Umbrella Day!

This last week we explored the letter Uu. We started the week making pineapple upside down cake and then on Friday the kids brought their umbrellas to school. We start by giving the students rain name tags and showcasing their umbrellas.  We do math and literacy centers and an umbrella craftivity. We then head outside for an umbrella parade  and umbrella relay races.   We eat umbrella snacks under our umbrellas of course. We also sing some great songs that Kim made up!  We put all of these ideas, songs, and centers together in an umbrella unit on our TPT and our teachers notebook store!

Matching upper to lower case letters. Matching numbers together. Included are dice dots and number words for a bigger challenge. 

Umbrella Bingo. Use "rain drops" as markers. 

Umbrella relay races

My niece Is in my class and she's proud of her Bingo!

Umbrella snack. Marshmallow clouds, sunflower raindrops, orange umbrella, cheese stick handle. Yum!!

My friends son is in my class too and he is loving umbrella day!

This is Umbrella Twister!  "Put your left foot on letter Ww" picture below is part of the umbrella unit. 

He matched all his letters and numbers!  Way to go!  I love that learning can be fun and engaging!
You can pick up our whole unit HERE!

Circus of Colors and Shapes

This week was our Circus of Colors and Shapes!  The students rotate through a series of centers and reinforce their knowledge of colors and shapes...We had one of our teachers dress up like a clown and take pictures.

Bean Bag Toss Center!  The students throw a bean bag and then tell what shape it landed on.

Tightrope Center!  The students pull a shape card and then walk on the tight rope!

I Spy Center!  The Students match the circus pictures to the correct plate

This is their sticker chart for each center.  Once they complete an area they put a sticker on their chart.  I bring in parents to help run my centers but if you don't want to do that you could do a couple of centers each day and make the unit a week long.

Face Painting Center!  I paint shapes on their face with washable paint and then take their picture.

Having fun on the tight rope!  Don't fall off....

We end our circus with popcorn and ice cream that make into clowns with m&ms!  Sedley says the circus of shapes and colors was super fun and she loved the snack the best!

If you would like the entire Circus of Colors and Shapes from TPT you can click HERE!  If you like Teachers Notebook you can get it HERE!
You can pick up our circus bingo unit Here!  I added bingo to the rotation this year and it was great for circus vocabulary.

Classroom Table

I have had this little red table from a teacher friend of mine and it really needed a makeover!  Finally I painted it!

I used chalkboard paint and duck tape!  It is so cute with my new crate seats!  I'm going to use it for my art center!