Southern California Kindergarten Conference 2015!

I am finally catching up on some blogging!  Not making any excuses,...but after the conference we came back to report card madness at our school.  Ok, maybe that is an excuse, but it's legit.  Anyway, here we are,...a week after an amazing conference weekend.  As you can see from the photo above, it was a great turn out.  And do you see that arrow? Of course you do!  Well, that is a crowd forming in front of our Kinder League booth!  Yup, these crowds formed all weekend long and it felt wonderful.  Cindy, Cessy, and I really enjoyed seeing faces from years past.  One teacher even remembered me from SCKC 10 years ago!  She had bought our OCR Extensions from back in the day.  But now I'm revealing my age,...so let's move on.  Glad to see so many teachers from last year and pleased to chat it up with new ones!  Channon Morris and the Southern California Kindergarten Conference crew did a wonderful job.  Whoot! Whoot!

So the day began with "Booth Time."  We have continuously set up our booth at teacher conferences for two reasons: 1) We are fairly new to the scene and it's a good way to let people know we exist.  Yes, we've been teaching for a super long time, we've become experts in our craft, we share our knowledge with our colleagues, and even have a TPT store,...  comparatively however, we got a late start in the game- it's called giving birth multiple times and being mommies,...so no complaints! and 2) We genuinely enjoy talking pedagogy and curriculum with fellow teachers.  Yes, we are teacher nerds!  So chatting it up with teachers is something we enjoy.

Kinder League's Booth #18

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Next we took the stage at our "Kindergarten/TK For The 21st Century" session.  We put a lot of thought into our sessions.  To be given a forum in which to share our classrooms ideas feels great.  It was a jammed-packed agenda.  We took the suggestions and requests from last year's conferences to come up with this year's agenda.  The first half of the session featured our best practices in Language Arts and the second half featured our best practices in Math. 

Every good session at a teacher conference has a give-away.  And here is a photo of our prize (math galore).  And this lovely teacher was the winner!      Yea!!!

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The evening ended with the very much anticipated Blogger's Bash.  And this was truly an honor for Kinder League!  Our blog was featured, along with others, as a great resource for classroom teachers.  Teaching is our forte and sharing our ideas is a passion.  I have said many times that, "Teacher Blogs have started a revolution,...and the students are winning!"  From the beginning of time teachers have spent hours adding to, enhancing, extending,... and making the curriculum a better fit our students' needs.  We all have the files to prove it!  And now blogs have given us the forum to not only share these ideas, but also connect with one another,...which is awesome!  The SCKC Blogger's Bash was a fun way to chat it up with our blog followers.  

We included our new "Math Hidden Pictures" on the Blogger's Bash CD. If you were not lucky enough to get it, click on the image for link to our store.

Each blogger had an opportunity to introduce themselves to the crowd and tell a little bit about their blog.  We also donated a feature product for the Bash's CD.  This CD was worth way more than the price of admission! 
For those that missed our time in the lime light:
"Our blog's purpose is to preserve the magic of kindergarten as we maintain the academic rigor."
What makes us unique is that the three of us (Cindy, Cessy, Yisel) are still in the classroom full time.  On our blog you get the benefit of three different classrooms.  Well, maybe this is what I should have said,...but being the first ones up totally threw me off!

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Yup, Ellison and GoNoodle were sponsors of the event so you KNOW the prizes were off the hook!  One lucky teacher walked away with her very own alphabet die cut kit.  And another got a subscription to GoNoodle.  No more "free noodle" for her!  I was so happy for the teachers that won (and a bit jealous too).

So yes, we subjected ourselves to silly games for a chance to win! 
Fun times!!

SCKC Bloggers 2015

We want to thank everyone for being so sweet to the Kinder League new comers! 
You know you are in the right profession when you are made to feel right at home.

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That night we let off some steam. This is something we do well.

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Here are some highlights from the rest of the weekend:

You're a winner!

You're a winner!

Treasures Extensions & Activities available on TPT

Booth #18

I got to meet @mrstransitionalkinder!

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"Connecting and Applying what is learned in the visual arts helps develop competencies and creative skills in problem solving, communication, and management of time and resources that contribute to lifelong learning and career skills." California State Board of Education.

The SCKC art galleries are always a favorite.  For some reason I didn't get a chance to snap as many pictures as I would have liked.  There was so much more art to see.  These are just a few :

"Here we come to save the day...!"