tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28587429228830868932024-03-02T00:32:43.867-08:00Clearly KindergartenEverything about my kindergarten classroom.Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06956462356734458512noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858742922883086893.post-89534212654007368602015-06-28T20:19:00.002-07:002015-06-28T20:19:53.741-07:00TPT Seller Challenge Week 2This is now officially more than I blogged all of last year! I am hopeful that this is a new trend. My goal for this blog is to post once a week for the rest of this year. I know that this weeks challenge was about our dreams for TPT but I thought I would include this one for my blog too, since I really do enjoy the networking and learning that comes from reading others blogs and blogging myself. And now that I put my goal out there hopefully that will help keep me on track!<br />
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But back to the challenge..... here are my TPT goals:<br />
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So #1 and #2 - We just bought a new house...so the extra income I make with TPT will help to offset our new higher costs, the work that needs to be done on the house to make it a home and hopefully still allow us to take some family vacations.</div>
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#3 - I love the way that TPT helps me to be a better teacher on a daily basis. The resources that I find are amazing and I love reading everyone's blogs and learn so much.</div>
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#4 - I really have been so blessed in my life by so many people and TPT allows me to pay some of that forward. As I continue to build up my shop and my blog I hope I can do even more of that.</div>
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Thanks so much for reading and stay tuned.....not only am I moving my home but I am also moving to a new classroom this summer so there will be lots of posts about setting up and organizing my new room. </div>
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Thank you to all the great bloggers that organized this challenge! Be sure to check them out!</div>
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When I saw the first challenge was the makeover of a TPT product there was no question it would be my Apple Math and Literacy Activities. This was my very first product and I gave the cover an update a year or so ago but I was still not happy with it. I have gotten tons of great new clip art so it was time to go to work. I had no idea that it would take me over a week and would lead to adding more activities to the pack, updating all of the clip art, adding color and black and white versions of almost everything, and redoing the preview for TPT as well! Whew it was A LOT of work but TOTALLY worth it! I just love how it turned out!<br />
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Hey everyone! Sorry I have been absent for sooooo long, the summer has been a roller coaster around here and it left me totally uninspired! But now with school getting ready to start I think I am starting to get my groove back...at least I hope! </div>
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So I thought I would start with some of the projects I have been working on in my classroom lately. </div>
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I had this red bookshelf and it just didn't go with my classroom color scheme, which is black and white with teal, lime green and purple accents. So I thought hmmm...why not get some chalkboard paint!</div>
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And voila much better already! It took 2 coats to cover the red.</div>
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When it was dry I added all of my writing center containers.</div>
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I only bought one small container of chalkboard paint from Home Depot. It was only $10! I looked at Michaels and they had the same container for $20!?! I had about half of it left after this shelf. Now I can't stop looking for more things in my room to paint! So stay tuned for lots more classroom DIY!</div>
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I have also been busy setting up a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/clearlykindergarten" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> to go along with my blog. I would love it if you would like my page. I am working on adding a fan freebie tab where I will be posting lots of freebies for my Facebook fans!</div>
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I'm finally linking up with <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2013/06/five-for-friday-linky-party-june-21.html" target="_blank">Doodle Bugs Teaching for her Five for Friday</a>! I just couldn't seem to get a Friday post together during the school year.....BUT I am FINALLY on summer break!! At least the rumor is that this was my first full week of summer break. If you read my five random things below you will see why it is just a rumor!! </div>
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Well I did have a little break last weekend. My mom and I got my hubby and my dad a NASCAR driving experience. So we all went to Illinois for the weekend to the Chicagoland Speedway so they could drive fast! It was fun and we made a detour to one of my favorite stores IKEA!</div>
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Then Monday came....you know the first official day of summer break, but not really because we had to be back at school for an all day in-service on our new reading workshop model for literacy next year. The in-service was actually really good and I am glad I have the rest of the summer to review all of the information and plan what my literacy block will look like.</div>
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Tuesday I actually had the day off!!! Yay! I might have stayed in my pajamas all day...maybe....and I might have taken a nap too!</div>
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Wednesday my break was over! I had to be back at school for our summer school meeting and summer school classroom set up. Which really meant I had to move a bunch of stuff from my classroom to a different building for summer school. That is because when I got to my summer school classroom there were no books in the reading boxes for summer school. I thought it might be kind of tough to teach reading review/enrichment to kindergartners without books. Hence the moving of what felt like half my classroom!</div>
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I'll end with some good news from the week......I finally got my new laptop!!!!! Yup that is what I am writing this post on right now! I am so excited!! I spent tonight moving all of my clip art and files from my old computer to this one, but it is sooooo worth the effort! I will soon be creating some new products and freebies for you!</div>
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On another note....my fellow WI bloggy buddy<a href="http://missandersonkinder.blogspot.com/2013/06/100-follower-giveaway.html" target="_blank"> Erin at It's Owl Good in Kindergarten</a> is having her 100 follower giveaway this week...so fly on over and enter. 3 people will win items from some great bloggers! We are also in the process of planning a WI blogger meet up so stay tuned!</div>
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And lastly I am jumping on the Bloglovin bandwagon. Don't forget to transfer all of your blogs to bloglovin so you can continue to follow all of your favorite bloggers when Google Reader goes away on July 1st. It was super easy to do.</div>
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Whoa...it can't possibly be time for the June Currently! It seems like just yesterday that I missed the May Currently! Well even though I am beyond busy and overwhelmed I couldn't let 2 months go by with out participating in <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2013/06/june-currently.html" target="_blank">Farley's</a> linky! So without further delay here is my Currently! </div>
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Listening: My hubby has decided that it is time to introduce our kiddos to Star Wars so we are starting with the 4th or 1st movie depending on how you number them! My 10 year old loves it....my 6 year old is not so sure!</div>
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Loving: I am so glad that summer is almost here and I will get to spend some more time with my kiddos....only 9 days to go! (We won't talk about the fact that I am teaching summer school)</div>
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Wanting: To get our house on the market SOON so we can hopefully sell it and move over the summer. Our kiddos go to school about 25 minutes from where we live now so it will be great to FINALLY live in the same community they go to school in!</div>
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3 Vacay Essentials: Books to read just for fun...because who has time to do that during the school year???, My iPad so I can blog stalk of course and my flip flops because I live in Wisconsin and our time in flip flops is short so you have to make the most of it! </div>
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Hoping to be back soon to tell you the story of my field trip debacle from last week and to share a cute beachy themed art project (from the same field trip).</div>
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Hey everyone! I know it has been a long time but....I forget how crazy busy May is both at school and at home! I promise I will have more to share soon...as we are not done with school until June 13th and then I start teaching summer school on June 20th! But for now I had to share about all of the wonderful things going on to help the victims of the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma! </div>
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First up some wonderful TpT sellers have teamed up to create Teachers Care for Oklahoma! They are offering 4 different bundles of products. Each bundle is worth well over $100.00 and you can purchase each one for only $25.00! All of the money raised from these bundles is going directly to the teachers at the 2 elementary schools that were destroyed during the tornado. Click on the links below to take you to the product pages for each bundle, there you will be able to see all of the amazing resources that are included!</div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Teachers-Care-for-Oklahoma-Fundraiser-K-2-Bundle-1-ELA-Math-Common-Core-706018" target="_blank">K-2 Bundle 1</a><br />
<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Teachers-Care-for-Oklahoma-Fundraiser-K-2-Bundle-2-ELA-Math-Common-Core-706021" target="_blank">K-2 Bundle 2</a><br />
<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/-Teachers-Care-for-Oklahoma-Fundraiser-3-6-with-Clipart-Bundle-1--705953" target="_blank">3-6 Bundle 1 with Clip Art</a><br />
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Next up there were even more TpT sellers (including me) who wanted to do something to help.....so MANY TpT stores are having sales on Monday and donating all of the profits to the American Red Cross for the Moore, Oklahoma tornado victims or other charities that are on the ground helping with the relief effort. You can click <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Clearly-Kindergarten" target="_blank">here to go to my TpT store</a>, all of the profits from my store on Monday will be sent to The American Red Cross! Donna over at <a href="http://mathcoachscorner.blogspot.com/2013/05/teachers-help-teachers.html" target="_blank">Math Coach's Corner</a> is hosting the linky with all the stores that are participating, so go check it out and get some great stuff and help out Moore,Oklahoma in the process!! Together we can make a difference!</div>
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Hope everyone is having a great end to their school year! And if you are already done.....I am REALLY jealous!!!</div>
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Oh my word....I swear I really have been meaning to be better about blogging but, I have just been overwhelmed and busy, busy lately! Sorry I have been neglecting all of my blogging buddies!</div>
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But I thought I would share the projects we made for Mother's day, just in case anyone is as big a procrastinator as I am!</div>
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These are super easy, quick, cute, and cheap! They are pint sized mason jars from Walmart. We use the Walmart ones because they are completely plain with no printing embossed on them. Acrylic paint from Michael's. I got the Martha Stewart brand this year because it was made for glass and it washed right off the kids fingers. I also got ribbon and cut it into 18 inch sections and then tied it on the jar and put a few drops of hot glue to make sure the ribbon didn't slip off.</div>
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The kids dip their fingers in the yellow paint and dabbed the centers of the flowers on. Then they dip their fingers in another color and make the petals on the flowers. I do this one on one with the kids. I got 21 done in about an hour (we won't talk about all the interruptions I had while I did it!) </div>
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While I worked on the painting the kids were working on the coupon book that went inside the jars. I found it on <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Mothers-Day-Cupcake-Coupon-Book" target="_blank">TpT here</a>. It was free and really cute! It was supposed to be a cupcake but there was no way it would fit in the jar so I just used the coupon part and stapled it to green construction paper.</div>
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Of course I have also been busy getting ready for the big <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Clearly-Kindergarten" target="_blank">TpT Teacher Appreciation Sale </a>happening today and tomorrow! My wishlist is really long and I can't wait to shop and get some great new stuff! I finished my Summer Skill Pack just in time to post it for the sale! You can click on the picture below to check it out! It has a journal for writing, a sight word game, a math facts game and leveled book lists to help parents find books at their child's reading level in their local library. </div>
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Over the summer we worked as a team to redo our themes for this year. Some we kept the same but we added lots of new ones....due of course to all the wonderful ideas we were getting from blogs and Pinterest! We decided to do a 2 week unit on fairy tales. I was a little worried and the groans from my boys when I announced our theme didn't help....but OH MY WORD was it FUN!! Everyone loved it even the boys!</div>
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So I thought I would share a few highlights from our week! </div>
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I started by showing them this chart with a definition of a fairy tale.</div>
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Then we read this AHHMAZING book that I found in our library! It is about learning how to write a fairy tale but we used it to learn about the elements of a fairy tale. It is the story of Little Red Riding Hood but on each page it has a section for you to read that highlights an element of a fairy tale. My kiddos LOVED it!!</div>
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When we were done reading we added all of the things we learned about fairy tales to our chart. We used this chart for the rest of the unit to analyze the stories we were reading to determine if they were fairy tales or not.</div>
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We did some really cute art and writing projects but of course I forgot to take pictures! They were from <a href="http://fun-in-first.blogspot.com/2012/02/fairy-tales.html" target="_blank">Jodi at Fun in First</a>. It was a prince for the boys and a princess trapped in a tower for the girls. Jodi has the patterns and writing paper posted for free on her blog!! Of course before we did this project I wanted to read them the story of Rapunzel but......NONE of us had the book...not even the library had it....so....what else is there to do but Google it! And look what I found!</div>
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Yep Rapunzel online and not just Rapunzel but LOTS of other fairy tales too...and the BEST part....they were FREE and GREAT! I mean my kiddos were GLUED to the SMART board watching it and they are still asking to listen to them on the computer. It was from the site Speakaboos.com...click the picture above to check out the site!</div>
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We needed some fairy tale math centers to go along with the Common Core Standards and I couldn't find any so I made some for us to use. Click on the picture below if you would like to check it out on TPT.</div>
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Hope you found something useful for the next time you teach fairy tales! I know my kiddos and I LOVED it!</div>
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So I know that I have been MIA lately but it has been CRAZY around here!!! We spent spring break in Florida with my cousin and her family and the hubs said no blogging....family time only! I will admit it was nice to take a break! He did make an exception for my <a href="http://www.clearlykindergarten.blogspot.com/2013/04/pass-torch.html" target="_blank">Pass the Torch Linky</a> post (if you haven't seen it yet you should check it out I got some great ideas)! While we were in Florida we got to visit the beach..YAY!! And we also saw some great friends who have left Wisconsin for the warmer Florida weather...and I found out she is now teaching kindergarten in Florida! I am so excited for her...now we have even more to talk about...don't get us started we may never stop!</div>
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When I got back to school it was time to work on report cards....WHAT I feel like I just blogged about report cards...it can't possibly be time to do them again......but now they are done.......at least until it is time to start assessing again in May!!!!</div>
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But never fear there has still been some learning going on! We have been working on fairy tales for the last 2 weeks and my kiddos are loving it...but I'm not quite ready to write that post yet...so stay tuned!</div>
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We have also been reviewing short and long vowels. We are working on one vowel each day. Here is the anchor chart we made yesterday for the letter Aa. Don't you love the "app"! That is my best attempt at drawing an iPad..oh boy..I need help!</div>
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Then my kiddos did this great short and long Aa vowel sort! It is a freebie from Kathy at First Grade a la Carte click the picture to take you to her blog and grab them...there is one for every vowel!</div>
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Today we made this chart for short and long Ee and then did the sort. My kiddos are loving them!</div>
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I am going to admit here...please don't judge...I have never thought of explicitly teaching prefixes and suffixes in kindergarten. I have found myself explaining in guided reading groups how we sound out words with endings like -ing, -ed, -s, or beginnings like un- but I have never explained why they are at the end or beginning of words or how they change the meaning. I guess it just had never occurred <span style="font-family: inherit;">to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">After I got the program I decided to use it in my guided reading groups to introduce the concept. This way I could pick and choose which pieces to introduce based on the ones that were occurring most in my kiddos guided reading books. My plan was originally to start with introducing suffixes to my highest reading group but after some reflection I decided to introduce it to my lowest group first - to give them even more tools to help them with word decoding and comprehension.</span></span><br />
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Next we all found the word jump and pasted it onto one of our pages then we changed the meaning by cutting out and adding the -ed. </div>
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The next day when we read our guided reading story with the -ed ending everyone was able to read it with out sounding out the ending! YAY! Then 1 of them even said "hey those are like the words we worked on yesterday" WooHoo 1 light bulb moment down....3 more to go!</div>
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I am linking up with <a href="http://flyingintofirst.blogspot.com/2013/03/lets-get-acquainted-linky-time.html" target="_blank">Flying into First Grade</a> for this weeks Let's Get Acquainted linky party!! This weeks theme is nouns, you list your favorite person, place, thing and animal.</div>
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I am going to bend the rules a little bit right off the bat...sorry! My favorite people are my hubby and my kids! I couldn't possibly pick between them! My hubby is amazing and we have been together forever...well it seems like forever since we met and started dating in high school! Our kids are the center of our world! Our son is in 4th grade and looks just like his dad, and our daughter is in kindergarten and looks just like me! I'd love to show you pics but the hubby doesn't like me posting pics of the kiddos when you can see their faces. </div>
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The beach! I know I live in Wisconsin but I think that is why I love the beach so much.....it is a break from the cold! Thought we do have some great beaches here in the summer too, this pic is from Florida!</div>
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My iPad! I love it! I use it all the time to try and keep up with my blog stalking!</div>
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I also just uploaded a new sight word book to my TpT store and I just had to let you know cause the graphics in it are soooo cute! They are from Krista at <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Krista-Wallden" target="_blank">Creative Clips</a>, I just love her stuff! Click on the picture to check out my sight word book for the words up, the! </div>
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I have 4 more days before spring break! I think I can I think I can!!! I am hoping to finish a bunch more of my sight word books over break and then start to bundle them so stay tuned for updates!!! For those of you already on spring break I am JEALOUS!! But I hope you enjoy it!</div>
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Anyone else feel like this week has just been CRAZY!?!? Between meetings and the kiddos I am ready for Spring Break, but it is still a week away!!!</div>
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My kiddos have been having ISSUES with getting along lately, so I thought it was time to break out the Bucket Filling books! I'm sure most of you probably already know about them, but I just heard about them from one of my FABULOUS team members this year. </div>
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I just love the visual idea of everyone having a bucket that holds your good feelings! I also like that it empowers the kids to be in charge of filling their buckets by doing things that will fill others buckets, kindness breeds kindness!</div>
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On Monday we read the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Have-You-Filled-Bucket-Today/dp/1933916168/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363918233&sr=8-1&keywords=have+you+filled+a+bucket+today" target="_blank">Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud</a>. Then we made an anchor chart of ways we could fill a bucket. </div>
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When we finished our chart ,I gave each kiddo their own bucket to design for our new board! Click <a href="http://www.bucketfillers101.com/pdfs/paper-bucket.pdf" target="_blank">HERE</a> for the link to the directions for the buckets. <a href="http://www.bucketfillers101.com/free-resources.php" target="_blank">This site</a> also has a lot of other great FREE resources to go along with the bucket filling books!</div>
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My kiddos have really latched onto this idea! Today I overheard a conversation where one of my kiddos said "Don't say that you're dipping my bucket!" and my desk has also been overflowing with pictures and notes as they fill my bucket!! I just love my kiddos! I should have taken a picture of my pile. Of course there are still those who are dipping instead of filling buckets ,but I am hoping that the visual and the reminders from their peers will help them.</div>
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We followed up with reading the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Full-Your-Bucket-Kids/dp/1595620273/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1363919680&sr=8-2&keywords=how+full+is+your+bucket" target="_blank">How Full is Your Bucket for Kids by Tom Rath</a> today. It was a good review and also helped the kids see that EVERYONE has a bucket, even their bus driver and their dog (they loved that part!)</div>
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I am linking up with <a href="http://flyingintofirst.blogspot.com/2013/03/join-my-first-linky-party.html" target="_blank">Flying into First Grade</a> for this fun get to know you linky party! This weeks rules are share 3 things about yourself using your initials. My initials are SMG so here are my 3 things!</div>
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S is for Sunshine!!! Can you tell I live in Wisconsin, and it has been really cloudy and snowy here lately! I am sooooo ready for summer, I would even settle for spring!</div>
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M is for Movies! I love to watch them, when I have time, which is mainly in the summer! My favorites right now, (I'm kind of afraid to admit) are the Twilight movies....all of them! There I said it, I feel better now!</div>
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G is for Garden! I love to spend time in my garden in the summer (are you sensing the summer theme in this post?). My hubby always complains that I like to plant the garden but then he is the one who ends up watering and weeding it (this may or may not be true...I plead the 5th!). </div>
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I know everyone is done with their Dr. Seuss stuff for this year but we made these really cute hats on Friday that I just had to share. I got the idea from Khrys at Keepin it Kool in Kinderland. Click <a href="http://keepinitkoolinkinderland.blogspot.com/2013/03/biting-writing-dr-seuss-and-currently.html" target="_blank">HERE </a>to see her hats. They are ADORABLE! When I saw them I knew I had to make them since last year I made Cat in the Hat hats and lets just say they were a PROJECT!! I wanted them to be tall but then they wouldn't stand up, so we taped paint stir sticks to the back and then they were heavy and still fell over!!! It was a weeks worth of trying to make them work with no luck.</div>
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Now I love her hats with the painted hand Things but after my 100's day hat painting debacle (I won't bore you with the details again but I ended up with paint ALL over my shirt) I had to find a way to make them without the painting! So here is what I came up with.</div>
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I loved Khrys' idea of having them call each other by their thing names so I made the circles to put on their hats and my kiddo's LOVED them! They thought it was great to call each other their Thing numbers, I even wore the Thing 1 hat for the day! If you would like to grab a copy of the Thing Hat circles, I have them linked up as a <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7ETqobANfd5SHlZYzlsa3lZeUU/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">FREEBIE HERE</a>! I made them through 30, hopefully no one has more than 30 kiddo!</div>
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On another note, I reached 100 followers this weekend!!!!! I never thought I would get to 100 followers when I started this blog in August! I am so grateful to everyone reads my ramblings and love all of the bloggy friends I have made! To celebrate I would love to have a giveaway....if anyone is interested in donating something I would be so thankful! Just leave me your email and I will contact you or you can email me at clearlykindergarten@gmail.com.</div>
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Oh and before I go my friend Jessica over at Fun in PreK-1 is having her 100 Follower giveaway and it is HUGE! You really want to go check it out and enter to win!! Trust me! Click the picture to take you to her blog to enter.</div>
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We are having so much fun reading Dr. Seuss stories this week! Today we read Fox in Socks and everyone wore their crazy or silly socks (except me cause I forgot and I was really late this morning, because I had to help tow my hubby's van out of the drive way, but that is another story, so I couldn't even go back and get my socks when I realized I forgot) But it was OK the kids forgave me! </div>
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When we were done reading the story I took my favorite picture of the year! (We take lots of pictures during the year because we make each student a memory book with all of their pics, yes you read that right EVERY kinder gets a book filled with pics!) They turn out really cute but are A LOT of work especially if you wait to the end of the year to put them together, like I do! I will have to remember to take pics of them this year and share! Anyway here is our crazy sock picture!</div>
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We are still working our word families during our RtI time and I have the group of kiddos that get them already. So I was looking for some games we could play on the SMART board. I went to SMART Exchange and found this great game! It is just like the one the fabulous Khrys at Keepin' It Kool in Kinderland posted about <a href="http://keepinitkoolinkinderland.blogspot.com/2013/02/visual-plans-and-smartboard-fun.html" target="_blank">here</a> for sight words. They LOVED it! We had to throw a small stuffed dog at the circles to pop them since I didn't have a Koosh ball today, but it worked, most of the time.</div>
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Ughh I am late to the Currently party again, but better late than never I hope! If you haven't already head on over to<a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2013/03/currently-march.html" target="_blank"> Farley's</a> blog and link up, it is a fun one! My goal for next month is to make it on time! </div>
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<b>Listening</b> - my own kiddo are watch some of Despicable Me before bed (I love that movie), so that is playing in the background. OK so now that I am actually finishing this the kiddos are long in bed and I am listening to The Bible series on History...but I am too lazy to go back and change it.</div>
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<b>Loving</b> - I am getting ready for conferences next week so I have been redoing some running records on my lowest readers....and I am sooooo happy with how well they are doing! Some of them still have some work to do on comprehension but we will get there!</div>
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<b>Thinking</b> - I am going to be busy busy at work this week doing the Dr. stuff and testing for conferences. And of course it is also a super busy week with stuff after school. A meeting on Monday about the human growth and development curriculum for my son's 4th grade class, a doctor's appointment for me Wednesday, and Thursday a big family night at my school and a big family night at my kiddos school (of course they are on the same night at the same time!)</div>
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<b>Wanting</b> - I really want to get to work on some ideas I have for spring for my classroom and TpT I just can't seem to squeeze it in right now!</div>
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<b>Needing</b> - I am in charge of my teams 2 week fairy tale unit that we are doing right after spring break....so I need to get my backside in gear and find and make some good stuff for us. If you know of anything good I would love to hear about it!</div>
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As I was blog stalking Elizabeth at <a href="http://liveitloveitlearnit.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kickin' It In Kindergarten</a>, I found out about this great Linky where you can find other bloggers from your state!! I love finding other Wisconsin bloggers....so some day (when it stops snowing!!) we can have a bloggy meet up! Head on over to Diane's blog <a href="http://fifthinthemiddle.blogspot.com/p/blogs-by-state_9707.html" target="_blank">Fifth in the Middle</a> and find your state and link up!! She even has these cute buttons you can grab and put on your blog!</div>
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Now on to some Word Family Fun!</div>
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During our RtI time this week we are working on word families and I am lucky enough to have the group that understands word families already! So we have been able to do some fun activities. </div>
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Yesterday I gave them 6 word family endings and pieces of construction paper. I asked them to each brainstorm 2 words that fit in each word family. When they were done they each had 12 cards. Then I put them in groups of 4 and we put all of their cards in a large bag and mixed them up. Then time ran out for the day!</div>
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So today when they came in they got back into their groups and spread all of the cards from their bag in the middle of the table and played word family memory. If the words were in the same word family they were a match! They loved it and it was even a little bit challenging for them because I gave them the -ick and -ock word families, so they really had to pay attention.</div>
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I wish I could post about all of the cute projects and learning we did last week but...........I really have no idea what my kiddos did last week!!! GASP!!! Why you might ask???? </div>
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And despite my best efforts to fidget, look and the clock and explain that my kiddos certainly wouldn't be able to live without their teacher I was picked to serve on a jury for an actual trial!!!!! Obviously they have no idea how hard it is for a teacher to sit still and only pay attention to one thing at a time!! I was constantly reminding myself to pay attention to what was going on and not think about the other 100 things I could be doing!</div>
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The case actually turned out to be pretty interesting and I was able to come home at night. However we had strict instructions not to blog or use other social media - GASP!!!!! I survived (barley)!</div>
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Of course since I wasn't planning on being picked so I only prepped for 2 out of the 3 days ahead of time. I was planning to squeeze in all of the fun projects that I didn't want to leave for the sub on Friday....alas no such luck...instead I was scrambling to make plans for Friday. Luckily I have an AWESOME team who pitched in and made things so much easier. My kiddos survived too.....mostly.....as Friday was also our drill day so they had a fire drill, tornado drill and lock down drill with the sub!!! (I felt awful for her!) We did have a serious talk today about the expected behavior during said drills regardless of if I am there for them or not! </div>
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So to make up for not having anything cute to share from last week I have linked up a Teen Number Math freebie below. I am using it as a recording sheet in one of my math centers this week, but you can also use it on its own. In my math center the kids are picking a teen number card and then building the number with 10's rods and 1's cubes. Next they find the number on the sheet below and cut and paste the 10's rods and 1's cubes and make it on the ten frames. Click <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Building-Teen-Numbers-Freebie" target="_blank">HERE</a> to grab your free copy! I would love to hear your feedback if you download it!</div>
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Happy Monday! I wanted to share a little love with you all before Valentine's Day. I just finished another sight word book called You Can Have My Heart and uploaded it to TpT. Until Valentine's Day you can click on the picture below and grab it for FREE, after that it will become a paid item. I am using it in literacy centers this week and my kiddos love it. I hope your kiddos do too! If you grab it I would love to know what you think!! Happy Valentine's week!</div>
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Friday was our 100th day of school!!! I love doing fun thing in the classroom but last week just seemed REALLY stressful, I HATE weeks like that. Especially when I don't know why, my kiddos was really good so it wasn't that! I did have a parent issue that was drug out for the whole week (like I got an email on Sunday night and it wasn't resolved until the end of the day Friday!) and then turned out to be something really easily solved, so I guess that must have been part of it. But anyway we did manage to have some FUN on Friday!</div>
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We started by making these cute 100's day hats. My kiddos spent about 45 minutes or maybe more writing the numbers 1-100 in groups of 10 on strips for their hats. The kiddos did a GREAT job, you could have heard a pin drop in my room while they worked. Then they arranged them in order on a sentence strip and glued them down. Next we added the cute front plate from the <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/100th-Day-of-School-Hat" target="_blank">100th day of school hat</a> by <a href="http://kindercraze.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-fabulous-100th-day-of-school.html" target="_blank">Kinder Craze</a> and Q-tip painted the 100 dots. The kiddos loved the painting!</div>
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Then DISASTER struck! It was my own fault! I was being impatient! It was getting close to lunch time and I had other fun activities planned! So instead of waiting for the paint to dry before I fit their hats on them, I started stapling them while the paint was wet! Can you guess what happened next????? Yup I got paint all over my cute t-shirt that we had made just for the 100th day of school! Oh and did I mention the paint was on my chest and that we had a staff outing that night at a local restaurant and I didn't bring any other shirt to change into and I had a meeting with the above mentioned parent after school!!!! So yes I met with the parent and went out for beverages with paint on my chest!!! But the hats were cute!</div>
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So after lunch I hid 100 Hersey's kisses with the numbers 1-100 written on the bottom for the kiddos to find and put on our 100's chart. I wrote this note and put it on the door to our room. They had to read the note before they came in and listen to the rules no running, you can only get one kiss at a time, you have to put it on the chart on the right number before you can find another. I only had 1 (ok 3) kiddos walk around with a handful that I then had to take and hide again. And we only had 1 kiss we couldn't find (luckily I had extras and could write the number on the bottom and hide it quickly). Yes that means there is still a kiss hidden somewhere in the room! </div>
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Here is our completed chart! You can't tell but it was an AABBCC pattern. We then figured out how many kisses we could each have. It ended up being 5 per person! They were excited!</div>
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In the afternoon we made the cute Zero the Hero craftivity from <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Zero-the-Hero-Math-Craftivity" target="_blank">Foxwell Forest</a> and read Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten. Then we made our 100's day snack mix with the 100 items each of the kids brought in. They loved it!</div>
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Overall it was a great day and I survived......but my shirt didn't!</div>
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Sooooo my report cards are FINALLY done! They seem like they took FOREVER this time (it might be because I kept getting sidetracked with blogs...giveaways....and sales) but they are done and out!!! I created a sheet to put in with our report cards that explains the Fountas and Pinnell guided reading levels that we use. We explain the levels at a parent meeting at the beginning of the year but I figure if they are anything like me they have lost the sheets we gave out and only vaguely remember what we said! If you would like your FREE copy just click on the picture below!</div>
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I was also distracted from report cards because I won some great clip art from Erica over at <a href="http://blooming-in-first.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-first-giveaway.html" target="_blank">Blooming in First Grade</a>. So I just had to make something with them! In math we are working on our tricky teen numbers and my kiddos just LOVE a good game of I Have Who Has so I made a 0-20 version with Erica's super cute clip art. You can click on the picture if you would like to check out my I Have Who Has Game in my TpT store.</div>
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And last but by no means least......my friend Nicki over at <a href="http://mrsthigpenskindergarten.blogspot.com/2013/02/100-follower-giveaway.html" target="_blank">Mrs. Thigpen's Kindergarten</a> is having a 100 follower giveaway!!! It is big and you don't want to miss it!! The contest ends February 10th so head on over and check it out you won't be disappointed she is awesome!!</div>
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I know I am a little late linking up for the <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2013/02/currently-february.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fjtmhg+%28Oh%27+Boy+4th+Grade%29" target="_blank">Farley </a>for the February Currently, but today was CRAZY!!! It was my son's last pinewood derby race and my hubby has been OBSESSED with learning how to build the best car (no really he has spent 100's of hours researching, prototyping, and networking). Then he also helped some other boys in his den with their cars so he was STRESSED out about them all doing well. Luckily everyone did great but it was a LOOOONG day!</div>
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But anyway here is my currently! I am the only one left up so I have control of the t.v. (which never happens)! I should be doing report cards but I keep putting them off!! Actually I just have comments left to do. I will have to finish those tomorrow after I am done shopping the big TpT sale! And my pet peeve is all about people leaving stuff out for other to clean up, whether it is my students, my kids, my hubby it seems to happen all the time!!</div>
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I am also late linking up with <a href="http://freebie-licious.blogspot.com/2013/02/fabulicious-freebies-on-first.html" target="_blank">Freebielicious</a> for Fabulicious Freebies on the First, but I wanted to share our fun Pirate freebies from our Pirate unit last week, there are 2 of them! </div>
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We really want to do an art project but didn't want to do people pirates so we decided to do Owl Pirates instead! We made them as a glyph and the kids loved them! You can click on the picture below to take you to the google doc with the patterns for the Owl Pirate. You can either copy them onto construction paper or make tracers. If you want to see more pics of these owls I blogged about them <a href="http://www.clearlykindergarten.blogspot.com/2013/01/pirates-freebies-and-giveaways.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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I also created a Pirate Story Map to use with my kiddos this week. You can pick any pirate story to use it with. We used it after we read How I Became a Pirate. We also got to see the play How I Became a Pirate at a local theater on Friday. It was great (as long as we don't talk about the student who was fooling around in his chair and fell off and hit his head on the chair in front of him, who was occupied by a parent chaperone of course!)! Click on the picture below to grab your copy of the glyph we used to make the owl pictured above and the Pirate Story Map. Hope you can use them!</div>
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I am linking up with Khrys from Keepin it Kool In Kinderland for her Super Sale Linky. The poor think is stuck in bed after surgery (BOO), but good for us because she had time to think up this great linky party! All you have to do is be participating in the TpT Sunday Super Sale and then pick a few items you are excited about being on sale, blog about them and link up! Easy! Click on the picture to take you to the linky post!</div>
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I have been SLOWLY adding thing to my TpT store, so there isn't as much there as I would like, but I want to make sure that everything that is in my store is stuff I have used with my kiddos this year. <br />
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So first up is my Snowman Games for words families. My kiddos actually cheered this week when I got this game out again! What cheering for practicing reading word family words?!? Yes they really did cheer! It is super easy to play and it is already inexpensive, on Sunday it will be REALLY cheap! Click on any of the pictures and it will take you to the product in my TpT store.</div>
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My kiddos also loved the games that were in my Winter Centers for Addition and Subtraction pack. We used them over the last few weeks and I will pull out the addition and subtraction cards again in a few weeks for more review.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I also have differentiated sight word books (not as many as I would like to have done, but I digress) available. I use these in my literacy centers every week to practice the sight word we are working on. The link below is for the book that works on the words in, the. But there are also a few others that are done in my store. If you like them and there are specific themes or words you are looking for I would love to hear from you!!!</span></div>
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Thanks for stopping by, I'm off to fill my cart with all the great stuff I have found through this linky party!!<br />
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