tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054546448025294952024-03-18T02:03:27.539-04:00Mrs. Payton's Precious KindergartenersKourtney Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505985780472552590noreply@blogger.comBlogger285125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-405454644802529495.post-27757658268922157322017-03-07T23:58:00.001-05:002017-03-08T00:00:29.535-05:00Read Across America 2017<div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">While planning for a week of fun, I was super excited to receive an Email from Party City allowing me to pick out some AMAZING goodies for my class. So of course, I want to share with y'all what we did to celebrate Dr. Seuss! Party City wants teachers to celebrate the 113th birthday of America’s favorite author, Dr. Seuss and the “Hat’s Off to Reading” campaign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />I chose a variety of goodies to celebrate Dr. Seuss! First, we decorated the room.</span></div>
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We wanted our kids to be super excited for the week and these decorations were perfect! I also have tons of characters from Kohl's and we put those everywhere too! </div>
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I set up a table with all of our snack goodies for the day. We used each of these for a learning activity.</div>
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We read One Fish, Two Fish... and then we graphed rainbow Goldfish. We were able to sort, count and compare with this fun activity! </div>
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Next up we read The Cat in the Hat. We labeled the Cat and then made his hat using Red Gummy Savers, Oreos, and Icing. Next up, we read Green Eggs and Ham and used a sugar cookie, icing and green m&ms to make Green Eggs.</div>
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We added some Chocolate Teddy Grahams for Brown Bar-ba-loots and some colorful marshmallows for Truffula Tufts and the students snacked while we watched the Lorax.</div>
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And then we made mustaches because...who doesn't love a mustache! :) </div>
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We also played Seuss-O using Swedish Fish as our counters.</div>
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And we made a photo booth with a bulletin board paper as our green screen. I downloaded the Green Screen Wizard App to make fun pics with our kids using the photo booth props from Party City! </div>
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We gave our kiddos tattoos, which they loved! </div>
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We finished up with a bag of amazing goodies for all of our kids! Every child also received a Cat in the Hat headband so we could all be dressed up for character day! </div>
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I had as much fun as the kids with the props and headbands! </div>
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I saved the props and decor for next year so I can use them again and replace the serveware items. A special thank you to Party City for making our week extra fun! </div>
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Some of my blogger friends also received Dr Seuss Materials...check out how they used theirs here:</div>
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Read Across America Day is coming soon! As teachers we need to preplan, so here are some ideas to get you started!<br />
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Last year, we added a week to do an author study on Dr. Seuss to the first week of March. I'm sure you know that March 2nd is Read Across America Day! This is a day to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday, but to also celebrate reading! Last year, my school is had a dress up day and my intern and I dressed up like Thing 1 and Thing 2 complete with tutus! So much fun!<br />
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It might seem early to post about it now, but we all have to have time to prepare for a day (or week) as important and exciting as this, so this post will be all about fun things to do during that week! </div>
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One of my most favorite activities to do with my children is make Oobleck! Bartholomew and the Oobleck is a lengthy book, but I always read it anyway. My favorite recipe for Oobleck is:</div>
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There is another recipe with cornstarch that I do not recommend because it is very loose and gets everywhere!! </div>
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The good thing about the Borax type Oobleck is that it is super stretchy and it also bounces! I always give my kids some of their own in a Ziplock bag to take home and they enjoy exploring it. </div>
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I also always make Cat in the Hat hats with my students. We trace them on white poster board and cut them out and then staple them to a sentence strip. I don't know where the pattern originated...someone just gave it to me at some point, but it's not too hard to free hand! These were finger painted, but some years we just color them.</div>
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A fun idea from Jen over at <a href="http://crayonsandcutiesinkindergarten.blogspot.com/2014/02/having-fun-and-learningthe-kindergarten.html">Crayons and Cuties in Kindergarten</a> is making a Cat in the Hat Snack! Head over to see how to make them step by step!!</div>
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Some arts and crafts we've done:</div>
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I am planning on using this <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Dr-Seuss-Timeline-Theodor-Geisel-Timeline-Cut-and-Paste-FREEBIE-1699807">timeline Freebie</a> from Teaching Second Grade as part of our Author study.</div>
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For math, you can read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and play this FREE <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Silly-Cat-Fish-Addition-Freebie-1714451">Silly Cat Fish Addition Game</a>! There are fish counters included, but you could also use goldfish as counters. Laminate the fish tank and provide students with a dry erase marker and have them write how many red fish and blue fish they have and then how many they have all together. Each student can record their answers on the recording sheet provided. </div>
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If you need more center activities for that week, you might enjoy my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Silly-Cat-Centers-Bundle-1714348">Silly Cat Centers Bundle</a>! You can find it here:</div>
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Hey friends! I can hardly believe it's almost Thanksgiving and Black Friday! I'm so thankful for my family and friends this year. I'm also thankful for all the people I've met through blogging, especially my friends at <a href="http://theprimarypack.blogspot.com/">The Primary Pack</a>! <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30.492px; text-align: justify;">We are celebrating Black Friday again this year with all of you in a fun way (and a little early). We are sharing a few of our most wish-listed items in our personal wishlist, our carts and our own stores. We are also hosting a </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 30.492px; text-align: justify;">HUGE</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30.492px; text-align: justify;"> Black Friday giveaway, check it out below, you don't want to miss it!</span></span></div>
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I'm usually a pretty big black Friday shopper but my kids don't need much this year and neither do I, so I'm going to go for these things:</div>
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A bike: My youngest child's Santa gift.</div>
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Dual DVD players - because one of ours died and we like these in the car!</div>
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Tieks - because my feet are important and I'd love to have a pair!</div>
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Old Navy gift card because I've lost a lot of weight and can use some new clothes!</div>
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Bath and Body Works Gift Card because I love their candles, soaps, wallfowers, sprays, and lotions!</div>
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There are lots of things on my wishlist, but here are a few:</div>
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sight-Word-Readers-MEGA-BUNDLE-Set-of-29-6-page-Readers-CC-Aligned-575983">Jennifer Drake's Sight Word Reader's</a> - These books are awesome and help the students learn sight words and build fluency.</div>
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rhyming-Puzzles-Set-of-32-PLUS-Printables-CC-Aligned-808284">Jennifer Drake's Rhyming Puzzles</a> - My students need practice with rhyming words and this is a fun way!</div>
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-A-Growing-Bundle-1720944">Brenda Tejeda's Writing Bundle</a> - These writing activities are awesome and this bundle is a great deal! </div>
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sight-Words-1814471">Brenda Tejeda's Sight Word Bundle </a> - Brenda has the best sight word activities, this is a great way to make sure I don't miss any! </div>
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Here are a few things you can check out from my store:</div>
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Gingerbread-Count-the-Room-1-12-1588936">Gingerbread Count the Room</a> - A fun way to practice counting and let your students get up and move around the room. This is one of my student's favorite centers!</div>
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Gingerbread-Counting-Mats-1-30-1588360">Gingerbread Counting Mats</a> - An easy ready to print center, but so cute! </div>
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Its-a-Very-Merry-Christmas-Math-Literacy-Centers-Supplementary-Activities-432577">Christmas Centers</a> - 2 Weeks worth of centers and other activities ready to print and go!</div>
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Around-the-World-Unit-Activities-428795">Christmas Around the World</a> - Activities, crafts, and information on several countries that I use in my classroom!</div>
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Map-Skills-Landforms-Unit-539654">Maps Skills and Landforms Unit </a>- My best selling unit!</div>
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Hey y'all! Here are some ideas for a Christmas behavior incentive! </div>
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This was my view as I worked after school before Thanksgiving break. Don't get overwhelmed if you aren't in the Christmas spirit before Thanksgiving, but that's when it's time to start planning! </div>
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December in Kindergarten is one of my favorite months! It's full of crafts, learning, excitement, and fun! My kinders always get a little rambunctious during this time, so years ago we came up with a behavior incentive called the <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/12-Days-of-Christmas-Behavior-Incentive-1007982">12 Days of Christmas</a>! <br />
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I send a note home asking parents if they are able to donate a class set of presents. Parents respond and I send them a confirmation letting them know what present to send in. We're talking cheap presents here...yo-yos, bubbles, pencils, play-doh, erasers, silly straws, bouncy balls...the list goes on! The parents shop and then they send in their presents ALREADY WRAPPED! This shouldn't cause you any extra stress, because let's face it - who has time to wrap 12 class sets of presents? Then, you place them under your tree. Usually I have more than 12 parents respond and I say yes to everyone! If we have more than 12 presents..sometimes we have double present days!<br />
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Each day we choose a present to work for. Remember - they are prewrapped and just alike, so we are all working for the Santa presents today or the Snowman presents today etc. I have a clip chart in my room..students must end the day on green or better in order to get a present in their bag. You can adjust this to fit any behavior management system, though!</div>
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I get the bags from Michael's. They are $6.99 or $7.99 for 13. I usually use a coupon on one set and my teacher discount on the other. Last year they only had plain ones, so I added a die cut Christmas tree with scrapbook paper.</div>
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Check out the cutie bags they have this year!</div>
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Anyone else have students that LOVE to wear a hat? My kids adore them and so do I! Nothing makes me happier than seeing those sweet little faces with a sentence strip or poster board strip hat. A few years ago we needed an extra activity for Bats/Spiders week, so we started making these super cute hats.</div>
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<li>Black Poster Board Strips (2-3 inches wide) There's really not rhyme or reason with those guys because the paper cutter isn't long enough to measure a whole piece of poster board, so I just start chopping! </li>
<li>Black Construction Paper Strips - (1 inch wide) I stacked 8 pieces of 9x12 construction paper on top of each other and used my paper cutter to cut 1 inch strips that were 9 inches long.</li>
<li>White Rectangle of Construction Paper - I cut 8 pieces per 9x12 piece of construction paper.</li>
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Give students poster board strips, and paper clipped stack of construction paper strips. Have students fold the strips accordion style. I taught my kids to leave them all in one stack and fold them all at once, but whatever works for you.</div>
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Next, have students glue the strips to the poster board. (4 on each side on the side of the poster board that has their name on it.)</div>
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Next, turn the strip over and flip the strips over and pinch them to that side so they'll stay.</div>
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See how cute and happy they are? LOVE!<br />
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These are perfect for a Halloween Treat or Party or just for fun. We wore them to lunch that day.</div>
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I give them green paper to tear. This is the lettuce of their "salad." Then I give them a strip of yellow paper to snip, this is their cheese. Last I give them a piece of blue to teach them to fringe cut, we call this a fancy napkin. This really teaches them how to use their hands together and show some control with cutting. It's a great lesson! (It will take you several days to teach!) </div>
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Aarrggh you ready for back to school? I know this week I have been hiding on denial island and living it up as much as possible!! I have spent the week getting morning workouts in and hanging out with my bestie and our kids at the pool! I am sad to head back to work next week, but I know that routine is great for my family and so getting back to school will be great and let's face it...I love my kinders so meeting a new group is EXCITING!! </div>
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What do I love about new fresh faces? What do I not love about it? They hang on my every word! Yes its going to be difficult and I forget that I have to teach them everything, but that's exactly what I love about Kindergarten. I already can't wait to see the tremendous amount of growth!! </div>
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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! I'm so excited to be teaming up with the girls from The Primary Pack to bring you this fabulous Giveaway! We really want you to know how much we appreciate you and how amazing we think you are. Teachers are the most dedicated, hard-working people around, and we want to celebrate you! So we are each giving away a gift card to one of our favorite places to shop. But we didn't stop there! We are also giving away one big GRAND PRIZE on <a href="http://theprimarypack.blogspot.com/2015/05/teachers-make-world-colorful-teacher.html" target="_blank">The Primary Pack</a> blog!
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We started off December with a visit from the North Pole! The students were super excited that our elf came in a freezing package straight from Santa! They named her Twinkles! Twinkles was a great motivator and was always up to something :)<br />
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One of the crafts I remembered to capture was the St. Lucia head wreaths and star boy hats! </div>
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Is it just me or do you feel like your always trying to figure out the perfect parent present for Christmas? When I was getting my ornaments out this year, I realized how much I truly enjoy looking at the ones my children have made for me. Mrs. Bradley saw a pin for a reindeer picture frame, but the frames were really pricey. We collaborated on what materials to use and I was able to get the foam and ribbon for a very reasonable price at Michaels. I had our awesome EC teacher tie the ribbons for me because I'm not a very good bow tier! I hot glued those on and the ribbon on the back. The kids glued on the eyes and nose with white glue. They also glued their hand prints on which Mrs. Bradley had previously gotten. We took their picture next to the tree wrapped up in lights and put it in their frames. They were too cute! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcOh7OHNHd66IdgmM6QtiO3kcPibUznHEfP0le0_hJUcJJ74wU_a_Mi2qmqu23IQNXlLWN6usJ8nWrrFVg4OgF_DxZ4mLRiVHTmLPHB8qg9qiWwZc5IXhQXWfrN5Mh2c9NDloURGKDcD4/s1600/Picture22.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcOh7OHNHd66IdgmM6QtiO3kcPibUznHEfP0le0_hJUcJJ74wU_a_Mi2qmqu23IQNXlLWN6usJ8nWrrFVg4OgF_DxZ4mLRiVHTmLPHB8qg9qiWwZc5IXhQXWfrN5Mh2c9NDloURGKDcD4/s1600/Picture22.png" height="638" width="640" /></a></div>
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Have you read about how I do the 12 days of Christmas? I blogged about it over at <a href="http://theprimarypack.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-12-days-of-christmas-behavior.html">The Primary Pack</a>. This was the day we opened our presents! We sit in a circle and open them...its controlled chaos and oh so much fun!<br />
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Mrs. Bradley and I got the students a coloring book and crayons. I always like to get that for my students because it's something fun they can do over the break too! </div>
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For our party, we made Gingerbread houses! Thank goodness for wonderful families, they supplied all the materials needed. We started with ice cream cones and green icing and let them use M&Ms to decorate those and then let them eat those. This kind of gets them out of the mode of wanting to eat everything...then they can decorate the houses! We had a great parent volunteer turn out and all of the houses looked amazing! Such a fun party!<br />
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For Christmas Rotations, the students played Bingo, Musical Chairs, made bookmarks, fingerprint snowmen, and reindeer food. They had a blast as always!<br />
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We ended December with the Polar Express! I missed this day due to graduation, but I couldn't miss seeing my sweet Kinders in their jammies, so I popped in to take their picture and see them in their jammies and Mrs. Bradley captured some pictures of them drinking hot chocolate and having popcorn. I'm sad I missed it, but it looks like they had a blast!<br />
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Better late than never, I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year! I am so thankful to all the wonderful families in my classroom and all of you that take the time to follow my blog!<br />
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We wanted a cute and perfect bulletin board again, especially after taking down those cute owls. I got on Pinterest and searched and found this:</div>
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Totally free from <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easy-Holiday-Bulletin-Board-Ornament-Craftivity-1001388">First Grade Blue Skies</a>! She has a pattern in the packet for an ornament, so I chose some bright colors and ran them off. Then I headed to Michael's and purchased some scrapbook paper with different patterns and colors and some ribbon. Thank goodness for a teacher discount and coupons! I already had punches for stars, squares, and circles, so I punched out the shapes using those. I let the students choose their ornament colors and shapes from what I'd punched out and then we added glitter to ours. They told me if they wanted a pattern and I added it for them. We titled ours "We're Having a Ball in Kindergarten!" I hot glued everything to the paper. Our board was shaped a bit different than hers, but I still think they came out cute!</div>
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Another thing we did to get ready for Christmas is a Christmas countdown chain! I always start these on December 1st, but I suppose you could start them whenever you wanted to. I have several options, but I like to do Santa. I printed him out in color, so students just had to cut him out. We added some cotton for fun. Next students need 12 green links and 12 red links. I used to have a method to what size these needed to be, but construction paper is crazy expensive and I started using bulletin board paper so it really doesn't matter to me now. About an inch thick and maybe 3-4 inches long. Students alternate colors and I teach mine to put a little glue and then pinch and count to 10. This is SO MUCH FUN for them! I do this before Thanksgiving and send it home with a note letting the parents know to hang it somewhere safe until December 1st.</div>
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If you love owls, head over and grab it! We felt like our owls needed bellies too, so Mrs. Bradley free handed a belly for them. We also gave ours some feet! </div>
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Our amazing intern crafted up a border and a tree for us and I painted a hole in the tree and some polka dots on the paper to give it a little something. This was truly a collaborative effort and we loved it! We love chevron, so we gave our kids a choice of a few different colors. I hot glued them on to the tree and the board. </div>
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It's definitely too late for this one now, but grab the template and save it for next year, I know I'll be doing it again next year!<br />
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We had our 1st Terrific Kids Awards Assembly! Congrats to our first Terrific Kids!</div>
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We continued with our letters and made the <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Hats-Sentence-Strip-Hats-Simply-Kinder-204084">robot alphabet hat from Simply Kinder</a>! This is always my student's favorite!</div>
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We had Thanksgiving Rotations! Just like Pumpkin Rotations, students move to 6 classrooms and do a different activity in each room! They made bracelets to learn about the First Thanksgiving, wrote their name using symbols, made bookmarks, put turkey numbers in order, made butter, and played Thanksgiving Vocabulary Bingo.<br />
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We made outfits and dressed up as Native Americans and Pilgrims!</div>
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We had a pie feast with Mrs. Mitchell's Class! The students tried pumpkin pie and apple pie and we graphed our favorite kind! Pumpkin won! I was super proud of everyone for taking their thank you bites :) We loved having our Native American friends over for a feast!</div>
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We used these resources in November: (You can download or wishlist for next year!)<br />
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That's it for November! It was a super simple month, but lots of fun! Can you see how much these sweet students have grown already? December is coming soon!<br />
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We continued learning our letters and making our <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Hats-Sentence-Strip-Hats-Simply-Kinder-204084">Alphabet hats from Simply Kinder</a>!</div>
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We made our first visit to the Community Garden across the street! Seriously, crossing the street is a big deal! In the Spring, we will go once a week and learn all about how to garden! This is the first time we've ever gone in the Fall. When we go in the Spring, we don't get a chance to see a lot of the crops fully grown, so Ms. Joni, the master gardener, invited us to see the garden in the Fall this year. The kids were simply amazed! They truly enjoyed the insects of course, but they enjoyed the crops too. Someone saw eggplant and told Mrs. Bradley they were hot dogs, we have a lot to learn!<br />
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In October, our kids raised a TON of money for our school through the Boosterthon Fun Run! The kids took donations and then ran about 2 miles (around 36 laps!) It's such an amazingly exciting event for the students. The people who coordinate this have more energy than I can even explain and get the kids SUPER hyped up! The kids get prizes for their pledges and they were so excited to run. Our team name was the PB Jelly Jammers (P for me, Payton and B for Mrs. Bradley our assistant!) She came up with our awesome name and the kids LOVED it!<br />
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As you know, October is Fire Safety Month! We love to finger paint, so we finger painted some flames! I displayed it with a sign that said "This Class is on Fire!" and every time I walked by I got the Alicia Keys song stuck in my head. Did you sing it?? Is it stuck in your head now? You're welcome! </div>
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The fire clowns came to visit us and there was a girl clown for the first time ever! They are always super silly, but they have a lot of good information for the students. I usually try to ask my friend who is a fire fighter to come visit us with a fire truck from his station, but he had just gotten back from a deployment, so imagine my surprise when we went out to see the fire truck after seeing the fire trucks and we saw Mr. Joe the fire fighter! The kids enjoyed seeing the fire truck!</div>
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We made spider hats! Always a favorite of mine in October. I blogged about how to make them over at <a href="http://theprimarypack.blogspot.com/2014/10/silly-spider-hats.html">The Primary Pack</a>.<br />
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We had Pumpkin Rotations! They played Bingo, heard a spooky story, played guess who?, played spooky musical chairs, made a Spookly the Pumpkin cookie, and sorted Halloween rings!<br />
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We had Pumpkin centers with parents! Our awesome parents came out and helped us carve 5 pumpkins! </div>
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We also decorated tiny pumpkins with all sorts of goodies and hot glue guns and had orange snacks!</div>
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Some of the resources I used in October were: (You can always download or wishlist for next year!)<br />
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In September, we practiced making our names: (The students cut their names apart, put their names back together, and counted how many letters were in their names!)<br />
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We made silly hats! We were learning our letters, so on Fridays to review the letters, we made hats! We use <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Hats-Sentence-Strip-Hats-Simply-Kinder-204084">Simply Kinder's Alphabet Hats</a>. These are my favorite! I don't have a chance to use them all, but these are a few that we made in September.<br />
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We learned our shapes and practiced making them using Play-Doh. This is perfect for fine motor skills, but also the perfect opportunity to teach students about how many sides the shapes have. I try to get them to make 1 snake for each side.<br />
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We also learned about apples in September! We finger painted and had an apple tasting! We learned about taking "thank you bites" whether we think we like foods or not.<br />
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We did several art projects. I may have posted a few of these before I went on blogging hiatus, but just to have them all together, here they are! We read the Crayonbox that Talked and made our own crayons. This is a permanent decoration in our room! We learned about School Bus safety, made rainbow names, the letters of our first name for our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree, and our very own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree.</div>
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These units are perfect for the beginning of the year and would be great to grab for next year! :) (Just click on them to find them on TpT!)</div>
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I graduated!! I officially have my Master's in Instructional Technology!! Not only that, but seriously, I graduated with a 4.0! This semester <strike>almost</strike> killed me! I had to complete a 110 hour internship on top of another class where I had to write a manual for a Media and Technology Committee....did I mention I was working and I have 2 kids and a husband? Yeah! The struggle was real! </div>
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My poor little neglected blog! I'm about to BLOW this blog up with the hundreds of pictures I have been taking, so just hang tight while I post about everything that has happened this year so my sweet parents that follow can see my cute students! </div>
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Alright, so about the Currently....here we go! :) </div>
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Why on earth is this movie on after Christmas? Beats me! Anyone else LOVE Home Alone 1 and 2?! Love both FOR REAL and couldn't pass up the chance to watch it. Love some ABC Family. :) </div>
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Loving: Winter Break! I didn't dry my hair or put on make up for a week. A true sign that its a break - I look like a chia pet and I live in workout clothes. I finally got myself together yesterday so I didn't look like a scrub on New Year's Eve! </div>
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Thinking - I need to catch up on blogging. This is pretty much a given. I just uploaded all the pictures from my phone and iPad from school and Oh.My.Gosh. We took a LOT of pictures in the past few months and...woah I haven't blogged about any of it. Coming soon...blogs for days!</div>
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Wanting - To get my <a href="http://www.donorschoose.org/project/iwant-to-learn-with-ipads/1454825">Donor's Choose Project</a> Funded! Do you know about Donor's Choose? I recently wrote a grant to get two iPad minis for my classroom for tutoring and to use as an iPad center. If you donate by January 2nd, you can use the code DISNEY and they will match your donation! If you are reading this and feel inclined, I'd love for you to donate even just $1 with the match code! <3 </div>
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Needing - To organize my closet. HOT MESS y'all. HOT MESS. I can't find anything. While I've been in grad school my sweet husband has been tending to the chores. No organization skills at all. Additionally, I've lost about 60lbs and I have a lot of clothes that are too big that need to come out...it's on my to do list this weekend!</div>
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Yes - I have a goal to lose 75 more pounds! I hired a personal trainer and it's gonna happen y'all. Maybe not all 75, but some more for sure! </div>
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Maybe - This house is gonna get organized! Little by little! We organized my little guy's room first over the break and it was awesome! We need to declutter every room in the worst way!</div>
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I Wish - I sure wish I could take my family to Disney! I am gonna try my best to save enough money to take us this year! </div>
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Happy New Year! I don't know about you, but I have been enjoying my break from school! We've been decluttering and enjoying each other at my house! Are you starting to think about school next week yet? I'm super thankful that I got my week planned before I left for the break, but if you didn't, have no fear! I've teamed up with some of my blogging buddies to bring you some great resources for the New Year! This should help you plan next week or even this month!</div>
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When we get back, it's all about Winter and Arctic Animals for us! </div>
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We'll be learning all about Polar Bears and Penguins.</div>
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One of my favorite activities is making a Polar Bear Paw with my students using bulletin board paper. They are always amazed at how big a Polar Bear's paw actually is! </div>
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Another fun experiment to do with them is called "The Blubber Glove." For this, all you need is Crisco, a tub of ice water, two Ziploc bags, and some masking tape. You put the Crisco in a Ziploc bag and then put another Ziploc bag inside of that one. Then you tape them at the top so the Crisco doesn't come out of the top.</div>
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I have been doing a pretty good job of knocking out my wish list as I went along, but these are my top 3 things!<br />
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1 - Jennifer from <a href="http://crayonsandcutiesinkindergarten.blogspot.com/">Crayons and Cuties in Kindergarten's</a> <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elf-ing-Around-MEGA-Pack-of-Elf-Themed-ABC-Math-Writing-More-CC-Aligned-848288">Elfing Around Unit</a> - This unit is jam packed with fun Elf activities and since we'll be getting a visit from a certain elf when we get back in December, this will be perfect!<br />
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2 - Brenda from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TejedasTots">Tejeda's Tot's</a> <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sight-Word-Practice-Pages-Picture-Supported-Fry-Words-1-100-1493580">Sight Word Practice Pages </a> - If you haven't gotten the sample, you need to get it and try it. These are amazing for teaching sight words and how to read sentences with sight words!<br />
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3 - Laura from <a href="http://differentiationstationcreations.blogspot.com/">Differentiation Station Creation's</a> <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Snowball-Addition-Addition-to-20-Number-Lines-Missing-Addends-Common-Core-1018066">Snowball Addition Centers, Games, & Printables Pack</a> - Another unit jam packed full of goodies and it will be perfect for teaching addition!<br />
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2 - <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Brown-Bear-Brown-Bear-Center-Activities-302544">Brown Bear Brown Bear Center Activities</a> - Perfect for the 1st half of the year if you love Brown Bear! Includes letters, colors, and numbers.</center>
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3. Add your own products to the "For Your Black Friday Wishlist"<br />
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Hi! I'm Kourtney blogging from Mrs. Payton's Precious Kindergarenters. I am a North Carolina teacher who loves dance fitness, fun fonts, clipart, and the color pink. I taught first grade for one year and am now teaching my 9th year of Kindergarten!<br />
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We always plan our day around some sort of story and I know a lot of teachers like to use The Kissing Hand, but I just didn't want to do that story this year, so when I saw this <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Cool-Cat-First-Day-of-School-Certificates-and-Hat-Kinder-and-First-1387344">Cool Cat First Day of School Pack</a> from Live Love Laugh Kindergarten, I knew which story I was going to use!</div>
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Have you heard of the <a href="http://trashycrafter.com/">Trashy Crafter</a>? When Kim from the Trashy Crafter contacted me about reviewing something from her Etsy shop, I had no idea what she could possibly do. I was pleasantly surprised when I clicked on over at what I saw!<br />
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Ever have a damaged book that you simply can't put in your library center anymore? What do you do with it? Throw it away...right? Kim and her mom take these books and roll them into beads and make jewelry with them! How cool is that?!</div>
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In looking at the pictures, they immediately appealed to me because...I'm ALLERGIC to jewelry!! But guess what?! There is no metal! A bracelet I can wear?? Finally, I can accessorize! </div>
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And when I opened it, I saw this adorable little package all wrapped up! I love that it was all recycled!</div>
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These adorable bracelets! Right on the card it tells you what book your bracelets are made from. Of course I knew mine would be made from Fox in Socks because I chose them. (I LOVE that book!!) I also loved the bright colored beads on these bracelets!</div>
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I admit my wrists are a little big, I'm working on that, but fear not big wrist girls..these beauties stretch! </div>
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Here you can see the words from the book...I LOVE them!</div>
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I'm so absolutely impressed by what Kim and her mom do! I hope you'll head over to her Etsy shop and take a peek at what they have to offer and get your shop on! Thanks Kim for allowing me to review these bracelets! I love them!! </div>
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I jazzed up my caddies last year after seeing a post from Erica Bohrer, but when I went to school this summer and started getting my room, I discovered my caddies were disgustingly dirty and a few of my book bins were cracked. I order these gems from Oriental Trading and fortunately scored a free shipping coupon, so they weren't too much more expensive from Michaels or the teacher store where I couldn't find all the colors I needed. </div>
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For this project you need: The Caddies, The Book Bins, Ribbon, Scissors, A Hot Glue Gun, and Glue Sticks. (The Cordless Hot Glue Gun is not required, but let me tell you that it is well worth the extra $5-10 and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE mine.)</div>
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I know absolutely nothing about measuring and ribbon, so I took a picture of the kind I used in case you needed to know that.</div>
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For the caddies, start on the long side, but in the middle. Put your hot glue on half and lay the ribbon on top.</div>
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Keep doing the same thing all the way around until you get back to the front and then you will meet the two pieces together. Don't worry about the two pieces because you are gonna cover them.</div>
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Ok, about the spot where the two pieces meet up. To cover that you need a cute little sign. I printed mine on card stock and laminated them. I decided to vary the pattern and go with some chevron. I have both patterns in my room.</div>
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These caddies look super adorable on my table and the ribbons just give them a little something! What do you do you jazz up your room?</div>
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I'm a little late blogging about this one, but I had to get pictures taken for these frames to get them on the wall. We make these frames with our kids EVERY year and leave them up all year! It's so fun to give them back to the kids at the end of the year and see how much they have changed! </div>
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You need 1/4 of a yellow sheet of construction paper and then you die cut a rectangle out of it to make the frame. The tree and polka dots are free form, so you just give the students squares/rectangles of each color of paper and model how to do those. The letters are from Walmart/Michaels are are prebagged in Ziploc bags for each student. (They have a sticker on the back, so they stick right on.)</div>
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This particular student did a really awesome job on cutting her pieces (This close up is from last year but I never got around to blogging about it last year for some reason!), but don't expect them all to look this perfect. I love how their little personalities show through a free form activity! They also tend to mix up the letters in their names and you may have to redirect them a few times :) </div>
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When they are all finished, I add their pictures and staple them on the wall around my Coconut Tree. (I purchased this one a few years ago from the local teacher store and just leave it up all the time.) </div>
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I adore this little craft and the kids are super proud when they are done! My group this year did an amazing job and they all look so cute!</div>
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Basically, you just write the student's name on white card stock in the rainbow color order. I did read that you should use crayon instead of marker because the glue will cause the marker to run. We used vegetable/fruit sorters from the Dollar Tree to sort the different colors of paper and that worked perfectly! </div>
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