We've been busy!

Woo wee, we have been very busy this month! We had freezing rain last night (yuck) so we had a delayed opening...does anyone else love delays? I feel like I have more time to primp, watch old shows like Home Improvement & Saved By The Bell  and have a little extra coffee!! It's still raining here tonight and it's awfully foggy...maybe another delay in the morning? (I'm not getting my hopes up!) 

 We've been busy recently doing all things winter in our classroom! The kiddos have been enjoying all the winter centers we have right now. I snapped some pictures of my sweeties in action, please disregard the crummy iphone photos it's hard to snap pictures with out there little faces in them.

 This little  center is to reinforce number recognition and counting. The students have a bin of buttons and must place the correct amount of buttons on the snowman. So simple, yet so fun!

 Marshmallow Counting is a FAVORITE!

          This little center I didn't make but it is super cute! Uppercase & Lowercase matching From Child Care Land.

We read the book The Jacket I Wear In The Snow when we discussed winter wear. Each student had a chance to draw something they wear in the snow, this little cutie chose boots! I'm so tickled at how well some of them can write, I hope their Kindergarten teachers are proud. :)

 We used these super cute pieces to re-tell the story. This was a HUGE hit with everyone. You can snag these pieces at the Making Learning Fun website!!

 Today we celebrated the Chinese New Year, oh what fun we had! I didn't take too many pictures but we really did have a blast doing all sorts of celebrating. We ate snack on our Chinese place mats, made dragons, drank tea, graphed who liked fortune cookies and who didn't and learned how to say Happy New Year in Chinese! Happy Monday loves!

Beach Bound.

I promised I'd be back with more pictures and all those school goodies I want to share...but I'm just not feeling it tonight. It's awfully rainy and gloomy here and I just feel like lounging in my pajamas and watching TV. I'm off to my family's beach house early Friday morning with my boyfriend and I am ecstatic! Although, the weather isn't going to look like this...

I'm looking forward to going shopping at the outlets, spending lots of time next to the fireplace, playing games, sipping wine and enjoying the company of my love! I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and hopefully once I get back from my vacay, I will be much more motivated to post school related items :) I'm off to finish my sub plans, yuck!

A very long post!

Sorry for being MIA but schools been all sorts of busy since we've gotten back. We've been busy learning all about winter animals and let me tell you my little sweeties have been eating it up. We started our unit by brainstorming animals we could find in the winter, then we read the story Animals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft and charted any new animals we may have learned about.

To go with our winter animals talk we made this little craftivity. It's a "blanket of snow" covering some of our winter animals.  This crafitivity is just a piece of construction paper, some winter animals that we cut out, plastic wrap stapled to the construction paper and white paint. On the back of each paper students wrote what their favorite winter animal was and some even added a picture of the animal too. It's a simple craftivity, but often the simplest tasks are their favorite things :)

We moved on to polar bears next, one of my favorite winter animals. I visited the San Diego Zoo recently and took lots of photos of the polar bears so we began our discussion with those. We read the book Follow The Polar Bears by Sonia W. Black, after reading we charted what we learned about polar bears. (Please ignore the fast messy writing their 4 & 5 and I don't have time for perfection ;) Charting is one of our new favorite things to do at circle ,we like to see how many answers we can fit on one piece of paper and see how many facts we remember from the books.We learned that polar bears have no fingers so we tried painting with socks on to see what it would feel like to have no fingers. After we painted with socks I asked the kids what they thought about the activity, many of them thought it was very hard to paint a real picture. They had a blast with this activity, it will definitely be one I do again :)

 

We started talking about penguins today! It was perfect timing too because we are on the letter Pp in our handwriting books! I'm cracking up right now at how horrible my penguin is on our penguin fact chart hahah oh well the babes loved it and that's all that matters!

Here's to a great week y'all, I hope to be back soon with some more winter animal stuff and what our centers look like right now :)

Christmas Break...WOO HOO!

Hello Christmas Break :)

I seriously feel for any of y'all who still have to teach tomorrow and especially to the ones who have to teach until FRIDAY! I began my break today at 1:00pm after our very adorable Christmas pageant. My sweet babies did a great job singing their songs for their parents. I was all sorts of tired after the program that I came home and took a nice long nap.  Now on to other business... 

A big thank you to the sweet Erin @ Creating & Teaching for giving me the Liebster blog award! Thanks SO much Erin for thinking about me! If you haven't checked out her adorable blog go over right now and check it out. She's a fellow Pre-K teacher and always has adorable ideas and freebies. :)

I'm Leaving you with Pictures of the cards we made to be sent home with our parent gifts. Nothing really special but maybe they can help someone out there in blog world. The inspiration came from Pinterest  but had no source. We just used scarpbooking paper scraps and cut them to different lengths. I'm big on the kids making their crafts and looking kid made so not all are perfection but that's what makes me smile :) You Will also notice some of the other things we made these last few days like pine cone ornaments and macaroni wreaths.

A very merry Christmas to all my sweet bloggy friends! Have a safe and enjoyable break and try not to think about school (let's get serious)!

Getting Messy!

Tis' the season for messes! We've been super busy decorating our room with lots of messy things! We ended our messy crafts with my favorite activity CANDY HOUSES! Mmmmm... icing and candy overload = Cah-razzy kiddos!  We had a blast creating these monstrous icing houses. :) 

Yummy Yummy! Had the edit this sweet babies face out, so not why be stylish with it ;)

We  were busy talking about reindeer this week! We charted what we knew about reindeer and what we wanted to learn about reindeer. We brainstormed foods we should feed reindeer, boy did I get some sweet answers for that one. My favorite was " mommy juice" aka wine! Took all I had not to let a little giggle out! We ended our reindeer unit making our magic reindeer food, we can't stop talking about it and are beyond ready to sprinkle it on Christmas Eve! Sorry for the sideways picture, bloggers giving me problems with that today!

Have a fab rest of the week, t minus 3 days and I am on Christmas Break! woooooooo hoooo

A little this....A little that.

So uhhhh yeah I've been a horrible blogger! I have been beyond crazy BUSY and I've hardly had enough time to blog stalk...hopefully once Christmas break rolls around I will have a chance to catch up and spend some more time on this lonely ol' blog. Until then here's a picture "dump" of what we've been up to! Happy Monday sweet friends!

Were rockin' this adorable door as your enter our classroom all thanks to Pinterest! You can follow this link to see my inspiration. Of Course there's looks so much better!

 I love these ornaments SO much! I got this inspiration from Pinterest again however there was no original link so if it's your idea... I LOVED it! I put my own spin on the idea and allowed the kids to put fake snow or red glitter inside...some went cah-razy of course! I think our parents will love them!

 We did a little counting with this Christmas tree activity. We decorated our trees with sequins and stickers and then counted how many ornaments were on our trees! We loved this activity!

 

We also made these seriously cute macaroni wreaths!

& lastly I made this yummy Christmas white trash recipe this weekend and I just can't stop eating it! It's delish, I got the inspiration from this blog here but kind of made the recipe my own and added peanuts and cheerios and some powdered sugar to top it off. Talk about Addicting! 

hodge podge.

Life's been really busy recently, between book fairs, meetings, fundraisers, picture day and all the craziness this time of the year brings. I'm exhausted y'all, It's not even 10pm and this girl is ready for bed. So this post is going to be a catch up of sorts to show you a few things we've been doing...i really need to remember to pull out my camera more. Here's a hodge podge of pictures, hope you enjoy. As always let me know if you have any questions...Here's to a great week!

 

We made Spooky Halloween Snack Mix for our Halloween Party! It was so fun to make and eat, we named the different foods spooky names. (m&m's were eyeballs and other silly things.)I love that we 

can celebrate Halloween in our classrooms :)

 We spent several days talking about scarecrows and farm things! Who would of known they would love 

talking and reading about scarecrows. They now fight for the scarecrow books in the library :) Love those kind of moments.

 We also made these seriously cute soldiers from Kim Adsit's Hooray for Veterans Day packet

which you can find on TPT. The kids LOVED it. We also made this adorable banner outside our classroom, we love our troops that's for sure :)