Printables Party!

Hello All,

I hope that this post finds you all enjoying your much-deserved time off!  Yahooooo!  It took me a bit to de-program...slow down and just "be."  I have quilted, read a bunch of books (just for pleasure) and finished many projects and printables, including the ones listed below.  Be sure to check out all the great resources I will continue to add to my store over the summer, and follow here to grab more FREEBIES!

The first is a BUNDLE of Epic Proportions:

Nursery Rhymes Galore! 

What rhymes are included? Here's a list:

Hey Diddle Diddle

Three Blind Mice

Little Boy Blue

Queen of Hearts

Little Miss Muffet

Hickory Dickory Dock

It’s Raining, It’s Pouring

Humpty Dumpty

Jack and Jill

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Eensy Weensy Spider

Each rhyme has not only a poetry journal with clip art, Pocket Chart/Poster poems with pictures, and a flannel board set!

Wow!  I plan on doing a poem a week, that way my students will be exposed to it in several different ways.  To purchase this BUNDLE click HERE to be taken to my TPT store.

Here's a preview of the product too!

The next product I just made available is my close read about sea otters: OTTER! OTTER!

Check out the fun in store for you and your learners!  Close Reading, writing, poetry and a CRAFTIVITY!  (I think he turned our SUPER cute)  Here's a preview for you.

I love to collect materials for my learners, so here’s a treat for you on this HOT (113 degrees here in Eastern WA) June evening!  It's one of the writing pieces from my OTTER OTTER Close Reads!

Click here to download it.

Enjoy your summer and stay cool.

Blessings,

Prepositions and Opposites

Whew!  The year has flewn by!  It's hard to believe summer will be upon us before we know it!  I get sad when I think about saying goodbye to my sweet children, but I know that they are ready to fly.  After testing them this last week, I am once again, AMAZED at how much they change from the beginning of the year. WOW! Kindergarten really is a magical place.  This week, be sure to stop for a moment and tell yourself, "Well done."  I am like you- always wishing that there was more time...always thinking about what else I can/want to do for them, but I need to recognize all the things I HAVE done already.  What an honor it is to be a teacher...celebrate you.

Here's a peek at some new printables I just listed at my TPT store.  Click on the link to hop on over!

PURCHASE it HERE!

Here's a preview.....

PURCHASE it HERE!

Here's a preview.....

Have a fantastic week!  

Be Blessed,

  

Close Reads and a FREEBIE

Who doesn't love a Kevin Henkes book?  My Kindergartners can't get enough of them so..... I have begun the process of putting together a CLOSE READS Bundle of many of his books.  As these things take time, I wanted to give a taste of what is to come.  Be sure to sign up and follow this blog to be the first to know when this is hot off the press!
Here's a sneak preview.....

Click here to grab your Chrysanthemum Writing FREEBIE!

Be Blessed!

Making Shapes, Words and Opinions

We are continuing on this amazing journey of literacy and growth!  Kindergarten is the perfect place to see my students begin to blossom like the flowers in my garden.  Each one, beautiful, amazing and in need of an extra bit of something from this crazy teacher.  It's a reminder of how blessed I am to have a God that is bigger than what I face each day.  Here's a glimpse into our "garden" over the last few weeks.

Hope you all have a great week!
Be sure to check out these awesome, new, math printables available in my TPT Store!

Be Blessed,

SHAPES

Hello Everyone!  I'm super excited that we are diving into our new Investigations Unit 5 on Shapes!  As I continue my GLAD journey, I am beginning to apply it to each subject in my classroom.  I put together this little number for my kids, and wanted to share it with you too!  I will be creating a large Process Grid, which we will be able to refer back to over the course of the unit.  I recently assessed my kids to see if there were any shapes that they were still struggling with within the WA state standards and will spend more time on those holes, but alas, that rectangle was a hard one.  You'd think it would be a sphere (super cute when they say it with loose teeth), but no...it was the rectangle.  Bizarre. But, that is easy to fix, right?  I love opening their eyes to the shapes all around them, and this clip art from Teacher Laura was a super fun way to help them start to see shapes.  Don't forget some of these literature shapes staples too!

Here's the FREEBIE I promised!

To Magic,

Penguins and PLANBOOK, with a New Year's FREEBIE!

Whew!  I cannot believe that it's been so long since I posted on here!  The time flew by in a whirlwind of activity that I'm sure most of you can relate to.  The holidays were filled with opportunities to connect with family and friends, although the loss of my Grandmother continues to be an up-hill climb.  I cannot begin to express the intense loss of her not being apart of Christmas this year.  I've greatly appreciated the rest I have been getting and am looking forward to hitting the ground running come Jan. 5th.  
I wanted to share of the new things I'm excited about!  
First,  is PLANBOOK!  I saw that one of my friends, Marsha McGuire from A Differentiated Kindergarten uses it and I wanted to check it out!  I cannot believe how much I LOVE this gem!  You can upload pdf. files, videos, links, and any other resources, as well as create templates and attach standards right to your plans.  When I needed Emergency Sub plans, almost everything was right there, all I had to do was tweak a few things for the day and BAM...ready to go!  We all know how valuable time is and I was able to purchase two years for $22.00!  

Here's a glimpse into a day of plans.  Click on the picture to download the plans for a closer look!

Second, I've also uploaded new Penguin Resources and a Data Tracker for Student Goal Setting with Rainbow Sight Words!  Be Sure to head over to my Teachers Pay Teachers Store to check them out!  I even have a bundles available to save you some money!  And who doesn't like to save money? You can click on the picture below to grab the Rainbow Sight Words FREEBIE!

I'm super excited to show their growth and bring more color into my classroom next week with this cute resource.  It's only been listed a short time and over 250 people grabbed it already! It's my New Year's Gift to you from There's No Place like Kindergarten!

Here's a glimpse at those Penguin Resources too!

Click on the link above and it will take you to my store!

Or you can Grab this AWESOME

PENGUIN BUNDLE!  

But, Wait!  There's also a New ARCTIC ANIMALS UNIT TOO!

Happy New Year, friends!

Be Blessed!

Peek at my Week of Turkeys!

This is the beginning of many days within the month of November that we have half days, conferences, or NO SCHOOL!  BOO!  We are beginning our GLAD unit on Turkeys and I want to teach!  Yesterday, we did our Inquiry Chart and read our Big Book: Let's Talk Turkeys. Our BIG CONCEPT is: The most important thing about turkeys is they come from North America. We also did an input chart about the parts of a turkey.  They LOVE the word and action for snood!  That piece of skin that wraps around the turkey's beak.  Did you know that?  Ha!
My Kinders were INCREDIBLE with how they are making connections to what we've already learned about living things and GLAD strategies.  We are also continuing to use basic Sentence Frames/Accountable talk frames to foster their acquisition of academic language:

A turkey has_______________________________.

A part of the turkey is__________________________.

The _______________________ and _____________ are similar because________________.

The _______________________ and _____________ are different because_______________.

I've also posted new printables in my TPT store!  Be sure to check them out.

Check out the other blogs who have linked up!

Be Blessed,