President Centers II

Have I mentioned that the K teachers (there are 5 of us) at my school ROCK?! We all work so well together and I couldn't ask for better teammates. That said- we share everything.

Mrs. Jakusz down the hall made these cute President's Day number match cards where the kids have to match the number, number word, and pictorial representation of the number.  She included a little cheat sheet to help the kids self-check.  

The kids have to organize the cards and make sense out of the numbers - and it goes up to 20! Whahoo!

Did I mention I love my K team?

Parents- If you want a copy for home, please let me know!

President's Day Centers

Ok, so we may have started our President's Day centers last week because we had Lincoln's birthday off instead of President's Day-- but we finished them today and the kids rocked them out!

 

Last week, we worked on the venn diagram comparison between Lincoln and Washington (pictures on that tomorrow). This was the second time we made a venn diagram and it was a little rough, but we did it!

We started by brainstorming (tangent: I have to be better about taking action shots of our work in process - apologies!) facts about Lincoln and Washington - I was pleasantly surprised by relevant ideas we brainstormed!

Then we transferred our ideas in to similarities and differences in the venn diagram.  The kids then worked on their own venn, either writing their own ideas, using the ones we brainstormed, or wrote their own sentences.

 And...here we are working on roll and stamp - President styleeee

 and again...

 ...and here's a nice lil sharing shot for good measure!

Ok yes, I know it may be Sunday, but I am still going to post my first Five for Friday... so we can link up with some other great blogs!

Just click on the link above to see some great teachers and their wonderful classrooms!

And here are my five random things for Friday (or Sunday, whatever :o)).

So I bought these bubbles at Target because my students LOVE bubbles.  And...I didn't decide what to do with them until Thursday (yes Valentine's day) morning.  So I threw this together before school and voila! Homemade Valentine's for everyone!

I also opened my TpT store this week with some Valentine's centers including this conversation heart graphing sorting sheet and graph. I hope I can create more and more CCSS aligned centers and such for my kiddos with the goal of putting it on TpT!

 Rewind to Monday, when we worked on our Lincoln Log Cabin's after discussing Abraham Lincoln We have Abe's birthday off of school instead of President's Day so I started my President unit early.

And... last is my sweet little pup (or cat- ha!) sleeping on the couch (yes, on top of the couch pillow) waiting for something exciting to happen outside the window. 

Ok, so I guess that's four for Friday - hmm.. I'll do better next time! :o)