100th Day Book for Work on Writing
Bingo stampers for counting to 100
My Question of the Week board outside my door. "Would you rather do 100 math problems or read 100 books" .
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Conferences and Books
Shape Castle
One of our weekly independent geometry projects. This one was for King Bidgood. The kids did a great job making castles.
shape castle
Let it Snow!
We are having an almost snow-free winter here in Iowa, but we sure loved making these snowmen out of tissue paper and watered down glue. I love how they look like they are all tourists or something 
snowmen
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Pizza
Math Activity....Geometry for Hi Pizza Man
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Stone Soup
Everyone brought in vegetables to make stone soup. To encourage them to try our soup, they each got to take home one of these stones. They loved it!
Go Away Big Green Monster Week
Totally behind on my blogging, but wanted to post a few pictures from last month’s “Go Away Big Green Monster” week.
The first was the purple monster in our sensory table. I found this idea while playing around on pinterest, and the kids LOVED it. We used orbits, the squishy, water absorbing things that you put in vases. I found them in the floral/craft area at walmart. I added googley eyes. They lasted over a week, before the started to get a “musty” smell. Totally worth it, though!
monster sensory table
I bought these “paper plate” craft monsters (they look like the monsters from Where The Wild Things Are) from Oriental Trading. Loved them! Plan on duplicating them next year in some way.
monster bulletin board
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Cheering the Vowels
My daughter’s 8th grade cheer squad did a “vowel sound” cheer for my class. My class LOVED it. It was a good trade for buying pizza for the team!
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“Don’t forget to write your name!”
I have a wonderful class this year. I really, really do. Very sweet. Super bright. Curious. A dream class, really. I’ve had one little thing that drives me crazy, however. At any given time, about 1/3 of them forget to write their name on their paper. It doesn’t matter how I remind them. It’s not even the same ones all the time.
So much of my day is small group work, so not everyone is doing the same thing at the same time, so maybe that is why…
Anway….this week I SOLVED the nameless paper problem! I bought some REALLY cool highlighters. They work like ballpoint pens…they click in and out…no lids. My kids love highlighters anyway, but these are in a whole rainbow of colors and they click!
I announced that the ONLY thing you can do with these highlighters is circle your name before you put it in the turn-in basket. They are so excited to use them, I haven’t had a nameless paper all week!
Name highlighters
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TeachersPayTeachers
I have had SO many requests for my “Name Game” sheet…and lots of trouble getting it formatted right to email to people, that I finally made a bunch of pages and put them on my teacherspayteachers site. You can download a set of Microsoft word name game sheets for names from 3 to 7 letters for $3.00. Hopefully this helps people out!
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/ilovekindergarten
http://www.sde.com/IteachK2012/
