Saturday, May 31, 2014

Win an Application Kit!!

I am looking for some of my readers to host a Jamberry party!!  Earn free Jamberry nails!!

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to sign up to host!  If you have any questions, please let me know!

Have a Wolfelicious day!




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Monday, May 26, 2014

Kindergarten Scrapbook

Kindergarten Scrapbook

I am so excited to share with you my newest creation!  I wanted to make something with my class that they could treasure forever.  I decided to try my style of a scrapbook for each child.  We made these scrapbooks throughout the entire year.  I hope it brings back great memories of kindergarten for them. 

Front Cover- Students colored their name.

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August- Handprint Apple, Quilt piece, and beginning of the year picture.
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September- Handprint Apple Tree and picture.
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October- Handprint spider and Halloween picture.

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November- Handprint turkey and Wampanoag picture.
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December- Handprint Santa, photo booth picture, and I really tried Santa picture.
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January- Handprint snowflake and 100 Days Smarter picture.
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February- Fingerprint heart, mustache picture, and blowing kisses picture.
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March- Handprint leprechaun, Father's Day picture, and shrunken hat picture.
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April- Handprint bunny and bunny picture.
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May- Handprint flower, end of year picture, and Mother's Day picture.

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Fingerprint Tree- Students colored tree trunk.  Then each student pushed on their fingerprint to make a leaf.

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Final Page- Kindergarten Favorites
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I love how these scrapbooks turned out!  The students had so much fun posing for the pictures and I had fun deciding what to do for them.  I hope their parents like them as much as I do. 


Have a Wolfelicious day!




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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Writing Growth

Writing Growth

One of the things we doing throughout the year in kindergarten is write.  Writing is SO important for my kinders to do.  

I always tell them that if they are great writers, they will be great readers.  And if they are great readers, they will be great writers.

  Throughout the year we practice writing.  Each month we have a writing prompt that all the kindergarten students use to write.  Then we use this writing for a writing grade.  

I keep the beginning of the year writing and the end of the year writing for our school folders.  I was putting the writings together on Friday for their folders and I absolutely LOVED looking at each child's progress.   It seems like throughout the year you forget how they came in.  I always want more and more from my students so I was in aw when I saw their writings. 

The prompt for the beginning of the year was tell me about your family.  The last prompt was tell me your favorite thing about kindergarten. 

Here are some of my favs.

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Beginning of the Year
This writing says: Mom (although it looks like he wrote Emma)

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End of Year
This writing says: My favorite thing is the flower because we painted. 


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Beginning of the Year
This writing says: Red


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End of Year
This writing says: My favorite thing was doing the flower because it was fun. 



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Beginning of Year
This writing says: August


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End of the Year
This writing says: My favorite thing is painting and making crafts.

We worked and worked a writing this year.  I used a lot of oral sentences with my kiddos.  We then added and to our sentences and then because.  I was thrilled that most students used and or because in their final writing.  

I think my kiddos is an excellent job!! I am thrilled with their results.

Thanks for reading!

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Saturday, May 3, 2014

Fluency and Mother's Day!

How are your students with fluency?  Well, mine are getting better and better.  
Our reading program, Read Well, has fluency built into each unit.  Students have to be able to read so fast in each unit to help them understand the story.  If they can't do this, their grade suffers.  After two units of not getting the fluency, we (teachers) are supposed to stop and work on the areas that the students are suffering on.  My minders have struggled with fluency.  Then I got an idea to help them... 

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I staple reading passages into their folder that they need help with.  Passages from the same unit they are on.  Then I partner the students up and have them practice their reading.

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I taught the students how one student is the coach and the other one is the reader.  One begins the story and then they switch jobs at every sentence.  I do this at every sentence because it makes both students pay attention or they don't know where to read.  I time the students reading and then after a few minutes I have them stop.  Then we start again, but this time they switch who goes first and they go back to the very beginning.

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We have learned all the phonograms we have to for kindergarten.  54 phonograms to be exact.  The double phonograms are very tricky.  We practice them every day by saying them out loud and we also practice writing them.  I have been adding different ways to have the students write them because they are super tricky.  This folder is a Handwriting Folder (you can read my post about them here) and I use this sometimes to help my students learn about the sounds.  I say a sounds and the students trace it!  The students love doing this. 

Next weekend is one of my favorite days.  It is Mother's Day.  We always have a Mother's Day Tea at my school and the students give their present to their mom on that day.  This year I wanted to make something new.  

I wanted to make something that mothers would treasure!  

I wanted to make something that mothers would appreciate.  

I took a couple different ideas and came up with what I wanted my students to make.  

Are you ready?

Each student got a canvas.  Two letter M's were taped on the canvas.

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Next, we talked about flowers.  Then we painted flowers on the canvas together.  I showed them step by step what to do under the document camera.

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Then, the next day we added the background/leaves to our beautiful flowers.

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Once the background dried, we ripped of the taped M's.

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A beautiful MOM flower for a beautiful Mom!


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I took a picture of each of my students holding a bouquet of flowers.  I printed them off and added them to a frame the students painted.

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Last we wrote a letter to our Mom's telling her why we loved her.

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I love how everything turned out! I think it is precious and I hope the mom's love it too.


Have a Wolfelicious week!




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