Many Heartfelt Thanks!

Many thanks to Kimberlee at twofulbrighthugs and teachertimesavers for giving me this award!  It means a lot to me to know that someone out there is liking what I love...sharing ideas and communicating with my fellow teachers!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!  Oh and I love your blogs too!

Individual Counting Ropes! Easy and Fun!

I came up with an idea to combine building both fine motor and counting skills in a fun and engaging way!  I made these individual counting ropes using colorful shoe strings and black and white plastic beads.  Just slide 10 of each color bead on a shoe string and tie off the ends.  Voila!  Your kids will love using the pinching motion (so critical for developing the pencil grasp) to slide the beads from one end to the other to practice counting to 20, use more than one to get to higher numbers, make simple number combinations for developing addition skills, and more!  Enjoy!

Letters Alive!!!!

Ok, I've had this technology since last Spring, and as life is with new technology, there a gliches and endless hoops you have to jump through.  Well, today we finally got it up and running, and it is AMAZING!!!!!  If you  haven't had a chance to see it, you must view the video below!  Augmented Reality ROCKS!  And my kids were totally engaged!  This is fantastic!

Letters alive 2.0: Augmented Reality 3D Reading Program

Happy New Year!  I can't even believe I have been so busy that I haven't blogged since Thanksgiving!!!  I went to the dual language conference in Albuquerque, NM...La Cosecha!  It was awesome, what better time can one have than hanging out with fellow teachers, learning about how to better reach our kids and help them acquire a second language????  Then we came home and when 90 mph into Christmas and all the activities that come with it...time flies when you're having fun with 5 year olds!!!  I am working on some things to post, ideas, etc...that are floating around in my crazy brain.
Here's a link if you have iPads in your classroom to another blog that has some great ideas for apps that use Blooms Taxonomy (love this), digital story telling (even kinders love this), etc.  Great for older kids as well!

Langwitches...the Magic of Learning

Check them out!

Dressing for Turkeys!

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and I decided to celebrate by putting a fun little freebie on my Teachers Pay Teachers store!  Instead of eating turkey and dressing, let your students dress their Turkey!  Great for building vocabulary for ELL's and fun for writing and just being silly by teaching kids about playing with words!  Happy Turkey Day everyone!

It’s a Gobble, Gobble GIVEAWAY ya’ll!  My favorite part of blogging is being able to interact and learn from such wonderful teachers around the world and I have teamed up with a few of them for this fantastic giveaway.  To embrace the season of Thankfulness, we are going BIG for this giveaway because we are SO THANKFUL for each and every one of you!  All you have to do to win all of the units shown below is follow each blog! That’s SEVEN chances to win. Here’s even better news…

TWO winners will be chosen!!

Write a comment for each blog you follow and get a BONUS entry if you blog about this giveaway on your blog or facebook page!

Giveaway ends Sunday, November 6^th, 2011 at midnight central standard time. The winners will be announced on Monday!!

Click on each picture to take you to each blog!

Giveaway Terms 

This giveaway is free to enter. All giveaways are opened to U.S. residents ages 18 and up unless otherwise stated. Giveaways are one entry per person per blog following. I do not and never will collect or sell your information. Nothing from this blog can be copied, edited, or sold for personal use. Thanks for playing by the rules. (Leave it to a teacher to follow giveaway rules, lol!)

Please post entries on Kreative in Kinder. GOOD LUCK! Gobble Gobble!!