Teaching Stuff

Teaching Stuff

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This is a little clip chart that I use for behavior in my classroom. All students place a clip with their name on it on the ready to learn section of the clip chart. If they have great behavior they move their clip up. If they have negative behavior they move their clip down. It is great because even if a student has negative behavior they are given the opportunity to change this behavior to positive and begin clipping up. This seems to have been an incentive to change negative behavior. Also, my kids love it when they get to pink! Click the link below to get this chart.

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This is a "How do you get home" clip chart that I created to help with after school transportation. It includes bus riders, parent pick up, after school program, and other. I created it to match my other jungle theme classroom decorations.

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I made these little balloon shaped toppers to go on top of the large pixie sticks. I thought these would be a cute little gift to give my kiddos on their birthday. They are pretty inexpensive. I picked up the pixie sticks at Dollar General for a quarter.  I also made a matching birthday certificate and ribbon. You can get them by clicking below.

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 Today my kinders created three dimensional shapes out of toothpicks and marshmallows. Not bad for 6 year-olds!









This little girls mom must be a "princess." Every picture had her mom wearing a crown. How sweet!


Some of my sweet kiddos don't have a mom at home. We made this book for Grandma.




Love my girls! They sure have beautiful mom's too!


"This is my mom watching her favorite t.v. show. The Voice was a popular show for the moms in my class"



Here are some examples of pages that I created and put in a Mother's Day Keepsake book. These turned out cute. Click here to get yours.












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Crystal McGinnis
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Parts of a Flower

Parts of a Flower

By 3:21 PM


My kinders made these cute little diagrams of the "parts of a flower." It was pretty simple. I took some coffee filters and cut the edges so that they resembled a flower shape. I had the kids use dot a dot markers and color the inside of the filter one solid color. I then had them use two colors and create a pattern of lines along the outside. The stem is butcher paper twisted, and the roots were strings of yarn. I typed up some quick labels for them to glue on.  They turned out cute and make great spring decor.
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Crystal McGinnis
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Chicken Life Cycle

Chicken Life Cycle

By 5:44 PM
My kiddos made these cute little life cycle diagrams today. I am totally not taking the credit for these. Two other pinners pinned something similar, and I just made it my own by adding the "robin egg" candy for the egg and Easter grass for the nest. They turned out cute and the kids actually did most of the work. Not bad for kindergarteners!

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Crystal McGinnis
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Patterned Easter Eggs

Patterned Easter Eggs

By 4:09 PM


In  math we have been discussing and building patterns. I decided to throw some Easter in our conversation. We made these Patterned Easter Eggs pretty simply. I gave my kids a paper with a large plain Easter Egg on  it. I then told them to turn their paper upside down. I placed several construction paper strips on their table and told them to create a pattern on the back of their egg paper. Once they laid out the pattern, I had them glue the strips down. I then told them to turn their paper upside down and cut along the Easter Egg (they then understood why we were using the back of the paper). When they were done, this is what they looked like. Pretty cute I thought!









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Crystal McGinnis
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