Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easter

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Did you remember to wear green today? (Oh Course... I Didn't!!!)

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Some of the teachers that attended my Professional Development were asking if I could post some of the printable newsletters, power points, worksheets that I have create in a printable version- Welp, honestly... I can't figure out how to do it in blogspot, but you can go to my wikispace, which is links above- download the printable piece and print it as your own! Let me know if you are looking for something specific.

Printable Shaped Books-

My kids love themed writing... and I have found that shaped books promote writing as well.

This is an awesome place to create printable books-

Printable Books

Egg-celent

Easter is just around the corner, a little sooner than usual- making March a very busy month. We have covered Dr. Seuss Day, National Pig Day already.... and still have the 1st day of spring, st. patricks day, and easter!

I am setting eggs in my classroom after Easter this year- Julie Reno, Shanon Reuter, Lynn Brown, and Krisit Moore- are going to do it at that time as well- I think Judy Ryster and Natalie Mitchell have already set theirs- If anyone else is interested please let me know- I am going to purchase a few Fancy Chicken eggs to set with a few reg. old chicken eggs- Diversity! hahahaha

Anywho...

Here is what I have-

Brainstorming for Eggcelent Writing:

Eggs-citement about eggs

Eggs on PreKinders.com

Incredible edible egg

From Seed to Plant

We started our plant unit this week...
Today we planted our seeds & we will be keeping a daily journal recording and charting the growoth of the plants. We planted hollyhocks, cacti, and bachlor buttons- Hopefully they will grow! We read the Gail Gibbons book From Seed to Plant and then discussed what things a seed needs to grow... I am planning bulletin board idea that grow from week to week. It will start as a seed... Then grow a sprout.... and so on until it blooms....

Here are some cool links:

a to z teacher stuff

Plant Thematic Unit

Let The Snow Go!!!

We want spring... But we still have winter! I took my kids outside with black construction paper to catch snowflakes. They were amazed that you could see the differences in each flake.

DINOSAURS

This week our story is "If the Dinosaurs Came Back"

There are tons of GREAT Dino books to do a complete unit!!!!

My Big Dinosaur Book

How do Dinosaurs Play with Friends

When Dinosaurs Came with Everything

And lots more at http://www.amazon.com/

We did and illustration-recreation of
the illustrations in the books- My class

has NEVER been this quiet!!!! The kids

loved recreating the exact pictures....

And, Yes! I let them trace... the L/A part

of the lesson was for them to write there own

words to go along with the picture!

Also. http://www.teachertube.com/ has

a lot of amazing dino videos-

here is the link

dino videos

Dr.Seuss Day

There are a lot of really cool online readings of Dr. Seuss Books-

Here are the links for a couple:

the zax

the cat in the hat