Grand Opening!

I finally have my own Teacher's Pay Teacher store!!!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kinderpond

I have been very busy creating new items and testing them with my students.

Please "follow" me on TPT so you will know when I upload new materials!

March Work

I know that "everyone" celebrated the Good Doctor's birthday last week, but I celebrate him all month long.  Last year, the class and I dressed up each day for March!

Here is one of two Red Stripe Shakers that is available to my students:

Here is another version of it. Red Stripe Hat 

I used different graphics, well because I love the Dr!!!

Here is a Winter themed shaker.  The graphics are from Lettering Delights.

One of the math choices that I have: 

I will glue the cover to the outside of an envelope and all of the other pieces will go inside.

We have had some "love" themed roll and cover games and now we will move on to St. Patrick's day and yes still winter roll and cover games.

I know it is tiny, but in the upper hand corner,

I drew a person or two and dice.

Some of my children would just randomly grab a dice holder,

well some of the dice holders have 1, 2, or 3 dice!

So if they can play by themselves, there is only one person and 

two people if they can play with a partner. 

Then I drew the number of dice they needed.

There are calendar numbers, but I just want them to put the numbers in correct order.

Since we are expecting yet another snow storm we will also use 

this Winter Shaker

St. Patrick's Day

These spinners have been a big hit this year!  Although with my Valentine one, a young man in kindergarten got  red marker all over his nose that I not only sent him to the bathroom once, but twice to clean it off!

I try to coordinate the colors with the spinner, so this one will be a green... wait for it.... Vis a Vis!!! The students have been enthralled with them.  We don't use overheads anymore at my school.

Leprechaun Spinner

St. Pat's Counting Dominoes

Leprechauns

Classbook

When I make these matching cards,  I cut off the excess and the top, then I use a marker and make squiggly lines on the back for easy replacement when one of my froglets looses a card.
On the bag, I write with that color and the name.  (Don't do it the other way, like I did for my teeth one.  I did color and then name- so one, and only one said Green Teeth!  whoops, so the other ones said Teeth Red)

Lots of Luck card matching

For these non-standard sheets, I have the answer sheets in either a laminated envelope or a plastic one.

The children take a sheet that they need and measure away.  I always leave a little tub by the sheets in case they can't find the item to measure

 Non-Standard Measuring-Hats

 Non-Standard Measuring-Leprechauns

Non-Standard Measuring-Shamrock Hearts

Pot of Gold Shake Up

You can either use gold coins or beans or shamrock erasers!

Non-Standard Measuring-pot of gold

Shaker: Easier

Shaker: Harder

Stay tuned for photos of these in action!

February

We played my Valentine's Spinner:

 Roll and Add from  www.pocketfullofkinders.blogspot.com 

In the back you can see the Plants: Have Need Are, check them out here

Plants

A word to the wise, even if you are giving your fans a free copy, please put your name somewhere.

I can't tell you how many times, I have had to look for the authors name in the "properties"

and search for them on Yahoo!.  

 We played card matching:  Valentine's Love and Cupid cards.

 February Find

(free copy)

We began our Plants unit:

 Here was a 4th graders:

Arctic Learning

We did a blubber experiment.  

One hand went into two bags of blubber (shortening)

and the other went into snow.

We discovered which one was warmer and which  was colder.

Ask your child.

 Here is where we measured the K-1 children against the heights of the penguins.

See the papers on the wall next to the charts?

Those were some of the 2nd-5th graders work.

 Here was our Penguins learning chart.

The 2nd through 5th graders shared their learning with the rest of the students by using post it notes.

 Here was some of the info from polar bears:

Our snowy owl learning: 

Our learning goals or LG's were know characteristics of arctic animals.

October in the ASP

Here was the Frog Life Cycle

We used the word bank on the bottom-

I didn't have the answers for all of the children at the beginning.

The Kindergartners and first graders got to have the picture icons and had to glue in the correct order and draw the arrows. The first graders had to write the stages too.

The older students had to draw their own. 

 Butterfly life cycle within a butterfly. 

Once again, the K-1 students got to have the photos to put in order.

1st graders had to label and with the K's I wrote the longer words in yellow so they could trace. 

Here was one that a 5th grader did: 

Another day we talked about the Spider life cycle.

We did talk about the body parts of a spider, plus I taught them to draw a spider web.

We talked about how a spider "molts" so we darkened in a spider and left one very light- that was when we darkened the other one. 

 We played a little "hangman" we recorded this in our science logs.

 Here was a K or 1 science log entry.

Here is what the older students did.

I gave them the animals in the middle, then we shared animals/food

that they ate.   Plus what animals ate the animals in the middle.  

Finally the 2012-2013 Homework Calendars

Yes they have finally arrived!!!

This years edition of my 

Kindergarten Homework Calendars 

have arrived!!

These go from September through May.

They cover a variety of topics- alphabet, colors, social studies, math, science, language arts, and chores. Please check the website for more details: http://www.kinderpond.com/homework.html. Some activities require paper or some are verbal.