I love when my “friends” get to make an appearance in my classroom. I love that the ‘staches get all excited when I tell them that friend is visiting to help them learn. Last week, our friend THE KING OF ING made a visit and hung out with us for the week.
On Monday I told the ‘staches I wanted them to meet my friend. They got all excited. I flipped the page of our writing chart to reveal our BLANK anchor chart! There he was. The King Of Ing.
We learned that -ing says “ing” and that when we see ing in a word, we read “ing.” I gave them one ing word and wrote the word on our anchor chart. Then we started brainstorming other -ing words. We continued to add to this chart all week.
Later in the week we learned that our poor friend The King Of Ing got lost on his way to the castle. Luckily for us, we had a map. Mr. Greg had drawn the map on yellow paper. Our -ing words were posted around the room. Everyone WALKED and found a word. We sat down on the carpet. We read our word and put the word on our map. Finally, the King found Castle ING!
We also made a portrait of the King Of Ing.
The students made their kings. Then they wrote -ing words on the king.
And of course, we had to make a hat. And of course, it’s a crown so it required glitter!
We had so much fun with the King Of Ing. We were engaged and now everywhere we look we find -ing words! That makes this week of activities a success….it sticks with them.
Click this picture to see my creation!
AND I finished my Bugging You To Learn math and literacy center creation! Who wants to win a copy????
Leave a comment with a favorite bug activity and I’ll choose a winner tomorrow!
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17 comments
I truly do not have a favorite bug activity, but we have used plastic bugs for manipulatives for adding and subtracting.
kellybrown28021@gmail.com
I love teaching th life cycles of bugs (animals). Your new pack looks awesome!
Christin
Shifting Teacher K-2
I forgot my email… Shiftingteacherk2 at gmail dot com
Love having the students create their own bugs! Fun to see what they come up with!
aimee
akconnolly@henrico.k12.va.us
I love having the kids creating their own bugs as well! We create bugs using different 2-d shapes. They then name their bug and write about the adventure of their bug!
kelseyec115@yahoo.com
Love to do REAL bugs. This year we have praying mantis babies. In the past we have done butterflies but they are tricky to get just right. I also saw another blogger got some ladybugs at ACE hardware to set free – that might be fun to do one day. The kids sure love learning bug life cycles and really just anything about bugs.
I have several sets of plastic bugs, ants, roaches, etc. On some I have written numbers and placed them in a bug catcher from the DS. The children pull out 2 bugs and they can either add the two numbers or arrange the numbers for subtraction. Consonants can be written on black bugs and vowels on red ants. Students make words with the bugs. I would love to win this pack! My students and I enjoy your work so much!
I love having the kids make alien bugs. vhair61215@gmail.com
I make sure we read Eric Carle during our Insect Unit. We read The Grouchy Ladybug and I take “grouchy” pictures of my children and paste those onto ladybugs they make at art. Then they write about what makes them feel grouchy.
I have the Youth Science Institute come to our classroom and bring 7 – 8 different types of insects for the children to touch (Whip scorpion, Hissing Cockroach, different stages of mealworms, etc.) The we write about them.
My students enjoy watching real bugs, too. We have hatched butterflies, ladybugs and grown those see-through ant farms. I have a set of bugs encased in glass that the kiddos love to examine.
Gillengarden@yahoo.com
I love it Greg so cool!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar! I recreated the book in a word document using real pictures, too!
I love reading the very hungry caterpillar and making a book with the life cycle of a butterfly. the students get to be creative with the butterfly design which they enjoy.
I love hatching butterflies! Thank you! Caseyjopeck@Gmail.com
That King of -ing activity is precious.
Mels
My kids LOVE the king of -ing…but we never had a story to go along with it! Thanks for sharing 🙂 I am a male kindergarten teacher in NC and have pinned some of your ideas on Pinterest…not sure why it took me so long to visit your site – THERES SO MUCH MORE!! Love your energy and excitement!!