"Just Calendars" for Smartboard

 

 "Just Calendars" for Smart Boards have been posted to TPT.  There is a calendar and day of the week page for each month.  Check it by clicking on the image.

Fact Family Houses

Let's practice math fact families!  The fact houses can be used as part of math workstations or whole group practice. Check out the fact family houses posted to TPT for SMARTBoard. They go with the word family houses posted last month.

Splash 2012 Freebie

Wow!!!  Heather and I presented at Splash on Thursday. We were the LAST presentation on the LAST day.  So, we were VERY surprised to see a room full of people.  After a little technical delay (YIKES!), the technical guy fixed the cable, we did our first presentation together.  Our presentation was titled "Celebrate Smartbaord Technology".  We shared LOTS of ideas on combining music, youtube videos, photos and clipart with a Smartboard to make lessons more exciting.  We have posted pictures of the presentation's slides on TPT for free to use as a resource.  Remember, we have also posted a 51 page "Birthday Unit" on TPT...it's just a little thank you to everyone who came to our presentation and those of you who follow us!!!

Back to School Calendar

The updated smart board calendar file for Back to School/August has uploaded.  Check it out by clicking on the photo.

What we've been up to! 100th preparation & FEBRUARY!

Wowzers!  We have been SUPER busy!  Here are some pics to prove it!

We have been busy learning about arctic animals from Deanna Jump's Arctic Animals unit!

They have LOVED this and are enjoying all of the writing we have been doing with it!

We made our snowman heads with patterned scarfs from Julie Lee!

This 5 senses anchor chart was inspired by Pencils, Glue, and Tying Shoes!

These penguins were inspired from Pinterest!  Not sure where I saw these!  

These are our 5 senses kids!  Inspired by Pencils, Glue, and Tying Shoes!  They turned out soooo cute!

In preperation for the 100th day of school we have been making these super-cute kids!  This is inspired by Pinterest, as well!  I LOVE them!!!!!  Their writing turned out so cute, too!

If this idea is yours I would LOVE to give you the credit you deserve!  Let me know!!!

Monday is our 100th day of Kindergarten! I always blow up 100 balloons with the numbers 1-100 inside them!  Zero The Hero brings them while the kids are in P.E.!  They get to pop them by sitting on them and then we put the numbers in order on this chart in the hallway!  They LOVE this!!!!!  I will post pictures tomorrow of all of the cute things we did!!!  

We have been busy making SMARTboard files for FEB!  I just uploaded them to TPT!

I uploaded 2 notebooks- February Math & February Literacy!  They are jam-packed with SWEET skills for your kiddos to master!!!

FEBRUARY MATH
*count down to valentines day!            *graphing                     *100's chart skills and games
*ten-frames                                          * patterning                   *missing numbers
*time                                                   *calendar skills              *fact families
*money                                               *Odd & Even                 *addition & subtraction
*money poems & songs                      *story problems

It is SUPER-CUTE!!!

FEBRUARY LITERACY
*medial vowel sounds          *digraphs          *put the months of the year in order by reading
*CVC writing                      *ending sounds      *valentine concentration
*rhyming                             * sight word hunt    * sorting words
*making words                   * songs & poems     * writing about groundhogs & valentines

It is SUPER-CUTE, TOO!

Come check us out on TPT!!!!!
AND.....(drum-roll, please!)
To celebrate our 100th day of school........we are throwing a sale!!!!! On Monday, and Monday only....everything will be $1.00!!!!!   So, run on over and pick up whatcha want!!!!  :)

Peace!

Happy New Year! & January News!!!

Happy New Year!!
When the kiddos came back after Christmas break we celebrated the New Year by writing down what we would try to do better this year.  Their responses were precious!  We counted down from 10 and blew our noisemakers and shouted, "Happy New Year!"  Too Cute!  I took pictures of all of my kiddos with their hats and noisemakers!

We have FINALLY uploaded our Jan. Calendar, Jan. Math, and Jan. Literacy SMARTboard files to TPT!  We had such a hard time for some reason!  It kept saying it was too big so we finally had to break it down into 3 files!!  UUuugghh!  Anyway we tried to keep them cheap-o so that you could easily grab them all!

January Calendar File

Skills covered:

*calendar skills

*days of the week

*patterning

*counting to 100

*time

*money

and much, much, more!

January Literacy File

Skills covered:

*webbing penguins, snowmen, hot chocolate

*graphing favorite winter stories

*CVC words

*nonsense words

*beginning sounds

*making words

*interactive writing

January Math File

Skills covered:

*odd and even

*patterning

*missing numbers

*number sense

*ten frames

*1 more, 1 less, 10 more, 10 less

*counting and putting numbers in order by 10's, and 5's

*graphing

*number line fun

Check our newest stuff out on TPT!!!!

January Calendar

January Literacy

January Math

Free Christmas File on TPT

Merry Christmas!  Enjoy a Roll-a-Tree SmartBoard file on TPT.Click Here

Happy Thanksgiving & Happy Cyber Monday

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving Blogging Buddies!  We had lots of fun in class leading up to Thanksgiving!

We compared the pilgrims to us today!  This idea came from Chalk Talk.  We read lots of books about pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving!  The kids could'nt get enough of it!  They were so in to learning about the first thanksgiving!  It was fun!

We read books about the Mayflower and the pilgrims' journey to their new land.  We discussed why they sailed, who sailed, and what it was like on the Mayflower.  This came from Deanna Jump.

We talked about turkys!  This idea came from Chalk Talk.

These are our Five Fat Turkeys hanging up!  Sooo cute!

These are our leaf-pile kids!  They were fun to make!  I can't remember where I saw this!  If it's yours let me know!!  We wrote about what we can do in the fall.

Our Turkeys!  My favorite says, "Eat more cucumbers!"  Ha!

Our thankful pilgrims!  Our Native Americans!  These are my take on some that I saw on Pinterest!

The kids wrote what they were thankful for on the Pilgrims and their number words on their Native Americans in the 1 little, 2 little Indians poem.

My little turkeys!

Some of my little Indians!

Soooo....I truly love this time of year!  Hearing what kindergarteners are thankful for truly warms my heart!

Cyber Monday Sale!!!!

All our products on TPT are 20% off until TUESDAY!!!!

On Monday TPT is offering an additional 10% off using the promo code

CMS28

soooo....it would be 30% off!!!!

Just in time for this awesome sale we have uploaded our December Calendar Notebook, December Math, and December Literacy!!!  Also, don't forget our December Jukebox with suggested song lists!!!!

Looks like loads of fun....huh?

Go to our TPT store and check it all out while it's ALL on sale!!!!!

Name Games & Beginning of the Year Poems, Games, & Songs!!

I have just finished posting 2 cute, new files to TPT!!!

These are games I have played with my kindergarteners for years!  I have finally created SMARTboard files to go with them!  I also have made the templates available and given directions on linking your music or YouTube videos directly to the pages so it will all be available at your kiddos fingertips!  I am very excited about this SMART notebook and know that my kids are going to love it!!!!! I also think this would go along perfectly with Deanna Jumps Names and Literacy unit!!!  We both purchased it so we could tie these 2 activities in together with our kiddos!!!!

It includes:

Willoughby Wallaby Woo-for phonemic awareness fun!

Bippity Boppity Bumblebee- for syllables and phonemic awareness!

Cheerleader Names- letter identification fun!  They are going to love manipulating this one!

Name Detectives- little balls come up with the letters of their names for them to unscramble!!! Super Fun

This came out soooo stinkin' cute!  I can't wait for my kiddos to enjoy! 

ALL of these name games are hands-on ways for kids to manipulate and play with the very thing that is the MOST important to them.....their names!!!!!

This is available on TPT for $3.00- I tried to make it cheap so you can all try it out!  Let me know what you think!!!

Also introducing......

Beginning of the Year Songs, Poems, and Games!!!

These are SMARTboard files I have actually had a while!  I gave them the "cutesy" makeover and am making them available to you on TPT!!

Colorful chorus- this is a poem and game I play the first week of school- directions included!

color chart for class reading practice

color dice game!!! Always a favorite!

This HAS to be my kids favorite game the first couple of weeks of school- directions included!!

Orange is a carrot!

Bubble Gum, bubble gum in a dish!!!!! Directions for playing included!

 Couple of apple songs included with directions for attaching music and video!

All in all there are 18 pages to this awesome resource!  

Please let us know what you think!!!!!!  We really value your comments on how we can make SMARTboard resources available and valuable to you!!!!

GO TO OUR TPT PAGE!!!!

Thanks for checking us out!!!