Merry Christmas

I am sure everyone is sooo busy this time of year. I know that in my classroom, I can not seem to get everything done in time for that big day!.I want to Thank everyone who has supported my TpT and Teachers Notebook store this year. I hope to post new units soon for winter. Check back soon. And THANKS! so much.
Merry Christmas
Ladybug

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Christmas is fast approaching. Check out the great sales at Teachers pay Teachers on Cyber Monday and Tuesday November 26 & 27. I have everything in my store at 20% off.  Use code CMT12 to get an additional savings at checkout.
Teachers Notebook is also offering a Black Friday sale from Saturday Nov. 24-26. I am also having a sale. Teacher Notebook is offering an additional savings.
Check out my new Christmas packets.
Gingerbread Fun
Christmas Fun
Christmas Sweater Math and Literacy Center
Christmas Clip-It Beginning Sounds and Math Centers
Happy Holidays!
Ladybug in Kindergarten

Link to Teachers Helping Teachers

Here is the link to go to the blog that is supporting this great opportunity.
http://publicschoolteachersodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/11/teachers-help-teachers.html
Thanks Ladybug

Teachers Helping Teachers

Many schools, children and teachers have been affected by Hurricane Sandy. A few teachers are donating lessons and packets from the Teachers Pay Teachers stores and Teachers Notebook store. Such a great idea. Keep these people in your prayers and donate items from your store if you have one. I am donating today.

New Units

I am so excited! I have 90 followers at my teachers pay teachers store. I know that is small beans but it means so much to me.
I have posted an Elections unit. This will make a great Social Studies unit for the end of October and beginning of November. You can choose to have a small election in your very own classroom right along with our elections in November.
I have also post Thanksgiving Fun!. This unit contains many ideas to use all through November. Check it out. It also included Thanksgiving Clip-It to use in Math Centers.
Happy Thanksgiving!

Chapter 3 of Curriculum Maps

I finally finished Chapter 3 of the Common Core Curriculum Maps. I just posted it on Teachers pay Teachers. I am finishing up Chapter 1 this week with my kiddos. I am going to do Chapter 3 next with my children at school. Chapter 3 seems to fit my units better to use now during Community Helpers. I will begin Chapter 2 later in the fall. Check it out.

Welcome Fall

I am getting ready for some FALL fun in Kindergarten. I love the fall units. Check out my Tpt store for Seasons of the Apple Tree, Falling Leaves, Pumpkins and Scarecrows and Oh!Christopher Columbus Math, Science and Literacy units.
Check out the pictures below on the blog and to the side.

Classroom Set Up

I love looking at other classrooms and getting some great ideas. I moved my classroom this year to a new room. I thought it would be fun to share some pictures of my room.

This is my large group area. I have calendar activities, math, and weather lessons. Also you can see my Reading corner with Weatherman Bob on top of the file cabinet. Below is my work area and Smart Board.

Literacy Table, Math Center with Math Word Wall. I will post sight words on the red board and schedule.

Environmental print on back cabinets, Puppet Stand. I have Science Centers in the wood sand tables.

My husband made the wood working center. FUN!

Back to School

School begins next week on Thursday, August 16. I am busy this week at a workshop on Math Assessments by Kathy Richardson. I will talk a little about this more later.
Check out my store at Teachers pay Teachers on August 12 & 13 for a Back to School Sale. At checkout, use the code BTS12 for an extra discount up to 28% off.
Also at Teachers notebook, I am having a sale August 7-10.

Bottle Cap Literacy Memory Game

My kinders love playing all kinds of board games. I made a Bottle Cap Literacy Memory Game. It is played like traditional memory games. Students turn over bottle caps looking to match upper to lower case letters. Another version of the game is to match beginning sound picture game pieces to letter game pieces. Check out the game on my Teachers pay Teachers or Teachers Notebook store.
Many children come to school today with little experience playing board games. This game is great for students learning to take turns, conversation with others, and social interaction.
I posted a picture of the cover at the bottom of blog with a small picture on the side.

Curriculum Maps Unit One

I am putting the finishing touches on And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon unit that is aligned with Unit One in the Common Core Curriculum Maps for Kindergarten. I have included the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle, Diddle printable as well as Brown Bear, Brown Bear activities to go along with A Colorful Time with Rhythm and Rhyme. I will post my new unit on Monday. Check it out as well as Unit Two The Hungry Caterpillar packet.

Clip-It Freebie

Check Teachers pay Teachers for a Clip-It Freebie. I will post it on Teachers Notebook tonight between canning beans and making relish!

Grab and Go Center Activities

Do you kiddos always say "I'm Done"? I have come up with a way for my early finishers to work on an activity independently. I have a "I'm Done" basket full of Literacy and Math packets inside of a zipper pencil pouch. I got the pencil pouches at Dollar Store. I also got some dry erase markers at Dollar Store that have small erasers on the cap. I also purchased some mini clothes pins from the craft store. I laminate the cards and cut them apart. I put the Beginning sounds cards, or number counting cards inside with clothes pins and dry erase markers. My students choose an independent activity and clip the correct answer under each card.  They love working on the floor with the pencil packets. I have included the Beginning Sounds, Counting Numbers, Ending Sounds and Rhymes on my Teacher pay Teacher and Teacher Notebook stores. Check the bottom of the blog for a picture of the Beginning Sounds pack.

Seasons of the Apple Tree

I love apple picking time. My favorite field trip is to the apple orchard. I have post my new unit Seasons of the Apple Tree with Johnny Appleseed. This is aligned with Common Core Standards for Math and Literacy. I have also included season work for Essential Standards for Social Studies. Check out the pictures at the side and bottom.

The Everything Unit

As a special offer, I have "Bundled" together my Everything Alphabet and Everything Numbers units on Teachers Pay Teachers site. This is a great Back to School grab.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Today I am working on a Anchor Chart for The Very Hungry Ladybug. I am focusing on Concepts of Print for this chart. I will include the clipart with my new unit Hungry Caterpillar. This Anchor Chart is aligned with Common Core Standard:
R.L. 6 With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the fole of each in telling the story.
Check  out the picture of the Anchor Chart at the bottom of the blog.

Everything Alphabet

August will be here before we know it. I have posted my Everything Alphabet unit for Letter Recognition and Sounds. The unit included Alphabet Memory Match Game, Roll, Say and Keep Alphabet Game and Upper and Lower case letter match. Included in this unit is great printables for followup to centers. Check out "Everything Numbers" also.

Summer Busy!

I am so addicted to Pinterest! There are such great ideas from fellow teachers. Check out my boards for some of these great ideas. (kathyburnette)
Ok enough! Get off the couch and attack that list.
1. Pull weeds\
2. Loose 5 pounds.
3. Check the garden.
4. Check Pinterest.
5. Finish my unit on "Everything Alphabet"

Last work day for me. My teaching assistant and I with some help from our K Team moved everything into our new room in the Kindergarten wing. The room looks great! It will be August before we know it. So much to do this summer!

Everything Numbers Math Centers

Check out some of the pictures of my Math Centers from "Everything Numbers."

Everything Numbers

I have been busy the last day of this school year. Just when I thought that I had my room the way I liked it, I am having to move down the hallway to a new room. Lots of work!

New Spring Units

I have posted 3 new units to Teacher Pay Teacher and Teachernotebook.com. There is a picture of some of the printables, originial nonfiction books, and activities in the picture. The units include "I Can" statement posters for Language Arts and Math aligned to Common Core Standards in Kindergarten. I am currently working on "I Can" statements for Science and Social Studies.
I have also posted Rabbits and Hares a nonfiction Science unit with Math and Literacy Center ideas. This is a great unit to use for spring.
Bugs, Bugs, Bugs is a Math and Literacy unit. I have also included an originial nonfiction book to compare Moths and Butterflies.
Check out all 3 units on TpT or Teacher Notebook.

March Units

I have posted my March St. Patrick's Day Literacy and Math unit to Teacher Pay Teacher. There is also March Math Journals. My students have gained so much in math because of daily math journals. The March Math Journal packet is a seperate journal from our usual spiral math journals prompts. My students love that they will get to take the journal home at the end of the month or unit.

Monsters In Kindergarten

Our Monster unit this week was so much fun. Thanks for all the great ideas from Jamie Mayas and Deanna Jump's units. We had some awesome writing from my kiddos. I have posted a couple of pictures at the left of our writng wall. On to President's next week.

Valentine Monster Unit

For Valentine's Week, I am doing a Monster Unit in my classroo. I am using Deanna Jump's Where the Wild Thing Are unit and Jamie Mayas Monster Unit. Both units are on Teacher Pay Teacher site. My talented husband made Cookie Monster cupcakes for our special snack. The picture is at the bottom of the blog.

Community Helper Service Worker Unit

I have posted my new unit on Community Helpers on Teachers Pay Teachers. The unit is aligned with Common Core Standard for Math and Literacy. The unit contains beginning sound, ending sounds, syllables, a Writing Center and an Emergency Reader and Poem. Math includes counting, spin a graph, patterns, and What Comes Next. The cute graphics are from Lettering Delights and KPM Doodles. I hope your Kindergarten kiddos enjoy the unit.

Groundhog's Day Fun

I have included a photo of the Groundhog cupcakes that my talented husband made for our class. We predicted whether the groundhog would see his shadow and completed a nonfiction writing booklet from Deanna Jump's Groundhog unit. Fun!

Classroom Photos

I have finally taken some pictures of my Kindergarten classroom. The pictures include some of my favorite centers. I have also posted a picture of the wall outside of the classroom of our bears. My teaching assistant did a great job on the bears. The children love comparing how big the bears are to each other.

Camping Unit

I have posted my Camping Unit to Teachers Pay Teachers. This unit includes rhyming, Roll, Say and Keep sight word game, -amp word family, add ing to words and a Little Bear emergent reader. I use this unit along with real bears. My students love the measure fish activity. As part of our unit, we read each day around the class campfire. I am posting pictures  of some of the activities. Happy Camping!

This weeks happenings

This week we are finishing up Penguins and Winter. We are also working on activities on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I am also posting a Camping Unit on Teachers Pay Teachers. We are going to include this unit along with Real Bears next week. The Camping unit included many activities for balanced literacy and math. I have also included an emergent reader about Little Bear goes fishing. I hope to post this Wednesday. I have also posted on TpT a Groundhogs Day pack. There is a recording sheet to work on inference during Guided Reading or small groups. I have also included an emergent reader about the groundhog predicting the start of spring. Hope you enjoy the packets. I will post a picture soon.

Back to School

Today is our first day back to school since Christmas. We had a snow day on Tuesday. Icy roads canceled school. All my 22 kiddos were glad to be back. We started our Penguin unit. Our class read aloud today was If you could go to the Antarctica. I have also started a chapter book in the afternoon with my students. We began Mr. Popper's Penguins. The children enjoyed Chapter 1. We made connections to our class book about the Antarctica with Mr. Popper. We also made a chart listing r-controlled words from the book. My favorite today was making a father and baby penguin to go along with the poem, My Father's Feet. We used the penguin project and poem from First Grade Blue Skies TpT store. I will post a picture of our projects.