Boo-Boo Pumpkin Babies

Boo-Boo Pumpkin Babies is about five little baby pumpkins getting boo-boos while playing in the pumpkin patch. The Mama has to keep putting band-aids on all the babies.

The baby pumpkins eventually learn to obey and take turns. 

My girls love helping me make all the baby pumpkins!  

It's a family event! 

My husband carves the mouths for the pacifiers 

and my girls help me with the bows and band-aids. 

I make 27 "Deliveries" to 27 Classes!

I dress like a doctor, wrap the Baby Boo-Boo Pumpkins in hospital blankets and put them in a cart.  

After reading the story, I tell them that Mama pumpkin has too many pumpkins to take care of at the pumpkin patch.  I explain that Mama pumpkin heard how sweet and kind the boys and girls are at our school and she would love for them to adopt one of her babies. 

I then take a tightly wrapped Boo-Boo Pumpkin Baby out of my cart. 

 I love how excited all my kinders get waiting to see if they will get a boy or a girl. It is so fun!!!

 I unwrap the baby and hand it to the teacher.  

It's a ... 

The kids take a pledge to love and take care of their baby 

pumpkin.  

Each class signs an adoption certificate and names their baby.

I like to read them the story before they go on their field trip to the Pumpkin Patch.  

I tell them to look for Boo-Boo Pumpkin Babies at the patch.  

I also give them a Boo- Boo Pumpkin Baby coloring page 

and a box of real band-aids to stick on their paper. 

This bulletin board has 

all the adoption certificates from each class.  

Adopting Baby Boo-Boo Pumpkin is one of my

 FALL FAVORITES! 

Bunny Cakes Jumpstart's Read for the Record 2014

 Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells

This book is about Max and Ruby making their Grandmother a  birthday cake.  Max wants to make her an icky worm cake. But Ruby insists on angel surprise with raspberry-fluff icing. Max's heart is in the right place and all he wants is to make her an earthworm cake with his favorite candy, RED HOT MARSHMALLOW SQUIRTERS! 

I LOVED reading the book to all 500 of my little kinders! I  turned boxes of Mike & Ike Candies into Max's favorite candy.  I taped each box with a Red-Hot Marshmallow Squirter label. 

I made a coloring sheet and an Itty Bitty book for post reading fun!

Guess who came to visit?  Max and Ruby!

They traveled around with me to all the classes.  

EWWW!  Max wants to make an earthworm cake?!?!

Tasting Max's favorite candy!

NEAEC Conference 2014

Today was our NEAEC Conference!

I didn’t present this year and had the opportunity to learn from these two smart ladies! 

I had so much FUN!  I have pages of notes and I know my wheels will be turning all night!  

 Kim Adsit’s

 sessions were packed full of great information 
and SO entertaining! 
I LOVE her ideas and resources for

 Developing Confident Writers and her

Science Blaster session was FaNtaStiC! 

Kathy Griffin’s 

math games and manipulatives are amazing!

 We learned tons of activities in her Math Makes Sense session.

Her "Flip the Five and Ten Frames" are GENIUS!

Thank you, Kim Adsit & Kathy Griffin, for making our conference a successful day of learning and growing! 

It was a

 singing, 

dancing, 

marshmallow eating, 

paint mixing, 

and ice cream making 

DAY OF FUN!

 I love it when teachers learn and grow together…

teachers are a mighty force!

Individually, we are one drop. TOGETHER we are an ocean.

-Ryunosuke Satoro

Common Core Reading Street

Kindergarten Reading Street
I am so EXCITED!  We received our first shipment of our new reading series!  We have used the older version of Reading Street for the past 7 years.  I can't wait to start using the new Common Core version!  Can you tell that I'm a little excited?