I fell in love with these Eric Carle "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" Wall Decals that I couldn't help  buying from Target for $9.99.  I think the beautiful pictures add pizzazz to the sink area. 

Organizing Math Manipulatives

1. Take pictures of manipulatives.

2. Place picture in the appropriate box with label.

A "crate" storage and sitting solution.

I am officially a Pinterest Addict! There are so many wonderful shared ideas for classroom organization  that I wanted to share one of my favorites with you. I purchased crates at target for $3.00 each.  I had some left over fabric of my favorite author "Eric Carle" and I purchase a big piece of plywood from Home Depot which they kindly cut for me.  This is the end result.

Halloween Recycled Crayons

 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Dress

My first sewing project.

Sorting activity for little hands

At the beginning of the school year I like to spend time teaching colors.  I took a trip to Walmart and found this cute set of plates for $2.95.  I love them!!! 

I think this is a wonderful activity to teach colors and sorting. I brought them for my 4 yr. old and she loves sorting her toys in them. She began to group her little toys according to color.  You can use crayons, fruit, vegetables, M&M chocolates, and just about anything with color.

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Line and Shapes Art

 Line Art Project

Discuss the different types of lines : curved, straight, zigzag, spiral lines, etc.  Draw different lines on the board and have students identify them.  A perfect book for this lesson is "Lines that Wiggle"

  

My Kinergarten students love this book.  This book explores the many different ways that lines are used. Definitely one of my favorite art books.

Preparing for a New School Year

Last day of school!!!

Bringing down all the colorful and creative work that hung from these walls. 

 Now it is time to reflect, plan, prepare, and make 2011-2012 another successful year.  

Huichol Art

The Huichol Indians of Mexico are known for their beautiful yarn paintings.   Huichol Indians place hot melted wax over a board and adhere yarn to create a beautiful and colorful image. Our Kinder interpretation of this project was made by using glue and coloful yarn to outline a picture drawn by

the students.

 

Dia de los Muertos Art Project

We love Eric Carle! My students were very excited to learn about author and illustrator Eric Carle.  We created a graph to find out which Eric Carle Book was our classroom favorite. 



Another of our activities while learning about this wonderful author was creating a picture using same techniques Eric Carle uses to illustrate his books.

I made these Very Hungry Caterpillar goody bags for my daughter's 4th birthday party.

 

She likes them so much that she uses them to carry her snacks and school supplies.  The Very Hungry Caterpillar fabric was purchased from

http://www.fatquartershop.com/Eric-Carle-Andover-Fabrics.asp.

A delicious red velvet cupcake decorated with an apple lollipop and a gummy caterpillar to celebrate.

   

All About Animals 

Roosters

Kindergarten Open House



 Students had fun creating a  full-body portrait of themselves to welcome parents for our Open House. 



Word Families

Students use picture clues to review previously taught short vowel sounds and word families.

This is a beautiful and colorful story about a curious rabbit who wants to find out what makes a rainbow.

The big surprise in the book is when a rainbow of ribbons appears with the turn of each page as the rabbit asks all his colorful animal friends. This is a great book to teach colors.

  Students created a rainbow cloud using white construction paper for the clouds and colorful tissue paper for the rainbow. The colors hanging from each cloud are the colors that each student was able to identify.   

Earth Day Activities

Recycled Crayons

1.  Find your broken, unwanted  crayons and place in a mold. The rabbit mold from the pix was purchased at Target .

2. Melt them in the microwave for about 3-5 minutes.  Please make sure this is done by an adult.  The melted crayons are very hot and can burn!  Take them out of the microwave and let them cool for about 10-15 min. or until they become solid.  If you want them to cool faster, place the mold in the freezer.

Pop them out of the mold and decorate them any way you like. Here is an example of the goodie bag we sent to my daughter's first grade class for their spring baskets.

Rainbow Rabbit Recycled Crayons