Leadership Extravaganza Is Almost Here

Our school is in year one of Leader In Me training.  We are having a school wide program celebrating our school year along with the 7 habits.  Each class was to make a celebration board for the program to have displayed for the parents to enjoy.  I had the kids help me with deciding what they wanted to do and this is what we came up with for our board.  They each chose 2 habits and told how they use these habits at school or at home. This is what you see on the speech bubble.
We are wrapping up our insect unit with our fun The Very Hungry Caterpillar projects.  The kids have had a fun time working on this insect unit.  Our caterpillars should be hatching early next week.  What a fun way to end our insect unit.

TPT Sale Begins

We have been so busy lately wrapping up those end of the year items.  We promise to have pictures up and posted real soon of some of those end of the year projects.  However, we can never miss an opportunity to grab some great TPT sales during this May 7-8 sale.  Check out some great products from our TPT store.  For a direct link click here:
Busy Bees TPT store.  Happy Shopping!!! 

 Here are some fun end of the year items:
May Math Journal
Dibels Practice Fluency Sentences
Very Hungry Caterpillar Math Activities
Very Hungry Caterpillar Literacy Activities
Segmenting For Dibels and Dibels Next Practice
May Journal Topics For Kindergarten Guided Journal Writing

May Behavior Chart Freebie Posted On TPT

We just put the May Behavior Chart on our TPT store for you to download as a freebie: click here to take you to the direct link:  May Behavior Chart.  So hard to believe that for us, this will be the last one this school year.  This year has gone by so fast!

We wrapped up our Sea Turtle unit last week.  I will say the kids were SO excited about this unit.  Our culminating project to this unit was making and selling turtle water which the kids loved.  It was bottled water with kool-aid packets hot glued onto the bottle lid.  They raised over $300 in just 3 days selling turtle water.  Our initial goal was to sell at least $25 so we could adopt at least one sea turtle.  We realize that it is towards the end of the school year, but we will be posting our Save The Sea Turtles Project Learning Unit real soon this week.
 

Any Ideas For Kindergarten Parent Meeting In The Spring

We have a parent meeting coming up in about 3 weeks.  We were just trying to put together some new ideas for parents for basic information or readiness things to work on over the summer.  Any great ideas that your district does that you would recommend?  Thanks! 

Adopt A Sea Turtle For Earth Day

Our sea turtle project has been up and running.  We completed journals together last week writing informational entries.  So, I thought I wanted to see how much information the kids retained from the nonfiction books I read along with the journal booklets we wrote.  I gave the students some journal paper and told them that I wanted them to do an independent writing on things they learned about sea turtles.  I thought the kids did great job with their writings. I took these writings, typed them up, and are going to make an Earth Day Save the Sea Turtles booklet for each child.  Here are some independent journal samples:

Once I have their booklets done, I will share what those look like.  Our selling of Turtle Water(colored kool-aid) starts in a couple of days.  We are trying to raise $25.00 by selling this water so we can adopt a sea turtle.  My kids have loved this project which is going to conclude at the end of Earth Day "week".