Texas!

We are starting our Texas activities this week!  Our school hosts a chili cook off and celebrates Go Texan Day on Friday!


This is a Shared Writing activity from Room 36.  These boots were made for....

Here is a great labeling idea, also from Room 36.  Draw a cowboy/cowgirl and label him.

Here's one that we labeled as a whole class.

Here are some examples that the cowpokes drew!

Everything's Bigger in Texas book to make with your class.

Room 36! and Chalk Talk

We made pepper patterns from the idea I got at Chalk Talk.

We also made a cowboy glyph using the key from Chalk Talk's Texas Unit!

We ate pecans and graphed whether we liked them or not.  Lots and lots of LIKES!

We were learning about area in math, so we covered the area of a Texas flag!

On Friday, all the we had Texas Rotations.  All the teachers in Kindergarten read a book or song and did an activity with each class.

The book I read was The Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea.

We compared the story to The Princess and the Pea.  Then we covered the area of saddle blankets with black eyed peas.  

Finally we had a black eyed pea relay!

Go Texan!

Kiss Me! I'm Irish! St. Patrick's Day is Here!

My dad used to dye the milk green on St. Patrick's Day.  I never could drink it, if only we'd made some of these cute crafts and games!

Here is a paper plate craft from Busy Bee!

Maybe a combination of the paper plate one with this one from Happy Home Fairy.

Here is a Shamrock Toss game from Fun in First!

Here's a writing activity from The First Grade Parade...I feel lucky when...

This mini unit from What the Teacher Wants has some great printable for graphing, writing, and math.

I love the "How to Catch a Leprechaun" idea!

Mrs. Morrow's Kindergarten has so many great ideas at her site.  Here are a few that I think I might use.

Measure a 4 leaf clover

Writing about having a pot of gold

Gold pieces addition

100 Days of School! Hooray!!

After seeing everyone else's awesome 100 Day activities, I have the feeling that our school's 100 Day was much later than everyone else's!  


Here are some of the ways we celebrated.


We had a 100 Day Snack!

The kids wrote the numbers 1-10 on a strip of construction paper.

They then counted out 10 of each yummies!


10 Each
raisins
gummies
pretzels
goldfish
Cheez-Its
Chex
mini-marshmallows
chocolate chips
Teddy Grahams
Cheerios

 

We made a 100 Day Hat!

The kids put 10 stamps of each of 10 strips of construction paper.

We had some 100 Day Station Rotations!!

100 Designs

100 Day Card 

What I'll look like when I'm 100...

100 Day Necklace

We counted out cereal by 10's to make a 100 Day necklace.

100 Day Maraca

We made a 100 Day Maraca for the parade!

Fold a paper plate in half and the staple up the side, leaving an opening at the top.

We counted out 100 beans.

Put the 100 beans inside the plate.

Staple it closed.

100 Penny Stacking

We counted out 100 pennies and tried to stack them up!

We had a 100 Day Parade!!

There were so many great ideas out there!  We just couldn't do them all!!å