Summer Checklist Update and a New Item

Okay so my summer checklist has hit a snag! I am at the beach for 30 days and can't really work on a few of the things. With that said Tropical Storm Debby has brought all sorts of rain my way so we can't go outside, so I worked on one of my intervention packs! I made some changes and added to the pack for Chrysanthemum and put it up for sale on my TpT this morning, I also added the zipped file of the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom stuff I put on here for free last week, don't worry it is still free!! You can get bits and pieces from the blog or head over to my store and grab the whole file!! While you are there check out my pack for Chrysanthemum. It has rhyming, syllables, letter recognition, and a class book ( I really want my kids to make a book a week) If you get either unit free or otherwise let me know what you think!!! I think my next rainy day project will be headers for my reading focus wall! Have a great Sunday!!

Oh yeah. I am at 80 followers, which is so exciting considering I have not been that great at updating! I am thinking about a giveaway if I hit 100!

New Math Games

This weekend I worked on a few math games. They are practicing time and numbers on a clock. I made them for this year, even though next year when we switch to common core time is no longer a kindergarten standard. Neither is money. I know we have decided to still include time and money in our morning calendar time so the kids are still exposed to it. What about you? Will you continue to teach time and money in some way? Do you think they need to be exposed to it before they get to first grade?
Anyway if you plan on still teaching it in kindergarten then you might like these games, but it meets the common core standard 1.MD.3 for 1st grade. Go check them out at my TpT store. The clip art game from Graphics from the Pond (one of my favorites!!!!)

I have to say I was a little disappointed this morning when we didn't have a snow day or a delay. Yes you heard me right I said snow day. It was suppose to snow here last night. I really hoped our county would give us the day. We have 5 built in days left! Anybody else have built in days left? If so what is your county doing with them? Just wondering what is happening everywhere else!!!

Have a great week!!!!!

Popcorn Word Books and a Giveaway!

We are finished with our letters of the week, so I decided we should do a word of the week until the end of the year. I let my helper on Monday pick a popcorn word off the wall. We wrote it, boxed it in, and snap clapped it. Then on Tuesday we wrote a sentence using the word in our journals. Then on Wednesday we did some chanting with our word. That was it I was stuck. I thought surely I can do more with this word than just three days, I mean I make a letter last a whole week. So I did what any good teacher does these days and went straight to Pinterest. There I found so many great ideas, now I have more ideas then day. OH NO! So I sat down with PowerPoint and I made a book. See that's it -------->
I guess you have figured out what our word this week is!
So I took it to lunch and showed it to my friends. They said "I LOVE IT, are doing all the words?!" I thought I might do all the words, but as we came to them. Then I thought this might be something that some other teachers would like, so maybe I should make them all now and put them on TpT. So now that you have seen it, what do you think? Would you buy it? It would contain all 40 popcorn words that go with the Reading Street series for Kindergarten. Let me know what you think. If it seems like it would be popular I will finish now and put in the store. I would probably have a giveaway with it!

Erin over at Eberhart's Explorers is hosting a giveaway. She is giving some great school supplies out to two lucky winners!! You should go check it out.