February Math Fact Fluency!

We're getting ready to bring this fun Math Center to Room A-1!  Snow is falling outside and my Flaky Fluency Math Game is going to be perfect! My Kindergarten kiddies are working to learn math fact from 0-5.  Practicing with fun and interesting materials makes the work exciting and enjoyable for all the kiddies!  I'm going to introduce it as a partner game during Centers, however it will work well for a small group or even a single player! Check it out on  www.tPt.com  
Thanks for visiting my blogspot!
Kim

Flaky Fluency - A Math Addition and Subtraction Game

Check Out My Teacher Store!

I've been working to create some new activities for my classroom kiddies and I thought that others might like to see what I've been working on and maybe use it too!  So, I've put some of my activities on Teachers Pay Teachers!  Check out my 100 Under Construction Freebie and my Groundhog's Day Mini Book!  I hope you like it and can use it with your Kindergarten kiddies!

                       

 

             100 Under Construction - A Math Unit       

                                                                                                            Groundhog's Day Mini Book

 

 

It's a PENGUARY January!

So don't you think that PENGUINS are fun and wintery and just right for January?  Why of course they are!  This week in Kindergarten Room A-1 we're pretty excited to read about and work with penguins!  Here's a Sneaky-Penguiny Peek at our Week!

I'll post some pictures of the kiddies and our classroom activities this week too!
Enjoy your week!

Elam – Kindergarten Morning Schedule Week of 1-21-2013

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
08:00:00 AM	Attendance	Lunch Count	Announcements	Pledge	Folders
8:15-8:30 Handwriting Time	Handwriting Without Tears Words For Me TP 135 SP 71	Letter q TP 136 SP 72	Letter x TP 137 SP 73	Letter z TP 138 SP 74
8:30-10:00 Lang. Arts Story: Penguins Poem: Penny Penguin Poem Keep Book: Ben Book Go Pengins Go Penguin Pals I Love Snow We Live In	Whole Group Time Calendar/Day & Date/Weather/ How Many Days In School/Mystery Box/First Name Recognition/ Phonemic Awareness Songs/ LetterID/ Number ID 1-100 Sight Word Work/ Color Words Songs & Poems/Intro & Review new sight words Review sight words: No School Martin Luther King, Jr. Day	Whole Group Time *Repeat Read and discuss rhyming stories, promoting phonemic awaremess. Review sight words Create an –en chunk chart Do –en word fill in Ben mini-book Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mini Book From The First Grade Princess	Whole Group Time -en word ladder Go Penguins Go Mini Book We Live In--- -en chunk mini book Penguin Brainstorm Sheet Penguin Shape Craftivity Activity	Whole Group Time *Repeat Penguin Pals Mini Book Cut and Create Are Penguins Your Favorite Animal? Graph	Whole Group Time *Repeat Show and Tell Poetry Binder Poem: Read, identify sight words, illustrate, send home. Penguins Lay Eggs Writing Mini Book from The First Grade Princess Penguin Writing “Winter Is…”
Interactive Writing	Penguin Writing	Penguin Writing	Penguin Writing	Penguin Writing	Penguin Writing
Making Meaning & Phonics		Making Meaning If You Were A Penguin Story Wondering	Phonics WSA-3 Making New Words By Changing the 1st Letter.	Making Meaning If You Were A Penguin Day 2
9:35-10:00	Reading Workshop Silent Reading Lesson: Wondering	Reading Workshop Silent Reading Wondering	Reading Workshop Silent Reading Wondering	Reading Workshop Silent Reading Wondering	Reading Workshop Silent Reading Wondering
10:00-10:45 Math	Math	Math 5.1.1 Shape Pictures	Math 5.1.2 Circles & Rectangles	Math 5.1.3 Triangles & Squares	Math 5.1.4 Clay Shapes
10:45-11:20	Music	PE	Tech Tools	Art	Tech Tools

Elam – AFTERNOON SCHEDULE-1-21-2013

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
11:25-11:35	CLEAN UP FOR LUNCH Mystery Box	CLEAN UP FOR LUNCH Mystery Box	CLEAN UP FOR LUNCH Mystery Box	CLEAN UP FOR LUNCH Mystery Box	CLEAN UP FOR LUNCH Mystery Box
11:35-12:05	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
12:05-12:35	Recess Duty	Recess Duty	Recess Duty	Recess Duty	Recess Duty
12:35-12:50	Pick Up Lunch Boxes, Bathroom
12:50-1:10	Center 1 Writing Table	Center 1 123Math	Center 1 Cut & Paste	Center 1 Listening Center	Center 1 ABC's
1:10-1:30	Center 2 Puzzles	Center 2 Number Work	Center 2 Color By Words	Center 2 STAR	Center 2 Computers
1:50-2:15	Writers Workshop *	Writers Workshop *Ways to share information Books,PostersCharts	Writers Workshop *Posters are about a topic. Posters have pictures.	Writers Workshop *Posters have pictures and words.
		Science What Will The Weather Be Like Today? USTARS Penguins Keep Warm, How Do We? Sheet from First Grade Blue Skies	Science Weekly Reader Penguins Info Sheet (Animals & Their Habitats)	Science Non Fiction Penguin Stories (Animals & Their Habitats) A Pretty Cool Bird Sheet from First Grade Blue Skies	Social Studies Weekly Reader Arctic Animals Polar Bears
2:20-2:30	PACK UP Dismissal	PACK UP Dismissal	PACK UP Dismissal	PACK UP Dismissal	PACK UP Dismissal
2:40-3:20	PLANNING TIME	PLANNING TIME	PLANNING TIME	PLANNING TIME	PLANNING

Here's a little peek into Room A-1!

So I thought it would be fun to show you some of the Centers and other parts of my room!  I seem to spend so much time there that I feel like I should add a pull out couch!  Do they have those at Target?

This is a photo of where I store the Writer's Workshop writing folders, paper choices and underneath there are baskets of leveled books.  My boys and girls are gaining endurance and stamina in Writer's Workshop!  They are writing for a little bit longer each week!

 

 

My leveled book baskets hold the books that I've collected over the years! The girls and boys can select books from the leveled baskets after we work together in our Guided Reading groups. 



 



 

 

 

This is my Computer Center! There are lots of great computer games that the kiddies can play in class!  We love Starfall.com, PBS Kids and Literative.com!  Check out some of these great computer websites!

 

 Writing Center!  This week we're writing numbers to practice from 1-30!  The January calendar is the perfect way to practice!  I post a model of the calendar (not in this picture) to help the kiddies that  need support.  For some of friends to modify the activity, I will use a highlighter to write the numbers in advance, then they can trace the numbers that they need to practice.

 

These baskets of sorted books are ones that the boys and girls can pick from during different units throughout the year! They love the rocking chair!  This year, the kiddies are really good about sharing time in the rocking chair!  There are years when I need to add a sign up sheet for rocking time!

 

 

Job Chart!

 

 

I love our Poem of the Week and so do the kiddies in my class!  Here's the format I follow for the poem!

Monday:  Read and/or sing the poem!

Tuesday:  Read it and find the sight words in the poem!

Wednesday:  Read it and then discuss the meaning of the poem!

Thursday:  Read it and discuss the punctuation!

Friday: Read it, put a copy into our Poetry Binder, circle the sight words and draw a picture to illustrate it!

 
Word Wall!  Read it, read it, read it, read it! Play games with the words, make sentences, discuss and compare words, find rhyming words, identify syllables in words.....the list goes on and on!

Counting the days to the 100th Day of school!  We work on numbers and number words and here's a little peek at the 123Math Center!

 

 

 

 

January's Jumping!

Hey!  It's good to be back!  This week we're reading "The Mitten" by Jan Brett!  We're working on retelling the story, sequencing and also talking about the characters in this great story! At the end of the week we'll do a story comparison with "The Hat" by Jan Brett! 

It's getting close Report Card time!  Over the next few weeks we'll be assessing in Reading, Math and Writing!  This week I'll be joining the Teacher Pay Teacher website!  I'm working on some great activities to post!