More Ocean Fun! Freebies!!

Happy Memorial Day weekend everyone! This is a fun weekend in my town. There are lots of picnics and a fabulous parade in town on Monday. It's like a great big slice of American pie!

We just finished our ocean unit. For the Working With Words Station, the children went fishing for sight words. I taped a sight word to the bottom of each little fish. After all of the fish had been caught, they wrote the words onto a piece of paper. I also created a few math activities.

Fishing for sight words!

I just taped the word to the bottom.

Here is the copy of the sheet I used. Click on the picture to catch it!

Here are some simple math activities that I created. The clip art is from KPM Doodles.

Ocean Adventures

Happy Mother's Day! As a present to all of you, I am giving you my latest emergent reader. It is about my new theme - ocean creatures!! It focuses on sight words such as all, of, have and that. The clip art is from KPM Doodles. Have a great week!

Amazing Ocean Creatures

Kindergarten Dinosaur Museum

Hi friends! My class had their dinosaur museum two weeks ago. They sing a song and perform a small Reader's Theatre for the parents. Then, they act as museum guides and take their parents on a "tour" of our classroom museum. Most of the exhibits display our classroom projects or lessons, but some of them are interactive such as the paleontologist dig in our sand table and the volcano experiment. Many of the projects are from Deanna Jump's dinosaur unit. I have also found a lot of great ideas from other blog friends. I have tons of pictures so I am just sharing some of them. Enjoy the pics!

Volcano Experiment - The kiddos made one with their parents.

Smart Table - Sorting Herbivores and Carnivores

Math - How many students can fit on a dinosaur footprint?

 

 

 

Dinosaur Skeleton Model from Deanna Jump's unit

Dinosaur Mural painted by my talented kindergarten artists

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Here are the triceratops! We used coffee filters for the frill.

This was right outside my classroom door. There was a nest of eggs that we had made from paper mache.

Last, but not least, here I am with my fantastic teacher's aide and special education teacher. We dressed as paleontologists!

Froggy Friends

Hi everyone. I promise I will post pictures from my dinosaur museum soon. My camera is on the fritz at the moment. Yikes!!

My new theme or unit starting this week is "Frogs."  I just made a new emergent reader for my frog unit. It focuses on several sight words and contains a lot of great facts about these froggy friends! The clip art is from KPM Doodles and Scrappin Doodles. Click below to visit my store at TPT!

Coming Soon...The Kindergarten Dinosaur Museum!

Yes! It is almost time for my classroom dinosaur museum. My students have worked so hard throughout this unit and I am always amazed at how much they learn and accomplish. The classroom is set up to look like a museum. We have exhibits throughout the classroom. The children dress as dinosaurs and the adults (me, the special education teacher and my wonderful classroom aide) dress as paleontologists.

Once all of the parents arrive, we perform the song "What Do You Think of That" (also known as We Are the Dinosaurs) by Laurie Berkner. It is a really cute song about dinosaurs. Then, we recite the ABC's of Dinosaurs. Each child tells an important fact about a dinosaur. I actually got this idea from my daughter's kindergarten teacher. Once I saw the performance I knew I wanted to do it with my own class.

After the performance, the children act as museum guides and bring the parents to each exhibit. Here is the museum program or guide:

I will be sure to take pictures on Tuesday and post later this week.

Here is the video for the Laurie Berkner song we sing:

If You Take A T-Rex To School...

My dinosaur unit is almost complete. We culminate this awesome unit with a classroom museum and presentation for our parents. It is next week so I will be sure to post lots of pics. For a special writing activity, we made a class book called If You Take A T-Rex To School... We had so much fun thinking of the crazy things that could happen and the different ways a T-Rex could actually be helpful. I am giving you the writing template and cover as a freebie. I altered the writing sheet a bit. The one I used with my class said "If You Take A T-Rex to School, "He" Will...  Some of my girls wished the T-Rex could be a girl, so I omitted that part from your sheet :) Also, please enjoy some pictures of my student's work.

If You Take A T-Rex To School Template

Cover

Here are some pictures of their fabulous work:

This one works as a bus!

I love that this one is eating at the cafeteria table. He must be a herbivore since he is eating an apple ( I hope).

Mr. Mike is our awesome head custodian who often cleans the roof (lots of kick balls).

Ten Frame Fun with Dinosaurs - Math Freebie

During Math Stations, I continue to have my students practice digits 11-20 using ten frames for one of the tubs.

They fill in ten frame grids with counters ( I found adorable dinosaur erasers at the Dollar Tree) and then they write the numbers on a white board.  When checking in with this group, I check their understanding of these specific digits and also ask if they can tell me how many more they need to get to 20.

I made one for my dinosaur theme. I hope you enjoy it!

Ten Frame Fun With Dinosaurs