Presidents, Valentines and Toy Jail Oh My!

The last couple of weeks have been very busy in Kindergarten land.  A lot of learning is going on.  We have been talking and learning about leaders and presidents.  The kids always love learning about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  They always seem to soak it in.  Take a look at their presidents and writing below.  They did an awesome job.

Abraham Lincoln Circle Map

Abraham Lincoln and Writing Board

Abraham Lincoln with great writing from the circle map.

George Washington Circle Map

George Washington and Writing Board

George Washington with wonderful writing from the circle map. 

Valentine's Day

Valentine Bubble Map

Valentine's Day craft and writing

Check out these cute valentine cookies that one of my mothers made.  They tasted as good as they look.     The kids and I loved them!

Toy Jail?

This is one of the greatest things I have come up with in a very long time.  I don't know if you have problems like we do.....but the kids are always bringing toys in the classroom and playing with them when they should be working.  So a few weeks ago I came up with "Toy Jail".  It has been wonderful.  If I see them with a toy inside my room, it goes to toy jail.  It stays there a few days and gets released back to its owner.  It has cut down on the problem so much.  On Wednesday of this week the toys were released.  One of my students spoke up and said "I'm not bringing them again"  Inside I said "Yes!"  Now so that you don't think I'm a mean teacher :-)  they can play with their toys at recess, they just have to live in their book bag until that time.  Love, love, love this.  

See you next time

Lisa

K-Crew Kids Rock

Veterans' Day

We had a great time learning about how we celebrate the lives of Veterans. We learned how veterans are men and women that are serving now or have served in the past.  We then made a thinking map of the things we know about an American Soldier or Veteran.  Take a look at our Veteran/Soldier thinking map, and our great craft that I got from Teachers Pay Teachers (Deanna Jump).

Veterans/Soldier Thinking Map

Lisa

K-Crew Kids Rock

American Symbols

In unit 2 of Language Arts we studied about American Symbols.  Our students always enjoy learning about symbols.  They love it, because they can pick up the skills so quickly.  It is very easy for them.  Look at at some of the great work we did.

Here is our board with all of our great work.  

The Statue of Liberty tree map and craft.  I noticed when  I uploaded the pictures that a word fell off of my  tree map.  Hmmm.

Statue of Liberty Craft.  The fireworks are made by thinning paint so that it is the constancy that can easily be blown around with a straw.  Use a dropper to drop the liquid on the paper and then have the students blow through a straw to spread the fireworks out.  

The American Flag tree map

American flag made my painting their hand and pressing down on the paper.  The stars are fingerprints.

The Bald Eagle Tree Map.  

The Bald Eagle 

Lisa

K-Crew Kids Rock

An American Symbol - The American Flag

We have been talking and learning about different American Symbols over the last couple of weeks.  We had a great time making The American Flag and writing about the flag.  We first read and watch a video about the flag.  We then made a tree map and write about the flag. We made the flag by having our students tear paper to make the red stripes and the blue.  They then had to put 5 rows of ten glue dots to make the starts.  They put glitter on the glue to symbolize the stars.

The American Flag Board - tree map, American Flags, and writing

A closer look at some of our flags and the writing from the tree map.

President's Day Rock Star Style

The last couple of days we have been talking about President's Day.  Kindergarten children love anything to do with Social Studies or Science so they really have been in to talking about the presidents.  Here is a sample of our great work!  Whew....it wore me out, but the results were great.  :-)

President's Day Board

George Washington Thinking Map

George Washington Writing

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln Thinking Map

Abraham Lincoln Writing

Abraham Lincoln