What Happened to February? Whirlwind Review and What’s Coming up…

Seriously.  It flew by!

Here is what we have been up to in my classroom…

We celebrated the 100th day.  The day was so crazy I barely had time to capture many pictures!  All of the activities we did came from my 100th day unit.

Here is a TINY snippet…

You can see more 100th day ideas {here}!

We’ve also been working on some lovey dovey Valentine’s fun!

These are all from my Valentine center pack!

 

This week we are working on US Symbols.  I am not quite ready to switch over my daily 5 and math centers yet, but when I do, we will be doing activities from this unit:

Here is a fun little game to review US Symbols that you can download for free from my store:

and I absolutely ADORE these QR activities from Sharing Kindergarten. We did the US President’s set on President’s day, and my principal was THROUGHLY impressed! My kiddos were SO engaged – I can’t wait to do the US symbols one!

I will also throw in some of my center activities from my I Can Learn Can You pack, in honor of the kitty that wears that striped hat! In case you’re looking for some fun stuff for Dr. Seuss week, you can take a peek at my Circus themed centers – I know they aren’t Dr. Seuss, but that kitty in the hat is protected by trademark.  These activities fill in nicely! Click {here} to check it out!

I’m hoping for a little more normalcy in March – my life has been a bit crazy – we almost lost my Dad at the end of January when his heart stopped TEN times.  Oh boy.  It’s been a long medical journey for him, but hopefully things will start to go better now.  I spent many days at the hospital keeping him and my mom company.

My girls have been dancing like crazy this month too! My oldest has had 2 competitions, and will be competing one more time this weekend.  I REALLY wanted to do Word Work packs for February and March, but with my dad’s health and my girls’ dancing life, other things had to be put on hold!

So, until next time friends!  Be sure to stop over by my Facebook Fanpage too! I’m thinking I’ll have a few surprise giveaways over there this week!! Stay tuned…..

More 100th Day

For the first 100 days of school, we uncover one apple from our growing number line.  The children LOVE this – they get so excited every day!  One of my kinder buddies uses this in her classroom and I knew I had to have the same one (when I saw it almost 8 years ago!) (<3 U LB!)

EXCITEMENT when we added the 100 to our 100 grid! (LOVE the exclamation point at the end!)  The children are begging me for another 100s chart to keep adding the days in school on!! #happyteacher!

In the past, I’ve always used colored strips of construction paper on our 100th day hats.  This year, I was running short of time and didn’t get them prepped fast enough.  SO….I just cut strips of white paper and threw them on really quickly with masking tape.  I knew they HAD to be decorated, and since we’ve been talking about number combinations to 10 so much, I decided we would play a little game.  I quickly (and I mean quickly – I had the last 5 minutes of my planning time to prep it!) pulled out playing cards A-10, and my stash of dobbers.  I have enough dobbers now so that each table has about 4 each and we can exchange.

The children chose a card from the table (the ace equals 1), dobbed the number, changed colors and dobbed the remaining dots to make ten.  Make sense?  The children did great, and made for some fun, colorful hats! (Sorry I forgot to take a pic of the finished product!) Kim Adsit has a MUCH cuter version in her 100th day pack.

 

The children had a great time making their 100th day collections for our display.  My bulletin boards were all full with winter stuff so I had to punt and just hang them on my classroom door!  The children loved looking at all of the different 100 collections!

 

   

The children had a blast searching around the room and pretending to be 100th day detectives! They loved discovering the 100 on their grids!

And of course, or 100th day snack is ALWAYS a hit!

and dobbing to 100! (Can you tell I love dobbers!!?)

And we finally finished our Zero the Hero book! This was super exciting for the kids since we have been working on it every 10 days.  They were so excited to bring it home to show their families!

We  made text to self connections and wrote about what worries us!

When my cat ran away but he came back.

I am worried about someone getting hurt.

*sigh. so. sweet*

I am SO EXCITED about this next project! Julie Lee makes these amazing 100th day collages, and I knew I wanted to do it this year.  I wanted 5 different activities so each table group could have their own.

We started out counting out 10 sets of 10 on our giant ten frames.  Once we checked and double checked, we got out the glue bottles, and glued all of our pieces on.

100 pizza toppings!

100 snowflakes in a snow globe!

100 sprinkles on our cookie!

100 gumballs in our gumball machine!

and in honor of our apple number line, 100 apples on the apple tree!

If you’re interested in some of the 100th day ideas, you can check out this post for a preview and pics of more fun that we had here!!

I’ve got one more super fun 100th day idea that I’ll share with you very soon! (I just need to get it hung up!!)

Hip Hip Hooray! It’s the 100th Day!

What a fun day!  Although the day did get long when we had our conferences this evening…

We are also looking forward to a –51 degree windchill in the morning.  Yes, friends, you read that right.  That is a MINUS in front of the 51.  Here’s to hoping that the groundhog doesn’t see his shadow on Saturday.  I’m ready for spring.

Here’s a quick preview of some of the fun we had today!

 

I’ll be back with more this weekend!