Butterfly Release

We successfully hatched about 30 butterflies in the Spring! The entire kindergarten released their butterflies one morning.  In my earlier post, I talked about our school's outdoor learning center.  This butterfly garden is separate from the sensory garden.  It's just as awesome!

Year in Review...Our Outdoor Learning Center!

Our school has an outdoor learning center!  It's fabulous!  There are several gardens...vegetable, sensory, butterfly and ABC.  These photos are from our lesson in the sensory garden.  There are five sections to the sensory garden.  One section for each of the five senses.  Volunteers from our local garden club maintain the gardens and schedule the visits.  Our class hatched butterflies and released them in the garden.  I'll post those photos, soon.  The vegetable garden is maintained by the upper grades and the ABC garden has a plant for every letter of the alphabet.  The kids LOVE it! 

Story Chain for Leo the Late Bloomer

I've been trying to figure out something fun for my students to create with story elements...so I came up with Story Chains. On each link, the students can write or illustrate the various elements...setting, character, beginning, middle, end.  The students are using the chains for retelling and I'm using their chains for comprehension and writing assessments.  This chain is based on Leo the Late Bloomer by: Robert Kraus.  I LOVE this story! It's so sweet and many of my kinders can really relate to Leo's struggles. Check it out on TPT.  Check back soon for Knuffle Bunny Story Chain.

Stephen FIte Concert

I LOVE Stephen Fite!  For several years, I have been lucky enough to see him at Splash in Dallas.  For the past three years, our kindergarten classes have seen him in concert.  We saw him last week and he has a new album!

Stephen Fite before the concert

Little Bird

Have you seen this book? It's SO sweet.  It's about a little bird that gets blown from his nest and meets other animals on his way back home.

Humpty Dumpty

Just a quick little photo of a rhyming project we did this week.
Once the students completed their "Humpty", we brainstormed rhyming words.

This one is my favorite!

I think this idea was from Kimberly Jordano.  As I said before, I've seen her at conferences several times and she is AWESOME!!