Friday Fun

                        It seems like it has been a long week.
                   We are linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching. 

 

We were so happy that Daddy got home from out of town business trip. Things are not the same with him gone!  So we had a happy fondue time with chocolate on marshmallows and bananas. Yum!!

 

My class has loved doing close reading activities and investigating Arctic Animals like the moose. 

We are under beginning to understand Alphabetical Order. 

 

 

Posted work in the hallway for siblings and parents to see.  Oops, I forgot to label with CCSS. Do you ever forgot those things?

 Nana is starting to plan her Super Bowl Party and has made

Our family is ready for the playoffs.  Nana made free graphing boards and is starting to plan her Super Bowl Party.  She has update both our Super Bowl ELA & Math Products.

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For mom's Groundhog's Birthday, I am doing a Birthday Give Away. Check back in this weekend. I will get it up and posted this weekend. Mom loves parties, jewelry, and free things! Who doesn't? Be sure to be a part of this celebration. 

 

 

Also head over to Instagram for another chance to win. A different bracelet!

 

 

 

 

 

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Football Fever & A Birthday giveaway!!

So my husband played for Iowa and still loves that he's a Hawkeye! He was also one of the few that was lucky enough to play in the NFL!! So around my house we are a bit football crazy!! We have recently put the finishing touches on our revamped Super Bowl Units in our TPT store! But today we uploaded a fun set of graphing boards that are football inspired! Go snag a copy and I would love feedback on your thoughts on this product!! Keep watching because next week we have a fun giveaway planned for Nana's birthday!!

Much Love 

Autumn & Ruth 

More blogging

So I have a goal to truly show my blog some love and be here more often! So here is a little piece of our day today. I finally bought some finger flashlights. They were a huge hit!

Before this they were only able to use their (gasp) finger or a Popsicle pointer with an animal on the end. Has anyone else found any easy cost effective pointers?

They love these recording sheets for their graphing boards.

Well I guess we just love graphing! On this one the use either a snowman dice or the spinner to then graph the results.

This little guy has grown so much barely a name writer in August look how great his vocabulary write the room looks!

And then a ten frame write the room. Can you tell we are wild about write he room and clipboards?

Because we like graphing so much click below to grab a football graphing freebie!

Getting ready for a celebrate nana's birthday giveaway!

Much Love 

Autumn & Ruth

More on Close Reading!!

So I guess I am a bit obsessed with doing close reading with my kinders! This is the Polar Bear one we did this week. We do our highlighting on day 2 of our read. I am still going one step at a time and working as a group to identify our important vocabulary from the passage. I love their illustrations!

The kinders then worked on this alphabetical order paper just to reinforce some of the vocabulary!

Same thing with this labeling activity.

It was so awesome to hear them using words like carnivore and summarizing the passage! Just amazing the things they get!

Here are a few of our Snowman centers and activities. Everything except the mitten art is in one of our snowman units!

This is an addition write the room activity.

This is their morning work with the snowy theme.

This was a simple size ordering activity.

You can grab the snowy stuff on sale here from our TPT store!

Also we are linking up over at Doodlebugs!

Much love

Autumn & Ruth

New Year

It's the beginning of another year. I treasure each year more and more. I am getting to enjoy all the changes that occur in each grandchild.

Because we blog together, it keeps my daughter close to me.  I suppose most moms think their children are a little bit smarter and quicker than they are.  I depend on her to keep me updated on technology and drag me along.  She does a good job of being positive and explaining procedures slowly to me. 

We are trying to complete new units on the Arctic, Chinese New Year, and the Olympics. We are updating our Super Bowl School units and reevaluating others.  So be on the look out!

In March, Autumn is presenting at the Missouri Conference on the Young Years.  Yes, Nana will be there to encourage and babysit Naomi while her mom presents. 

So we want to wish you and yours blessings during the new year!
I am trying to pack 2013 away.

Christmas Bonus:Cash or Compliments?? Close Reading

As a teacher I only know of the "Christmas Bonus" from the stories others tell me. Teachers may get a gift or a hug but not money! I love my job so I am ok with this set up. (If you were planning to send me a check go ahead!) Anyhow I have been studying up on "Close" reading and trying to figure out ways to make it appropriate to use in kindergarten. So I came up with a little a passage to use with my kinders! First we had already read Chris VanAllsburg's Polar Express  then I read the passage with it projected on the board. We read thru the passage twice on Wednesday.

Then on Thursday we reread the passage and I handed out their papers and we highlighted the title on my paper. Then they went back and highlighted their title. Then we went one at a time thru the sentences discussing the "important" words thru out the passage. They would then return to there seats to highlight the same one or two things that we did as a group. Then they would also draw pictures to help them remember the words.

As you can see they did AWESOME!!!! Well I shared this lesson with a coworker to get some feedback......She then shared with our principal whom then shared with several other administrators. I then received several complimentary emails!! But to top it off my assistant superintendent also tweeted about it!! I was seriously blushing!!

So excited to use more of these passages with my students!!! Putting the finishing touches on this pack which features a non fiction passage on moose and one on polar bears. I also included vocabulary cards, an alphabetical order activity, writing paper, and a label the animal paper!

Much Love and Merry Christmas,

Autumn & Ruth

December Made it Monday

We are linking with 4th Grade Frolics. Yes, it is that time of year when everyone is busy. Fun stuff first.

Yes, this is my granddaughter and Autumn's daughter. She discovered that with her Santa pajamas on and the hat with beard from Nana that she looks JUST LIKE SANTA! She knows that no one can tell who she is.  So yes, we made her. Ho, Ho, Ho!

I decided to create 2 Las Posadas Units. I have sold several and waiting for some reviews.

And then we created some more Christmas Themed Center Units.
Staying busy with friends parties, church, and family. And school. Maybe soon, we can get around to our homemaking crafting. Have  a jolly season, laugh, and stay warm.
Much love,
Autumn and Ruth