Cutie Cupcake Freebie

Hip Hip Hooray For a Cutie Cupcake Freebie Unit!  Head straight to my Teachers Notebook Store to download your freebie and have cupcake fun with your cuties!

To start off the week we read the most adorable book Camilla the Cupcake Fairy.  The pictures are bright and vibrant.  The story is filled with student's favorite things: magic, wands, cupcakes, and friendship!  And yes, the boys in my class loved the story, just as much as the girls.  Reading comprehension continues to be a target area in my kinder class.  In particular story retelling and making connections from themselves to the story.  After we read the story as a class over the course of a few days, students completed a Cupcake Connections paper.  They had to connect to the story through their own experiences.  For example one student wrote--- I have a fairy wand just like Camilla the main character.  Another student remembered the time she had cupcakes for one of her birthday parties.  

 

Students also completed a story retelling wand.  Using quick sketches they mapped out the story in order.  Some write a P next to the box where the problem occurred in the story. 

Students partner up and share their papers.  This is a great opportunity for me to walk around and monitor comprehension, vocabulary, and general understanding.  I also can guide students in successful peer interactions like staying on task, keeping the conversation going, holding the paper so your partner can see etc. 

For more cupcake fun to go along with our story we made juicy cupcake sentences! 

We have been learning about sentences.  Students are not only working on correct punctuation, spacing, sounding out words etc, but students are also learning about complete "juicy" sentences; as I like to call them.  As a class we brainstormed adjectives that would go along with the noun cupcake.  We also brainstormed prepositional phrases.  I typed the list of brainstormed words and made cards. We placed the color coded cards in the correct place on the sentence building chart.  Students came up and used post-its placed next to the words they wanted to use for the song, and then to the tune of Farmer In The Dell, we sang our sentence.  

Yummy messy cupcakes

Yummy messy cupcakes

Yummy messy cupcakes in the kitchen!

We left the chart up through out the week so we could make some juicy sentences. 

These are the Sight Word Cupcakes! After students made their Sight word cupcake they used words from our sentence chart to write adjectives around their cupcake. 

The best part was going up to the chart and pulling favorite words down.

It is hard to read but one of my little cuties on the left was VERY proud of the sentence she created: I see my yummy cupcakes in the oven.  

 I have TONS of cute scrap book paper at my house. There was a time I thought I was going to be a scrapbooker.  Well, it was a good vision that never really came to pass.  Now I have all this cute paper to use for my kindy cuties art work.  Check out the scrumptious and colorful cupcakes we designed.  Students wrote sentences using our chart and then color coded the sentence to match adjective, noun, and prepositional phrase colors.  My cuties are so proud of their hard work that they can read and sing their sentences with pride! 

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Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head!

It's raining it's pouring and THIS teacher wishes she was snuggled up in bed snoring!  Luckily, my kinders were not trapped inside ALL day and in between showers we snuck out to play.  Thank goodness!  Unfortunately, rain is in the forecast ALL week long!  Rainy day recess here we come!!!  In honor of a rainy week we completed a raindrop art and sentence writing activity.  

First, students cut out a large raindrop from blue construction paper.  Next, they used laminated yellow construction paper for the rain jacket.  We added details to the rain jacket with black sharpie.  Students drew their face on a square white piece of paper and glued it to the raincoat.  We left yellow around the face for a hood.  Scrapbook paper was used for rain boots and oil pastels to add details.  (you will soon discover that I LOVE OIL PASTELS and use them all the time!!!)

Students wrote sentences to go with their art.   These sentences had to include spaces between words, a capital at the beginning of each sentence, lower case letters throughout, and proper formation of the letters 'p', 'j', and 'y.'  Once sentences were complete, students used markers to trace each word in a rainbow pattern.  

Adorable!  I can't wait to hang these cheery raindrops up in our classroom window!

Yesterday I posted THIS FREEBIE!!!  

Be sure to check out my Teachers Notebook store and download a copy.  My students LOVED making the leprechaun viewfinders from this FREEBIE!!!!  Here are some tips:  I found green cellophane at the grocery store in the floral department of all places.  The florist sold me two yards for a dollar!  I would highly suggest running the viewfinders off on tagboard or heavy construction paper.  I copied mine on regular paper and then stapled green construction paper to the back for a bit more sturdiness.  Students cut out the viewfinder and construction paper at the same time.  A parent helper cut the cellophane in squares.  Then they stapled the white viewfinder on the front with the cellophane in between and green construction paper on the back.  Craft sticks were also stapled on the bottom!  We decorated viewfinders with stickers, glitter, foam shamrocks, and our own personal art work.  Leprechaun hysteria is in full swing!!!!  

How are you celebrating St. Patrick's Day in your classroom?  Will you celebrate with your students this Friday or next Monday?

If you are looking for some last minute St. Patrick's Day ideas see the items below and click the picture!  Both are available in my Teachers Notebook store.

St. Patrick's Day SIGHT WORD book.  Easy teacher prep... easy book assembly... great sight word practice for students!

Leprechaun direct draw that ties in rhyming and St. Patrick's day fun!  The poem was created by me!!!!  Yes, I am bias, but I think it is stinkin cute!