Getting ready for Dr. Seuss Day!!!

We are busy, busy, busy getting ready for Dr. Seuss Day at school!!  Last year at my school, each teacher dressed up and we decorated our hallway with Dr. Seuss crafts! It was super cute!!!  Here are a few pictures from last year...

My partner teacher and I did our classroom displays on the story If I Ran the Zoo.

I gave my students a stack of construction paper and allowed them to use their creativitiy to come up with their own animal for their zoo.  Next, they wrote sentences describing their animal!  They LOVED being able to do this activity without ANY limitations!!!

We did a Yertle the Turtle exhibit in our zoo!

We also had an exhibit for Horton Hears a Who! 

There was an exhibit for One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

We made Cat in the Hat windsocks to hang from the ceiling of our classroom.

I dressed up as Sam I Am from Green Eggs and Ham. The entire school looked adorable!!!

 

 

This year, each hallway at my school (we only have 4 halls because we are a K-2 school) has their own book. The school looks fantastic!!!  I will post pics on Friday of our final project!!!

Happy birthday Dr. Seuss!!!!!

Nicole



And I'm back!!!!!

After being without a computer for 3 months, I finally have my lap top back!!!!  I am so looking forward to getting back into blogging!!! 

-Nicole

TPT Sale!

Hey Y'all!!!
I hope everyone had a FABULOUS Thanksgiving! We have so much to be thankful for!!!  I love spending time with the family and eating delicious Southern cooking!!! I love Thanksgiving sooo much that I have deciced to do an "After Thanksgiving Sale" at my Teachers Pay Teachers store!  Everything is 15% off!!!  Enjoy!!!!

Click here to start shopping!!!!

Enjoy!!!

Nicole

Kindergarten Math Common Core Workmats, Centers, and Flashcards!

I don't know about all of y'all (that's how we say it in the south), but common core has really pushed me as a teacher this year! I am LOVING it but that is not to say that EVERYDAY seems like a challenge! I am constantly looking for new ideas, new resources, and pulling from oldies! I love the thinking that I am seeing take place with my 5 year olds every day! Not only can they do the work and solve the problems, but they can EXPLAIN what they are doing using MATHEMATICAL vocabulary! It's amazing! I have plenty of math centers but I have been in search for new math centers. I have searched the internet and finding kindergarten resources has been difficult! So, I decided to make my own centers, workmats, and number sense flashcards! I have put together a 122 page unit that addresses many standards (listed on each activity)! There are great games, center activities, math work mats (for those sweet visual babies that organize everything), and flashcards (can also be used in a game of Memory). I know my students are going to LOVE all of these new activities. You can purchase this AWESOME unit at my TPT store by clicking here.

I hope you find this unit helpful. I would love to hear about some of the fun common core activities that you are doing in your classroom! I would love to give away a unit to the best answer of how Common Core is changing your classroom!!!!

Also, I hope everyone has a fabulous and THANKFUL Thanksgiving!

Nicole

Happy Thanksgiving Y'all!!!

As Thanksgiving quickly approaches, I am always looking into ways to incorporate Thanksgiving into my lessons! Here is a great 100 page unit that available at my TPT store!  

Enjoy y'all!!!!

Nicole

Let's Go....Transportation Thematic Unit

With the Scotts Foresman Reading Street Program, I find myself teaching thematic units during random times throughout the year. It's October and I am reading Dig, Dig, Digging by Margaret Mayo to my class. It is a great book and the students LOVE it, but I usually teach transportation around the spring time. I have been in desperate need of some new transportation lessons and activities so I thought I would just create some! My transportation unit can be purchased at my Teachers Pay Teachers store by clicking here.

This unit has transportation vocabulary cards, reading and math centers, graphs, printables, crafts, Play-doh mats, and coloring pages- PERFECT for a theme unit on transportation!!!!

What are some activities you do when you teach transportation?
Enjoy!
Nicole

Apples, Apples, Everywhere!!!

There is not a unit that I like better than APPLES!!!  Something about it just screams FALL!!!!!  The students love learning all about Johnny Appleseed and having a fabulous apple tasting snack! I always spend my week doing so many fun crafts and special centers! I have compiled all of my fabulous activities, plans, and crafts into a fabulous unit on Teachers Pay Teachers! Here is a preview:

You can purchase my unit by clicking here.

 

Please check back soon....I will be working on a give away with my bestie, Lizzie at http://afirstgradefairytale.blogspot.com !!!!

Enjoy!

Nicole