Author Archives: Ms Kristin

(if i could have turned the light green this week i would have…instead i just did it to these photos) well, way back when it was st patrick’s day it was also u week…and i was determined to make a connection: a leprechaun likes gold, the pot of gold is at the end of theContinue reading “s is for st patrick’s day”

so what do you do when a retired kindergarten teacher grandma gives you HUNDREDS of mardi gras beads? well, you find tubs and assign colors to them using a piece of paper…and you sort! and you sort. and you pick up as many as you can at once. and you get on the table soContinue reading “m is for mardi gras beads”

well, there are no photos of us actually DOING this project…that gives you an idea of how springy crazy it was in the room.  but, the end result was just as fun.  those turtles got a lot of action in the room. we used little rocks from the playground, green liquid paint (and then foodContinue reading “t is for (rock) turtle and tallest tower and t dad”

march 7-11 was severe weather awareness week.  that was easy to tie in to T week.  first up:  thunderstorms and tornadoes. we started and stopped music to coordinate scribbling (emphasis on SCRIBBLING) to. (and then we used the magic eraser to get our textured tables clean) after scribbling time we cut a tornado shape fromContinue reading “t is for tornado”

our last project before spring break…quite fitting! children gathered one of each color and glued them on in any order. then the gold at the end of the rainbow!