My year in reverse continues...100th day.

Making the 100th day hats.

Collecting 100 numbers.

Putting 100 numbers on the chart.

Making 100th day ice cream cones.

Our 100th day snack.

I continuing my year in reverse!  I love to look back at all the fun things we did.  These photos are from the month of February...our 100th day celebration.  I have made these 100th day hats for years.  We have some wonderful volunteers that cut the construction paper strips then, glue 10 construction paper strips to a sentence strip.  The kids use dot markers and put 10 dots on each construction paper strip. Next, we had a number hunt.  In the past, I have put the paper number in a balloon.  The kids would crawl on their knees and sit on the balloon to pop it and get the number that was inside.  However, this year I had air compressor issues...so I scattered the numbers throughout my room. I assigned the numbers to hunt.  For example, numbers that have a 2 in the tens place.  Or, numbers that have the same number in the ones and tens place (like 55).  Then, we place all the numbers on a chart (no photo).  Our paper ice cream cones were from fabulous Cara Carroll, I think.  The kids chose 10 scoops and glued them on top of their cones.  Then, they wrote by tens on each scoop.  Finally, of course, we have to eat!  They counted out ten of each of the ten different items and put them in their baggie.  This activity has been done a zillion times, but the kids still love it!

Officer Buckle and Gloria

LOVE this book!  Our unit of study for the next week is community helpers...actually I have a student teacher and it's her unit:)  One quick little activity was brainstorming tips in keeping safe (didn't get a photo of the chart) then, the class was separated into groups and they illustrated and wrote about their favorite safety tip.  We use bulletin board paper and the kids love it because they can "write big and draw big".

Our 100th Day Celebration

Back from SDE in San Marcus...I have lots of ideas rolling around in my head!  So, my class celebrated the 100th day of school a day late.  Our tradition is to pop 100 balloons.  Thanks to my husband and an air compressor, he had gotten this done by the time I got home from SDE :)
Each balloon has a number inside.  The kids must stay on their knees and sit on the balloons.  They collect their numbers in bags.  Then, we assemble a 100 chart with those numbers.

Book Fair Finds

I love book fairs! Our school's annual book fair just ended.  This year's theme was Luau.  A first grade teacher/friend coordinates the Family Literacy Night.  It coincides  with our annual book fair.  We created the backdrop for family photo ops.  And, every child that attends FLN, receives a free book. Each grade level has a table in the cafeteria with age appropriate games.  Free corn dogs, drinks and chips were provided. There's always a GREAT turn out.

Of course, I had to buy just a FEW more books!

More Valentine Photos

Who doesnt' LOVE Splat?  This Splat is from Cara Carroll.  The candy kiss idea is from Kimberly Jordano (I think).  Kimberly has WONDERFUL ideas and I've been lucky enough to see her several times at the Frog Street Press conference, in Dallas.
Inside the kiss, is a six-page "ch" book. On each page, the students wrote a few sentences describing the "ch" picture.

The "church" page was the most interesting.  One child wrote, "Church is where I have to be quiet." AMEN

Valentine Door and Parent Gift

Finally, I finished my valentine door.  The photo props were from Pinterest.  Also, on Pinterest, I saw cupcake liner flowers.  After the students made the flowers, I glued them to a foam frame.  On February 14th, the students will wrap their photos and give them to their parents. 

More Valentine's Day photos coming soon!

Dental Health Month

February is National Dental Health Month.  So, here are a few ideas.

Someone had this glyph on TPT.

After reading MANY Tooth Fairy books...the students created a Tooth Fairy and answered the question.

(from Cara Carroll)

My favorite response was...

"keep them in a brown bag in her closet and wait for them to deteriorate."
I wonder what this student has in his closet??!!

 
Happy Dental Health Month!!!

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!