Sunday, December 22, 2013
Family Traditions Projects
We had a great time sharing our Family Traditions Projects. I learned a lot from our projects. I even learned a new tradition about a pickle. How Cute!!
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| Our Projects |
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| Love the Power Point Presentation and Video that was shared. |
See below a few of my family traditions as well.
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| The family tree |
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| The girl's tree. |
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| We take a picture with Santa every year. |
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| Everyone's new stocking. Toby has one too. |
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| We added lights outside our house. See Toby!! |
Sunday, December 8, 2013
An Elf Arrived
Our classroom had a visitor from the North Pole show up Friday. Our elf was on Mrs. H. desk hiding inside a special elf. We had a contest to name our new elf. Each child was asked to draw a picture of the elf and write down a name. The winning name was Max. This coming week we will be keeping an elf journal of elf Max's adventures.
Update!
Snowflake showed up when Max got the flu. Thanks for the Jingle pup, story and movie. We LOVED hearing Jingle respond to the story!!
Rocks Rock!
We had a great time sharing our rocks that were brought from home. We even made a few creations with our rock project. Check a few samples out below. Oh yes, do you see our elf that showed up today?
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Measurement
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| Measuring a glue stick |
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| Measuring an Indian pointer See our recording sheets below. Pete and a Tissue box were smaller than Santa. Mrs. Hightower's new Santa cup is the same size as Santa and the Promethean board was bigger than Santa. The kids had a blast measuring around the room!!! |
We also learned about Mr. and Mrs. Measurement. The girls like Mrs. Measurement and the tools that she would use to measure with. Most of the boys liked Mr. Measurement. They decided to measure with the non standard measurement tool like bears. This freebie came from http://www.pinterest.com/pin/335588609703822006. Thanks for the great ideas!!!
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| Notice the bear in his hand;) |
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Saturday, November 30, 2013
My Black Friday Purchases for my Classroom
I snatched these cute activities for my classroom at 20% off on Black Friday from TPT. I can't wait to get them made and use them for our new Math unit on Measurement!
Check out his blog. http://www.thekindergartensmorgasboard.com/
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| My kids LOVE this song!! |
Long time no Blog;)
I have been very busy since school started and finally have time to update my blog. I have a few family updates and classroom updates from Halloween, Thanksgiving and more. Hope you enjoy:)
An exciting beginning of the year!!
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| Working hard during center time. |
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| We enjoy working with a partner to finish our journal writing. We love our "double checkers". |
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| More partner writing. |
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| Partner reading. We love reading with our microphones, pointers and story cubes. |
An exciting Fall at the Hightower's
AHS went to the play offs this year making it to round 3 and the band followed every game. Congrats AHS.
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| Elizabeth at her first game:) |
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| AHS band on the field. Elizabeth is on the Color Guard this year. She is on the flag line and "weapon line". Has hopes of being the captain next year:)))
Halloween |
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| Mrs. W. and I dressed like Pete the Cat. I have on my favorite color shoes-Purple Converse!! |
Toby Pup dressed as a little Devil. He started chewing up all of his toys so we thought this costume was fitting for him. Reagan dressed as Saige. She wants this doll for Christmas this year. Our students dressed as their favorite story book character. I decorated the Promethean board and Pete as a surprise to the kiddos:))
Thanksgiving.
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| The kids really LOVED dressing like a turkey and Indian to practice their sight words. It was called "Turkey Toss". They threw a stuffed turkey on a sight word and read it to their partner while wearing a turkey hat or Indian vest. They had a BLAST!!
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| More Turkey Tossing:))) |
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| Love our Pete the Cats for Thanksgiving. We are thankful for a lot of things! |
Our new "Toy" for our classroom. We got a Ladibug to go along with our Promethean board. We love it!
Thanksgiving Break at the Hightower House.
SNOW BEFORE THANKSGIVING IN GEORGIA! A first for me!!
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| Toby ate the snow. |
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| We get excited over a little snow in the South;))) |
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| We made a Fruit Turkey for our family get together. We had a blast. Even Toby was enjoying it! |
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| Our finished product!! |
Family Projects are due December 6th.
See below for instructions. Oh yea, think of doing your
project on the computer. SAVE Ink!! Email it to me;)))
Christmas is coming. Check back later for more updates.
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| Ho Ho Ho! |
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