100th Day of School!

Hellooooo World!

I've been gone a bit from the blogging world, but now I'm back and ready to tell about Kindergarten :)

So far...I've survived!!! My students are very sweet and unable to say my last name, so "Ms. S" it is!  Kindergarten has been a big adjustment from third grade, but I'm getting used to it :)  I've learned some great new ideas that I can even transfer over to other grades.  They're hard to explain without pictures, so I'll have to get some of those and then explain the ideas at another time :)

But for now...drum roll...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (all of my percussion friends will appreciate this ;) )... we made it to the 100th Day of School!  Apparently this is a HUGE deal in kindergarten (who knew?! I know I didn't) and it made for a very fun day :)  While we celebrated, we still did it in a way that the kids would learn.

To start off the day I read the book "Mrs. Bindergarten's 100th Day of Kindergarten" - very cute for all of my teacher friends!  Then we made ourselves as 100 year old people.  We even crinkled the paper used to make the faces so they'd have wrinkles.  Each person's glasses was made out of the number '100'.  I took pictures of my 2 favorites :)  They were SO cute!

The kids wrote what they would do as 100 yr olds...my favorite is the last one :)

After we made ourselves as 100 yr olds, we completed our '100th day packet'.  This was filled with writing and drawing prompts such as 'If I had 100 dollars I would..." and 'I would want 100 ____ but not 100 _____."  Upon completion the kids got to sign the very end of the packet saying 'I survived 100 days of school!"

We also used treats the kids brought in to count to 100 for math.  We separated each treat into groups of 10.  At the very end we counted together by 10s until we reached 100.  And of course at the very end we ate some of our treats :)

And as Bugs Bunny would say - "That's All, Folks!"

Off to Kindergarten I go!

I officially started my at my alternate placement in my kindergarten classroom today!  My teacher, Lindsey, is super sweet and I can't wait to work with her.  Today was just inservice, so I spent a lot of the time getting ready for this week. Her room is IMMACULATELY clean and organized - I love it!  Because I haven't really done any "teaching" today, this post will just be some pictures of the classroom I'll be working in the next 2 months.  For those of you who don't know, I have 2 different placements throughout the year.  My primary placement is with my 3rd graders (which is the highest grade I'll be able to teach since I'm Early Childhood Education), but I'm pulled for 2 months (Jan. & Feb.) to get experience in a kindergarten classroom.  The first week in march I'll return back to my 3rd grade classroom and finish out the school year.  While I can't wait to return to Jen and the 3rd graders, I'm very excited to see what I'll learn from Lindsey and the kindergarteners the next 2 months!  Can't wait to meet them tomorrow :)

And now for pictures of the kindergarten classroom I'll be teaching in!

The bulletin on the back says "Popping our Way to the 100th Day!" with popcorn pieces counting to the 100th day of school 

Carpet Area :)

Our own little office area!

Cubbies :)

Love this!  A little ribbon and hot glue gun go a long way ;)

A great way to keep your materials for the week organized!

Thanks for reading! :)