Calendar

Here is a new photo of our calendar area this year. On the left you see our straw count and our base ten blocks count.  For the base ten blocks, I put little bits of magnets on the back and we stick them on a flat metal sheet I had.  Next to that is the [...]

New Goodies!

I’ve been wanting to post something new for a week or so but our internet is running PAINFULLY slow and with two of us in grad school now (my hubby is working on his Administration degree), it’s even more painful! I stopped by Target yesterday for some retail therapy and to pick up some things [...]

New Pictures

Here are some more new pictures from my classroom: Our Meal worms… Meal worms are really easy to keep and you get to watch the life cycle happen over and over again.  I just put corn meal in the bottom and some apple slices and carrots.  You also will need to add some water in [...]

2010-2011 LWS Progress

Hello Everyone! I’ve had the craziest two weeks I can remember at the beginning of the school year!  You’re all probably experiencing or about to experience the same thing.  I can’t put my finger on what it was, but all of it together had tired me out! I’m slowly introducing Literacy Work Stations in my [...]

Math Work Stations-Patterns

I switched out my Math Work Stations (available for sale here) and updated them from Sorting to Patterning.  I took several pictures and wanted to include them: The children will be completing the patterns with Unifix cubes.  I drew the patterns on sentence strips with markers and just drew squares. Manipulatives Work Station-the children will [...]

Classroom Photos 2009-2010, Long Post! :)

I charged my batteries in the camera and took some pictures.  I’ll take you on a tour and you can also check out my photos from last year here to see the differences. Everything is mostly in the same place, but a few things were changed.  First, I’ll start with some general views: This is [...]

Literacy Work Stations

Here are some pictures I just took of our current Literacy Work Stations.  The activities will change in them about once a month or so–depending upon when we get bored with them.  I will pull different activities in and keep some of the old ones out or even hide them for another time in the [...]

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 [...]

Another use for table top PVC chart

I also belong to the KinderKorner group and had a question about materials falling out of the pocket charts because they hang straight down.  So the pocket chart now hangs at a slight angle, enough to keep those materials in and Kinder. Kids happy! To accomodate that, I simply punched some holes at the bottom [...]

Table Top PVC pocket chart stand…

EDIT ~*~*~*  7/15/08 ~*~*~*The directions for this chart are for the small pocket charts available at the Target Dollar Spot-summer 2008.  If you would like to make a stand for a full size pocket chart, measure the length and width of your chart and add two inches to each measurement.  I would use 1 inch [...]