A glimpse into my kinderworld...

Here are a few pictures from this past week of my kindergarten room.  I am the only full-day kindergarten at Open Arms Christian Child Development Center at Our Savior's Way Lutheran Church.  That's a mouth-full! :)  I love my job and I love teaching the children reading, writing, arithmetic, and faith!


Our "Love Bugs" glyphs.  I had a whole bulletin board of them and started taking them down before I remembered to take a picture!

Here is an idea from Pinterest.  I traced and cut out the children's hands, then they added the hearts to make them look like trees.  It was their Valentine gift to their parents.

Another Pinterest idea :)  We completed the words to John 3:16 using Valentine hearts that spell out Valentine vertically.  The Pinterest picture used candy stickers--I added the element of "yum" and used actual hearts.  We gobbled some down in the process, of course!

Here are some beautiful heart bird mobiles we made and hung from our ceiling.  They were quite a "tweet" to have in our room ;)

Doc board for January: We conducted lots of fun science experiments using water and household items.

Our Cat in the Hat glyphs and Thing 1 characters.  We had SO much fun celebrating Dr. Seuss and reading some of his beloved books.

I'm a big fan of kindergarten teacher Deanna Jump and the units she posts on Teachers Pay Teachers.  Here was one of her ideas: She created reading technique cards and booklets using beanie babies.  Stretchy the Snake stretches out words while Skippy the Frog skips words and comes back to them.  I love the techniques, and I love that I got to collect some beanie babies to make learning to read more fun for the kids!

So there's my brief picture tour of some things we did this past week and month in my class.  Next week we start learning about pond life, so I'll be sure to have some more exciting things to share from Ms. Laura's kindergarten :)

America!

We're lucky to be in a town near our nation's capital, so I made sure to celebrate all things AMERICAN with a unit on America.  We learned about our nation's history, symbols, pledge, constitution, currency, and presidents.  And we had lots of fun in the process :) 


Here is our American symbols tree map.  We recorded three facts about each symbol, then the children copied the facts into their American Symbols book.  We also made art work of each symbol (which I forgot to take pictures of!)

I used an American unit from Teachers Pay Teachers, but I added the Washington Monument as a symbol since it is one familiar to the children of this area.


Here is our Venn Diagram of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln:

America Math and Literacy Fun Unit

We are proud of our country and proud to be Americans!

Celebrating 100 days!

We celebrated our 100th day of school during the first week of February.  The kids dressed as they would if they were 100, and we did lots of fun activities!


Here are 3 books we created: If I had $100 (My favorite: Buy my teacher some new shoes!), 100 Days Smarter (what we have learned in 100 days), and Things to do Before I'm 100 (go to the bottom of the ocean, build a pyramid, and go to the moon).

We had a 100 items snack, and I created these really cute placemats from a picture I saw on Pinterest.  Among the snacks were pretzels, goldfish, skittles, and marshmallows.

I used Deanna Jump's 100 Days Unit to create these cute 100 year old portraits.  They were adorable!

We had a great time celebrating our first 100 days, and we're now counting down to Summer and becoming First Graders!!

Click for 100th Day Unit on Teachers Pay Teachers

Testing 1, 2, 3...

I'm so excited to share my classroom with you!