Rabbits, Bunnies and Eggs! Oh My!

This week in Room A-1, our theme is, "Rabbits, Bunnies and Eggs! Oh My!"  We're learning about real rabbits and bunnies as well as fictional rabbits and bunnies.  Here are a few of the books that we're going to read this week!

Peter Rabbit Book

 

      






 
These are just a few of the books we're reading and discussing this week.  There are so many more! We love "The Velveteen Rabbit" as well as the other tales written by Beatrix Potter!  I hope you enjoy our book selections too!  

Tomorrow we're going to do a Science Activity with Sound and little colored eggs!  I'll post about that so watch for that lesson coming in the next day or two! 

Hop on down the bunny trail!
Thank you for following!
Kim

We're Flying High With Kites!

This week in Room A-1 the kites were flying all around!  I just put this new unit about kites on my  TpT page and I wanted to share it here too! 

Check it out on my store!

 

Kites! A March Unit

 

There are lots of Kindergarten literacy activities, math activities and a sweet little mini-book to read with your kiddies!

I hope you enjoy this March unit!

 

Have a great day!

Kim

The Tooth Fairy Mini Book!

Here's a link to the latest little mini book that I've written for our Dental Health Unit this week! 
I'm sure that my boys and girls are going to love reading this! You can pick it up at my Teachers Pay Teachers page!  I've included some comprehension/discussion questions at the end of the story to help you work on strategies with your kiddies!  I hope you love it too!

The Tooth Fairy Mini Book

 

Tomorrow is the big sale at TeachersPayTeachers Store!

Check it out at:

www.tpt.com

 

 

We are Fairy Excited about Dental Health!

My Kindergarten kiddies are looking forward to learning about Dental Health this week!  We'll be reading some interesting fiction and non-fiction stories about dental health!  Here are a few of the books that we'll enjoy in our classroom!

                

                
These are available at:  www.amazon.com

                  

         
And these are available at:  www.scholastic.com

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

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! 

Leap and Twirl Gingerbread Girl!

This week in Room A-1 we're going to try and catch that Gingerbread Girl!  I love the story of the

Gingerbread Girl!  She's an independent little cookie who knows how to handle that fox! 

What a great story!

 

 

We're going to do a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the Gingerbread Man and the Gingerbread Girl!

 

 

  Gingerbread Venn Diagram

 

 

Here's the Venn diagram that I'm going to use with my kiddies!

 

 

 

Kimmie's Cooking in Kindergarten!

This week, we read the story, "Stone Soup" and talked all about the story and the idea of sharing!  All the boys and girls brought in a something to share and we put it all in the crockpot and made the most delicious veggie soup ever!  Even the most finicky eaters liked it!  We also made homemade butter to spread on bread so that we could eat it with our soup!  The kiddies had a little taste of how much work it takes to create butter from whipping cream!  Their arms were so tired from all the shaking!  It was delicious!