Five for Friday 8/27/15

I am finishing up my third full week of Kindergarten today!! WOOOHOOO! I am really happy with where we are as a kindergarten family! Now if I could just manage to get my life outside of school back on track my life would be complete! Wishful thinking I know ha!!
I am excited to get back into the blogging world with Doodle Bug Teaching and Five for Friday!

                                                                

On Monday one of my sweet little fellas brought me this! How precious is this? It melted my teacher heart and made me even more thankful for the job I have!

                                                               

Social centers are off to a great start! I am so thankful that I am able to incorporate choice time into my day. The last 45 minutes of each day are for play! I love watching them play and listening to their conversations. I have even been invited to play as well. I love my job:)

The sensory tub center has been a favorite this week. My kinders are loving this center! I should have added it years ago ha!

We wrapped up week 2 of Pete the cat! I love this unit and it has been so much fun. The class favorite book is Rocking in My School Shoes! Here is a peek at our Pete centers in action:)

I See Pete sight word book

Spin and color vowels

Linking cube letters thanks to Simply Kinders!!

Groovy Initial sound  color the room! 

Got to wear groovy glasses too!

QR codes were a success!! 

Rocking my teeny tiny letters

Write the room is always a class favorite!

Playdoh sight words

Spin and color sight words

We have had a fun and busy week!! My kinders are loving centers! My Groovy Fun with Pete unit is in my TPT store:)

I want to end my five for Friday with this quote I found on Facebook! I hope all of my blogging friends have had a FABULOUS start to the 2015-2016 school year! Enjoy every minute of your school year and celebrate every success both your kiddos and yours! Teaching is the most rewarding and stressful job all at the same time! We are miracle workers!!

Thank you so very much for stopping by and reading about my week! Hop over to Doodle Bug teaching to link up and join in on the fun!

Summer- Share and Prepare

 

I am linking up with Marie from Once Upon a Classroom: A Teacher's Tales for this share and prepare linky party. What a great way to share ideas and products to help each other be more prepared for the next school year! This week I am sharing a unit that is a HUGE hit with my kinders. WE LOVE PETE THE CAT! My kiddos were begging to read about Pete!! This is such a fun unit to kick off the year. The man that draws Pete is an Auburn University graduate and even though I am a die hard Alabama fan I think it is incredible that he lived in our state. My kinders think it awesome that a famous artist went to a college that is pretty well know around here and is close to us as well.

This unit also got a makeover recently with the #tptsellerchallenge

These are some of the Pete books I have. When the book fair came at the end of the year I added a few more to the collection.

This is the letter matching activity.  They match upper and lower case letters. As you can see Daleni spelled her name after she matched the letters. She was very proud of herself:)

QR codes are something that my kids really enjoy doing. I try to have 1 to 2 QR centers each week. One for literacy and one for math. For this center they scan the code and then color the matching letter on the recording sheet.

For some reason these are the only pictures I could find of my kinders in action with the activities in this unit. I'm sure it's because I was in the beginning of the year teacher fog!!! 

Here are the activities that are included in this unit. 

Literacy activities: QR code letters, write the room, letter match, teeny tiny letters, spin a vowel and a sight word font sort.

Math activities: 10 frame match up, spin and graph shapes, playdoh number mats, count the room, roll and trace numbers.

There are a few writing activities as well. Label Pete and I'm rocking in my shoes! 

Groovy Fun with Pete the Cat is $3.00 in my TPT store. You can click on the preview pictures to link to this unit.

Want a chance to win?!?!?

Enter the rafflecopter below for a chance to win then head over to Once Upon a Classroom-A Teacher's Tale to read about other ideas and products to help you start the school year off prepared! Link up to join in on all the fun! Winner will be announced Sunday morning!

The winner is Lori Tecler!! Congrats I just sent your unit!!

                                                               a Rafflecopter giveaway