Donor’s Choose

My classroom recently had a project funded from Donor’s Choose.  I cannot even tell you how excited I am about this!  Our project proposal was for a new dramatic play kitchen, which should be arriving by the end of this week. 
As I watched this project over the course of the last few months, I felt [...]

Scarecrow Take Home Project and Bulletin Board

This month I sent home a scarecrow take home project for students to decorate at home with their parents for a bulletin board that we are completing at school.  We also made scarecrows and decorated corn with our fingerprints.  In case you’re interested, the corn pattern and idea came from The Mailbox Arts and Crafts [...]

Where the Wild Things Are

Recently in my class we read Maurice Sendak’s book, Where the Wild Things Are.  This is one of my favorite books of all time.  Although I haven’t seen the movie yet (it just opened this past weekend), I am so excited to go see it next weekend with my dear hubby.  I quickly drew a [...]

As requested…

I had a request for the Star Word chart (kindergarten sight words) so I thought that I would post these. I’m also posting a BANG! Sight word game that I made over the summer, a Roll-say-Keep game for practicing sight words, letters, and numbers, and the Today is…Song Chart that I made (see the post below [...]

Miscellaneous Back to School Pictures…

I know that I’m running a little bit behind, but here are some pictures of my classroom boards this school year.   Sorry that the picture quality isn’t that great–I used my iPhone to take these pictures.
 
 
 
 
  
 

This is a close-up of the Star Word chart that I made for students featuring the kindergarten sight words. Students [...]

Using Sign Language in the Classroom

There is a TON of reserch out there supporting the use of sign language in the classroom regardless of whether or not you have hearing impaired students.  Check out this teaching tip to use sign language in the classroom to assist with classroom management:

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Graphing Ideas…

During my recent trip to Lakeshore Learning earlier this summer I purchased a Question of the Day chart set to use in my classroom, which I am so excited to use! Here is a picture below:
So this has me thinking about graphing ideas that can be used in the preschool or kindergarten classroom. So, [...]

Feeling Crafty…

A couple of days ago I  wandered around JoAnn’s Fabric store and Wal-Mart and bought some stuff to begin some new projects from my classroom.  While I was surfing the internet earlier today, I found some inspiration from Deanna Jump’s kindergarten classroom.  On her August page, which you can see here she has these adorable [...]

Getting Ready for Next Year…

I know, I know…I had big plans for this summer. I was going to organize all of my teaching stuff, clean my home office, and update my blog regularly. Well, that was the plan. However, Summer School has kind of sucked the energy right out of me. So I apologize that [...]

Summer has arrived!

Summer has finally arrived and I am really enjoying my short break before summer school begins.
The end of the school year is such a bitter-sweet time. It is often difficult to say good-bye to my little ones that are moving on. Also, at the end of the year I typically try to reflect [...]