Dr. Clements' Kindergarten

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Day 3 of Kindergarten!

Today was very overwhelming while we started our "Student Learning Outcomes" testing while keeping the other students busy at the same time. Much of this testing is one on one.

This is just a couple of the activities we completed throughout the day. The students drew a picture of themselves to go in their "Back to School: Progress Through the Year" portfolios at the end of the year. These photos were precious. Since they were drawing a picture of themselves, they also created their rainbow names (found on Pinterest, of course). Students loved outlining each letter in their name with the colors of the rainbow.

These two names below are not the names of real students in my classroom. They were made up to share with you what we did today, and these two names were short compared to many in my classroom, but everyone completed their name. After making the rainbow names, students compared the number of letters in their names and found classmates who had the same letters in their name as they did.

The students had a blast drawing their pictures and making their rainbow names.

If you are interested in this page in the "Back to School: Progress Through the Year," you can find it HERE!

Thanks for stopping by!

Monday, August 10, 2015

Second Day of Kindergarten: Back to School Progress Through the Year!

Today we started on our "Back to School: Progress Through the Year" portfolio packets. It is always amazing to see the academic growth of kindergarten students throughout the year. Many students come into the classroom not knowing how to hold a pencil, much less knowing how to write a sentence with it, and then they leave at the end of their kindergarten year writing stories with a beginning, middle, and ending. That is so AMAZING to me and why I LOVE teaching kindergarten!

Today, we showed how we can write our name, color in the lines, draw a picture, and write a sentence about it. Take a look at two of our "works in progress." You can tell that we have a long way to go by looking at these samples, but I can't wait to see their progress in just a month or so, and then at the end of the school year. You can easily see the different beginning levels of students.

If you would like to grab this Back to School Progress Through the Year pack, you can find it HERE!

This “Back to School: Progress Through the Year” pack is great for showing student progress throughout the school year in many areas. It shows progress in coloring, name writing, drawing self, family, and house, writing ABC’s and numbers, and drawing a picture and writing about it (writing pages include plain lines and dotted lines).
Each area (skill) has 3 pages for the first and last days of school and a page that can be dated for use as needed throughout the school year. Four cover pages are included to allow for a variety of grade range use including preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and second grades.
This is great to save and bind together at the end of the school year. It makes a great keepsake for parents. It is so much fun seeing and showing the students and parents the progress the students made in the different skills throughout the year.

I hope you ENJOY seeing the progress of your students throughout the year! I know your parents will treasure the end-of-the-year portfolios!

Sunday, August 9, 2015

First Day of Kindergarten!

Wow! I can't believe we just completed our first day of kindergarten. Summer sure did fly by!

Here's just a few of the things we did on day one. This doesn't seem like a lot to do, but when you are taking a lot of time to discuss rules and procedures for everything, you don't have much time left.

We started the day by collecting supplies as parents brought the students in. I had containers ready to put supplies in and a permanent marker to label some of the items with student names. This made the collection time go much faster. As supplies were collected, each student had a container of play dough at their kinderlink to use for creating. They loved this!

After collecting supplies, rules were given for lining up on their numbers and restroom procedures as we took our trip to the restroom and water fountain.

When we returned, we read "The Day the Monster Came to School." This is a cute story about a monster who did not follow classroom rules because he did not know the rules. The teacher told him he had to leave. Then the monster started crying and didn't want to leave. The students said he could stay if he promised to follow the rules. The students always love hearing this cute story. It really gets "rule following" off to a great start because we don't want to have a monster in our classroom. Then we go over our classroom rules and talk about rewards they can earn for their "good behavior" pockets.

After this, we had recess time followed by a tour of the lunchroom to show them the lunchroom procedures and where we would be sitting. Then we went back to the classroom for our snack time.

Then it was time for another read aloud. We read "The Kissing Hand" and discussed their feelings on the first day of school. Then they painted their hand prints beside the Kissing Hand poem and glued a heart in the palm of their handprint to take home to their parents.

After this, we had lunch time followed by activity in the gym.

We ended the day by creating our fun "My first day of school: I am a Kindergartener" headbands. These headbands are from "A Spoonful of Learning" on TPT.

By the time we got bus tags on students, bookbags packed, and treats given out, it was time to load the buses. We always load buses early the first few days of school.

I feel like the students enjoyed the day, and I can't wait until tomorrow to see their sweet faces again. Hopefully I will have more pictures and ideas for you very soon.

Have a great year!

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Kindergarten Classroom Preview!

I know many of you have already started their new school year like I have. For those who have not, I hope you continue to enjoy your summer vacation.

This is going to be short and sweet. I just wanted to share some photos of my classroom that were taken after the first day of school on Friday. ENJOY!

I hope you have enjoyed viewing my classroom Hopefully many more pictures to come!

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Direction Pictures (Chevron) - Only $1.00 for 3 days!

I can't believe summer is almost over for me. Only one more week to go and then back to school for me! I'm always trying to find ways to make my school year go a little smoother. These "Direction Pictures" are the perfect trick for creating a smooth school year without students constantly asking, "What do I do next?"

These direction pictures are great for using throughout the school year, but especially useful at the beginning of the year. These direction pictures provide a reminder of each step of the directions to the students so that the teacher does not have to repeat the directions multiple times. Neighbor students can even point other students in the right direction when uncertain of the next step(s). Numbers 1-8 are also included to show the order of each step if needed. Pictures of other tasks are also included for showing what to do when finished such as read , go to the computer, or work in your journal.

To Use:
Print on cardstock, laminate, cut out, and they are ready to place on your board for easy access for the view of students. You could use magnets to stick to a magnetic board or Velcro would work great also. I hope these direction pictures help make your day more enjoyable.

The 24 direction cards included are:
name
write
glue
color
cut
draw
glue
read
paint
measure
tape
highlight
add
subtract
computer
journal
numbers 1-8

I hope your students enjoy using these direction pictures!

This pack of Direction Pictures (Chevron) is available for

ONLY $1.00 for 3 days!

Friday, July 24th

Saturday, July 25th &

Sunday, July 26th

You can click on the preview photo above to access it or click HERE!

I hope your students ENJOY these Direction Pictures (Chevron).

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Memory Book - Kindergarten ($1.00 for 3 days only!)

Woo Hoo! For me, the end of the school year for students was this past Friday, but I know many of you are teaching much later than this. Even if your school year is finished, you can grab this deal and save it for next year!

Here is my Memory Book for Kindergarten to help get you through these last days of school! Your students are sure to enjoy remembering their kindergarten school year as they write about their memories.

Students will love completing this memory book about their kindergarten year during the last week of school.

Please note the duplicate pages below: 7-10, 11-14, and 16-19.

Page 1: Cover/Title: Memories of Kindergarten

Page 2: blank page for left and right handprints

Page 3: The year I was in kindergarten was (write in year: 2013-2014).

Page 4: I was _____ years old in kindergarten, and my best friend was...

Page 5: _________was President of the United States when I was in kindergarten.

Page 6: My First Day of Kindergarten (place for photo) and My Last Day of Kindergarten (place for photo)

Page 7-10: These pages are the same except for the title of the principal.

Page 7: The name of my school was ____________ and our principal was _____________________

Page 8: The name of my school was ____________ and our principal was Mrs. _____________________

Page 9: The name of my school was ____________ and our principal was Mr. _____________________

Page 10: The name of my school was ____________ and our principal was Ms. _____________________

Pages 11-14 are the same except for the title of the teacher.

Page 11: My teacher's name was ___________________

Page 12: My teacher's name was Mrs.___________________

Page 13: My teacher's name was Ms.___________________

Page 14: My teacher's name was Mr.___________________

Page 15: I rode on school bus number _____________

Page 16-19 are the same except for the boy/girl graphics.

Page 16: In kindergarten, the thing I liked to

learn about the most was...

Page 17: In kindergarten, the thing I liked to

learn about the most was...

Page 18: In kindergarten, the thing I liked to

learn about the most was...

Page 19: In kindergarten, the thing I liked to

learn about the most was...

Page 20-21 both about the playground (choose the one you would like to use)

Page 20: On the playground, I liked to

(bottom half says: Cut and paste your favorite playground activity to the above page. Pictures included are swings, seesaw, slide, merry-go-round, and jump rope.

Page 21: On the playground, I liked to play on the...

Page 22: When we went to lunch, my favorite thing to eat was...

Page 23: My favorite field trip was...

Page 24: My favorite activity was...

Page 25: My favorite thing to do in kindergarten was...

Page 26: When I grow up I want to be a

Page 27: Autographs

Take a look at the PREVIEW to see all pages included.

I hope your students enjoy creating their memory book!

This Memory Book (Kindergarten) is available for

ONLY $1.00 for 3 days!

Sunday, May 24th

Monday, May 25th &

Tuesday, May 26th

You can click on the preview photo above to access it or click HERE!

I hope your students ENJOY this Memory Book for Kindergarten.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

KINDERGARTEN STOCK UP! (613 pages at 75% off for the end of year, summer, or back to school)

The end of the year is almost here! You can help keep students on task up until the end with this SUPER BUNDLE loaded with printables and activities for the end of the year.

This bundle is also great for summer school and back to school!

You can mix some of the printables and create a comprehensive summer practice book for your students. A wide variety of concepts is covered including sight words, addition, subtraction, alphabet, shapes, and much more! Many learning approaches are covered such as printables, brain breaks, centers, thematic units, and more!

I have teamed up with some of my teacher friends to load you up with resources to make teaching a bit easier! These resources are good for your final days of school, creating a summer review pack for your students, and even for back to school. You don't want to pass up this great DEAL at 75% off! STOCK UP for now and later with this great deal!

You can grab this GREAT DEAL HERE!

The Full retail VALUE of this pack is $59.24 and only available for a limited time. You can get it for ONLY $14.99 which is 75% off! You can't beat getting 613 pages of resources for 75% OFF!

Extreme VALUE alert!

Includes 12 instant downloads and materials including centers, printables, vocabulary, and much, much more.

Academic Concepts Covered

Sight words

Addition
Subtraction
Alphabet
Community Helpers
Vocabulary
Digraphs
Numbers
Months (great little calendar activity)

You get 12 great products in this bundle and four of those are from me! From me you will receive: