The end of the year has been crazy! We still have school until the end of June, but the weather is finally nice and you can really feel that it is the end of the school year.

I love kindergarten at the end of the year, the kids are doing so well!

I was given the opportunity to try some fun things from Oriental Trading.
We have started to use them in class and I love all of them!

The first things are these giant magnetic ten frames with magnetic pieces.
These are awesome! I hung them up on our whiteboard this week and the kids were so excited!
I already see so many uses for these in math.
The red and yellow pieces are perfect for addition.

I also got this tabletop pocket chart. I love this!

I made this activity for one of our kids that is having trouble differentiating between P,B and D.
It is the perfect size for a tabletop activity or center.
It is also great for a display in the classroom, maybe a class schedule.

The velcro part on the top has a dry erase board that attaches, it is great for some writing after the pocket chart activity.
The pocket chart folds up easily and even has a cute little pocket on the back.

We also got these alphabet stamps.
Our kids love stamping, they use stamps during free choice all the time and we also use stamps for sight words/letters/etc.. These stamps are easy for little hands to use and they are big! I was not expecting them to be so big, but I really like them. They are a lot of fun!

These sentence building dominoes are awesome! There are tons of words and they are colorful and nice! These would be difficult for most of our kindergartners to use since the words are a little hard, but they would be awesome for first graders. We do have some very high kids this year who are able to use them and love them!

We got these little tiny erasers that are great for using little whiteboards. We have been using socks, but these are a great replacement. They are tiny and the perfect size for student use.

These dry erase pockets are great! The colors are bright and they save paper and time. You can print a handwriting page a couple of times and then have your kids use dry erase markers to complete them, they can be used over and over. This is a great early finisher activity. I also used them for a read, write, build that I was planning on laminating. These sheets saved me the time of laminating!

This review is based strictly on my opinion. Others may have a different opinion or experience with the product listed above. I was provided the sample free of charge by Oriental Trading and I provided my honest opinion. No other type of compensation was received for this review    

Peek at My Week: Plants

This week I am linking up with Mrs. Wills Kindergarten for A Peek at My Week!

We have a very exciting week coming up this week! We will be planting and learning all about plants.

Before we left school last week I set up our plant books and our plant bulletin board.

Here is our plant bulletin board, the posters are from my plant unit.

Here are some of the books we will be reading this week.

I recently found these fun videos on Youtube that are awesome for teaching about plant growth.

Here is what we are doing this week:

 

Here are the resources that we will be using this week:

We will use my Spring Teacher Time Saver for our morning work every day.

This week we are studying letter Zz. We use these alphabet activities each week as we study the letters.

We will be using several activities from my new plant unit this week. We will be using the posters, activities and projects from this unit.

Fridays we try to do some activities that are fun. We will be doing a stamping activity during our ELA time on Friday. Our kids love stamping.

This week we will be working on the book Tops and Bottoms, and using the activities from Deanna Jump and Deedee Wills' Guiding Readers Pack.

My absolute favorite resource, is my Interactive Math Notebook. We will be using some fun activities from this pack this week. 

We will be doing these fun flower themed centers this week as well! 

Thanks for reading!

Have a great week!

Click the graphic above to go to Mrs. Wills' Kindergarten for the link up.

Peek at my Week: Earth Day

This week we will be celebrating Earth Day and learning all about recycling and protecting the Earth.

Here is what we are doing this week:

 

Here are the resources that we will be using this week (Click the picture to see them on TpT).

We will use my April Teacher Time Saver for our morning work every day.

This week we are studying letter Vv. We use these alphabet activities each week as we study the letters.

We are working on some activities for digraphs this week.

Fridays we try to do some activities that are fun. We will be doing a stamping activity during our ELA time on Friday. Our kids love stamping.

We use activities from this guided reading pack for our guided reading groups each week. The kids love the magic reading wands and we use the books as well. 

We will be doing a lot of Earth Day themed activities for this pack this week.

My absolute favorite resource, is my Interactive Math Notebook. We will be using the "How Many Ones" page to go with our place value lesson this week.

We will be doing these fun Spring Animals centers this week as well! 

Thanks for reading!

Have a great week!

More Easter Fun!

Today was our last day of school before our three day weekend Easter break.
Tuesday I blogged about our Sight Word Easter Egg Hunt. Since then, we have been doing more fun Easter themed activities.

We did this fun Easter egg addition activity. This was not my original idea, it was inspired by this pin.

We put six red/yellow double sided chips in a plastic Easter egg (you can use any number of chips), and they shook up the egg and recorded their results. It was a great way to reinforce decomposing numbers that we have been working on lately.

It was a lot of fun and worked really well!

We also did some Easter interactive math notebook pages. We all love our interactive notebooks!

I have started to create themed pages for holidays and they have been great! So far, I have Valentines Day, St. Patrick's Day and Easter.

Here are some examples of the Easter activities we did this week:

Click the product cover below to view this packet. 

To view my blog post on interactive notebooks click here. 

Thanks for reading!