Happy New Year! How is your first week back going? I was scared my kiddos would forget all the rules and routines for school being away for two weeks but they have actually blown me away these first few days! Today I’m posting about some easy peasy crafts that I meant to post in December….
I’ve decided to compile all of the little things I make over the month for my class and post it as a freebie at the end of the month! This is the first file! Here is what you can find in the download: Some of my kids have been constantly asking me to help them…
I have been so so sick since Thursday night and even took a sick day for the first time ever on Friday 🙁 I was so sad since I love spending the last day of school before the holidays with the kids but I couldn’t even sit through the morning announcements 🙁 I’ve definetly learned…
This month we worked on measurement! The FDK expectation that we focused on was: M2.1 compare and order two or more objects according to an appropriate measure (e.g., length, mass, area, temperature, capacity) and use measurement terms (e.g., hot/cold for temperature, small/medium/large for capacity, longer/shorter or thicker/thinner for length). Here is our math wall at…
Last week I posted about these cute and CHEAP parent christmas gifts that we were making. Click here to see that post. Today I wanted to share the gift bag and card we made to go with the handprint rudolph ornaments! For the gift bag, we used brown paper bags and set out Christmas colour…
Just wanted to pop in and share something I made for our division to send home over the winter break! I originally saw this idea on The Kindergarten Connection. I changed the task to meet the needs of the kids in my classroom. Click on any image below to download the file! For most of…
This is a little late but I wanted to share our writing piece that went up on our WOW Work (writing) wall for October. First, the kids brainstormed their favourite activities and I wrote them down on chart paper. Then I put these activities out at centre time and walked around and took pictures of…
Hi! Just wanted to pop in and share this cheap parent gift that we started making for our families today! First I just want to mention that my ornament was inspired by this reindeer ornament I found through Pinterest by Everyday wih the Jays Here is a link to what her class did: http://everydaywiththejays.blogspot.ca/2011/12/teach-christmas-goodies.html Now…
For the last couple weeks, we have been learning all about what a community is, places in our community and community helpers! After we learned about different places in our community, the kids decided that they wanted to turn our dramatic play centre into a pizza restaurant! Then they came up with things they will…
I’m linking up with Blog Hoppin’ to share what I bought during the TpT Cyber Monday/Tuesday sale! This time around I stocked up on clipart! I love Whimsy Clips so I bought so much of her stuff! I’m working towards the Kimberly Geswein unlimited font license so I buy at least one everytime there is…
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