Mother's Day Fun!

My students had the best day yesterday performing for their moms!  We found a Mother's Day song that is sung to the tune of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy".  The lyrics came from Regina Bell, a music teacher in Oklahoma.  I was laughing so hard they had me in tears!  Here is a short clip...

 

They students also made gifts thanks to Home Depot!.  They donated 4x4 tiles so the students could decorate one for their moms.  They are great about donating to schools, so remember that when you are needing these kinds of items.  Here's how their tiles turned out.

For all who are Mothers, Grandmothers, or mothers to be, Happy Mother's Day!

Memoirs of a Goldfish and Planet Hue

Today my kiddos dove into Memoirs after reading the story Memoirs of a Goldfish.  We began with their earliest memories.  I worried that I'd loose them with field day looming only several hours away but they really took ownership of their writing.  

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Today was the first day of our ABC countdown days.  As you are aware, I'm a monthly guest columnist for Really Good Stuff.  This past month I wrote about the countdown days.  Check it out here.

Art Day

We began learning about the color wheel, monochromatic colors, adjacent colors, and complementary colors.  The kids loved the lesson.  

Cross-Curricular Unit includes 

Colors, Planets, Centers, Arts and Crafts...

Spring Flower Projects!

Whew! It has been awhile since I have posted here! As with most of us, it is hard to believe that it is already May and we are looking at the end of the semester! We are heavily into DRA and AIMS web testing, but we are still managing to get a few fun activities into our day! One project that we did last week was gather our 3 kindergartens together and create 3 artistic masterpieces based on 3 famous artists - Monet, Van Gogh, and Picasso. Here are some pictures of our student masterpieces and if you would like to read more about this project, hop on over to my blog! Happy Spring!

David Shannon Author Study

 I am going to share with you Blog Hoppers one of my classroom's favorite themes...

 our Author Study about David Shannon we do at the end of the year.

I made a digital version to share with everyone this year. 

Here is an example of one of the 8 games in this pack. 

This one is for the book, No, David!

Here are 6 more game boards. 

Each board has its down reading comprehension cards and answer key.

 Each book also has at least one writing prompt that concentrates on the story element for that book.  Here is a picture of some of the writing prompts provided. 

 Collectively, these will make an awesome author study book. I provided a cover sheet in this pack. 

It is for sale here on TpT. 

This pack has been a labor of love for me. I have been working on it for weeks and weeks. I hope you can use these elements together or separately in your classroom too. David Shannon is so awesome and ALL students love his books. 

Does your class read David Shannon books?

Mary Amoson, Sharing Kindergarten http://sharingkindergarten.blogspot.com/ http://www.facebook.com/SharingKindergarten

Behavior Punch Cards, Vocabulary Center, and Extended Tax Break Sale

Hey.....psssst......over here!  Yeah, you!  Just wanted to let you know that I am still running my tax break sale.  I figured we all needed an extra day of savings!!

I need to take a poll. And, I really would if I knew how with html code! But, anyway, dear readers, do you find the behavior punch cards that I have been using in my classroom helpful? I hate to keep putting them out there if they aren't helpful. Up until now I have been putting them out as a Google Doc, but do to the issues it has had with the punch cards I will need to start putting them out on TpT.

So...please leave a comment letting me know if you find those helpful. If they aren't, then I'll find something else that is free!!

Also, today I redid my Vocabulary Center Graphic Organizer and took the old one down. The new file is soooo much better than my old one. Now everything is in color and just beautiful. This is what they look like.

 
I made 32 graphic organizers this morning at 5 A.M.!!  Sixteen of them are in color and 16 of them are black lined for copying.  I plan to use the colored versions on my Promethean Board and annotate over them.  The cost is $3 which is a steal...if I price as recommended on TpT, it should be priced much higher--more than twice of the price it is set out now.

The thing I like most about graphic organizers like this is that they almost teach for you.  Once your students learn what to do the first time, they can pretty much roll with it.

I recommend creating a Vocabulary booklet to document the vocabulary learned throughout whatever book you are teaching.  Plus, it is a really nifty study guide when it comes time for a vocabulary test!!  Just click !on a thumb nail to go to TpT to grab it.  By the way, I am still running my Tax Break Sale....I figured we all needed another day!!!

Hope you enjoy this!!

P.S.  While you are at my store, click on the little follow button so that you can keep aware of all of the new products I am uploading.  I counted, and as of today, I have 24 days until school is out.  Then, I can finish a lot of unfinished products and get them out so that we can all print, cut, laminate, and cut again!  Story of my life in the summer!