We had an absolutely crazy week with snow this week. With delays and snow days, they only time that we had to celebrate Reading Week was today! I love doing fun Reading Week themed activities, but unfortunately we didn't get to that many this year.

First we made this fun cat project. The kids really enjoyed making their own cats.

Next we did this hat word family paper. We made a list of words as a class, then the kids wrote their own words on their hats. After they were done, I had them write a sentence about their favorite word on a sentence strip. They did a really great job!

If you want a copy of this paper, you can get it for free below:

Lastly we did this awesome directed drawing from First Grade Blue Skies. I LOVED this. The kids were so focused and quiet while they were doing this. They came out really cute as well. I am definitely going to do more directed drawing in the future. The kids were all so impressed with themselves!

We also read a few books and watched a video while we were having snack. Hopefully next year we will have less winter weather and will be able to celebrate Reading Week more.

Our 100th Day of Kindergarten!

Friday we celebrated our 100th day of school! It was a great day, we did a ton of fun activities!

We have each child make a 100th day hat at home with their families. They all wear the hats on the 100th day of school. Each hat has 100 items on it. They got really creative this year, they were all adorable.

Here are some of the cute hats that our kids made:

First we did a read and write the room for 100 words. The kids had a great time searching for words around the room. They were shocked that there were so many words around the room!

We also did a 100th day trail mix. We had 10 different snacks and the children each sorted out 10 of each snack for their mix. The kids loved this and so did we! This was our first time making the trail mix and we will definitely be continuing this in the future. 

Usually we make 100 pancakes on the 100th day and the kids try to eat 100 pancakes. This was a lot of fun but we are not allowed to cook at school anymore, the trail mix was a great substitute though!

We did a project with the numbers 1 0 0. We cut out the numbers on black construction paper with the die cut machine. Each child got a 1, and two 0s. They got creative and used the numbers to create anything they could think of. I made a bunch of samples and showed them, which I kind-of wish I didn't do. Almost all of our kids chose to do things that I did in my samples, although some of them did get really creative.
I got this idea from Cara Carroll, view her post here.

This little cutie was SO proud of his race car. He made me take 3 different pictures, after adding a new detail each time!

This little guy is always super creative. His idea was "a key going into a lock". I would have never thought of doing that!

We also make $100 bills for each kid. Several years ago, my mom found a $100 bill cut out in a Sleepy's ad, we have been using the same one every year since then. I printed pictures of the kids on the computer, glued the picture between the front and back of the bill and laminated them. We hid them around the room and the kids found their own bill. They loved this and had a great time! They were so excited to find theirs!

We also do another 100th day hunt, we hide 100 Hershey kisses around the room with numbers on the bottom. The kids find one at a time and put it on the matching number on a hundred chart.

We had a great day! It went so fast, we had so many more activities planned that we never got a chance to do. 

Have a great week!

Snowmen Fun and a Blizzard Sale!

Is anyone else in the tri-state area? We are expecting a major, potentially major blizzard.
We are now in a state of emergency and have a blizzard warning.
Here is the snowfall we are expecting:

Yes, I am in the 24-36 inch range.

We got out of school early this morning, we were one of the only districts around to go in at all! We already have a snow day tomorrow.

We have been doing a lot of fun snowmen themed activities in school lately. We have been enjoying the "Snowmen at Night" series by Caralyn Buehner.

Last week we did these fun snowmen at night projects. The kids got really creative and they came out really cute!

"I think that snowmen drink cold cocoa at night."

"I think that snowmen throw snowballs at night."

"I think that snowmen go sledding at night."

Just this morning we read "Snowmen at Work" and did a couple of fun activities to go with the book.
First we talked about the jobs that the snowmen had and the kids wrote and drew four of the jobs that the snowmen had in the story.
We created a chart as a class.

Then the kids drew and wrote four of the jobs.

Look how adorable these pictures are!

Look at the oven with the "hot", the baked goods. So cute!!

Notice the "presto", magic wand and audience.

We also did a snowmen sentence activity.
The kids had to unscramble the sentence as a class, we used a pocket chart.

Then, they unscrambled the same sentence on their own and drew a picture to match.

We also did a retelling activity. First the kids put the events in order in the pocket chart.

Then, they used this as a guide to put them in order on their paper.

Lastly, we did a fun word family page. We used word sliders to create -an words.

There are so many more activities that go with the book that I would have done if we had a full day of school. We still have "Snowmen All Year" to read as well.

All of the activities that we did and SO much more are included in my Snowmen at Night pack on TpT. Click the photo below to see the unit.

Since I am home with this huge blizzard coming, I decided it would be fun to have a Blizzard Sale!
Everything in my store will be 20% off for today and tomorrow. Click below to get to my store.