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The Gingerbread Man is coming!  We will start our study of the Gingerbread Man on Monday and I will have all those ideas posted for you as they happen this next week. I will also be doing a Holidays Around the World Theme the next week.  I think this year I will incorporate the two.  [...]

Thanksgiving Week day #3

Sorry this post is a little late…you know Thanksgiving just got in the way of everything!  I was able to go to my sister’s house and then on to my in-laws house this year, so that was fun.  My hubby and son are both sick, so they’ve both been laying around like bumps on logs [...]

Thanksgiving Week day #2

Today we went through our usual morning routines, calendar, updating our binders, etc. The children helped me write a letter to our DonorsChoose grantors thanking them for providing our classroom with new games and then we all signed that.  We then had lots of Writer’s Workshop time to make up for having so little yesterday. [...]

Thanksgiving Week # 1

Thanksgiving week (or any short week for that matter) tend to be weeks where I am a little more laid back, less structured in my teaching.  I save all those fun projects and ideas for these weeks and they always turn out to be great! Today for example, we did not follow our day through [...]

The one that got away!

This week got away from me!  I’ve been so busy, that I didn’t have time to post!  I had dinners with friends, family, a Holiday Bazaar at school, my brother’s birthday, and then all the usual things!  So here is a recap of the rest of the week (Wednesday – Friday). As we read Rosie’s [...]

New Stuff

I added some things to the “Tech” tab at the top of the page.  While sitting in my Science Academy workshop today, I decided to start posting the books that I use to read aloud to the children by topic.  The topics will not be in order (I don’t have time to do that!   [...]

Rosie’s Walk

Our Big Book this week is Rosie’s Walk.   We started our day by taking a picture walk through the book–I have never seen Kinder. kids so excited about a book.  They were very curious as to why some of the pages did not have words on them, so we had a nice little talk [...]

Old Lady Site

Here is a site I came across with more Little Old Lady ideas, some songs, and a listing of all the variations of the book that are available currently.  You can search at the library or on amazon.com for many variations on this title.  I think I spent $30 one year buying used copies of [...]

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie (day#4)

Not much to share today… The children each made their own Little Old Ladies and I am in the process of attaching their “stomachs” to their backs so that we can use them tomorrow with the food props: I have to say that this is the nicest group of Little Old Ladies I think my [...]

Little Old Lady Printables

Here are the printables for There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie.  The old lady could work for any of the stories, but the food just goes along with this one.  If there are any other versions of this story that  you want me to find images for, let me know!   Just [...]