your ready to go! This is a super Literacy Center Activity!

Well I only have two full weeks left then it’s back to school! It’s been a busy summer but oh so fun!

Fun Transitional K ABC Art!

Now that I’m home from I teach K, I finally have a little time to look over (again) all my daughters fun activities from her “TK” year. I met so many teachers in Las Vegas who will be teaching TK for the first time! I thought it would be great to share this project. They worked on it all year. My daughter had an amazing teacherTebby Harrington of Kinderguppycreations who was always doing great projects! I do a ABC Art Book also,  and this is how the “Kinder Guppies” did it.

The book is made of full sheets of construction paper.

I love the cupcake hood for her jacket with her photo and this fire truck is sooo darling!

Check out the cute otter with fur on his belly and a seashell!

The X-ray is done with bleach on a q-tip and then the children draw on black construction paper!

We read this book over and over! Such a wonderful keepsake.