Monday, June 9, 2014

New Binder Covers!

I've been working on creating new binder covers. I'm using Frog Street Press clipart and some Carson Dellosa clipart. I think they've turned out really cute! I have August through January right now, and I've made the spine part too.




Monday, April 7, 2014

Derby Winners

JT won the Derby hat contest! 
Look at that cool hat!
Sydney won a rose for winning the Derby!

Friday, March 21, 2014

We celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday at the beginning of March!
We read several of his books.

We read Fox in Socks, one of Mrs. Sztanya's FAVORITES! It makes your tongue numb because it has so many tongue twisters! After we read this book, we decorated our own socks. We hung these in the hallway below our bulletin board on a "clothesline".
One favorite is The Foot Book. We came up with lists of opposite words. We then chose one set of words, wrote the two words down, then we illustrated the words on a giant set of feet!
 
After reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, we made fish patterns and turned them into cool hats!

We enjoyed learning about Dr. Seuss!
 

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Also, check out the really great Valentine's Day boxes that students made! They did a fantastic job on them!
 
Parker and his uncle made this AMAZING Valentine box! It had Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
It was a great family project!
 
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are busting out of the sewer drain in the road!

This little guy was ADORABLE when he was "eating" the Valentine cards!

Friday, February 7, 2014

Pictures From Our Classroom


Center Time Photos 
 
Parker and Hailey work with blocks.
JT and Joshua build a fancy train track!                                          
 Math Lessons











Cali writes her numbers.

Sydney works with a geoboard using rubber bands to make shapes.
 Students make shapes using their bodies...this one is a square!
Here they are making a triangle!
Octopus Stew!
 Abigail shows us her octopus stew!
Caleb looks a little unsure about his octopus stew!


January Star Students

Congratulations to these students who kept their all of their tiger paws in January:
Emma
Addyson
Clinton
Bryan
Johnny
Christian
Autumn
Abigail L.
Lucas
Glenn
Katelynn
JT
Akira
Sydney
Joshua

January Student of the Month for Kindergarten:
Autumn!
Autumn receives a tiger pride t-shirt and gets to eat lunch with the other students of the month and Ms. Heiss
 
January Pawsitive Card Drawing Winner for Kindergarten:
Katelynn!
Katelynn receives a tiger pride water bottle!

Thursday, December 19, 2013



Ah, as they say, well, someone somewhere out there says this, has even SANG this (most recently another Kindergarten teacher!): "It's the most wonderful time…of the year!" Yeah, right! That person was never a Kindergarten teacher! It has been an exhausting month in our classroom! We have worked very hard on our Christmas crafts as well as finished our reading portion of MAP testing and completed our very lengthy Kindergarten assessment. Below are the ornaments and our Reindeer Food (with special Rudolph flying blend). The Kindergartners did all the painting (except the pinkish cheeks…I gave up and did those myself because they didn't turn out right). I did the first eye (the snowman's right eye) on the papier mache pots as an example for each one (the pots are the kind that you plant seeds in dirt and put directly in the ground…they decompose). I drew the faces on with a pencil so they'd have a guideline to follow. They used Sharpies for the craft stick snowman's face. They painted the snowflake ornament as individual sticks, I hot glued them together for them, they "painted" on Elmer's glue and we sprinkled white glitter, they chose their white buttons and they glued them on. I had to stay MANY late nights finishing/touching up some things. They couldn't use the hot glue, so I had to cut and glue the pictures on the back and used cardboard as a back to sturdy it up. We "made" the magic reindeer food in class. It is exhausting teaching Kindergarten, but it is worth it. In no other classroom (except when I taught 1st grade and the Kindergarten was only ½ day) have I ever seen the amount of progress in a school year that Kindergartners make! They come in knowing hardly anything, and they leave as readers (true readers), writers, and mathematicians! They have an adventure for science, and are very interested in social studies concepts. Enjoy! (I'll post more pics of our party later.)