Graduation preparation is well underway in my Kindergarten class! We are only 10 days away from graduation and I have lots of great things to share with you. Our graduation ceremony is very simple and is sort of a mix of a prayer service and kindergarten concert. We open with
My kinders are learning about measurement this week. Today we were working on the Common Core standard K.MD.2 to describe and compare measurable attributes. If you’re a follower of the blog, you’ll know that I LOVE hands-on learning, but I also need to CHECK my students work to be certain
My students have been learning about solid figures and using some really great resources in the classroom. We began the unit of study by creating a chart of the six basic solid figures (cone, sphere, cube, pyramid, cylinder, and rectangular prism.) We discussed the shapes we see on the side
Tomorrow is my school’s annual May Crowning ceremony. I’m not sure if this is a big event in all Catholic Schools, but since I teach at St. Mary School, it is a VERY important tradition at mine. Tomorrow’s ceremony is for the Preschool, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade students. All children
We do the Daily 5 in my classroom. (Well, if I’m being perfectly honest, until recently it was just the Daily 3 – Read to Self, Read to Someone, and Work on Writing). About a month ago, my kiddos were finally ready to take on their fourth Daily 5 activity:
Hello again! I was loving the farm clip art so much from kpmdoodles that I just HAD to make another activity for my kiddos! We’re going to do a mini farm unit this week and I am encouraging them to stretch out words and record as many sounds as they
