On to October!

I realize that I am posting about Halloween in June! However, I have decided to slowly give a recap of the fun we've had in Kindergarten over the past year! It would have been better to have posted this in October...but who has the time??!

Here are some of the fun activities my little ones enjoyed in October!

Sorting spooky AB, ABB, and ABC patterns!

Roll and cover pumpkin center-- a quick and simple way to build number fluency for 1-6! 

In this center, a freebie from Cara Carroll at TheFirstGradeParade! She is the BEST! It was adorable and also a very good practice for making 10. Kids roll a number, put the eyeballs onto the ten frame, and then count the number of spaces left and use that to help them write a number sentence for 10! My kids loved this one so much that they still talk about it now in June! It was a favorite. You can find it at her blog here!

You can find some of these fun October spooky centers by heading over to my store! Click here to go! 

Whew! At least we're getting a LITTLE closer to June, right?! Not really! 

First Year In a Nutshell!

Well...this year flew by! It flew by without me even having a chance to post about what were were doing in Kindergarten this year! This being my first year in the classroom, I was VERY busy this year! Busy as a bee!

We had so much fun. It was amazing to see my little ones grow into readers and writers over the course of this year! Just incredible. Now that we are nearing the end of the year, I am crazy busy with DRA testing and Summer birthday parties and graduation rehearsals! However, I promised myself I would be better about on this blog! I think there are cobwebs forming...

To start...Here is a little recap of the beginning part of our school year...
We had tons of fun in the Fall, playing apple games in our math tubs! Here is a peek inside of our math tub bins! These math centers are available in my TpT store by clicking here!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Apple-Math-Centers-1262176

I borrowed a lot of ADORABLE apple ideas from Cara Carrol's adorable blog: TheFirstGradeParade. This included her apple tasting "graphtivity." as well as her "Great Apple Investigations" packet, which you can find in her TpT store! How cute is this little apple man!? The kids used our current sight words (I, like) and sounded out the word to fill in the blank for their favorite apple food! 

We then filled in our choices on a life-sized apple pictograph! 

I'll be back soon (before more cobwebs begin to form) to give some more updates from this past year! 

Happy Teaching!

Meredith