Two Hoots and A Holler

Hoot #1

Our students are loving all of our winter centers!  They cheer when it is time to do centers/workstations.  Even though they have a choice to do "center tubs" or "free choice", many choose to keep doing the center tubs!  Our kids actually choose to do WORK and LEARN....how AWESOME is that?!?!!  Check out some of their favorite centers...

This is a math center created by Greg Smedley at Kindergarten Smorgasboard. 

This is a freebie from TPT.  We tried to find who made this wonderful product, but we were unable to find it.  If you know, then please let us know so we can give proper credit. 

Hoot #2

We had a house meeting at the beginning of the month.  Our houses grew!  We added 3 more 5th grade classes and 3 more kinder classes to participate in the house systems.  They got to pop balloons to determine which house they would belong to, and our students cheered them along the way.  We can't wait to see how expanding the houses to contain 10 classes total will impact these students!  

 

This Week's Holler...
This week's holler goes out to Ladybug's Teacher Files!! This place is awesome.  It has everything you need to get organized. We could spend a lot of time and money in this little place.  We may be a little behind, but I will be reading up on how to use Google to make our "To Do Lists" for our lives!!! Happy reading!

Two Hoots and A Holler

Hoot #1 

Well here in Mississippi the weather is so unpredictable!  One day, in the middle of winter, it is 62 and the next it is snowing!  That is exactly what happened last Friday.  Now it is Thursday, and we are still out of school for a snow day!  Before the snow days hit, my class wrote an opinion piece in their journals.  They wrote whether or not they thought it would snow and wrote why.  We discussed different ways we could help the snow get to us, such as snow dancing, sleeping with a spoon under your pillow, wearing pajamas inside out and backwards, and putting ice cubes in the toilet.  Well these kiddos must have done the best snow dance ever because the snow and ice came to Mississppi and stayed!  I can't wait to get back to school to read all about what they did on their snow days!

Hoot #2 

We are so thrilled that our students have been so excited about learning since their return from Christmas break!  Some kind of magic happens over Christmas break, and the students start off the new year more mature and more eager to learn!  We began using our adapted version of  "Calendar Binders" for morning work.  The students LOVE IT!  I don't think they even realize they are doing work, they are just excited to use a dry erase marker and have their own eraser!  It is so quiet in the mornings while they work...you could literally hear a pin drop!  They are so engaged in what they are doing!  

This Week's Holler...

This week we want to give a HUGE holler to our co-worker and former kinder colleague, Danielle Abner!  She is now teaching first grade at our school, and she has been named our school's Teacher of the Year!  We are so proud of her!  She works so hard and is so dedicated to her students.  She is deserving of this award.  We are honored to have her representing our school, and we just want her to know that we think that she rocks, and we are so blessed to have her in our school family!  Congrats Danielle!  

 

Two Hoots and A Holler

Hoot #1

We had our Christmas party in kinder before we went on our break.  We had a day filled with hot chocolate, pizza, presents, laughter, and fun!  We loved seeing our students so happy!  Seeing students just as excited about giving as they are about receiving makes our hearts so happy!  They are the reason why we do what we do!  

 

Hoot #2

Now that we are back into the swing of things, we are all reaching our goals for the end of the year!! I do not know about you guys but we are willing to do everything that it takes to get these children excited about reading! 

 One of my Christmas presents was this cool microphone! What can I say, my mom knew exactly what I would love!

Isn't it pretty???

I couldn't wait to get this into the students' hands! It was the first thing that we talked about when we came back. The students were totally excited. I told them that they could read their sight words to me by using the microphone. The students were totally excited. Today we tested our students on sight words. We do this every other Thursday using our ESGI assessment (If you do not have this...YOU WANT THIS!!! It saves us a ton of time). They loved every minute of today as they read their sight words!! There is so much more this can do. I can't wait to figure it all out!

This Week's Holler...

This week we are hollering at Kristen at A Teeny Tiny Teacher!
We are in love with her listen and learn phonics pack! It is just what our students need to meet their year end goals! Thanks Kristen for sharing your great ideas!! Go check her out!