Showing posts with label blog hop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog hop. Show all posts

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Calming the Chaos...

Welcome to the Calming the Chaos Blog Hop hosted by 2peasandadog!

All of us bloggers have come together to share our top tips for making the last month of school run smoothly. Visit each of our blogs to learn something new and catch a freebie or two!

Happy Hopping!

Wow, we're in the home stretch! My kindergarten kids are definitely ready for summer... and I am, too! We've been working hard all year and it's nice to be able to have a little down time thrown in during the last few weeks. But, in between the down time and fun end-of-year activities, we still have learning to do! This becomes quite a challenge with my little ones because all they want to do is play outside. So, while we're working on reading, writing, and math, they lose focus when they realize that the sun is shining, it's warm outside, and we aren't on the playground! :)

To help them get focused on the learning portion of our last few days, we plan Fun Days as we count down to the last day. What are Fun Days, you ask? Well, they can be anything! I change it up year to year so that I don't become too bored with them. This year, we're having Bubbles Day, Game Day, Movie & Popcorn Day, Teddy Bear Day, and Dance Day! In the past, we've also done Water Day, Video Game Day, and Sidewalk Chalk Day. We talk about which Fun Days are coming up next and what our behavior and focus needs to look like so that we can get our learning finished and move onto our Fun Day activity each day! It gives the kids (and me!) some down time, and really helps them to focus on the day's learning tasks.

If you'd like to plan some Fun Days with your kiddos, grab this freebie that your students can fill out and take home to inform parents!







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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Pass the Torch!


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Join The 3AM Teacher, the Reading Olympians, and over 80 SUPREME education bloggers as we take you through a tour of the Reading Olympians Root Study Program!!


Greek Roots:  Kinder-Style!

My kindergarten kids had a great time with our lessons from the Greek Roots unit!  I chose to work on the prefix un- and using -s to make plural words.  We completed the lessons whole group and I projected the picture book on our whiteboard and we read about how prefixes and suffixes have the power to change the meaning of words!  We also read about how adding -s or -es to words makes them plural.


After reading the picture book and discussing what we read, the kids were able to cut out their own puzzle pieces and add the prefix un- or plural -s to the end of a word by gluing them down.  Then, they wrote the new word they made.






After finishing their independent part of the lesson, we came together and each child shared the word that he/she made and we talked about what the words meant and how they were changed by the prefix or suffix.  It was a great way to get some vocabulary practice in! 




 





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