The Things Kids Say...

It has been a while since I've had one of those great lines from a student that make you continue to laugh throughout the day.  Well, today was the day.  Here is the scene at the block center:

Student 1: I'm making a person.

Student 2: Me too.  I'm God because God makes people, and I just made a person, so I'm God.

Me: What did you just say?

Student 2: I said I'm God because he makes people and so do I.

Me: Oh, ok

Student 2: Welllll, he does (very matter-of-fact).

I love kindergarten kids!  What have your students said to you lately?

Fall Sight Words Freebie

My students need some additional practice on sight words over the next couple weeks before it is report card time.  I whipped up this Sight Word I Spy page.  This will be our first one of the year, so I'm looking forward to introducing it to my students on Monday.  I hope you can use it too!  Click here to go to my TpT page and download it.

TpT Sale

My TpT store is on sale through Monday in celebration of Columbus Day!  I'm going shopping today at the outlets to take advantage of some great sales, so I thought I'd offer you one too!  Everything in my store is 20% off until Monday.  I'm working hard on a colorful tree packet and hope to have it up this weekend.

You can visit my store by clicking here.

Last Week of September {Sunday Snapshots}

I am linking up with Clutter-Free Classroom's Sunday Snapshots Linky Party.

We saw some great puppet shows retelling Golidlocks and the 3 Bears.  This puppet show was exceptional!

We mixed red and yellow paint to make orange.  Students painting an oval or circle they drew with the orange paint.  Picture of the finished pumpkin next week!

Students cut up apple slices to make applesauce.

Students took turns stirring the applesauce to "mush" the apples. Most of us agreed, it was yummy!

My students loved sidewalk chalk as a reward for earning "pocket points" (a strategy for our curriculum to "catch students doing a great job").

I hope you enjoyed a peek at our weak.  If this is your first time visiting my blog, two recent posts that may be of interest are my post about a great Dollar Tree find (click here to visit) and one about an awesome Language Arts resource (click here to visit).

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Our Week in Pictures

We had a very busy week with Open House being this week!  Here is a peek into our classroom this past week.

Our birthday party fun continued in our dramatic play center.  Next week we will be using puppets!

In the time students had after breakfast, they practiced reading the pictures in books and magazines.

We started using our Dollar Tree magnets in the Language Arts and Math centers.  See my post about these here.  The magnet board is from JoAnn Etc.

At the block center, we built block people.

At the math center, students sorted buttons by attribute and explained how they chose to sort.

One of the letter sounds we learned this week was /d/.  We made our dinosaur dazzling with sequins.

Thanks for visiting our week in pictures!  What did you do last week?  Next week we start a new unit on family and friends.   Have your visited my TpT store?   I'd love to hear from you with a comment and/or by becoming a new follower.

A Thrifty Find My Students Love!

One of my favorite stores to find things for school is the Dollar Tree!  There is one close to my parents' house, which is about an hour from work, that always has great "teacher items".  On a recent trip, I found some educational magnets that my students love to use during centers.

I picked up magnet sets for compound words, color & shape words, initial sounds and numbers.  Each set is a sheet of magnets that break into many smaller magnets.  Below is a closer picture of the initial sounds set. I think the graphics are great for a dollar!

My students are in love with these magnets.  They have been out at centers for 2 days, and at both the math and language arts centers, students have spent 20-25 minutes just manipulating the initial sounds and number magnets!  They are trying to make words, matching initial sounds and matching upper and lowercase letters at the language arts center.  At the math center, they are matching numbers to sets of objects and putting numbers in order.  My advanced students are trying to match the numbers to the number words.

Using the math set of magnets.

Where do you find great (cheap) materials for your class?  I'd love to hear!

Awesome Resource

I wanted to do a quick post to share an amazing resource I've used for the past couple years but forgot about in the hustle and bustle of the new year. I was looking for a rhyming activity to send home today, and remembered this site. I knew I had to share it with you!

Click the picture above to visit the website!

This site is maintained by the Florida Center for Reading Research.  It offers materials to use for Langauge Arts instruction and intervention.  Intervention is one of my favorite uses; great materials to send home for families to use!  The materials are in black and white, so I typically print them on colored paper or allow children to color them depending on the activity.

Each activity gives directions for the activity and the picture cards or recording sheets needed for the activity.  I noticed today that there is now a section on the site showing correlations to the Common Core State Standards.  Activities are split into grade bands and are grouped K-1, 2-3 and 4-5.  

I hope you can use some of these great, FREE materials!

Please consider leaving a comment if you are able to use this resource.  I'd love some new followers! :)