Summer is here!

Wow, summer is here! It has been an awesome year in Kindergarten! This summer, I'll be thinking, getting ready, planning lots of new things for next year. I'm already excited about next year's new babies coming into Kindergarten! I plan on creating a tpt store over the summer, after my cruise to Bermuda! Stay tuned to a few blogs this summer! :) Have a great summer, enjoy the sun!

Coffee Filter Butterflies

These coffee filter butterflies were a must do for my spring unit this year. I just had to pass long my idea! It's too cute! My kids loved it! I did it right along when I taught the life cycle of a butterfly. 

 Here is how we made them, pictures, words and all!

We water colored coffee filters and let them dry. (I have also colored the coffee filters with washable markers and then sprayed with a water bottle.)  Love the colors!

Then I hung toilet rolls-yes, I know! From the ceiling, as the cocoon. I stuffed the coffee filter inside the cocoon. The coffee filters stay up in the toilet rolls with out covering the bottom. The cocoons hung for almost a week.

Then after a week, the butterflies were ready to fly. I scrunched up the coffee filter and fanned out the wings, clipped a close pin and tied a pipe cleaner as the antennae. 

The butterflies are so cute hanging from their cocoons! I just might keep them up for the rest of the year! 

Feeling Buggy!

This week we talking all about bugs. We were fortunate to find caterpillars from outside and some have already turned into their cocoons! So exciting! Yes, they will probably be moths, but it's still exciting, and free- I won't have to buy them from Insect Lore! Here are a few things we did this week. Here is a link for my Graphing Bugs and the spinner that goes with it. Graphing Bugs. Bugs Spinner. We read the The Very Hungry Caterpillar and I got this idea from the blog, Chalk Talk and make my own graph. We graphed how healthy the caterpillar is. Here is the link: Healthy Caterpillar. We started the week off with a insect alphabet, another great idea from Chalk Talk. Here is the link: Insect Alphabet. Here is a  literacy center activity that we did that went along with our spring unit this week. Here is the link: Spring sight word cut/paste.  Enjoy.

Graphing Plants

Here is a spin and graph about parts of a plant. We will be talking about plants this week in science. To download the link click here:  Parts of a Plant Graph.   Here is the link for the spinner that goes with the graph. The students can use a paper clip as the spinner. Here is the link for the Spinner: Parts of a Flower Spinner. My kids love doing these kinds of activities with the spinning and graphing!!

Feeling Lucky!

These are the precious St. Patrick's Day hats we made! So Cute!

                                              Leprechaun Clues

We had a Leprechaun come visit our room today. He left the room in a mess and green glitter everywhere! He even abducted our class pet turtle, Tom-Tom. So, we went on a Leprechaun Hunt to look for him. It was so awesome. I have posted the link for the clues. I glued the clues to a big shamrock and had the first clue delivered to our classroom. While the students and I were on our "hunt", my wonderful para, was in the room placing gold coins and cupcakes at their seats. Thankfully, Tom-Tom made it back safely- and with gold coins in his tank! What a LUCKY day it was today!

Flip. Read. Write.

These are my FLIP. READ. WRITE. cards. I have some for each season/holiday or theme. I have about 11 or 12 in each set. The kids like it because each card has a different picture on it. 

Using the Flip. Read.Write. cards.

    A picture of the St. Patrick's Day cards.

     Flip. Read. Write.

St. Patrick's Day

Rhyme

Click on the Rhyme link for the download. My kids can't get enough rhyming words!