Happy Veteran's Day

Students will follow teacher directions to assemble this soldier.  Our predictable chart will be "A soldier . . ."  Students will unscramble their sentence and glue it under the soldier.

Where is the turkey?

This pocket chart will be used during calendar to reinforce number recognition.  You can't really see it in the picture, but each card has a numeral from 1 to 30 in the lower right hand corner.  The turkey will hide in the leaves and the students will guess where he is each day.

Letters In Your Name Graph

We did this as a center activity.  Each student wrote his or her name one letter per square.  Then they glued them to the chart and counted how many letters.  We looked at who has the most. least, and the same.

Seasons of the Apple Tree

We painted the students' arm and hand brown and stamped it four times.  We used scrunched tissue paper for the spring apple blossoms.  Summer leaves were sponged on and apples are thumbprints.  Students ripped orange, red, and yellow construction paper for fall leaves.  Glitter made the snow.  After, we labeled each season and wrote My Apple Tree.

Brown Bear Alphabet Game and Popcorn Words

I made these alphabet cards for our Brown Bear unit.  Some students are still learning letter names while others are ready for initial sounds.  I stamped the back with a Stamping Up! set so I can use them for both groups.  I also cut some bears for our popcorn words.

Hello, I Am . . .

I got these name tags at Target in the Dollar Spot.  We had them up on a bulletin board at first.  When I took them down, I bound them into a book.

Name Match Up

Students match pictures to names.

Lap Top Names

Students can practice typing their name and their friends' names.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Trees

Students cut out the coconut trees and used foam letters to spell their names.

Our KinderGARDEN Goals

I was trying to figure out a way to post our goals and have a way to record students who have met them.   I was thinking of using cans, but all I could find was a watering can.  Then KinderGARDEN hit me.  When students meet a goal, I will write their name on a flower and post it on the watering can.

Every Birdy Welcome

This year I used Just Because Cards to cut out the birds so that I could have more room to write the names.

New Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Bulletin Board

This year I used Mickey Font to cut out each child's first initial in different colors.  They used glitter to decorate them.

Door Decorating Contest: Read Across America

For our school's door decorating contest, the children drew pictures of where they like to read. They drew them on geckos which is our school's mascot.

Who Let The A Out

I made these dogs to go with Dr. Jean's song "Who Let the Letters Out?" As we sing the song, the students bring up the letters in order. We can play with capital letters, lowercase letters, or initial sounds.

Shamrock Popcorn Word Practice.

Although this is sideways, I think you can get the idea. The students read a word and then peek behind it. There may be a coin for them to add to their piggy bank. You could change the shamrock to hearts, trees, apples, pumpkins, flowers, insects, eggs, suns, etc for any season or theme.

March Name Tree

Michele made this beautiful tree in the fall. Each month the students practice writing their name to hang on the tree. This month was shamrocks.

Shamrock Letter Writing

We have been using this center activity since February. In March we changed to shamrocks for our notecards.

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Bulletin Board

After reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, the students drew fish in a fish bowl and wrote a sentence about it. They practiced writing the number word and color word.

Leprechaun, Where is your gold?

After reviewing position words, we made leprechauns and in the speech bubble wrote where the leprechaun hid the gold.

Color Sort

I saw a set of tubes similar to this in a teaching catalog for over $50. We made homemade versions with stuffing containers. The objects were found around the house and classroom. We use them for sorting or writing in our journals.

Door Decorating Contest: Reading

We used the letters from a Creative Teaching Press pack from Dollar Tree. The students found their favorite book and tried to copy the cover as best they could. They came out really cute!

Synonym Pots Of Gold

I wrote words on the pot and synonyms on gold coins. Students sort the gold coins on the appropriate pot.

Who Let The A Out?

While we sing Dr. Jean's "Who Let The A Out" song, the students come up to a pocket chart and put the letter up. I have lowercase, capitals, and pictures for initial sound.

President's Day

Michele used the overhead projector to draw the silhouettes of the students. They unscrambled the letters cut from Mickey Font to spell President and their last name. After reading a book about the president's job, they wrote about what they would do if they were president.

Who took the shamrock from the leprechaun?

I adapted the idea for this game from www.childcareland.com. I used felt to make a shamrock bean bag.

Pot of Gold Number Practice

Students will help Liam the Leprechaun collect his gold coins using this felt board activity. The gold will be put in the pot in numerical order.

Leprechaun, where did you hide your gold?

After reviewing position words, students will create their own leprechaun using a photo as the head. In the speech bubble, the students will write where the gold is hidden.

The Foot Book

After reading The Foot Book, students will play a matching game with opposites.

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

We will be doing an author study of Dr. Seuss. The red, yellow, and blue fish will be used for sorting and an addition worksheet. The students will use crayon resist to draw fish in the fishbowl and then write a sentence.

Conjunction Junction

I made these train cars for a friend at school. His third graders are learning how to combine sentences with conjunctions. They will use sentence strips with sentences, and then they will use the comma car and conjunction car to make a new sentence.

Snowman Surprise

Madison made this snowman out of kindling. She created it completely by herself while I was trying to take a nap. Then she painted it and we added details with the hot glue gun. It is for my mom for her birthday.