KinderKuties

One of the things you might not know about me is that my mom teaches as well.  She works in a private preschool and depending on needs teaches pre-k, kindergarten, or a mashup of both!  Needless to say, my mom and I both love our animal prints and try to incorporate them in our classroom theme as often as we possibly can! In the past my mom and I have both changed our classroom themes EVERY SINGLE YEAR! Yup! I said it! Every year! New theme, new borders, new paper, new colors, new everything! We have been doing this for the past 9 years!  We share materials and if she has a jungle theme one year, I might do that jungle theme the following year and the trend continues until we have repeats! In todays post, I will show you some ideas from my moms jungle theme classroom as well as link you to my original posts.   Click Here to see my original post on my Jungle Safari theme classroom.    I went to her school and helped her set up everything....

In my class I developed a Calendar sheet that would be completed after we have our morning meeting.  I teach kindergarten and my kinders can complete the sheet on their own after the first few weeks of working and completing it together. I have also used this in a K-2 S el f C ontained Classroom. I have 3 differentiated versions of the sheet to meet the needs of all students in the classroo m.  W hen I i ntroduce the sheet, I use my SMART Notebook version and we all comple te the sheet together .  This sets my expectations and students can see how the sheet is supposed to be completed.  I start students on the ea si est sheet.  After they have mastered each sheet independ ently, I move them up to t he sheet with the next level of difficulty.   I have found that this works well in my classroom.  I colo r code the sheets so students know which color sheet they should be working on.   This sheet aligns with Common Core goals ...

Howdy Y'all!  My mom and I both teach kindergarten and each year we switch classroom themes. One of the themes we switch between is the Western theme. Here you will find some ideas we have used over the years! Each time we do it we change it up a little. Enjoy the ideas! Here is our hut/ reading nook that we have transformed into a covered wagon type structure. It took a lot of time and energy to get it perfect. We used long white bendable plastic pipes from Home Depot to make the front and back of the cover. Then we used some extra bamboo sticks to keep the fabric up.  Below are some products we use to make our theme special! Click the thumbnail to take a closer look! News Letter Calendar Pack  Word Wall Headers  Calendar Pack  Calendar Numbers  Supply Labels Supply Labels Calendar numbers

Welcome to my SPACE Theme Classroom!  Check out our workspace    Binder clips with students names for mailboxes Each year I print out labels with each students name to make it easy to label anything I may need throughout the year, including: mailboxes, binders, folders, name tags, etc. Get the Space Label Freebie HERE      Astronaut JOB Chart and Flow of the Day Find the Schedule cards  HERE      I use these great folder hangers to hold my student portfolios.  These are perfect to quickly file items I would like to keep for each students.  When it is time for conferences, I can quickly pull out each students folder to show to the parents.  Mission Control    Space theme calendar numbers can be found HERE