Spicy class soup!

I'm going to have one of those years...you know the kind that makes you a better teacher in the end, but is tough to live through.  I won't go into details.  Every year Kindergarten teachers all over the country get a "class soup."  Since these little ones are new, nobody knows who should or shouldn't be put in the same "class pot."  My soup this year is just a little spicy.
We need lots of brain breaks during the day and thank goodness I have an Activboard to help me out. 
My school system also blocks YouTube, but never fear...an answer is here. 
I use RealPlayer Downloader.  I find fabulous videos and download them right to a flash drive to play during the day.  I thought I would share some of my favorite Youtube channels and videos. 

If you haven't checked out Harry Kindergarten,  what are you waiting for?  Drop everything and tune in.  He makes and shares the most amazing videos.  Some are to our favorite class tunes and others to tunes he creates himself.  Awesome stuff.  This is one that we just started watching.
Number Words Rap

 

I also like Have Fun Learning.  They have lots of videos on Youtube for free! 

Check out this one.

 

And...of course Sesame Street.  I love love Sesame Street!  Check out Bruno and the monsters!



 

With my videos ready to use for brain breaks, I might just survive my spicy soup year!



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Two for Tuesday...A day or two late.

Sorry, I'm late. I've been squeezing in all the doctor's appointments I can since summer is fading away so fast. Here are my latest picture book finds.

 

Boot and Shoe by Marla Freeze

Boot and Shoe were born into the same litter, and now they live in the same house. They eat out of the same bowl, pee on the same tree, and sleep in the same bed. But they spend their days apart—Boot on the back porch because he’s a back porch kind of dog, and Shoe on the front porch because he’s a front porch kind of dog. This is exactly perfect for them. But then a crazy neighborhood squirrel arrives . . . and everything goes topsy-turvy!  I am going to use this book during my reading block.  I will read about half the book and have the children predict what will happen to Boot and Shoe during the rest of the story.  I will then read the rest of the book and we will check our predictions. 

The Boy and the Airplane by Mark Pett

 

When a little boy’s of prized toy airplane lands on a rooftop, he makes several rescue attempts before devising an unexpected solution.

This is a wordless book that would be an awesome book to teach predictions.  I will show my class the book up to the page where the airplane lands on the roof and then ask them to predict how the boy will get his airplane off the roof. 

 

I start teaching prediction early in the school year, so I start off having my kinders draw a picture to show their predictions and then I write a short sentence under their prediction for them.  Later in the year, they write their own sentence. 

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