Working on Writing!

We have been working on writing together for about a week. Today, our students worked on their October writing sample for their portfolios... We call Our Smile Binder. 😊 We praise every attempt! They did a great job! 

Winter, Penguins and Antarctica... HERE WE COME!

We LOVED our Winter Break SO MUCH! We spent quality time with family and friends…no travel this year for either of us meant more time to rest and renew! 

We literally integrate literacy into EVERYTHING we do in Our Smart Community. We are both very passionate about writing in kindergarten. This year, we have begun working with rubrics. We use a behavior rubric and we have been using project rubrics for several months with GREAT results. The visual examples of each level are key to the success. I have uploaded my rubrics to share with you here:

 I also created a fun little listening center extension for winter…also a freebie! Enjoy! 

Kelly and I worked about 10 hours AT SCHOOL (not including all of our behind the scenes work) over break. Our rooms were ready to welcome our students into Antarctica on Monday! We both enjoy this unit SO MUCH and our new word walls will enhance our students' literacy learning! 

Be Blessed this year!!

Rollin' Out December...

Hi Y’all! J I hope Winter Break is treating you well! I have been working on school goodies the last 2 days… I think it is time for a break from creating. Here is a little recap of our month in Our Smart Community. It was BUSY and super fun!

We began our world travels in NOVEMBER. We visit 7 countries and it is really more of a history, cultural and geography unit than Christmas Around the World kind of thing.  We used to do that but after traveling to 4 of the countries together, we had a lot more to share. J Someday, I shall put it all together into a unit… it is so busy that I just haven’t found the time yet. Perhaps that will be a summer project.

We teach the 7 Habits…we introduce one habit each month in kindergarten. As an integrated Art/WRITING project, we made Santa and wrote about how we had been using one of the first three habits in our lives. It was super cute to see the ideas! We loved it… and our students did as well.

 

We had SO MUCH fun on our Polar Express Day. We wore our jammies, made hot chocolate and s’mores for treats. We had a blast!

 

 

Did you have an elf visit your classroom? SO FUN! Winter came to visit in Mrs. Parrott’s room and Rocket was in mine. The students love finding them each morning. The Students made their own elves the last week before break… DEFINITELY  THE FAVORITE project of the month! J

We hope your December was magical, fun and full of learning! J We have been working on writing A LOT and using rubrics in kindergarten to assess our work. I will share a little bit about that next time and add a freebie!

Be Blessed! J

Farm Fun!

We made the cutest lil’ farmers last week! J The details made them extra fun! They will be included in my farm unit... if I ever have time to work on it! We have also been workin’ hard on learning vocabulary... our focus was on compound words last week. We are so proud of our students! We made our first flip books too... all about irrigation!

 

Kelly and I finally share a wall! J We are SO excited as this is our first EVER display together! We love having our students' work all mixed together!

 

 

 

Vocabulary Strips!

 

Our First Vocabulary Flip Book of the Year!

They wrote about irrigation and illustrated their understanding of the word.

Our students did a great job! J