Pete The Cat!

I am absolutely obsessed with this now after reading many of your blogs.  I am not one to sit idle so I started stalking the internet to learn all about Pete!  "Oh my goodness" as Pete would say, I am totally in love with this Blue cat now!  I have found a great website by the publisher of the book and you can download the author of the book reading and singing the book.  I have downloaded them and my mind is now racing with so many things that I can do with these two stories.  I am so excited to use this with my class in September I can hardly contain myself.  (I do have to admit, I made my 20 year old son and his girlfriend sit and listen to it with me, YES, both songs and YES, from beginning to end!)  They thought it was so funny!  Here is the link for now... back to the internet to find more ideas!!

http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/feature/petethecat/

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Little Miss Kindergarten Give away Post!

Monday, July 25, 2011

The Creative Teacher Giveaway!

GO TO: littlemisskindergarten.blogspot.com


I am so super excited to share this with you! I have teamed up with Artskills to offer a fantastic giveaway! We are going to get you geared up for the coming school year with The Creative Teacher Giveaway! If you are the BIG winner of the giveaway, you will get $50 of free Creative Teacher Bulletin Board Products from my favorite line... ARTSKILLS! The best part is this... Once you get your Creative Teacher Bulletin Board products you can instantly get started planning your fabulous bulletin boards and enter the upcoming Bulletin Board contest that ARTSKILLS will launch this fall. And wouldn't it be fun to have your bulletin board featured and grab the prize winning button for your blog? There will also be other fun buttons to grab. If you do not have a blog you can still enter and participate and WIN too! So this invitation goes out to everyone and I mean everyone! Come on friends, show your Creative Teacher Spirit and let's get down to a little crafty fun.
Here are the rules!
1. "Like" Artskills on their Facebook page AND Follow the Little Miss Kindergarten Blog! But you have to do both AND leave your comment here on my blog.
2. Blog about this giveaway and comment here on my blog!
3. BONUS leave a comment on your favorite Artskills product and how you plan to use it! You can do that on the Artskills Facebook page while you are there!
I want you to know everybody is welcome to join in and participate! I really can't wait to hear your ideas and meet new friends!
And if you find the Amazing Artist Interactive Bulletin Board set you better send me a line!

It's Getting Dicey Linky Party

After reading Little Miss Kindergarten's "It's Getting Dicey Linky" party ideas, I was instantly "on the roll" to come up with a dice mat to use for my Kinder's.  During the month of October, my lesson plan includes a trip to the Pumpkin patch/Farm and I do a Farm theme along with my Pumpkin theme so I came up with this "Farming For Numbers" mat.  My kiddo's need constant number recognition reinforcement  AND I TOO LOVE to use DICE.  So do my students.  I will be making several of these mats, laminating them and putting them at my Math Center. I will give the students 1 die first to roll up to 6 and will have a bucket of Farm animals in front of them that they will have to place on the number they roll.  You could use any type of counters though.  When we get to the 2nd mat with numbers 5-10, I will give them 2 dice to roll.  So not only number recognition but counting as well. *(Graphics by ScrappinDoodle).

Bounty Teacher Wish List

http://www.teacherwishlist.com/share

Just found this website to win a Teacher's Classroom Wish List! Thought I would share with you all! Fingers crossed and hope we all WIN!!!! Good Luck!!!

Busy Bee Wish List

My friend and fellow teacher needed a quick wish list to enter the bounty teacher give away so I came up with this for her in just a few short minutes. Thought it turned out kinda cute so wanted to share. I think I will be making one for myself... with Monkeys of course!

I am all about classroom management in my room and I try to be as patient as ever but there are times when our instruction time is disrupted with "tattling." How many of us are in the middle of circle time and you are asking for an answer and a student raises their hand and you get this great big smile on your face and say to yourself,"Yay, David knows the answer" only to call on him and out comes "Bobby is touching me." The conversation bubble in my head is popped and I lose my place in circle time only to re-direct a behavior once again. While looking through my "Really Good Stuff" catalog, I came across the "Tattling Turtle." I LOVE this idea and just had to have it so I made one for myself. I made the sign like theirs but typed my name in and laminated it with my handy dandy Scotch Laminating machine (which I love and have 2 of them!). I bought a container at Target for $1, added some post it notes, a marker and a little stuffed turtle that I had. I cannot wait to use it this year. Go to: www.reallygoodstuff.com to see the original Tattling Turtle kit. Here is a copy of my version to share....