Songs for Morning Meeting and Calendar

I may have spent the better part of today and yesterday finding music to go with my calendar. EEPS! As much as I love singing with the kids, it is nice to find some tunes so you don't have to listen to your own voice for morning meeting and calendar routine. I have all of my calendar on my SMART board this year, and I added sound to the different parts to go with the calendar. To save you some time, here is my full list of songs! (these were all downloaded off Itunes)

GREETING SONGS

Hello Bonjour   Pistachio Mike

How are you?    Jose-Luis Orozco

Welcome          Denise Gagne 

Good morning    Dale and Diana Hudson

Friendship Boogie   Brian Chevalier

Please and Thanks   Pistachio Mike

DAYS OF THE WEEK 

All of the same title

Timmy Wells

Kiboomu

The Magic Crayons

MONTHS OF THE YEAR

All of the same title

Ava DuPree

James Mee

SEASONS

The weather wiggle    Bob Swanson

Weather       Scott Flory

Singing the Seasons    Twin Sisters

If you know all the Seasons    Kidzup Educational Music

SUNNY

The Sun in the Sky    Yoga Child: The Bingo Kids

PARTLY CLOUDY

Mr. Golden Sun     Little Tikes

CLOUDY

Little White Cloud   Sid the Science Kid

RAINY

Rain Rain Go Away   Wee Sing Children's Songs

SNOWY

Snowflakes    Caillou

PATTERNS

Rhythm and Tonal Patterns   Children's Music Expressions- Monkey See Monkey do

SKIP COUNTING

Counting by 2's    Shelley Murley

Counting by 10's   Twin Sisters

BIRTHDAY

Today is a Special Day   Singing Time Series

Mrs. Dunn

First Day of School

I can't believe teacher's are back to school tomorrow and kiddos are back next week. How the summer flies by. Unfortunately my school is still under construction so I haven't even been in yet to set anything up, which is kinda making me crazy! But I suppose it will all get done somehow. I can't wait to post pictures once I get everything organized.

For now, I will post some of my first day ideas;

Favourite Stories:

The Kissing Hand (of course) Audrey Penn- I do an art activity with this book

The Night Before First Grade Natasha Wing

Have You Filled a Bucket Today Carol McCloud

The Little Engine that Could

Here is a website that has a complete list:

http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/first-day-of-school

I like to do a tour of the classroom and the school, and have a book made up with all of the admin, and staff, so that the students get to know some of the faces and names.

We usually play a name game and go through classroom rules, and first day procedures.

A self portrait or about me book if there is time, which there never is ;)

We usually start putting some of our supplies in their places, which is a  tormenting but necessary procedure. I have labels with the students names on them pre-made so they usually go nuts with the labels while I try to sort everything else.

I try and take a picture of each child for their memory book at the end of the year.

Good luck on your first day!

Mrs. Dunn

Teacher Apron!

AHHH, I am so excited about this project. I had a teacher apron the last three years, and a pen exploded in it and it was getting very worn out, so I decided to make a new one. I have four pockets, one for stickers, one for behaviour cards, scissors and post its, and pens and pencils. I can't wait to use it!

Mrs. Dunn

Five Senses Art- Smell

This art project also goes with my gingerbread unit. I found pre-cut tinfoil at the grocery store, so I didn't need to cut it. Again I put step by step instructions on the SMART board.

 Students glue the template onto brown cardboard paper and cut it out. 

 They then colour in candy shapes for faces, and use pencil for where they want the "icing".

 This is where the smelling part comes in! Sprinkle cinnamon over top of the white glue icing.

Glue onto tinfoil and viola, the gingerbread man is ready to go into the oven!

Mrs. Dunn

Teacher Toolbox

I have seen these everywhere; teacher blogs, pinterest, and I finally made my own! I love this kind of organizational stuff! This particular case is from Lowe's and I printed the labels on fun paper. I got the template from the marvellous Mrs. Rojas. I was gleefully assembling this and I think my husband might have thought I was a little crazy as I giggled with delight putting it together, but this is what happens when you marry a teacher!

Mrs. Dunn

Science material bins- Colour

This year I am going to make bins for each unit in science with materials that we might use each year. I haven't collected much so far, this will be a work in progress! Don't mind the unattractive label this will be updated soon!

So far I have...

transparent colour changing glasses,

paint colour samples (Oh Home Depot, how you must think I am some crazy lady)

AND my colour bulletin board!

What would you put in your creating colour materials bin?

Mrs. Dunn

Organizing Weekly Activities

I will have a folders in each bin with activities, books we will read and any other things we may need for the that day. I also have one for generic templates, such as daily plans, schedules etc. How do you organize your week?
You can now download the template on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Mrs. Dunn