A great giveaway!

There is a great giveaway over at 

http://kindergartensmorgasboard.blogspot.com

We would love to win all these products.

You can never have enough writing or math ideas

for your kinders.

What a fun time of year.  We are doing all things October.  Spiders, Bats, Skeletons,

Mummies, and Monsters.  The boys and girls are very excited about our Field Trip

tomorrow.  The weather is predicted to be perfect.  We have a great group of students

this year.  We have created an interactive book for Halloween fun.  You can find it here at

TPT.  Hope you enjoy!  

Cute clipart by 

scrappindoodles.com

Ghostly Counting

Free! Free! and Fun for Halloween!

As soon as we started talking about October, our kids thought Halloween would be here Monday,

October 1st.  Well we have plenty of time to talk about Halloween and all the fun fall things ahead.

They are going to love counting little ghosts on these cute Haunted Houses by

http://www.scrappindoodles.com/

You can find this counting mat activity here

Halloween Books

I joined http://firstgradefoundme.blogspot.com/ for the Halloween linky party.

Some of my favorite Halloween Books are:

We love to sing the song.  The kids love to act out the song and point to different bones as they sing.

We also paint a skeleton with Q-tips and white paint on black paper.  The writing prompts we use are

Bones help us ______

and 

I have _______ bones in my body.

Skeleton Hiccups is another fun book to go with the above activities.

I buy plastic bones from the local party store and the children measure each other with the bones.

_______ is ______ bones tall.

Our kinders have been working hard learning about the 5 senses.  We will post some of the activities as soon as we can.  This has been a busy weekend.  Birthdays to celebrate and soccer games to attend.  It also was a very hot weekend.  Summer is not over in Texas. We have a new unit to add to TPT. The BackPack Unit.  It is a fun unit for children to begin learning about color words, the alphabet and creating sentences.  We also have some emergent readers, class books and labeling activities included.

You can find it here.

Clipart from http://www.scrappindoodles.com/

and

http://www.kpmdoodles.blogspot.com/

Let us know what you think!

After 4 weeks of school our classes our coming together nicely.  Although we both are getting new students to complete our class size to 22 students, we are learning to work together to become a couple of classes of great little learners.  

We have a Freebie on Teachers Pay Teachers.

You can download it free here
Clipart from http://www.scrappindoodles.com/

Another busy week underway.  Everyone's blogs are so cute and updated with all their class activities.

I don't know how y'all keep up with school and all the blogging.  I finally have some pictures of students' work and some of the activities we have been doing these last 3 weeks.

Welcome Bulletin Board
Gingham Paper Plates I found at Michaels

We love Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

We study the first letter of our names.

Boy/Girl Graph

The first two weeks flew by, although we were very busy and I have stayed late most of those days.
The beginning of school is never ending.  I always think that if I can make it to October 1st, then the rest of the year will go smoothly.

I have a very sweet group this year!!!  I am so excited to see them learning the routine of the classroom and the school.  I have a lot of rule followers.  I have been reading many blogs and trying to learn how to post freebies.  I hope I can add one soon and I would like to post some classroom pictures and some of the things we have created so far.  All the teachers with blogs have such great ideas and seem to effortlessly keep up with the blogging world.

It's been a long week and a half.  I have almost finished getting my room ready for all the new kindergarteners.  I will post pictures of the finished product soon.  Also, I would like to share some activities we will be doing the first few weeks of school.  Yesterday and today my kindergarten team met almost 80 new children.  I work with the best teachers ever.  They are so dedicated and committed. The parents sign their children up for a one hour session and we meet with them in groups of 10-12.  We sing songs, read a story and they create an art activity.  We also do a quick assessment with them.  We can observe so many skills in just one hour.  This time helps us determine how to create the best overall classes for a great new year.  Our district starts school August 27th and we are looking forward to teaching all these new faces!

Boy is it hot!!! I could only work about 1 1/2  -  2 hours
on Friday morning.  I hope the air is on some next week.
It was 113 degrees on Friday.  I love summer, but we
are ready for cooler days and maybe some rain!  Pictures
of the completed project will be soon.  We have to be
ready for Kinder Kamp on August 14th.  School
does not start until the 27th  More on Kinder Kamp later.  

Today is my first post on my new blog.  I have wanted a blog for a long time and now that I have one it is kind of scary to start posting.  I have to thank Erika and Misty at Honey Bunch Blog Designs.  They did great work on the design!  I had no idea where to start to create a blog design.  Everyone has such wonderful blogs.  I have been blog-hopping for over a year.  There are so many talented teachers with so many creative ideas.  I will be visiting my classroom this week and posting before and after pictures.  I dread working in the heat.  It was 109 degrees today!