Back to School

My little one headed off to kindergarten this week! She was so excited and so ready! I am so happy for her. Sending these little people off unto the world is filled with mixed emotions. But so far she is LOVING school! 

Our school district has what they call a staggered start. This is amazing especially from the teacher perspective! Each teacher only has 6 kindergartners per day for the first 3 days then they all return on the 4th day! What a great time to build community and make them feel comfortable! So on day 2 we headed to the beach!! 

Now that my little lady is at school all day it has given me time to finally really work again! So you can grab this Olympic color packet for just $1!! There are color by sight word and color my number pages!

I also got a chance to spruce up our Close Reading on Labor Day. It includes a color passage to project for the class, student passages to make notes on, alphabetical order page with vocabulary from the passage, vocabulary cards with pictures, writing paper, and a label the dates on the month page! 

And finally this is my little lady preparing us a snack! She said mommy I just want to spend time with you! Melt my heart! So we played all night in her play room! 

So overall a pretty good week! I would like to get some honest reviews on my Close Read! So if you have looked at all my pictures, leave me a comment & your email and I will randomly pick 5 people this weekend to send my close read to!!! 

WOW Wednesday Science/ Social Studies Edition

So this week's linky is all about Science and or Social Studies. This area is a bit harder for me because we have been pushed to push this to the side. You know concentrate on Math and ELA (the tested areas). Well now the science test is here so know we have to figure out how to include these again.

So I have been trying to work more on close reading with my kinders. One way this has been working for me is by using simple non fiction passages for the us to read and study. We also "annotate" the text. Which they love! So we have started using one of our Olympic Symbols Close reading passages. We used the passage about the Olympic Rings.

So this was just our first read then we completed the rings and flag paper. The kids loved seeing the flags and the colors matching the rings. Every nations flag has one of the ring colors in it.

They loved this!! So here it is as a freebie so you can enjoy too!!

Thanks so much for linking up! Please follow the rule of 3(or more) Go in and comment on a person or 2 before you and a person or 2 after so we can all get thoughtful feedback!!

Much Love Autumn & Ruth



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