Beginning of the Year

Hey all! See below for two emergent reader printables..."School Tools" and "Silly Shapes". I. am. so. tired! You forget how much training Kindys need!! The bathroom, lunch, bus dismissal, recess line ups. We are 3 days in and doing ok. I've already started getting the kids used to rotations for literacy time. We made this cute Clifford and that's about it. Add to it I'm moving into my new house in about a month. We are planning on camping this weekend but the hurricane may drown us out. Our school is doing a Daily Five book study this year and many of our teachers are doing it in their classrooms this year. I'm on the fence. I've decided to do the book study and observe a couple of my Kinder and First Grade colleagues to see the Daily Five in action but right now I like what I do!!! Anyone else feel this way or is struggling with this? Do you do the Daily Five? If not, why not? My neighbor teacher started it and she already loves loves loves it.

School Tools Printable Emergent Reader

School Emergent Reader

Silly Shapes Printable Emergent Reader

Silly Shapes Emergent

Bugs and Long Time No Post

Word scramble

Tomorrow is the LAST day of school! Sorry I haven't posted...I've been swamped with new house construction decisions, end of the year assessments, report cards, kindergarten program you know!!
Caterpillar pipe cleaners...kids sorted by color and counted how many then wrote on response sheet below.

Kids picked a bug (from below), read the number then drew that many bugs in the jar.

This activity went with the book below. Very cute.

Coccoon Patterns

Eric Carle graph.

Beauty Parlor Bear Community Helper

Beauty Parlor Bear

Community Helpers/Career Day

I forgot to include this in my last post of Plants. I made this game called "real or fake" where the kids selected a flower and read the word on the flower. If it is a real word they wrote it in the real column, fake words go in the fake column. I made the words pretty easy so it was obvious. It was cute to listen to them try and sound out the fake words. 

Adding up groceries. My kids are getting so good with this!

Adding up doctors and nurses.

Doctoring up sentences. They did very well with this. I'm going to do a similar activity next week with Mother's day.

Simple center game.

The numbers were on the back of the mailboxes.

Match the vet with the dog to make rhyming pairs. Write both words. Dig/pig, tree/bee, etc.

Grab a teacher and stamp the word.

Adding together mirrors and beauticians.

Adding together librarian and books. 

Plants and Such

We did a lot with "Jack and the Beanstalk" so I made this before and after paper. I wrote a number in the bean and the kids had to write what came before and after. Challenging for some.

Several of my Jack stories has the cow named "Milky White" so I made a Milky White color word activity.

Jack story elements.

Bean sequence with sentences.

Sorting ACK words with Jack and EN words with Hen

I bought packs of those 16 bean soup beans and the kids enjoyed sorting them and making pictures with them.

Numbers/Number words

The book below, "Seeds Seeds Seeds" was our inspiration