2011 Top Three Most Viewed Blog Posts

 
What a Great Linky Party! Fern Smith (click on picture above) is having a linky party with links to the Top 3 blog posts of many of my favorite blogs. This got me to thinking what MY top 3 posts were, so I went to check it out. This is what I found: 
My Top Three are:

1.  Diller's Book Study: Math Stations Chapter 4....Links to GREAT freebies here!


2.  Farm Unit for Kindergarten...A cute farm unit...but wow...number 2?!


3.  Diller's Book Study: Math Stations Chapter 6...Linked to a freebie... :)

Gingerbread Fun

These were made the last day before break.  My sweeties took a long time to decide exactly what pieces to glue on their houses!

 

Cute Christmas Decorations

These are making a nice Christmas-y forest in my hallway right now!

Then...further down the hall, are these cute lil' guys...

For Little People to be Thankful

I love love love these Placemats by June Pfaff Daley! I am going to use it at home and at work. SO CUTE! I had to search online(twice!) since it took me a long time to find them through Family Fun's site, but here is the link for you: Click HERE 
Update: {Click HERE for the placemats}

Brown Bear

Oh My! I just found the cutest site for Brown Bear activities (Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See by Bill Martin Jr, that is). Click here to check it out and if you have a spare minute check out the cute blog that she writes too! Now, I have to got back and read some more! The pictures are so precious!

1st 20 Days in Kindergarten

This is a way to introduce important literacy concepts in K. I love it because it is very thorough. I found it online somewhere, so let me know if you know who to give the credit to!

The Importance of Play...American Academy of Pediatrics viewpoint

Love this video!

Target Sales

Last night, I read a lot of different blogs about the great teacher items at Target. Today I had to go and see what I could find!

I bought all this(...15 comp books total, the picture only shows 3...) for $36! I am going to link this up to (click on it) Ladybug's Teacher Files, where I laughed so hard last night at her description of "teacher-shoppers", I just had to share it with all of you. But, she outed me. Now my family knows I have ulterior motives when shopping...of course, today kind of blew my cover when I brought in all those Target bags!

Math Stations: Ch. 7- Geometry

I have been getting a jumpstart on Chapter 7 by creating a 3-D/ 2-D Shape Unit on TPT.  I was looking to make something with the 3-D shapes for K-1, but I added 2-D shape activities too. :)
Also, while I was reading the blogs for Chapter 6, I ran into this GREAT song for shapes: {Song on Youtube}
If you want to check out my *new* TPT unit:  {Shapes Unit}
Plus, another freebie online can be found here: {Pattern Block designs}
Check out the linky party here:{http://pattonspatch.blogspot.com/2011/07/math-workstations-chapter-7-geometry.html}

Chapter 6: Math Stations

Freebie-Mystery Number sheet 
I made this to go with the activity on page 152 for kindergartners. I tried loading it into google docs, but it wouldn't keep my original font or border. SO Strange! So it is now a freebie on TPT! 

Check out the Math Stations Linky Party here this week: {Oceans of First Grade Fun}

Math Stations Chapter 5: Addition and Subtraction

Well, for years I've had those theme-related mini erasers and the mats. I guess now I have a great motivation to get them out!
Here is a picture that I found on the web somewhere(let me know if you know where it came from) that I thought was really good for addition with dominos. I also have a similar chart for only counting those mini erasers, with numbers 1-12 across the top and each column one inch wide, on a  12 x 18 piece of construction paper. Visit Primary Graffiti for more about Chapter Five: {http://www.primarygraffiti.blogspot.com/2011/06/math-workstations-learning-resources.html}.

Math Stations Chapter 4

Wow Fran did a great job! I would love to be a fly on her wall say something more or post a great idea, but I am overwhelmed with ideas! However, this "beginning concept" area is the hardest for me. I have been spending oodles of time here though:
{http://prekinders.com/numbers-counting/ }  for some great  super easy ideas.  It is hard to go to these lower skills for some of the kids who need it, especially when you have a broad range of kids. It seems like they come in at the higher levels, or so it seems.  But I know that they may not really have the concept of number sense just because they know the numbers.  I really want to focus on these concepts this year!
Check out the linky party here: {http://kindergartencrayons.blogspot.com/2011/06/chapter-4-now-lets-explore.html}

Math Stations Chapter 3: Getting Started

So, I found a pocket chart that may be used for math stations:{ Click for pocket chart}
It is cheaper than RGS at 39.95...Also, I found this one on accident while linking my third option at 21.99...{Click for second chart}.   Here is { the third one} at 34.99.  Does anyone think one of these might work?

Click here for the linky party:http://learningwithmrsparker.blogspot.com/2011/06/math-work-stations-chapter-3.html

Butterflies

After a lesson on symmetry, we used some foam pieces and ripped paper for butterflies. The purple one makes me smile. It looks like the butterfly has a butterfly for his mouth!

Ocean Freebie

Well, we are just finishing up units on Fairy Tales and Reptiles. I hope to post some pictures soon! We are starting Farm, Ocean and maybe Insects if we can squeeze it in at the end. I forgot I made this awhile ago for the kiddos, and I thought it would be a great freebie to share. I modified an older one I had into this one, so this one hasn't been technically "classroom-approved" yet, but I think it will do. :)
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ocean-Animals-Measurement-FREE

Ocean Unit

It is finally done! I finished my Ocean Unit.
Check it out!
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ocean-Unit-Math-and-Literacy-for-Kindergarten
Tomorrow or the next day I am going to post an activity to go along with it.

Our Eggs

See the link below for the original post...better pictures and a link to the directions. I think I sprayed them with too much water!

Easter Eggs for your Windows

These are so pretty!We are definitely going to make some of these!

http://thechocolatemuffintree.blogspot.com/2011/03/tie-dyed-coffee-filter-easter-eggs.html