Games

Last year I found this really great site for Center Activities!  Pocketful of Centers has a lot of really cute and engaging activities for our young learners!!  Here are a few of them in action!!

Matching color word to color

Apple Tree Number Match

Apple Tree Number Match in action... :)

I also use a lot of resources from the Florida Reading Research Center.  Check them out if you have not already.  Here is one of our favorite activities....Beginning Sound Wheel Match(I also have a capital/lowercase wheel).  I wrote the answers on the back of the wheels so they are self check too! :)

Decorating Trees

We also had some fun decorating some Christmas Trees using Deanna Jump's Christmas Unit.  The children decorated a tree using lights and then they graphed/tallied what color lights they used.    

On Wednesday morning they were excited to come in and not do their typical welcome work!!  They got to color a candy cane if they liked them and decorate a star if they didn't.  I think the tree turned out beautiful.  You can't see it in the picture, but we counted to find out that 21 children like candy canes and 2 do not.  :)

Gingerbread Man Fun

O.K - I told you I would post some pics when I could recover them....so here we go!! :)

Thanks to Deanna Jump, we had a great time creating our Gingerbread Pie Graph and writing about our results.  The children had a much easier time writing about these results than when they wrote about the Turkey pie graph(Do you like turkey?).  Practice makes perfect!! :)  

Which Part of the Gingerbread Man Did You Bite First?

 

How Tall are You?

I found some pictures!!  We used our Gingerbread Men to measure how tall we are!  They had a great time.  We took turns standing in front of our gingerbread men and counted the gingerbread men.  We graphed our results and then showed our work on a response sheet.  They had a great time and most were able to show their work.  :)

October Fun!!!

We have been very busy during the month of October.  The Fall is one of my favorite times of year in Kindergarten.  There are sooooo many fun activities to do that it is almost impossible to get to all of them!!  Here are just a few of the highlights from the month!

October Door

This is our door for the month.  I found those adorable Halloween characters at The Dollar Tree.  I think they look so cute hanging out with my polka dots!!  I will have to take the down to make room for our turkeys!!!

October Family Project

Our October Family Project was to design a Jack o Lantern.  They turned out really cute !!

Jack o Lantern

Following Directions

Green Gables Kindergarten

This was a great following directions activity for my kids.  The kids were really proud of their finished Jack o Lanterns!  They had fun brainstorming and deciding on how they were going to finish their "My pumpkin is _______." sentence.  They did a really good job.  I used them as decoration around our classroom door.  You can kind of see some of them in the family project picture above.

Carving a Jack o Lantern

This activity is always a highlight for the kids each year.  My children this year particularly  loved cleaning the "guts" out of the pumpkin the best!  This is the first time for a lot of them to ever see the inside of a pumpkin.  I made sure that they smelled the inside too!!  We got called to an assembly in the middle of the carving so we had to stop and I had to finish the carving part after school.  They were really excited to see the finished product all lit up the next morning.  I guess I was excited too because I forgot to take a picture of him.  :(

Haunted House Patterns

Green Gables Kindergaten

I found this activity a few weeks before Halloween and I knew when I saw it my kids were gonna love it, and I was right!!  They had a great time creating their own patterns using foam halloween pieces I found a Target.  I was surprised at some of the more difficult patterns that were made!  

Batty -at Words

I created this activity because so many of my kids were having a hard time blending and creating -at words.  I wanted provide them with another fun opportunity to use and manipulate the different letters used to make the -at words.  They had to read the words to me when they were finished.  

October flew by so fast!  I can't believe it is November already and only 2 weeks away from Thanksgiving! I have recently found some really great ideas and activities from some awesome teachers that I plan in implementing during these next 2 weeks!  We are going to have a lot of fun!!!