Bats Day #1 and Day #2 2009

This week, we’ve been learning all about BATS!!  We have several students in our school who do not celebrate the fall holidays, so I always try to keep things neutral and not offend anyone.  In October, we learn about bats, spiders, pumpkins, and leaves, all kind of tying into the holidays, yet we do not [...]

Hi Everyone!

Hi Everyone–
I hope you are enjoying the month of February so far!   I’ll be better about posting than I have been–things have been CRAZY busy around here!
Last week was up in the air so to speak!  The week was full of teachable moments, field trips, convocations, snow days…
And a tragic accident…
Friday, a little [...]

This Week’s Lesson Plans

Awhile back, I had a request to see what a typical page in my lesson plan book looked like, how I get everything in in one day or in a week.  I’ve completed my plans for this week (December 15th-18th, 2008) and I’m going to post them below.  They are very general, as this week [...]

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 about [...]

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie (day#3)

Here are the pictures I promised!  We used the Little Old Lady props to tell the story together today instead of reading the book.  We also used our pointer to point and read our Predictable Chart, ” I know an old lady who swallowed a…”

Here is the milkweed we planted–pre planting of course!

Here [...]