We have been working hard to learn our names! I have a helper of the day. So we cycle through everyone during the month. The first time we did King and Queen. Each person was the king or queen of the day. They got to wear a crown and cape. The crown was a paper one that they took home at the end of the day. We made a web of all their favorite things. We practiced asking and answering questions. Then everyone made a page for their book. So fun and cute. I took pictures of them all in the cape…

The new year has gotten off to a great start. We started the school year off by learning everything we could about one another. The first thing we did was to trace all the children’s bodies onto butcher paper and rolled them up and sent them home for the family to create a life size poster all about their child. When they started coming back we where amazed at how the families took time with their children to create a life like representation of their child. Each child had a turn to explain…

Enjoy this FREE, colorful "Non-Fiction Text Structure" Student Reference Sheet to introduce or review the five most common non-fiction text structures! Students can use the signal words and visual reminders on this reference sheet to identify text structures, and integrate the organizational patte...

Check out all the fun things we are doing in room 28!

Graphic Organizers EXPANDED BEST SELLING UNIT: Graphic Organizers For Elementary Grades {Based On Common Core Standards} This collection of ready-to-use graphic organizers will help your students classify ideas and communicate more effectively. These printable graphic organizers are designed to ...

Halloween Writing for Kinders. $ Filled with fun kindergarten writing activities with a Halloween theme.

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We have many friends in class. Some of us are friends from before Kindergarten; and others we are just getting to know! We made a graph of the girls and boys in our class. Take a look at the photo and use it to answer the following questions: In the A.M. Class, are there more boys or girls? How many more? In the P.M. Class, are there more girls or boys? How many more? Comparing the A.M. girls with the P.M. girls, which class has more girls? How many more? Do the same for the A.M. boys & the…

Birthday Chart Have student switch their picture on their birthday

Some of the activities focusing on Rosemary Wells books. Retelling the Characters, Setting, Problem, and Solution I took the idea of a Tree map and tried it out with story characters. We listed words to describe how the character was feeling during the story. I listed them at the easel and then typed up the words on labels. We read Hazel's Amazing Mother on the second reading we talked about the word Fantasy and recorded things that happened and things that could not happen. We read this…

Bar Graph "Farm animal sounds" Showing students other ways to read a graph.

Popcorn Tasting Which Popcorn flavor did you like the most?

Picture Chart Laces/Velcro/Boots Matching Shoe with Student's Face