Winter Bump Freebie

Hello All!  Just got back from a STIMULATING teacher inservice. (can you hear the sarcasm?)  It really wasn't that bad.  Anyway,  I have decided to upload my Winter Bump game.  It is patterned after one I found at Sunny Days in Second Grade.  I contacted Denise and she said she didn't mind if I shared.  Hop over to her blog to check out all of her bump games. 
Here's how you play:

Roll three number cubes and add those numbers. Cover that space with your marker. If your partner is already on that number, you can bump your partner’s color and take their space! If you bump your partner, they take back their marker and have a chance to use it again. If you roll a number that you have already covered, you can stack another marker on top of it!

Any space with two markers stacked on top of each other, is locked and that space can’t be bumped. If

you roll a number that is not available on the board, the next player takes their turn.

The player to use all of their cubes wins!

Hope you enjoy it!   Click HERE!  Winter Addition Bump

Holly Bloggy Christmas Exchange

This December I participated in the Holly Bloggy Christmas Exchange.  I have to admit, I get so excited about these things - but I am the world's worst about getting them done! :)  I don't even participate in our school's secret santa anymore because I know my partner will get their gifts a little late.  Anyhoo, I thought since this was one gift I could handle it.  Wrong.  I sent it late.  So I am apologizing to the blogging world and to Julia Powell, (almost Stephenson!) my gift receiver, for sending my gift late! 

Ok. Now that I have confessed and feel a bit lighter in the guilt area, here are some pics of what I received and what I gave.

I got this wonderful clipboard with my name on it, a sticky note holder, a book called The Case for Christ, some adorable hand-made cards, and some extra sticky notes to tide me over.  It is all very cute and I can tell she really tried to match colors to my blog!  I wish I could give credit to my wonderful gift, but my husband for once was trying to be helpful and for once took out the trash - which included the box with her name and address on it!  Ah!  Husbands!  Why do they all of a sudden become responsible when you are expecting their irresponsibility?  I have e-mailed Caitlin and Sarah and will hopefully have her name soon.
Her name is Alyssa Leonard and her blog is called Echoes of the Creator.  Check her out!  Her blog is beautiful!

Here is what I sent.  I took a picture frame and cut cute, seasonal scrapbook paper to fit inside.  You use the outside as a type of white board and you can change the paper out to fit the season.  I make these for my kiddos teachers and they always seem to like them!  I hope Julia liked hers!

Ok.  That is it.  I will probably post soon about all of my December activities - but knowing me it will actually get posted in January some time.  I really need to get help about this procrastinating problem! :)

Lately... (a post about everything happening in my classroom lately!)

I feel like I have been one crazy chick lately.  December came and took me by storm!  We have been very busy and here is the proof:

First up, Gingerbread Men

Gingerbread Labeling.

I love Kindergarten spelling!

graphing whether or not we liked the taste of gingerbread.

Which Gingerbread book is your favorite?

Next, Our interactive writing.  This idea came from the Kindergals.  Kim and Megan (so sounds like I know the personally, right?) :)  They had a great suggestion to use the topic of how to decorate a Christmas tree as your interactive writing.  They had wonderful suggestions of, 1.  "Sharing isn't always equal."  This saved my sanity!  The kiddos helped me write but you can see where I guided them along.  2.  Give each kid their own dry erase board and marker to work on while you are writing with each individual student.  Genius!  They were so quiet and diligent as they were working - and it kept them busy! No rolling on the floor here!  Thank you ladies for making this a memorable lesson!

This little guy struggles so much.  To see him working so hard to write words down just made me do a happy dance!

This young lady was so upset when she ran out of room to write.  She wanted to get another white board to continue on instead of erasing!

Get the tree.

Put on the lights.

Put on the ornaments.

Put on the star.

One of my little helpers.

Our finished project.

Then on to Santa.  We made a list of things Santa has.  We created the chart first to generate some ideas.  I then hid the words so they could create their own lists. 

One of our last projects was to finish our Christmas five Senses booklet.  It can be found on my blog under freebies.

Last but not least we played an ornament grab game.  The kiddos had to take turns grabbing a handful of ornaments out of the bag and then adding them together.  I have tried to upload this recording page to google docs for days now but it hasn't been letting me even get into it.  Maybe I will be able to later.  I really do want to share! :)  I bought the ornaments in the dollar section at Target. (where else, right?)

That's it.  That's what is going on lately.  What's going on in your room?

Christmas Five Senses (freebie)

Hi all!  Can ya'll believe it is about the end of December!?  We are beginning our assessments and are busy, busy, busy!  I know everyone is in the same boat so I thought I'd lighten our mood with another freebie.  Hope this is something you can use!  Click HERE or click the picture!  Leave me some comment love if you download! :) (comments make me happy!)

How Do You Keep the Gingerbread Man From Escaping? (freebie)

Click here to find out!

Gingerbread Man Read/Write the room freebie

Somebody wonderful out there had the great idea to have the kiddos walk around and find a certain colored turkey and write the word on it on their recording sheet.  (If this is you please leave a comment below!)I took her idea and adapted it to gingerbread men.  Hope this is something you can use!

Gingerbread Man Read/Write The Room

Sooooo Random - part 2

Here are a few more pics from October and Nov.  Someday I will have time to keep things updated.... someday.

Here we go:

These number circle maps are from Fran at Kindergarten Crayons.  The kids loved making these!

Our roll/color a monster game.  This one is one I made and can be found for free on this blog.

I pinned this off pinterest somewhere.  The kids helped make it and then made their own.

50s day patterns.  Anyone remember who made this?

Pics of selves on 50s day.

Check out her blowing bubble gum on the 50th day!

We had root beer floats and graphed whether or not the ice cream would sink or float.

graphing our bubble blowing.

Here is our map of Sarah Morton's day.

Here is our map on Pilgrims and Native Americans.

We made this chart together then they made the Mayflower boats and added a list of items the Pilgrims brought with them.

Native American on the other.

Turkey on one side.

That's it for now.  Hopefully I'll have some Owl stuff and gingerbread stuff to share later on this month.