Kroger's Kindergarten: St. Patrick's Day

It was another colorful day in Kindergsrten today. I don't know what it is about rainbows but they make everything so much more bright and cheery even on an ugly rainy day :)

We made this rainbow brace map this morning with some interactive writing.

Speaking of brace maps, I love how my partner teacher arranged her schedule cards into one.

We also made these cute sight word rainbows in one of our centers this week. They picked 6 different words written on shamrocks, and they practiced writing the words in rainbow colors. This was one of those golden center activities where nobody moves or talks or breathes until they are finished haha.

UPDATE: I do not have a digital file of this particular rainbow image but you can grab a version in google docs here if you need one. You will have to enlarge the image on your copy machine to get it to this size and the lines are not as straight as my original image but it's the best I can do :)

And they look so cute hanging up with our silly leprechauns.

We are celebrating St Patrick's day this week in my room. We started talking about leprechauns this morning...it's always funny to me to hear them recount the havoc that leprechauns caused in their VPK rooms the year before. We read Jack and the Leprechaun and then talked about what kind of treasure we would want a pot filled with other than gold. Then we did this super cute crafitvity (thank you Pinterest) from Peace, Love & Learning. I forgot to snap pics of their writing but some of my favorites were "spiderman toys" "monster trucks" and "donuts".

We also did a directed drawing activity for a leprechaun. They turned out hilarious. You can download the instructions here.

We have been working a LOT with hammering in the base ten concept with teen numbers. It seems like they get comfortable with it but it doesn't always stick. Today we built the numbers together using some base ten blocks and then I set them loose with their own set to build and record the numbers. It was great to see the ones that couldn't be bothered with the blocks because they could decompose the numbers fluently, but the others really benefited from using the manipulatives. Hello differentiation :)