Kindergarten Economic Unit

I decided to tie in economic principles into my Monarch Butterfly theme.  The lessons are pretty self explanatory, and will only take 20 minutes for one week to teach.  Give them a try!  What’s wrong with teaching your Kinder. kids how to make effective choices, state their opportunity cost, and understand scarcity and supply and [...]

Classroom Photos 2008-2009

I was able to find some time today to get over to my school and start moving furniture around in my new classroom.  My Economics class ends tomorrow and I will be turning in my unit (look for it in another post soon!)  I took some pictures of my room as it was when I [...]

Updated Job Application for Kinders.

After attending the Economy workshop last week and into this next week, I’ve made a change to the job application; I wanted to have the children make some choices in the jobs that they want, and wanted to make sure they didn’t have to choose one job exclusively.  There are now lines for them to [...]

Updates on the Pdfs

I’ve uploaded the files for the letters A-E and any files that start with numbers (like 5 Senses).  You can check them out under the PDF tab.  Let me know if there are any others you would like to see before others.  I’ll keep working my way through the alphabet. I am unable at this [...]

Economics Workshop

I’ve been enjoying this workshop I’m taking-the teacher, Mo, is from Iran, but he’s lived here for 25 years or so and he is one of the smartest people I think I’ve ever met! Who knew that learning about Economics could be so fun and entertaining!?!  We are working on projects to earn 3 credit [...]

Spoiled Rotten!

I just had to share these pictures: I came home from my Economics workshop yesterday and found that my hubby and 4 year old had picked these out for me–just because.  Okay, really they had been out of town for 3 1/2 days and my son came running up to me when I got home [...]

New Tab

If you look at the tabs above, you’ll notice that the “Links” tab is gone and has been replaced with “PDF”.  I needed room to put my PDF files that I am uploading and the Links tab was the one that got cut!   I will post all my files converted to PDF (so everyone [...]

PDF Files

I am in the process (over the next month) of converting all the files on my site to pdf files so that everyone can share/see them.  If there are any files that you would like done before others, just give me an e-mail and I will do my best to get those done first! I’m [...]

A Quick Post…

Here are the gel glue cards I made using Elmer’s blue School Glue Gel (say that 5 times fast!!)  I wrote the letters on index cards using Washable Markers from Crayola and then traced over them with the gel glue.  They also have “Galactic Glitter Glue” available in red or blue as well, and when [...]

Back to School (not yet!)

I just love Back to School time!!  The sales, the cheap glue sticks, the Dollar Spot at Target, the .88 cent markers at Wal-Mart, the… Oh!  I could go on and on, but you all know what I mean–there’s just  something about those isles that seems to be irresistible to teachers (my husband is a [...]