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Today we celebrated the 100th day!

We had a BLAST in kindergarten doing everything the 100 way!
We...
*Read "The 100th day of School"
*Drew pictures of what we will look like when we are 100 years old. (I had the kids guess my age, and the range went from 19-101! one student even guessed my real age!)
*Wrote about and drew what we wished we had 100 of and what we were glad we didn't have 100 of.
*"I could eat 100 _____" drawings. We drew 10 rows of 10 to make 100
*Counted to 100
*Did 100 "disco dancer" moves
*Stamped 100 stamps
and finished in our favorite activity....
*100 snacks! We counted out 10 pieces of 10 different snacks to total 100! Then we each had a chance to eat 10 pieces of the snack when we were finished. 

Phew! It was a BUSY day in Kindergarten! Check out our pictures below for more of the fun!

 I could eat 100...

 100 stamps

 I wish/I'm glad:

Great thinking!

 When I am 100...

100 Snacks:

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Mrs. Sneaker's baby shower!

Today was Mrs. Sneaker's baby shower! We had a great time!! I especially loved the pinterest inspired "build a baby" activity...they were so creative! I really enjoy the friendship that I have with Mrs. Sneaker! She's not just my coworker; she is a really great friend who I would do anything for! Isn't it great when things work out that way? I loved being able to celebrate her new baby girl!

 Enjoy the shower through some of the pics I took today :)

pinterest inspired :)

the winning baby

Mrs. Sneaker! 

one of the moms at school made these!

hard at work

an unfinished baby...

funny inside joke from one of our sped staff :)

Mrs. Sneaker and her gift from the staff!

the finished babies :)

our team

table decor/advice cards

Do you do showers at work?? It was so fun! working half time, I don't always get to make it back for them...but I definitely want to come to more! It is so fun hanging out with everyone is a relaxed atmosphere! I miss out on so much leaving at noon...

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Love Week

I love having a whole week dedicated to celebrating the ones that I love :) I work tonight, so Mr. Bee and I celebrated our own valentine's on sunday with a special dinner (our tradition, he ROCKS in the kitchen!). Yesterday, I got to make snacks for my teacher book club and bible study group (thank you pinterest!) and today we had our classroom Valentine's Party! I think the thing I'm most excited for is hosting  Mrs. Sneaker's work baby shower on thursday! I can't post any pictures yet, because I don't want to spoil the surprise. But I can can tell you that our other team member and myself have been having A LOT of fun planning! More pics to come friday :)

In the meantime, here are some pics of my week of love!

xoxoxox

Happy Valentine's Day!

(P.S. i'm hoping that the restaurant will be dead tonight and that we can get out of their early. I know thats horrible, but it's dollar taco night and it's in a health club...hopefully no one will think of that as "romantic"! hahahaha)

pinterest inspired :)

Gwen posing in front of my awesome snack spread!

pink gluten free light buttermilk ranch :)

veggies! we all needed this after all the yummy treats!

cute valentine from one of my kinders!

 Check back for more pics soon!

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Teaching about Giving Thanks

Giving thanks isn't just an idea for Thanksgiving. It's not a one day thing. Being Thankful should be a part of your everyday life, especially if you are a Bucket Filler! I loved talking about this in my class today for thoughtful thursday (theme of the day during ELD pullout).

As you might remember from a recent halloween post, I've been having a hard time figuring out how to talk about the holidays (all of them) when I have a few students in my class who don't celebrate for religious reasons. Whenever I bring up a topic related to a holiday or celebration, my little ones will chime in that they can't do that. Well...today I was very proud of how I handled talking about Thanksgiving!

You see,  I've been reading a book for transition between cleaning up and when the kids come back from ELD, and I find myself continuing to gravitate towards my collection of holiday related stories. I try to read them and not have much personal dialogue on the topic, but today I found a great way (and the courage!) to talk about how thanksgiving isn't just meant to be a one day thing. It's about being thankful for everything you have and showing that in your actions (hence, Thoughtful)

I borrowed this lovely book from my teammate and was able to talk to the kids about how being a person who gives thanks is a great way to fill other people's buckets because we are showing them how much we love and care for them. Yes, the story talked about thanksgiving the holiday, but that was not the main topic. I loved the illustrations in this book and how it got the kids talking about all of the things that they are thankful for.

We did "I am thankful for ___" writing too. I loved these :) I'll have to post some pics soon! One cutie said he was "thankful for Jesus and all of the presents he gets from Him." haha. He's sort of getting the picture ;) He then said "Jesus is SO BIG! Bigger than anyone!" which prompted another little guy to say he was "big, too!" The rebuttal from little guy #1 was precious. :) "No way! He's bigger than all of us!"

I love when they talk about Jesus, even if I can't chime in other than to say how much I loved that thought. :)

Today I am thankful for books that give honor to a holiday while showing how it can practically relate to the lives of our children. I am also thankful for my teammates wonderful collection of books :) 

And of course I'm thankful for all of you in blogland and that I have a place to share my silly teaching stories! 

What are you thankful for?

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Halloween Parade and party

Well, we survived our first party of the year! and it was pretty fun! I was super tired this morning and not too excited to get dressed up (I've had something to dress up for every day since friday!) but the kids always get me in the spirit! <3

We didn't get too much "school" in today, which I kind of expected. We did a pumpkin sequencing activity and a story, and then it was time to go on our parade! We do a short walk across the parking lot to the alternative school and get to parade through all of the classrooms. The kids loved it!!
Then we came back and started our party. I had a few amazing parents plan the whole thing, so it was definitely more fun for me to sit back and watch! We had snack first with pretzels, a cookie, string cheese, apples and juice (A LOT!) then we had 2 activities that the kids got to choose from. One was a ghost toss and the other was pumpkin carving. This kids were so well behaved and had a great time!

 I was really happy with how the carving turned out because the dad in charge of it had reassured me how well it would go, he's done it before, but I was skeptical! He proved me wrong!! It was amazing how well the kids followed directions and shared taking turns!

A few things he did ahead of time that really helped were

*pre-cleaning the pumpkin and then putting some pulp and seeds back in so they could "clean" it out

*traced the design on the pumpkin 

*brought a bowl, scoops and carving tools to share

There wasn't even a mess when he was done! Wow!

brr!

pinkalicious

Before we knew it, it was time to pack up and head for the buses! a parent had made non-food goodie bags to take home and each of the kids had their treats from the parade. 

We'll see how everyone is feeling tomorrow. Candy Coma's? Sugar Highs? Stay tuned!

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