Healthy Foods

WOW!!  I have been so busy at school the past few weeks; I have not been able to get much done outside of the classroom.

      But, I have finally gotten my Healthy Foods unit completed after many late nights and a long weekend of work.  I am so glad because we will be using this unit at school the week after Thanksgiving!! 

Please take a look at this new unit on my TPT store!!

 

 

50's Day Was Boss!!

50’s Day was BOSS!!  We had a great time.  The children loved learning about how things were different in the 50’s and loved all of the activities with the # 50.  See some of the pictures below!!!

Long Ago and Today / Thanksgiving

     Oh my!!  I can’t believe that October is almost over.  We are getting ready to move on to our Long Ag & Today / Thanksgiving Unit.  I love this unit.  My students always enjoy learning about how things have changed over the years.  We always bring this unit to a close by having our own feast where my students and I do all the cooking and invite our parents to come and eat with us.  It is one of those MEMORIES we love to make while learning about cooking measurements, how preparing food has changed over the years, healthy foods, how to set a table and how we can cooperate to make this event all possible and MUCH more.  This is going to be a great month!!!

      Below is a look at my TPT unit that we complete in my class. Please take a look!!

Pumpkin Fun!!!

Last week we learned all about pumpkins!  I just realize that I had a few pictures I thought some of my families might enjoy.  I used my pumpkin unit as we explored a pumpkin.  Here are just a little that we did.

Math Common Core

 We put a new twist on an old activity.  We always like to use our fall leaves and practice writing the numbers 0-20 and putting them in order, but this year we worked on developing concepts of counting & cardinality by adding the number of chips on top of each number.

    My little friends loved doing this!!!!

Pumpkin time!!

Wow Pumpkins!!  We love pumpkins.  I asked my class to predict what would happen if we added soil to our pumpkin.  The most common answer was that it would rot.  One child said it would grow and my little friends were very adamant that would NOT happen.  We next completed our prediction page.  Well I guess I started it a little too soon this year.  It sprouted in 4 days!!  How exciting when my little friends came into the class that morning!!  It was an exciting day.  We could tell a difference from morning to afternoon on how tall it grew.

 

 

We started with one sprout and by the afternoon, we had more!!

 

I have just put my Pumpkin Unit on TPT.  It is a fun filled learning unit!!

 

Common Core Math

All of our teachers have been super busy implementing the Common Core Math Standards!!  It has been so much fun working together to come up with new and exciting ideas!!  We have a great math specialist who has really been a great help.  Check out some of the great pictures.

 

              Using five frame cards!!  We have really enjoyed playing all kinds of games.

One to one correspondence with ladybugs!!  We added a great twist by using tweezers to help develop our fine motor skills!!

50’s Day is coming soon!!

    50’s Day is coming soon!!  I just got my 50’s day unit completed!  This day is one of our most memorable in my class.  The children LOVE it. I am posting it tonight on my TPT store.  Hope you enjoy.

    Our kindergarten Team celebrates with rotations for each class.  We each plan an activity to complete with every kindergarten class.  Our students love getting to interact with the other teachers.

I have added many math activities with the number 50, but I have also included several that center around literacy.  I have included the activities we do in our rotation but also many more I do in my classroom during the day.

 

Making Memories!!

Becca

Numbers 0-10 & some 10-20 -Celebrity Unit

We have just adopted the Common Core Math standards this year!!  Our kindergarten team has put a great deal of time and effort into these new standards. Our team of teachers is an awesome group!!!  Only the best for our students.

Our district has dictated what standards we will cover and how long to cover them.  So we started with numbers 0-5 and then will move into numbers 6-10.

My students have really loved the math activities from my Celebrity Unit!!

See below:

Great opportunity to talk about left to right also!!

 

 

 

 

I was able to differentiate with my students.  I made the game using numbers 0-20.  We started with # 0-10, I was curious to see which students could put the numbers in order past 10 when they had easily done 0-10.  I learned a great deal about my friends!!

Making Memories!!

Becca

 

 

 

 

Shapes

Wow!!  I feel like the past two week have been a blur!!  We have be so fast paced at school.  The children have really begun to get into the routines.  We have been having such a great time while learning.

   During shapes my friends have really enjoyed our math integration.  I ask , "What has been your favorite parts of the week .“  And their response was:

Making shapes with craft sticks

 

 

 

 

Making shapes with their bodies

 

 

Making shapes with the geo boards

 

The planning stage!!  :)

I was really surprised, not a single recess was mentioned!!!