Mrs. Collins Kindergaren Creative Ideas on Day 3
* For every letter we learn, I try to do a fun day that relates to that letter. For example, when we study letter Pp, we dress in our pajamas for the day and eat popcorn. The kids love it and it makes learning the letter and sound so much fun! This picture is from last year on letter Pp Day!
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*Teaching Kindergarten is the begining to writing sentences and I use a "space rock" to help leave a finger space. A space rock is a rock that goes in a fish aquarium. It is big enough to use to leave finger space. Each child has one they keep in their art box and they pull it out when needed. I can Not take credit for this. A coworker/pre-K teacher, Melissa introduced the idea to me.
* Another thing I do to help my students learn sight words is teaching bubble gum words. I get a cut out of a bubble gum jar and blow it up. Draw 30 circles because I have 30 weeks of sight words. Each week the child learns his/her sight words (bgum words) they color a bgum in their jar. At the end of the year, they know 200 sight words and should have their jar filled up. They love to compete and be the first one to color their bgum for that particular week. Another idea from Melissa!
*For a writing assignment and to see growth over the year. I have a class bear, Max. He has a folder and bag. Max goes home with the Star of the Week on Monday and comes back the following Monday. The Star Student is to write and illustrate sentences about what they did with Max. It is amazing to see their handwriting and invented spellings at the beginning of the year and compare it to the second semester.
*I use fly swatters to swat words they are reading off the word wall. They are fancy fly swatters with a pretty flower on them and the kids love to SWAT the words.
* Another thing I do to keep up with student info is the clipboard. I have a wooden clipboard and on the back, I have a piece of paper taped down with every student's contact info and parent names listed on back. I can grab it in event of an emergency without having to dig into a file.
I'm so going to need you and Melissa to help me with all these fun ideas when its my turn to teach!!
ReplyDeleteCandice, we will definitely help you!! Mandy, the bubblegum words were one of my favorite creative Kindergarten things from when I taught it. I need a copy of whatever you use for your contact info sheet. that's a really good idea!
ReplyDeleteI'm loving your contact info-clipboard idea. I think I might try this out!
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