Dinosaurs Love Underpants

Dinosaurs Love Underpants is such a fun story to read to your little ones. 

We read the story many times by request!!

I put together some fun activities to go with the story and my little ones just loved them.

We did a reading response activity and wrote about the story.

 The T Rex was mean. The cavemen had to stay home with the underpants. The dinosaurs wanted the underpants. The dinosaurs were fighting all night. That is how they got wiped out.

 The dinosaur that was mean is T Rex. All the dinosaurs were fighting over the underpants.

The dinosaurs were fighting all night then they got wiped out. They were fighting over the underpants.

We also did a fun graph ~ Which dinosaur will get the underpants?

Of course we had to make T Rex in his underpants. I had some fluorescent paint so we used it to paint the underpants. My little ones thought he looked cool and mean!

Back to School Sale

Down here in Australia, we are not going back to school!! We are in the middle of our school year and its winter, not summer!! I am jealous. By now I am sooo over the cold weather and look forward to spring and some warm weather. 

Anyway to celebrate Back to School for all my friends on the other side of the world I am having a sale. 

I am a new seller on TPT and most of my products are the activities that I do for the beginning Kindergarten. 

The other Kindergarten teachers at my school use my activities. They are my 'guinea pigs'.

They do the activities with their little ones and give me feedback.

You might like to take a peek at my post about my Sight Word Flip books HERE.

Here is some feedback I have received about my sight word activities,

Just wanted to thank you for your amazing work!! I used your flip books and sight word activities for the first time this week. I was soooo excited today when I thought I would test out the effectiveness of my lessons this week. 

EVERY child in my class was able to write a sentence using the sentence starter I am a... 

EVERY child had a capital letter, 

EVERY child had finger spaces and EVERY child spelled the memory words correctly!! Can't wait to continue with your resources and I can't wait to buy more!! Fantastic!!! Thanks so much!!

There is 20% off everything in my store. 

As a bonus if you put in the code, BTS12 you will get an extra 10% off. 

Now is the time to buy all those items on your wish list.

Monet

I love doing art with my little ones. I  enjoy broadening their horizons and teaching them about famous artists.

The problem is I am not artistic but fortunately I have Patty over at Deep Space Sparkle. 

She is so talented and shares her talent through her website.  She has some great art lessons for sale. She also has many ideas and lessons that she freely shares.

 She recently posted 'The Modern Masters' and I couldn't wait to do the Monet Waterlilies with my little Kinders. The activity was super simple and so effective.

I told my little ones that all artists put their signature on their work. So I gave them a sharpie and they put their signature on their art. 

If you haven't visited Deep Space Sparkle, you should. You won't be disappointed and neither will your little ones.

Favourite Back to School Activity Linky Party

Jodi over at Fun in First is having a linky party about your favourite back to school activity.

PS Note my spelling of favourite. We like to do it different down here!!

Because I am from Australia we are not going back to school. We are in the middle of our school year.
But back in February, when we went back to school I did many activities about the Kissing Hand.
I love reading this story to my little Kinders. I do many activities including a craft activity of Chester. I do a text to self connection activity and the little ones can relate to feeling just like Chester when they started school.

For more back to school ideas hop on over to Jodi's blog. 

If you would like to see my activities go HERE to my post about the Kissing Hand.

Beginning Sounds Sort ~ a freebie

I have a beginning sounds sort that will help reinforce your sounds work.

I have used many words that your little ones will use in Kindergarten. I hope you find this useful. There are 11 different words:   cat, dog, mum and mom, dad, sun, boy, girl, sun, tree, bird

You can download it for free at my TPT store HERE.

My Ducks

This is not a post about school but about my ducks.

I have 5 muscovy ducks. I have had them for about 8 years. 

I had 3 girls and 2 boys.

There was one duck, Emmy. I had a special bond with her.

She was my broody duck.

 I called her Emmy because her feathers looked like emerald green in the sun.

Here she is with some of her ducklings. 

She used to lay her eggs in the garden but I made her a box in the pen and then she started to lay her eggs in there where it was much safer.

Here she is sitting on a nest in the garden. I always hand fed her when she was sitting on her eggs.

My ducks would sometimes come up to the garden outside the house and forage for food through the day.

 

 

I live in a small city on the outskirts of town. I consider myself very lucky to live in town but in the middle of a large reserve with lots a very large gum trees, bush and ponds. 

But I also have a problem with a fox. 

Five years ago, after I had lost several ducks, my hubby made an enclosure where I  could lock my ducks up every night. Every evening the ducks are always waiting for me and follow me into the pen.

There was no way that fox could get in. It had a cement floor and the wire was bolted to the floor. 

Every morning, I  go down to the enclosure to let the ducks out for the day.

Yesterday, when I went down to let out my ducks, I could not believe what confronted me.

The fox had got into the enclosure!

It had somehow found a weak spot and got in.

It absolutely devastated me.

Two dead females and Emmy, still alive but injured. 

The two males are still alive but are very quiet. I know they miss the girls.

I took Emmy to the vet but sadly she had a broken leg and other injuries. 

As I stroked her head, she closed her eyes. 

I had to say goodbye.

Snow ~ A freebie

Down here in Australia it is our Winter. 

I know on the other side of the world you are enjoying the summer months. Lucky you. 

We have been doing winter activities in my classroom so here is a freebie. It's a cute poem about Snow. I have given you different copies so you can use it as you wish.

 I would love it if you gave me a comment if you like the poem.

Click HERE to get your copy. 

Its a Celebration Winners

I have 3 winners for my giveaway.

Karen

Ashley

Corinna from Teaching Fabulous Firsties.

Congratulations. 

I will be contacting you  so that you can let me know what products you would like.

100 Followers Giveaway

I can't believe I have 100 followers. 

To celebrate 100 followers, I am going to have a giveaway.

 Being a part of the blogging world  is such an exciting and rewarding  experience. I get to meet many other wonderful bloggers, get new ideas for my classroom and hopefully give something back.

Three followers, can each choose any 3 of my products for free.

To be a part of this celebration, follow me on TPT and on my blog.

Let me know that you are following me and don't forget to leave me your email.

I will have this celebration for 3 days.

Blog Award

 I feel chuffed that  Brittany at  Stickers and Stamps has given me this Blog Award. 

She has a really cute blog that you should check out.

I have recently joined the blogging world and would like to thank all the wonderful teachers who regularly share their classroom ideas. I have taken away many great ideas that I have used  in my classroom and I hope I can do the same in return.

 There are so many wonderful blogs out there that I have been following for some time and choosing only 15 was difficult.

Here are the rules for this award:

Once you receive the award, you must follow 3 rules: 

1.  Follow the person that gave you the award

2.  Link back to the person that gave you the award 

3.  Pass the award on to 15 new bloggers

Congratulations and thank you!

One Extra Degree

Down Under Teacher

Peace Love Kindergarten

Erica Bohrer's First Grade

First Grade a la Carte

Love Those Kinders

Teach 123

Welcome to Room 36

Mrs Wills Kindergarten

Mrs Albanese's Kindergarten Class

Seusstastic Classroom Inspirations

A Cupcake for the Teacher

First Grade Blue Skies

Sunny Days in Second Grade

Mrs Lee's Kinderkids

If you haven't checked out these blogs, you should. These bloggers have some fantastic  ideas.