The Little Red Hen With Summary

Surprise!

This video has a FUN and Easy summary.

Exactly what we needed.

This week we have been learning about a summary.

My kiddos thought this was the most 
FUN example yet.

So Enjoy!

HOWDY PARTNER!

My Kinder Kids love to work with a partner.
I love setting it up because  
I know a secret.

I tried many ways of organizing partners 
because I know there is 
Power In Partners.
It was always a bit sticky until...
I found the BEST solution.
Are you hungry to know the secret 
to making partner time work?

It is as simple as making a 
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich.
Kids LOVE PB&J.
They know all about PB&J sandwiches
And that makes it a SNAP!

When I told my kinder kids we were going to have 
Peanut Butter & Jelly Partners...
they smiled.
When I showed the PB&J cards...
 their smiles grew.
When I slapped the PB&J cards together 
and said they would 
"stick together like a PB&J Sandwich"...
 they laughed out loud.
It was magic.  
It was FUN!
It was wonderful and it lasted all year.

It took very little explaining because they 
understood how to "stick together" 
as Peanut Butter & Jelly Partners.
Over the years I have tried partners in many ways
but it never worked without lots of explaining.
PB&J Partners made it easy and FUN.
I used Peanut Butter & Jelly Partners for 
reading and math and more.

You can do partners however you wish but I love
Peanut Butter & Jelly Partners! 
They make it more productive and FUN
and I love FUN.

Click & Print PB&J Cards.
Hint: print on cardstock and laminate.

Freebie Thanks To HeartsalaCarte.com

I will share an example from my classroom.

We started our day with 
Peanut Butter & Jelly Partner Reading.
I would put the PB&J Cards on the white board.
A star magnet was beside the Peanut Butter Card
to show Peanut Butter had the first turn.
The Peanut Butter Partner would read a book 
from their reading folder first.

Next Jelly would read a book. 
Partners read their way through 5 books each.
That's ten books. YES!
The next day the Jelly Partner read first.
It went so smooth, as smooth as...
well...creamy peanut butter. 
(wink, wink) 

I decided to assign the PB&J partners.
 I also assigned who was Peanut Butter 
and who was Jelly.
I did not let them choose.  
(They have opportunities for free choices 
at other times in the day.)

I looked at the reading data for my students.
To make it easy I will say I had 20 students.
(That would be nice.)
Using the reading data, I ranked the scores
from highest (1) to lowest (20).
Then 1(Peanut Butter) partnered with 11(Jelly)
2-12, 3-13, 4-14, 5-15, until 10-20.
It was not a hard and fast rule.  
It is a guideline and I shifted where 
and when I needed to.

I loved having my kinder kids work in partners 
through out the day.
Remember Partners Are Powerful.
Make It FUN And Enjoy!

Let me know what works for your partner time.
I would be thrilled to hear from you.
Come join me and 
Enjoy Making Education FUN 4 Kids!

Thanks for stopping by.

Wherever U are, in our
 Wide Wonderful World,
I'm Wishing...
Sunshine And
Sunny Daz 4 U

♥
SUNNY

WINTER WATERCOLOR

 Miss Carla's Kindergarten Class

I hope you enjoy your visit to 
my Kindergarten Classroom.

Here is Snowmen At Night, 
a wonderful story included in StoryTown 
as a Library Book.
It is fun to tie Visual Arts into
StoryTown, our Language Arts Program.

SETTING
First we studied the pictures to get clues 
about the setting.
Where did the story happen?
What time of day or night?
What season of the year?

We also learned that the author lived right here in Salt Lake City when they built a snowman that wandered during the night!
Many of my Kinder Kids have played at 
Sugar House Park.
They thought the sledding hill looked very familiar.
It was so exciting to see familiar places in a book!
WOW!
The setting was something they knew!

To create the setting for our snowmen we painted watercolor washes.

We reread Snowmen At Night.
We looked for details in the pictures again.
What were the colors?
Were the colors cold?
Were the colors warm.
How did the sky look at night?
Is the snow white or a mix of colors?
So many things to notice.
An artist needs a watchful eye.
(Does a reader need a watchful eye?)

My Kinder Kids painted beautiful settings!

Miss Maren, our wonderful volunteer, used a three inch brush to lightly wash each paper with water.
Then the Kinder Kids set to work with watercolors.
They loved how the colors ran and mixed.
So did I.
THEN
We needed to let the paintings dry.
It was hard to wait....

CHARACTERS
We learned characters in the story are people or 
animals that act like people.
Well the snowmen acted like people so...
 they must be characters too!

We studied 

Snowmen AT Night 

to check out the characters.  
There were lots and lots of snowmen 
and snow-women and snow-children.
Doing lots of things. 

My Kinder Kids were very excited 

to draw their characters.

We used pencils and markers to draw our characters.  It was fun to decide what they looked like 

and what they were doing.

Details are very important.

(Could that be true in reading or writing?)

We cut out our characters 
and glued them into the setting.
Our pictures were complete 
but our stories were just beginning...
(Can writing be art too?)
;)

I decided to stop at three 
because I could go on and on...
I have 25 Kinder Kids after all :)

I hope this inspires you to 
roll up your sleeves and 
get wet with a book too.
- - -

I am also very excited to say 
that there are 
3 pictures from my class 
shown here on the District web page.

http://www.slcschools.org/departments/curriculum/fine-arts/VisualArtGallery-ElementaryStudentArt.php

The pictures are:
* Under-Water-Sea-Life (row 2 middle)
*Snowman-Cat-Snowballs (row 4 first)
*Snowman-Snowballs  (row 4 middle) 

Under-Water-Sea-Life was created 
while studying another StoryTown book.
Can you guess which one?

Drop me a hello in the comment box.
I would love to hear from you.

Thanks for stopping by :)


Enjoy Making #Education FUN 4 #Kids!

Wherever U are, in our
 Whole Wide World,
I'm Wishing...

Sunny Daz 4 U

♥Sunny

SNOWMEN AT NIGHT - ARTWORK.

WINTER WATERCOLOR

Miss Carla's Kindergarten Class

I hope you enjoy your visit to 
my Kindergarten Classroom.

Here is Snowmen At Night, 
a wonderful story included in StoryTown 
as a Library Book.
It is fun to tie Visual Arts into
StoryTown, our Language Arts Program.

SETTING
First we studied the pictures to get clues 
about the setting.
Where did the story happen?
What time of day or night?
What season of the year?

We also learned that the author lived right here in Salt Lake City when they built a snowman that wandered during the night!
Many of my Kinder Kids have played at 
Sugar House Park.
They thought the sledding hill looked very familiar.
It was so exciting to see familiar places in a book!
WOW!
The setting was something they knew!

To create the setting for our snowmen we painted watercolor washes.

We reread Snowmen At Night.
We looked for details in the pictures again.
What were the colors?
Were the colors cold?
Were the colors warm.
How did the sky look at night?
Is the snow white or a mix of colors?
So many things to notice.
An artist needs a watchful eye.
(Does a reader need a watchful eye?)

My Kinder Kids painted beautiful settings!

Miss Maren, our wonderful volunteer, used a three inch brush to lightly wash each paper with water.
Then the Kinder Kids set to work with watercolors.
They loved how the colors ran and mixed.
So did I.
THEN
We needed to let the paintings dry.
It was hard to wait....

CHARACTERS
We learned characters in the story are people or 
animals that act like people.
Well the snowmen acted like people so...
 they must be characters too!

We studied 

Snowmen AT Night 

to check out the characters.  
There were lots and lots of snowmen 
and snow-women and snow-children.
Doing lots of things. 

My Kinder Kids were very excited 

to draw their characters.

We used pencils and markers to draw our characters.  It was fun to decide what they looked like 

and what they were doing.

Details are very important.

(Could that be true in reading or writing?)

We cut out our characters 
and glued them into the setting.
Our pictures were complete 
but our stories were just beginning...
(Can writing be art too?)
;)

I decided to stop at three 
because I could go on and on...
I have 25 Kinder Kids after all :)

I hope this inspires you to 
roll up your sleeves and 
get wet with a book too.
- - -

I am also very excited to say 
that there are 
3 pictures from my class 
shown here on the District web page.

http://www.slcschools.org/departments/curriculum/fine-arts/VisualArtGallery-ElementaryStudentArt.php

The pictures are:
* Under-Water-Sea-Life (row 2 middle)
*Snowman-Cat-Snowballs (row 4 first)
*Snowman-Snowballs  (row 4 middle) 

Under-Water-Sea-Life was created 
while studying another StoryTown book.
Can you guess which one?

http://youtu.be/bgMlYDfXpiM

Drop me a hello in the comment box.
I would love to hear from you.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Where ever U are, in our
 Whole Wide World,
I'm Wishing...

Sunny Daz 4 U

♥Sunny

1 #EASTER EGG-CELLENT IDEAS! Word Families Twist!

#1Easter Egg Extention
 Word Families Twist!

What to do with all those plastic Easter Eggs?

FINALLY!!!

I have been waiting and waiting to be able to share these EGG-cellent ideas.

I love these colorful eggs and Kinder Kids do too.

This is a fun way to practice word families.

Write beginning sounds on the left side of the egg.

Write a chunk like "at" on the right side of the egg.

The new word could be a real word or...

 For an extra hard practice 
throw in a silly word like z-at.

You might want to try these 
word families.

"at": c-at, f-at, h-at, m-at, r-at, ch-at, z-at

"en": d-en, h-en, m-en, p-en, t-en, wh-en, n-en

"ing": d-ing, k-ing, p-ing, s-ing, r-ing, th-ing, v-ing 

"op": h-op, m-op, p-op, t-op, sh-op, y-op

"ug": b-ug, h-ug, j-ug, m-ug, r-ug sl-ug, f-ug

Have fun making up your own word families
for all your plastic colored eggs!
OR
Save some eggs for some of my other 
Easter EGG-cellent Ideas.

Dear Reader,
Try some word families with your kids at home or school.  

You might want to try my list of word families.

OR

Make up your own and share your word family in the comment box!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Where ever U are, in our
 Whole Wide World,
I'm Wishing...

Sunny Daz 4 U

♥

*1 Homework for SunnyDaz Kids*

Parents monitor your child as they do this homework.

Make a list for a word family.

Write a comment that says: I did it.

Parent & Child write your first names.

Leave a comment and you will be one of my SunnyDaz Kids.

I have taught hundreds over the years.

There is room for you too!

See you at school 

or back here at SunnyDaz4U.

  ♥Sunny

BROWN BEAR CENTER

I Love Brown Bear, Brown Bear!

Kinder Kids Working in Brown Bear Center

 

Click image of book to purchase on Amazon.

We sing Brown Bear, Brown Bear 
to the tune of 
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
My Kinder Kids and I read and sing this book over and over again.
Now they can read it!!!
How fun is that?

Dear Reader Try singing this with your kids at home or school. 

 Let me know if you have any helpful hints.

I'm wishing...

Sunny Daz 4 U

HOKEY POKEY A WESTERN WAY

What A Fun Way To Dance The Hokey Pokey

Kindergarten always has a Hokey Pokey.  
This Hokey Pokey has a western swing to it.

My Kinder Kids taught this dance to their 4th Grade Reading Buddies today.
We had a ton of fun!
!

Dear Reader Thanks for stopping by :)

Try dancing this with your kids at home or school.

What dances do you teach your kids?

Let me know.  I'd love to hear from you.

I'm wishing...

Sunny Daz 4 U

Click on the image above to purchase.

*1 Homework for Kinder Kids*

Parents monitor your child as they do this homework. 

Dance to the song: Hokey Pokey.

Write a comment that says: I did it.

Parent and child write your first names.

See you at school. :)

#PHONICS FUN - FIRST SOUNDS

See the Letter & Sing the Sound!  

This is a fun way to practice beginning sounds.

Getting all the letter sounds down 

can be tricky for Kinder Kids.
This makes phonics fun!

Singing the sounds helps them stick.

Dear Reader Try singing this with your kids at home or school.  Let me know it you have any helpful hints.

Thanks for stopping by :)
I'm wishing...

Sunny Daz 4 U 

*1 Homework for Kinder Kids*

Parents monitor your child as they do this homework.

Listen to: Interactive Phonics Song.

Write a comment that says: I did it.

Parent & Child write your first names.
See you at school.  :)