New KBB Store

Just wanted to write a quick post about my new store.  I just opened one at Teacher's Notebook! If you prefer shopping TN you now can find my products listed there.

Click Kindergarten Boom Boom TN Store to view my products on Teacher's Notebook.

I also wanted to wish everyone a Happy Fourth Of July!  We are celebrating with a parade, cook out, swimming, and of course FIREWORKS!!!  Would love to hear how you and your family/friends celebrate.  Let me know by leaving me a comment below.

How ever you choose to celebrate this FABULOUS holiday, remember to be safe while you are having fun!

Happy 4th Everyone!

Fellow Blogger Birthday FREEBIE!

One of our fellow bloggers is having a birthday today!  Happy Birthday Cathy Irwin of Mrs. I's Class!  She is giving away 1 free item from her store if you go to her blog and follow her and leave a comment!  What a FABULOUS idea!  I am totally doing this for my birthday next month so keep an eye out! If you want to learn more, please click here Mrs. I's Birthday Surprise!  And Cathy I hope you have a fabulous birthday!!!!

MAD Scientist Fun Day

Every year we celebrate the end of the year with a special educational field trip to somewhere.   Usually Dinosaur World or Mosi Museum.  However, this year with all of the budget cuts and additional bus fare costs we had to cancel that super fun trip.  My fabulous K team and I refused to let this year end without some kind of FUN end of the year "trip".  So we searched around for alternatives.  Finally, (the wonderful) Ms. Baker found a company called Mad Scientists. This group of scientists actually come to YOUR school and completes hands-on science experiments with the kiddos. Plus, the kiddos get to take most of the experiments home!!!! NO bus money to collect and it was just about $5 a child for this FABULOUS group to come.  I don't know about you but I love a good deal! It was amazing and the kiddos LOVED every minute of it.  Here are some photos and a short clip (at the end) of some of the great stuff they do with the students.

 

 Dry Ice in the face!

The power of air!

 Cup Ping Pong (Using only your breath to move the Ping Pong!)

 More Ping Pong

 Dry Ice Everywhere

 More Dry Ice fun click the video below to see one of the FABULOUS hands on experiments in action!

Click Mad Scientist Fun if you are interested in having them visit your school.  Thanks so much to Mr. Jeff and his team of scientists for making this day so FABULOUS for our K Kiddos! HAve you found any other Awesome alternatives to expensive Field trips?? Would LOVE to hear from you!

WOW! Another Year Gone!

The end is here. I am so exhausted! I just don't know any other ways to explain the amount of work that went into my classroom this year (on top of the normal aches and pains that we as teachers go through every year)!  I LOVE teaching and seeing the lightbulbs go ON, its all the other mumbo jumbo that makes it "icky". Every teacher I know works themselves to the bone putting families and selves last because they know that the kiddos in their classroom may "never even know what a bed time story is".  That makes me so sad.  I am happy to say that at least with every group of kiddos that come through my room, they learn to realize the value of a story.  They learn that reading is important to build imagination, self esteem, heart, and knowledge.  I am so proud of my kinders this year that I could BURST! They are an amazing bunch of scientists, authors, writers, explorers, and mathematicians!  I just found out that I am to loop up with these Fabulous kiddos to First Grade.  So for the next year Kindergarten Boom Boom will be embarking once again into First Grade Territory! I can not wait to see the progress that we accomplish together next year!

K EOY Celebration Song

I love the end of the year program.  It is such a fun time for the kiddos to showcase things they have learned. I was getting tired of the usual nursery rhyme poems and songs and had been searching for something fun and upbeat for them to perform.  One day several of my students came in singing "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rea Jepsen.  I suddenly realized they already know that tune and all I would have to do is change the words to make it appropriate for K.  I could not be more pleased with the result that I got.  The kids LOVE the song and knew it in a week.  I figured that if I was looking for something more current than others were too.  I created the song lyrics and movements in the document below for my store.  You can get yours by clicking Hip K Song.

I am always looking for more fun ways to end my year with my kiddos. Have you found any other fun End of the year songs or activities? Would love to hear from you!

How -To Writing in K!

We took about a month diving into writing "How-To" Stories.  They turned out fabulous!

 Here is one of my little guys stories.  He is obviously working with me on adding more details. (He is one of those that you really have to pull it out of.)  Never the less he did a great job teaching about how to swim.

 His cover.

 Step 1: "First you need to practice."

 Step 2: "Next you swim on your belly."

 Step 3: "Then you take a rest." (HA!)

 Step 4: "Next you swim faster."

 Step 5: "Next you get out of the water."

Step 6: "Last you put the towel on."

I just love this time of year and reading how they perceive the steps in doing the things that they do!  I use this unit called Writing How To books to teach this to my kiddos.  It is only $3.00 in my store. 

Once they have the skill, they love to teach the whole class how to do things.  I leave extra "How -To" writing paper in the writing center and they continually head that direction to share what they know.  After my kiddos complete a new book, they place it on my "Sharing Station" book shelf where others can come by and read their stories.  They LOVE seeing themselves as real authors.  I also have an author's chair for sharing during Writer's Workshop time.  However, there is a sharing schedule that we follow to ensure that everyone gets a turn to share.  Having the "Sharing Station" allows them to showcase there work immediately after they finish it!

How do you allow your kiddos to share their stories? Do you have a sharing schedule in your room?

I would love to hear your thoughts. Have a great week!

I Appreciate You!

Kindergarten Boom Boom Store

Teachers have one of the most rewarding and difficult jobs out there.  Teachers have constant worries about their classroom, students, and their students' parents. Worries like; will they like me, will their parents like me, will I get through to this particular group, am I doing everything possible to help them grow and learn, did I spell check my newsletter, did I send my newsletter to be printed on time, I could go on and on!!!!  In honor of teachers everywhere and the MILLIONS of things constantly weighing on our minds (not to mention our own families) I am having a sale at my TpT store.  Thank you for all you do for the children of our world!