First Linky

Okay one of my New Year's Resolutions is to write more for my blog, so I thought I would begin by joining my first linky party every.  The party is from the blog "A Peach for the Teach" and I found the linky through another blog which was Smedley's Smorgasboard of Kindergarten.  Okay so here goes my first linky post:

My biggest goal on the resolutions is to write more for this blog.  I really want to increase the followers I have so that I have even more friends and teachers to share and get ideas from each day.  Blogs I have found are a wonderful resource and have made me a better more created teacher for the wonderful kids in my class.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post and check out the other teachers blogs on their New Year's Resoulution, it hopefully will inspire you like it has me this past year and in the upcoming year.

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Chat soon,

Leslie

Almost There!!!!!

Well I just wanted to take a minute and check in with everyone.  I know most of you are feeling like I am which is “when is the holiday break again”.  My classroom kids overall are doing well but you can definitely tell that they have the “HOLIDAY SPIRIT” in them.  I am counting down these last five days telling myself each morning “I think I can, I think I can.”

Onto another topic what I stopped by to share.  Last week we had a three day week due to snow and we didn’t get as much done as I had hoped but one project definitely stood out and I wanted to share it quickly with you.

I call it the Shape Christmas Tree.  In our math series we were working on attributes of different shapes.  So to incorporate Christmas and shapes together we made trees.  We began with different size squares.  We cut the squares on a diagonal to make triangles and then we assembled the triangles to make a Christmas tree.  We added a rectangle tree trunk and ta-da.  The tree part of the project took one day.  I then pulled out a Christmas tree glyph that I found on Shari Sloane’s website and we decorated the trees with circle shapes.  The kids did a wonderful job, we got the  skills covered and we had fun with the project.  The pictures are below, I hope you enjoy them as much as we did making them.

Write more soon,

Leslie

December Fun and Snow Day

Okay who else had a snow day today or maybe this past Friday.  Well I was lucky enough to be among the snow day relaxation crew and what did I do-worked on school stuff or should I say tried to catch up on school stuff.  Yes by the way it is supposed to snow/sleet tomorrow and I am doing a the traditional things to get another snow day or should I call it catch up day 2. 

Anyway I just wanted to stop in for a minute and say hello to anyone reading this and share some of the things that we have been doing in my classroom.

In our math we have been working on 2-D shapes.  I looked through our math series and the word that came to mind was ‘boring’, so I decided on plan B.  First we made shapes our of popsicle sticks and then we used those shapes to make a craft.  The project is not complete as of yet but hopefully we should finish it the first day we are back in school after the snowy weather.  Here are a couple of pictures of our anchor chart and the beginning of our craft project.

Another exciting activity for the week or should I call it teacher holiday sanity activity is the elf arrived this past Monday.  Our elf’s name is Scout and he has been watching over us and bringing notes back about what he has shared with Santa.  One day the kids were so good that Scout brought stockings back from Santa for the kids to decorate.  Wow!

Well I am going to stop for now, since I haven’t heard about school tomorrow I guess I should get ready just in case the phone doesn’t ring in the morning.  (please ring, please ring, please ring)  Don’t get me wrong I love my job and love my class but the thought of catching up one more day sounds really good to me.

Enjoy your week and check back soon I hope to have some new free items to post soon.

Leslie