Five for Friday ~ Nov. 1st

Halloween week is one of my favorite weeks of school...until the dreaded day after Halloween!  Kids crashing off of their sugar high, or still wound up from all of the sugar...I knew I should have taken a personal day today...LOL :)

I am linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday Linky.

There is no better way to start of the week than with new shoes!! I got these fabulous Speery's while outlet shopping this weekend.  I'm a sucker for a sparkly shoe.

This was the fortune that I got when I had Chinese for lunch on Wednesday...while at school!  It was so funny and I had to share with my principal :) Hmmm....wonder if I get to choose my new line of work.

We had some pretty bad storms on Thursday evening so we opted to take the kiddos trick-or-treating on Wednesday night.  Are these the cutest kids or what!  Ok...maybe I am biased since they are my kids:)  

Speaking of Halloween...look at the treats that a parent made for Stephanie's class.  I have to admit that this mom is in PTO with me and brought me a sucker before she left.  It was delicious!

These are the treats I made for my son's class.  Unfortunately there were only enough for his class so I did NOT get to eat one of these :( bummer!  But his teacher informed me that they were delicious.

I have recently changed positions at my school.  I don't really have a new 'title' yet, still just Lead Title I Teacher, but now my job is data, data, data!  I created this to help me track DIBELS Benchmark and Progress Monitoring data.  It is up for FREE in my TpT store.  Go grab it up!

I hope you have a great weekend...and survive the dreaded day after Halloween!

Kathi

Peek At My Week- Spiders

I am super excited to link up with Mrs. Wills Kindergarten: Peek at my Week.

Our corporation kindergarten curriculum map is developed so that all kindergarten teachers teach according to the Common Core standards.
This week we are to teach:
* The initial and ending sound /s/
* sight words- have, is, in
* comprehehsion skill- setting
* writing standard: K.W.2

This week my theme is SPIDERS!!  I am so ready for some non-fiction teaching!!

I am including this week's lesson plans on Google Docs.  Just click the image below to view my plans.

I know it is hard to read.  Click on the image above to see it in Google Docs.

I will be using the following units for my Guided Reading Workshop.

One of my favorite components of my reading block is using Jen Jones' Phonological Awareness.  I will be using the book Spiders by Gail Gibbons this week for Phonological Awareness.

In kindergarten, we do a lot of writing in response to literature.  This week I will be using parts of each of these units.

In math, I will be using my October Daily Math Journals.  These are available in my TpT store.

I also came across a mini-unit on TpT that was FREE.  It is by Miss Kindergarten Love.  I already had my plans done when I found this wonderful treasure!!  I will be squeezing it in sometime this week.

Endless Possibilities,
Stephanie

Five for Friday

I am loving these numbers by Jen Jones from Hello Literacy!!  She is one of my favorite TpT'ers and bloggers.  I have all of her Phonological Awareness packets.  If you teach kindergarten or first grade, it is a must to check out her sets.

Now, on with Five for Friday...

My kinders completed an "Apple Investigation" this week.  This covers so many math skills and is so engaging for students.  Not only is it a great activity...  it is free!!  Julie Lee has this in her TpT store.  Go ahead, print it out and file it away with your apple unit for next year.

I had each of my students bring an apple for the Apple Investigation.  I have an incredible group of students this year and couldn't resist taking this picture.  They are so proud of their apples!!

Our writing standard that we were working on this week was "labeling".  What is the best way to learn to label?  Well...  I say, "Label your teacher!"  My students had so much fun using the sticky notes to label me.  (Ignore the tight clothes...  I am expecting baby number 3 and have not switched to maternity clothes yet.)

Speaking of my own children...  Have you ever been into school work, talking with your spouse or cooking that five minutes pass by so quickly?  This happened to me on Monday.  My five year old was in the kitchen and got into the mints.  A few minutes passed and this is what I found!!  Yes!!  He ate 14 mints!!  I counted the empty wrappers.  I was shocked that he kept a nice neat pile of trash.

Finally, I have been working in my RTI group with letter naming fluency.  I have an incredible group of parents this year and decided to create this Letter Naming Fluency At-Home Reading Intervention.  It is free in my TpT store.  I am sure it will help with letter naming and letter recognition.  I even included a parent letter.  It is a quick intervention that anyone can use.

Endless Possibilities,
Stephanie