Who Am I? (A Linky Party)

We are so very fortunate to be able to dress up at my school for Halloween. There are a lot of schools in our district who do not dress up and a couple who dress up just for the party. I think I would rather not dress up than dress up just for the party. The idea of getting 20 kindergartners dressed in their costume does not sound like a lot of fun to me!!!

It is so funny how everyone at our school keeps it a big secret what they are going to be! It makes it a lot more fun in the end! Most of our teachers dress up with their team. My assistant and I always dress up together. We still have not decided what we are going to be this year so I am looking for some great ideas! Join the linky party below sharing what you have been in the past for Halloween and/or what you are going to be this year. I know some schools don't dress up so if you have pictures of you and your friends or spouse at a Halloween party, we would love to see them! I can't wait to see the creative ideas!

I would LOVE to show you pictures of my assistant and I from every year but I cannot find them ANYWHERE!!!!! This was one assistant and myself about 7 years ago. We were 2 peas in a pod (on each end).  (Long story short...our kiddos always got us confused. They thought were were sisters. They always called us the wrong name.) This was an easy costume. Green hooded sweatshirts, add balloons, easy.

This was my assistant and I four years ago. We were M & M's. I made our costumes out of felt.

 

We have also been:

-Black eyed Peas....easy. Black sweatsuit, paint black around 1 eye, and put a big "P" on your shirt.

-Cowboy and Indian

 

So if you want to link up, just grab the picture below and link up!

 

 

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Halloween Math and Literacy Activities

I LOVE FALL!

 

(via Small Town Blonde)

I love everything about it. The colors, the smell, the clothes, the food, the feeling, the weather, the holidays. I love celebrating Halloween in class. (Well, let's be honest - I love celebrating all holidays in the classroom.) I am very fortunate that we are able to celebrate Halloween (and all holidays) in our school and district as long as we relate it to Common Core.
I can't believe that I never posted about this but after A LOT of time and energy, I finally got my Halloween math and literacy unit finished last weekend!

This is a great unit to use in your classroom in the month of October. Included are:
9 Literacy Games/Centers -
-Sentence Scramble - sight word sentences
-Beginning Sounds
-Boo! Game - practice letters and sounds
-Boo! Game - practice sight words
-Boo! Game - practice CVC words
-ABC order - Letters
-ABC order - Sight words
-See and Spell - Best guess spelling
-Read and Clip - choose correct sight cvc word

6 Math Centers
-Count and clip - Count objects 1-10 and clothespin correct number
-Count and write - Count objects 1-10 or 11-20 and write correct number
-What Comes Next? - Write the number that comes after the number shown
-What's the Word? - Identify number words to 20
-Spooky Patterns - Complete the AB or AAB pattern
-Ten Frames Fun - Count the number in the tens frames
Just click below to go to my TPT store and grab yours!

I hope everyone enjoys this beautiful FALL day. (Yep. I can say that because it really is FALL now!)

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Happy 4th! Flash Sale!

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Happy Valentines Day

Wishing everyone a Happy Valentines Day!

I hope everyone had a great day! It was CRA-ZY in my class but we had oh.so.much.fun! Here is a sneak peek of what we did:

 They LOVED racing to 50 from Live Laugh Love in Kindergarten found here:

We graphed our conversation hearts. This was a freebie from my Teachers Notebook store:

The most challenging thing we did was unscramble word wall words from Cara Carroll:

I have to say this was a bit challenging too. We are having lots of trouble this year with question words. This is from Randi from Teach It With Class in her Owl Love You Forever unit at her TPT store:

We loved Babbling Abby's Be Mine Boxes. I have to say we had beads rolling everyone and I may have to think of something different to count! :)d

I have to show you one of the CUTEST Valentines that my kiddos brought in. (Obviously I blocked the picture and name.) His mama found the idea on pinterest.

Also, I keep a scrapbook of the kiddos all year and take 2-3 pictures of them each month to include. Here is what I took for today's photo. I thought the Heart "frame" was pretty cute.

 Hope you had a great day! I have two really good friends with some very ill family members and they are both having a hard time tonight. I would love any extra prayers you could send! Thanks!

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Gift Ideas Anyone???

So I have my kiddos gift to their parents figured out, but now I need volunteer gift ideas AND a gift idea for my little girl's teacher. We still have this week and 2 days next week!! :( It just hit me that I needed volunteer gifts. I would LOVE your ideas. I'm sure many of you already have posted about this somewhere on your blog, so feel free to just leave the link. I would like to do something creative - I have 3 volunteers that come weekly.
For the first time ever I have a Cricut with vinyl and have no idea what to do!!! So, help a teacher out...what do you give, what have you received, or what have your seen. I'd love your ideas! Thanks ladies!

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Gettin' crafty in room 205

We've been getting our craft on in Room 205. I love Christmas and all of the fun crafts we do!!! I stole borrowed a few ideas from Pinterest and blogs and I love them! Here are our Santas to hang in the room. I found these on Pinterest.

Here are the elves that hold their letters to Santa. This came from First Grade Blue Skies. Seriously??? Aren't they the CUTEST things you've ever seen. Oh my word...they make me smile everytime I pass them!

This one cracks me up! An ipad? Seriously? She is so funny!

Last, here are the shirts we make each Christmas.

We make these and wear them the last day at our party. Following class parties, our school meets in the gym to sing Christmas Carols before we go home with the parents. Each grade stands up and leads the school in a carol.  Can you guess which song Kindergarten sings? They love it! I actually add bows to make pigtails on the girls. They are so stinkin' cute!

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Random Thoughts

A couple of random thoughts that I just needed to get out:

-I've noticed that I scream alot when I write. Actually, I intend for it to be excited, but I use ! all the time! I swear I think I end every sentence with one! I'm not mad or upset, just excited! I sure hope people don't take it the wrong way.
-My Christmas is up. Yep...I'm pretty excited! I ♥ Christmas decorations so much! I actually set my table this year using dishes I have had FOREVER.

-I noticed as I was downloading my pictures of my camera that I have 2377 photos on my camera card. I think it is time to clean it up...don't you?
- I'm doing the elf on the shelf this year. I gonna introduce it using an idea I found on pinterest. She is seriously creative and I love everything she does. If you haven't seen her blog, check her out.

I'm not sure it will really work with Lilly. She is 2 1/2 and when she's gonna throw a fit, she's gonna throw a fit. She doesn't care if Santa (or a stinkin' elf) is watching. Trust me....I've tried to use it...it doesn't work.

I don't think  I will be on here tomorrow, so I want to wish everyone a

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Don't forget, if you need a Christmas gift for your kiddos to give to your parents, check out my calendar idea. Also, the pre-made blog design giveaway ends on Friday! It's one you don't wanna miss!!! Enter here.

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Christmas Gift Idea

So I would love to know what you have your students give their parents for Christmas. In the past, we make the handprints out of mold then spraypainted with acrylic paint. They were cute but SO MUCH WORK. We all know how crazy the month of December is, so last year I came up with a new idea. The students created calendars to give to their parents. They turned out so cute, the students did all of the work, and parents actually used them! Here is a picture of what they look like put together. (Sorry for the fuzzy picture...I had a parent text me their picture).

I take a picture of the students holding this cute sign from a Back to School bulletin board kit that I got a few years ago. (I think it is Creative Teaching Press).

I put the picture, year, and star with their name at the top and laminated for durability. Then I just stapled the completed calendar to the bottom of the paper so that parents could tear off a page each month. I wrapped these and attached the card the students made. I had parents so tickled with these and claim that they are still using them and wish they had another one for next year! :) Would you like to do this with your kiddos? You can purchase the calendar from my teacher's notebook store! It is different than the picture shown above. I made it much cuter and added borders this year!

If you purchase it, leave me some feedback and let me know what you think! I would also love to hear what you do with your kiddos as gifts for their parents.

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Thanksgiving Thoughts

Who hates Halloween falling on Monday? Can I get a WHEW!!! I know we are in for a rough week! :) Immediately after Halloween we began Thanksgiving. I have to admit it isn't my favorite. I appreciate it, but I just don't feel like we do lots of fun "cute" stuff for Thanksgiving. Pinterest is going to help me change that though!
We begin by sending home a large feather asking students to decorate it with their family name on it.
Here is a picture of our turkey so far this year. He will be even and more full once everyone returns their leaves, hopefully by Friday!

We do the typical handprint turkey for their scrapbook.

We always do a Mayflower usually made out of construction paper, but I think I will try this idea I saw from Pinterest.

via pinterest

We always have a feast on the last day before break. The students all decorate indian vests, hats, and necklace. Parents bring in pumpkin pie, apples, popcorn, peanuts, cranraisins, etc. The students all sit along the "table" and feast. We all stop to say what we are thankful for. I think I will give them each one of these this year. (I think those are skittles in there?)

via pinterest

I saw this really cute idea on The Mailbox. I think I will add this to our "to do" list for Thanksgiving. The parents will love it!

via The Mailbox

We usually make a craft with our pen pals. (On of my best friend's class of 3rd graders). We like to make food crafts. :) I think we will do this adorable turkey cookie.

via pinterest

I have to say that I think Thanksgiving will be more interesting in the classroom! I'm kind of looking forward to it thanks to ya'll and pinterest. What do you do that is really cute?

Now, I know I'm talking Thanksgiving, but don't forget about our Holly Bloggy Christmas! The deadline is over to join, but if you are a participant or sponsor (and we have over 80 I believe) hop on over to Ms. Preppy's blog and join this week's giveaway.



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Holly Bloggy Giveaways - Week 1

I am so excited about the first Holly Bloggy Giveaway! This giveaway is from Whimzy Creations on Etsy.

I have personally purchased from her and she is FABULOUS! I purchased all of my paper items for my little girl's 1st birthday from her. How cute are they?

 

She is FABULOUS to work with and her creations are ADORABLE. Best news of all? She's gonna share some of that FABULOUS with you! She is giving away 1 Teacher Banner.

How CUTE is that???? This is valued at $30.00! Wouldn't this be a perfect addition to your classroom?  Well, get to entering!

First and foremost, you MUST be a Holly Bloggy Christmas participant or sponsor. If you are not, email us at hollybloggychristmas@gmail.com   You really don't want to miss out on all the fun!

You can have 6 chances to win! Here is how you can earn entries. Please make sure you leave a comment for each entry!
- Follow my blog and leave a comment
- Follow Ms. Preppy's blog and leave a comment
- Add my Teacher's Notebook store as a favorite and leave a comment
- Follow Ms. Preppy at her TPT store and leave a comment
- Visit Whimzy Creations store and leave a comment telling us which of her items you like best
- Blog about the giveaway and Holly Bloggy Christmas and leave a comment with the link.

Please remember, you only need to comment on my blog for this giveaway. Ms. Preppy will do the next giveaway. This giveaway will run from today until 11:59 on Friday, October 28th. We will choose a winner and announce it on Saturday, October 29th! Good luck!!!!!

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Holly Bloggy Giveaways

Holly Bloggy Christmas has some Holly Bloggy Giveaways. We have 9 giveaways. That's right....NINE weeks of giveaways. Ms. Preppy and I are SO excited about our Holly Bloggy Christmas.
We have over 50 participants who are so excited to get their secret pal and get to shopping and crafting. We have some great sponsors who have donated $5 to TOYS FOR TOTS and have donated a file from their TPT or Teacher's Notebook store to email to all participants on Christmas morning! Who doesn't love a great stocking! It's my favorite part of the gift giving!
Ms. Preppy and I have been working hard for you all to thank you for participating! We have NINE weeks of giveaways starting next week. That's right...Christmas comes early! We will both be hosting a giveaway every other week. That means you need to check out both of our blogs to make sure you don't miss out. There will be different ways to earn entries but 1 thing is a must for all giveaways...you must be a Holly Bloggy Christmas participant or sponsor. So, if you have already emailed us at hollybloggychristmas@gmail.com  you are in! If not, read more about Holly Bloggy Christmas here and get started. You don't want to miss these giveaways. THEY ARE AWESOME!

The first giveaway will be here at Kindergarten Korner beginning on Monday. We are going to keep everyone in suspense as to what exactly is given away and what week we will be featuring each giveaway, but here is sneak peek as to what is to come in the next 9 weeks!

This scrapbooking design created with Smilebox

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Freebie and exciting news

After seeing Caitlin's freebie the other day, I realized I have a very similar one that I have been using in my classroom and haven't shared. It is crazy how much we are alike. Years ago, I started printing games like CRAZY from http://www.kellyskindergarten.com/  If you haven't checked out her site, you should. It is AMAZING! The kids loved those games, so I created many of my own for each season. They are basically played the same way, just different themes. Here is my BOO! game for letter recognition.

Just click on the picture to get it! If you like it, I also have a more challenging one in my Teacher's Notebook store for CVC words! Check back in November for GOBBLE and in December for Ho! Ho! Ho! (Do you sense a small addiction?)
In other news, Caitlin and I are SO excited!!!!!! We have over 50 participants and TONS of giveaways set up starting soon. The giveaways are only for Holly Bloggy Christmas participants, so join in the fun by emailing us at hollybloggychristmas@gmail.com  We would still love to get more sponsors who are willing to donate $5 to TOYS FOR TOTS and submit a teacher resource that we can email to all participants on Christmas morning in their "virtual stocking".

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