A Place Called Kindergarten

Where do readers read?

Today was "Bring Your Favorite Seuss Book to School" Day. Enjoy the movie of our favorites and pictures of everyone getting "caught" reading during Read to Self.

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After reading I Can Read With My Eyes Shut we had a great discussion about where we like to read, what we like to read and who we like to read with. Strong readers practice their skills...so hop into one of our favorite places to read and

practice, practice, practice.

The Cat in the Hat

We started our obSEUSSion with Seuss with a Cat in the Hat Day. We wore our favorite hats to school and drew the Cat in the Hat. The inspiration for our drawings came from Mr. Kindergarten.

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A School of Fish Facts

My teammate, Amy, who has a blog called

Literacy and Laughter came up with this great idea to make scrapbook paper fish. I love these fish! On the back of their fish, each child wrote a fish fact from our fishy facts chart. Enjoy this movie of our very unique school of fish.

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Pond Murals

We have been studying fish and their habitats. We worked cooperatively to make pond murals.

First each group decided what plants and animals to draw in their ponds...

Then they painted their drawings with watercolors...

Here are the finished murals...

These pictures don't do these paintings justice...they are amazing pieces of artwork hanging in our room. We are looking forward to visiting a real pond this spring to find all the plants and animals that we have learned about.

George and Abe

We have been reading a lot of non fiction and using the following glog to learn about George and Abe. We drew their pictures and we are working on collecting some facts about them.

president drawings and facts -

I met PW this weekend!!!

Help me Rhonda! This weekend I got to meet Ree Drummond!! Ree's blog, The Pioneer Woman, is one of my favorites. Every recipe that I have made of Ree's has been amazing!! Her cookbook is a must have and her new book is a great read about her life. She spoke just a few feet away from us and as you can see, Lily read her cookbook while we waited for our line letter to be called. When we met Ree she went crazy over Stacy's baby belly and I could barely speak.

Brian's 12th Birthday

After having a fever for 5 days, strep throat and missing 7 days of school...we finally got to celebrate Brian's 12th birthday with a sleepover. At 3:30am I threatened to separate them if they did not go to sleep...glad that I have Presidents' Day off to recover from this event.

I Love the Web Presentation

I presented at my district inservice day on Friday and wanted to share my presentation glog with all of you. You can find links to all of your amazing blogs at the I Love Blogging link on the glog.

Check out my eTech Conference presentation:
That's What I'm Bloggin' About.

Stylish Blogger Award

Thank you to my skyping/blogging buddy Mrs. Wood and

Miss Snowden for this award! I love your blogs! Mrs. Wood we talk about your class often and can't wait to skype you again soon.

Here are the rules for receiving this award:
1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this award.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Award 5 recently discovered great bloggers.
4. Contact these bloggers and tell them about the award.

7 things about me:

1. This is my 21st year of teaching and I love my job!

2. Kindergarten writers amaze me on a daily basis.

I love Writing Workshop!

3. I am so lucky to live and teach in a community

that values education.

4. Diet Coke runs through my veins.

5. When I am not teaching I am on my computer, reading,

stamping or driving my mom taxi.

6. I have 3 incredible sons, but feel like I live in a frat house:)

7. I love to get comments and follow who is visiting my blog.

There are so many blogs that I love, but here are my 5 picks...

Off 2 Kindergarten (my teammate)

The First Grade Sweet Life (love the recent farm activities download!!)

Football Nut (my fellow blogger who is also a mom of 3 boys)

Art Projects For Kids (art project that will inspire your teaching)

Teaching Gracefully (a new blogger to check out)

Check out my collection of bloggers HERE.

One Last Valentine Post

Dandy Candy Heart Game

The students filled in the game board with the numbers from 2-12 (a little extra writing numbers practice). On your turn you roll 2 dice, count or add the dots and place a heart on that number. If there is already a heart on the number you roll, your turn is over. To win, you have to be the one to cover the last number.