Five for Friday Linky Party March 14

I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday!

F.F.F. is a weekly teacher linky party where you post five random things from today or this past week on your blog. Then, go to the link above and link your own blog post up at the bottom in the linky tool.Don't forget to grab the buttons!

I've been following Christi Fultz on Instagram and have been super curious about Jamberry Nails. Well Monday night I decided I would try it out! Not just the nails but becoming a consultant! I'm so excited to receive my Start Pack and start showing off these awesome nail wraps to my friends! If you're interested in a free sample email me! There's a great Buy 3 get 1 free sale! The designs they come in are hip, cool, pretty and so many to choose from! Join the nail revolution ladies!

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On Tuesday I started using these cool whiteboards with my Reading Groups. I bought them at Target's Dollar Spot. The best part about it is that they were 50% off! Score! I dictate a sentence from their story and they write the sentence on the whiteboard. We've been practicing finger spacing, capitalization, punctuation, stretching words and using all the space on the lines before going to the next line. I love it because we are practicing both reading and writing skills at the same time!

Wednesday was our annual Career Day. There entire school participates and we get a great variety of occupations. Kinder classes went through 4 rotations. The top picture shows my class with an officer from the Tucson Police Department. The middle picture show a student with a 911 dispatcher. He is making a 911 call on a pretend phone. The bottom picture shows our Board Member with a Submarine! 

Aw, my lovely daughter! Thursday night was a 5th grade band concert at the high school. Several elementary schools sent kids to this annual event. She was selected from her school to do a solo. She picked Glad You Came from The Wanted. There was some tough low notes on that clarinet but she rocked it!

Finally Friday! Today was a Records Day / Professional Development day for our school. Our morning started with a meeting about Big Universe. Our school is piloting the program. In this picture I just registered and we had time to explore the site. Big Universe has tons of books for our students. You can search by grade level or reading level. Some of the books are even audio books! I already found some books to use with our current Common Core unit called Gravity.

Well that does it for me and my very first Five for Friday! Now gotta get back to those report cards! Have a great weekend!

St Patrick's Day Freebie with Manic Monday

I'm linking up with Classroom Freebies' Manic Monday! 

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Read Across America Week Linky

Primary Chalkboard is hosting this party. Link up here!

Read Across America

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! In celebrating his birthday the kinder team at my school had a Sprit Week. After searching pins and blogs and a little bit of my own creativity this is what our Spirit Week looked like:

Monday –Mustache Monday-Wear Orange

Tuesday-Top Hat Tuesday-Wear Black & White

Wednesday-Wacky Wednesday-Wear Silly Socks

Thursday- Thing 1 & Thing 2 Thursday-Wear Silly Socks

Friday-Funny Food Friday-Wear Green

MUSTACHE MONDAY

I’m so sad that I totally forgot to take pictures on Monday. I’ve often said that this is my favorite day of the week because the day just flies by! I guess this is true of Monday cause I spaced it with all the excitement! I found a great video on YouTube of the Lorax. My students were engaged the whole 17 minutes! It also gave me time to pass out all the construction paper each student needed to make the Lorax Mustache headband (hence the name of our spirit day)!

TOP HAT TUESDAY

We asked our Kinder Kids to wear Black and White so they could be like the Cat in the Hat’s fur. During class we were supposed to make our own hat but to my surprise when I went outside to pick up my students in the morning they were wearing some paper ones that one of the mom had purchased for everyone at Party City. Later in the day after reading The Cat in the Hat we colored our paper hats and wrote words from the “at” word family on it

WACKY WEDNESDAY

Students wore their Silliest Socks! We used a template I found on the internet so that students could draw their silly socks.

THING 1 & THING 2 THURSDAY

I was so excited for this day because of the cutest hats I found from Kreative in Kinder. After we made our hats we sat down and watch a YouTube version of Cat in the Hat while wearing the hats. Here my kinder team and I are posing before the excited kids come in. Our Thing 1 & Thing 2 circles were just printed from the internet and laminated!

FUNNY FOOD FRIDAY

My kinder kids knew we were going to be tasting green eggs in advance and boy were they excited! I could hear them at my classroom door early before the bell rang. When they all walked in I had the egg set up on a skillet. We read Green Eggs and Ham then wrote about our experience and our favorite part.

That was our Dr. Seuss/Read Across America week.

Can't wait to do it all over again next year!

100th Day of School

We start school in early August so the 100th Day of School is here already and it's only the second week of school back from Winter Break! There was so much to do and not alot of time! First I have my lovely instructional aide staple the streamers to the bottom of my door decoration. I took it home and painted on the dining room table. I also added "aged" pictures of my students that took using the Aging Booth App. They came out so stinkin' cute! Even my own two kiddos had fun "aging" themselves. I found cute glitter number stickers at Dollar Tree to add as well. I think the door poster came out pretty darn good if I don't say so myself!

A last minute idea came from Pinterest. I made "Retirement Home" name badges!

Here I am with the kids that dressed up before all the fun began!

In all 17 out of my 29 students participated in some way.

Hope you all have a great 100th Day of School!

Christmas or Winter Break Countdown Signs

Print, laminate and use a dry erase marker to countdown the days until Christmas or Winter Break!

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Elf in the Classroom Linky Party

I'm linking up with Mel B from Seusstastic 

and Michelle from Apples & ABC's!

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This is the first day we discovered our elf. We tried naming him and couldn't decide. This is until a 1st grader asked if "Cheeky" had arrived. I told my kinder kids and I guess Cheeky will be his name since my previous students still have those memories!

This day we found Cheeky "hanging around" with my monkey decorations!

Check out my Elf on the Shelf Number Puzzles in my TPT store.

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Thanksgiving Comparing Numbers

 Thanksgiving Comparing Numbers

This quick worksheet can be included in your Thanksgiving Week activities.

Worksheet addresses K.CC.6!

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