Meet and Greet

We are getting ready to start a new school year at BSLK and today was our meet the teacher day. It was fun to match the new names I have been learning to sweet little faces! I think I got pictures of everyone who came today. It looks like it is going to be a GREAT year.

NEAEC Conference

Today our school held our 4th annual North East Alabama Early Childhood Conference. It was GREAT as always. For the past two years I have worked on the conference committee but this year I had planned on just going and enjoying the conference as a participant. Then.....my friend LaShae Henderson who teaches next door said the committee had asked her to present and would I like to help? I knew she was a great teacher with super ideas so I agreed to help. It was such a fun experience!! (Other than being a bit nervous about speaking in front of a group of teachers of course.) The presentation was called Inquiring Minds Want To Know and covered many of the science, literacy, and math activities we use each year.  We used lots of ideas that we learned from a one of the greatest kindergarten teachers ever... Suzan Estes who has moved up to third grade. I am posting a few pictures of the activities we did during the conference as well as a few pictures from my classroom ready for the 2012-13 school year.

Using scent to identify our "family members" just like bats!

 

Using water in eyedroppers to melt sugar cubes to practice eating like a spider

Making TP tube cars

Using balloons to demonstrate force and motion

Sewing with plastic needles to discover how difficult to was for the pilgrims to  make clothes.

My door ready for school! I love Pete the Cat!

My new curtains- Made from fabric kites!

I made new shapes with my cricut

Numbered vinyl circles on the  floor to help learning to make a  line

I painted the back of this shelf to display my writing center

Week 33 & 34 Plants, Muffins for Mom and Cinco de Mayo!

We have been very busy learning in our classroom. We have watched as five little caterpillars became butterflies. We have had muffins for mom and we celebrated Cinco de Mayo. We have also learned about plants and insects!

 Our caterpillars are making a chrysalis

 The chrysalis are inside our butterfly net.

 Close up view of the chrysalis inside the net.

One of the butterflies emerging!

Our ant farm.

Will and his mom.

Caden and his mom.

Emma and her mom.

Kaleigha and mom.

Hunter and mom.

Jorge with his mom, dad and sister.

Eidan and mom.

Jordy with mom, brother, sister, and cousin.

Making our pinata

The pinata is drying on the shelf

Goodies for the pinata

Everyone had their own bag!

Finished pinata!!

Getting ready to break the pinata

It is broken!!

Checking out the broken pinata

Our broken pinata!

Our yummy Cinco de Mayo fiesta snack!!