Clocks

Check out these clocks I got at IKEA for $2.99 each.  We chose China because we have a sister school there.  Ireland because one of my students’ family lives there and India because our principal is from there. I know they are out of order time wise, but I wanted to get them up there! [...]

Sometimes…

all you have to do is ask!  I was running out of new ideas to put in my Magnet Work Station area and I told my kiddos this one day.  I told them I saw they were getting bored with what was there and I didn’t have any ideas as to what I could put [...]

Living Things

I’ve just updated our front facing bookcase with books that go along with our new IB unit (Sharing the Planet).  We will be inquiring about living and nonliving things, their characteristics, and how people, plants and, animals interact with one another.  Here are some pictures showing how I store and share these books with my [...]

My New Bookcase!

Okay, so the bookcase itself isn’t new and neither are the books on it, but the way it is set up sure is!  My school is currently an IB (International Baccalaureate) candidate school, so we think in terms of the six IB themes instead of our old themes.  I used to have them filed by [...]

Habitats

Today, we officially started learning about habitats.  I had my guest teacher begin to introduce it yesterday, but we really dove in today.  There were two things today that the kids really enjoyed doing to learn about habitats. The first (I don’t have a picture because I left my camera at home today!!) one was [...]

The Little Red Hen

After we had talked about how people get ready for winter, we decided to move on to animals getting ready for winter.  Now, The Little Red Hen, doesn’t exactly fit, but it did go along with our idea of harvesting.  My kids also wanted to know more about corn–they were wanting any information they could [...]

Harvesting

My school is in the process of applying to become an IB world school.  We have been hard at work designing new ideas and units to use in kindergarten.  The latest one we’ve done is “How we express ourselves” it involves patterns in our world, methods of communication, and customs and celebrations.  We’re still in [...]

More Ponds

Hi Everyone! I am sorry that I have not posted in what seems to be forever…but duty called and I had to attend NSTA in Philadelphia and I was busy getting ready for that, so everything else seemed to fall by the wayside!  Never fear!! I have some more pond ideas to share with you [...]

IB Ponds

Our district continues to move forward with our IB units.  My team chose to do the Transdisciplinary Theme called “Sharing the Planet”.  We incorporated ponds into it and below are pictures so far from the 7 days of our unit. Our total unit is 4 weeks long, so we’ll be done at the end of [...]