Author Archives: Ms Kristin

it seems that our pictures (of painting and cutting and gluing and taping and making a big dinosaur and making baby dinosaurs to meet big mama “daisy dinosaur” and adding her clothespin spikes on the marker dots and telling you that we loved this book) will speak for themselves. it was a dino-tastic time!

we made another movie. the way we make most of our movies is by having the photo booth’s video camera running and then later splitting it into smaller clips. with the movies being many minutes long, i think we all forget that we’re being recorded. that’s what i want. what you’ll see in this movie:Continue reading “n is for new movie…and new things in the classroom…and new perspective for me.”

we used a wonderful little coin drop slot spinner thing taped onto an empty oatmeal container with real coins! it was a busy, busy spot. :: :: :: :: we did coin rubbings for our journals.  i hot glued coins on a bit of cardboard so they were easier to keep track of. :: ::Continue reading “c is for coin, cutting and {robot} cat”

i have several kids who LOVE worksheets.  i think i would have been one of those kids too.  kind of like how i like to fill out forms…the order, the finality of it…i love it.  so, those kids loved our journal cookie worksheet offered this week.  there is a list of the letters at theContinue reading “c is for cookie”