Hot Chocolate is the perfect drink....after you get to play in some SNOW!!!

Happy New Year to me...it SNOWED here last night.  Hopefully...it keeps coming so I can play outside with my son at home.  I am pretty sure I am not getting my 17 year old outside....since all I hear is I am moving to California after college.  Fran....here I come to visit!!!! 

I wanted to share something "SWEET" for the new year.  We are working on number words and I made this big book to hang in our classroom.  The kiddos love to read it while they are in the read the room center. 

We do not go back to school until Tuesday.  I am going to make sure that all my documents are in PDF format...especially the ones that I use DJ inkers clip art.  We live and learn...right!  I do a lot of cutting and pasting still...I know I am crazy...and I hate the way my scanner at school puts my documents into PDF.  I guess it is better than nothing.  By the way....my bestie bought me about 8 different clip art packs from KMP DOODLES.  I think I found a new love!!!

Amber

Pete the Cat....AGAIN!

Here is my Pete the Cat Book.  The students worked in pairs to make Pete the Cat.  I loved Mrs. Jump's idea she posted about using shapes to review while making Pete the Cat.   For about a month, I will hang the book up in the classroom for the students to read while they are at the Read & Write the Room center.  Then I will take the book down and make it into a classroom-made book to read.  READ~READ~READ!

Amber

Who's in the Club?

Here is a Rockin’ Idea with pictures: 
I like to make classroom-made books for my students to read in the classroom.  Kim Adsit makes a book called, Who is in the club?  Check out her site - http://www.adsit.net/  I heard she is going to have a blog very soon, too!!!  Here is what I did with her idea...
Each page is labeled with a task that the students need to learn.  For example…I can tie my shoes club.  When a student completes the task he/she will sign the page in the book.  I love this…it makes the students feel special when they accomplish a new task and I do not have enough room on my walls to display it all.  I think I might even laminate my book before the school year, so I can use it each year.  Kindergarten kiddos LOVE sharpie markers as much as I do!  

I am so SORRY.... I cannot get the picture to turn.  URGGG!!!!



I found some cute ANT ribbon so I added the caption - F"ANT"ASTIC LEARNERS ! under the title.



In my classroom "Who's in the Club?" book, I will have these pages:  
read all grade level sight words, recognize uppercase letters, recognize lowercase letters, produce letter sounds, recognize rhyming words, produce rhyming words, recognize ending sounds, recognize beginning sounds, recognize color words, print my first name, print my last name, days of the week, months of the year, say my address, say my birthdate, say my phone number, identify coins, tell time to the hour, name 8 shapes,  continue and develop patterns, tie my shoes, count sets of objects to 30,  count to 100, count by 5's to 100, count by 10's to 100, count by 2's to 20, write to 100. 

I will be adding my printable pages on Monday, August 1st to my classroom website. 

Amber