Graphing Galore

Our new math topic is graphing.  We graph a lot in Kindergarten already, but we are focusing a bit more on them right now.  To make graphing more exciting, I am having the cuties do a survey before each graph we constructed this week.  I snatched a slew of surveys from Mrs. Jump's and Mrs. Lee's Winter Unit on Teacher's Pay Teachers.

Here are two graphs we made after completing the surveys from Mrs. Jump.

Click on each picture to download the titles for these graphs if you would like them.

 

 

The Mitten

This week was only a three day week for the students, but we sure did work hard and accomplish a lot.  We started learning about seasons in Science, so I planned to read one of my favorite books, The Mitten.

I absolutely love this book and introduced it by telling my kinder cuties that we had a new friend in our room.  I placed a small hedgehog puppet in a bag and asked one student to come up and describe what was in the bag.  The other children guessed based on the clues.  Then I pulled out the hedgehog and it read the story to them.  

Then we graphed our favorite character from the book.

I found the little pictures of The Mitten Characters from Swamp Frog First Graders.  Her blog is awesome!  I created the title for this graph from my collection of Lettering Delights fonts. Click on the graph above to print the title I created.

We also learned about the story elements of The Mitten.  You can click the picture for the parts of the story map.  I got this idea from Cara Carroll at First Grade Parade.

I was tickled pink when a new student said the setting was in North Carolina, where she moved from, "because there is no snow in Texas".  It made me smile!

New Year's Activity

Welcome to 2012!  It's been almost a week since this new year started.  Here is a pic of one of our new year's projects in my kindergarten room.

We took two days to create this little cutie.  We spent the first day reading this book

and discussing our new year's resolutions and brainstormed some resolutions together.  Then we wrote one goal for our new year using a speech bubble I created.  

On day two, we created little faces and added our speech bubble and a blower.             

                                          

Happy New Year!

It's the start of a new year and I wanted to start a blog to share my ideas.  I hope this blog proves useful for other teachers.