Hi guys! I’m linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 random things from this week! 1. Pinecone Observation Paintings My kids are still loving these water colour observational drawings/paintings. Some of the items we have been looking closely at and painting include pinecones (pictured above) and caterpillars. We often put magnifying…
This is my third year raising caterpillars in the classroom! It is always such a neat experience for the kids. Here are some of my favourite activities/ways I encourage observation and wonderings. PRE-ARRIVAL: This year we read the book Katy Duck Is a Caterpillar to activate our schema about spring. It is a fiction text…
Happy Friday! I’m popping in to share 5 activities from my classroom this week! 1. Chicka Chicka 1 • 2 • 3 Do you know the book “Chicka Chicka 1 • 2 • 3”? This book was recommended to me at a workshop so I borrowed it from my local library. I love it! It’s…
Hi guys! I’m linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday to share 5 things from my week! 1. Building Shapes & Figures with Sight Words I got this activity from Coffee Cups & Crayons. I printed sight words on popsicle sticks and set them out with brown clay. I encouraged…
Hi everyone! I’m linking up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 things from this week! 1. Introduction to Story Writing We introduced story writing this week. I saw @ourkindergartenfamily post this picture on Instagram and knew I had to copy their idea! I whipped up a quick cover for our “A Wordless…
Happy Friday! I’m linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 things from this week! ONE Hearing and recording sounds in words is a huge need in our classroom so I’m trying to incorporate CVC word practice as much as possible. Here is a CVC stamping sheet that the kids have been…
Hey hey! I’m finally linking up with Kacey @ Doodle Bugs Teaching again for her Five for Friday! It has been way too long but I finally have 5 random photos to share! Here we go 😉 This past Monday was Thanksgiving Day in Canada so we read “The Thankful Book” by Todd Parr and…
I’m actually linking up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday on a Friday! Yay! Here is a recap of my week 🙂 On Wednesday afternoon our caterpillars arrived! On Monday I told the kids that we had special visitors coming to our classroom and I had the students make predictions based…
Hi! Today I wanted to share how I run my shared reading and independent writing block. Now I’m going to explain how I run it at this point in the year. I don’t add independent writing in usually until January. We do Shared Reading period 2. (To see my timetable click here for a peek…
It’s that time again! I’m linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 things from my week! January is the month of assessment (it’s not just me right?) I made two shape sorts so that I can check if the students can sort shapes by a given rule. The file folder shape sorts made…
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