Last Day of School Fun, Fun, Fun!

On the last day of school we spend a good part of the morning signing our Autograph and Photo Albums. I had two wonderful Mommies help me get them put together this year!

Each child has 5-6 pages of pictures taken throughout the school year.

I love to see what they write to their friends!

I gave each of my Kiddos a bottle of bubbles with this note and a fancy ring tied to it.

This is what the note says on the back.

I took so many pictures this year and did not get them all sent out through Shutterfly so I made a CD for each child with all the pictures. This way families can use them for scrapbooks or their own photo albums.

My class also made beach visors and the class next door decorated beach buckets.

Next we had a water balloon relay and then a little “Super Soaker” Fun!

** We asked parents to bring in filled water balloons. We had tons it was so fun!

I love the picture below! The boys were ready!

The weather cooperated and it was really nice and warm! We ended the day with ice cream sundaes in our classroom. It was a fun way to spend your last day as a kindergartener!

Kinderbykim’s Memory Book and Little Graduation Faces

Here is my finished Kindergarten Memory Book! Just in time school is out on Friday! I have the blank books all put together by the second week of school so I can glue in the children's items at the end of each month.

This was our September glyph and below is or September quilt piece.

 

Each month I include a picture of a special day, their quilt piece and the poem we learned for that month!

Gobble! Gobble!

I love our handprint reindeer!

This year a farm animal went in January because we made them for our “Winter on the Farm” Open House!

This little bee is made from tracing their shoe!

I just love our little Leprechaun hand prints and finger painted shamrocks.

( Yes we still paint in Kinder!)

We went on a spring egg hunt to the park. Bunny ears and all! The best part was a Peep Race. The 5 classes competed in a peep chewing relay. Hysterical!!

Don’t you just love their photo with the monkey and safari hat!

Every year we have and End of Year Sing. This is the cover of our program. This year all classes will sing , then come back to their classrooms for a fun award and then we will all have a picnic lunch together. Awards include things like Most Creative, Future Comedian, Future Architects, Future Author etc! Everyone gets an award.

Our school mascot is the Lee Leopard. Each child will also receive a Leo Medallion. Well I’m off to finish all these goodies. I hope you all are winding down and ready for a great Summer!

A Stripy Zebra, a Silly Monkey and a Sneaky Snake!

We made this cute little Zebra to go on the cover of our Guess Who book from Kinderlit .

This book is so much and I love how my kids artwork comes out! They are better artists  than me! The book does come with suggested ways to draw the animals.

This child's page is a little hard to see the blanks say big, small, roar, meow!

Here are the fun covers we put on our mini books!

I like sending home all the children's activities together in a pocket! It’s my attempt to not have everything shoved in their backpacks!

I got these cute safari hats at the Dollar Tree! I’m going to put them in their Memory books along with their safari quilt pieces seen in my last blog. We ended our unit with a trip to the Zoo last Friday!

Tall Giraffes, Fierce Lions and a Freebie!

This is my giant giraffe! He is made of yellow butcher paper and the spots are my kiddos hands. Then we used interactive writing to share our facts.

These cute little guys open like a card with giraffe facts in side. We used this Giraffe Thinking Map to write our facts.

These ferocious lions really jazzed up our jungle!

ROAR! These lion heads graced the cover of our Matter in the jungle book.

I’m currently working on a new Super Safari Pack which will be available in a few weeks on TPT. Both of these books are on TPT now and include mini books for the children to make and lots of fun patterns and ideas!

Zipping Around the Zoo and Rain Forest Adventures

We are going to the Zoo! You can come too!

We are going on a field trip to the zoo. So we thought it would be fun to end the year learning about zoo animals! Here is a new quilt I made this year with my little Zookeepers!

The safari band on the hat is from some leopard print boarder I cut up. It added a little pizazz!

This is a quilt I made two years ago. The yellow patch is decorated with marble paint. The idea is in my Rain Forest Adventures available  on TPT.

Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting lots of fun Zoo and Safari ideas so check back soon

Shiver Me Timbers! It’s Pirates! Plus a Freebie ARRRR!

Kindergarteners love Pirates! Here are some fun activities you can do with your little Scalawags! I borrowed a costume from a child in my class and we all got our picture taken. ARRR!

One year I put their picture on the front of their “Where's my Gold” mini book! This story is in my Pirate Pack available on tpt.

Here are two of my Favorite books to read! The book Do Pirates take Baths? we turned into a mini book for a Literacy centers activity.

The majority of our Pirate week was completed during literacy centers! We even wore Pirate hats during write room!

These are the cute little guys who graced the  covers of our books this year! The patterns are also in my Pirate Pack!

Pirate Thinking maps! Very cool and the writing I got my little pirates to do was so fun and creative. I have a few samples below!

We used pirate writing sticks to help us with our stories. I don’t have a picture of them cut out but you print them on cardstock, cut out and hot glue a skewer to the back (pointed side in the glue) then put in a vase or pot and my little pirates  used them in their writing. Here is her link for the freebie

Pirate writing sticks

These are some samples of some Pirate bulletin boards I have done in the past!The treasure chests are made from paper bags painted brown. Inside is a message of what they would buy with their gold. The writing frame is included in my Pirate Pack linked above.

Just for fun we added metallic pipe cleaners for earrings!Pirate Stew is Good For You! These patterns are included in my Oceans of Fun available on TPT.

This Jolly Pirate graph, graphed our favorite sea creatures.

News paper Pirate hats! We listed all kinds of Pirate names like “Peg Leg Peter” and “Princess Pearl” and of course a few were a bit more gory “Pirate Bloody Eye” and “Pirate Saw Leg”!

How to Make Paper Pirate hats

The last time I had an Ocean Open House we made this fun poster for our classroom door.

These little guys are the cutest ever! My team mate who teaches TK made these tp roll pirates. They are a riot! They even include real lace shirts and plastic cocktail swords! Inside is their writing about what they would buy with their treasure.

We ended the week with Pirate Pancakes!Yummy X marks the spot with a gold coin!

Kinder Caféé

My Little pirates also enjoyed wring to each other during literacy centers!

Let's write a Letter

Pirate Pete has many books in his collection! My Little Pirates love this one!