Just a little thank you!

I noticed today that I am up to 20 followers and have almost 1000 page views!!  :)  I know it is not a lot, but it is really something to me for only having been blogging for a few months.  I appreciate all the great ideas I have gotten off fellow bloggers' blogs and I just hope I can be an inspiration too.  So to say thank you I am adding a freebie I was working on today.  I hope you will keep coming back to see what fun I am having in Kinderland. I will try my best to be more consistent with blogging, but you all know how it gets in the teaching world sometimes...CRAZY!  I also live in twinland at home so sometimes the little sweeties demand a lot of my attention (which I love to give them don't get me wrong).  I do need to sleep sometimes too.  I have a lot of ideas I am working on though that I look forward to sharing.  I have a grade level workday on Friday and I am planning to work on making some little books, reading assessments and math games.  Check back!


TPAN Flip Book

A peek at my stations this week

I have been feeling really great about my stations this week.  Things are going much more smoothly.  The kids are getting the hang of where to go and what to do without me.  I love seeing their independence come out.  Here are some of the great things we are doing...pretty much all inspired by great blogs.  :)
A couple literacy and a few more math...

They love to stamp, I love it too even thought it is messy.  I can't remember where I got this, please tell me if it is from you.  I will keep looking and update when I remember.  

Love a flip book to review the beginning sounds for L,O,G and H.  I got the inspiration from Kindergarten Crayons for this one.

Race to Trace dice game is from Sheri Sloane.

Counting Clothes pins - again, can't remember, but I will look on it at school tomorrow and update.

The are Learning Pallets and they have several different cards and levels

Using bingo dotters to make groups of 5.  They dot, then circle.  They come out nice when they don't go splatting the dots willy-nilly. :)

My first Freebie!!

I learned so much from the Blogging 101 Expo and I am trying them out.  :)  I am trying to share a document for a station that I made to review some beginning sounds.  We use Saxon Phonics in my county and the first 4 letters are L,O,G and H.  So the activity reviews those letter sounds.  I got the idea for this flip book from Fran @ Kindergarten Crayons and then modified it to meet our needs.  Thanks for the inspiration Fran!

The students cut the dotted lines between each letter and then fold the flaps down. ( I like to fold first and then cut, but the kids were cutting both sides of the page at first so I told them to cut with it open and then fold.)  Then they can color and cut out the pictures and glue them under the correct beginning sound flap.  They loved it as you can see.  :)

Enjoy my very first FREEBIE!!!

LOGH Flip Book

Literacy centers

I have been getting so many good ideas for centers recently.  I wanted to share a few of mine.  I wanted to give a shout out to a great resource I found last year and have been using a lot of her printables in my class.  It is a great resource.  Here are a few of the centers I used today from K-3 Teacher Resources.

Missing letters sheet - students put magnet letters in the blank spaces.  (This  little guy was filling them all in)
You could also have them use dry erase.  There are several sheets with different amounts of letters missing.

In math we used these circles to count and match numbers and number words

These are another set of number matching cards, the kids like the cute pictures.