Happy Hanukkah!

It's almost Hanukkah! Each year when we come back from Thanksgiving break, we spend a week talking about Hanukkah, a week talking about Kwanzaa, and our last week before break talking about Christmas. I like for the kid to learn about some of the other winter holidays people celebrate.

Our Math Shelf

I am an anal, OCD person ... which doesn't work out well for my kiddos sometimes! I like things color coded, and in their places, and on the shelf they are supposed to be on. Then I remember, I teach kindergarten and sometimes, something's gotta give!

Here is what our math shelf looks like. It's this HUGE shelf that's split down the middle and is used for half math, half science. A couple years ago I took some yellow paper and glued it to the back of the shelf (since I was too scared to paint it) so that it would match all of the math things in the room. Math. Is. Yellow.

Not sometimes. Not whenever I feel like it. ALWAYS!

Pool Noodle DIY

One of my "projects" this summer for my classroom was making pool noodle letters for ELA and numbers for Math. I like my kiddos to be up and moving as much as possible, so this will be a way for them to move around the table, stand, or sit on the floor while they are working in Math stations or playing games.