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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Winter fun

Happy Holidays!
I hope everyone is enjoying celebrating the holidays with their families and classes, I know our kindergarten class certainly has!!

We started off the month with an Arctic Animals unit plan. 
We learned about polar bears, penguins, reindeers and much more!


We made these polar bears with two kinds of paint. For the snow we mixed salt and white paint. Then to paint the polar bears we made a shaving cream paint with shaving cream, glue and a little white paint. When it dried the kids were amazed that he felt like a real polar bear! Really cute project.

Here is our last minute penguins. We were supposed to make the ones from my unit plan with egg cartons, but I forgot my egg cartons at home on the day of the project! So we made these cute paintable penguins instead ;) 

This is a handprint and footprint reindeer, another fav of the kiddos. They trace their foot for the head and then two hands for the antlers. Cute and simple!


The elf on the shelf, Sheldon, has been causing some mischief at night!
He changed our milk and water red and green, he left us magic seeds which grew candy canes the next day, he left us a coloring book, he covered himself in bandaids, and we found him drinking syrup in our cabinet! Today we took a vote of what his favorite candy is. The kids voted on voting sheets and then we created a class graph. Hopefully we will find out in Sheldon's note tomorrow what his favorite really is!


We read the book "The Littlest Elf" Then made these cute elves with a writing prompt.
What would your job be if you were an elf at the north pole?
Help the reindeer    

Help Santa make the presents



Last friday we had Grinch Day!
The kids wore their grinchiest outfits to school and we had a great day.
We made this cute Grinch project with a writing prompt 
"How To Make The Grinch Grin"


Make a funny face!


Another cute writing idea that I found on Pinterest,
Santa's Stuck!
The kids assembled the pieces and drew bricks on the chimney.
Then the wrote about what they would do if Santa was stuck in their chimney.
Help Santa down the chimney.

We also learned about other holidays celebrated around the world. 
We made a scrapbook of journal pages for each holiday and made a cute craft.

Glitter Menorah


Handprint Kinara


Fir Tree- Germany





And finally, the kids... and their teacher :) worked SO hard on their gifts for their family.
They made a handprint calendar. Each month has a different handprint with a poem to go with it.
That's right... 12 kids... 12 months... thats a lot of messy hands! :)
More pictures of this adorable project to come and hopefully posted on teachers pay teachers soon!



Happy Holidays!!

Friday, November 30, 2012

Thanksgiving

What are you thankful for?
Our class had a wonderful time learning about Thanksgiving.
Here are a few projects that we made.

We made a book about the first Thanksgiving.
Here are a few photos of some pages.




We did a journal about giving thanks.
(Just love some of the responses!)

My Mom because I came out of her belly.


The Indians because the gave us food.


The earth because it is where we live.

This project is a favorite of the kids.
A Thanksgiving story bracelet.
Each bead represents a part of the story so children can retell it.

We made a graph of our favorite thanksgiving foods.

Check out my unit on Teachers Pay Teachers. Just click the link below!

Also be sure to check out these other great unit just in time for the holidays!

Monday, October 29, 2012

Eric Carle Author Study

Eric Carle Unit

Of course we had to start with "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". 
We made tissue paper caterpillars!
Then we did a days of the week book by writing the days of the week and drawing what the caterpillar ate each day.







"A House For Hermit Crab"
This was one of the kids favorite activities.
I set up a little 'store' with some art supplies. Each child was given a cup full of change. One by one they could come to the store and buy materials to decorate their house for hermit crab. They came out so cute and the kids had a great time!




Mister Seahorse Paintings

"Little Cloud"
One of the most simple, yet interesting projects.
I gave each child a dark blue piece of paper. We put a squirt of white paint in the middle and then folded the paper in half. Then on a sentence strip they had to write what they saw. It was so interesting to see them really use their imagination. 


"The Lonely Firefly"
Follow directions to assemble a firefly!

Brown Bear Measurement

"The Very Busy Spider"
Handprint spiders, perfect decorations for Halloween :)

Check out my Eric Carle Unit on Teachers Pay Teachers.

**Hurry Sale ends October 31st**

Fall Activities

We have been doing some really cool fall activities. Take a look!


My class loves to collect and sort leaves.
We did a leaf experiment by measuring leaves in different ways.




5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate

Life Cycle of a Pumpkin


There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves


Apple Print Painting

Our Science Center:
-Pumpkin Seeds
-Growing a mini pumpkin
-Planting a pumpkin inside a pumpkin
-Our pet fish Swimmy

I found this idea on pinterest!
Planting a pumpkin inside a pumpkin! So Clever :)

We went on a field trip to pick pumpkins and then wrote about our favorite parts!

Hope you and your class have been enjoying fall.
If you would like to check out my autumn units on Teachers pay Teachers, click the links below.


Also check out the new units I've added... Dinosaurs and Thanksgiving!