To end the year, we do something fun and assign each of the last 26 days a letter. I plan 3 small group activities for each letter. One is a math, one is a language arts, and the last one is a fun art activity.

Here is the beginning of our alphabet countdown to the last days of kindergarten.

A is for Angry Birds

My kindergartners are obsessed with Angry Birds. In fact, as the “publisher” of their journal books. I finally had to say no more books about Angry Birds! Find something else to write about!

I decided to start out the countdown with A is for Angry Birds. They were so excited.

Angry Birds Chart

Angry Birds Bulletin Board

Angry Birds geometry and writing

B is for Beary Blue

On B day, we all wore blue, made beary blue hats, did a listening center with the Berenstein Bears and made symmetrical butterflies from a Lakeshore kit a parent donated. Love how well they are beginning to understand symmetrical!

Blue Bear geometry headband

symmetrical butterflies

listen to reading

Grassman

Our book unit last week was Grow Flower Grow by Lisa Bruce

We made these super cute grass heads. I put them in my “geometry” small group activity….a bit of a stretch, but I wanted them to cut the foam into shapes to make a face, so that kind of works.

My other favorite activity of the week was the “Dandelion Wish” writing activity.

Greyson dandelion

Greyson’s wish

Joey's wish

These are my kid tables. I taped off the middle, and painted them with chalkboard paint, then used paint pens to make lines for name practice. Every night I wipe them clean and the kids have to rewrite their name every morning. Lots of practice writing our names!

chalkboard paint table

I’ve had lots of emails about what kind of chalkboard paint I use. This is the brand that worked best for me….the spray paint stuff did not work at all!

Anyway, our book theme last week was “The Napping House” by Audrey and Don Wood. That books ends in a rainbow, so for our Working with Words activity this week, we made these rainbows and reviewed those color words. The best part…no waste! The cut out portion also made a rainbow when all stacked together. They took that rainbow home right away, and we displayed this one for the week.

Rainbow Bulletin Board

We just finished up our Fabric Unit (Foss Kit) in Science. The kids loved the weaving project we did with our big buddies, so I added this to my Science Center. I made it with a cheap wooden frame from Walmart and some (yes, rainbow again) ribbon. Fun!

Kindergarten Weaving

President's Day shape activity