Fun in PreK-1 & Kinder

Happy Friday!  I hope everyone had a great week.  I don't have as many pictures this time because I spent a lot of this week doing middle of the year assessments, but I'm really glad I did because I have a good picture of what skills we need to focus on in the coming months and I am SO proud of my kiddos' progress.  It really is amazing.  I look back at the beginning of the year, and kiddos who knew maybe 10 letters of the alphabet now can recognize the entire thing (upper and lowercase)!  Yay!  (So I'm completely vindicated for not following the curriculum, right?)  :) Here's a look out our week all about air transportation: Art: Blow Paint Sky Scene These were also lots of fun!  When they dried, the kiddos drew airplanes into the scene and also glued on stretched-apart cotton balls for clouds. Paper Plate Hot Air Balloons I LOVE these cute hot air balloons!  They are now gracing our ceiling.  :) Fingerprint A...

Happy Friday!  :)  I am so exhausted/achy/drowning in mucus... okay sorry, that was gross!  (But true.  I hate colds!)  Luckily I have the best class in the world!  They are so sweet.  They were very considerate of my voice (or lack thereof) all week, and we still had bunches of fun.  I am so blessed!  And I am starting to feel better with the warmer weather.  55 today and loving it!  :) This week was all about water transportation!  The kiddos and I are just loving this transportation thing.  Read on and take a look! Art: Sea Scene Sponge Painting Who doesn't love painting with sponges?  The kiddos used two different colors of blue and sponges to make the water.  I loved how ripply the sponges made the water look!  After those dried, they drew a way to travel on water.  I could really tell how much they had learned about different kinds of water transportation from what I saw.  :) ...

Hello everyone!  Just wanted to let you know that my transportation unit is UP at last, despite my terrible head cold this weekend!  Check it out below: And, to celebrate this huge 130 page accomplishment, I'm having a giveaway!  You can win this unit by commenting on this post between now until midnight on Saturday, January 19th.  It is full of engaging activities for your math and literacy centers, kid-tested and kid-approved!  :)  I will be using Research Randomizer to pick the winner on Sunday. Good luck everyone!  I hope you have a good Monday tomorrow!

Happy Friday Saturday!  Knew it was going to be hard impossible to get this post done by Friday, and surely enough, I couldn't!  That's because we had SO much fun and did so many awesome things this week. my brain was like a wrung out sponge that couldn't possibly do anything more until the weekend started.  :) We started our three week journey into transportation this week and it was a success!  I discovered that I actually love teaching about transportation.  I love it so much I made a unit for it on Teachers Pay Teachers, and I tested it out on my kiddos, who were great guinea pigs (among their many other talents)! Read on to see pictures and hear more about the fun stuff we did this week! Art: Travel Suitcases These were so much fun to make (and it was so interesting to discover what my kiddos thought was necessary to bring on vacation!)  They were really easy to assemble, too.  I owe lots of thanks to my coworker next door who ...