Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Classroom Tour,32 KIDS, and Blogger Friends STUFF!

OK, all of you who are bummed about only having a few weeks left for summer can now have a little sympathy!  I went back to school on July 5th!!!!!  I love year round school, but man ol man, I had a quick 3 week break!

Well, I now have 32 Kinder-Kiddo's!  I have 0 chairs and no tables left.  I am thinking of just getting rid of all my furniture to make room for all the bodies.  :)  There is no room at my school to make another Kindergarten, so I am making the best of the situation.

Here is a quick tour of the new room.  I was nice and organized, but with all my bodies, I kind of just throw stuff out of the way.  :)

I also feel like my room was decorated by all my blogging friends!


Our door into our classroom



Our cubbies:  I used my Silhouette  (teacher friends, do not by a Circuit machine!  Silhoutte does not use cartridges and you can use ANY text or picture made!!!!!  So much better!!!!) machine to cut out chalk board vinyl to put on their boxes and used a chalk marker to write their names.  Very easy to change names if a student leaves and a new one enters.

You can barely see the Pete the Cat Headbands in the cubbies from Fran at Kindergarten Crayons.  Love that book and LOVE her packet.  I have used pretty much every activity and they are so easy to use and K friendly.


More cubbies!  Excuse the books stacked.  I did use some for storage, but as the kids enrolled, I had to make way for more students!
I love my birthday banner from Poco and Pop!


I also love my Colors and Shapes by Poco and Pop.

My crayon artwork is by Honey Bunny Studio.  I bought frames at Michael's for $6.00 and used Command Picture Mounting to keep them in place.


Rainbow Names courtesy of Deana Jump!


My cute little chair I got for free and decided to Walsky it up for my reading chair!


I seriously love me some Polka Dots!  Mirror from Happy Everything and Love What You do Sign from Porter's Polka Dots.


More cute numbers from Poco and Pop!  I also have a sign by Hadar at Miss Kindergarten.  I also have a summer countdown picture.


More Poco and Pop letters and my posters from Honey Bunny.

My favorite thing, and I can't believe I didn't take a picture is my EMTanner Designs picture!  I found the company from Sydney over at Lesson's Learned, and pretty much bought one of everything.  I love this picture.  I have one that has me with a blonde bob, green eyes, freckles, and says Mrs. Walsky.  Of course, I hung it with pink and green polka dot ribbon.
Love it, and the kids adore it too!

I hope all of you are enjoying your last few weeks.  I have a bunch to share, but I had an Macbook emergency, which is where all my stuff was located.  I spilled coffee on my mouse pad on the laptop and now it won't work.  I am trying to dry it out with rice upside down.  I also ordered a magic mouse in hopes that I can use that when it is dry.  So until then, I am creating on the iMac.  If only I could find my stupid Adobe Illustrator CD to load on this thing!  Have a great week.  I know I will be passed out every night.  We teachers must have kidney issues as we grow older.  I don't think I have used the bathroom during the day in two weeks!  AHHH!


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Saturday, June 18, 2011

So excited to be nominated!

I am so excited to be nominated for Best Blog at Really Good Stuff!  Thank you to whom ever nominated me!  That just ROCKS!
Please vote for me or your favorite here by clicking on the button.  Good luck to everyone!  I don't even care if I win, I am just super excited to even get a nomination!
Voting begins July 1st!




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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Cute Printable Alphabet and other funs stuff for the classroom!

I found the cutest site today that has some great printable games and flashcards.
It is called MrPrintables.com

Look how cute these are!



I also love the file folder games!





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Sunday, June 12, 2011

My Version of the Chicka Chicka Boom Tree

I have wanted to make a palm tree for years, and was inspired by Deana Jump's tree directions to "Just Do It".

Here is my version of the famous Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree!


I used a 12 inch Quick Tube from Lowes, which they gave me for being a teacher.  It was regular $4.99

I also used magnetic primer by Rustoleum, because I wanted the kids to be able to use it as a Working With Words station.

I spray painted the tube with brown flat spray paint.  Lowes told me to use flat which will last longer and clean with a Clorox Wipe if needed.  Who knew??!!

For the top, I took Deana Jump's suggestion and used an old umbrella frame.  I went to Joann's today and bought green felt for the leaves.  It is on sale for $2.99 a yard and teachers get 15% off.  Love it!

I cut out the leaves and then hot glued them onto the metal frame.  I bent the frame on each spoke downward because I didn't want any kiddo's to get hurt or poked in the eye.

Then I just sat the umbrella on top.  I am going to glue the umbrella to the top of the tree when I get to school.  

I am so excited that the magnetic letters stick.  I love magnetic paint!

I also made this bench today. 

I was going to hand paint the letters, but decided to use my Silhouette machine, scrapbook paper, and Mod Podge.  

It turned out pretty darn cute too.


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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Ten Frame Game

Here is the first of many games that I created, with inspiration from Debbie Miller's new book on Math Workstations.





Click  on Pictures to download!
I also included the Math Talk card to help students engage in more math language when working together.  
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Monday, May 23, 2011

Coming Soon: Math Work Stations!!!!

I am creating tons of stuff to go along with Debbie Diller's new book:  Math Work Stations!!!!  
Going to a training today helped inspire tons of new ideas!!!!  I can't wait to share!!!!


First, how cool are these?!?
DecaDots!!!!


These are so going in my Ten-Frames Basket!!!!

I am also loving the Ten-Frames Card decks!!!



I also love this Box by Origo!!!!


Everything in the box is AMAZING!  If you have a math wish list, add this to it!!!  I kind of took it over and I am holding it Ransom from our Title 1 math. 



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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Free Ocean Animal Unit

I hope everyone is enjoying their last few days of school. 

I am excited, but sad. 

I was offered a job in "KINDERGARTEN" at my children's school.  The school is a block away from my house, so I can walk to school everyday with my own kiddo's.
The decision was difficult because I was going to a brand new school with new everything!

I prayed about it, and decided that I needed to be a mom first and then a teacher.  I know...shocking for all of us teachers.  We give everything to our students!

I am sad to leave first grade, but kindergarten is my passion!  I love it more than any other grade.

So...with that said, I may have to change the title of my blog.  Not sure what it is going to be....

Anyways, as a thank you to all of you guys for putting up with my MIA, I am giving all of you my first ever unit I made.  It is about 9 years old now, but it has some good stuff in it for K-1 classes.  It is black and white, so it will be easier on ink.  :)


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