New Units

We are finally getting settled into our new home and I have been able to start making a few new things for fall.  YAY!  Just this week I finished up my Teddy Bear Math and Literacy unit and my Applicious Math Common Core pack.  You can check out the previews below.  :)

Don't forget to hop on over to my TPT store to save 20% though midnight.  :)

Lakeshore Learning, Oh SO Fun!

So, the sweet people at Lakeshore Learning contacted me and asked me to review some of their products and let me tell you I was SO excited because I am one of their BIGGEST fans.  I absolutely love their stuff and I have tons of their games.

Of course phonics is a super important skill that we work on in kindergarten as well as keeping those darn shoes laced/tied (do any of you kinder teachers feel like you tie about 100 shoes a day :)) so this Language Lacer phonics game worked perfectly for my kiddos.  It is super cute and kid friendly and while your kiddies think they are playing this fun game they are actually learning/practicing several different skills.   

Another skill that is important for Kindergarten is learning our shapes as well as  sorting and this little gem does exactly that.  This is Shape Sorting game is magnetic  (which is fantastic because the pieces do not  slide around) and has 40 magnets that are used for matching environmental shapes to the 8 basic shapes.  Another thing that is great about this game is that it helps your students to learn to identify shapes in their real world.

  

Sounds like a WIN, WIN to me.  :)

If you are interested in either of these games you can visit http://www.lakeshorelearning.com and you can enjoy up to 15.00 off your next purchase. :)  See coupon below.

1 Year Blogiversary Sale

YaY!!!  This past August I celebrated my 1 year blogiversary so I have decided to throw a fun sale in my TPT store.  From right now until Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. you can receive 20% off in my TPT store.  I have just posted some new things this week so click HERE and head on over and to check it out.  :)

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Fun!

This week our theme was Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.  This is always a fun unit and a great way to wrap up learning letters A-Z before we begin focusing on a letter of the week (our reading program is Scott Foresman Reading Street).  Below you can check out some of the literacy and math centers that we worked on as well as some theme time fun!  :)

You can find all of the above activities in my 

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom unit on TPT.

Chicka Shape Tree

We had a Chicka Party, ate REAL coconut, and drank a coconut smoothie.

 We used our 5 senses to explore a coconut.

(saw this idea on Mrs. Jump's CUTE blog) 

 We tasted coconut

 and drank a coconut smoothie

and then we graphed...Do you like the taste of coconut? 

All About Me!

Hey Yall!  I feel so OUT of the loop.  I have not blogged a lot lately (or read other blogs) because of the move but I am proud to say that we are finally in and settled THANK GOODNESS.  Let me give all you girls a piece of advice NEVER MOVE the first week of school.  :)  Can we say stressful?!?!  On another note...

Over the past two weeks we finished up colors and worked on All About Me.  Check out some of the pictures below of what we accomplished.  

 Patterning

Color Words

 Our boy/girl graph

We did this in art center this week.

 Hair Color Graph

 Me Puzzles

Here is a preview of my new "ME" unit that 

I just posted on TPT with the OH SO CUTE DJ Inkers clipart.  

You can check it out by clicking HERE. 

And the Winner is...

And the Winners of my "flash" brown bear giveaway are 

# 1 Anita from Mrs. Bremer’s Kindergarten

 and #11 DEK.

Congrats yall and THANKS for participating!  :)

Brown Bear Fun!

The past two weeks we have been working on Brown Bear activities.  This is always how I begin the year teaching colors.  The kids always love this book and it is a 

GREAT resource to use.

 These were some of the activities that we did for literacy.  You can find all of them in my 

Brown Bear Beginning of Kindergarten fun unit except for the Brown Bear Letter Roll.  :)

We also made this cute little guy to go along with our Brown Bear theme.  You can get the texture book and this craft and much more in mine and Julie's Brown Bear and Friends Activities pack.

Now, how about a little fun...

If you would like a chance to win my Brown Bear Beginning of Kindergarten Fun unit leave a comment telling me your favorite teaching funny you have experienced this year.  All comments must be posted before 11:59 tonight.  I will do a drawing first thing in the morning for 2 lucky winners.  Please be sure that you leave your e-mail address in your comment so I can get in touch with you.

Hope everyone had a GREAT week!