#STARFALL CALENDAR DOLLAR TREE PLUS#

While I've done some of the things Debbie Diller talked about. I would like to move more to workstations as opposed to centers. I'm currently reading Debbie Diller's Literacy Work Stations book.( and Ron Clark's The End of Molasses Classes) I am only a few chapters in and I already see things I need to change and work on. With my introduction to the world of teacher blogging, I've discovered a lot of new authors and books that I want to read. I can't wait to see all the science week posts. So check out our pictures of all our apple fun. Their prints didn't turn out as well as I had hoped but I'm thinking they'll get better with painting the more we do it. I'm not sure why some of the kids thought it was a good idea to wipe their hands on their clothes but I'm glad I had washable paint. I'm not sure I took any pictures of how messy they got but it was messy.

After we finished our science we had some artsy fun and did apple prints.

They got to try red, yellow and green apples and then color their name to match and put on the chart. So maybe they were both eating off the apple. Her partner told me I should have told them first. But apparently I hadn't and one little girl took not one bite out of her apple but several bites. I thought I had told the kids not to eat their apple because they were going to get apple slices in a few minutes. We used our five senses to write on our we observe chart. They were suppose to be looking at their apple with it. I then gave partners an apple and magnifying glass. We then added information to our we learned chart. It has so much good information about apples. Then I read them the book Apples by Gail Gibbons. We started by listing anything we knew about apples. Only mine said, we know, we learned and we observed. I turned my apples into a kind of KWL chart. We talked about what scientist do and how they use their five senses. When the students came in I had a lab coat and goggles on and told them I was a scientist. Luckily my boyfriend is a vet and has lab coats.

And if I had a lab coat I could pretend to be a scientist when the kids came in. I got this idea that we could do science with our apples. I do my best thinking at these times, which could be why I'm not able to go back to sleep. I was going to have them graph their favorite by putting their name on the right color apple.īut I woke up at 1:30 am on Friday morning and didn't go back to sleep until around 4:30 am. I originally thought I would do like I had seen on the blog, but I was going to print off their names using word art so they could color it to match their names. (Click here to see here post about apples.) So I made a green apple, yellow apple and a red apple out of butcher paper but I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with. I had seen a chart I really liked at Eberhart's Explores. I have been inspired by all the other blogs and their apple activities. It was all about apples to finish up our apple week. But Friday we had our first science lesson. I'm not sure that I have a lot of stuff to add to the party. I know science week is this week and I am excited to see what everyone posts. What is wonderful about your Wednesday? Link up with your wonderfulness and join the positive party. I'm sure I have a lot more positives and things to be thankful for but that's a good start. He didn't just end the day on ready to learn but ended up on showing pride. One of my students who I've had a lot of trouble with had a wonderful day yesterday.We are so lucky to have such a wonderful PTA that organizes things like this and great families who partcipated. I run but I hadn't been running since school started but I just decided to try it anyway. We had a fundraiser 5k over the weekend and it was a lot fun.

#STARFALL CALENDAR DOLLAR TREE PLUS#

Plus they gave me a cool button to put on my blog. Leslie from Kindergartenworks was wonderful to work with and so helpful and nice. It was so cool and I feel a little dorky for being so excited about it but oh well.

I got to be a guest blogger on TBA this weekend.There for a while I was feeling like I didn't want to talk to anyone after school because I was so tired. I don't feel like I could go to sleep every afternoon when I leave school and I can carry on conversations again.Especially since my boyfriend will be out of town. I'm super excited to see her this weekend. We started teaching together and I miss working with her and her friendship so much. One of my good friends I use to teach with is coming to visit me this weekend.Still have a few kids melting down every once in a while but it's ok. We seem to be getting in the groove of school. I scared to say the worst of the beginning of kindergarten is behind me but I think it is. The first six weeks ends tomorrow and we finally seem to be getting in a rhythm.I'm feeling pretty blessed these days so I'll share. My plan was to post all the positives in my life on Wednesdays and it just snuck up on me.

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