Five for Friday!

It's Five for Friday time! Here are my five random things about this week!

Last night I finished my Common Core State Standards quick reference cards.  Well, I finished the pack long ago, but finally got it laminated and key-ringed for myself! I use these cards when I am lesson planning and explaining "I cans" to the students. Click the link above for your own copy!

My puppy Millie - the kids next door call her the hyper dog. She is such a cuddle bug, but see that little thing by her mouth? Yes its the remnant of a tennis ball, that she insists on playing fetch with still.  Anyone else have a hyper dog? :o)

Paula the Paleontologist and our Dinosaur unit - It from Khrys Bosland's Dino-Mite Dinosaur Unit.  It is a fantastic unit that guided our dinosaur studies! The kids especially loved the write around the room activity.

So this is SUPER random, but we took this out of our basement this week - it is the original stove that came with our house.  As we were cleaning up from the flood, I decided to check if this baby was loose, and it was, so away it went!

And last, this is my major accomplishment for this week - I got all of our end of the year reading level testing completed! And WOW. I am so amazed at the strides my little ones have made over the past year. Brings a little tear to my eye to think back on the past year...SO PROUD!

And that's my Five for Friday.  Next week we are going to start buggy centers, which I have A LOT of work to do in preparation...as in...I haven't started yet. Oops!

What do you do for buggy centers? What are you working on at this time in the year that you would like incorporated into themed centers? 

Parents - What do you want to see us doing?

Two tech updates!

Ladies and gentlemen, we are a lucky bunch of kinders who have daily access to an LCD projector. One of the ways we use the projector is to generate interest in a topic or reinforce strategies that we are learning! Here are two of our new favorite videos!


When You Subtract Like a Pirate

Fossil Rock Anthem

Update number two is that I am going to be linking up with Apples and ABCs and What the Teacher Wants for Teacher Talk Tuesday on Instagram!

You can follow me on Instagram here!

...and a little Instagram action to get ya started!

Children's Museum Field Trip

We had a blast today at the Children's Museum!! But man, we were tired when we got back to school.

Parents- I took a lot of pictures that I am happy to distribute to you - please let me know if you would like them!

Unfortunately for the rest of you - you only get to see the skewed ones! The kids loved the ambulance and fire truck, where they go to get into costume and use the radio between the two almost-life-size trucks.  Awesome! We also loved the golf ball activity where the kids dropped golf balls down a ramp to see how far they would go of if they would make it into rotating buckets. 

 It was truly a magical day to see everyone so happy and just watch the kids being kids. :o)