A Place Called Kindergarten

Our After-Christmas Tree

The After-Christmas Tree

by Linda Wagner Tyler

We made pinecone ornaments for our After Christmas Tree today. We are looking forward to seeing who will visit our tree. You can check out last year's after Christmas tree HERE and HERE.

Enter to win an autographed copy of Gigi's Window HERE.

I teach a tuition based all day kindergarten, which means I teach kindergarten curriculum in the morning and the afternoon is enrichment..aka awesome art projects:) I was so excited to discover these great blogs created by art teachers. Almost all of these blogs have a kindergarten and first grade label that makes it easy to search their past post about little artists. Check out these oil pastels and tempera paint snowmen, watercolor resist snowmen and incomplete snowmen for some snowman inspiration.

Kids Artists

we heart art

Fun Art 4 Kids

Art Projects For Kids

MaryMaking

Mrs. Art Teacher

Teach Kids Art

Happy New Year Balloons!!

Here is a simple first day back after the holidays project:

We talk about making new year resolutions/promises, write one on the balloon, cut it out and tape a piece of curling ribbon to the back. I will post a picture of ours after we make them on Monday.

Happy New Year!!

Win a New Book for the New Year

Gigi's Window Giveaway

Gigi's Window author Missy Griffin

I am looking forward to using my friend's book, Gigi's Window, during my special memories writing unit this year. This book about a little girl's trip to New York to visit her grandmother is a must have! Using this book as a mentor text will inspire your students to write a personal narrative about a grandparent or trip to visit someone they love. Enter here to win your own autographed copy of this adorable book.

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Gigi's Window

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Happy New Year and Good Luck!!

2010 Memories

Because I haven't scrapbooked since 1999 I decided to pick my favorite photos from 2010 and make a Smilebox. Doing this made me realize that my New Year's resolution needs to be to take more pictures of my boys.

Happy New Year!!

Mrs. Bell and The Bell Boys

Another slideshow by Smilebox

Happy Holidays From Room 131

Pictures from our holiday party:

This free picture slideshow made with Smilebox

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Santa Max during free choice:

The cutest Santas ever! I saw these scrapbook Sanata at First Grade Parade and knew right away that I wanted to make them. These Santas are so adorable that I want to take them home with me. I will be sad to take them down, but look forward to replacing them with more amazing art work created by my students.

Create A Gingerbread Man

This is such a great end to all of our gingerbread activities that we have been doing. Look What's Happening in Room 102! posted a link to this fun Gingerbread Man site. Check out some of the gingerbread men that other people have made in the gallery. Make your own Gingerbread Man and send it to me. I am looking forward to seeing what you create.

The Gingerbread Man With Everything

GIANT gingerbread boys and girls

After reading several versions of the Gingerbread Man, we wrote about where our gingerbread boy or girl would run to and then created these adorable giant gingerbread boys and girls.