Stop Light Snack And Police Officer Unit

When we talk about police officers in Kindergarten, we also talk about traffic safety and crossing the street.  I had a police officer, who is also one of our first graders' father, come in and talk about being a police officer and show off his police car.  At the end of the week, we had a stoplight snack for Fun Friday.  I gave each student a graham cracker and showed them how to break it in half.  Then, I gave them a scoop of white frosting and showed them how to frost their crackers.  Finally, I passed out red, yellow and green M&M's and showed them how to put them on their crackers to make it look like a stop light!  The kids loved it!

We also practice following traffic safety rules by riding our bikes around the school.  We got to ride a couple of laps around before it started pouring!  The bike riding also went along with our first grade reading story about a family that went on a bike hike.

 

The Bob Jones University Press Curriculum that we use for kindergarten also had police officer hats and badges for the kids to make!

This and That

Morning Message- We sing the following song to the tune of the Farmer in the Dell and then I pick a student to read one of the columns to the class.  The other students use thumbs up or thumbs down to decide if the student at the board read the word right.

  Our words are on display, Our words are on display,

Choose the column you'd like to read,

Our words are on display.

I use this game to reinforce number recognition.  First, we use the pumpkins to count from 11 to 40 and then I call on students to guess which numbers the two spiders are hiding behind.

Learning about magnets

Apples!

Here's some of the apple work that we have been doing in kindergarten and first grade.  Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

I have apples with the numbers 1-20 on a pocket chart.  I hide a worm behind three of the apples.  Every day we count to 20 using the apples and then I call on students to guess which number the worm is hiding behind.  It is really good for number recognition to 20.
I found the idea on the Kindergarten Kindergarten website.
Click on the picture to download your own copy.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4KuXXVR3_27ZWY1MmM3OGUtYzI0YS00NTE1LWFhY2QtYTExOWI5NDI5NTU4

Here is a great apple counting mat that I use with red and green pom-poms.  I can't remember where I downloaded the mats from, but you could probably make your own.  Let me know if you know where they came from and I will link to the proper website

Putting apples in order by 5's.

Thanks,
    Miss Rachel

Creation Snack

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Every year after I teach the students about the days of creation, we eat a creation snack to review what God made on each day.  For Day 1, we eat chocolate and vanilla pudding for light/dark and day/night.  For Day 2, we eat blue jello and whipped cream for water and clouds.  For Day 3, we eat oreos for the dirt/ dry land.  For Day 4, we usually eat star sprinkles, but I couldn't find any, so we had yellow sprinkles for star dust.  For Day 5, we eat goldfish crackers.  And, for Day 6, we eat animal crackers.

The kids always enjoy this snack and it is an excellent way to review.

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