Cyber Monday and Tuesday Sale

This is Robyn and Amy and we are joining in on the Cyber Monday and Tuesday sale on TPT! We are putting everything in our stores on a discount of 15%!!! You can find some great things on a discount! Click here for Robyn's TPT store!
This is one of Robyn's new Christmas/Winter items!
                      

Click Here to visit Amy's TPT store!  Here are a few Christmas products Amy has just released!

  

Decorate the tree.  Each tree has the product or quotient to a multiplication.  Match the factor ornaments to each tree.

 

This product has one and two step multiplication word problems.  Students work through the problems and then use an IPAD to scan QR codes to see if their answer is correct!

 

Mistletoe Multiplication contains 20 multiplication sentence cards with a matching array card, groups of card, repeated addition card, and related division sentence card to help your students better understand multiplication strategies!

December Currently

Can you believe it is December?! This is the best and craziest month of the year.  By the way, this is Robyn!  I am linking up with Oh’ Boy 4th Grade for her monthly currently.

Listening: COMPLETE SILENCE! Miss Priss is sleeping and that always makes things much quieter. I am enjoying this!

Loving: I am loving all of my Christmas décor.  I haven’t really decorated the last few years.  This year I am really in the mood. We have a total of 4 trees in the house this year!

This is our main tree.  It has lots of silver, white, and blue.  It also has all of Andrew’s ornaments that he made in daycare last year.

This is my favorite tree! This is in our kitchen.  It has burlap ribbon around and on the bow.  LOVE IT!

Thinking: Do I have to go back!? We go back to work next week after a whole week off. It is so hard to leave my own children!!

Wanting: A date night with the hubby! One weekend really soon we are going on a date all ALONE! We are going to have a nice dinner and watch The Hunger Games!

Needing: To spend time with friends.  I have missed spending time with the other two ladies that contribute to this blog! They are such wonderful friends! We are getting together next Sunday!

Favorite Tradition: Secret Santa! We always have Secret Santa at work and it is so much fun! I got a really great person this year! SHHH!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

Monday Made It

Happy Monday everyone! This is Robyn and I am going to share one of my newer TPT products.  Thanksgiving is right around the corner and I love to incorporate holidays into learning! Below are some examples of what is in my Thanksgiving Literacy and Math Fun!

Color by Sight Word- 2 versions

 

KWL and Venn Diagram

Math- Ordering Numbers, Comparing Numbers, Fillin the missing number

Thanksgiving FUN! Reader

I have already used many of these and the kids LOVED them! You can get this here! Enjoy!! 4 more days to Thanksgiving break!!

Tried It Tuesday- Pencil Wars

 

I am linking up with 4th Grade Flipper’s- Tried It Tuesday!  This is Robyn and I am going to be talking all about pencils.  My sweet darlings are losing pencils like CRAZY and it is driving me CRAZY!! Am I alone here?  I have stealers, borrowers, chewers, biters, and everything in between.  I would find them all over the floor at the end of the day and was going through packs way too often. 

My kids are always ready for a friendly competition, so I decided to have a little contest.  I gave each student a brand new sharpened pencil with eraser.  It also had their name written in Sharpie.  I told them that their challenge was to keep the same pencil for an entire day and they could go to the treasure box.  That was followed by clapping and chattering!  I knew I had them!! I told them that if they could keep it for two weeks they would get an even bigger surprise. The end of the day came and I told everyone to bring their pencils to the carpet.  Everyone had their pencil except for 1 child.  AMAZING! I hope the week goes as well as today!

Sometimes it the little accomplishments that make my day.  Now if only I can figure out how to do this with crayons???? Any suggestions?

Interactive Math Journals in Kindergarten

Hi! It’s Robyn and it’s THURSDAY! That means it is FRIDAY tomorrow! I really am not trying to rush the week, but I sure do look forward to the weekends. 
I guess Amy and I had similar thoughts this week! I am also going to talk about journaling, but with the little kinders.  I always used journaling when I taught 5th grade math and science.  I was really missing it and decided that my kindergarteners were ready!  We have done this all week and I think it might just be one of my favorite times during the day.  It is short and to the point, but can really focus on a certain area in math.  Also the kids LOVE it!
I give the students a strip with a different problem to glue down each day.  I start by reading the question aloud and then we discuss.  I model on the SMART Board usually.  Here is an example from our first entry.
We use 1 subject notebooks that I bought for REALLY cheap at the beginning of the school year.  The strip is cut for them and they glue.

I will post again when we get more into the routines.  We have been working so hard on numbers 0-20 and writing to 40!! They are doing so well!

Leave a comment and let me know about your adventures with journaling!

Monday Made it! Veteran’s Day

It is me again..Robyn! I promise you will hear from the other girls soon!  Veteran’s Day is next Monday and it is a great day to teach your students the importance and sacrifice of our military.  I was always shocked when I would get some 5th graders who had NO idea what a veteran was or what the day stood for.  Just crazy!  Veteran’s Day is an actual standard here in Georgia for kindergartners and I am so glad that it is!  I created a short and simple day long unit for Veteran’s Day and you can find it on my TPT store here.

Novemeber Currently

I cannot believe it is NOVEMBER!! That means it is almost Christmas! I have not bought a single thing! Please tell me I am not alone! YIKES!

By the way this is Robyn again!  Let’s go down the list…

Listening to the Georgia/Florida Game- GO DAWGS!!

Loving that we took our family pictures today!  The fall leaves were perfect! I cannot wait to see them!

Thinking that I really need to finish my lesson plans for the following week.  It may not happen today…

Wanting a maid! I mean seriously!  I hate folding, ironing, and planning my clothes for the week.

Needing to go to the grocery store.  Again the maid sure would come in handy! UGH!

Yummy pin- 6 different kinds of puppy chow!! YES please! Click the picture to go to the recipes…and cook some for me!

Five for Friday

This is Robyn and can I just say TGIF!  It is FRIDAY! It has been an exciting week!  I am linking up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five For Friday!

We have been super busy in Kindergarten learning all about pumpkins and celebrating the wonderful season of Fall.  Many people think that Kindergarten is all about coloring, gluing, and crafting.  Sometimes it can be, but there is always skills that are being learned.  Today all of the Kindergarten classes had Fall Centers!  Every classroom was a little different, but we mainly focused on creating fall crafts.  These are the things that we just don’t have time for in a regular day.  We did this for an hour and a half with 5 center rotations.  I was lucky that I had help from my parapro, 3 parents, and myself.

#1: This center was a fall tree.  The students were given a tree template (my parapro drew it on copy paper) and fall color paint.  They used their thumb to make the leaves. Super cute!

#2

This was a pumpkin head band.  The headband was made of poster cut into strips.  They decorated with die cut pumpkins and some felt stickers (Dollar Tree).  I hate I didn’t get a picture when they were finished!

#3  The candy corn center was my favorite! They were given a template of a candy corn to cut out.  Then they tore strips of orange and yellow paper to fill in the spaces. 

#4  This center was making a leaf wreath.  The wreath was made from a paper plate that had the center cut out.  The leaves were die cuts and glued around the perimeter.

#5  This was the FOOD center!  It was definitely the one the kids could not wait to get to!  I directed this center.  I talked about what a cornucopia looked like and and their purpose.  We then put peanut butter on a Ritz cracker, topped with a Bugle, and added Runts to represent the fruit.  They LOVED it!

The kids (and teacher) and such a great time!! Happy Friday and weekend everyone!