Five for Friday and Funny Kid Friday

I am linking up with Doodle Bugs for another fun Five for Friday and with Kid People Classroom for her Funny Kid Friday!

 

It's my first one after a FULL week of summer vacation.  Yes. It's true.  Vacation time flies. Slow down, July! I am trying hard to hoard my freedom!

In honor of this WONDERFUL Fourth of July, I found great snack ideas for my "virtual party."  I liked these because most were very doable.  (That doesn't look like a real word- but I googled it, just to be sure.  I know I have SAID it, but in writing, it looks wrong.) Isn't it funny how "write" and "wrong" both start with "wr?"  I just left that last comment in this post- to show you exactly how my mind works. 

Not really too focused.  ANYWAY...  Here's my party!  

These would be so cute for the kids from The Decorated Cookie.

Spoonful shared these!

Six Sisters made these little fireworks.

I could even make this Martha Stewart creation.

Lisa Storms has a healthy little flag. Isn't that cute?

If you have a bigger crowd,  Wenderly has this platter.  

Envy My Cooking shared this idea.  Love this.  

Good Housekeeping has this cupcake idea. Love this, too.

Isn't this so pretty from Life is Amazesing?

OK... here is where it gets real. Real impossible for me, but Tasty Food Snacks made this cake. I KNOW!  

OK - these were easier cute!

Baked Bree shared this cake that actually looks like a possibility.  

I LOVE these hotdogs from Twisted Sifter!  The stars are spray cheese- or could be mustard.  

Buzzfeed has some fabulous July 4th FAILS- just to make us all feel better about ourselves.  I always love them.  This would be my cake...

Or maybe this- because I love the save with the paper flag stuck in the top.  

Are you still there?  That was only ONE. Oh my. I promise to be more concise.

Next,  I finally  I just finished updating my  4 different Kindergarten Common Core Math Prezis to go along with the CCSS.  The Prezis are Counting and Cardinality and Base Ten, Measurement and Data, Operations and Algebraic Thinking,  and Geometry.  I searched for the best online learning games, videos, anchor charts  and resources to go with each of the 22 math standards.  These Prezis have been so useful for me both for teaching a concept and for reviewing. I used them all the time last year, and I went back through them and added more games and activities that I found to make them even better.  If you already own them, the changes will just show up when you open the Prezi. If you would like them, there are HERE at my TPT store.

You can try the Preview Prezi and see what they are like.  The Preview includes two of the standards: K.NBT.1 and K.OA.2, so that you can get an idea of the set up of the Prezis.  

I use them for whole group lessons and brain breaks, as well as for small group RTI.  I organized them by standard, so that I can have the standard up on the Smartboard that we are working on, and use those activities throughout the day.  That way, we can play a math game if we have a few minutes before lunch or recess, or on the rug as a whole group lesson.  I use them for center time- and during free choice time.

The bundle of Prezis is on sale at my TPT store this week. I made them FIVE for Friday!   I was looking forward to updating them, and feel so good to be able to check that off my list! 

I am SO excited to be going away with my sweet, sweet friends for my birthday. My friends Amy and Holly planned a get-a-way for us to Albany to have fun, laugh, explore, laugh, have more fun, get facials, and laugh some more.  

                                              

Amy and I are really kindred spirits- because look at BOTH of our dolls on the last day of school... Even THEY were DONE.  (Hers is the one on the right- with the hair... which is extra bad because our Principal saw her trying to clean the doll, and decided to throw it into the washing machine.  We may need some money budgeted for dolls.)

Amy and Holly  gave me clues each day the week before my birthday  on my desk for my gift.  What sweethearts. We are going to see Tammy.  I can't wait.  It's just what we need for the end of the year and beginning of SUMMER!

I  have a class coming up to discuss aligning our Kindergarten assessments for the new year.  I can't wait for everyone to try out ESGI.  

                                                              

I found it in the middle of the year last year, and LOVED it.  I posted allllll about it HERE if you are interested in loving it, too. 

Here are some visuals that I made because I got totally carried away with making collages am a visual learner. 

If you are interested in using it, you can save $40 for the first year using this code:  PROMO CODE  B1119 .  I am looking forward to starting the year with it! 

I just loved this commercial.  It actually made me tear up.  It is so well done and important to remember. 

Finally, my Funny Kid Friday moment!

When I was trying to teach my children how to read to themselves,  we said a poem together with motions.  Next, we did only the motions to the poem, and said the poem "in our heads" with no voices.  

Then, I held up a book and  said, "Watch me read this page to myself in my head."

So I read it to myself, silently.

One little boy said, "Mrs. Kisloski, we couldn't even HEAR what you read, because your hair was in the way! "

I'm not sure everyone got my lesson.

Stop over to Kathleen's blog,   Kidpeople Classroom, and share a laugh!  

Have a WONDERFUL weekend!  AND for those of you going to Las Vegas, HAVE A PERFECT TIME! 

You will!  I cannot wait to read and hear every detail, and see pictures.  I am planning next year already.                                                                                       

The World of Shapes

This is how my mind works.  I woke up at 2AM and thought about shapes.  Who even does that?!  Anyway, after I did a post about Shapes - and suggested  some changes to everyday phrases that would help out Kindergarten teachers, like "spaghetti and meatspheres,"  my sweet friend from Teaching in the Tongass shared her fabulous 2D and 3D shape clipart with me.

 

 I must have been so excited about that- that I thought of it all night long.  Here is my story.

Circle, Square, Triangle, and Rectangle are the popular group, known and liked by all. 

Star is really popular, too- and you can't help but love Heart.

 

 

Oval hangs around like a wobbly fifth wheel.

Hexagon doesn't even know how he was chosen for Kindergarten Common Core.  Octagon thought he had the job wrapped up, since he'd won that STOP sign job contract.  (For instance, why is an octopus with his 8 legs advertising this hexagon with 6 sides? He should be a bug, maybe, with 6 legs! See how I look WAY too deeply into everything?!)

 

 Diamond was a sparkly, shiny, Prom-Queen type.

I felt bad that Rhombus was taking over and pushing her out of the Math vocabulary spotlight, but then I looked at it from a different perspective and thought of a scenario much more fitting for Diamond, that I can live with much better.

 

Diamond met Rhom Bus. They fell in love, got married, and she took his name!  TA DA!
Mr. and Mrs. Rhombus!  Hey- if  q and u can have a wedding- so can Diamond and Rhombus, right?

As far as the 3D shapes are concerned, Cone and Cube have it made, thanks to ice.  Ice cream cones and ice cubes did all the work for them. 

 

The pyramid is an old soul.  The Egyptians helped him out a lot.

Cylinder is a good, old  shape, always hard at work in the trenches.

Prisms bully their way into every shape!  Rectangular prisms and triangular prisms- then octagonal prisms and pentagonal prisms.  Enough already! 

And calm down, Sphere, with all of your extra sounds.  He acts like the world would stop spinning without him.  OK- that's a bad example, but ...  maybe knowing that some of my kids called him a "fat circle" would bring him back down to earth.

Cuboid is kind of the "nerd" of the shapes.  He tries to be accepted wherever he can, and he desperately wants to be used one day in a real conversation.  I can't bring myself to help him out with that. 

So- that was all going on in my head at 2 AM.  Maybe I need more interests- or more Tylenol  PM...

On to some helpful things...

Here are some of my  favorite shape books to use with my kids. 

I also LOVE  this Solid Shape Sort from Mrs. Ricca's Kindergarten.  It is FREE and my kids have so much fun when we use it.

 

I also love and use Deedee Wills'  Math Fluency Pack all the time with my kids.  It is free at her TPT store, and such a great tool to work on fluency with all math concepts. 

 



After we learn and review all of our 2D and 3D shapes, I send home a Shape Treasure Hunt for the kids to do at home.   It's a great way to get the parents involved, and to let parents know the shapes we are learning in class.  If you would like a copy of it, just click on the picture below!

I have little prizes for the kids when they finish.  I have gotten shape books from the Dollar Store, or a bag of different shaped prizes- like a sphere superball, cylinder of Smarties, a rectangular pad of paper...

I put together my favorite links to activities and videos for each of the 22 Kindergarten Common Core Math Standards.

I made four Prezis that I put together as a Kindergarten Math Common Core Prezi Bundle at my TPT store.  The four are Counting and Cardinality/Base 10; Measurement and Data; Geometry; Operations and Algebraic Thinking.  Here is a sample of the K.G.A.3 Standard(Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, “flat”) or three-dimensional (“solid”) on my Geometry Prezi, so you can see what they are like.  This is just one of the 22 standards. These have been so helpful for teaching, re-teaching, and RTI. 


Have fun with shapes. Thanks for stopping by!