Count Your Blessings

As part of our math centers, the children had an opportunity to visit this math center.  They had to count the dots on the feathers and put them in order.  They colored a paper plate brown and cut out their own head and beak from construction paper.  It turned out really cute that the turkeys are so different! 

I don't know where I've seen this before but I had the turkey feather patterns for a long time (do not know what I used them for) and I thought that this would be a great art/math center activity.

A Whisper Wednesday

Oops, today is not Wednesday, its Tuesday.  I'm getting excited for the weekend.  ;)
Last night I couldn't fall sleep until 12:30 am! My throat was scratchy and I felt soooo very yucky.  When I woke up this morning I discovered that my voice was gone and what was left of it came out as a squeaky mouse voice.  HOW do you teach kindergarten without a voice!?!  They can't read directions  by themselves or sit and do work very long by themselvesI have several that need constant attention. 
I've always heard that the teacher directs the volume level of the classroom.  Well this morning I whispered, they whispered back.  We sang "Who let the letters out...?" in whisper voices.  Somehow we got through the WHOLE morning and ya know what....it worked.  After lunch I coughed one good time and my voicec was back.  It was a neat experience because I had to use all of my nonverbal cues for getting their attention.