Five for Friday!

Happy Friday! Time for my favorite linky. Thanks Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for hosting!

There are many perks of working at a K-12 school:

1) I have an amazing high school student who comes in for one period a day to help out in the classroom.
And...
2) They always have left over pie each year when they celebrate "pi" day.
(You should have seen how excited all of those math fanatics were this year since the date for pi day  had "15" [the next 2 numbers after 3.14 in pi].... 3.14.15) Hey, I'll be that excited if it involves pie :)

We continued on with our plant unit this week. Our focus when reading about sunflowers was describing words. After reading about sunflowers, each student wrote one word on a post-it and stuck it to our chart.
These words made a reappearance in our journals.

I was impressed that one of my students knew that these words were called "adjectives". When I asked how she knew that, she replied "My family plays a lot of MadLibs".

"Beautiful, Humungous, Pretty"

Flip 10

If you are working on sums of 10, your kids will love this game! Students play in pairs a game similar to memory. Player 1 flips over 2 cards. If the sum = 10, they keep the cards. Whoever has the most combinations of 10 at the end wins! It's great practice to help get sums of 10 automatic.

I encouraged them to go beyond counting their fingers: "Try saying the biggest number and then counting on: 8....and 2 more.... 8.... 9, 10!"

Subtraction Stories

Last week we read Who Stole the Cookies from the Cookie Jar and made a class book. This week used the Five Little Monkeys to help us practice subtraction sentences.

First, we got out our individual whiteboards to write the subtraction sentences as we read Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree by Eileen Christelow

Then, we made our own stories!

Thanks Mrs. Ricca's Kindergarten for the resources! (Click HERE to get your own FREE copy of the Five Little Monkeys subtraction story booklet.)

Each student created their own book featuring 3 different subtraction sentences.

Mr. Bones visited our class this week to teach us about our skeletons. He even brought X-rays of different people and animal bones! He was a hit!

Mr. Bones taught us that our bones: 1) Give us support, 2) Help us move, and 3) Protect important organs.

He even taught us 10 different bone names. (I laughed when a student said "Patella rhymes with Nutella!" Yes, yes it does!)

Click on the picture below to dance along to Dem Bones School Tube video.

These guided drawing skeleton paper dolls turned out adorable!

Five for Friday!

It's time to link up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for 5 randoms from this week.

I thought it would never come!!! But it came! It's fi-i-i-i-nally SPRING! (So this is what it feels like to be happy again!)

We went from below zero temperatures in our weather journals last week to this....

Echos my sentiments exactly.

We leaped into our plant unit this week. We learning about the parts of a plant and the things it needs to grow.

First we read The Tiny Seed by Eric Carl. Gotta have the classics.

The Needs of a Plant YouTube video. (In kindergarten, you always watch music videos twice - the first time you bob your head and the second time you DANCE!)

 Before labeling our own artistic creations, we labeled our anchor chart.

Our hallway looks like a beautiful garden!

Now we are waiting..... and waiting... ever so patiently for our bean seeds to grow. C'mon little seeds. You can do it!

Get your FREE printable HERE from The Chalkboard Garden's TpT store!

Does anyone LOVE watercolors as much as I do? While other teachers are like "We better plan use our watercolors before the end of the year." .... I'm like..." I hope these last until the end of the year!"

Watercolors are my favorite art medium to use in the classroom.
 

This was our Bible enrichment project after our story about Jesus and Nicodemus. Jesus transforms our lives!

My hubby is in luck! My culinary passions have been revived!

Last night I attended the annual Taste of Home Cooking School. I had my fingers crossed hoping to win the demo plate of these cookies. BACON & WALNUT CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES. I know!

No matter! I will make them this weekend - with extra bacon!

Enjoy your weekend!