100 Followers Giveaway!!!

I have finally reached 100 followers! To celebrate, I have teamed up with Mrs. Patton from Mrs. Patton’s Patch. Mrs. Patton has graciously agreed to give away not just one item but EVERY item from her TPT store.

Here’s what you need to do to enter:

- Follow my blog- Mrs. Kelly’s Kindergarten

- Follow Mrs. Patton’s blog- Mrs. Patton’s patch

For additional entries:

-Follow Mrs. Patton’s TPT store

-Blog about the giveaway and post your link here on my blog

Leave a separate comment on this blog for each entry.

You have until Wednesday night at 8 p.m. to enter! Good Luck!

Summer School

It has been far too long since I have blogged and now I have a dilemma! 

I just got a call from one of the schools in my district asking me to teach summer school...starting next week! They are desperate! So, I will be teaching first graders who are going into second grade for 8 days. Only 8 days! 2.5 hours a day! I am a kindergarten teacher so this will be a little out of my comfort zone.

I'm thinking about doing a beach/ocean theme since its summer and I love the beach but I need help. What should my day look like? How can I do minimal planning that will get maximum results?!? How I get these kiddos into a semi routine in 8 days? By the way...I do not know any of these kids reading levels yet. I am a planner so this is out of my realm! I need help blogger buddies! 

Please leave me comments with some great ideas!

On another note, I am at 99 followers! One more follower and there will be a super sweet giveaway!!

Stephanie

End of the Year Fun

What's the Buzz in First is hosting an end of the year linky party.

The end of the year is a whirlwind of activities and special projects. Here are a few things that I do...

Bye-Bye Books Party- I send home all of the class books, posters, and anchor charts that we have made together. I draw names and then the students have to hurry to pick something to take home. All of the items are laid out on the tables and the other students count backwards from 10 while the selected student picks an item.

Picture CD- I take pictures all year long. At the end of the year I burn a picture CD for the parents of all of the pictures that I have taken. At conferences I ask for CD's so that I do not have to provide 28!

Popsicles- To promote good behavior in the last few days of school I buy a big box of freezer pops (a box of 100!) At the end of a hot day we will go outside and enjoy popsicles under the shade trees on the playground.

Stephanie

Poetry Celebration

We had a celebration with another class who was also writing poetry. We shared our treasuries of poems. The kids had a blast! Here are some pictures!

(I love this one!)

Stephanie

Poetry Treasury

To wrap up our poetry unit my students created their own "Treasury of Poems." I brought in scrapbook paper and the students all got to pick and personalize their book. Here are some pictures of our treasuries. 

Stephanie

Poet-Tree

We have spent the past few weeks reading and writing a lot of poetry. I found this idea on another blog and I totally loved it. Here are some pictures of our Poet-Tree. Each of my students wrote 2 poems for our tree.

Stephanie

Pinkalicious!

Check this out...

I found 5 of my kids pouring over this book together! This is what I love about teaching!

-Stephanie