I love the site Pinterest.com.  I must be a visual learner because this site appeals to me so much more than some of the other teacher sites.....keep in mind teacher friends it is not all teacher ideas, but with some searching there are a lot out there!!  Enjoy. 

Not a whole lot of time to create before open house, but  could work on drawing our friends in pieces (face, hair, shirt, pants/skirt, shoes, skin, etc.).  Could be a good closing to our student of the day drawings that open the school year. 

Back to School night or Open House-"Paper students" are set up to greet parents.

gardenofpraise.com

People Blocks

people blocks

reggioinspired.ning.com

Love this idea!!  Adds something "extra" to blocks center. 

Great visual for "We're all the same inside"

For older grades....1st and up??  I say not for K, because my students never comment on each other's skin color in a negative manner.  Great visual!

Martin Luther King or Cultures unit...brown egg, white egg...what is inside is no different...

thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com

Circle Time....adds excitement!

Great way to make questioning easier and to help with time management at my busiest/fastest paced time of the day!

Great calendar activities. Love this.

loryevanspage.blogspot.com

Glitter = Germs Lesson....great visual!

Germs make me sick lesson

restorationplace.typepad.com

Crushed Fruit Loops for Sand Art!

Uses ground up fruit loops to make "sand" for sand art. Genius. And tasty!

toddler.yeahbaby.com

Needless to say....

Today was a Pinterest day...Lots of great ideas found!  :)

Beautiful Beginning of the Year Class Art!

Our Schools theme this year is "United We Learn"....We could do red and blue handprints on white paper??
Title "Now, many hands....June, many memories"   Corny???
jarrodfletcherhayden.blogspot.com

This would be a fun class project for the beginning of the school year.

Creative Name Tags

brittmale.blogspot.com

beginning of the year name tags!!!

Journal Bookmarks

Glue ribbon to back cover of notebook to use as a bookmark in journals - find the next page easily!

 

 http://whatsthebuzzinfirst.blogspot.com/2011/07/teacher-lab-and-reading-notebooks.html

Memory Jar/Closing of Day activity

write one memory each day at the end of the day. share on the last day of school

inchmark.squarespace.com

Time 4 Kindergarten: Word Family Fun

A different spin on "Roll and Record" word families.....card flipping "Read and Write" word families


Time 4 Kindergarten: Word Family Fun: "I love word families. The kids love them too. Once they learn to decode a word family, they can't stop. There are two parts to this packe..."

Great Play Based website!!!

Check it out, tons of pictures....  This one is colorful bubble painting

http://www.playbasedlearning.com.au/

Clog free Glue bottles!!

What the Teacher Wants!: Glue: "GLUE! Do you have a love/hate relationship with glue in your classroom or at home? It's great for art projects or review worksheet..."

ABC ideas

Visit http://www.hummingbirded.com/abcs.html  for TONS of ABC ideas!!

Homemade Stampers

Beats paying for 'em!


Mama Jenn: DIY {Bottle top} Stamps: "We collect bottle tops and use them for all sorts of crafts. Our latest “creations” are bottle top stamps! They are easy and VERY inexpensiv..."

Homemade Paint

Great Paint idea!!

Easie Peasie: Homemade finger paints…: "Maybe it’s because I used to teach high school art…or perhaps it’s because I love a brand new box of crayons…or any new art supply for that ..."

Krazy for Kindergarten: First Week Fun!

Great pics of first week of school fun! Brown Bear, Big Green Monster...
  
Krazy for Kindergarten: First Week Fun!: "After our character hunt (tour of the school) we found Brown Bear waiting on us. Each child had their picture made - which will go into a ..."

Krazy for Kindergarten: First of School Activities

Beginning of the year activities for Brown Bear, School Tour, quick performance assessments! Awesome!!

Krazy for Kindergarten: First of School Activities: "Here is a more detailed description of what we do the first three days of school. Thank goodness our system purposefully sets the beginning ..."

Check out my new Kindergarten blog

Kindergarten teacher friends, you have to create one of these blogs yourself, or just become a follower of mine.  In less than 24 hours I have tons of great ideas from other K teachers in the blogging world.  Check it out!

KindergartenWorks: kindergarten learning skills

I Can posters for kids to sign as they learn a new skill
KindergartenWorks: kindergarten learning skills: "Even though kindergarten is today's new first grade, we still have important, basic things that have to be covered! Here is a freebie to hel..."

Dr. Jean & Friends: Desktop Writing

Desktop Writing....so much easier than creating a desktop helper, printing, laminating, and securing to desk....all to have the student not need that helper in 2 weeks. :)
Dr. Jean & Friends: Desktop Writing: "Desktop Writing Here’s an idea to save for when you’re setting up your classroom. Did you know you could write directly on the surfac..."

Mrs. Wills Kindergarten: Daily Math Journals FREEBIE

Daily Math Journal...would be a nice closing to math before centers
Mrs. Wills Kindergarten: Daily Math Journals FREEBIE: "I started REALLY using math journals last year and LOVED it! Math journals are a great way to reinforce and review math concepts in a creat..."

Little Warriors: Freebies Galore for your Meet and Greet, Orientati...

Open House Treasure/Room hunt
Little Warriors: Freebies Galore for your Meet and Greet, Orientati...: "Hi friends! I know, like me, many of you start school THIS WEEK!? Can you believe it?!? Where did the Summer go??? We have Kindergarten Ori..."

Kindergarten Memory

Kindergarten Memory

Fish

Fish: "Add a touch of nature to your page with these hungry little fish. Watch them as they follow your mouse hoping you will feed them by clicking the surface of the water."

keep them reading all year

Reading log parent explanation and monthly logs....
keep them reading all year

Dr. Jean & Friends: Sky Writing (a.k.a. Invisible Writing)

Great idea!

Dr. Jean & Friends: Sky Writing (a.k.a. Invisible Writing): "Having children
write in the air is a great way to practice strokes (lines, circles, slants, pushes),
shapes, letters, and numerals. ..."

Catching on...

This is going to be so useful!!  Too bad I didn't try this out until the middle of August.  :(  I go back into the classroom in a week....need more time.  To think I was just feeling like I didn't have much to do....oh how busy my next couple days of blog exploration and formation will be.  :)

Blogging??

I'm not quite sure what this is going to be like, but I saw some other really helpful Kindergarten sites....so here goes nothing!