GroundHog's Day & Artist Week

I really enjoy this teacher thing.  Just a glimpse of some cool groundhog's prediction pictures and display.
The book we read was :  You can click on the picture to learn more about the book.  I love this book.  It was fantastic and when the camel saw its shadow it saw a sandstorm so you could have students predict what the animal may cause.    My students did a writing on what they recalled after each animal saw their shadows.

Check out Growing Kinders Groundhog Day book.  It's free on TeachersPayTeachers yall

     

Our curriculum had a theme about building and creating.  Through this theme we introduced creating meaningful art.  We talked about different stories and artists.  We then marble painted and painted on canvasses.  Check out some of our beautiful work.
They turned out so awesome that I layered it on black paper and laminated it.

This student is the best artist in my classroom. 

100th Day Madness- Links and pictures galore

Today was absolutely hands down one of my favorite days of school and being a teacher!!!! Now, one of the best parts about being a Kindergarten teacher is that I can re-live some of those childhood years (I live vivaciously through my students). Anyways, I was not raised in America, and in Jamaica the preschool I attended never did anything for 100th day so of course I did my much needed research on Pinterest to learn about this school tradition. The night before I had a surprise plan for my co-workers and students. I made my own 100 day smarter shirt * I have my shirt plan for next year* I got the original print from this pin.
Our 100th day was on January 31st and we did a all school celebration in the first of February.

The back of my shirt with my students name on it.
It was a great undertaking.
                         

My students were able to count to 100 using our adorable counting mats which were made by my co-teacher and we created 100 years old art inspired by many Pinterest (check out the first pinterest link I posted, it has everything) posts and of course Mrs. Deanna's Jump's 100 post. My students also wrote about "If they had a 100 dollars". Unfortunately I did not take picture of that writing but the 100 dollar bill had their picture in the middle, pretty cool. You can find examples of this on Pinterest (plenty online if you search, just an example) also. Lastly, we did an oral language activity where students state that "I want 100_____ but I would not want 100 ______________." This could also be used for a writing project as well.

100 DAY COUNTING MATS. sorry it's upside down ;)

The original can be found here

The girls had cute little bejewels that they tried
to match to make earrimgs. 

My favorite 100 year old person.
This student wanted to show the
bald spot in the middle of his head.
HILARIOUS!!!

The finished wall display. Aren't they adorable 
at 100?!?!?! I hope I look this good when I am 100 :)

                           
To make these adorable people I created my own body template and it from our 12*12 scrap booking paper. We use cotton balls that I taught students to fluff and stretch to make the hair. Of course, don't forget to mention that they rub the glue on the spot the spot they want to go and not on the cotton ball (sometimes I take it for granted that my students are only four years old and have to be explicitly taught). We used the big googly eyes and then red colored pencil for their smile. Also, something I had to teach when I realized that my boys were obsessed with making vampire teeth. I love teaching K1 <3

Some great 100 day books that I own and read were:
        

At the end of the day I made a cool 100th day frame out of construction paper and scrap booking scraps. It came out super cute.

And a cute random pic: My staff picture finally came in. Since, I am a natural hair girly, I love to adorn my tresses with four year old head bands (provides an awesome conversation starter for my students and I. We are always talking about our headbands ;)