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.

Bees, Bees, Bees!

We have finished our unit about bees. My little ones had a lot of fun and learned a lot. 

We did a cute Bee glyph.

 As well as reading lots of great non fiction books, we also read The Very Greedy Bee and Eric Carle's The Honeybee and The Robber. They are both cute stories but my little ones' favourite was The Honeybee and The Robber. I think it may have been the interactive nature of the book that was appealing. It has many bits to push and pull.

 As part of the glyph, my little ones had a fold-up hexagon which opened out and they drew different pictures about bees.

 We graphed our information and wrote about it.

We also made a hexagonal prism and put the together to make a honeycomb. My little ones drew different bee pictures in the prism.

We read some fun poems. 

I like to get the most out of every activity. 

This poem was a literacy lesson and also a maths lesson about position.

First we read the poem and found the rhyming words.

Then we then highlighted the positional words, first, second, third..

We then learned the short way of recording position. 1st, 2nd 3rd ...

Kindergarten children are like little sponges and take it all in.

They cut out the speech bubbles and drew the bees from the poem and labeled them.

We  learned about the  the different bees in the hive, queen, drone and workers.

We drew pictures and labeled them.

 Look at this little one's picture of the queen. So cute!

We learnt about metamorphosis and drew the bee life cycle.

We had fun  learning about the proboscis. Here we are with a straw and water and learning how a bee sucks nectar from a flower.

We then drew about it.

All of these activities are in my Bee Unit on TPT Here