ABC Order Center

I made this center with a project board and library envelopes.  Each envelope has a letter of the alphabet. The last envelope says words.  I will write our popcorn words, color words, class names, etc. on sentence strips (probably cut in half).  The students will read a word and then put it in the correct envelope.  To clean up, students will remove the cards and return them to the words envelope.

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.

Leprechaun, Where is your gold?

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

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.

McDonald's Muffets

After reading "Little Miss Muffet" many times, the children each got a chance to act out the poem. We took photos and then they added their names to the poems.

Batty About School

We worked on bats a lot in October. We read Stellaluna and other nonfiction books about bats. We used the numbered bats to practice number sequencing.

Mrs. McDonald's Dumpties

We read the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. One day we substitued Humpty for each child's name. That child acted out the rhyme while we read it out loud. Then students wrote their name in the rhyme, glued a picture of their head in the egg, and added detail. They came out so cute!

Chicka Chicka Matching Game

The top coconut tree is from Lakeshore. It came with foam letters, but the velcro peeled off and didn't last long. I remade the letters with Mickey Font and laminated them. I laminated them and used velcro on the back. The students can read the story and add or take away the letters to act it out.

The bottom coconut tree was made with Doodlecharms and the fit to page feature. I shadowed it as well. Then I made the lower case letters go around the tree. I wrote uppercase letters on the clothespins. Students reach in to get a clothespin and attach it to the coconut tree on the lowercase letter.

Twinchies

This was our second swap. We decided to do Twinchies after seeing so many cute ones on the web. I asked Nikki to do blues and browns. She asked for turquoise. Our swaps are great because we try to use supplies on hand. We also try things we may not have otherwise done.

Calendar

I made labels for each of the pieces of our calendar unit. The C is from Speaking of School and the rest of the letters are from Mickey Font. They are each outlined with red marker and the shadow is in black.

Color Words

I used the Mickey Font to make the color words to hang in the classroom. The kids like them.

Mickey Door Decoration

I made this decoration for a friend's classroom. She wanted to borrow my Mickey Mouse cartridge, so I made it for her as a surprise.

Clip Collection

I got this idea from my friend Jess. We use Everday Calendar Counts for our Math Program in Kindergarten. Each day we add a paper clip to count our 180 days of school. This is portable so it doesn't take up as much wall space. It is made from foam board. There are 18 mug hooks to hold groups of ten paper clips. In the upper right hand corner there are three more hooks. Each hook will have the digits 0-9 on rings to show how many clips there are.

Ten Frames

My friend Jess went to a workshop and got the idea to make a magnetic ten frame using small circular magnets and cookie sheets. We use them in kindergarten to help students understand place value and addition/subtraction. So I liked the idea and made the blue and orange one with some scraps. I used 3/4" magnets with foam tape already adhered and cut the circles from Plantin Schoolbook. My nephew liked it and wanted one. I was giving it as a birthday present so I wanted to make it cuter than just dots. His favorite colors are yellow and orange. So I used yellow and orange Mickey Ears from the Mickey Font cartridge cut at 1 inch. I shadowed them to give the ears a little more strength. So then my daughter so the Mickey ones and wanted those instead of the circle one I had made her. She found the glitter paper in my stash and decided to use that for hers.