Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

We read the book 'Chicka Chicka Boom Boom' this week and discussed uppercase and lowercase letters. I created some centers for the kids that required them to form their names with letter tiles and to match uppercase and lowercase letters.

New School Year!

I am so excited for the start of another school year! This will be my 5th year teaching Kindergarten and I am looking for forward to meeting all of my new students!

Football theme for our first bulletin board :)

End of the Year

It's hard to believe it is already the end of the year! It has been such a joy to see the kids grow and mature and become such excellent readers! They are ready for 1st Grade!! Please encourage your child to keep reading this summer. The following is a list of various companies that have great summer reading programs that your child may want to participate in.

Chuck E. Cheese – Earn 10 FREE tokens every time your child reads for 2 weeks in a row. Just fill out the form and bring it in to claim your free tokens.
http://www.chuckecheese.com/promotions/pdf/CECRewardCal_READING_2012.pdf

PBS Kids Summer Reading Challenge – This challenge kicks off on June 6th and includes a FREE six week reading program and the chance for your kids to win daily prizes for their participation.
http://www.ivillage.com/challenges/summerreading/signup

Barnes & Noble Imagination Destination - This summer reading program through Barnes & Noble gives your child the ability to earn a FREE book after reading 8 books and keeping track of them in a reading log.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/summer-reading/379003570

Half Price Books – They are offering kids ages 14 and under a chance to earn a $5 Gift Card for reading just 15 minutes each day throughout the summer!
http://www.hpb.com/community/fyb/started/

Book Adventure - Sylvan offers this FREE reading incentive program. Basically your child reads books and then takes a simple comprehension quiz to make sure they understood what they read. The quiz is usually about 10 questions long. They earn points based on how much they remember from reading the book.
http://www.bookadventure.com/Home.aspx

National Amusements Theaters Bookworm Wednesdays - Your child can earn a FREE movie ticket from National Amusements Theaters when they read a book and complete a book report.

Local Public Library - Many public libraries will be having reading programs this summer that often include free books and prizes

Zoo

We had a great field trip to the zoo on Friday! We wrapped up a week of talking about animal habitats and enjoyed seeing some of the animals we had studied. Thanks to all of the parents who came along!

Animal Habitats

We have been studying animal habitats this week! Here are some activities we have been doing!

Sorting worksheet:

Animal habitat booklet:

Students chose one habitat to draw and then drew 3 animals that live in it:

Addition!

We have started learning addition facts this week and I created some great center games for the kids to play to practice adding!

The students choose 2 number cards and write the answer to the addition problem with a dry erase marker in the blank rectangle

The kids play with a partner and use a teddy bear marker/game piece and dice for the 2 games pictured above. They must answer the problem correctly to move ahead

Opposites!

We have been learning about opposites this week! We read Dr. Seuss's 'The Foot Book' and wrote and drew about 2 of the opposite words that were in the book