Bats

My kids loved learning about bats!  

These are the three books that I used to teach my kiddo's about bats.  

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There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat

Fantastic Bats

Amazing Bats

Bat vocabulary

It was so fun to hear them use these words and to know what 

the meaning of each word was. 

We created two different bat anchor charts!

The first we labled a bat and the second we did a tree map 

about bats. 

The kiddo's created their own bat using pre-cut materials and cup cake papers. I got this idea 

from another blogger at IHeart Crafty Things.

I dyed bow tie noodles three different colors orange, purple and black.  I put them in the sandtable for the kiddo's to sort by color. 

Spiders

Spiders!

What a fun and exchiting few weeks we had learning about spiders!

We spent a week on each book!

Aaaaarrgghh Spider! Our vocabulary words where sparkly, pet, spider and spider web. 

The Very Busy Spider, we worked on the words, silky, field, fence post and beautiful. 

Anchor Charts

We spent one day creating a spider and the second day labeliing him.  After spending time learing about spiders we created a tree map about spiders.  For story retelling we used The Very Busy Spider. 

We sang the song the Its Bitsy Spider, I created a class book to keep in the library and sent home a mini book for the kids to read to their parents. 

We did much much more and I am going to try really hard to remember to take pictures!  I just get so busy with my kiddo's I forget to take pictures and document all the fun we are having!

Aaaaaarrgghhhhhh a Spider!

During our spider unit, my little sweet hearts, informed me that we had a spider under the sand table. I quickly told them that it was just one of the spider rings that I added to the sand table.  Our girls kept telling us that it was brown and big and that the spider rings where orange and purple.  After some convincing, I decided to investigate!  No! it was not a spider . . .   it was a man eating spider!  I swear that sucker was the size of a silver dollar.  I attempted to put a cup on him to keep him in place until the janitor could come and deal with the beast.  However, as I approached him he full on attacked me.  I have never in all my years had a spider run at me.  The next thing I know I am on the table screaming and I have 20, 4 year olds on the table standing behind me yelling!  What a sight we where!  The assistant from next door, came and saved the day.  She hunted down the beast and sleighed him!

Come to find out he was a Wolf Spider!

The are known for attacking their pray, I told you that thing was trying to catch me and eat me!

Cozy Corner or Calm Down Area

I created this cozy corner out of a dishwaher box, for our students to go and have a place to be alone or when needed to calm down.

In side the box I put this poster of Finding Dory, I felt it was not only calming but that the kids would enjoy looking at it. 

I also put two pillows and a bucket of things for them to do, if they need the time to calm down.  

On the out side of the box are different cards with strategies to help them calm down. 

Classroom Behavior

After creating anchor charts with my class, I created these mini anchor charts to post around the room.  They are like a 2nd teacher with in the classroom. 

Pete The Cat, I Love My White Shoes

Started the year off with "Pete the Cat, I Love My White Shoes", 

this is a great book to teach colors, cause and effect and sequence.

We created this Anchor Chart for story retelling the story. 

Students created their own "Pete the Cat", from shapes.  They each colored their shoes to represent their favorite color. 

We matched colors and talked about cause and effect. 

If Pete stepped in grapes what color would his shoes be? 

If Pete stepped in bubble gum what color would his shoes be?

etc. . . 

I used this 3-D Pete to test for color recognition. 

Students feed Pete the shoes as they told me the colors.

What a fun and engaging way to assess color recognition. in

Candyland Classroom

This years classroom theme is candy and chalkboard! 

This wall has my 7 habit banner. 

Here is my anchor chard board.  The Gum Drops are magnets.  

This is where I will hang our anchor charts through out the year.  

I like to place the charts on top of each other so that the kiddo's can flip through them as needed.

This board is located next to the writing center, I did this so that the kids can use the charts as a reference when writing. 

Candy bouquet!  

This is the door into the classroom!

House/Dramatic Play Center

Library

Parent Communication!

This board is where we keep extra copies of all the extra communications. 

Helps keep us organized and on top of things!

Puppet/Retelling Center!

This beauty was made for me, by my husbands employee!  Such an amazing hubby to pay to have it made and Mike is an all star for always being ready and willing to make odds and ends for my classroom.

Smartboard!

Word wall and teaching board!  

Here is where the Magic happens!

Othr then putting together a few things here and there, we are ready for kiddo's~!

Color Sorting

Aghhhh!   After I finished this and bought the pom poms, I realized I did not use the color yellow.  So the question of the day, is will my OCD set in and I will have to fix it or leave it be?

I created this little gem using toilet and paper towel tubes.  Painted them with craft paint.  I spray painted the box black.  

Glued the tubes along the back and attached a sign.  

Students will use large twisters to pick up the pom poms and put them into the correct tube. 

Great for color recognition, sorting, counting and fine motor!

You can pick up your free copy of the sign I made by clicking on the sign itself.