The Secret Garden: Diggin' Into Core

After the showers comes May Flowers!!! The follow up to our previous set of centers has guided my kids to the following standards! Link in the first graphic!

Sprouting Parts (Addition and Subtraction)- K.OA.4

Pots and Seeds (Long and Short Vowels)- K.RFS.3

Gardening Basics (Asking and Telling)- RF.K.2d

"Ten" Can Place Value- (Adding 11-19) K.NBT.1


Five for Friday

1.  Ahhhh, it's Saturday and my prepared post has yet to go live.  Booo!  It was my goal to come home last night and add a few additional pictures before posting Five for Friday.  A turn of afternoon events led to a student breaking their radius and ulna at field day.  Worst nightmare!!!

Before

After

On a positive note, 18 other students had a remarkable experience.  Here are a few snapshots from our afternoon fun!!!


Notice Gangnam Style Dancing!!!

2. This week began with Cinco De Mayo.  Although time as past, I found a wonderful packet worth a look for next year AND a video that made me laugh!!!!



Gladys from Teaching in High Heels has amazing units for her little learners.  I always enjoy the background support for teaching various holidays which are part of my state social studies standards.  If you get a chance, take a peek, purchase and save, or place on a wishlist!!!  Click graphic to link. 



3. We've been diving into learning about the life cycle of plants.  My kids began with bean seeds which are doing amazing, and planting Mother's Day bulbs for a Gladiolus Mix!  They were thrilled to take home their plantings and painted pots!






4. We truly were in Mother's Day overload this week.  Besides painting pots and transplanting their sprouts, Publix came out with premade cakes for the kids to design.  


While my students were being pulled to design the cakes, I worked with the remaining class on an activity from TpT.  I found a cute file that just so happens to be FREE!  Within the unit, you'll find an acrostic poem recording sheet for the word MOTHER.  The kids and I brainstormed a list of words for each letter. We just so happened to have a buddy group of students from 4th grade that put their brains to work too!  My kinder kids decided which words they'd use to describe their mother and made a torn picture portrait!  They turned out so cute!



Don't you just LOVE!?!  You can find this file from Bright Concepts 4 Teachers!  Link here!  I just love the organization of Jaime's blog.  You can find the link here!

5.  We finally began our Summer Countdown.  The kids are having a blast!!!!  We've checked off Art, Bubbles, Career, Experiment, Fitness, and Game Days.  I don't have pictures of all but I do have the days for ABC!!!  Link here to grab a copy!

 This project come from The Teacher's Wife's Plant Unit!






I hope you had a wonderful appreciation week!  If you have five fun things happening in your classroom, link up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs!  


Appreciation Sale Preview

Happy Appreciation Week!  I hope you find yourself with lots of love notes from your kiddos!  Mine have been showering me with letters, cards, drawings, and paintings. Teachers Pay Teachers is having an Appreciation Sale! I love a good discount, don't you? I just love this graphic! Thanks Hope King!!!


Here are some files that may assist in the start of a new school year!








You can also find this new resource on sale!

  



 There are many more files not featured above!



Absorb Summer Content: Summer Homework for Kindergarten Graduates

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Ohmiword!  I've been working on this summer homework pack for more than a month.  Eek!!!!  I'm so excited this big bad boy is finished!!!

For my summer gift, I've been working three projects.  The summer homework pack, a scrapbook page for each child with various photos of themselves in kindergarten, and a slideshow of all our friends from the 2012-2013 school year.  I purchased thumb drives for each child and currently working to add all files to each drive.  The final day of school is a half day in which we issue the students' final report card.  Parents are invited to visit the classroom for a snack and the slideshow.  Inside their report card envelope, the parents will find the thumb drive of activities.  I'm thoroughly excited about this massive project!

Included in the summer pack...










If you are interested, I marked this product down for the weekend from $9.00 to $7.00!  This 96 page file is packed full of standards based activities for kindergarten graduates!   You will find a link in the first graphic!

Farm Life! Coop Core Centers

My kiddos started their new set of MTSS centers today!  Farm Life!  Coop Core Centers were a hit which makes me smile!!!



Included are two math and two language arts centers that are common core aligned!

 






If you are interested, the link is provided in the first graphic!

Teacher Talk Tuesday on Instagram

Do you Instagram?  I do!!!  I began this adventure in March of 2012.  I wasn't really sure what I was getting into at the time.  The site seems like a twitter account but with photos instead of words.  In the past few months, Instagram has exploded.  There are many wonderful teachers sharing photos of happenings in their classroom on the site/app.  When I first started, I wasn't sure the direction this account would take so I signed up as Primary Graffiti instead of Cheryl Saoud.  I thought I was being sneaky and that no one would ever know that I'm on another social networking site!  LOL!   I began with LOTS of personal pictures.  Then I transitioned to pictures in my classroom.  I loved how Instagram beautified my photos so I transitioned back to personal snapshots.  Basically, I have no idea what direction I'm taking my Instagram account.  I just know that it makes the pictures look amazing, and I can see so many wonderful pictures from accounts that I follow.  If you are interested in following along, you will get a melting pot of personal and school photos to view.  Click image below to link!



Teachers are coming together for Teacher Talk Tuesday on Instagram each week.  All you have to do is post one picture from your school day and use the hashtag #teachertalktuesday.  The hashtag will assist you in finding more teacher Intagram accounts to follow.




Both What a Teacher Wants AND Apples and ABC's are hosting a linky party so that you can find many wonderful Instagram users before Teacher Talk Tuesday begins.  Hope to see you there!!!!

Rockin' Teacher Materials: Calling Kinder Friends

Rockin' Teacher Materials: Calling All Kinder Friends  How would you like to win a free pass to the 'I Teach K!' conference in Las Vegas this July?  Click the link above for a chance to win!!!