Okay, so no, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth or forgotten about my blog! But the past two months have had a lot of important family events, getting started at a new school, and lots of weekends away, which needed to take precedence for a little while. Here's what has been going on in my little kindergarten world!
I am in LOVE with my class this year! They are so well behaved and sweet, and I am definitely counting my blessings being at a new school and having them this year. One of my favorite things about the new school is the science curriculum and having a little playground right outside our classroom door. I have plenty of time allotted for our social studies or science lessons every single day and I am getting the kids outside as much as I can while it is still warm-ish. They love our excursions, even if for the simplest things. Here we are looking for signs of living things. Look closely...can you see the ant? They could- especially with those magnifying glasses, which make everyone a scientist!
A couple of pictures from our fire safety week...the fire crowns were a free download here I stapled them to sentence strips and wrote their names on the back.
And I found this cute little fire truck shape activity here
My students LOVED this! I had the shapes organized in piles and had them follow a model, pick out what they needed and tell me the shape before gluing it down.
This month I was lucky enough to spend two weekends at two different beaches. Beaches in the fall are gorgeous. :) One weekend was my state's teacher conference. I attended workshops on working with ELL's, a make and take foldable workshop, and one on questioning.
But this was the most relaxing part of the weekend by far...
I spent Friday afternoon after school prepping these adorable little gifts for my students next week. (No, I do not have only 7 students...these are only some of them!) We have been singing the "Five Little Pumpkins" song every morning and when my teammate found these cute printables I knew we had to do them! I also bought Pete the Cat's Five Little Pumpkins and we have read it in class to practice rhyming. I found the pumpkins at Dollar Tree and printed the labels on orange cardstock. They are stapled over snack size baggies.
A Hallmark series about a teacher...what could be better? Season 2 is out on DVD...so excited!! Episode 1 is up tonight!
Have a fun Halloweeny week!
