YES there has been a reindeer 

sighting already in my classroom!

 Only 3 days until December first.

 I'm busy working on my December quilt.

 It's not complete but I'll have it up by Friday! This is their hand print and a red pompom nose!

This cute little gingerbread is decorated with

 paint and Q-tips. The children can easily make him on their own with very little mess.

The quilt squares are 9x9

We started our first holiday 

"Draw and Write" this week.

The Reindeer so cute!

More to come I'm busy with parent 

conferences this week!

I'll be in "full holiday mode" next 

week with more ideas to share!

New Poetry Pack and a BIG SALE!

NEW FROM KINDERBYKIM!

I just posted my new Months of the year

 and Holiday Poetry Pack

31 easy to read Poems

Months of the Year and Holidays Poetry Bonus Pack!

CYBER MONDAY SALE ON TPT

Kinderbykim on TPT

Happy Thanksgiving! With everything from clothing to appliances to cars going on sale this week. 

I thought I should throw a sale too! 

Use Promo Code: Turkey20

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Turkey Trouble!

Turkey Trouble!

These cute Turkeys say "Please do not eat me!" 

"Please eat Ice cream, or cookies, or cake!"

I have had the pattern forever I have no idea where it came from! Then we added the turkey thoughts.

More trouble for turkey! Now he is on the table. 

We made pointer sticks with feathers. The children painted turkeys for the covers.

This cute turkey is for our Math Journals!

Mr. Turkey jolly and fat. Had 6 feathers and 

wished for ____ more. Now he has 10!

How many feathers did Mr. Turkey wish for?

Jazzy Math Journal

Fall leaf fun!

These little books are how I

 introduce my sight words. 

The children keep them in their book boxes for a few weeks for rereading before I send them home.

 I found these fun leaves for the 

covers at the dollar store.

My Little Pilgrims were thankful 

for many things!

See below!

Wishing you all a wonderful Thanksgiving. 

I hope you are surrounded 

by the people you love!

Kim

It's Pilgrim and Turkey Time!

This is my November Quilt 

Little turkey hand prints 

with Pilgrim boys and girls. 

See link below for patterns

Pilgrim quilt patterns

                         

This cute turkey is made from

 our "Family Ties" 

I send home a large construction 

paper tie with each child and

 the directions on the link below.

Turkey Tie Parent Letter

**I can't figure out how to give 

you the big tie pattern on a pdf any ideas?

 This is a close up of two of my 

ties from my class this year.

They are always so fun to see.

Here is my Mayflower. 

I still need to have the children 

write about people or things they

 are thankful for to put up all around the Mayflower.

Little Pilgrims and Turkey Pack!

New from Kinderbykim! Draw and Write!

I finally have my Draw and Write Packet ready!

This pack includes 31 simple drawing lessons. First your children draw the picture, next they can add a setting and write about it. Super fun writing activity and great for Literacy centers!

Draw and Write!

A few last minute "Goulish Treats" and a "Sneak Peek" on Thanksgiving ideas!

On Friday my room Mom brought 

these in for her daughter's birthday treats!

 A darling witch hat made of a chocolate cookie

 and a Hershey Kiss and a creepy eyeball 

made of a mini powder donut and an M&M.

Goulishly Yummy!

This was a fun Frankenstein 

brownie another parent made with the kids! 

40 days in kindergarten!

 Time "Buzzes Bye" when your having fun!

This went in our 

Zero the Hero book!

Turkey Roll Up!

Free! See link below

Turkey Roll-Ups! Sight Word Fun!

Wrap brown construction paper

 around a T.P. roll.

 Let the children do the rest! 

Then roll up and put inside T.P. 

roll to take home.

Time to get my turkey hats ready.

The children will cut out and make 

 patterns on the feathers.

***This is in my Pilgrim pack on link below.

(Also on tpt)

Perfect Little Pilgrims and Terrific Turkey Pack

Little Bears go Trick or Treating!

We decided to jazz up our sharing 

activities this year. Our first sharing activity

 was to dress this darling bear in a "Beary Scary" costume! Then the children shared all but their bears! They turned out so darling we made them into a class book and hung it on our wires for all to see.

This little guy was my favorite! He was glued on a stand and turned into a scarecrow bear.

During literacy centers we worked on some 

"BOOTIFUL" sight words!

Our defining map was on Halloween. 

Then we used our maps and came up with a few sentences together to write about Halloween.

"Boo" Rock and Roll!

Word family Rock and Roll

We continue to work on patterns 

with some colorful ghosts, pumpkins and owls.

Today we finally finished our 

Shapes in our World Packet.

The children were so excited to 

take them home to share with their families.

Shapes in Our World Packet

A visit to North Dakota, Spiders, Bats and Frankenstein it must be Halloween!

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