Rainforest Visual Plans

I'm linking up with Deedee Wills again; this time with a rainforest unit. Last fall, I did not get to bats, so I am including them with my rainforest unit. I used to do a big unit on bats in first grade, including AIMS activities. My teacher friend, who taught 1st grade with me, found a dead bat in the gutter. Her dad put it in a jar and perserved it somehow so we could share with our students. Which reminds me of how I love it when my students bring surprises in for me. Last year, one of my kinderkids found a dead crunchy lizard in his lamp. He brought it in to class for me. That made me think how I get excited about those kind of things, while some of my other friends get grossed out! How about you? What are your feelings about dead crunchy lizards, crawling bugs, slimey tadpoles, snakeskin, and bones?




My rainforest unit isn't posted on TPT just yet. It is still a work in progress. Hopefully next week!

 

 

To see other teachers upcoming visual plans, or link up yours...

 



Off to yoga I go! Have a great week!

 

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Ocean Visual Plans

Spring break is a tease!! It goes by too quickly! I know the next 2 months before spring break will go quickly! I am done with many things for this year, particularly with my classes. Now, I just need to get back on track tomorrow am for my pre-observation, student-led conferences, and kindergarten play! Back to a full schedule and smiling kindergarten faces in the morning!!

I am linking up with Deedee Wills. I love her visual plans, which inspired me to try my own. Before spring break, my kinderkids and I were learning about animals, focusing on Australia. This week, we will start with The Great Barrier Reef and animals in the ocean.

 

 

It will be fun getting back to hanging out with my favorite group of 5 & 6 year olds!



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Australia Visual Plans

It has been quite busy around here before spring break! My kinderkids and I are going to the zoo this week, and we're prepping for our student-led conferences- which will happen after spring break. I will also need to start thinking about prepping my kinderkids for their play in May. I am also finishing up 2 classes: Daily 5 and Reading Endorsement #2 this week! I am so ready for the upcoming Spring break,which starts on Friday for me! Looking forward to seeing those cherry blossoms!

It is a short week in kindergarten for us this week. We have a field trip and a teacher work day (which I took off). I am almost done with making my Australia unit digital. It is not ready for my TPT store just yet... hopefully soon! Here are my visual plans for this upcoming week:

I'm linking up with Deedee Wills. Check out other visual plans here...

 

 

Have a wonderful week!

 

 



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Space, Penguins, and Freebie

We finished up our Bears in Space unit this past week. Here is a preview of it:

 

At one pocket center, my kinderkids put sentences back together again. They wrote the words on a recording sheet and read the sentences again with a partner. I am amazed at how far these little guys have come this year! Kindergarten is a great year to see the leaps and bounds that children make.

At the name pocket center, my kinderkids placed their names, friends' names, and other words (ones they made on index cards) on the popsicle sticks (blanks).

Daily, we worked with a variety of venn diagrams comparing Frank Asch's bear stories, as well as sun/moon and day/night ones. We also retold stories.

In our math and science journals, we wrote about why a book falls down. This little one blew me away with his journal entry! He even used a question at the top!

One of our team's math activities did not get printed out. This led me to do this impromtu math activity instead. I had leftover 100th day snacks left over which was perfect for students to sort and place on a ten frame. They worked with a partner and counted their snacks. Each partner had a different marker, so I could see who wrote each equation. They did a great job working with numerals 11-19.

On Friday, Thing 1 came to our room to make green eggs and ham with us!

This upcoming week, we will start our Wild Animals unit. We will start our adventures with Antarctica and penguins. I am linking up with Deedee Wills, and attempting my own visual plans! I am thinking of transferring my visual plans into my interactive whiteboard software (Mimio ink) with all the links to the assignments, songs, and visuals. Has anyone done that? I think it will be a great way to organize my different digital stuff into one big file for the week!

 

Are you still with me? Well I'm also linking up with Freebilicious...

 

 

 

I used My Cute Graphics to make some math games for the upcoming spring season. Click on the pictures to get it from my TPT store for free!

 

 

Have a spectacular week!



 





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