Makeover Madness

I am sure by now you have heard about the TpT Seller Challenge hosted by these lovely ladies.

I decided to join in the fun.  Unfortunately, with taking a very difficult grad class, I wasn't able to fully makeover this product.  Just gave it a facelift.  :)

This farm unit is the first "unit" that I ever made for TpT and it needed some major help.  You can click on the picture to see the product on TpT.

I plan on adding a lot more activities to unit as soon as my grad class is over and before school starts. Once I do, the price will go up so grab this now before the price increases.

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Learning about the Farm

I have a hard time posting on the blog lately because my student teacher is teaching full time.  It has been nice because I have been able to pull students and assess or give them a little extra help, but I don't feel like I have a whole lot to say on the blog.

This week we were learning all about the farm and farm animals.  My sweet student teacher had a great idea to mix a great story with a math lesson from Saxon that is usually pretty boring.  :)

She read the story "Rosie's Walk" by Pat Hutchins.  It is all about a hen named Rosie who decides to go for a walk.  While on her walk a fox follows her, but she is unaware.  It is a cute little story.

Then my little kinder babies each made a little Rosie for themselves.  The students took their Rosie for a "walk" using positional words.  They went over, under, around, etc.  It was so much fun.  Here are a couple pictures.

The students also created a farm animal book.  Each day the students learned about a new farm animal and they wrote about the animal of the day.  My student teacher cut the books into the shape of a barn.  I think they turned out great!  :)

One day our animal was pigs.  We made "mud" or chocolate pudding.  The students also created these mud poems with adjectives we brainstormed.  Then they used their fingerprints to created little pigs at the bottom.

On Friday, we learned about cows.  We, of course, had to have a milk tasting.  We tried white, chocolate, and strawberry milk.  For the first time ever, strawberry milk was the winner in the classroom.  Usually chocolate milk wins.  

Last year, I made a farm mini-unit.  I plan on updating it as it was one of my first TpT units.  If you are interested in it, please click on the image below.

Next week, we are going to start learning about pumpkins as well as going on a field trip to the pumpkin patch.  It should be a lot of fun.  Fingers crossed for good weather.  :)

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October Currently with a Treat

It's that time again.......Currently time!  :)

I am linking up again with Farley for the October Currently.

LISTENING:  The hubby is watching the newest Star Trek movie while I am blogging.  I am only about half paying attention to the movie.  I am not really a science fiction kind of girl, but it's o.k.

LOVING:  I am loving my student teacher.  You may have figured that out from this post.  She is great!  I feel so lucky to have such a great person in my room.  My students are learning so much from her as am I.  :)

THINKING:  I am thinking I should finish my assignment for my grad class, but I am also thinking that I probably won't finish it tonight.  I have been so busy every evening lately that I kind of just want the night to relax a bit.

WANTING:  The weather here has been beautiful and I am hoping it will stay.  It was so nice at the soccer fields this weekend.  Hoping this will stick around for a few more weeks.  

NEEDING:  I feel very content right now and I don't feel like I need anything!  Isn't that a wonderful feeling?

TRICK OR TREAT:  I am choosing to give you all a treat.  This week my kiddos have been learning about the farm.  Here is a little farm animal math survey that you can have for free by clicking on the image below.  There is a color version as well as a black & white version.

Tomorrow I will be posting about a cute farm animal activity my class did this week.  :)

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Farm Unit

We started our two week farm unit today.  This will be our first big thematic unit of the year.  I love teaching the farm unit.  It is amazing what the students can learn about farms and farm animals.

We learned about schema and made our first schema chart of the year.  (We started adding some new learning after I snapped a picture :)

Then we read Deanna Jump's "What Do You Do?" book from her Fun on the Farm Unit.  I asked the students about what animals were in the story and what other animals could be on a farm.  We made this circle map. (Please forgive my terrible circles)

The students played letter match memory from my farm unit on TPT.

Then we made a pocket chart story and "buttered" our popcorn words.

If you are interested in the activities I created, you can click on the image below for my farm unit in my TPT store.

Check back to see what other fun we have while learning about the farm!

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