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Mustache YAHTZEE!

So today was a big day for The Kindergarten Smorgasboard! I finally got to meet my new kindergarten team. People, I was NERVOUS! I’m a bit sensitive and paranoid and well, let’s be honest…high maintenance. What if they didn’t like me!? What if they think I’m a crazy person?!

Well, I think it went great! I loved my team. We were very productive and worked well together. We laughed and had a good time. I am excited to be working with them (but still very sad to be leaving my two amazing teammates at my school!). This is a very bittersweet move for me. AND…here’s the biggest change. My classroom is going from HUGE to TINY! The room was so small that I actually covered my face when I walked in! YIKES! I have lots of stuff clutter necessary academic materials! I guess I will be storing a ton of stuff at the Kindergarten Smorgasboard world headquarters!

So today I want to show you two fun ideas we’ve been doing this week! We have 7 days left so we’re struggling to stay in control and keep meeting those common core standards…but we haven’t given up yet!

This is my favorite! Can you guess why?!?! HMMMM

“I Mustache You To Read My Sight Words” is the name of this little activity we’ve been enjoying this week!

Simply print the mustaches and cut them out. Glue them on sentence strips to make mustache hats! Give each student a recording sheet and turn them loose!

Students walk around the classroom and find a partner They read the sight word on the mustache and write the word on their paper.

This is a great activity for the end of the year! The students are up moving, they’re talking and guess what?! LEARNING! YEAH! My monsters loved this so we’ve been doing it a lot!

And yes, Mr. Greg had to participate and wear a mustache hat!

You can click the picture to get your free mustache sight word activity!

The second activity we’ve been doing this week comes from Sherri Sloane from kidscount1234.com! Who doesn’t love the game of Yahtzee?!!! Now, even kindergarteners can play!

Students get a partner, 2 dice, a basket (these baskets are amazing…no dice sounds!) and a recording sheet. Mr. Greg is so awesome, he even let the monsters use his smelly markers!

Students take turns rolling the dice. They count the dots and color the number. Play continues until someone colors all of their boxes! My monsters even got into yelling out YAHTZEE! when they finished. And yes, I did have one who yelled BINGO while he was playing!

This is a fun game to help kids with counting, addition and number recognition! Be sure to hop over to kidscount1234.com to get the free recording sheet!