Fun Educational Songs & Videos

I just found a HUGE collection of great educational songs and videos on YouTube. (Maybe this is really old news, but it is new to me, so I am EXCITED!!)

Have you heard of Harry Kindergarten's Channel on YouTube?

It's awesome!!

I know that my students will just L-O-V-E these!

Here are a few of the math ones that I think my students will enjoy:

I Can Count to 100:

Blasting Off! Counting by 5's to 100

Numbers all Around

Numbers in the Teens

Numbers in the Twenties

Show Me the Money 

Check out more of HarryKindergarten's videos on YouTube: 

HarryKindergarten

New Book: This Plus That- GIVEAWAY!!!

My kindergarten friends and I are HUGE FANS of Amy Krouse Rosenthal. 

Check out this previous post to read more about this great children's author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal

I was super excited to learn that Amy's new book, This Plus That, is out today. I can't wait to get my copy in the mail and share it with the children!! 

You can check out the book at Amazon:
This Plus That

Or watch a cute book preview on YouTube: This Plus That 

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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

We are still loving all things Seuss in Kindergarten.

Today we read:

We found:

RED FISH

BLUE FISH

RED and BLUE FISH

We also made these adorable fish equations:

Crazy Sock Day

We had a very fun CRAZY SOCK DAY in Kindergarten.

The children just loved sharing their crazy socks with their friends.

We read Fox in Socks, traced and measured our friends' feet, and compared our socks.

Here are a few highlights from our day:

This digital scrapbooking design made with Smilebox

We are looking forward to Pajama Day tomorrow! At the end of the day, Emily said, "I am going home, putting on my pajamas, and going right to bed so pajama day will be here sooner!"

We're Going on a Number Hunt...

Number Hunt

Last week the children went on a number hunt around our school.

They all took this job very seriously!
As we searched the hallways, students recorded all of the numbers they found in their math notebooks.

By the end of our hunt we were REALLY EXCITED about all of the numbers we had found!!

When we returned to the classroom the students had fun sharing their numbers with friends.

Count and See

Please check out one of our newest class books:

Free slideshow customized with Smilebox

The students were inspired by Tana Hoban's book, Count and See.

They enjoyed finding and counting fun objects around the room and loved being in charge of taking the photographs.

Great job kindergarten friends!